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Re:Coins Stream on Friday May 22, 2026 @12:06AM (#48231834)
I think I've seen this somewhere! There's an indie game, Raccoin, that looks very much like this website (coincidence?)
Re:JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:38PM (#46769685)
smali code is funny to read, basically an object-oriented assembly language (feels so wrong)
Re:Mirrorshades, the Cyberpunk Anthology on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @12:24PM (#44963338)
also available in mobi and epub formats (for Kindle and other ebook readers):

https://www.rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/mirrorshades.epub https://www.rudyrucker.com/mirrorshades/mirrorshades.mobi

Re:Modern 6502 on Friday April 11, 2025 @04:55PM (#43658457)
> I ended up mounting one of them on the side of the door at the entrance to my house for spiritual protection.
Re:GNU Screen 5.0 Released on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:53PM (#41392847)
looks like this command was removed in 2015, so, almost 9 years ago, and now they cleaned up the documentation

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=9109...

I am getting the same error, but was able to download the game from: https://viperfish.com.au/downloads.html
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @06:45PM (#36608264)
https://codeexplainer.wordpress.com/

My attempt of explaining confusing and/or obfuscated code snippets in various languages.

Example: heart-shaped proposal in obfu Perl https://codeexplainer.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/anatomy-of-th... (she said yes)

The alphabet itself and a sample text on Omniglot: https://omniglot.com/writing/adlam.htm
Re:HTML Application on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @11:58PM (#19150548)
"On the other hand, an HTA runs as a fully trusted application and therefore has more privileges than a normal HTML file; for example, an HTA can create, edit and remove files and registry entries."
Apparently, posting this link gets you banned: https://github.com/diefarbe
Re:Ask HN: What's the strangest place you wrote code? on Thursday May 10, 2018 @09:44AM (#17038756)
You might find this interesting, a story about the development of a popular ZX Spectrum emulator Warajevo:

"The grenades fell everywhere, there was little electrical power (at one time even the hospitals didn't have power for two months!). When we had electricity it was only for 2-3 hours during the night."

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/warajevo/Story.html

Looks like she extended her Amiga with Microbotics Starboard 2 (2MB RAM and RTC, visible in 2:36): http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=...
Re:No, I Don’t Want to Subscribe to Your Newsletter on Friday March 24, 2017 @11:07AM (#13949373)
I usually subscribe postmaster@(domain) to the newsletter as RFC822 requires the account to be active ;)