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New comment by chb in "FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers"

chb — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:42:14 +0000

The "Hardware" link indicates that the BoM specifies a "24-pin SPI e-paper for GoodDisplay panels (3.97″, 4.26″, 7.5″ and up)." A search turns up this: https://www.good-display.com/product/516.html

New comment by chb in "The Mighty Big Array of Finn Jensen LA8YB"

chb — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:43:21 +0000

It seems to be a typo, unless the criteria for the award have changed: https://www.arrl.org/was

New comment by chb in "Proof of Care in the Age of A.I"

chb — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:19:18 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks the ending is a non-sequitur? How is the hackneyed, "the kids are allright" [sic] related to the preceding content?

New comment by chb in "Proof of care in the age of AI"

chb — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:13:56 +0000

>Click here to see the "how this was made" feature

^ at the bottom of the article

New comment by chb in "Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?"

chb — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:12:39 +0000

This. And the "individual with technical savvy saving his child-like clients" scenario described earlier in this thread is delusional and Dilbertian.

New comment by chb in "A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding"

chb — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:23:03 +0000

Reminiscent of Steve Friedl's excellent work: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ssh-agent-forwarding.html

New comment by chb in "Usborne 1980s Computer Books"

chb — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:35:38 +0000

What “modern platform” would you suggest?

New comment by chb in "Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search"

chb — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:14:59 +0000

First I saw that it's written in Perl. Then I realized that the last release was 11 years ago and that the repository domains are hardcoded in the one-file script.

New comment by chb in "How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports"

chb — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:22:49 +0000

So was Trump being inclusive or exclusive when he renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America?

New comment by chb in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

chb — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:34:55 +0000

Is it possible that the supply of used GPUs available to home builders will somehow increase as the result of this?

New comment by chb in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

chb — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:21:12 +0000

How does dot.bs make money? The about page and FAQ don’t explain what they’re monetizing.

New comment by chb in "Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be"

chb — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:22:58 +0000

A gross mischaracterization of the author's point (the word "type" doesn't even appear in the article). The author focuses on the cost of interpreted languages, which he describes as "memory hungry" and computationally expensive.

Radio Communication via Meteor Trails

chb — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:17:34 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_burst_communications

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46512536

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chb in "Millennium Challenge: A corrupted military exercise and its legacy (2015)"

chb — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 03:28:15 +0000

There are many young, economically disenfranchised Americans that see the military as a way out of poverty. The military understands this and positions recruitment centers in poorer neighborhoods.

New comment by chb in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

chb — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:57:02 +0000

I'm in the same position and understand your complaints about the lack of uniformity across applications in Linux DEs. But I use the Linux desktop as a daily driver because I absolutely despise the lack of customization in macOS, especially as it relates to "virtual workspaces" or "virtual desktops." In Linux, I can have multiple different desktops, each named intuitively, and each with its own set of applications. In macOS, I can't even _name_ the virtual desktops. What's more absurd is the "logic" around when an application has focus when it's minimized, and how its window behaves when you Cmd-Tab to it. Utterly exasperating that Apple, a company who has long prided itself on HCI, falls so far short of the mark in intuitive interface behavior.

New comment by chb in "Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief"

chb — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:46:30 +0000

Did you buy this from system76, or did you just install Pop!_OS on hardware you already owned?

New comment by chb in "Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included"

chb — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:07:38 +0000

Ha! I've been using tmux for years and I didn't realize one could do this.

New comment by chb in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

chb — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:40:50 +0000

Yeah, he'd spit it out because it tastes like corn-fed, feed-lot crap.

New comment by chb in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

chb — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:41:51 +0000

"No one gets fired for buying IBM!"

New comment by chb in "Google is killing the open web, part 2"

chb — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:32:59 +0000

Widely used? By whom? Devs who don't understand rsync or scp? Give me a practical scenario where a box is running FTP but not SSH.

Edit: then account for the fact that this rare breed of content uploader doesn't use an FTP client... there's absolutely no reason to have FTP client code in a browser. It's an attack surface that is utterly unnecessary.