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John's Tech Blog
Personal blog · hagensieker.comhardwareprogramming
John's Tech Blog is a personal blog at hagensieker.com about hardware and programming. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Firewalls and BIOS's and Coreboot (2020)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Tech blog by John, linked in threads on ham radio and hardware. One comment cites a 2019 post on multiband atomic clock reception. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Technical hobbyist exploring Raspberry Pi, ham radio, networking systems, GNSS/RTK positioning, laser engraving, and digital camera hardware.
Most-linked posts?
- Firewalls and BIOS's and Coreboot (2020)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-09
What Hacker News says?
Are you sure about that? I just ordered the UV-K5 from Amazon sold by Quansheng and it is labeled as having USB C charging. There's also a third party seller with an item description of "UV-K6 UV-K5(8)". That listing seems fishy. I don't see a "UV-K6" listed on the Quansheng web site [1]. EDIT: After more research it looks like the UV-K5(8) is also known as the UV-K6 [2]. I'm curious which model I receive. [1]: http…
Comment linking /2024/03/12/quansheng-uv-k6-radio-review/
on “UV-K5 is the most hackable handheld ham radio yet”Submitted Firewalls and BIOS's and Coreboot (2020) as a story · 16 points
HN discussionI don't know specifically but there has been a bit of a plague of really cool really awesome systems coming out with amazing smaller form factors and capabilities. But never ever having bios updates. Examples: click in to any given product on https://minisforum.com/support/#/ and there's a <20% chance there's been a bios update ever. CWWK's support page is a cloud-drive page (kind of cool actually!) with filenames i…
Comment linking /2020/11/08/firewalls-and-bioss-and-coreboot/
on “Fanless AMD Mini PC from Japan”Submitted Firewalls and BIOS's and Coreboot as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThat “all around the world” leaves significant gaps: https://hagensieker.com/2019/11/17/multiband-6-what-is-it/ I had a weather station with an external antenna that could never sync, even during the night, even placed in the "best" side of the house on my neck of the EU. A solar powered, low battery wristwatch that's never outside in the middle of the night will fare much worse. It's interesting old school tech tha…
Comment linking /2019/11/17/multiband-6-what-is-it/
on “Atomic Clocks”Submitted Werewolf Vflex Adapter Review as a story · 1 points
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