Hacker News: 1bpp

New comment by 1bpp in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

1bpp — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:48:05 +0000

I used to play with the free iZotope Vinyl VST, it does a decent job at emulating pop/hiss, wow/flutter, and frequency response.

For ham radio-like sounds, maybe use SDR software like SDR++ and just pipe in a regular audio input, then mess with the decoding settings like LSB/USB.

New comment by 1bpp in "Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware"

1bpp — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:33:04 +0000

Every Xbox game runs in a HyperV container, maybe it's not a crazy idea for PC

New comment by 1bpp in "[dead]"

1bpp — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:58:52 +0000

I think this is just an LLM doing not X but Y, as it did repeatedly in this post. Look at the author's history.

New comment by 1bpp in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

1bpp — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:27:08 +0000

I owe thousands of dollars to amtlib.dll.

New comment by 1bpp in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

1bpp — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:29:48 +0000

..because we very recently decided to make it that way

New comment by 1bpp in "Iran's IRGC Publishes Satellite Imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate Datacenter"

1bpp — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:11:11 +0000

Can an admin please replace the link with one that isn't AI spam? https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iran-threatens-co...

New comment by 1bpp in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

1bpp — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:45:36 +0000

These are systems completely designed to prey on vulnerable people, addicts who can't control their impulse to gamble. That's their purpose. I think it's worth regulating intentionally predatory and harmful industries.

New comment by 1bpp in "Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp"

1bpp — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:32:28 +0000

IIRC the old yt-dlp was removed at one point for exactly that.

New comment by 1bpp in "Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct"

1bpp — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:13:38 +0000

It feels actively hostile to programmers sometimes

New comment by 1bpp in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

1bpp — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:01:06 +0000

Look for used 'Digital Signage' or 'Commercial' displays. They usually have dumb firmware and the same panels as retail models.

New comment by 1bpp in "Ball Pit"

1bpp — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:35:44 +0000

Runs steadily around 30fps on my Pixel 7a.

New comment by 1bpp in "Goodbye to Sora"

1bpp — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:56:40 +0000

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New comment by 1bpp in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

1bpp — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:08:08 +0000

The default mail app on Windows is now called Outlook for Windows, no relation to the Outlook in Office (sorry, Microsoft 365 Copilot), and it's a significantly worse barely functional webview. It also replaced the entire Calendar app, which was decent.

New comment by 1bpp in "LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?"

1bpp — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:22:30 +0000

A fun thing to do is convince a model to fluidly switch between character sets to express ideas as 'efficiently' as possible. It likes to use Chinese hanzi a lot for abstract concepts. I've also seen Gemini use them unprompted in the middle of an English sentence.

New comment by 1bpp in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

1bpp — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:15:42 +0000

Recently someone did the incredible work of getting Photoshop to run perfectly in Wine, but it looks like the original reddit post detailing it got removed for legal reasons (which is nonsense, it doesn't make piracy any easier). Adobe seems to actively work against any efforts to run their software on Linux.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1qdgd73/i_mad...

New comment by 1bpp in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

1bpp — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:43:04 +0000

Funny to see w3schools.com ranking above Twitter.

New comment by 1bpp in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

1bpp — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:30:22 +0000

For a lot of sites Firefox's reader mode is great at bypassing paywalls, just turn it on & refresh

New comment by 1bpp in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"

1bpp — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:24:08 +0000

This is why I always read the comments here.

New comment by 1bpp in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

1bpp — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:47:18 +0000

Android uses the 'share' icon to represent the same thing, which is maybe a little more legible, but still feels like shoving way too many actions under a confusing modal they shouldn't be in. Even worse when apps implement a custom share dialog.

New comment by 1bpp in "AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]"

1bpp — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:58:52 +0000

As of a few years ago, you could simply spoof your MAC to that of a Comcast subscriber with these and you'd get unrestricted access on the hotspot.