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A couple months ago I wrote about this kind of transcompilation hop-skip-jump: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643284

I used it to get games written in Lua running on SNES and in my own language/engine running on Dreamcast, Wii, Web and more.

Re:My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:41AM (#50314237)
Wii turns 20 on 19th November 2026.
The game is StarCraft, I had to hunt through the readme for that info!
Re:F-Zero X on Nintendo 3DS on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:02AM (#50244975)
Having read some of what this project had to do to fit 3DS, if you think “the only thing learned was how to use LLMs” then I don’t know what to say to you other than...are you sure about that?
Maybe it doesn't, but it's interesting history that a decision made can withstand the tests of time as much as this.
Re:Initial Opinion of Amiga on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:41PM (#50174644)
USENET in 1986. Amazing.
I’m not sure I’ll use this (I’m an MD IO Trial user) but I will say that finding a font you can read without thinking is one of the greatest productivity boosts as a developer.
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Another day, another groundrun ESP32 post
Re:What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:17PM (#50010642)
Did you try the downloads?
Re:The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:15PM (#50010622)
DiscMaster can also search within archives by filename or content of the file! So if you knew the name of a theme that might have been another route.
Re:A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE on Monday October 05, 2026 @08:48AM (#49964171)
Super cool! Brings back so many memories. I wrote some very popular apps in VB back in the Windows 9x era: hot corners, screen savers, notes app, and many more.
This has been posted once a day for the last 5 days. I only know because my reader has saved search capability with ESP32 as a keyword.
Re:Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:47PM (#49947166)
Tap the black hole and it gives you ability to add and remove.
Re:ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf] on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:41PM (#49947120)
I recommend seeing a specialist for a proper diagnosis. It'll be worth it.
Re:Apple Pass Designer on Friday October 02, 2026 @06:20PM (#49939336)
When I worked at Apple a dozen years ago I pushed hard for this to be built. We were using our own slap dash solution, but we wanted something everybody could use.

Better late than never!

Curious why it's not been tested on hardware?
Re:ModRetro + Codex on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:31AM (#49905190)
So the ModRetro × OpenAI collab only requires a free plugin for you to develop GBC games in the Codex the app

But play-testing on a real Chromatic requires a firmware update and API key that came in the box with the DevDay devices

https://support.modretro.com/en_us/chromatic-devday-edition-...

I just tried it and prompted a GBC version of YOYOZO, my GOTY game. Wild times.

Re:RSS Feeds for Last.fm on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @01:22AM (#49904675)
Cool!

I'm wondering why my recommended tracks are different between the two feed formats? Same uid as here.

Also, my JSON feed doesn't seem to validate and is not served with the proper MIME type.

> turn supported chips into low-cost software-defined radio receivers for the 2.4 GHz band
Sad to see such unfounded claims tarnishing the work of this author. Surely it should be innocent until proven guilty. These text analysers all say different things about a piece of text, yet here the result of one has taken away this guy’s prize and perhaps career. There’s a legal case for defamation, surely?
Re:NOTE4 – a $55 ESP32 S3 e-ink task display with open API's on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:39PM (#49880745)
Which of these images is a photo of a real physical device? It seems to me that they are all a mix of renders and ai images (the ones where the speaker holes are not evenly spaced, and with nonsense text on nearby keyboards). I don't necessarily mind, but such images don't sell the device. I want to see a real one being used.

Also: I can buy it on AliExpress right now so I don't see the point of a waitlist.

Made my day.
Re:How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks on Sunday September 27, 2026 @12:54AM (#49863469)
There's only one way to find out...race time!
I admire how black and white you are about this. Your use of the word never...says a lot. Personally, I see in shades of grey and never say never.
I agree this would have been more interesting.

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