Hacker News: Frenchgeek

New comment by Frenchgeek in "A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum"

Frenchgeek — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:56:20 +0000

+++ Out Of Cheese Error +++ +++ Redo From Start +++

New comment by Frenchgeek in "Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a"

Frenchgeek — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:24:34 +0000

High resolution CGA, maybe? With only 2 colors copying the Mac UI would make sense.

New comment by Frenchgeek in "Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money"

Frenchgeek — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:57:26 +0000

Let's start with the CEO's pay.

New comment by Frenchgeek in "An iroh powered smart fan"

Frenchgeek — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:37:50 +0000

Because Uncle Iroh needs more fans maybe? (should have been a tea kettle)

New comment by Frenchgeek in "I'm building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine! [video]"

Frenchgeek — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:40:38 +0000

How often have you used your hobby as an excuse to quote the movie?

New comment by Frenchgeek in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

Frenchgeek — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:55:20 +0000

So there was: InkBox OS, mostly for Kobo but with some Kindle support, it became QuillOS (wirh the same focus on devices) but when Kobo went with secureboot the whole thing moved to the PineNote. But all of that is very outdated now...

New comment by Frenchgeek in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

Frenchgeek — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:51:39 +0000

I wonder if there's a KOReader oriented OS for the Kindle, to go beyond jailbreaking it (it's nice, but a bit clunky to me)... There seems to be an Android port for some models so it should be possible.

New comment by Frenchgeek in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

Frenchgeek — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:19:55 +0000

Looks like little Bobby tables is a big brother now...

New comment by Frenchgeek in "Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM"

Frenchgeek — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:04:49 +0000

In unrelated news: I think the Magic-1 is still online. ( https://www.magic-1.org be gentle with it)

New comment by Frenchgeek in "I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]"

Frenchgeek — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:21:20 +0000

I think the main issue was he used Nintendo owned tools and libraries to make his game instead of the GPL ones, making the release of the port dependent on Nintendo's approval too. I guess even Valve didn't want to deal with their lawyers.

New comment by Frenchgeek in "JPEG XL Test Page"

Frenchgeek — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:38:26 +0000

There's a jpeg xl viewer extension available for firefox.

New comment by Frenchgeek in "Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs"

Frenchgeek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:00:42 +0000

So... Follow Abraham Simpsons example, and tell stories that don't go anywhere?

New comment by Frenchgeek in "Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder"

Frenchgeek — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:02:56 +0000

And they could have called it "Androids dream" but didn't....

New comment by Frenchgeek in "Doxers posing as cops are tricking big tech firms into sharing people's data"

Frenchgeek — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 08:08:01 +0000

Why pretend when they are still hiring?

New comment by Frenchgeek in "Making tiny 0.1cc two stroke engine from scratch"

Frenchgeek — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 11:40:04 +0000

He did: It was just warm enough for the ether in the mix to evaporate long before it reached the engine, so it couldn't run.

New comment by Frenchgeek in "Nisus Writer: Schrödinger's Word Processor"

Frenchgeek — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 11:39:19 +0000

A quick search pointed me to https://github.com/darlinghq/darling

New comment by Frenchgeek in "Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files"

Frenchgeek — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:07:44 +0000

It sure make it easy to boot a 64bits OS on a 32bits UEFI machine...

New comment by Frenchgeek in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

Frenchgeek — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 10:26:08 +0000

Well, it would be nice to be able to use my Kindle 4 again... Thanks to KOReader, it's no longer a brick, but most of my ebooks are kept hostages at Amazon.

New comment by Frenchgeek in "GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders"

Frenchgeek — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:19:34 +0000

The Android version of the game Fractal no longer work (So I use the Windows version). And the only way to play the Steam version of Dungeon Defenders on Linux is to use the Windows version instead of the native one.

Even if Windows ever did disappear as an OS, it would remain as a backwards compatibility layer apparently...

New comment by Frenchgeek in "Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing"

Frenchgeek — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:51:49 +0000

Is "finding a way to remove them, with prejudice, from my phone" a valid use case for them? I'm tired of Gemini randomly starting up.

(Well, I recently found there is a reason for it: I'm left handed and unlocking my phone with my left hand sometimes touch the icon stupidly put by default on the lock screen. Not that it would work: My phone is usually running with data disabled.)