Hacker News: cylinder714

New comment by cylinder714 in "How Accurate is this? [No Access to X:(]"

cylinder714 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:43:42 +0000

Replace x.com with nitter.poast.org.

New comment by cylinder714 in "A4 Paper Stories"

cylinder714 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:41:39 +0000

Obligatory link to Markus Kuhn's excellent page on international/metric paper sizes: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html

New comment by cylinder714 in "I Want You to Understand Chicago"

cylinder714 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:44:06 +0000

Go to YouTube and search for "chicago weekend violence".

New comment by cylinder714 in "TiVo exiting legacy DVR business"

cylinder714 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:14:33 +0000

Lon Seidman (lon.tv on YouTube) has been covering this closely, and the FCC is aware: https://youtu.be/0YmeEp_N6pY

New comment by cylinder714 in "President Trump creates export controls on "any and all critical software" Nov 1"

cylinder714 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:45:23 +0000

The OpenBSD project is based in Calgary, btw.

New comment by cylinder714 in "Dollar General's 19,000 Stores Could Solve Rural America's Internet Problem"

cylinder714 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:30:18 +0000

As someone living in rural Nevada and served by Dollar General and Family Dollar stores, I agree. I don't see what problems out here would be solved by local cloud computing resources. The snippet provided doesn't go into detail.

New comment by cylinder714 in "EasyOS – An experimental Linux distribution (2025)"

cylinder714 — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:28:13 +0000

Barry Kauler is brilliant, but as he's the main driver behind the project, I worry that the bus factor for EasyOS is 1.

New comment by cylinder714 in "Raspberry Pi 500+"

cylinder714 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 03:35:06 +0000

Lon Seidman just reviewed a $180 HP laptop from Walmart. Intel N150 processor, can run Linux and has upgradable RAM and storage:

https://youtu.be/FRNz-xakWB8

New comment by cylinder714 in "SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM"

cylinder714 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:39:19 +0000

I miss the Barcelona Pavilion walkthrough demo.

New comment by cylinder714 in "Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc."

cylinder714 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:56:16 +0000

Uzbekistan!

New comment by cylinder714 in "Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc."

cylinder714 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:42:52 +0000

I posted this in response to the news that Kazakhstan is blocking Wireguard connections entirely:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054598

Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc.

cylinder714 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:37:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056768

Points: 41

# Comments: 12

New comment by cylinder714 in "Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)"

cylinder714 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:17:45 +0000

https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/

New comment by cylinder714 in "What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate"

cylinder714 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:51:35 +0000

I just saw an Apple TV teaser for Neuromancer!

Aurora – 500-watt SDR ham radio transceiver announced

cylinder714 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:15:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flexradio.com/aurora/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44196262

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cylinder714 in "Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights"

cylinder714 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:12:13 +0000

A 1993 article from the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings on how her lack of radio savvy was a major factor in the tragedy:

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1993/d...

An example: she or somebody had a retractable antenna optimized for long-range high-frequency/shortwave radio removed prior to the flight—crazy!

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39239964

New comment by cylinder714 in "Mistaking Mary Magdalene"

cylinder714 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:59:35 +0000

I watched a bit of the coverage of Pope Francis' coffin being brought into St. Peter's basilica, and heard "Santa Maria Magdalena [pray for us]" chanted by the choir.

Also, the final episode of Martin Scorsese's "The Saints" series dropped, featuring her.

New comment by cylinder714 in "Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank"

cylinder714 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:36:57 +0000

Yep. Glad they're coming back.

New comment by cylinder714 in "Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank"

cylinder714 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:34:46 +0000

I used to visit that store once a week, just because.

New comment by cylinder714 in "I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today"

cylinder714 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:22:58 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC

"Tiny BASIC was designed by Dennis Allison and the People's Computer Company (PCC) in response to the open letter published by Bill Gates complaining about users pirating Altair BASIC, which sold for $150. Tiny BASIC was intended to be a completely free version of BASIC that would run on the same early microcomputers."