Hacker News: epenn

New comment by epenn in "Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS"

epenn — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:39:15 +0000

Very cool! This reminds me of ARDI Executor [1] - a piece of (discontinued) commercial software first released in 1990 that took the same API-level reimplementation approach used here. And it did so jaw-droppingly fast considering that it was running on 90s PC hardware. As a little kid using it to play a few Mac games on my Windows PC, it was genuinely inspiring to me to see that this was possible at a time when I was first learning how to code. :) Great to see something with a more modern implementation doing this as well!

It was discontinued in 2005, but the developers subsequently open sourced it and put the code on GitHub a couple years later. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software)

[2] https://github.com/ctm/executor

Bonus: One of the engineers from ARDI, the startup that created Executor, was very briefly featured in Bob Cringely's 1996 documentary Triumph of the Nerds talking about the lifestyle of working at prototypical mid-90s Silicon Valley startup.

New comment by epenn in "Doom has been ported to an earbud"

epenn — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:15:54 +0000

In light of this I propose "Doom's Law" as the ultimate expression of late stage capitalism:

- Society continues to produce more and more powerful devices.

- More and more of these devices begin running Doom.

- When this reaches the saturation point, society becomes Doom.

New comment by epenn in "Archaeologists Find First Whole Sentence Written in Canaanite. On a Lice Comb"

epenn — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 21:41:26 +0000

Minor nitpick, but I would say Phoenician is to Canaanite as Byzantine is to Roman. It gives a name to the local continuity and further development of the Canaanite culture in the northwestern coastal region of Canaan, i.e. Phoenicia, at a time when Canaanite culture to the south developed related but distinct branches of its own.

Resisting Reduction: A Manifesto (2017)

epenn — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:02:37 +0000

Article URL: https://pubpub.ito.com/pub/resisting-reduction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15743258

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Training a neural network to keep up with the latest ML papers on ArXiv

epenn — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:15:55 +0000

Article URL: https://hackernoon.com/building-brundage-bot-10252facf3d1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15494512

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by epenn in "uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge"

epenn — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 23:13:07 +0000

You can install a Chrome extension manually. The store is convenient but not required.

New comment by epenn in "Slack client for Commodore 64"

epenn — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:48:58 +0000

You don't have to eat the cake to sharpen your baking skills.

New comment by epenn in "Homebrew 1.0.0"

epenn — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:24:13 +0000

I'm fairly certain you misinterpreted that. He was complimenting the smooth process.

New comment by epenn in "Austin Startup Sees a Big Future for Little Homes"

epenn — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 17:41:54 +0000

Please be safe to live in... then please, please, please build these in Boston.

New comment by epenn in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2015)"

epenn — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:38:50 +0000

I'm a full-stack engineer seeking a new adventure. Feel free to shoot me message!

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (but willing to relocate)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, C#, Java, Python, Rust, Javascript, React.js, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Oracle, AI / Cognitive Systems

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericpennington

Email: eric [dot] pennington [at] gmail [dot] com

New comment by epenn in "Lost Island of Ancient Greece Discovered in Aegean Sea"

epenn — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:46:04 +0000

Yes and no. They believe the peninsula where they may have found the city of Kane used to be a separate island. They think there used to be a channel that filled in over time, converting the island into a peninsula.

New comment by epenn in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)"

epenn — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 07:10:29 +0000

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (but willing to relocate)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, C#, Java, Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Oracle, AI / Cognitive Systems

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericpennington

Email: eric [dot] pennington [at] gmail [dot] com

Building an iOS app in Rust (Part 1)

epenn — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 00:20:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/building-an-ios-app-in-rust-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10322088

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by epenn in "Now Shipping Soylent 2.0"

epenn — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:27:30 +0000

I would love to try the pre-bottled version, but unfortunately I'm allergic to soy. I wish they would give an option of the type of protein used since soy is a fairly common allergy.