Hacker News: iefbr14

New comment by iefbr14 in "Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off"

iefbr14 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:34:16 +0000

It is still on air, playing a message that they stopped broadcasting on that freq. (at least 30 minutes ago)

New comment by iefbr14 in "The Commodore flip phone is how much?"

iefbr14 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:54:47 +0000

Looks very much like the Samsung I still have. The best mobile phone I ever had.

New comment by iefbr14 in "Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?"

iefbr14 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:53:18 +0000

There is probably still a lot out there but with the current state of the ('free') search engines you won't find much. I am painfully reminded of that every time I have to look for a datasheet that is not in my own archive yet.

New comment by iefbr14 in "Europe is making a fatal mistake with China – Yanis and Wolfgang [video]"

iefbr14 — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:09:15 +0000

Stopped watching within 10 seconds thanks to the flickering screen border.

New comment by iefbr14 in "How and Why I Journal"

iefbr14 — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:08:56 +0000

Same way I got here

New comment by iefbr14 in "Researchers turn ocean dead zones into talking skies for pilots"

iefbr14 — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:14:25 +0000

They use it in the drones they build for Ukrain. Typical european..

New comment by iefbr14 in "Researchers turn ocean dead zones into talking skies for pilots"

iefbr14 — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:41:27 +0000

Wouldn't it be easier to use Starlink or am I missing something?

New comment by iefbr14 in "Ask HN: Favourite Assembly Instructions?"

iefbr14 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:18:09 +0000

BR 14 (IBM assembler)

Because it has a utility named after it. Hence my name.

New comment by iefbr14 in "Last love: a romance in a care home (2023)"

iefbr14 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:47:52 +0000

The title immediately made me think of the September Song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWc8g6-N7cE

New comment by iefbr14 in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

iefbr14 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:10:29 +0000

FWIW, when I used windows (up to 7), I always used Notetab.

New comment by iefbr14 in "Why I'll Never Drive a Modern Car Again [video]"

iefbr14 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:53:33 +0000

I wish it was only cars, but unfortunately this decay in-the-name-of-progress is in everything nowadays.

New comment by iefbr14 in "The Engineer who invented the Mars Rover Suspension in his garage [video]"

iefbr14 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:35:34 +0000

Very good documentary about Donald Bickler made by his son.

New comment by iefbr14 in "The Olivetti Company"

iefbr14 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:21:28 +0000

Also about olivetti: Olivetti & the Italian Computer: What Could Have Been. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfMxcrN90PE

New comment by iefbr14 in "The first new compass since 1936"

iefbr14 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:47:08 +0000

In the demo there is a cut in the video where the needle abrubtly stops. The cut is visible because the lighting is slightly different.

New comment by iefbr14 in "Could an electric blanket save you £4k this winter?"

iefbr14 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:26:05 +0000

The damage from a frozen water line in your house can be a lot more than $4000.

We had them when I was still a kid in the sixties and I did not like it at all. Jumping in a warm bed is nice but leaving it on during the night makes you wake up all sweaty in the middle of the night. Even on the lowest setting.

New comment by iefbr14 in "$5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop"

iefbr14 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:59:09 +0000

Nice, however the mentioned github link ( https://github.com/loganwilliams/passive-acoustic-listening ) does not exist (anymore?).

New comment by iefbr14 in "Take a walking tour of the Gothenburg Radio Museum"

iefbr14 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:40:16 +0000

Nice, but the left-right movement goes opposite to my intuition.

New comment by iefbr14 in "52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history"

iefbr14 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 18:26:32 +0000

For nostalgia sake. It's from the computing period when there was a great influx of good idea's but still a huge shortage in memory and storage.

New comment by iefbr14 in "The Windows 7 Renaissance? StatCounter shows surge in usage"

iefbr14 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:18:00 +0000

It is probably just a rise in the number of automated scrapers/bots that use a windows 7-like user agent.

New comment by iefbr14 in "Marine park threatens to euthanize 30 whales if Canada does not provide funding"

iefbr14 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 23:01:29 +0000

Why don't they just release them into the ocean?