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Re:WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the w...
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @06:32AM (#50031492)
Is it accurate to call this WSL3? WSL 2 was released in 2019, but WSL 2.0.0 was released in 2023 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases/tag/2.0.0
Re:Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @03:48AM (#49827556)
There's a big gap between the top 2 solvers (Yiheng Wang and Xuanyi Geng) and everyone right now. Yunzhi Lian is 4th in the world.
Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No Agenda has ...
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @11:46PM (#49016685)
It was changed to '46 today
Re:Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into ma...
on Sunday June 28, 2026 @10:13AM (#48707450)
> It was helped by using the Debug symbols accidentally(?) compiled into the final version of the game.
Don't think this was the case, what helped was it being compiled without optimizations.
Re:GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @07:28PM (#48563719)
> Wicked For Good
Is this an antithesis to Don't Be Evil?
Re:Saying Goodbye to Asm.js
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @01:00PM (#48210726)
The P in PNaCl is Portable.
Pepper was a pun on Native Client (since NaCl = salt). Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) was Google's more secure version of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API). Flash Player was essentially the only thing using NPAPI/PPAPI by the end of its life.
Re:Saying Goodbye to Asm.js
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @12:42PM (#48210479)
> (Flascc/Alchemy(?) I forgot all the names this went through)
Crossbridge was its third and most recent name.
Pepper.js is another interesting project from around this time that didn't pan out.
Re:Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:51PM (#48088476)
This page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Tilt!_Pinball
Indeed the sources say Doom clone, not port.
Re:Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @03:32PM (#48087045)
Have you read the Wikipedia page recently? It was less complete a couple of years ago
Re:Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @10:38AM (#48084358)
Yes this isn't clean-room. Though none of these decompilation projects have been resolved in court yet. re3 (GTA3/Vice City decompilation) developers were sued by Take Two but they settled out of court.
Re:Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @10:34AM (#48084325)
Just to note, Microsoft provides debug symbols for Pinball
Re:Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
on Monday February 16, 2026 @12:14PM (#47037555)
All the SWFs are archived (which is often not the case on Wayback). Just when the program is requesting to load one, archive.org is returning an HTML-wrapped file instead which fails to load. It would be quite easy to add to Flashpoint.
Re:Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved
on Sunday February 15, 2026 @08:37PM (#47029869)
Pretty sure it would be working in the Wayback Machine, if archive.org had configured it right.
Re:Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code
on Friday December 19, 2025 @07:27AM (#46325088)
> It's not legal
Based on what? Afaik decompilation is a grey area and projects that enforce clean-room design do it to stay out of this grey area.
Re:Show HN: Awesome J2ME
on Thursday November 20, 2025 @09:10AM (#45992736)
One of the difficulties I had searching for J2ME resources is that the mobile equivalent of the JVM is called KVM (K virtual machine), so most of the search results are about Linux's Kernel-based virtual machine instead.