Hacker News: Zardoz84

New comment by Zardoz84 in "`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach"

Zardoz84 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:58:21 +0000

Spaceballs CPR

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Coding is not solved"

Zardoz84 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:27:09 +0000

> you have AI make code, AI review code ... I hope you can see the stupidity here...

You will be surprised how many times, catches errores made by the AI coding agent. However,as you point, isn't deterministic. And you can guarantee the end results is 100% fine code

New comment by Zardoz84 in "How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

Zardoz84 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:55:20 +0000

No. it's just the opposite of Hyper-thereading. SMT it's about maximize the resource usage of a CPU, running 2 or more threads at the same time. AMD used the opposite technique of SMT. It had a technical name that I can't remember now, and wasn't invented by AMD.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

Zardoz84 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:47:35 +0000

I did run a multithreaded CPU only n-body problem resolvers in FX cores. So heavy double precision work and putting each core to 100% . A Fx-8370E would get a speed up around 7.5 times Vs the single threaded version A FX-4300 would get a speed up around 3.9 times Vs the single threaded version

So in a physical heavy computation task, involving double precision math (where the AMD design of share FPU units should penalize most), the FX cores where happy churning numbers with the expected speedup Vs a single core/thread version of the code. So stop saying that FX cores sucks at multithread. They fucking worked fine on that kind of tasks.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

Zardoz84 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:38:38 +0000

I just was to say the same thing. I had a good experience with a FX-8370E. They go for too many cores to early, and sacrificed some of the CPU performance to do it. The gamble gone wrong...

New comment by Zardoz84 in "The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)"

Zardoz84 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:29:26 +0000

perhaps was 60hz interlaced. I had memories of my first CRT monitor only allowing to do 1024x768 in interlaced and doing a very obvious flickering. But was flicker free at 800x600 and lower resolutions.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)"

Zardoz84 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:25:10 +0000

c&c Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 used Boxes instead of sprites. But yes, PC pixel art was easy to see in the late 90s, specially in RTS games .

New comment by Zardoz84 in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

Zardoz84 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:08:49 +0000

Simply, don't use AI to generate posters and pay someone to do it.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Lucasart's Afterlife"

Zardoz84 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:05:45 +0000

I played SimCity 2K without reading the manual as a kid.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA"

Zardoz84 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:52:05 +0000

I remember playing Star Fleet Academy demo on my 486DX5@133 and a Trident 3d SVGA card at slow motion in battles. The game requires a Pentium 75 or 90 and a DirectX accelerator.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound"

Zardoz84 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:09:55 +0000

It would be interesting if someone could implement or adapt Roman Black's BTC algorithm to model the Speccy beeper. https://www.romanblack.com/BTc_alg.htm

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance"

Zardoz84 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:23:14 +0000

I personally like to play with the graphs of the Totally Games version of Tie Fighter but with the iMuse music of the original. it's the best experience.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance"

Zardoz84 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:22:02 +0000

I wouldn't call xwvm a mod. It's a reimplementation of the X-Wing alliance engine .

> XWVM is a facilitator app to play Star Wars X-Wing from Lucas Arts and Totally Games. > We are re-implementing the executable to extend the game beyond its original hardware support.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers"

Zardoz84 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:20:38 +0000

Not my problem. Currently my problem is the high traffic of bots that kills our web apps and don't respect robots.txt or meta tags . We are currently deploying Anubis.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "The End of an Athlon"

Zardoz84 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:53:44 +0000

nope

New comment by Zardoz84 in "HTML Can Do That"

Zardoz84 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:39:59 +0000

They are yet here. Tables are being used a lot. Also, you have

New comment by Zardoz84 in "HTML Can Do That"

Zardoz84 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:36:29 +0000

I find it very useful to create complex dropdowns. Also, to generate popover that shows previews...

New comment by Zardoz84 in "HTML Can Do That"

Zardoz84 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:27:41 +0000

Suddenly it's 1999

New comment by Zardoz84 in "HTML Can Do That"

Zardoz84 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:23:27 +0000

I always try to develop having in mind that some people have disabled JavaScript or isn't running the last version of Firefox or Chromium bases browsers. So if someone enters with disabled JavaScript, keeps having the basic functionality of search, navigate and download. I do webservices for public digital libraries that shares public domain stuff and I true believe that always should be accessible to everyone.

New comment by Zardoz84 in "HTML Can Do That"

Zardoz84 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:13:55 +0000

Sadly, Firefox for Android don't support , needing a polyfill.

Also, I run in issues where clients like to customize the style of the drop-down selector in desktop. However, it could be styled, the element itself, and with the help of a little JavaScript that makes this visible element I lay when needed and accesible.