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New comment by HoppyHaus in "Introduction to Nintendo DS Programming"

HoppyHaus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:50:54 +0000

3DS programming is even easier! * Run through https://3ds.hacks.guide/ * Set up devkitpro: https://devkitpro.org/wiki/Getting_Started * Probably start from an example here: https://github.com/devkitpro/3ds-examples * Then you don't even need to transfer your built file, 3dslink can boot it over the network: https://github.com/devkitPro/3ds-hbmenu?tab=readme-ov-file#n...

New comment by HoppyHaus in "Nim versions 2.2.0 and 2.0.10 released"

HoppyHaus — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:16:14 +0000

"Many long-standing compiler bugs with generics, typedesc and static types have been fixed in this release, effectively making these features stable."

Awesome! Though it may not be the "proper" use, the bugs regarding static types made working with ImGUI much more painful than it should have been.

New comment by HoppyHaus in "Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?"

HoppyHaus — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:01:44 +0000

The quickest win would to move off of Heroku. Either rent your own server that you can control (to a reasonable degree), or find an alternative that doesn't suffer that issue.

Redis would work but I'd be afraid of race conditions. There probably wouldn't be any, but it's something to be aware of.

If you wanted to test the waters with at least the relative public, I'd consider doing step 1 of renting a server, but then hiding it behind a Tor hidden service. Inconvenient to connect to? Yeah. (Probably) safe from the Hasbro demons? Also yeah.

New comment by HoppyHaus in "Find the date of your birthday in the number pi"

HoppyHaus — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 15:51:02 +0000

You'll like this then: https://github.com/philipl/pifs

New comment by HoppyHaus in "Nintendo’s Wii U and 3DS online services will shut down in April"

HoppyHaus — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 17:02:38 +0000

There is something just like that for one of the largest 3ds piracy sites. I won't link to it, but it isn't hard to find

New comment by HoppyHaus in "The $2.98 Computer Library (1977)"

HoppyHaus — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:58:31 +0000

Adjusting for inflation, $2.98 in 1977 is equivalent to $15 nowadays, which means that we've knocked this out of the park. On Ebay you can get a cheapo Android phone for under that amount with more storage than detailed on the article. And hey, gfortran is free!

New comment by HoppyHaus in "Intent to approve PEP 703: making the GIL optional"

HoppyHaus — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 05:32:41 +0000

The issue is when someone's unattended-upgrades bumps up the version and causes something to come crashing down. The people who need to use nogil should know that they need to, and will now have the ability to enable it

New comment by HoppyHaus in "Why even let users set their own passwords?"

HoppyHaus — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 17:14:16 +0000

Those are called "magic links"

New comment by HoppyHaus in "More Americans are using fake license plates"

HoppyHaus — Tue, 02 May 2023 09:44:38 +0000

You can use CDC WONDER[1] and the FBI's statistics[2] to check it. In terms of homicide, in raw numbers we are at 90s levels, but per-capita it's significantly down.

1) https://wonder.cdc.gov/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html 2) https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/

New comment by HoppyHaus in "Nim 2.0.0 RC2"

HoppyHaus — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:56:01 +0000

Awesome! Really looking forward to the 2.0 release - specifically default object values, which is one of the few language-level pain points I've had.

New comment by HoppyHaus in "Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical"

HoppyHaus — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:55:29 +0000

I can only hope that FedNow works as promised and maybe, just maybe, we may have something a bit better than our current situation

New comment by HoppyHaus in "Steam now allows you to copy games over a local network to another PC"

HoppyHaus — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:29:12 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_installation - I was going to say that StarCraft 1 had this, but it turns out it was a whole category of games!

New comment by HoppyHaus in "ImGUI Ported to a LiteX SoC"

HoppyHaus — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:24:48 +0000

That's really neat! ImGUI has got to be one of the most satisfying GUI libraries to use, its fast, versatile and looks absolutely beautiful, so spreading it to even weird places is great!

New comment by HoppyHaus in "PayPal inactivity fee"

HoppyHaus — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:46:18 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by HoppyHaus in "PayPal inactivity fee"

HoppyHaus — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 07:28:58 +0000

Could you elaborate more on this? Specifically the DDA bit - I don't know which acronym you're referring to.

Ask HN: Where to find jobs that have screening questions?

HoppyHaus — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 03:38:16 +0000

Hello HN! I've been job hunting unsuccessfully for nearly a year now. I've been trying to get my foot in the door, however just haven't had much luck, except whenever there's a position that poses one or more technical questions to applicants, which usually gets an interview.

Is there a place that aggregates or has such questions as a feature?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32787557

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by HoppyHaus in "A Way Out for A.out"

HoppyHaus — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 05:53:28 +0000

GCC a.out is an ELF file (except in extremely rare circumstances). "a.out" as a executable format is like ELF, but different and practically no longer used. This is a proposal to remove the latter

New comment by HoppyHaus in "Show HN: P2P remote desktop – an alternative to TeamViewer / AnyDesk"

HoppyHaus — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 04:00:15 +0000

Certain networks heavily filter, or entirely filter UDP. At least having the option is a nice thing in case you find yourself in that situation.

New comment by HoppyHaus in "FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet"

HoppyHaus — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 06:47:57 +0000

Mumble can get it very low. I don't know the actual stats, but audio packets can go to 10ms and use UDP

New comment by HoppyHaus in "Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord"

HoppyHaus — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 16:45:12 +0000

Finally, something that outright says that its intent is to be a discord alternative. So many platforms try to sell themselves on some other feature, rather than just being open source and self-hostable. So many things, like Matrix, come close, but lack key components to really competing, such as voice channels rather than calls.

I hope this goes somewhere!