Hacker News: netrap

New comment by netrap in "Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared"

netrap — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:43:16 +0000

Is it not the fact that Win32 is not the dominant platform anymore? It would be mobile phones now, right?

New comment by netrap in "SpaceX files to go public"

netrap — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:31:07 +0000

Getting goods and people over there, I guess..

New comment by netrap in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

netrap — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:54:58 +0000

We ban other drugs though? Just saying that we DO ban things already...

New comment by netrap in "Kagi: Small Web Just Got Bigger"

netrap — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:44:16 +0000

Only skimmed it but remember dmoz.org? I think having a web directory again is a cool idea..

New comment by netrap in "WFH is becoming a benefit again"

netrap — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:17:25 +0000

Do companies give a crap about employees spending money on gas? I mean maybe for those that are traveling salesmen or something... but otherwise I don't see how it would bring it back...

New comment by netrap in "Death to Scroll Fade"

netrap — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:59:55 +0000

Death to Scroll Bar size change!!!

New comment by netrap in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

netrap — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:32:52 +0000

Seems like .blog .city etc are just banned via cisco umbrella policies...

New comment by netrap in "Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code"

netrap — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:08:33 +0000

I recall my time in satellite control systems had a lot of TCL code.

New comment by netrap in "PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts"

netrap — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:17:53 +0000

Awesome !!

I have an old Thinkpad and had a similar idea for wifi, but I was thinking about MiniPCI.

Emulating NE2000 is great :)

New comment by netrap in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

netrap — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:36:44 +0000

It seems like it is easy to get good reviews on some product then just switch the product completely different. Do they not have ways to prevent that??

New comment by netrap in "Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?"

netrap — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:58:47 +0000

There are some Firewire SCSI adapters. Sometimes older Firewire tape drives have internal SCSI to Firewire boards. I've used them to with old SCSI CD drives.

New comment by netrap in "Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?"

netrap — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:55:04 +0000

I wonder if QRP would be something?

https://hackaday.com/2016/03/08/how-low-can-you-go-the-world...

also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSPR_(amateur_radio_software) https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/wsjtx.html

plus the super simple "Fireball QRP transmitter"

https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-DX/73-magazine/73-...

New comment by netrap in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"

netrap — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:39:43 +0000

Only recently discontinued in Feburary 2025!

New comment by netrap in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

netrap — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:53:09 +0000

Not anymore, they laid off all the lawyers who would do that.

New comment by netrap in "Rebecca Heineman has died"

netrap — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:48:05 +0000

Weird. I just googled it and it said her partner also died of the same thing?

New comment by netrap in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

netrap — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:13:41 +0000

Wonder if it will end up like nuclear fusion.. just another decade away! :)

New comment by netrap in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

netrap — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:00:45 +0000

Very interesting. I'll give that a try..

New comment by netrap in "Why Is SQLite Coded In C"

netrap — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:06:39 +0000

Why not just say "because I don't want to change it"? rustaceans will always say your argument isn't valid for some reason or another. IDGAF, it's written in C because it is -- that's it!

New comment by netrap in "The Culture novels as a dystopia"

netrap — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:05:02 +0000

I thought Consider Phlebas was very good but a depressing book. I keep hearing Player of Games is awesome, so maybe that?

New comment by netrap in "Burner Phone 101"

netrap — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:25:03 +0000

if the phone is confiscated it could be saving GPS automatically, i guess