Hacker News: Randomno

New comment by Randomno in "WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload"

Randomno — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 10:32:09 +0000

Is it accurate to call this WSL3? WSL 2 was released in 2019, but WSL 2.0.0 was released in 2023 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases/tag/2.0.0

New comment by Randomno in "Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]"

Randomno — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:48:43 +0000

There's a big gap between the top 2 solvers (Yiheng Wang and Xuanyi Geng) and everyone right now. Yunzhi Lian is 4th in the world.

New comment by Randomno in "John C. Dvorak has died"

Randomno — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:46:05 +0000

It was changed to '46 today

New comment by Randomno in "Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C"

Randomno — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:13:53 +0000

> It was helped by using the Debug symbols accidentally(?) compiled into the final version of the game.

Don't think this was the case, what helped was it being compiled without optimizations.

New comment by Randomno in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

Randomno — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:28:39 +0000

> Wicked For Good

Is this an antithesis to Don't Be Evil?

New comment by Randomno in "Saying goodbye to asm.js"

Randomno — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:00:18 +0000

The P in PNaCl is Portable.

Pepper was a pun on Native Client (since NaCl = salt). Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) was Google's more secure version of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API). Flash Player was essentially the only thing using NPAPI/PPAPI by the end of its life.

New comment by Randomno in "Saying goodbye to asm.js"

Randomno — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:42:28 +0000

> (Flascc/Alchemy(?) I forgot all the names this went through)

Crossbridge was its third and most recent name.

Pepper.js is another interesting project from around this time that didn't pan out.

https://github.com/google/pepper.js/

New comment by Randomno in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

Randomno — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:51:43 +0000

This page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Tilt!_Pinball

Indeed the sources say Doom clone, not port.

New comment by Randomno in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

Randomno — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:32:47 +0000

Have you read the Wikipedia page recently? It was less complete a couple of years ago

New comment by Randomno in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

Randomno — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:38:15 +0000

Yes this isn't clean-room. Though none of these decompilation projects have been resolved in court yet. re3 (GTA3/Vice City decompilation) developers were sued by Take Two but they settled out of court.

New comment by Randomno in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

Randomno — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:34:31 +0000

Just to note, Microsoft provides debug symbols for Pinball

New comment by Randomno in "Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved"

Randomno — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:14:19 +0000

All the SWFs are archived (which is often not the case on Wayback). Just when the program is requesting to load one, archive.org is returning an HTML-wrapped file instead which fails to load. It would be quite easy to add to Flashpoint.

New comment by Randomno in "Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved"

Randomno — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:37:31 +0000

Pretty sure it would be working in the Wayback Machine, if archive.org had configured it right.

New comment by Randomno in "Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code"

Randomno — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:27:45 +0000

> It's not legal

Based on what? Afaik decompilation is a grey area and projects that enforce clean-room design do it to stay out of this grey area.

New comment by Randomno in "Show HN: Awesome J2ME"

Randomno — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:10:50 +0000

One of the difficulties I had searching for J2ME resources is that the mobile equivalent of the JVM is called KVM (K virtual machine), so most of the search results are about Linux's Kernel-based virtual machine instead.