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rfarley04

978 karma · joined October 14, 2022

I write about tech history. Otherwise, a dad, endurance racing amateur, TTRPG nerd, and craft beer snob.
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Whistle speech-to-text running offline on a 16mb ESP32

github.com·1 pts·rfarley04·
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PHP session.upload_progress heap UAF (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)

jackalsyn.com·187 pts·rfarley04·
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The very bad ad for the very first laptop

buttondown.com·3 pts·rfarley04·
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Ex-MS engineer reveals the story behind the infamous 'FCKGW' Windows XP key

pcgamer.com·8 pts·rfarley04·
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A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads

buttondown.com·108 pts·rfarley04·
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No GrapheneOS for Pixel 11 phones because Google cut a key security feature

androidauthority.com·4 pts·rfarley04·
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Database-less link shortener and compressor

github.com·3 pts·rfarley04·
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Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

buttondown.com·122 pts·rfarley04·
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GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN

korben.info·131 pts·rfarley04·
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A doomed marriage and a bad ad for Corvus Systems' drives

buttondown.com·2 pts·rfarley04·
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Gateway 2000's infuriating descent from awesome to bad ads in the 90s (Part I)

buttondown.com·1 pts·rfarley04·
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Web Stalker – an artist-made browser that ignored images and formatting (1998)

anthology.rhizome.org·4 pts·rfarley04·
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Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings

techcrunch.com·1 pts·rfarley04·
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Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict

buttondown.com·126 pts·rfarley04·
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Meta up 3% in premarket as it plans mass layoff amidst increased AI spending

cnbc.com·7 pts·rfarley04·
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In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad

buttondown.com·142 pts·rfarley04·
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A handful of wholesomely bad ads for 90s SPARC clones

buttondown.com·2 pts·rfarley04·
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The hottest job in tech: Writing words

businessinsider.com·4 pts·rfarley04·
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Malaysia and Indonesia Block Elon Musk's Grok

cnbc.com·10 pts·rfarley04·
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Some not-so-bad ads from 80s computer magazines: Christmas edition

buttondown.com·2 pts·rfarley04·
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The Fantasy Life of Coder Boys (2003)

wired.com·2 pts·rfarley04·
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The strangest Excel functions you'll never use

makeuseof.com·4 pts·rfarley04·
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USR's campaigns for the Password Modem were historically bad ads

buttondown.com·1 pts·rfarley04·
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Everyone enjoys fewer lunch options (or, why I love pairwise comparisons)

woolean.com·1 pts·rfarley04·
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There aren't a lot of Pearson correlations on HN's front page

pithandpip.com·4 pts·rfarley04·
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V for Vendetta Will Return to Cinemas for Its 20th Anniversary in 2026

ign.com·6 pts·rfarley04·
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The Last Messiah by Peter Wessel-Zapffe [pdf]

openairphilosophy.org·2 pts·rfarley04·
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A (1995) company that made nothing but bad ads

buttondown.com·4 pts·rfarley04·
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3D Printed "Book" Demonstrates Mechanical Actions

hackaday.com·2 pts·rfarley04·
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Show HN: Woolean – Pairwise comparisons without any LLM features

woolean.com·3 pts·rfarley04·
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