Hacker News: Narishma

New comment by Narishma in "Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11"

Narishma — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:41:04 +0000

I don't know. Mine only has "Normal" and "Touch".

New comment by Narishma in "Infinite Mac: BeOS"

Narishma — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 21:12:34 +0000

The closest modern thing to it is probably the Raspberry Pi GPIO header.

New comment by Narishma in "Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11"

Narishma — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:06:28 +0000

There is no compact mode anymore, they removed it years ago.

New comment by Narishma in "NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto"

Narishma — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:40:56 +0000

But are mostly forgotten while emacs keybindings are still popular and found in all kinds of places you wouldn't expect, like MacOS textboxes.

New comment by Narishma in "NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto"

Narishma — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:37:07 +0000

And those who still use 32-bit machines, as Linux is in the process of killing support for them.

New comment by Narishma in "Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11"

Narishma — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:22:28 +0000

All modern browsers are the same in this regard.

New comment by Narishma in "Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11"

Narishma — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:17:19 +0000

> but because they are trying to maximize screen space

If that was the case they wouldn't put giant margins around every UI element and dead space everywhere.

New comment by Narishma in "fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine"

Narishma — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:16:50 +0000

What other OSS rebuilds?

New comment by Narishma in "Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought"

Narishma — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:48:30 +0000

You missed the biggest reason the newer consoles couldn't reach PS2 numbers: Sony managed to bring its price all the way down to $99. PS3 and PS4 only went down to $299. PS5 instead has had multiple price increases and is now way more expensive than it was at launch.

New comment by Narishma in "Quad9 to exit France"

Narishma — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:17:41 +0000

Why are so many comments talking about Sony? The case was brought by beIN Sports.

New comment by Narishma in "Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France"

Narishma — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:14:26 +0000

beIN, not Sony.

New comment by Narishma in "Laptop Based on 6502 CPU"

Narishma — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:05:26 +0000

At that point you may as well go for a RISC-V or ARM microcontroller.

New comment by Narishma in "I love software rendering"

Narishma — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 03:27:22 +0000

> Software rendered games never supported texture filtering

Unreal did. Or maybe Unreal 2, I don't remember which.

New comment by Narishma in "I love software rendering"

Narishma — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:46:42 +0000

Unless you were playing on a TV CRT, I don't think so. PC monitors of the time were pretty sharp already.

New comment by Narishma in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

Narishma — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:57:15 +0000

That's a workaround, not a solution. And a partial one at that since it only affects your own vehicle; you'll still be in danger from other people's connected vehicles.

New comment by Narishma in "Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly"

Narishma — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:21:58 +0000

> also I don't see why target WebGL 1.0 in the days of WebGPU, WebGL 2.0 yes, because WebGPU isn't yet widely available.

Because not every hardware capable of running PS2 level games supports the newer APIs.

> Also OpenGL 3.3 is from 2010, whereas OpenGL 2.1 was designed for 2006 hardware, how back you want to get?

Doesn't matter how old it is, what matters is if it has the required features or not. For the use case being discussed, GL 2.1 is sufficient so there's no good reason to not target it. That's my philosophy at least. When I write code, I always use the oldest library or API that has the stuff I need. I don't just go automatically for the latest one.

New comment by Narishma in "Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly"

Narishma — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:16:24 +0000

It's not an "and". GL 2.1 has all the features necessary for PS2 games and is still supported on modern systems. Older APIs may be slightly more verbose than newer APIs but that shouldn't matter to an AI.

New comment by Narishma in "Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly"

Narishma — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:22:37 +0000

But we're talking about AI generated code here, it shouldn't have any difficulty supporting the older API if it has the necessary features. For PS2 games I think GL 2.1 (or GL ES 2.0 or WebGL 1 which are all more or less the same thing) is largely sufficient.

New comment by Narishma in "Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly"

Narishma — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:07:26 +0000

What do you mean by token costs? Does it cost more tokens to support an older graphics API than a newer one?

New comment by Narishma in "Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly"

Narishma — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:05:21 +0000

GL 2.1 supports shaders.