Hacker News: chungy

New comment by chungy in "86Box v6.0"

chungy — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:58:49 +0000

Different use cases than QEMU, honestly, to the point that there's not much overlap. QEMU is extremely good at running modern operating systems, and not so much at older ones (DOS and Win9x are pretty sore points in QEMU). 86Box is extremely good at running old operating systems (including DOS and Win9x!), but modern operating systems are mostly out of the question (you can run WinXP, but https://86box.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/faq.html#can-i-...).

86Box v6.0

chungy — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:03:52 +0000

Article URL: https://86box.net/2026/05/31/86box-v6-0.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342935

Points: 58

# Comments: 6

MAME 0.288

chungy — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:23:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mamedev.org/?p=564

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313267

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Linus Torvalds Is Unhappy About the AI Influence in Linux Kernel Development

chungy — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:58:32 +0000

Article URL: https://ostechnix.com/linus-torvalds-ai-influence-linux-kernel-development/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267643

Points: 17

# Comments: 6

New comment by chungy in "Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”"

chungy — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:05:23 +0000

Files in Git don't have timestamps, only commits do. It got swept up when `git commit --date=...` was run.

New comment by chungy in "Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)"

chungy — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:09:05 +0000

Funny part is, that NFSv4 supports SIDs for user authentication, but the Linux implementation leaves it out (among all the other ACL features) simply on the basis that Linux doesn't support them at all.

The FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows (yes, even Windows) implementations of NFSv4 are fully featured with this stuff.

New comment by chungy in "Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)"

chungy — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:56:42 +0000

Related: Fossil has a `fusefs` subcommand: https://fossil-scm.org/home/help/fusefs

The DIRECTORY/checkins/ directory doesn't list out anything by itself, but you can look things up by any of the supported checkin names (hash, tag, branch, date...): https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/checkin_names.wiki

New comment by chungy in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

chungy — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:34:19 +0000

Consider Fossil[1], which packages the entire repository state—code history, wiki, tickets, forum—into a single file, and that state gets cloned.

When/if you need to change hosting providers, you get to lose zero data in Fossil because of it.

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/

OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it (2024)

chungy — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:12:02 +0000

Article URL: https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2024-10-27-openzfs-dedup-is-good-dont-use-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121453

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chungy in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

chungy — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:46:05 +0000

It was actually part of Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95. It wasn't directly available for Windows 98 at all, but the Windows 98 install disc does include an INF file so you can install it, provided you have a copy of Plus! for Windows 95.

It was also included with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows Me, and Windows XP (both the original and x64 versions). Finally removed in Vista to never return.

New comment by chungy in "PySimpleGUI 6"

chungy — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:29:33 +0000

Delphi and Lazarus are still kicking, the latter is free and open source.

I know you asked for "the language", but Object Pascal really ain't that bad to get around. If you were proficient in VB6, you should be fine adapting. :-)

New comment by chungy in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

chungy — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:44:35 +0000

Too vague of a question to give you an answer you'll likely sound satisfactory :)

You probably just needed to create indexes over your data to speed things up.

New comment by chungy in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

chungy — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:11:15 +0000

> "Right joins are just left joins in the wrong direction, you don't need that crap"

SQLite has supported all types of joins since version 3.39 in 2022.

New comment by chungy in "Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)"

chungy — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:34:44 +0000

I have bad news for you: Zip supports storing extended attributes as well.

New comment by chungy in "HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle"

chungy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:53:47 +0000

Is Radicle an alternative to Fossil?

New comment by chungy in "Before GitHub"

chungy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:46:04 +0000

This is a current architectural limitation, manifests (defining check-ins) and tickets are different types of artifacts and you cannot combine the card types into the same artifact. Changing this would likely break backwards compatibility with previous Fossil versions and I'd expect resistance. It may still be worth bringing up on the Fossil forum if you desire the feature.

Personally speaking though, I don't want things automagically closed GitHub-style based on parsing a check-in comment. An issue ought to be closed with intention.

New comment by chungy in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

chungy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:27:29 +0000

> (Of course Fossil actively opposes "pull requests", separate issue)

Not opposition, but very little incentive for the primary developers to implement the feature. Fossil's own developers happen to be the same as SQLite's developers, which doesn't accept outside contribution as a policy. It results in Fossil's features being predominantly, but not exclusively, the same features needed for SQLite and little else.

This thread discusses avenues for implementation: https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/ce238fccfd6b124d

New comment by chungy in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

chungy — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:24:55 +0000

> Other VCSes like fossil store issues alongside the repo.

Technically the issues in Fossil are part of the repository, along with the wiki, code, forum, etc. They come along with every clone and (mostly) cannot be deleted from the historical record.

Items of Fossil that are merely "alongside" instead of actually in the repository include unversioned files, chatroom content, and users and access controls. (Not an exhaustive list.)

New comment by chungy in "Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly"

chungy — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:44:48 +0000

What are you really proposing? That a first ".INDEX" entry be made that contains the offsets of all the other members?

That could work in a backwards-compatible way (as long as no standard tar utility makes modifications to the archive...), but it's hamfisted. Just use Zip. It's already a well-known format with numerous implementations and already does the job that you want to do.

New comment by chungy in "Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly"

chungy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:45:38 +0000

Zip has a central directory you could just query, instead of having to construct one in-memory by scanning the entire archive. That's significantly less work.