Hacker News: JetSetIlly

New comment by JetSetIlly in "Ferrari Luce"

JetSetIlly — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:06:26 +0000

Ferrari have long worked with third-party coachbuilders such as Pininfarina. I'm not sure how much autonomy Ive had over the final design, but if it's anything like the relationship with Pininfarina, etc. the design would have been a collaboration.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU"

JetSetIlly — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:30:36 +0000

> Well, that and the fact that after the 48K beeper the 128K was never going to sound less than incredible

Some of the stuff people do with the 48k beeper is incredible though. Tim Follin's tunes for example are basically treating the beeper like a 1-bit DAC, with amazing results. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T42WuUpBuHE

New comment by JetSetIlly in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

JetSetIlly — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:19:26 +0000

That's not enough in this case. The suggested mitigation according to the Dirty.Frag github page is to blacklist esp4, esp6 and rxrpc

New comment by JetSetIlly in "If I could make my own GitHub"

JetSetIlly — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:57:25 +0000

Oh interesting! I've heard of sourcehut of course, but never looked at it. Thanks for the pointer.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "If I could make my own GitHub"

JetSetIlly — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:44:48 +0000

Yes. But I would like a public service that took care of that for me. So like github but without the bells and whistles.

Part of the reason for not wanting bells and whistles is for the service to have less chance of dying under a heavy load.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "If I could make my own GitHub"

JetSetIlly — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:13:36 +0000

I think there's a gap in the market for a much simpler type of git service. All I need is a remote host to which I can push projects for others to see. I don't particularly want pull requests, actions or anything like that.

Maybe a way of facilitating "releases" with compiled binary assets (built locally and uploaded).

Forks can be handled by people cloning the repository and uploading a new project.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

JetSetIlly — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:36:55 +0000

I wrote a program similar to this for AmigaOS many, many years ago. I would have been inspired by ZoneAlarm or a program like it.

I've just found it and uploaded it to github. Looking at the code, I can see my horrible C style of the time. There's probably bugs galore.

https://github.com/JetSetIlly/Direwall

If I remember correctly, it runs as a commodity and patches the socket library. Interestingly, the socket library was not re-entrant (unusual for Amiga libraries) so I had to patch the Exec OpenLibrary() function to monitor the loading of new copies of the socket library. But it's been a long time so memories are hazy.

It'll be interesting to see if it is still compiles and runs for modern AmigaOS, if any active Amiga programmers are around to see.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

JetSetIlly — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:34:45 +0000

Some nice ideas but the regexes should include word boundaries. For example:

I have a project with a large package named "debugger". The presence of "bug" within "debugger" causes the original command to go crazy.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

JetSetIlly — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:50:29 +0000

Superb demos this year at Revision. Triplet by Otomata Labs for the Atari 2600 is exceptional

Original release video (probably running on Stella)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJ0A8Wvdxs

And a video of it running on Gopher2600.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixFH22MxqEg

New comment by JetSetIlly in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

JetSetIlly — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:14:24 +0000

I agree. Dealing with different endianness has never been an issue so long as you're aware of where the boundaries are. A call to htons() or ntohs() (or the 32bit equivalents) was the solution. I would hope all modern languages have similar helper functions/macros.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "Do your own writing"

JetSetIlly — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:31:40 +0000

I agree. The act of coding is when I do my thinking.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "The curious case of retro demo scene graphics"

JetSetIlly — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:48:45 +0000

I really meant in the coding realm, but it's interesting that it created a bootable floppy. That wouldn't be trivial.

Questions: 1) Which AI platform did you use? 2) Did it create a binary image of the floppy disk (an ADF perhaps)? If not, what form did it take?

New comment by JetSetIlly in "The curious case of retro demo scene graphics"

JetSetIlly — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:34:06 +0000

> Farting around with Amigas in 2026 means actively choosing to make things harder for the sake of making things harder. Making that choice and still outsourcing the bulk of the craft and creative process is like claiming to be a passionate hobby cook while serving professionally catered dinners and pretending they're your own concoctions.

People wanting to explore the use of generative AI for vintage computers is happening not just for graphics but for code too.

I think in the case of code though, it's still interesting because I don't believe there's been any success yet. I hear of people having success with Claude in contemporary settings but it seems to fare less well when working for older computing platforms. There's a reason for that of course and it's worth exploring.

However, it will cease to be interesting as soon as the first person manages to create something substantial. At the point, the scene should probably shun it for the reasons stated in the quote.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "Is it a pint?"

JetSetIlly — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:44:15 +0000

I no longer drink in pubs but in my neck of the woods, the pubs that specialised in cask ale often had lined glasses.

The problem was that many people insisted on the glass being filled to the brim, because they felt they were being short changed. So it solved one problem but created another.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File"

JetSetIlly — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:37:41 +0000

In that case I misunderstood.

It's an interesting idea. I think I prefer the exiftool syntax over what's suggested in the blog. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File"

JetSetIlly — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:16:16 +0000

Yes, there are a few tools that do this. Looking at /bin and the softlinks that are there, the various xz tools do it (unxz, lzcat, etc.). Also, vim. vimdiff and view are just softlinks to vim.

The only difference is that those tools have chosen easy to remember names rather than embedding the arguments as metadata in the filename.

As a generalisation of the idea though, the blog post is neat.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner"

JetSetIlly — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:27:40 +0000

Ian Lance Taylor is in the recent commit history for the main Go implementation. He's not working at Google any more but he's still active.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "Digg is gone again"

JetSetIlly — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:07:36 +0000

Eternal LLMber

New comment by JetSetIlly in "Grief and the AI split"

JetSetIlly — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:53:53 +0000

I think the split is between people who are in a hurry and those who are not. I'm not in a hurry and so choose not to spend money to get a quicker result.

Taking time to solve a problem myself is pleasurable and I make no apologies for that.

Horses for courses.

New comment by JetSetIlly in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

JetSetIlly — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:08:54 +0000

Cool. This is how I imagine the ants were programmed by the spiders in Children of Time.