Hacker News: adunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=adunkHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:34:00 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by adunk in "DeiMOS – A Superoptimizer for the MOS 6502"]]>That implementation of the max(A, X) operator that is described in the article is very clever. Obviously not super practical, since it needs to allocate one specific zeropage location for it to work ($8A), but that type of requirement is pretty typical for lovely tricks like this one! And the beauty here is in the trick, not whether or not there may be some practical application of it.

But this also raises the question: is there some clever way to use the undocumented SAX instruction, which does an AND between the A and the X registers, to achieve something similar? There is and old trick to compute min and max using no branches, which is not immediately applicable (https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#Integer...) - but maybe there is some other trick hiding in there?

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:46:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677133adunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677133https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677133<![CDATA[Sum Ergo Demonstro]]>Article URL: https://linusakesson.net/scene/sum-ergo-demonstro/index.php

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]]>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:41:50 +0000https://www.goto10retro.com/p/a-look-at-some-retro-desktop-graphicaladunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574995https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574995<![CDATA[Faster 6502-on-6502 virtualization for a C64/Apple II Apple-1 emulator]]>Article URL: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/03/6o6-v11-faster-6502-on-6502.html

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]]>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:45:06 +0000http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/03/6o6-v11-faster-6502-on-6502.htmladunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565910https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565910<![CDATA[Model Collapse Is Happening, We Just Pretend It Isn't]]>Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/model-collapse-is-already-happening-we-just-pretend-it-isnt/

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]]>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:18:32 +0000https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/model-collapse-is-already-happening-we-just-pretend-it-isnt/adunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533893https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533893<![CDATA[The 53-Year Evolution of AI Agents: A Comprehensive Reading List]]>Article URL: https://fullhoffman.com/2026/03/12/agents-are-agents-reading-list/

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]]>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:02:54 +0000https://fullhoffman.com/2026/03/12/agents-are-agents-reading-list/adunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499410https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499410<![CDATA[A Year of Multi-Model Assisted Development]]>Article URL: https://fullhoffman.com/2026/03/22/on-a-year-of-multi-model-development/

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]]>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:42:15 +0000https://fullhoffman.com/2026/03/22/on-a-year-of-multi-model-development/adunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486806https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486806<![CDATA[Whose Problem Are We Solving? A Question That Cuts Through the Fog]]>Article URL: https://dunkels.com/adam/whose-problem-are-we-solving/

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]]>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:20:35 +0000https://dunkels.com/adam/whose-problem-are-we-solving/adunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486364https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486364<![CDATA[The hobby that AI is ruining for its fans]]>Article URL: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/480106/ai-jigsaw-puzzles-artificial-intelligence-genai

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]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:53:52 +0000https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/480106/ai-jigsaw-puzzles-artificial-intelligence-genaiadunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329243https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329243<![CDATA[Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough Is Wrong (2008)]]>Article URL: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=304

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]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:53:14 +0000https://dunkels.com/adam/sometimes-your-device-is-alive-but-is-actually-dead/adunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163995https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163995<![CDATA[5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030]]>Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/5-25-inch-floppy-disks-expected-to-help-run-san-francisco-trains-until-2030/

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]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:02:50 +0000https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ViIsAProductOfItsTimeadunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943551https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943551<![CDATA[I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color]]>Article URL: https://blog.otterstack.com/posts/202512-gbshader/

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]]>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:28:51 +0000https://blog.otterstack.com/posts/202512-gbshader/adunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935791https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935791<![CDATA[Particle is being acquired by Digi to power the next 40 years of IoT innovation]]>Article URL: https://www.particle.io/blog/particle-is-being-acquired-by-digi-to-power-the-next-40-years-of-iot-innovation/

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]]>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:04:35 +0000https://www.particle.io/blog/particle-is-being-acquired-by-digi-to-power-the-next-40-years-of-iot-innovation/adunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794269https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794269<![CDATA[Game and Watch Emulator for the Commodore 64]]>Article URL: https://github.com/Sabbi/GNW64

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]]>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:13:30 +0000https://github.com/Sabbi/GNW64adunkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781930https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781930<![CDATA[The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience]]>Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-silent-scientist-when-software-research-fails-to-reach-its-audience/

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