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krogenxon Show HN: Toast, a by default in-terminal IDE

Now just add a terminal inside the IDE and we’re gold.

krogenxon Playa Phone

What was the gift?

krogenxon Playa Phone

Would be fun to read if the calls were recorded and transcribed.

krogenxon Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times

You can use juggalo face paint.

https://consequence.net/2019/07/juggalo-makeup-facial-recogn...

krogenxon CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026

I remember fondly spending countless hours looking through the Icewind Dale manual.

Unfortunately, I purchased Baldur’s Gate 1/2 many years later with no manual. I’m sure it had an awesome manual as well.

krogenxon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

I am in the process of launching my poultry RFID tags, “eFlock Smart Poultry Tags”. They allow farmers to count and identify all of the birds that they have. The project goes along with a mobile app, Manger, a tool that can be used to gather data about livestock (not just poultry). Tags should be available sometime this week, perhaps early next week on Amazon. Here’s a video of scanning: https://youtu.be/wilixJiyPYA Tags on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWTB1DR9 Manger app: https://www.manger.app/

krogenxon Arm AGI CPU

Pretty sure in that case AG stands for Athletic Greens.

I think the name change also came before the AI hype.

krogenxon 25 Years of Eggs

A bit of a shill comment but… I have chickens and have been tracking egg production in an app that I’ve built, a livestock manager of sorts called Manger.

Looking at my data, since we’ve had our first egg 743 days ago, our hens have produced 9,393 eggs, or an average of just above a dozen a day.

The app can also count chickens, since each chicken has a UHF RFID.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_iGn_pZ3IkY

krogenxon No, it's not a battleship

Big “beautiful” bill comes to mind.

krogenxon RuBee

Are there any places where a hobbyist could purchase a tag or reader?

krogenxon A love letter to the CSV format (2024)

If a workstation has Git installed on it, which I’d think would be the case for substantial number of engineers out there (…not just software engineers), grep is there due to Git BASH.

krogenxon In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip

I haven’t played with any stationary antennas but I think it’s possible.

The scanner that is used in the video has configuration for transmit power. At its maximum setting, the range is 15 feet with clear line of sight.

Tags with larger antennas, generally speaking, have longer range but might be too big for younger chickens.

So overall there are a lot of variables.

krogenxon In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip

These:

https://www.chafon.com/productinfo/1070742.html

Bought them on Alibaba.

krogenxon In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip

I have a hobby project where I am using UHF tags for counting poultry. The advantage that it gives me is long range (few meters) compared to LF / HF tags. QR code also wouldn't work due to size and distance.

Here's a video.

https://youtu.be/_iGn_pZ3IkY

krogenxon Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers

Maybe they could do some R&D to see if coffee could be used as ink.

krogenxon Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah)

Similar things come to my mind with The Sims. Once the game was “over” (maybe you’ve reached the top job) you could still do all sorts of things… Some of them a bit masochistic.

krogenxon Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

I’ve been working on an animal management app for the last two years or so. It’s a hobby project so it’s not going very fast. Recently I’ve released a new version with support for one model of a UHF RFID reader. It allows me to count and identify my chickens from up to 15 feet away.

https://youtu.be/_iGn_pZ3IkY?si=x4ijZdAP-suhuJ7Y

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/manger-animal-manager/id674269...