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Re:Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release on Sunday November 01, 2026 @12:33PM (#50327704)
I miss E16
Re:What shall I teach my son? on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:09PM (#50170312)
Make a fire Make bread Make music
PiPedal is awesome
Re:MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150 on Monday August 03, 2026 @06:34AM (#49153867)
Back in the early 2000s, I had an old salvaged Power Macintosh 8100AV running MkLinux. It served as my personal bastion host, and I also used it to run a few lightweight services, like BitchX or FTP.
Re:Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg on Sunday July 26, 2026 @06:29PM (#49063087)
Robin Davis is also the creator of the amazing PiPedal project : https://github.com/rerdavies/pipedal
Re:Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg on Sunday July 26, 2026 @06:27PM (#49063070)
If you're interested in this topic, here are a few projects I found particularly interesting :

LTSpice Guitar Pedals : A collection of LTspice simulations of classic guitar pedals, useful for studying, modifying, and experimenting with analog circuits. https://github.com/cushychicken/ltspice-guitar-pedals

spiceAmp : An analog guitar amplifier simulator based on SPICE, designed to model tube amp circuits with high fidelity. https://github.com/olegkapitonov/spiceAmp

LiveSPICE : A real-time SPICE circuit simulator that lets you play audio through virtual analog circuits, making it possible to prototype and audition pedals and amplifiers interactively. https://github.com/dsharlet/LiveSPICE

Re:Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg on Sunday July 26, 2026 @06:19PM (#49063002)
Of course ! By the way, I'd love to see more HN posts about NAM. I've been following the project since day one, and it's been an absolute game changer for guitar amp modeling. It's genuinely exciting to see an open-source project have such a profound impact on the entire industry,not just modelers but software plugins and hardware solutions
Re:French parliament approves landmark assisted-dying bill on Thursday July 16, 2026 @08:02AM (#48933343)
It's "Putain de bordel de merde !"
Europe is finally breaking with America ? At least this time, nobody has to try invading France first ^^
Re:Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16 on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @10:16AM (#47779295)
e16 was truly unique... honestly the best Linux desktop ever made !
I’ve found Bastille really simple and great for creating and managing jails https://bastillebsd.org/
It’s awesome to see Unix descendants still alive and active. NetBSD has been doing some really cool stuff lately, like PVH boot support. Kudos to the SmolBSD team, a really fun project that made NetBSD PVH boot support, allowing it to boot a microVM on QEMU in ~10 ms https://smolbsd.org
My Orange Pi RV2 sucks :( The available distros, drivers, kernel, and tools do work, but they’re crappy, and poorly maintained. There’s no support and very little documentation, which is a real shame. From a hardware point of view, it’s a nice board and when I properly compiled some softwares myself I actually got really interesting performance, but it was a pain in the ass. So I ended up buying a Raspberry Pi 4, much better supported and documented.
Re:Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 1 on Thursday December 11, 2025 @05:25PM (#46238128)
account created 2 hours ago pathetic
Re:VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:20AM (#45681490)
I’d really like to see more plugins available in the LV2 format for my Ardour RT DAW. Also, a quick recommendation : LSP (Linux Studio Plugins) an excellent collection of several open source plugins supporting CLAP, AU, LV2, VST2, VST3, LADSPA, and a standalone Jack versions https://lsp-plug.in/
Re:A NetBSD/amd64 guest can now boot in 18ms on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:35PM (#39016863)
Very interesting
Re:Ask HN: What is the most interesting use of AI you've seen? on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @11:15AM (#32751743)
Realistic photos generated by AI are really awesome.
Re:Astrofox – Turn Audio into Videos on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:55AM (#32024983)
I also recommend Le Biniou an open - source, user - friendly, powerful music visualization & VJing tool https://biniou.net/
Re:PowerMac 6100 Upgrade Guide (2000) on Monday June 13, 2022 @04:04PM (#31731039)
They were wonderful computers for graphic software like Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop and QuarkXpress, video editing or music recording.
Re:PowerMac 6100 Upgrade Guide (2000) on Monday June 13, 2022 @04:00PM (#31730974)
I used Mklinux on a powermac 8100 for 5 years has my home distant ssh and cli box.
Better buy Magic The Gathering old cards
Orwellian Cyberpunk Idiocracy
Re:Show HN: Discover what locals eat all around the world on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @06:46AM (#19262616)
Foie Gras and Oysters are not really eaten everyday, they are celebration meal. Traditional french gastronomy should include at least Cassoulet and Choucroute !!!
Re:GIMP and GEGL in 2018 on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @03:03PM (#18809624)
I've been waiting for CMYK support for years
I'm using pbzip2 to solve this problem. http://compression.ca/pbzip2/