Hacker News: linker3000

New comment by linker3000 in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

linker3000 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:09:30 +0000

I'm just about getting by with DDG and a curated 'AI slop' list subscription in uBlock origin.

The state of search has been dire for quite some time.

- in 2026.

New comment by linker3000 in "Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)"

linker3000 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:19:23 +0000

Yay, wirewrap...

https://codeberg.org/linker3000/Z80-Board

New comment by linker3000 in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

linker3000 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:37:40 +0000

I find it apparent when I very occasionally take a break from making my own stuff from scratch and get a takeout.

Fastest way to run ghidrasql: point an AI coding agent at the installer prompt

linker3000 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:35:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/0xeb/ghidrasql

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174716

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by linker3000 in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

linker3000 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:45:36 +0000

One thing it taught me was that sometimes the corrections would be in next month's edition, so I had that long to figure out for myself why the program didn't work as stated.

New comment by linker3000 in "Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built"

linker3000 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:16:22 +0000

The main qualification of one of the best electronics engineers I knew (UK) was Bachelor of Music.

New comment by linker3000 in "How to survive boiling water"

linker3000 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:51:29 +0000

So if, say, you were completely irradiated - every atom of your being - and fully repaired, would you still be 'you'?

/Is that a transporter energizing I hear?

New comment by linker3000 in "Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition"

linker3000 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:35:42 +0000

Is this the evolution of something that used to run moderately well on a mid-range Raspberry pi?

Don Priestley (Mazogs), stares down with a withering look.

An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement

linker3000 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:21:39 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-letter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442247

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by linker3000 in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

linker3000 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:50:12 +0000

A few weeks ago I needed a computer to be a Debian server for some at-home simple Web dev / learning stuff. I bought an HP Prodesk 400 G3 SFF PC with i5-6500, 8GB RAM and a 256GB off a popular auction site for £44. It'll do. I might upgrade to 16GB. An additional 8GB stick costs £19.

New comment by linker3000 in "Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS"

linker3000 — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:40:23 +0000

> leads to real outages.

Um, no.

I daresay you could find the odd example, as for any grid in a stressed situation, but it's not like we turn to each other every week in the dark and say "Oh, it must be half time at the Manchester United match".

New comment by linker3000 in "Bring Your Agent to Teams"

linker3000 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:38:41 +0000

I would just like to bring my Bluetooth headset into teams reliably.

New comment by linker3000 in "Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus PageMaker, has died"

linker3000 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:54:27 +0000

I used to support DTP, and graphics for the systems house at which I worked. I travelled round the UK installing PageMaker and A4 paper-white CRT displays - boy were they heavy!

My endearing memory is calling the company in Edinburgh for technical support, to be greeted on the phone by a lady with a lovely, cheery Scottish accent announcing "Aldus UK".

Fun fact: I was first person in the UK to print in colour on an HP ink jet printer at the trade show where they were first demonstrated. The HP folks hadn't got the official colour driver ready for the show, so the HP guys were printing in mono, but I'd had an advanced model to try and hacked some other print driver to work with it.

New comment by linker3000 in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

linker3000 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:27:44 +0000

The Motorola phones are generally good performers and value for money. My only gripe is that they cannot have their batteries replaced easily - even by phone repair shops.

I understand that this is because you have to disassemble / un-glue the phones through the front and remove the display. For this reason, the repair shops I have asked have said they don't 'do' Motorola phones because there's too much risk in breaking the display.

This effectively means that the life of the phone is determined by the ageing of the battery.

New comment by linker3000 in "The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75"

linker3000 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:24:11 +0000

I learned how to do lacing during an electronics engineering apprenticeship in the 1980s.

After the fact, when I moved more in to systems and networking, I found that flat, nylon, waxed lacing cord, with a small nut tied to the end, was lightweight and perfect for throwing through ducting and ceiling spaces very long distances, so you could backhaul cables through the void. It was a real time saver.

New comment by linker3000 in "Consent-O-Matic"

linker3000 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:51:54 +0000

LinkedIn - it takes you to the allow/deny page but doesn't automate things. It used to be that the LinkedIn login would get stuck in a cycle around this, but now it just dumps you on to the consent page.

New comment by linker3000 in "The Olivetti Company"

linker3000 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:50:16 +0000

I worked in IT support and engineering for a UK Olivetti dealer / distributor in the 1980s/90s. As such I had access to all sorts of Olivetti kit in various states of functionality. At one time, my home PC was an Olivetti M280 case with an M380 (386DX) motherboard and EGA display adapter. It had a colour monitor and the ANK 27-102 keyboard - it was a 'top end' hybrid for its time that I'd put together from several non-working machines..

I also had a 'faulty' Olivetti inkjet printer that was written off under warranty with a mysterious fault. I eventually managed to fix it by bending the metal paper detector arm so that it slotted properly into the optical sensor - it was a little out of whack and the sensor sometimes couldn't work out whether there was paper in the tray.

New comment by linker3000 in "Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use"

linker3000 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:58:44 +0000

I tried this with Node-RED for a Meshtastic project (MeshBop), but experienced occasional timeouts even when only making a handful of calls per hour. In the end I moved to Met Norway's API for UK/EU weather.

New York's incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party

linker3000 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:19:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/zohran_mamdani_raspberry_pi_ban/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46440907

Points: 16

# Comments: 2

New comment by linker3000 in "I can't recommend Grafana anymore"

linker3000 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 05:25:09 +0000

I ran with Centreon for a while because you got Nagios + integrated dashboarding out of the box and a Community option.

I'm out of that game now though so don't have the challenge.

https://www.centreon.com/