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	Hacker Public Radio (hackerpublicradio.org)
	140 points by bmacho 12 hours ago

7 comments

ynac 7 hours ago

There's also https://anonradio.net which is less about hacking and more just hackers with music to share. It's classic SDF-based fun.

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user3939382 2 hours ago

I fucking love SDF. It’s like a shining beacon of the old school computing scene that’s still standing.

If you need an excuse, it’s great for a box to SSH into to ping or traceroute lynx etc to test networking from a third party.

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jbaber 6 minutes ago

Another excuse is it's a free webhost :)

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bilater 10 hours ago

Wouldn't it be cool if hackers talked to each other like truckers in their own language?

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StableAlkyne 9 hours ago

It's about 30 years out of date, but there used to be the Jargon File - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File

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ColdStream 6 hours ago

Tech people kind of do, we just dont notice it until trying to describe things to others.

I had some YouTube video on aanf they were benchmarking something, my wife was like "what does any of that mean?"

I realised that, yeah that last sentence was basically just nothing but abbreviations and acronyms. I understood it perfectly but from the outside it is total nonsense.

This isn't just a tech thing, this goes for almost all specialtys.

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goodmythical 2 hours ago

I always say GNU Image Manipulation Program because...well, reasons.

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warkdarrior 23 minutes ago

I always say "Bring out the Gimp".

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tempodox 9 hours ago

I’m syncing on that but my time slice is closing for this clock cycle.

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tclancy 3 hours ago

Buddy, I been trying to make a new Convoy happen for years. You got yer ears on?

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entropie 11 hours ago

I really hoped for a radio station with nice music.

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teroshan 10 hours ago

https://somafm.com/defcon/

> Want to know more about the hacker dropins [1] we play between songs? Here's a list of the DEF CON speaker drop-ins we play.

[1] https://nerdshow.com/def-con-somafm-clips-with-quotes/

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entropie 7 hours ago

Yeah soma.fm is very good. I hear it for like 20 years now on off.

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Arubis 7 hours ago

SomaFM is an utter institution. It predates SF being overrun with techbro culture--the hackers were mostly in the valley, the city was an even slice of misfits and outcasts (and hackers among the mix, not dominating it), and the bros were mostly still going into finance.

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notaharvardmba 3 hours ago

Good reminder to send Rusty Hodge my annual $20

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pelagicAustral 10 hours ago

https://rekt.network/

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sneurlax 8 hours ago

I need to sign back into chat :)

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tempodox 10 hours ago

At least after hackers hack the radio station to play some nice music. Wouldn’t that be a cool idea? The hackable radio station where you get your songs played if you manage to hack it.

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dosman33 9 hours ago

Anyone remember the predecessor, Today With A Techie (Twatech Radio): https://twatech.org

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eimrine 8 hours ago

I used to listen the hacker public radio maybe 10 years ago, what a great rediscovery for me! So many unlistened episodes.

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dec0dedab0de 12 hours ago

Woah I forgot all about this, I used to listen in like 2006-2009 when I was into podcasts. That's awesome they're still doing it!

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wuliwong 9 hours ago

What do you consume in your post-podcast era?

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sixtyj 11 hours ago

They have expired certificate :(

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new23d 11 hours ago

Says Not Before: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:02:21 GMT ; Not After: Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:02:20 GMT for me. Works fine, too.

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sixtyj 10 hours ago

Oh, so what could be a problem?

I have automatic time update set up on mobile so this shouldn’t be an issue…

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Bender 9 hours ago

Did you by chance set up a MitM proxy to debug something on your phone and forgot to disable it? Here is the fingerprint I see:

    Testing via IPv4:
    204.13.239.180
    sha1 Fingerprint=32:6E:23:9D:AC:57:79:D5:30:22:FC:D7:13:65:8E:E9:D9:5C:8D:E8
    sha256 Fingerprint=0B:DF:F8:F2:76:26:32:C6:A5:4C:B8:5E:B1:BD:13:5A:26:E0:FF:CD:9C:D8:FD:B2:40:60:04:F7:B9:22:57:44
    notBefore=Jul  9 01:02:21 2026 GMT
    notAfter=Oct  7 01:02:20 2026 GMT

[1] - https://nochan.net/b/Text-Crap/function_fingerprint.sh

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sixtyj 7 hours ago

Thanks. I am not aware of anything.

Instead of default Safari, I have tried Firefox and the page displays the same message about validity of ssl_certificate.

But site was down btw, nginx bad gateway - HN kiss of death, I assume…

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