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Re:GitHub Refuses To Remove Cracked Copies Of My Software Even After A... on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:46AM (#49990431)

But in real life, no!

Re:The art of defusing a second world war bomb on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:38AM (#49990381)

https://archive.org/details/danger-uxb-1979

A very worthwhile watch. I come back to it every few years.

Re:Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike on Thursday June 25, 2026 @02:56PM (#48677757)

In the most general terms, a procedurally generated world with permadeath. The term's inspired by Rogue[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)

Re:Judge Learns Both Sides Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off ... on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:01PM (#48464936)

https://archive.ph/My7GF

Re:ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks E... on Saturday June 06, 2026 @11:37AM (#48426044)

Just a ping to say that's done and waiting to be merged.

Re:ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks E... on Saturday June 06, 2026 @11:37AM (#48426036)

Now done.

Re:ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks E... on Friday June 05, 2026 @01:32PM (#48415690)

On it :)

Re:ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks E... on Friday June 05, 2026 @01:31PM (#48415682)

Happy to PR. I'll do in 2 parts, as needs the platformio env as well as UART-aware serial init in adapters and terminal.

Re:ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks E... on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:10AM (#48412010)

There are 1300 commits. What is everyone smoking today?

Re:ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks E... on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:06AM (#48411958)

The snark in these comments! @geotp please don't be put off, this is great work.

Found it in recent days and couldn't have been better timing for what I needed to do.

I have it running well on a Heltec WiFi LoRa 32(V3) with very minor patches to support the CP2102 UART.

Re:Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @05:40PM (#48390508)

A great position to take. Strong opinions, weakly held.

Re:Every Byte Matters on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @07:29AM (#48382594)

I love to see stuff like this. And an active Vectrex gamedev and PC/Amiga sizecoder I strongly agree with the sentiment!

Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Drafters withou... on Monday June 01, 2026 @03:11PM (#48361262)

Thanks very much. I'd forgotten that these were Westmere generation! Experimenting anyway; at least the RAID controller is behaving, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has gone on cleanly.

Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Drafters withou... on Monday June 01, 2026 @07:41AM (#48355529)

This is great work.

I'd love if anyone knows how I might fare with an old Dell R710 with 2 x Xeon 5600 (12 cores total) and 96Gb of DDR3.

Re:Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor fo... on Monday May 25, 2026 @07:03AM (#48265497)

Great to see how far this has come on. Brilliant work!

Re:Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor fo... on Monday May 25, 2026 @07:03AM (#48265495)

Strongly disagree. Looks coded with love and fingers.

Re:Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor fo... on Monday May 25, 2026 @07:00AM (#48265484)

Ahh THAT's what it was reminding me of. Thanks! CEP2 was great indeed.

Re:Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor fo... on Monday May 25, 2026 @06:59AM (#48265479)

For a realtime-ish solution I wonder if you've seen Ninjam[1]? It used to be that most evenings one could find various populated rooms; the serverlist[2] shows that the infrastructure's all sat there ready for people to come.

You play over the most recent (eg) 16 bar repeat. At the end of each repeat, everyone gets the updated loop. It's easier to experience than describe but is surprisingly effective and bypasses a whole class of latency issues.

[1] https://www.cockos.com/ninjam/

[2] http://autosong.ninjam.com/server-list.php

Re:Build a Radio Wave Detector with Balls of Aluminum Foil on Monday May 18, 2026 @09:58AM (#48180001)

This coherer also must be bumped between received sigs.

Re:Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:48PM (#48125113)

are you familiar with the actual game Brogue[1]?

1: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/

Re:DBase: 1979-2026 on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:23PM (#48098703)

dBase was one of my first exposures to databases. As a largely penniless computer-obsessed kid in the late 80s/early 90s I was big into sending off for any freebies offered in the ads of the pages of UK BYTE.

Somehow I scored a (stripped down?) copy on multiple floppies that I couldn't even use, as an Amiga owner - but incredibly, this freebie came with a fantastic paper manual which I devoured.

Re:How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to P... on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:08AM (#48095237)

I like that. And if poetry can be defined as succinct use of language (perhaps a dubious assertion), then code can be poetry.

Re:How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to P... on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:03AM (#48095171)

Yes, very much so. A ping is a request, a pong a response.

Re:Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @09:50AM (#48022550)

I hoped for a moment this was a mouse pointer replacement that adds a tiny human character, who starts the day with energy and vigour... only to become more decrepit and worn out as 5pm approaches.

Re:Hear your agent suffer through your code on Friday April 24, 2026 @05:58PM (#47896329)

There are certain usage tracking anomalies that can be advantageous.

Re:Hear your agent suffer through your code on Friday April 24, 2026 @05:43PM (#47896173)

It goes! Great, thank you!

Re:My audio interface has SSH enabled by default on Friday April 24, 2026 @05:36PM (#47896110)

Nice writeup and great domain. I don't know Zola and don't know if this is a common template or a custom jobbie but it's lovely.

Re:Hear your agent suffer through your code on Friday April 24, 2026 @08:29AM (#47889295)

I really want this! Any chance of a Cursor version?

Re:NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast on Thursday April 02, 2026 @06:40AM (#47612546)

glad to have been wrong on this one!

Re:Fast and Gorgeous Erosion Filter on Thursday April 02, 2026 @06:38AM (#47612516)

Bryce! One of the most fantastic[1] UIs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_%28software%29#/media/Fi...