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Re:Saying Goodbye to Asm.js
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @07:48PM (#48215940)
Typed Assembly Language—fascinating. But since the software is "All rights reserved," I don't know if it can be used beyond personal use.
Re:Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack ...
on Sunday May 10, 2026 @12:18AM (#48080960)
Here's a piece on writing portable ARM64 assembly: https://ariadne.space/2023/04/12/writing-portable-arm-assemb...
Re:
on Sunday March 29, 2026 @02:43AM (#47560898)
Replace x.com with nitter.poast.org.
Re:A4 Paper Stories
on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @12:41PM (#46529556)
Obligatory link to Markus Kuhn's excellent page on international/metric paper sizes: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
Re:I Want You to Understand Chicago
on Saturday November 08, 2025 @03:44PM (#45859807)
Go to YouTube and search for "chicago weekend violence".
Re:TiVo exiting legacy DVR business
on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @12:14PM (#45581808)
Lon Seidman (lon.tv on YouTube) has been covering this closely, and the FCC is aware: https://youtu.be/0YmeEp_N6pY
Re:President Trump creates export controls on "any and all critical so...
on Friday October 10, 2025 @06:45PM (#45544695)
The OpenBSD project is based in Calgary, btw.
Re:Dollar General's 19,000 Stores Could Solve Rural America's Internet...
on Thursday October 09, 2025 @03:30PM (#45532050)
As someone living in rural Nevada and served by Dollar General and Family Dollar stores, I agree. I don't see what problems out here would be solved by local cloud computing resources. The snippet provided doesn't go into detail.
Re:EasyOS – An experimental Linux distribution (2025)
on Sunday October 05, 2025 @12:28PM (#45482883)
Barry Kauler is brilliant, but as he's the main driver behind the project, I worry that the bus factor for EasyOS is 1.
Re:The all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500 on sale now at $200
on Thursday September 25, 2025 @11:35PM (#45382335)
Lon Seidman just reviewed a $180 HP laptop from Walmart. Intel N150 processor, can run Linux and has upgradable RAM and storage:
Re:SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM
on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:39PM (#45335919)
I miss the Barcelona Pavilion walkthrough demo.
Re:Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc.
on Thursday August 28, 2025 @11:56PM (#45059993)
Uzbekistan!
Re:Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc.
on Thursday August 28, 2025 @09:42PM (#45059086)
I posted this in response to the news that Kazakhstan is blocking Wireguard connections entirely:
Re:Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly Part 0 – Setup and First Steps
on Monday July 14, 2025 @11:17AM (#44561213)
Re:
on Saturday July 05, 2025 @11:51AM (#44473571)
I just saw an Apple TV teaser for Neuromancer!
Aurora – 500-watt SDR ham radio transceiver announced
Re:Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights
on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @06:12PM (#44186094)
A 1993 article from the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings on how her lack of radio savvy was a major factor in the tragedy:
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1993/d...
An example: she or somebody had a retractable antenna optimized for long-range high-frequency/shortwave radio removed prior to the flight—crazy!
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39239964
Re:Mistaking Mary Magdalene
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @07:59PM (#43788818)
I watched a bit of the coverage of Pope Francis' coffin being brought into St. Peter's basilica, and heard "Santa Maria Magdalena [pray for us]" chanted by the choir.
Also, the final episode of Martin Scorsese's "The Saints" series dropped, featuring her.
Re:Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank
on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:36AM (#43718404)
Yep. Glad they're coming back.
Re:Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank
on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:34AM (#43718381)
I used to visit that store once a week, just because.
Re:I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day s...
on Monday April 07, 2025 @01:22PM (#43613810)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC
"Tiny BASIC was designed by Dennis Allison and the People's Computer Company (PCC) in response to the open letter published by Bill Gates complaining about users pirating Altair BASIC, which sold for $150. Tiny BASIC was intended to be a completely free version of BASIC that would run on the same early microcomputers."
Re:Why I don't discuss politics with friends
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @04:43PM (#43575135)
The left has called every Republican presidential candidate a Nazi/fascist/authoritarian since Ronald Reagan.
Re:Explore Sutro Tower
on Saturday March 08, 2025 @12:33PM (#43301827)
#TeamSutro
Re:Tech boss Jan Marsalek is Russian spymaster who has led cells acros...
on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:39PM (#43293630)
Re:A map of torii around the world
on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:02PM (#43143171)
On the subject of "world map of a particular item," there is The Guinness Map, a very accessible map of all the world's pubs that serve Guinness ale on tap:
Re:Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected
on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @12:21PM (#43027436)
The article references the "Oh-My-God particle, the most energetic particle yet encountered. Here's the late John Walker's excellent piece on that:
Re:6502 Is a Good Starting Point for Beginning Assembly Programming
on Thursday February 06, 2025 @07:33PM (#42967991)
>Steve Wozniac created a small VM just to manage 16 bit Integers (see the his Byte magazine articles).
It was called SWEET16: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16
A BYTE Magazine article by Wozniak: http://amigan.1emu.net/kolsen/programming/sweet16.html
Porting Sweet 16 by Carsten Strotmann (with source code) http://www.6502.org/source/interpreters/sweet16.htm
Re:Sequent Calculus and Notation – Par Part 1
on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @02:00PM (#42796284)
Support for sequent calculus is built into Mark Tarver's Shen language; here's the relevant chapter in his Book of Shen: https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos_228.html
Re:Why I Chose Common Lisp
on Sunday January 12, 2025 @09:47AM (#42673906)
Its author is quitting his job to work on it full time: https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-01-10-i-quit-my-job/