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Hosted by Archer72 on 2026-07-29

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Hi, this is Archer72 for another episode of Hacker Public Radio. In this episode, the ARRL Field Days was in the past month, so I thought this would be a good time to highlight events in the US as well as around the world. Field Day (amateur radio : edited on 4 June 2026, at 13:51) Experience the power of ham ra...

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HPR4692: Noise Music Tutorial 2: Using Audacity to Make Noise

Hosted by TheDUDE on 2026-07-28

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. Links to a more in depth way to do the musique concrete method and harsh noise wall (they don't use audacity, but it all can be done on audacity, just gives you an idea what I'm talking about) visual of generating noise on audacity (for harsh noise, you want to have a larger ...

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HPR4691: Viva la Coda

Hosted by Lee on 2026-07-27

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. C++ is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup. First released in 1985 as an extension of the C programming language, adding object-oriented (OOP) features, it has since expanded significantly over time adding more OOP and other features ...

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HPR4690: Playing Civilization V, Part 14

Hosted by Ahuka on 2026-07-24

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. In our sample game we look at playing as Austria and aiming for a Diplomatic Victory. And our focus is on puppeting City-States, but I misunderstood and instead of making a Diplomatic Victory easier, it makes it harder. I still managed to get my Diplomatic Victory, but a Science or Domination Victory would definitely have been easier in this scenar...

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HPR4689: Cheap Yellow Display Project Part 8: Writing the code

Hosted by Trey on 2026-07-23

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Hello, again. This is Trey. Welcome to part 8 in my Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) Project series. If you wish to catch up on earlier episodes, you can find them on my HPR profile page https://www.hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0394.html It is hard to believe that I started this project and the HPR series ...

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HPR4688: Downloading Podcasts with a Shell Script

Hosted by Whiskeyjack on 2026-07-22

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. 01 Introduction In this episode I will describe techniques for downloading podcasts using basic shell commands such as wget. I will illustrate this using a bash script that can be used to download HPR podcasts. Even if you do not have any interest in downloading your podcasts using this method, you may find some of the methods usefu...

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HPR4687: UNIX Curio #11 - Merging Files

Hosted by Vance on 2026-07-21

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. ether This series is dedicated to exploring little-known—and occasionally useful—trinkets lurking in the dusty corners of UNIX-like operating systems. I frequently find myself reaching for the cut utility when writing scripts to extract one piece of data from a line, or to select specific fields from a log file. While I am familiar with its ...

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HPR4686: Debugging Security Cameras: Firmware Updates, Python Scripts and Windows Workarounds

Hosted by operat0r on 2026-07-20

This show has been flagged as Explicit by the host. Show Notes Episode Overview Operator kicks off the episode feeling under the weather but shares a quick tip for making perfect egg drop soup before diving into his main project: diagnosing why his front-door security camera stopped sending alerts and recording events. What follows is a live-debugging session covering network config, scr...

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HPR4685: Listening to SSB stations in the early 1980s

Hosted by Lennart Benschop on 2026-07-17

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Lennart tells about the shortwave radio he had in the early 1980s and what he could hear on it, for example he marine band, amateur radio, CB and of course broadcast stations. The radio did not have a BFO to demodulate SSB stations, but using a second radio close by and using its local oscillator he could still make those signals intelligible. P...

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HPR4684: Sim Racing on the cheap!

Hosted by operat0r on 2026-07-16

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Thrustmaster TMX Force Feedback Pro Black Xbox One / Xbox Series X/S / PC https://www.ebay.com/itm/157554569422 Dayton Audio DAEX25 Audio Exciter Pair - Sound Exciter Pair Audio Transducer - 5 Watts RMS, 8 Ohms Impedance - 2 Pack - Turn Any Surface into a Speaker System https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EYEM8C https://www.simhubdash....

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