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New comment by gabrielsroka in "Computer Programming for Everybody"

gabrielsroka — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:32:43 +0000

2000?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

New comment by gabrielsroka in "Discovery of Cold War-era rare Eastern Bloc computers in a German hangar"

gabrielsroka — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:45:19 +0000

Actual title: "Explorers of the Lost Computers", 2025. Probably a reference to "Raiders Of The Lost Ark"

New comment by gabrielsroka in "Show HN: We built an 8-bit CPU as 2nd year EE students"

gabrielsroka — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:26:53 +0000

> pendant

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

New comment by gabrielsroka in "Show HN: We built an 8-bit CPU as 2nd year EE students"

gabrielsroka — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:45:06 +0000

Ben Eater's SAP came from "Digital Computer Electronics" by Albert Paul Malvino and Jerald A. Brown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple-As-Possible_computer

New comment by gabrielsroka in "Assume You Will Be Hacked"

gabrielsroka — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:46:08 +0000

Related from 2021

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26972716

New comment by gabrielsroka in "Stop Using JWTs"

gabrielsroka — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:29:53 +0000

2019

New comment by gabrielsroka in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

gabrielsroka — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:24:36 +0000

This works too

  exec 3<>/dev/tcp/example.com/80
  printf 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r
  Host: example.com\r
  Connection: close\r
  \r
  ' >&3
  cat <&3

You can even take out the \r though they should be there

New comment by gabrielsroka in "David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88"

gabrielsroka — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:37:04 +0000

Painting with light, 1987

https://youtu.be/ZI8RbdPe4ro

New comment by gabrielsroka in "County-level map of air conditioning in the U.S."

gabrielsroka — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:13:12 +0000

Me too. The title on the screenshot is households without air conditioning.

New comment by gabrielsroka in "Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory"

gabrielsroka — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:22:54 +0000

> This is an independent information website about Hermes Agent, an open-source autonomous AI agent by Nous Research. We are not affiliated with Nous Research or any other organization referenced on this site.

https://hermes-agent.org/terms-of-service/

New comment by gabrielsroka in "The Miracle on Mount Everest – Hillary Dawa Sperpa Found Alive"

gabrielsroka — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:14:43 +0000

Sherpa, not Sperpa

New comment by gabrielsroka in "In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

gabrielsroka — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:32:58 +0000

The one above is the public long version. it has a link to this unlisted short version

https://youtu.be/Zgxb8I1nk2I

New comment by gabrielsroka in "Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs"

gabrielsroka — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:23:52 +0000

Maybe https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbg3ZX2pWlgKV8K6bFJr5dhM7...

Which contains "The 35 Year History of ChatGPT" and "How LLMs Took Over The World"

New comment by gabrielsroka in "Facing life-threatening miscarriage in Arkansas, calls to governor didn't help"

gabrielsroka — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:47:21 +0000

Actual title "She faced a life-threatening miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ abortion ban, even calls to the governor’s office didn’t help"

New comment by gabrielsroka in "Nabokov's pale fire: the lost 'father of all hypertext demos'? (2011)"

gabrielsroka — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:55:03 +0000

Pale Fire (name of the book), links to a PDF

Novel was referenced in Blade Runner 2049

New comment by gabrielsroka in "What five simple habits can do over 35 years"

gabrielsroka — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:35:19 +0000

Actual title: "Caerphilly Heart Disease Study"

Five healthy behaviors:

- Non-smoking

- A low body weight (BMI 18–25)

- Regular exercise (30 minutes walking or equivalent, five days per week)

- A low fat diet, combined with daily intake of five portions of fruit and vegetables.

- An intake of alcohol within accepted guidelines (21 or less units of alcohol per week).

New comment by gabrielsroka in "The Cruelty Is the Point: President Trump and His Supporters"

gabrielsroka — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:50:04 +0000

2018

New comment by gabrielsroka in "Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking"

gabrielsroka — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:38:30 +0000

Great job. The book is 427 pages.

Why not put the video on YouTube?

New comment by gabrielsroka in "UK radio station apologises for accidentally announcing king's death"

gabrielsroka — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:40:00 +0000

Gerald Ford dead today

https://youtu.be/1tX6jdoruH8

New comment by gabrielsroka in "Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?"

gabrielsroka — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:33:28 +0000

Did you mean https://lobste.rs ?