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New comment by appstorelottery in "Distributed Systems Classics (2017)"

appstorelottery — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:29:06 +0000

WhatsApp backend in Erlang + used in telecoms

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

appstorelottery — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:36:05 +0000

Anyone that uses "Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code"? Can you speculate that plan or cost might have been involved in doing this (given that it seems approximately 5 hours or so of continuous operation for both C++ and Assembly ports, along with the shipping / marketing functions where it's not clear how much compute was used". Thanks in advance (I'm thinking of trying US based models, however I'm penny pinching using DeepSeek Flash etc. ATM).

New comment by appstorelottery in "John C. Dvorak has died"

appstorelottery — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:44:56 +0000

Hey rosrepa... I want to go down your rabbit hole & collect some titles... would you be kind enough to recommend some easy ones to start with?

New comment by appstorelottery in "Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base"

appstorelottery — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:32:07 +0000

Disappointed that it wasn't returning a list of paragraphs from eBooks that semantically match; search only appears to list the publications - not the actual match within the document.

New comment by appstorelottery in "Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base"

appstorelottery — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:19:26 +0000

Living in bizarro world of AI. Install open source project, fails, feed into OpenCode w/DeepSeekFlash 4 -> feed error into it get fixed.

The kill_port function only catches ImportError from the psutil block, so when psutil is installed but raises AccessDenied (common on macOS), it crashes instead of falling back to lsof.

In platform_paths.py - add two lines after line 250:

except psutil.Error: pass

Fixed. Now when psutil raises AccessDenied (as happens on macOS without elevated privileges), it falls through to the lsof/fuser fallback instead of crashing. Try docubrowser start again.

New comment by appstorelottery in "Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base"

appstorelottery — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:15:58 +0000

Anyone getting a bunch of permission errors when running (e.g. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/tron/Applications/DocuBrowse/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/psutil/_psosx.py", line 347, in wrapper return fun(self, args, *kwargs) File "/Users/tron/Applications/DocuBrowse/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/psutil/_psosx.py", line 508, in net_connections rawlist = cext.proc_net_connections(self.pid, families, types) PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted (originated from proc_pidinfo(PROC_PIDLISTFDS) 1/2)

New comment by appstorelottery in "Om Malik has died"

appstorelottery — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:32:27 +0000

"Om patiently explain how I should think about my career" - care to share what Om explained to you?

New comment by appstorelottery in "Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops"

appstorelottery — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:08:34 +0000

I think it's all about keeping state in the determinant space. I've come across the same issue, the key was to not rely on LLM performing workflow - the runtime needs to enforce.

New comment by appstorelottery in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

appstorelottery — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:57:10 +0000

New business model apparently. USD$22,567.56 per day.

1. Make Trump meme 2. Go to jail for N days 3. Profit ($22k per day)

Nice ;-)

New comment by appstorelottery in "Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game"

appstorelottery — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:28:24 +0000

Amazing work! Thanks very much for this OP!

New comment by appstorelottery in "Amiga Graphics Archive"

appstorelottery — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:41:43 +0000

This is great stuff! As a side note, I wonder if anyone has created a HAM viewer that runs in the browser? I remember HAM flickering by necessity and being amazed by 4096 colors on-screen at once. There was a certain quality of HAM images on the Amiga that made them instantly identifiable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify

New comment by appstorelottery in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

appstorelottery — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:25:12 +0000

OMG. Thanks so much for posting this - completely awesome! Such a nostalgic roller coaster ride, from Qmodem to Xcopy and everything in between... brought back so many memories... - thanks again!

New comment by appstorelottery in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

appstorelottery — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:15:36 +0000

I’m not making a claim about whether any particular idea is good or bad.

I’m pointing out that the process by which ideas gain acceptance is somewhat independent from their actual quality, so acceptance alone isn’t a strong signal.

New comment by appstorelottery in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

appstorelottery — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:15:16 +0000

I might not have been clear. I’m separating two questions: (1) whether an idea is actually good or true, and (2) how easily it gains acceptance. My point is just that (2) doesn’t reliably answer (1).

New comment by appstorelottery in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

appstorelottery — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:14:56 +0000

I think we’re still talking past each other. I’m not arguing that any specific idea is good.

My point is just that public acceptance itself isn’t reliable evidence either way: ideas can gain support (or fail) for reasons other than their actual merit.

New comment by appstorelottery in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

appstorelottery — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:59:14 +0000

Having worked in public advocacy advertising, I’d frame it like this: “Good ideas don’t need lies” is a compelling ideal but in practice, public acceptance isn’t a reliable signal of truth or societal benefit. It depends on incentives, narratives, and how information is presented.

History shows that even harmful or suboptimal ideas (like coal power) can gain widespread support if presented persuasively, while genuinely beneficial ideas can struggle if they’re complex or unintuitive.

A useful heuristic is: if an idea relies on misleading claims to survive scrutiny, that’s a warning sign. But public acceptance itself is not proof of goodness or correctness.

In short: persuasion and truth are related—but far from identical.

MAME moves to rust / AI refactoring

appstorelottery — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:53:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/MAME/s/ReyyrrW41z

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607005

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by appstorelottery in "Why a "Buy Me a Coffee" Prompt Yielded $0 and Churned Our Power Users"

appstorelottery — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:52:38 +0000

Thanks for the link to the Parable of the Polygons - her work is amazing.

You might be right about the mindset, I have no idea about the demographic that plays the game; only that they seem to be repulsed by BuyMeACoffee. The heavy users (i.e. more than 12 hours on site within last month) - once they see that banner for the first time for a return session instantly stop playing. It's not long enough yet to see if they return. Maybe it's the equivalent to putting a "Remember to buy your mom a gift on her birthday" pop-up on a porn site ;-) It's a mojo killer for sure.

New comment by appstorelottery in "Why a "Buy Me a Coffee" Prompt Yielded $0 and Churned Our Power Users"

appstorelottery — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:45:20 +0000

If anyone wants to chime in with other theories etc., very interested in the what others think?

Why a "Buy Me a Coffee" Prompt Yielded $0 and Churned Our Power Users

appstorelottery — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:44:47 +0000

Article URL: https://classicvideopoker.com/coffee.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587315

Points: 4

# Comments: 4