Hacker News: 6581

New comment by 6581 in "NetHack 5.0.0"

6581 — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:32:01 +0000

> By Amiga 68k platforms then.

https://nethack.org/v500/ports/download-amiga.html

> And maybe DOS.

https://nethack.org/v500/ports/download-msdos.html

New comment by 6581 in "My DIY FPGA board can run Quake II"

6581 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:27:46 +0000

> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your entire comment history seems to be AI generated.

New comment by 6581 in "I fixed Windows native development"

6581 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:22:09 +0000

> No Visual Studio installation. No GUI. No prayer. Just a script that does exactly what it says.

Bandcamp Clubs

6581 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:37:53 +0000

Article URL: https://bandcamp.com/about_clubs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996284

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt() (2006)

6581 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:13:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46652298

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by 6581 in "Show HN: I built a text-based business simulator to replace video courses"

6581 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:03:34 +0000

Please don't use AI for posting comments.

New comment by 6581 in "Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin"

6581 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:32:03 +0000

Looks like Logic Pro.

NIST tried to pull pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift

6581 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:32:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/21/nist_ntp_outage_warning/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344724

Points: 17

# Comments: 1

Mesa's "Present Timing" Vulkan Driver Support Now Feature Complete

6581 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:08:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-VK_EXT_present_timing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46274728

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

libxml2 is unmaintained

6581 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:01:16 +0000

Article URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/9c80a89a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208207

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

A 2025 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries

6581 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:21:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-gui-libraries.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164305

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by 6581 in "Show HN: Cynthia – Reliably play MIDI music files – MIT / Portable / Windows"

6581 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:57:03 +0000

"* Also runs on Linux/Mac (including apple silicon) via Wine *"

New comment by 6581 in "NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand"

6581 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:06:32 +0000

That's not what the message you linked claims at all. Maybe you missed the "in this message" at the end of the sentence?

New comment by 6581 in "After my dad died, we found the love letters"

6581 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:27:39 +0000

> I don't know its origins (tumblr emo crowd??)

You're almost a century off :) https://www.bauhaus-bookshelf.org/bauhaus_writing_in_small_l...

New comment by 6581 in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

6581 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:02:24 +0000

There's an option to switch back to the original 4:3 ratio.

OpenBSD 7.8 Released

6581 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:57:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openbsd.org/plus.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656634

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by 6581 in "Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?"

6581 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:35:52 +0000

Claude Opus 4.1:

"I'll search for the current status of seahorse emoji to give you the most up-to-date information.

No, there is no seahorse emoji in the official Unicode standard, and there never has been one. The Unicode Consortium, which is responsible for approving and standardizing emojis, has not included a seahorse in any of its emoji releases.

Interestingly, this is a well-documented example of the "Mandela Effect" - a phenomenon where groups of people collectively misremember something that never actually existed. Many people are convinced they've seen or used a seahorse emoji before, but it's likely they're either experiencing a false memory or remembering seahorse stickers or emoji-style images from messaging apps that aren't part of the standard Unicode set.

A seahorse emoji was actually proposed to Unicode in 2018 but was declined, and there hasn't been a successful proposal since. If you'd like to see a seahorse emoji added in the future, you can submit a proposal to the Unicode Consortium, though the approval process is quite rigorous.

So while we have plenty of other sea creatures like tropical fish, octopus, crab, lobster, squid, and dolphin, the seahorse remains notably absent from our emoji keyboards!"

Next Chapter Opens with OpenSUSE Leap 16 Release

6581 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:59:05 +0000

Article URL: https://news.opensuse.org/2025/10/01/next-chapter-opens-with-leap-release/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45452265

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by 6581 in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

6581 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:31:07 +0000

"morbus" also means disease, not just death.

Mind the encryptionroot: How to save your data when ZFS loses its mind

6581 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:58:52 +0000

Article URL: https://sambowman.tech/blog/posts/mind-the-encryptionroot-how-to-save-your-data-when-zfs-loses-its-mind/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45431167

Points: 158

# Comments: 58