Hacker News: Flow

New comment by Flow in "GPT-5.5"

Flow — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:57:29 +0000

These new models consume so many tokens. I’m very satisfied with GPT-5.2 on High. I hope they keep that one for many years

New comment by Flow in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

Flow — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:40:42 +0000

If you play with friends and your cheats cooperate, I don't think honeypots would be fool-proof any longer. Unless you all get the same fake data.

New comment by Flow in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

Flow — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:45:10 +0000

Perhaps not related to the article but I find it puzzling that Bluetooth in 2026 still sounds like a fax machine when you use the mic too. That and a much too high latency in general.

New comment by Flow in "Index, Count, Offset, Size"

Flow — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:15:22 +0000

Looks perfect here. iOS Safari

New comment by Flow in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

Flow — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:41:23 +0000

OK, you might be right and I got it backwards. It still felt wrong at the time before I got enough points.

New comment by Flow in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

Flow — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:58:06 +0000

StackOverflow didn't feel like a welcoming and humane place the last 10+ years, at least for me.

Actually I think it never did.

It started when I was new there and couldn't write answers, just write comments and then got blasted for writing answer-like comments as comments. What was I supposed to do? I engaged less and less and finally asked them to remove my account.

And then it seems like the power-users/moderators just took over and made it even more hostile.

I hope Wikipedia doesn't end up like this despite some similarities.

New comment by Flow in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

Flow — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:55:34 +0000

I don't get why Nvidia can't do both? Is it because of the limited production capabilities of the factories?

New comment by Flow in "Fuzix on a Raspberry Pi Pico"

Flow — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:12:10 +0000

Ever thought of writing an emulator? On Reddit theres /r/EmuDev which is a nice place.

For example you could start by writing a CHIP8 emu, then a Space Invaders Emu. After Space Invaders most people write a Game Boy(almost same CPU as Space Invaders and hardware is well documented) emu, but you could try to do a 8086 PC if you want to know more about "real" computers.

There are free BIOS you can use, and FreeDOS, and then rest of the machine is pretty well documented.

New comment by Flow in "Just use a button"

Flow — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 08:25:50 +0000

I started a SvelteKit project last year.

The compiler and preprocessors are very picky about accessibility issues like these.

It was annoying in the beginning, but I tried to follow the rules it set out. It feels very professional, and I’m thankful for the guidance.

What’s annoying now is when my coworkers thinks I’m making things unnecessarily complicated by trying to follow these rules and guidelines. A

with an onclick is so easy compared to a

New comment by Flow in "The Unix Executable as a Smalltalk Method [pdf]"

Flow — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:18:04 +0000

Funny, and the persistent memory-image everyone outside the Smalltalk/Lisp community seems to hate, it's your normal filesystem now.

New comment by Flow in "Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum"

Flow — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:12:06 +0000

Did you ever play Nebulus? The ZX Spectrum version looks as good as the C64 version, just less colors. Nebulus is from 1988.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAud8w5mTa4

New comment by Flow in "Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum"

Flow — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:18:55 +0000

I doubt that. It takes more or less 100% CPU on the scanlines affected.

Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum

Flow — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:21:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/08/dev-reveals-secrets-behind-stunning-new-3d-platformer-for-the-zx-spectrum

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44970401

Points: 100

# Comments: 11

New comment by Flow in "Signal Carnival"

Flow — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 19:24:46 +0000

This was damn cool. Watching and listening to it I wonder what is the hardest. Producing video with a sound chip or producing audio with a video chip. Fun stuff.

Atari 2600: Tie Tycoon (Star Bars Demo by Tempest/Extend)

Flow — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:43:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnSoyYtNbSo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43721277

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Flow in "The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web (2024)"

Flow — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:24:26 +0000

I like good pixel dithering. The C64 demo scene has become really good at it. Just look at the girl picture in the frozen start pic. That shows really good taste in picking colors from the weird palette too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5E6z7AMxIU

New comment by Flow in "They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7"

Flow — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 12:57:43 +0000

Who is the other one?

New comment by Flow in "Fourays: A Tribute to the AY-3-8910"

Flow — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:14:54 +0000

Here's Jochen Hippel's(Mad Max in the Atari ST demoscene) use of the AY's on the Guryss hardware(x3 AY). It's a quite lovely tune. They use timers to make "buzzers" and "SID-sound".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5TxsZNJpBA

New comment by Flow in "Why is the iOS keyboard getting worse every year?"

Flow — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:13:09 +0000

Years ago I had iPhone 3GS and iPhone 5. I remember being amazed how fast I could type on it. Today I simply write "I'll write a better answer on the computer later".

New comment by Flow in "Reptar"

Flow — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:53:29 +0000

Would be possible to describe a modern CPU in something like TLA+ to find all non-electrical problems like these?