Hacker News: ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ThatGuyRaionHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:53:43 +0000<![CDATA[New IRIX Emulator (I am not the author)]]>Article URL: https://github.com/techomancer/iris

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620698

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

]]>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:57:04 +0000https://github.com/techomancer/irisThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620698https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620698<![CDATA[Show HN: I Redesigned IRIXNet]]>As part of my february web dev work, I got IRIXNet updated with a new design for all but the classic forum mode.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139006

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:23:38 +0000https://irixnet.org/ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139006https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139006<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated"]]>You're welcome :)

]]>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:28:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107120ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107120https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107120<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated"]]>Just in time. O2 RAM sticks are probably entering reproduction (but you didnt hear that from me :) )

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:15:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103188ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103188https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103188<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated"]]>Wanted to ensure it was clear lol.

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:14:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103181ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103181https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103181<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated"]]>It's a labor of love for me.

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:14:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103180ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103180https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103180<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated"]]>Greetings HN,

As the current Nekonomicon steward, taking over the project from Elf, I finally added a "new section".

Let me explain

Nekochan.net was a famous SGI site that went down on May 21st 2018. Remember the day like it was yesterday. I got up, went to a restaurant to get some food and people start bombarding me while I'm eating.

Anyways, in 2019 Elf, a user of IRIXNet, decided to grab the forum posts off archive.org and reformat them as the "Nekonomicon Book of Notes"

In 2020 I manually (2104 images!) grabbed the original images and metadata off nekochan's archive.org and put it on Silicon Image.

Well, Silicon Image is getting migrated soon to a new project I built using Laravel. As part of this, I built a static site generator in python to rebuild this into a Nekonomicon book of illustrations. After 2-3 days of rapid prototyping, I got it up and running here:

http://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/index.html

The tarball will be updated soon.

Future Nekonomicon updates might include:

1. Geoman and a few other community members ganked forum backups. I might be able to eventually merge and reconcile, but I suspect that will necessitate AI assistance.

2. The Nekochan.net blog. Mostly for nostalgia.

Anyways, enjoy the memory lane trip.

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:27:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102209ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102209https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102209<![CDATA[The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated]]>Article URL: http://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102208

Points: 61

# Comments: 10

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:27:01 +0000http://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102208https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102208<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"]]>Do not turn off environmental monitoring. That's for debugging only. That's how people are cooking the video cards. Please get your fuel /properly/ repaired by say weblacky on irixnet. The reason why? With env monitoring off, the system won't respond to overheating on the graphics card and it'll cook it alive. The fuel has notoriously bad airflow (air doesn't move right angles)

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:35:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948158ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948158https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948158<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"]]>SGIs that matter (MIPS, etc)

IRIX only supports about OpenGL 1.2. It does have a fragment shading extension though:

https://tech-pubs.net/reputable-archive/fragment_lighting.tx...

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:13:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947834ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947834https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947834<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"]]>"We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those with a voice."

Applies here. SGI hardware holds interest because "ooh pretty animations/GL". IBM is great stuff, but it's all workhorses.

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:55:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946604ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946604https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946604<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"]]>You could use the NVME driver to load the filesystem and boot the kernel diskless...

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:52:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946567ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946567https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946567<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"]]>Ummmm...

https://irixnet.org/

http://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/ -- Nekochan backup

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:51:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946553ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946553https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946553<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"]]>Nay, the N64 is pretty unique hardware-wise. Conceptually it's vaguely similar to the O2, the RCP is an R4000 fixed function CPU with some extra graphics instructions IIRC.

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:50:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946529ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946529https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946529<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"]]>It runs like arse though.

I'm working on some OpenGL stuff at least.

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:49:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946517ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946517https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946517<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"]]>I keep my Challenge S running 24/7 :)

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:48:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946507ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946507https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946507<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"]]>Your contributions to the Indy alongside Ryan's contributions were neat, truly. You plowed the road so others can navigate it. There's a rumor about a faster Indy emulator... but don't hold your breath yet. (Not a project I'm part of, but I've been told snippets)

The OS/hardware though, has serious limitations that while no problem for me, definitely pisses off people. Examples:

No atomics/Thread local support. Doesn't matter that someone ported GCC 15 -- you can't make use of many useful newer language features.

Immediate Mode OpenGL only. There's no direct hardware access. Not a problem for me, but every SGI out there is fixed function only. I've had people bitch to high hell we don't have shaders.

and in general, some people just think the OS is janky. I love it, but not everyone is me.

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:48:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946498ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946498https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946498<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"]]>Where do I start?

If you want OpenGL demos, well, they exist. An example I made: https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-4796.html

You want newer FOSS?

https://nekoware.me

Every quarter I update it.

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:42:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946421ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946421https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946421<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"]]>Nice work Matt.

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:40:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946409ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946409https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946409<![CDATA[New comment by ThatGuyRaion in "Amiga Unix (Amix)"]]>AFAICT Cloanto is milking Amiga, and Hyperion is actually updating OS 3.1/3.2 plus their OS 4 stuff.

]]>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:42:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852484ThatGuyRaionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852484https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852484