Hacker News: iNate2000

New comment by iNate2000 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

iNate2000 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:54:06 +0000

https://nategrigg.com

New comment by iNate2000 in "Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation"

iNate2000 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:19:36 +0000

Wait - I saw a link to a Slack chat workspace. Do they have something for Slackware Linux as well?

New comment by iNate2000 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

iNate2000 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:04:20 +0000

MAGiE: Your MAGnetic Interactive Explorer

A simple puzzle game: a cassette-futuristic story, heavily inspired by Nell’s adventures at Castle Turing in Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age”.

I could go on and on...

I’d love your feedback:

Rewind to the start of the story: https://magiegame.com/test/2025/04/04

Or skip to today’s puzzle: https://magiegame.com

Right now I’m focused on story development and integrating it with the daily-puzzle system I built last time I was between jobs.

This is a years-long slow-burn side project. My career moved away from the frontend long ago—this is my first React app, with a Django backend running on AWS Lightsail.

New comment by iNate2000 in "NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture"

iNate2000 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:55:35 +0000

https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Pre...

> able to retrieve the footage contained on two 1’ APEX tapes

I'm no expert, but I think they meant 1-inch AMPEX tape.

Also, perhaps they should record it in doubly. #ThisIsSpinalTap #Stonehenge #InchsToFeet

New comment by iNate2000 in "GitHub was down"

iNate2000 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:58:11 +0000

I checked, and my pages-based site was down, but it is back up now.

New comment by iNate2000 in "Re-live buying a computer in 1995 [video]"

iNate2000 — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 14:44:50 +0000

The logo on the shirt looks like Incredible Universe

New comment by iNate2000 in "CZ5B (Chinese rocket) Reentry Prediction"

iNate2000 — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 14:55:32 +0000

But what if it only appears uncontrolled?

New comment by iNate2000 in "The Central Social Institution in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1937"

iNate2000 — Tue, 31 May 2022 13:12:06 +0000

Oh! That reminds me of an idea I had once for a “kid-powered computer”. Here is a sketch that I made to illustrate how a disk-drive works: https://flic.kr/p/an8kAA

New comment by iNate2000 in "Ask HN: What's the best way to monetize actual programming?"

iNate2000 — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:07:34 +0000

I’ve had at least one job where the employment agreement actually mentions intellectual-property exceptions. So, I just brought that up with the recruiter/HR person and they whipped out a form where I describe my existing project. Someone (a lawyer?) reviews it to make sure I’m not competing in the same field as the company and everything was good.

New comment by iNate2000 in "Ask HN: What's the best way to monetize actual programming?"

iNate2000 — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:31:55 +0000

Well that’s just the point: implementation is not worth fifty thousand dollars, but the solution to a business problem probably is.

“Consult”ing with problem-havers and working out how to make the problem go away.

New comment by iNate2000 in "Designing for a right to repair"

iNate2000 — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:38:26 +0000

But compare the NeXT Station to the current Mac Pro. This is a similar product with similar use cases and price tag.

The current Mac Pro gets a 9/10 repairability score on iFixit[1]

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+2019+Teardown/128922

New comment by iNate2000 in "Show HN: Plain Org – A new org mode app for iOS"

iNate2000 — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 07:32:10 +0000

Oh!

So I can install the app and it can just open the files that already sync through Git/Working Copy? I’ll just have to plunk down my nine dollars!

Speaking of plunking down money: thank you so much for not making this a subscription!

New comment by iNate2000 in "Show HN: Plain Org – A new org mode app for iOS"

iNate2000 — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 01:18:35 +0000

I recently paid for Working Copy and use it for mobile access to Org and Markdown files. How does this app work worth it?

New comment by iNate2000 in "GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website"

iNate2000 — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:27:35 +0000

Aren’t political or religious groups protected?

New comment by iNate2000 in "GoDaddy is cutting off Texas Right to Life’s abortion ‘whistleblowing’ website"

iNate2000 — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 13:26:22 +0000

But the site is not a law-enforcement official.

Also, a person’s health-care information is quite private.

New comment by iNate2000 in "Apple agrees to settle potential class action suit by U.S. developers"

iNate2000 — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 13:50:55 +0000

But Walmart wouldn’t let a vendor set up a kiosk in the middle of the store and accept payments with a Square reader on a phone, would they?

New comment by iNate2000 in "LimeSDR"

iNate2000 — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:03:33 +0000

That document (DA 18-980) talks about "importing two-way VHF/UHF radios... used primarily for short-distance, two-way voice communications."

In other words: cheap walkie-talkies that don't comply with FCC regulations.

Such radios typically max out at 5w.

The LimeSDR claims 10dBm - which I believe means about 10milliwatts.

In other words, that FCC memo is concerned with radios being sold that are something like five hundred times as powerful as a LimeSDR. And therefore much more likely to interfere with other transmissions.

New comment by iNate2000 in "iDOS 2 will be gone soon"

iNate2000 — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 19:40:09 +0000

I still think Windows Phone was good. Perhaps they should have marketed it as a Zune phone.

New comment by iNate2000 in "Ask HN: How to get started with CB radio?"

iNate2000 — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 23:16:34 +0000

Like a goofy person “hamming it up”

Amateur radio operators can seem undisciplined compared to professional or military operators.

New comment by iNate2000 in "Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations"

iNate2000 — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 00:18:02 +0000

Just downloaded it and tried it out. For the instructions it has, you can tap a part and it lights up the bounding box for that piece in the original image.