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Stories by rickcarlino

OpenMower – An open source lawn mower (github.com)
HN 609 pts 190 comments by rickcarlino Aug 19, 2025 Programming (General) thread
AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks (accounting.penrose.com)
HN 534 pts 149 comments by rickcarlino Jul 21, 2025 thread
JSON5 – JSON for Humans (json5.org)
HN 364 pts 344 comments by rickcarlino Dec 8, 2024 thread
A data table thousands of years old (2020) (datafix.com.au)
HN 256 pts 108 comments by rickcarlino Dec 21, 2024 thread
JSON River – Parse JSON incrementally as it streams in (github.com)
HN 238 pts 96 comments by rickcarlino Oct 8, 2025 thread
My First Meshtastic Network (rickcarlino.com)
HN 175 pts 96 comments by rickcarlino Dec 29, 2025 thread
Ilo – a Forth system running on UEFI (asciinema.org)
HN 124 pts 54 comments by rickcarlino Oct 21, 2025 thread
An IRC-Enabled Lawn Mower (2021) (jotunheimr.idlerpg.net)
HN 124 pts 26 comments by rickcarlino Aug 16, 2025 Internet / Digital Culture thread
Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server (dialtone.live)
HN 115 pts 55 comments by rickcarlino Dec 28, 2025 thread
A Pokémon battle simulation engine (github.com)
HN 99 pts 45 comments by rickcarlino May 29, 2025 thread
Windows 2: The Final Fantasy of Operating Systems (ninakalinina.com)
HN 84 pts 56 comments by rickcarlino Dec 31, 2024 thread
JSON-render: LLM-based JSON-to-UI tool (json-render.dev)
HN 77 pts 23 comments by rickcarlino Jan 24, 2026 AI / Machine Learning thread
Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics (obsessivefacts.com)
HN 75 pts 11 comments by rickcarlino Jan 6, 2026 thread
I wired a thing to an ESP-32 so my dog can email me by barking (github.com)
L 60 pts 8 comments by rickcarlino Sep 1, 2019 hardwareshow Programming (General)Maker / DIY / Hardware thread
Constraint Propagation for Fun (eli.li)
HN 55 pts 1 comments by rickcarlino Feb 10, 2026 thread
What were CGI scripts? (rickcarlino.com)
L 50 pts 32 comments by rickcarlino Jul 21, 2019 historicalweb Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Simple Tools for Hobby / Personal Projects (rickcarlino.com)
L 49 pts 19 comments by rickcarlino Nov 30, 2019 programming Programming (General) thread
My First Meshtastic Network (rickcarlino.com)
L 47 pts 13 comments by rickcarlino Dec 29, 2025 hardware Maker / DIY / Hardware thread
The Last Message Sent on AIM (justanman.org)
L 43 pts 4 comments by rickcarlino Mar 1, 2021 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
A Year of Developer Journaling with jrnl.sh (rickcarlino.com)
L 36 pts 11 comments by rickcarlino Dec 1, 2017 practicesprogramming Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made (arstechnica.com)
HN 35 pts 14 comments by rickcarlino May 10, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Fabulous Text Only Websites, 2018 Edition (rickcarlino.com)
L 33 pts 11 comments by rickcarlino Sep 5, 2018 browsersdesignweb Web DevelopmentDesign / UX / Visualization thread
Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way (rickcarlino.com)
L 30 pts 5 comments by rickcarlino Apr 12, 2021 linux Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Software effort estimation is mostly fake research (shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com)
L 28 pts 18 comments by rickcarlino Mar 25, 2021 programming Programming (General) thread
RETRO: a Modern, Pragmatic Forth Programming Environment (forth.works)
L 28 pts 5 comments by rickcarlino May 23, 2019 programming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryGaming / Retro Computing thread
Ask HN: Percent of employees that benefit financially from equity offers?
HN 27 pts 15 comments by rickcarlino Feb 1, 2025 thread
Title says it all. Equity offers are a very common thing in tech. I don&#x27;t personally know anyone who has made money from equity offers, though nearly all my colleagues have received them at some point.<p>Does anyone have real data on how many employees actually see financial upside from equity ...
Building Tiny Raspberry Pi Linux Images With Buildroot (rickcarlino.com)
L 26 pts 6 comments by rickcarlino Oct 12, 2021 hardwarelinux Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Simple as in SNMP (computer.rip)
L 24 pts 10 comments by rickcarlino May 5, 2021 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Earthstar - Offline-first, distributed, syncable, embedded document database for use in p2p (github.com)
L 24 pts 1 comments by rickcarlino Jun 25, 2020 databases Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
What is the Gemini Protocol? (toobnix.org)
L 22 pts 1 comments by rickcarlino Jun 12, 2020 videoweb Web Development thread