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netrapon Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

makes me wonder maybe if NFC/RFID strips were cheap enough you could have all the items tagged in the house and your phone could tell you what you have.. but probably causes e-waste though

netrapon Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation

That makes the most sense to me. Although, I don't know if .org is subject to US law specifically? Is it?

netrapon An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

I think it's reached commodity status instead of community... 3D printing I mean. At that point only thing that matters is ease of use, price, and quality of the result. People who are not _in_ the community but use the tool.

netrapon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

Maybe this is the purpose of it? To keep us working like cattle.

netrapon U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

weird dejavu because this exact comment was on the last one of these job lost updates i saw

netrapon What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance

Perfect is the enemy of the good, right? I mean a page header or some other simple means to identify "adult" vs not is good for most cases? Just thinking about it.. obviously it can be bypassed but is there a good enough?

netrapon Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock

that's a bomb dude.. lmao.. don't take that anywhere!

netrapon Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

If it provides similar utility as a car, what's the big deal about that price? It would be the same type of purchase, right?

netrapon FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop

FreeBSD does not have a desktop installer yet.. the powerpoint alludes to that being a coming feature though.. I think people here should chill out about her not using FreeBSD as the daily driver.. I use FreeBSD daily in my work, but no, I don't on desktop...

netrapon Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?

I wonder if they will come to their senses and revert the decision? It does seem a bit boneheaded to drop Linux support on the Basic tier... What actual reason would they need to do that?

netrapon As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work

Interesting analogy but there are many old people in Casinos...

netrapon When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

It's not about that, it's about the incentive...

netrapon Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

So you decrypt each time you need it? What is the difference in the attack surface?

netrapon I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers

Intel at one time did 6 month sabbatical if you worked 10 years.

netrapon Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared

Is it not the fact that Win32 is not the dominant platform anymore? It would be mobile phones now, right?

netrapon SpaceX files to go public

Getting goods and people over there, I guess..

netrapon We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do

We ban other drugs though? Just saying that we DO ban things already...

netrapon Kagi: Small Web Just Got Bigger

Only skimmed it but remember dmoz.org? I think having a web directory again is a cool idea..

netrapon WFH is becoming a benefit again

Do companies give a crap about employees spending money on gas? I mean maybe for those that are traveling salesmen or something... but otherwise I don't see how it would bring it back...

netrapon Death to Scroll Fade

Death to Scroll Bar size change!!!

netrapon Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning

Seems like .blog .city etc are just banned via cisco umbrella policies...

netrapon Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code

I recall my time in satellite control systems had a lot of TCL code.

netrapon PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts

Awesome !!

I have an old Thinkpad and had a similar idea for wifi, but I was thinking about MiniPCI.

Emulating NE2000 is great :)

netrapon Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026

It seems like it is easy to get good reviews on some product then just switch the product completely different. Do they not have ways to prevent that??

netrapon Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?

There are some Firewire SCSI adapters. Sometimes older Firewire tape drives have internal SCSI to Firewire boards. I've used them to with old SCSI CD drives.

netrapon Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?

I wonder if QRP would be something?

https://hackaday.com/2016/03/08/how-low-can-you-go-the-world...

also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSPR_(amateur_radio_software) https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html

plus the super simple "Fireball QRP transmitter"

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-DX/73-magazine/73-...

netrapon Cassette tapes are making a comeback?

Only recently discontinued in Feburary 2025!

netrapon Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

Not anymore, they laid off all the lawyers who would do that.

netrapon Rebecca Heineman has died

Weird. I just googled it and it said her partner also died of the same thing?