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Rick's Blog
Personal blog · richardosgood.com/postssecurityhardwareprogramming
Rick's Blog is a personal blog at richardosgood.com about security, hardware and programming. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for its ham radio packet node setup and its post on self-hosting YaCy for saving URLs. One commenter followed its node setup, and another was inspired by the YaCy post.
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.
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What Hacker News says?
I’m working on this currently myself. Seems as good a thing to do with a packet node as any. I’m following in the footsteps here: https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/how-to-setup-a-raspberry... https://www.kevinhooke.com/2021/04/12/running-an-ax25-netrom... I’ll be surprised if anyone ever hits my node but me. Fun anyway!
Comment linking /posts/how-to-setup-a-raspberry-pi-packet-radio-node-with-zork/
on “AIOC: Ham Radio All-in-One-Cable”Submitted Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI just set up a YaCy instance myself last week after being inspired by your post on hackernews from ~7 months ago. Thanks for sharing that. I found some other helpful resources online for this too. I wrote about my configuration in case it might be helpful for anyone else who'd like yo play with YaCy for bookmarking. I haven't had it up long enough to know how useful it will be for me yet, but its been fun to play w…
Comment linking /posts/yacy-personal-search-engine/
on “Ask HN: How do you save and browse external interesting URLs?”Submitted Using ChatGPT to generate phishing campaigns as a story · 1 points
HN discussion