Hacker News: alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alexshendiHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:30:28 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "TI-89 Height-Mapped Raycaster"]]>As you seem to be the author: will this run on a voyage 200? Also: very impressive.

]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:24:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451917alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451917https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451917<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML"]]>But I want to!

:)

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:38:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581747alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581747https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581747<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "Chuck Moore: Colorforth has stopped working [video]"]]>Honestly, I don't understand this. AFAIK colorForth was a standalone system for Pentium class machines. How do Windows updates come into this?

]]>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:55:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980303alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980303https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980303<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"]]>Oil cooling. Besides this is a peak power value, so thermal constraints don't matter. Continous power is given around 350-400 kW.

(Sources: https://yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-dens... and https://yasa.com/technology/)

]]>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:10:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800605alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800605https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800605<![CDATA[Ask HN: DOS Based "Multitaskers"]]>Dear Auntie HN,

I recently tried QuarterDeck DesqView for multitasking (16 bit real mode) applications. It installed allright, but I couldn't get it to multitask PC-Scheme (More precisely PCS/Geneva 4.02PL1) properly. Could you recommend any alternative DOS Versions or task switchers better suited to that?

Programs I didn't try * MS multitasking DOS (to which the source was released not long ago) * DRDOS * Any other variant of DOS?

IMHO the experience under OS/2 was best.

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628555

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]]>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:32:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628555alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628555https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628555<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"]]>My favourite is Texas Instruments PC-Scheme. Complete with Emacs-like editor. You could compile and evaluate regions in the editor. It is amazing what you can do in 2MB or even 640K.

]]>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:09:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627530alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627530https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627530<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "ML on Apple ][+"]]>This motivates me to try this on my Ministrel 4th (21th century Jupiter Ace clone).

]]>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:11:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45419431alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45419431https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45419431<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "MS-DOS development resources"]]>Scheme Compilers:

* Gambit-C 3.0 for MS-DOS (https://gambitscheme.org/3.0/gc30-dj.zip)

* MIT-Scheme 7.3 for DOS: (https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/ftpdir/scheme-7.3/pc/)

Both need a 386+.

* PC-Scheme/Geneva (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/...) Bytecode compiler, runs on 8086+, can use up to 2MB of EMS memory.

]]>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:38:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44956901alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44956901https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44956901<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "Software Rot"]]>Common Object File Format (COFF)?

]]>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:24:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808390alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808390https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808390<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "Software Rot"]]>I think once you get rid of dynamic libraries and GUIs your software rot will be greatly reduced.

]]>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:22:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808374alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808374https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808374<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD"]]>Does it come with dtksh? (dtksh or dtmksh, not sure)

]]>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:54:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744312alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744312https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44744312<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "SIOF (Scheme in One File) – A Minimal R7RS Scheme System"]]>There's also s4iof (R4RS), s5iof (R5RS) and skint (R7RS, but hey 5 .c files), all from the same people. I might interject that R4RS might seem preferable for the minimalist cadre.

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:25:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44646016alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44646016https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44646016<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "DOOM CAPTCHA"]]>I couldn't do it. I suppose I'm a Russian CyberBot! дружба!

]]>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:32:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577860alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577860https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577860<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "SqueakJS: A modern and practical Smalltalk that runs in any browser (2014) [pdf]"]]>Great paper. Don't know how I managed to miss it.

]]>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:59:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42147493alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42147493https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42147493<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009)"]]>I think we need a 1337 cent coin!

]]>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 14:47:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757504alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757504https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757504<![CDATA[Play Evazor (Retro Gaming)]]>Article URL: https://t3x.org/t3x/0/programs.html#evazor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41428565

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]]>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 20:32:47 +0000https://t3x.org/t3x/0/programs.html#evazoralexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41428565https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41428565<![CDATA[Compiling Lambda Calculus (2018) by Nils M. Holm]]>Article URL: https://t3x.org/clc/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41410144

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]]>Sat, 31 Aug 2024 16:54:59 +0000https://t3x.org/clc/index.htmlalexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41410144https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41410144<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2015)"]]>I once joined a Clojure group for reading SICM. But then the discussion turned out to be more about porting the stuff to Clojure than physics.

]]>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:10:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40825834alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40825834https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40825834<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "AI Develops "Ground-Breaking" New Magnet Free of Rare Earth Metals"]]>This is one of a slew of articles containing the following claims:

* magnet material was created used a new "AI platform"

* development process is 200x faster

* (raw ?) material costs are down to 50%

* carbon material emissions down to 70%

What is not said:

* Any kind of detail about the magnet material or material performance

Overall they seem much more intent on selling their "innovative, new AI material design process" than the material process

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]]>Fri, 21 Jun 2024 17:08:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40751568alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40751568https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40751568<![CDATA[New comment by alexshendi in "Ask HN: How do you explain LLMs to those *still* unfamiliar?"]]>Wait until the hype is over?

]]>Sun, 19 May 2024 00:53:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40403292alexshendihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40403292https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40403292