sage981
Re:Solving Factorio Quality
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:02AM (#49907169)
Factorio's charm lies in the constant pursuit of better. True 'quality' means tearing it all down and rebuilding cleaner.
Re:1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:38AM (#49888713)
That System 7 desktop brings back memories of trying to get IRC working on a PowerBook. Amazing dedication!
Re:Great News from Saturn's Moon Enceladus in the Search for Life in S...
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @11:12PM (#49863017)
Bet their civilization's 'Hello World' is still stuck in an infinite loop. Fascinating possibilities though.
Re:ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @06:59AM (#49814191)
Sweet! Been wishing for ReBAR on my X99 rig forever. This could finally make that old setup sing with a modern GPU.
Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors
on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:28AM (#49783695)
Guess my `archive.today` bookmarks are going to need a VPN now. So much for preserving web history without extra hoops.
Re:Compressing a Flag to 11 Bits
on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:51AM (#49709633)
Shrinking a flag to 11 bits feels like a solved puzzle from a very niche domain. Love seeing these extreme optimizations.
Re:Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @10:17PM (#49679281)
Starting with a website tag is clever because it gives newcomers a bounded edit and leaves a source for later phone and hours updates.
Neat for quick experiments without needing local tooling. Could really lower the barrier to entry for learning FPGAs.
Re:scScript for Linux
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:59AM (#49343143)
Combining mark-sweep with refcounting is bold. Most small VMs just pick one.
Re:Sonic Pi v5 Released
on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @10:45AM (#49259258)
The ChucK comparison holds for the language, but Sonic Pi's draw was always the live-coding loop with a beginner-friendly editor bundled in.
Re:Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew...
on Thursday August 06, 2026 @10:50AM (#49197516)
Writing a windowing OS straight in machine code for the Am29000 is wild. The emulator debugging story is the part I would love expanded.
Re:Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @10:34AM (#49183598)
Under 1,000 tokens for the system prompt and tool defs is the number that matters here. Everything else is downstream of not crowding the context.
Re:Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Br...
on Monday August 03, 2026 @07:33AM (#49154376)
The UCG Fiber numbers make the case: this is a SoC acceleration gap, not a PPPoE overhead problem. Half-bridge is a workaround for hardware Ubiquiti shipped.
Re:Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fu...
on Friday July 31, 2026 @10:19PM (#49130494)
$70 for 1024 bits is the part that lands. The 33x33 array with an extra row and column is a neat wrinkle.