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nuxx.net is a personal blog at nuxx.net about programming and hardware. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “OLED Not for Me”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked posts cover retro hardware and display choices. One commenter mentions replacing the NES 72-pin connector, and another cites the blog's OLED post while recommending a monitor for high-quality text at 4K.
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.
Making, baking, and (un-)breaking things in Southeast Michigan.
Most-linked posts?
- OLED Not for Me2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-10
What Hacker News says?
https://nuxx.net It's where I've put my personal thoughts / things I want to publish publicly for... years now. The focus is more on the content than the platform, so it's a basic WP site that's easy for me to get content into. (Yes, I know there's some image/link rot. That's what 20+ years of one website gets you without a tremendous amount of navel-gazing.)
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted OpenSCAD is kinda neat as a story · 311 points
HN discussionFinally, a reply that is correct. Thank you; too many people leave seasoning up to being some mystery when it's really just that straightforward. FWIW, I wrote this up a few years back after I went down the rabbit hole of seasoning pans, only to find that it's actually really simple and just as you describe: https://nuxx.net/blog/2014/01/24/well-seasoned-cast-iron-pan...
Comment linking /blog/2014/01/24/well-seasoned-cast-iron-pans-flaxseed-oil/
on “Welders set off Beirut blast while securing explosives”Submitted Wireshark 4.6.0 Supports macOS Pktap Metadata (PID, Process Name, etc.) as a story · 135 points
HN discussionThis isn't super-detailed (it's more a framework) but here is my general mapping workflow: https://nuxx.net/blog/2012/06/05/mtb-trail-mapping-workflow-... The end goal for this is printable PDF maps, with good data ending up in OSM one of the stepping stones.
Comment linking /blog/2012/06/05/mtb-trail-mapping-workflow-with-openstreetmaps/
on “OpenStreetMap is the Most Important thing in Geo”Submitted Maplibre-Gl-Lanes v1.0.0 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's Strava's Global Heatmap, and here's a writeup I did on how to use it as a layer in JOSM: https://nuxx.net/blog/2020/05/24/high-resolution-strava-glob... Note, you need a paid account to access the high-res data.
Comment linking /blog/2020/05/24/high-resolution-strava-global-heatmap-in-josm/
on “StreetComplete: Easy to use editor of OpenStreetMap data”Submitted Local-heatmap-tile-server v1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI once took the train from the Detroit area (BMM -- Birmingham) to San Francisco, roughly... 9.5 years ago. I went alone, had a sleeper cabin to myself, and loved it. I really want to do it again, this time maybe stopping off places on the way. What I particularly enjoyed was the route west seemed timed to pass through the Rockies and Sierra Nevada during daylight. Basically, I went to sleep around Omaha, woke in Co…
Comment linking /gallery/v/travel/sf_via_amtrak_nov_2009/alltemp/
on “There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train, but I did it anyway”Submitted Network Capture with Process Name and PID on macOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI love OpenStreetMap, see it as sort of like Wikipedia for cartographic data, and regularly use it as both a repository and source for data I collect about mountain bike and hiking trails. I then use this to make print maps; part of my work with a local mountain biking advocacy non-profit. In fact, just yesterday while watching a storm blow outside my window I put this one together: http://mmba.org/library/maps/bald…
Comment linking /blog/2012/06/05/mtb-trail-mapping-workflow-with-openstreetmaps/
on “Why the World Needs OpenStreetMap”Submitted A Home Network Troubleshooting Journey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI used to do something similarly complex to the OP with ssh and --link-dest to make it share inodes so I could easily keep N days of backups with file level deduplication [1]. Then I moved to Borg and haven't looked back. It does the same end goal in a better way, is way faster, and easier to work with overall [2]. [1]: https://nuxx.net/blog/2009/12/06/time-machine-for-freebsd/ [2]: https://nuxx.net/blog/2019/11/10/…
Comment linking /blog/2019/11/10/using-borg-for-backing-up-nuxx-net/
on “An almost perfect rsync over SSH backup script”Submitted Simple Pac File Pilot Testing (Including WPAD) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOr if you're really brave you could just replace the 72-pin reader: http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-NES-Cartridge-Slot-Replacemen... https://nuxx.net/wiki/NES_72-Pin_Edge_Connector_Replacement I did it on mine in college -- and then I did it for my suite-mate after he noticed that I never had any problems with my NES -- and then I did it for everyone on my floor who had an NES... :) Works like brand new.
Comment linking /wiki/NES_72-Pin_Edge_Connector_Replacement
on “Did Blowing Into The NES Cartridge Really Work?”Submitted Consider the Paper Towel Dispenser as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've got a Blueair one that I was given, which thankfully has cheap filters available for on Amazon. These are otherwise REALLY expensive. The noise is nice, and it helps with dust in the bedroom. But I recently got a Yogasleep Dohm Classic [1] and it really does sound better. Placed across the bedroom, with the two controls adjusted just... right... it makes that really nice water-rushing proper white noise sound.…
Comment linking /blog/2026/01/28/hue-a-better-sunrise-bulb/
on “Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines”Submitted Capital One Credit Balance Refund Business Logic Flaw as a story · 1 points
HN discussionUnfortunately, it's anything that's slow... When I've got a tunnel live, Google properties and Facebook are pretty much unusable. Weirdly, sometimes it'll work fine... Other times it won't. (The server I'm testing against with is my personal site, https://nuxx.net , which has great IPv6 connectivity already. I just don't want to tunnel my home connection through it because that'll seriously push up the bandwidth use…
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on “IPv6 Adoption Statistics”Submitted Updated MTB Trail Mapping Workflow: Thanks, Claude as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is missing one of the most useful features of using netsh for this: boot time captures. By using the "persistent=yes" argument one can cause the capture to keep running through a reboot. This is incredibly useful when trying to troubleshoot something that happens before login. This was very, very difficult before without a tap, span port, etc. I wrote a small article about doing this a few years back, for anyon…
Comment linking /blog/2010/08/17/network-capture-during-boot-on-windows-7-and-server-2008-r/
on “Packet capturing on Windows with netsh”Submitted OLED Not for Me as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm honestly a bit surprised to see this. As someone who was fairly active in the MAME cabinet scene back in ~2000 [1] and owned a 4-slot MVS cab for a while, I don't remember ever hearing about this. Then again, it was in-arcade hardware in ~1999 and I was so focused on emulation stuff that it makes I didn't consider it. Probably got chalked up with all the other unplayable-in-MAME stuff at the time.. [1] My cabine…
Comment linking /wiki_archive/A/MAME_Cabinet
on “The failed heir: The Hyper Neo Geo 64”Submitted Home Assistant as Personal Device Tracker as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm with JKCaloun on having owned music for as long as I can remember. From the late 90s until the early 2010s I routinely bought CDs and ended up with a library of... 1200 or 1600 or so? A bunch of years back I made a concerted effort to rip all of them to a lossless format and then play that because, frankly, it's simpler. Since then I've bought music digitally (Bleep, Bandcamp, etc), saved off copies of live sets…
Comment linking /blog/2016/01/17/full-cd-collection-ripping-workflow/
on “Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On”Submitted Sunrise-Like Alarm Clock via Home Assistant and Android as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYears ago I bought a Nikon Coolscan V to scan in all of my parents' old 110 slides. I would have loved a solution like this at the time, although that worked well (and way better than I thought) and the price ended up reasonable. I wish scanners like that were still made. Here's an old httrack image of the page I had documenting the process: https://nuxx.net/wiki_archive/A/110_Slide_/_35mm_Negative_Sc... Unfortunate…
Comment linking /wiki_archive/A/110_Slide_/_35mm_Negative_Scanning
on “Filmolino SlideScanner”Submitted Command Line 802.11 Monitor Mode on macOS Sonoma (14.0) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI do mountain bike trail work and mapping, and I like putting very large QR codes on the trail head sign kiosks with a note saying "Scan this QR code with your phone to download a copy of this map.". Year-old example (it's changed slightly since then): https://nuxx.net/gallery/v/travel/local_places/biking/PB1500... I don't have anything in place (unique URLs or whatever) to track how often it's done, but I've person…
Comment linking /gallery/v/travel/local_places/biking/PB150086.jpg.html
on “That square QR barcode on the poster? Check it's not a sticker”Submitted How Asus and a Microsoft Bug Almost Broke Remote Work as a story · 1 points
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