Hacker News: rickcarlino

Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch

rickcarlino — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:39:32 +0000

Article URL: https://phreak.ing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063417

Points: 148

# Comments: 34

HTTP Range Request

rickcarlino — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:02:18 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Range_requests

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49810768

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rickcarlino in "Most people prefer traditional architecture"

rickcarlino — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:21:24 +0000

I thought this was an article about microservices.

New comment by rickcarlino in "Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts"

rickcarlino — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:01:49 +0000

Server side image maps are a fun one also: https://rickcarlino.com/2021/what-were-server-side-image-map...

New comment by rickcarlino in "Simple Is Not Small"

rickcarlino — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:42:49 +0000

“When is it useful to be small?”

I like this question. Some projects will sacrifice usefulness in the name of simplicity.

New comment by rickcarlino in "Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post"

rickcarlino — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:47:46 +0000

This is a honey pot, right? For LLMs that are not allowed to POST due to guard rails.

Exploiting food embeddings for ingredient substitution

rickcarlino — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:04:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ChantalMP/Exploiting-Food-Embeddings-for-Ingredient-Substitution

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560415

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rickcarlino in "Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?"

rickcarlino — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:51:19 +0000

I was a naysayer before I had kids, too. I now am able to get a first person view of Scratch usage through my child who likes the platform very much.

What's missing in a lot of these discussions about Scratch efficacy is the community aspect. Kids like getting a response in the comments section from their peers and many of the alternatives proposed don't have that. Without an active community, a lot of kids might never use the alternative despite being "better". In the case of Scratch (unlike Khan academy, which he completed also), he keeps using it, keeps trying things and keeps coming back because of the rewarding community interactions.

Transitous – Community-run public transport routing service

rickcarlino — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:07:51 +0000

Article URL: https://transitous.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504515

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Mothbox Insect Monitor

rickcarlino — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:40:54 +0000

Article URL: https://mothbox.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501526

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Mechanical Panda's Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM)

rickcarlino — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:01:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/MechRedPanda/red-panda-stm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499866

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by rickcarlino in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

rickcarlino — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:40:08 +0000

Illinois residents should consider forwarding this to their representatives.

New comment by rickcarlino in "Ask HN: What's a Good Physical Printer?"

rickcarlino — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:20:22 +0000

HN often recommends Brother printers for their lack of innovation and good-enough design. Printer companies are sleazy, you’re not wrong.

Number of Open Tech Jobs

rickcarlino — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:54:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.trueup.io/job-trend

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49459477

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rickcarlino in "Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30"

rickcarlino — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:56:12 +0000

Wishing you the best of luck on the road ahead ;-)

New comment by rickcarlino in "OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM"

rickcarlino — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:51:06 +0000

Is Tesseract still the best choice for local OCR in 2026? I was always underwhelmed with its real-world performance.

New comment by rickcarlino in "Siemens PC-X (2015)"

rickcarlino — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:45:25 +0000

A cookie consent modal being covered by an ad is peak modern web.

New comment by rickcarlino in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

rickcarlino — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:43:52 +0000

Concise output mode only helps a little bit. Tools like this still have a reason to exist.

New comment by rickcarlino in "New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 years"

rickcarlino — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:13:18 +0000

I was surprised to see it uses CR2016 batteries and still manages to get two years of advertised battery life.

New comment by rickcarlino in "Email Client for the Terminal?"

rickcarlino — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:53:51 +0000

Have you tried Alpine?