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New comment by chirsz in "Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)"

chirsz — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:22:48 +0000

SBus peripherals use the Forth language in their PROMs to initialize themselves[1].

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/802-3239-10/sbusandfc.h...

New comment by chirsz in "While the King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello from 1993"

chirsz — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:47:21 +0000

There are many open-source software developers whose backgrounds we don't know much about, such as Russell King, who implemented the 32-bit ARM port of Linux. He used the magic number 0x016F2818 (24061976 in decimal) without explanation, which I guess is his birthday, but I can't verify it since he hasn't disclosed his birthday anywhere.

New comment by chirsz in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

chirsz — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:59:52 +0000

In China, people generally share porn through closed social network groups.

New comment by chirsz in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

chirsz — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:44:29 +0000

Because Türkiye is a widely recognized sovereign state, while Taiwan (or more formally, the Republic of China) is not. Taiwan is also not a member of ISO.

New comment by chirsz in "789 KB Linux Without MMU on RISC-V (2023)"

chirsz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:55:00 +0000

If you can build a bFLT version of BusyBox, then you can get a minimal system that can do some meaningful work! See BusyBox Linux[1].

[1]: https://github.com/chirsz-ever/busybox-linux

New comment by chirsz in "JSON with Commas and Comments"

chirsz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:57:31 +0000

Related: [jsonc.org](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713427)

JSON with Commas and Comments

chirsz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:57:31 +0000

Article URL: https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2021/json-with-commas-comments.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713438

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

JSONC Specification

chirsz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:55:58 +0000

Article URL: https://jsonc.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713427

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by chirsz in "Use string views instead of passing std:wstring by const&"

chirsz — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:58:43 +0000

It's best to avoid using std::wstring and other wchar_t-related facilities, as they are highly non-portable across different platforms. If you need to interact with the Win32 API, use char16_t and std::u16string, so that anyone knows it contains a UTF-16 encoded string and knows how to use and process it.

New comment by chirsz in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

chirsz — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:14:43 +0000

You can see:

* no-panic: https://docs.rs/no-panic/latest/no_panic/

* Safe Rust has no undefined behavior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39564755

New comment by chirsz in "The Showa Hundred Year Problem"

chirsz — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 04:07:31 +0000

In ancient China, the imperial year designations were usually changed in the second year following the coronation of a new emperor, thus preventing the occurrence of two imperial year designations in the same year. Japan seems to have chosen to change the imperial year designation in the same year because of the faster flow of information in modern times. I still think it would be more convenient to change it the second year.

New comment by chirsz in "Running Linux on a RiscPC – why is it so hard?"

chirsz — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:33:21 +0000

I've recently been doing something similar: I have a UbiSurfer 9, a netbook using an S3C2416 chip as its CPU, running the ARMv5 instruction set, and with 128MB of DDR2 memory. Its original operating system is WinCE 6.0, and I'm trying to run Linux on it. The good news is that Debian still maintains the armel architecture, so we potentially have a large number of userspace programs available. The bad news is there's no suitable kernel and bootloader. Fortunately, a friend helped me write a bootloader and modified the kernel source code to make it work. Running a Debian system is possible, but quite slow, so I created a minimal system with only Busybox[1], and it works perfectly.

[1]: https://github.com/chirsz-ever/busybox-linux

I'm still exploring this; related information is in this repository, written in Chinese:

https://github.com/chirsz-ever/ubisurfer9