Hacker News: ecliptik

New comment by ecliptik in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

ecliptik — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:34:24 +0000

Google Buzz [1] along with Wave you both were too soon for this world.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz

New comment by ecliptik in "Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica"

ecliptik — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:32:54 +0000

I have a PicoGUS and have had a lot of fun futzing around with Claude and porting Cave Story to DOS [1] the last couple of months after SDL announced DOS support.

Originally I was just using it as a Soundblaster, but in the last few weeks added Waveblaster, Adlib, and Gravis Ultrasound support. It's been a lot of fun learning how the GUS works and hearing how distinctively different it is from other sound hardware of that era.

1. https://github.com/ecliptik/doskutsu

Zombie 'who owns Unix?' lawsuit comes alive again

ecliptik — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:07:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/07/06/zombie-who-owns-unix-lawsuit-comes-alive-again/5266761

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836800

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

Tokyo Tower of Babel: The 10km High Tower Japan Almost Built

ecliptik — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:07:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/design/tokyo-tower-of-babel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346288

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ecliptik in "DOS Zone"

ecliptik — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:03:25 +0000

Semi-related, since SDL added support for DOS a few weeks ago I've worked with Claude to port Cave Story to DOS [1].

On a Pentium 75 it can get 30fps and with decoupling the frame timer it plays at the same speed as the original. The port offloads the Organya synth soundtrack to MIDI to improve performance, and also sounds amazing.

Still working on a few bug fixes, performance tweaks, and Waveblaster support, but it's playable.

1. https://codeberg.org/ecliptik/doskutsu

New comment by ecliptik in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

ecliptik — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:03:11 +0000

Not all of California, but San Diego has Measure A[1] on the upcoming primary to tax non-primary homes.

1. https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2026/04/20/2026-primary-e...

New comment by ecliptik in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"

ecliptik — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:10:46 +0000

The Verge has an on-going series Where's the Trump Phone? [1] with updates every week. They even managed to get an interview with one of the execs a few months back.

1. https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/843498/trump-phone

New comment by ecliptik in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

ecliptik — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:27:33 +0000

My favorite Nullsoft software that came out the end of this era was WASTE [1].

Peer-to-peer (back when P2P was all the rage), encrypted, decentralized private networks.

Group of friends and I used it post-college as a way to share files and chat, and was much better than AIM or other instant messaging at the time.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE

The Arpanet Reconstruction Project

ecliptik — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:23:05 +0000

Article URL: https://obsolescence.dev/arpanet_home.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957702

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ecliptik in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

ecliptik — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:10:13 +0000

This update broke my workflow! I use Netatalk [1] with AFP to share files between my Macintosh 512ke and MacBook via AppleTalk.

Look, my setup works for me. Just add an option to re-enable AFP [2].

1. https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk

2. https://xkcd.com/1172/

New comment by ecliptik in "The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard"

ecliptik — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:26:26 +0000

One of my favorite authors and highly recommend his short stories [1] and the "ambiguous apocalypse" trilogy - The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World.

As one of collections intros said, Ballard is science fiction, but Inner Space, not Outer Space.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Short_Stories_of_...

The Pandaverse

ecliptik — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:14:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theremingoat.com/blog/the-pandaverse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798881

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Netfind (1991)

ecliptik — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:56:13 +0000

Article URL: https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/NetFind/Overview.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759510

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ecliptik in "Tiny Programmer:writes code, takes breaks to hang out on a BBS, and clocks out"

ecliptik — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:17:45 +0000

Absolutely fantastic. As someone who just spent the last month vibe coding System 6 apps and reading through Apple HIG docs I love the look of the IDE.