Articles by rickcarlino
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Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch (phreak.ing)

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Shark MX Gameboy Modem (nesdev.org)

2

Morse Code Trainer (perry.qa)

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Claudish-to-English makes Claude output comprehensible (github.com/gvzdv)

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IRCLab – IRC Network Statistics and Monitoring (irclab.org)

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Browser-Based QBasic Environment (kavak.run)

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8086 Emulator Inside Scratch (turbowarp.org)

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Layoffs.FYI Adds new AI attribution layoff chart (layoffs.fyi)

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How Gnutella Scaled to Handle Query Traffic (rickcarlino.com)

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InternNav – Navigation Toolbox (github.com/internrobotics)

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Internet Radio Station Directory (radio-browser.info)

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Keet – Encrypted peer to peer messaging (keet.io)

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GemCities – Free Gemini:// capsule hosting (gemcities.com)

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Age Verification in Monolith OS (monolith-project.org)

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Jo is a statically typed language that enables compile-time sandboxing (github.com/typescope)

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A Botched Master Thesis Proposal and Idea for a Decentralized VPN (t1m.me)

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AMule 3.0.0 – The "Alive Again" Version (amule-org.github.io)

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LimeWire re-emerges in rush to share pulled 60 Minutes segment (arstechnica.com)

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Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It (rickcarlino.com)

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Gnutella2 Network Statistics (doxu.org)

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Dandelion Rubber for Sustainable Tires? (dw.com)

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The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind KDE oxygen revival (filipfila.wordpress.com)

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Kryptor – Simple, modern, secure file encryption and signing tool (kryptor.co.uk)

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Cozy.Talk – Old web inspired discussion community (cozy.talk)

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Why TUIs are back (alcidesfonseca.com)

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Ask HN: Where do you promote your writing in 2026?

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Trystero – Browser P2P Library (github.com/dmotz)

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K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s (github.com/alexellis)

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SimRefinery (wikipedia.org)

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Operation Sundevil (1990) (wikipedia.org)

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Git Commands for Project Management over Email (git-scm.com)

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Voxels in R3forth (reddit.com)

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Recycling plastic waste with compression molding (hackaday.com)

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RuneBench – Agent Benchmark on RuneScape Gameplay Tasks (maxbittker.github.io)

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My Homemade PBX (2002) (wandel.ca)

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Layoffs.FYI (layoffs.fyi)

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Trump says he'll fire Powell next month if he stays in his role at the Fed (cnn.com)

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WebTransport (Browser API) (developer.mozilla.org)

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PicoTop – A basic computer and OS based on the RP2350 microcontroller (github.com/7west)

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ReBot-DevArm: open-source Robotic Arm (github.com/seeed-projects)

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Bring Back Buddy – A Consolidated Plea from the [Claude Code] Community (github.com/anthropics)

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Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer (elastiq.ch)

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PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement (eaw.app)

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Quantum computers need fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption (arstechnica.com)

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Geomys – a Gopher client for Macintosh 68K (2026) (github.com/ecliptik)

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Paintn't – A headless tribute to paint.exe, in TypeScript (github.com/rickcarlino)

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Tree-Style Invite Systems Reduce AI Slop (abyss.fish)

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Federal Judge Quashes Justice Department Subpoenas of Fed Chair Jerome Powell (cnn.com)

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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)

2

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)

3

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)