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New comment by abrookewood in "The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026"

abrookewood — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:35:38 +0000

Modern ROM is not locked in stone. For example, Flash memory is considered a modern, advanced type of Read-Only Memory (ROM), specifically a specialized form of Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), and can be re-written.

New comment by abrookewood in "The Kuycon P20 – 28" 4500x3000px 3:2 monitor"

abrookewood — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:10:38 +0000

It's a suprisngly apt analogy, considering with Arch you are always compiling ...

New comment by abrookewood in "Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch"

abrookewood — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:05:51 +0000

At last ... realistic expectations! "I estimated that starting and finishing this project would take me 2 years, with a 99% chance of it never being finished. So I just hung paintings instead"

New comment by abrookewood in "bzip3"

abrookewood — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 01:23:42 +0000

This should get more attention - those decompression requirements are a massive impost.

New comment by abrookewood in "New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first"

abrookewood — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:34:40 +0000

Pretty sure he means this: - assume heads beats tails - if both players get opposite results (HT, TH) then the winner is obvious - if both players get heads, player A is the winner - if both players get tails, player B is the winner.

New comment by abrookewood in "Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly"

abrookewood — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:28:02 +0000

You made the right call. Very interesting article and great to hear about the history of game development that isn't focussed on the US market.

New comment by abrookewood in "Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly"

abrookewood — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:25:16 +0000

Must be incredibly rewarding seeing your game rebuilt. Fantastic bit of history too - I had no idea games were being made for the Amiga in Baghdad!

New comment by abrookewood in "The Silo · interactive 3D cutaway"

abrookewood — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:28:50 +0000

Really well done.

New comment by abrookewood in "I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost $400"

abrookewood — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:43:40 +0000

We'll all be writing this way before long ...

New comment by abrookewood in "GPU World"

abrookewood — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:27:00 +0000

Haven't read that one yet, but his Children of Time series is sooo good.

New comment by abrookewood in "Fastpotify"

abrookewood — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:11:47 +0000

I think the key call out with this is how cool egui is (the Rust GUI library it uses). Check out their website: https://www.egui.rs/

The demos are very good: https://www.egui.rs/#clock

Edit: egui is an immediate mode GUI library written in Rust. egui runs natively on , and on the web it is compiled to WebAssembly and rendered with WebGL or WebGPU. Everything you see is rendered as textured triangles. There is no DOM, HTML, JS or CSS. Just Rust.

New comment by abrookewood in "Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable"

abrookewood — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:22:24 +0000

Yup ... still have some old 'xover' cables lying around - all of which are RED in colour to explicitly declare their usage

New comment by abrookewood in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

abrookewood — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:03:23 +0000

I guess that's a decent analogy, except the vast majority of people aren't building their own models.

New comment by abrookewood in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell"

abrookewood — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:26:38 +0000

That's a solid success rate!

New comment by abrookewood in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

abrookewood — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:13:17 +0000

I don't understand who this is targeted at. You can download the models, clone the datasets free. Who is paying them and why?

New comment by abrookewood in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

abrookewood — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:09:45 +0000

Can someone help me out - who pays for things on HF? Are they charging the model providers?

New comment by abrookewood in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

abrookewood — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:22:49 +0000

The M1 was genuinely a big step forward, but what has followed, not so much. I have an M5 Pro with 48GB of RAM and it is genuinely good ... but that's about it.

I love the battery life, appreciate the hardware, but find the OS to be annoying. Less annoying than Windows for sure, but I'd rather be running Linux.

New comment by abrookewood in "MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust"

abrookewood — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:36:06 +0000

Whaaat?? Do tell more!

New comment by abrookewood in "“Gravity is worth asking about”"

abrookewood — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:47:29 +0000

I'm in the same position ... just got my first mac, love the hardware, but man, I don't know why everyone is so smug about the software - it has a fairly similar number of annoyances as Windows (not qiute as much, but it's close).

I have a massive screen and the right most application has it's menu ... at the very, very left of my screen. It's soo far away it is just crazy. And that menu can't be moved to teh side or turned off or whatever.

Applications that get closed aren't really closed ... you have to quit them. I don't know why. Or if they are minimised, then I can't alt-tab to them .. or I actually can ... but they don't actually OPEN!

Windows insist on opening to some arbitrary width and height instead of neatly snapping to a side etc.

Anyway, at lot of it is fixable with add-ons etc, but it's still annoying. I'll be happier when I can jsut run linux.

New comment by abrookewood in "The Valley of Webhooks"

abrookewood — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:31:40 +0000

Could be completely off base, but isn't this the equivalent of polling a Provider's commit log or distributed log? So accessing a third party's Apache Kafka?