←back to thread

Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

(lanparty.house)
1071 points kentonv | 7 comments | 16 Nov 24 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.642s | source | bottom

I wasn't quite sure if this qualified as "Show HN" given you can't really download it and try it out. However, dang said[0]:

> If it's hardware or something that's not so easy to try out over the internet, find a different way to show how it actually works—a video, for example, or a detailed post with photos.

Hopefully I did that?

Additionally, I've put code and a detailed guide for the netboot computer management setup on GitHub:

https://github.com/kentonv/lanparty

Anyway, if this shouldn't have been Show HN, I apologize!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

Show context
laidoffamazon ◴[16 Nov 24 21:22 UTC] No.42159467[source]▶
This is neat, but as a $NET shareholder and someone with another ~$1m in net worth that can't afford to buy a house for at least another 6 years this makes me think we should significantly increase taxation.
replies(8): >>42159573 #>>42159641 #>>42159944 #>>42160006 #>>42160133 #>>42162628 #>>42162813 #>>42164380 #
1. kristianp ◴[16 Nov 24 21:48 UTC] No.42159641[source]▶
What's a $NET shareholder?
replies(3): >>42159716 #>>42159746 #>>42159767 #
2. laidoffamazon ◴[16 Nov 24 21:59 UTC] No.42159716[source]▶
A somewhat small subset of my net worth is Cloudflare, which has the ticker symbol $NET
replies(1): >>42199055 #
3. theideaofcoffee ◴[16 Nov 24 22:03 UTC] No.42159746[source]▶
It’s someone who owns shares in Cloudflare (their market ticker being ‘NET’), but everyone here thinks they’re a financial wonk when talking about big tech and finance so they insist on making it opaque like that. It’s a dumb and cringey trend. Just say “as a Cloudflare shareholder”, I promise you the six bytes you save won’t be missed!
replies(1): >>42161326 #
4. ◴[16 Nov 24 22:05 UTC] No.42159767[source]▶
5. GlacierFox ◴[17 Nov 24 01:54 UTC] No.42161326[source]▶
But then I wouldn't know how utterly badass this guy is, shooting around those sweet ticker designations that all us plebs wouldn't recognise.
6. kristianp ◴[20 Nov 24 23:03 UTC] No.42199055[source]▶
TIL that stocks can have a "$" in their code.
replies(1): >>42200847 #
7. kentonv ◴[21 Nov 24 03:33 UTC] No.42200847{3}[source]▶
They don't. The symbol is NET. But I think Twitter lets you use $ as an alternative to # (hashtag), and people use it specifically in front of stock symbols, and now it's becoming customary to prefix stock symbols with $ everywhere.