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Kevin Norman
Personal blog · kn100.mehardwaresystems
Kevin Norman writes kn100, a personal blog at kn100.me about hardware and systems. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “Taking my data back from Eufy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for DIY projects, such as connecting a standing desk to the internet with an ESP32 and a post on improving Bluetooth audio on Linux. One commenter praised the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
kn100 (Kevin Norman) personal blog, discussing tech, cybiko, life, electronics, hacking, etc.
Most-linked posts?
- Taking my data back from Eufy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-08
- Beating round-trip latency with Redis pipelining2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-24
- Ok, Ok, I'm Turning uPnP off2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-06
- How to Improve Bluetooth Audio Quality on Linux2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-13
What Hacker News says?
https://kn100.me/turning-upnp-off/ I've written a follow up, which you may find interesting.
Comment linking /turning-upnp-off/
on “My NAS exposes itself over the internet without permission”Submitted My NAS exposes itself over the internet without permission as a story · 390 points
HN discussionPost processing is absolutely essential with tesseract. Not to self promote but I discussed this at some length in this blog post, if you're interested: https://kn100.me/taking-back-data-from-eufy/
Comment linking /taking-back-data-from-eufy/
on “Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine”Submitted How to Improve Bluetooth Audio Quality on Linux as a story · 168 points
HN discussionWhat is the board with a kajillion holes in it behind the esp32 called? https://kn100.me/posts/desksniffer/pbfront.webp It looks like it could come in handy for many esp32 projects. p.s. In case the author comes across this comment - Absolutely superb write-up, your writing style reveals your curious and positive attitude, it's totally inspiring! I wish I could easily subscribe to future publications, like the email…
Comment linking /posts/desksniffer/pbfront.webp
on “Internet of Desks: How I Connected My Standing Desk to the Internet”Submitted Internet of Desks: How I Connected My Standing Desk to the Internet as a story · 80 points
HN discussionMaybe this? https://kn100.me/improving-bluetooth-audio-linux/ I haven't tried it myself, and re-reading it suggests it may not help with your case. But perhaps useful anyway.
Comment linking /improving-bluetooth-audio-linux/
on “I Think Bluetooth Is Finally OK”Submitted The Perils of RSS as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dealing with a Cybiko Classic in 2022 as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beating round-trip latency with Redis pipelining as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Does My Computer Not Boot with a USB Hub Attached? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Declouding Chinese WiFi Plugs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploiting UPNP: Literally Childsplay as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Convincing a Scammer That They’re Going Crazy as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ok, Ok, I'm Turning uPnP off as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Brief Aside on "Why" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Home Labbing: This Mutant Motherboard/CPU Combo Could Be the Perfect Solution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking my data back from Eufy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nix – A rather nice solution for homelabbing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beating Round-Trip Latency with Redis Pipelining (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting the mutant home server gaming in a VM (Proxmox Home Server) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where Embedded Meets the Internet: Build Your Own Air Quality Meter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gnome Shell Stuttering Caused by AppIndicator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whirlwind: What My First Real Software Engineering Job Taught Me as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How do I make breaking changes in Go without annoying people? as a story · 1 points
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