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For sure. It’s coincidence, but a couple weeks back I had a frontier LLM decode one of those old Director games and port it to run in a web browser. Took about 2 hours. (it did re-use existing OSS libraries): https://github.com/foxtacles/findus3 (this even happens to be part of the game series the author is talking about in the blog post)

I’ve been decompiling and reversing games for over a decade before LLMs came into the picture. The most recent models are incredibly powerful. Basically no reason left to do any manual reversing anymore (if you only care about the end result)

Got a refund for the full $200 subscription
Re:The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation on Monday February 16, 2026 @08:32PM (#47042602)
I wonder how effective LLMs are going to be for decompiling i.e. games written in C++ targeting the PC platform. I’m not surprised one can get reasonably good results for N64 games, which have always been the easiest to reverse for a number of reasons.
Re:Cache on Thursday September 04, 2025 @01:34PM (#45129909)
Used this API in a service worker together with Workbox to allow https://isle.pizza/ to work completely offline if requested. Works great
Re:German Economist fined €16,100 for sarcastic X posts on Friday August 29, 2025 @12:44PM (#45066381)
Unfortunately I have to agree with this take. This plus the anti-innovation and risk-averse culture is what drove me out of the country. Living in the United States now and enjoying the environment much more.

(source: born and raised in Germany, lived there for 30 years)

Re:Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser on Monday June 23, 2025 @11:58AM (#44357100)
d3drm has been implemented from scratch: https://github.com/isledecomp/isle-portable/tree/master/mini...

The entire project can be compiled targeting Emscripten. There's nothing particular to the browser implementation

Re:Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser on Monday June 23, 2025 @12:54AM (#44352551)
It has trouble with regaining focus at times. Try switching back and forth between the game and another tab/window and it will recover eventually (the hanging is just the game being paused when it goes out of focus)

Fastmail Is Down?

I've not been receiving any emails on my Fastmail account the past few hours. Looks like emails are deferred and not delivered. Anybody else experiencing this?Status page of fastmail indicates no issues.edit: nevermind, looks like an issue on my end. I suddenly received 10k+ emails from Google regarding ads account violations and that must have deferred reception of everything else. I haven't...

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Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2024) on Monday November 11, 2024 @10:38AM (#42107894)
SEEKING WORK: Remote, USA | Senior Software Engineer, Backend | Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, C++, and many more

GitHub: https://github.com/foxtacles

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=10OBY1TRp8aYK3Oa5FSxc_Pxi0W...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-semmler-a33b25204/

I'm a software engineer specialized in backend and systems development, with almost 15 years of experience. I'd describe myself as being highly pragmatic and passionate about my work, while readily taking on responsibility whenever the opportunity arises. I have a lot of experience with Ruby backends and C++ applications, with a focus on performance. I've also worked as a reverse engineer and have numerous open source contributions - please check my GitHub. Looking for exciting new engineering opportunities.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024) on Monday November 11, 2024 @10:32AM (#42107844)

  Location: Surprise, AZ, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, C++, and many more
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/open?id=10OBY1TRp8aYK3Oa5FSxc_Pxi0WMbmx1_&usp=drive_fs
  Email: [email protected]
  GitHub: github.com/foxtacles
Re:Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house? on Thursday August 08, 2024 @06:39PM (#41197135)
Agree with this advice. Our consulting agency, also based in Europe, specializes in exactly this - bootstrapping software solutions for companies that lack the in-house experience to do so. After a successful launch our clients usually transition to hiring employees to take over our work - a transition we actively support. It works out quite well in our experience. (contact/website is in my profile if interested)
Yeah I'm not Matt :) No idea if he is on HN
It just removes the warning, which is impossible to get rid of otherwise. This bug has persisted all the way into MSVC 6.0:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000519112833/https://support.m...

Since the warning is relatively useless we opted to fix C2.EXE so that it is never emitted. It generates a lot of noise during compilation otherwise (if you are using templates).

I've been working on a similar project (LEGO Island decompilation). We've developed an extensive set of annotations and corresponding tools that facilitate matching the assembly/binary:

https://github.com/isledecomp/isle/tree/master/tools

We've been considering creating a separate project/repository for the tools since they might be interesting for other projects such as yours as well.

Re:Travel across Germany with the 49 Euro ticket on Thursday June 08, 2023 @01:39PM (#36245670)
Most likely since you are using a newly created account, and an automated system does this. Happened to me as well and kept happening even after months. Was fixed swiftly after I contacted the site admin about it :)

I believe when people 'vouch' for your dead comments, the issue will go away eventually.

Re:JMAP – a much needed modern email open standard on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @02:49PM (#36128906)
Have you considered setting up a rule using the Snooze feature[0]? Using this it should be possible to delay all incoming work email until a time that is suitable for you.

[0]: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-snooze/

Edit: If you want your work emails to arrive only during work hours and otherwise delay them, you can use a Sieve condition in your email rule similar to this:

  anyof (date :value "lt" "date" "hour" "09", date :value "ge" "date" "hour" "17")
Re:JMAP – a much needed modern email open standard on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @02:16PM (#36128414)
Fully agree. I'm also a very happy Fastmail customer of over 10 years now; I could never go back to gmail
Re:Germany Falls into Recession on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:17AM (#36071831)
That's technically correct, however much of the Greens' ideology has been gradually adopted by essentially all other political parties over the past 10-15 years, most likely since it's rather popular with the voters here.

There's no political party left you could vote for if you are in favor of nuclear.

Re:Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @04:13PM (#35266501)
Related video illustrating your last point using the example of a pencil: https://youtu.be/IYO3tOqDISE
You're not the only one.

To anyone who's tired of reading those frequently espoused, virtually now mainstream, apparently self-hatred fueled viewpoints, or to those who are interested in positive outlooks on humanity, I can recommend this book:

https://www.superabundance.com/

and this news aggregator:

https://www.humanprogress.org/

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