netrap

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netrap··on We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do

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

netrap··on Kagi: Small Web Just Got Bigger

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

netrap··on WFH is becoming a benefit again

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...

netrap··on Death to Scroll Fade

Death to Scroll Bar size change!!!

netrap··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning

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

netrap··on Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code

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

netrap··on PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts

Awesome !!

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

Emulating NE2000 is great :)

netrap··on Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026

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??

netrap··on Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?

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.

netrap··on Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?

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-...

netrap··on Cassette tapes are making a comeback?

Only recently discontinued in Feburary 2025!

netrap··on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

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

netrap··on Rebecca Heineman has died

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

netrap··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents

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

netrap··on TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)

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

netrap··on Why Is SQLite Coded In C

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!

netrap··on The Culture novels as a dystopia

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

netrap··on Burner Phone 101

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

netrap··on One person was able to claim 20M IPs

Interesting. I looked up top 10 domains. I wonder if you could have it occur on wikipedia.org? Other random thoughts after looking at https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains... Maybe tiktok somehow? Or a bug in NTP? :D

netrap··on Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager

I think this is more readable than with macros, but it might be a preference.

netrap··on The rise of AI as a threat to the S&P 500 [pdf]

>> Risks to jobs rarely feature among reported risks, despite being a prominent public concern.

If there is a risk to jobs, it wouldn't show up here since actually less jobs is "good" for business...

netrap··on Juneteenth in Photos

https://brian.carnell.com/wiki/texas_slavery_narratives_part...

Fascinating story.. you know it happened but it's weird to read it and imagine it was absolutely real.

netrap··on Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?

Electronics. Especially the concept of ADC/DACs. Connecting Analog to Digital in to an FPGA, etc. I read a document about PLLs and I barely understand the block diagrams, the math I can't even begin to understand the symbols. I'll start learning from a book, but get to a certain point, then a few days go by, then many days -- by then I feel like I have to restart from the beginning.

netrap··on Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?

nice website..

netrap··on Sleep is essential – researchers are trying to work out why

I've seen this book talked about a lot. However, I also have heard that there is some big holes in the research. Take a look online.

netrap··on Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan

Out of business for awhile now.. I'd guess 90% or more CD-Rs made now are CMC. Ritek might still make some. There is also falconrak in UAE making them. At this point I am curious if anyone in Japan is still doing it... Does Memory-Tech in japan make recordable media??

netrap··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

I'm trying to make an edison battery (Nickel Iron). My first attempt failed due to expired silver epoxy... I'm now planning to try a nickel paint (meant for electron microscopy).

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/february2012_Noon

netrap··on SheepShaver is an open source PowerPC Apple Macintosh emulator

You should upload it to macintoshrepository.org. It seems like it is not available anywhere else.

netrap··on My stupid noise journey (2023)

>> NO: they have undefinable effects on your psyche. Maybe "pressure" or some sort of non-silent silence that your body still reacts to?

I understand the pressure comment. It does not bother me that much and it's wayyy worth getting used to. I have tried the Apple Airpods Max and QC45. I think QC45 is a little less on the pressure than the Apple noise cancelling. Just my 2c.

netrap··on "Do you not like money?"

Perhaps there is just something small you can do that is passed down or acknowledged by others who will pass it on. A behavior, an action, or some other change.

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