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Awesome Space is open every Friday for anyone to play great classic games. We have over 100 retro consoles, home computers, and arcade machines playable in space. So come over NEXT game night to explore the Awesome Space. We are located in the Game Capital of the Netherlands. Bring friends, play games, and have fun.













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The
Dutch Railway Company
occasionally has a anagram of the names of the railway stations on their services.



















The image above shows which service we are on, namely the intercity direct to
Breda
via
Schiphol Airport
, and the time is 07:27.






It shows a cartoon depiction of a platform where the information sign is displaying the letters of the anagram, and today it reads "Nul Te Teer".






Under it says "Oops, the letters are mixed up. Can you guess the correct station ?"






The under it says that the next station at 07:38 will be
Duivendrecht
.








I wrote a script to check my guess. It consists of a function normalise_word, which takes any word, removes everything but the letters, and then converts it to lower case. Each letter is printed to it's own line, where it's sorted, and new lines are removed, to be printed as a "normalised" word.







This is used to take the
List of Dutch Railway Stations from Wikipedia
, to produce a list of stations and convert them to normalized names which is saved to a new file with the normalised names on the same line as the real names.







We can then just grep for the normalised version of the anagram and whatever line it was found in the normalised file, should correspond to the same line in the real file.







"Nul Te Teer" gets converted to "eeelnrttu" which is found in the normalised file, and that corresponds to "
Etten-Leur
"









Tell us how would you solve it ?








#!/bin/bash
# Ken Fallon - CC-0/Public Domain

station_file="ns-train-stations.txt"

# Get the station name
if [ "$#" -lt 1 ]
then
echo "ERROR: Please specify station"
exit 1
fi

function normalise_word() {
printf '%sn' "${1}"
| tr --delete --complement 'A-Za-zn'
| tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'
| grep --only-matching --regexp='.'
| sort --ignore-case
| tr --delete 'n'
printf 'n'
}

station="$( normalise_word "${1}" )"

cat ${station_file} | while read word
do
normalise_word "${word}"
done > "${station_file%.*}_normalised.txt"

linenumber="$( grep --line-number --perl-regexp "^${station}$" "${station_file%.*}_normalised.txt" | awk -F ':' '{print $1}' )"

sed --quiet "${linenumber}p" ${station_file}










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terrifying experience of his home being struck by lightning
twice—once in an apartment two decades ago and recently in his
current house. He details the catastrophic damage inflicted on his
electronics, explaining how the surge traveled through coaxial
cables, Ethernet lines, and USB ports, destroying network cards, a
motherboard, a gaming mouse, a garage door opener, a dishwasher
disposal, and even an electric scooter. The narrative takes a
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Comments this month

Past shows

hpr4318 (2025-02-19) "What's up with the dates on the HPR future feed in AntennaPod?" by dnt.

Ken Fallon said: "dnt has the answer" (2026-10-19 07:29:46)

hpr4357 (2025-04-15) "Short introduction by murph." by murph.

Archer72 said: "No comments so I will" (2026-10-25 11:36:37)

hpr4685 (2026-07-17) "Listening to SSB stations in the early 1980s" by Lennart Benschop.

archer72 said: "Fellow radio enthusiast" (2026-10-11 20:44:40)

hpr4703 (2026-08-12) "Ebooks and Audiobooks" by Ahuka.

Steve Barnes said: "Yee hee hee." (2026-10-08 19:20:27)

Kevin O'Brien said: "I enjoyed doing it" (2026-10-10 20:37:22)

Kevin O'Brien said: "Some additional information" (2026-10-11 16:21:22)

hpr4705 (2026-08-14) "Free Software Is Wasted On You Teens" by Trollercoaster.

Steve Barnes said: "Yes, well." (2026-10-08 19:18:42)

hpr4706 (2026-08-17) "Quirks and Customisations" by Lee.

Dave Morriss said: "I enjoyed this a lot!" (2026-10-07 16:56:59)

hpr4707 (2026-08-18) "UNIX Curio #12 - expr" by Vance.

Dave Morriss said: "Didn't know 'dc'; knew of 'expr' but never got on with it!" (2026-10-09 15:34:00)

hpr4708 (2026-08-19) "Programmable Logic Controls - Episode 1" by Whiskeyjack.

mechatrocity said: "Adding a PLC tag to these episodes and creating a 'series'" (2026-10-09 15:19:55)

archer72 said: "Re: Adding a PLC tag" (2026-10-09 18:11:43)

Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to mechatrocity and archer72" (2026-10-09 22:34:02)

Whiskeyjack said: "Second reply to mechatrocity and archer72" (2026-10-09 22:41:06)

hpr4717 (2026-09-01) "Visit with a blind Ham operator" by Archer72.

Archer72 said: "hpr4741 :: HPR Community News question" (2026-10-16 12:40:03)

hpr4726 (2026-09-14) "Trurl's intro show" by Trurl.

0xf10e said: "More knowledge" (2026-10-15 10:53:50)

hpr4735 (2026-09-25) "hpr4715 :: friedcamp interviews part 5: Yvon Masyn" by Kristoff.

Windigo said: "Inspiring project" (2026-10-05 20:43:24)

hpr4738 (2026-09-30) "Programmable Logic Controls - Episode 4 " by Whiskeyjack.

Archer72 said: "PLC relevance" (2026-10-11 11:30:30)

Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to Archer72 on robots" (2026-10-11 20:12:15)

archer72 said: "robots" (2026-10-12 22:00:13)

This month's shows

hpr4739 (2026-10-01) "Happy by shower # 3" by Antoine.

candycanearter07 said: "thanks" (2026-10-02 23:55:43)

Antoine said: "Yahp." (2026-10-11 00:50:44)

hpr4741 (2026-10-05) "HPR Community News for September 2026" by HPR Volunteers.

Dave Morriss said: "Understanding IPA" (2026-10-02 16:15:38)

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archer72 said: "Re: 8032 series microcontrollers " (2026-10-07 20:21:09)

Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to archer72 on 8032 microcontrollers" (2026-10-09 01:47:38)

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Ken Fallon said: "A fume extractor" (2026-10-08 07:00:30)

Archer72 said: "Re: An HPR listener: Events." (2026-10-10 09:59:46)

Whiskeyjack said: "Background noise in interview" (2026-10-10 17:35:32)

hpr4743 (2026-10-07) "wl-copy" by Klaatu.

candycanearter07 said: "wayland varient" (2026-10-07 13:55:16)

xmanmonk said: "wl-copy package" (2026-10-07 19:52:51)

Whiskeyjack said: "wl-copy and xclip" (2026-10-09 01:37:32)

hpr4745 (2026-10-09) "BruCON interview 1: The BruCON organization" by Kristoff.

archer72 said: "conference" (2026-10-11 20:54:23)

hpr4746 (2026-10-12) "Monotone" by Lee.

candycanearter07 said: "interesting!" (2026-10-13 17:53:08)

archer72 said: "second that" (2026-10-13 19:00:17)

Whiskeyjack said: "Style and delivery" (2026-10-15 02:04:30)

hpr4747 (2026-10-13) "UNIX Curio #13 - Replacements for cat" by Vance.

archer72 said: "tee tip" (2026-10-13 18:49:00)

xmanmonk said: "Great!" (2026-10-14 20:04:41)

Whiskeyjack said: "tac and rev" (2026-10-15 01:36:06)

candycanearter07 said: "head tail and grep" (2026-10-15 21:15:23)

archer72 said: "xmanmonk" (2026-10-15 23:51:41)

Vance said: "Thanks, everyone" (2026-10-17 06:42:11)

Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to Vance on tsort" (2026-10-19 21:06:21)

hpr4748 (2026-10-14) "Programmable Logic Controls - Episode 5 " by Whiskeyjack.

Archer72 said: "Basic modules" (2026-10-10 09:52:34)

Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to Archer72 on 8052AH Basic" (2026-10-10 17:12:52)

hpr4749 (2026-10-15) "murph gives a presentation talk about Hacker Public Radio at the OLF conference" by murph.

Windigo said: "Key phrase" (2026-10-15 17:00:13)

Whiskeyjack said: "Microphones" (2026-10-21 01:33:32)

hpr4752 (2026-10-20) "Static Addict Episode 2: Metal Machine Music" by TheDUDE.

Th3Dud3 said: "Just noticed I left a few things out" (2026-10-24 12:44:46)

hpr4757 (2026-10-27) "Follow-up on a local Ham visit for Kevie and Ken" by Archer72.

candycanearter07 said: "voice" (2026-10-27 13:39:31)

Ken Fallon said: "Audio quality" (2026-10-27 20:54:33)

rabbitear said: "AI Voice" (2026-10-31 08:19:33)

hpr4758 (2026-10-28) "Programmable Logic Controls - Episode 6 " by Whiskeyjack.

Archer72 said: "Frequency standards" (2026-10-30 23:12:59)

Whiskeyjack said: "Reply to Archer72 on Electrical Frequency Standards" (2026-10-31 18:48:43)

Kevin O'Brien said: "Nostalgia" (2026-10-31 21:10:42)

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