Hacker News: netrap

New comment by netrap in "Show HN: Capacitor Alarm Clock"

netrap — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:27:17 +0000

that's a bomb dude.. lmao.. don't take that anywhere!

New comment by netrap in "Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea"

netrap — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:22:40 +0000

If it provides similar utility as a car, what's the big deal about that price? It would be the same type of purchase, right?

New comment by netrap in "FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop"

netrap — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:58:01 +0000

FreeBSD does not have a desktop installer yet.. the powerpoint alludes to that being a coming feature though.. I think people here should chill out about her not using FreeBSD as the daily driver.. I use FreeBSD daily in my work, but no, I don't on desktop...

New comment by netrap in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

netrap — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:31:01 +0000

I wonder if they will come to their senses and revert the decision? It does seem a bit boneheaded to drop Linux support on the Basic tier... What actual reason would they need to do that?

New comment by netrap in "As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work"

netrap — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:52:32 +0000

Interesting analogy but there are many old people in Casinos...

New comment by netrap in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"

netrap — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:23:16 +0000

It's not about that, it's about the incentive...

New comment by netrap in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

netrap — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:14:46 +0000

So you decrypt each time you need it? What is the difference in the attack surface?

New comment by netrap in "I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers"

netrap — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:30:50 +0000

Intel at one time did 6 month sabbatical if you worked 10 years.

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-...