Hacker News: Sarkie

New comment by Sarkie in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

Sarkie — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:52:58 +0000

Make it work, make it fast, refactor

New comment by Sarkie in "What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine"

Sarkie — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:42:27 +0000

Bollocks.

Probably is doing heavy lifting here

New comment by Sarkie in "The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services"

Sarkie — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:29:33 +0000

First unicode hostname I've seen?

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

Sarkie — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:49:02 +0000

Google Authenticator works?

New comment by Sarkie in "Commander Keen Games (free book)"

Sarkie — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:26:26 +0000

https://forgottenbytes.net/books/White_Papers_Keen.pdf

New comment by Sarkie in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

Sarkie — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:38:18 +0000

I would never dare put that in production

New comment by Sarkie in "What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks"

Sarkie — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:47:28 +0000

I had my Tools disk and my MSDOS gaming boot disk, tweaked and tuned to perfection.

Those were the best of times.

Little me didn't know that was the gateway drug to coding.

New comment by Sarkie in "OpenRCT2 v0.5.1 "Swamp Castle" released Last version to support Windows 7"

Sarkie — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:38:19 +0000

"Only OS" is the caveat here.

New comment by Sarkie in "Let's compile Quake like it's 1997"

Sarkie — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:45:59 +0000

Exactly but writing to serve his audience

New comment by Sarkie in "Apple reportedly preps native support for Google Cast in iOS 27"

Sarkie — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:30:27 +0000

Is this European Union related?

New comment by Sarkie in "DOS Zone"

Sarkie — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:46:46 +0000

You may be in the wrong place

New comment by Sarkie in "asp-classic-emulator: Run ASP Classic on macOS, Linux and BSD"

Sarkie — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:43:03 +0000

In a previous life, I would have loved this.

New comment by Sarkie in "ASCII by Jason Scott"

Sarkie — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:33:10 +0000

Met Jason Scott.

Absolutely uniquely good person.

New comment by Sarkie in "Why scientists are nervous about fungi"

Sarkie — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:20:16 +0000

The last of us

New comment by Sarkie in "The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments"

Sarkie — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:12:58 +0000

My wife is a journalist and has always loved them.

Now she's been accused of using AI for her pieces.

Oh well.

New comment by Sarkie in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

Sarkie — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:02:49 +0000

Thank you for such a great product

New comment by Sarkie in "UK total wind generation record beaten today"

Sarkie — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:11:14 +0000

Congrats Robin.

New comment by Sarkie in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"

Sarkie — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:02:14 +0000

I nice use case too

https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2015/12/11/using-jemalloc-to-...

New comment by Sarkie in "I Hacked My Laundry Card. Here's What I Learned"

Sarkie — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:09:25 +0000

Thank you for saving my time

New comment by Sarkie in "Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones"

Sarkie — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:22:27 +0000

Wonder what Motorola thinks of this.