Articles by rickcarlino
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Illinois introduces OS-level age verification law (legiscan.com)

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Monica helps you organize the social interactions with your loved ones (monicahq.com)

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Wiby.me – Early Web Search (wiby.me)

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Hatchat – a Slack-like chat application on top of SQLite (github.com/llimllib)

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Meshcore IRC Bridge (github.com/daniel-j-h)

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Constraint Propagation for Fun (eli.li)

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Setting Up an IRC Server (neatnik.net)

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The Great Recession and Its Aftermath (federalreservehistory.org)

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The Conjurer of Consciousness [video] (youtube.com)

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Emulator2000 – Seiko Digital Watch Emulator (github.com/azya52)

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JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool (json-render.dev)

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For profit university offers scholarship to RuneScape skill cape recipients (usv.edu)

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Hopper – A Gopher/Gemini Protocol Browser for Playdate (tkers.itch.io)

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Fnm – Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust (github.com/schniz)

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Betterment Users Receive Suspicous Crypto Investment Push Notifcation (reddit.com)

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Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics (obsessivefacts.com)

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Make Real by TLDraw (tldraw.com)

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Scribus – open-source Desktop Publishing (scribus.net)

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My First Meshtastic Network (rickcarlino.com)

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Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server (dialtone.live)

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We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper–the results were explosive (arstechnica.com)

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The Weird OS Built Around a Database [video] (youtube.com)

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Designing a CPU for native BASIC (hackaday.com)

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Simple Network Paging Protocol (wikipedia.org)

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Folkscanomy: Tandy and Radio Shack Books (archive.org)

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What happened to Gopher? The Internet we lost [video] (youtube.com)

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SpaceHey – A Space for Friends (spacehey.com)

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Sunflower Basic (xxiivv.com)

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OpenFeature – Standardized Feature Flagging (openfeature.dev)

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Visi on (DOS Software) (wikipedia.org)

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Screencap.me – Screen Recording in the Browser (screencap.me)

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Chumbox (Advertising) (wikipedia.org)

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Show HN: ESLint-plugin-no-else-if (github.com/rickcarlino)

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Obsidian IRC Client (github.com/obsidianirc)

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NetLogo – Environment for agent-based modeling (netlogo.org)

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Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI (asciinema.org)

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NewsWaffle – Gemini:// News Gateway (github.com/acidus99)

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JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in (github.com/rictic)

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Minesweeper World Championship 2025 (minesweeper.online)

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A New Shot for Cancer Is Convenient, but Poised to Keep Prices High (nytimes.com)

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Animation of Electric Machines (umn.edu)

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SGS-1: a foundational model for CAD (spectrallabs.ai)

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Set (Card Game) (wikipedia.org)

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Orc Protocol: Heavier than IRC, lighter than XMPP (github.com/rickcarlino)

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RabbitOS 2 (rabbit.tech)

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I used a RISC-V to make an analog tape drive [video] (youtube.com)

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Creating micro-lessons from spaced repetition mistakes (rickcarlino.com)

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Unwrap_or_AI – Failing Rust Functions into Intelligent Success Systems (github.com/noodlesofwrath)

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Layoff Tracker (trueup.io)

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Show HN: Solar Forth – Forth System with LibUV for Concurrency (github.com/rickcarlino)

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BerkShares (Local Currency) (wikipedia.org)

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Murphy – Bridge Ollama Requests to IRC (github.com/rickcarlino)

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OpenMower – An open source lawn mower (github.com/clemenselflein)

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MIRC Scripting Archive (scriptserv.com)

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An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (2021) (idlerpg.net)

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Wallabag – Save and Classify Articles (wallabag.org)

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HTML Day 2025 (html.energy)

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Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com/yalter)

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Gopher2000 – A Gopher server for the next millenium (github.com/muffinista)

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AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks (penrose.com)

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Microformats (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Is anyone using Super Grok Heavy for code?

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No kid zone (wikipedia.org)

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Wormhole (protocol) (wikipedia.org)

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Delete Tests (arko.net)

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Yacy – Peer to Peer Search (yacy.net)

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Gopeed – A Modern Download Manager (gopeed.com)

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Show HN: I vibe coded a Gnutella P2P client to learn how it works (github.com/rickcarlino)

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A Pokémon battle simulation engine (github.com/pkmn)

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Ask HN: Is anyone using AI conversation partners?

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Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made (arstechnica.com)

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Using Internet Relay Chat (1995) (archive.org)

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Ashtf8/EinkPDA: An E-Ink PDA Device Using the ESP32 S3 (github.com/ashtf8)

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CookLang – Recipe Markup Language (cooklang.org)

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Socrates on the Forgetfulness That Comes with Writing (newlearningonline.com)

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Squeak – an open source solitaire-like multiplayer (github.com/michaelongaro)

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Monkeytype – A minimalistic customizable typing test (monkeytype.com)

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Dot-com Bubble 25th Anniversary (wikipedia.org)

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Go Note Go, a note-taking app for walking and driving (davidbieber.com)

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Ask HN: Works Related to Task Decomposition?

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Building Tiny Raspberry Pi Linux Images with Buildroot (rickcarlino.com)

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DIY Telephone Build (simplifier.neocities.org)

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Ask HN: Percent of employees that benefit financially from equity offers?

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Carbon Microphone (simplifier.neocities.org)

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VonSim – An 8088-like Assembly Simulator (vonsim.github.io)

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Show HN: My Spaced Repetition App for Speaking/Listening Drills (github.com/rickcarlino)

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Loran (Long Range Navigation) (wikipedia.org)

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Windows 2: The Final Fantasy of Operating Systems (ninakalinina.com)

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The Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler (FSRS) in 100-Ish Lines of TypeScript (github.com/rickcarlino)

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A data table thousands of years old (2020) (datafix.com.au)

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A card memorization game for Forth programmers (rickcarlino.com)

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JSON5 – JSON for Humans (json5.org)

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US Department of State Protocol Reference (state.gov)

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Brain Workshop – Open-Source Dual N-Back Training App (sourceforge.net)

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Gemini (Protocol) (wikipedia.org)

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Exploring Simplex.Chat, a Scriptable, Decentralized Messaging App (rickcarlino.com)

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Mibbit IRC is shutting down (mibbit.com)

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Electrical World (Engineering Publication, circa 1904) (archive.org)

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ChaCha – Defunct human-guided search engine (wikipedia.org)

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Best DOS GUIs That I've Found (So Far) (dscloud.me)