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system-bus-radio
C2016–2026
fulldecent / system-bus-radio

system-bus-radio

Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware.

20Distinct people
24Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
6.7KGitHub stars
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What it is

Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year24 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-03-01 16:51:05 UTC to 2026-08-27 08:00:43 UTC.

0123452016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Cryptography is real, but nobody in that field seems to be hubristic enough to think their methods are flawless, and there's a degree of suspicion than the best models may have secret weaknesses engineered into them by the governments who sponsored them. Physics is real and networking requires a substrate. But there are already known exploits which can misuse the compute hardware as an antenna, e.g. my first search result: https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio (Older nerds may remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking) > Magic is not real Turning lead into gold isn't the magic of alchemy, it's just nucleosynthesis. Taking a living human's heart out without killing them, and replacing it with one you got out a corpse, that isn't the magic of necromancy, neither is it a prayer or ritual to Sekhmet, it's just tra
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nsplant surgery. ... Reading someone’s thoughts isn't magic telepathy, it's just fMRI decoding. ... Seeing someone's bones without flaying the flesh from them isn't magic, it's just an x-ray. Curing congenital deafness, letting the blind see, letting the lame walk, none of that is magic or miracle, they're just cochlear implants, cataract removal/retinal implants, and surgery or prosthetic exoskeletons respectively. - me, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hAwvJDRKWFibjxh4e/it-isn-t-m...
In The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
Oona Räisänen has an awesome video of van eck phreaking against HDMI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpNP9b3aIfY Also I think this paper is amazing - http://s3.eurecom.fr/docs/ccs18_camurati_preprint.pdf "The well-known electromagnetic (EM) leakage from digital logic is inadvertently mixed with the radio carrier, which is amplified and then transmitted by the antenna. We call the resulting leak “screaming channels”" You might find this interesting too, leaking AM emissions from a computer by twiddling the memory bus - https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio I made a silly program to play .wav files based on that.
In Finding Radio Frequency Side Channels

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