
Hacker Public Radio
Hacker Public Radio is a community-driven podcast that publishes new episodes every weekday. The show covers a wide range of topics relevant to hackers and hobbyists, with content contributed by listeners and members of the community. Episodes are released Monday through Friday.
Episodes

HPR4748: Programmable Logic Controls - Episode 5
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01 Introduction
This is the fifth episode in an 8 part series.
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In the previous two episodes we looked at the Allen Bradley PLC 2 and the Siemens S5 series of PLCs.
In those episodes we mentioned I/O modules, but didn't really go into any detail on them.
Instead we looked at the CPU units and focused

HPR4747: UNIX Curio #13 - Replacements for cat
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This series is dedicated to exploring little-known—and occasionally useful—trinkets lurking in the dusty corners of UNIX-like operating systems.
Thirteen is one of my favorite numbers, so I am going to use this episode to indulge myself. As part of UNIX Curio #8 (
HPR episode 4657
), I went on a little flight of fancy and suggested that the
com

HPR4746: Monotone
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Python and its libraries
1. librosa — loading and resampling audio
def load_audio(path):
y, sr = librosa.load(path, sr=SR, mono=True)
return y, sr
Every episode, regardless of its original sample rate or channel count, gets loaded down to a single mono stream at 16kHz (SR = 16000). That's one line of librosa, resampling,

HPR4745: BruCON interview 1: The BruCON organization
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BruCON: https://brucon.org
BruCON
is an annual security and hacker conference providing two days
of an interesting atmosphere for open discussions of critical
infosec issues, privacy, information technology and its
cultural/technical implications

HPR4744: HPR Beer Garden 21 - Mild
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In this episode we look at a very old style of beer known as Mild. Paul, in the absence of any locally available Milds has a Guinness, Dave tastes
Banks's Mild
and Kevie Samples
1950s Burton Ruby Mild
.
Connect with the guys on
Untappd
:
Dave
Paul
Kevie
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HPR4743: wl-copy
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wl-copy is a command in the wl-clipboard package, and allows you to copy and paste data from your Linux Terminal on a Wayland desktop.
Copy an arbitrary string to your clipboard using wl-copy:
$ wl-copy "hello world"
Paste it anywhere on your system as usual (with Ctrl+Shift+V or a right-click and Paste).
You can copy from output, too:
$ echo "hel

HPR4742: OLF Call for presentations open
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OLF Conference
The Conference the artist previously known as the Ohio Linux Festival, is returning to it's 2003 beginnings on the campus of
Dreese Laboratories at Ohio State University
Starting at noon on Friday Nov 20 and running all day Saturday 21 Nov 2026, during this event, Open Source projects, developers and visitors can exchange ide

HPR4741: HPR Community News for September 2026
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New hosts Welcome to our new hosts: Trurl Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4717 Tue 2026-09-01 Visit with a blind Ham operator Archer72 4718 Wed 2026-09-02 Programmable Logic Controls - Episode 2 Whiskeyjack 4719 Thu 2026-09-03 How to use a multimeter, introduction and basic usage number9 4720 Fri 2026-09-04 Robert A. H

HPR4740: Robert A. Heinlein in the 1960s
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The 1960s were when Heinlein produced some of his most famous works. And they started to bring him fame outside the Science Fiction community, which was most unusual.
Heinlein in the 1960s
Heinlein had interests that he tended to keep hidden in the early years while he was establishing himself as a writer, particularly as he was feeding the lucrat

HPR4739: Happy by shower # 3
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We focused, until now, on things external as examples. Let’s proceed to internal. Before, I want to note that any of these is a formula. It’s not like we can repeat a past experience we ourselves or someone lived, and feel the same thing. It’s not a guarantee, and not even the idea in sharing. It’s only this: to share and to provoke reflection.
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