Hacker News: fallat

New comment by fallat in "Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel"

fallat — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:45:15 +0000

Brutal

I hope when people read this though they understand this is a communication style; they're clearly trying to strongly discourage people from thinking they are suddenly protected. Effective? Maybe at one time, where "macho dev energy" was a thing. Today, not so much. You can tell they mean well because the intro sentence is actually pretty cheeky!

New comment by fallat in "New MCP Roadmap"

fallat — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:35:49 +0000

This is the strongest argument I've seen against CLI for LLMs. Thank you.

Zoo CAD on a Nintendo 3DS

fallat — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:37:08 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/zoodotdev/status/2088362877640122543

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345461

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Lisp moving Forth moving Lisp

fallat — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:37:33 +0000

Article URL: https://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/chap8.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060363

Points: 125

# Comments: 35

New comment by fallat in "The Zilog Z80 has turned 50"

fallat — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:32:41 +0000

Z80 assembler in _machine code_ could be really fun.

New comment by fallat in "Programmers need to start meditating"

fallat — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:30:25 +0000

You don't already? I thought that's what every programmer has been doing.

New comment by fallat in "Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice"

fallat — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:47:47 +0000

Spoken like a true redditor

New comment by fallat in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

fallat — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:01:09 +0000

Ah, so we're not talking creating full on brains after-all?

New comment by fallat in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

fallat — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:18:14 +0000

Do that at scale

New comment by fallat in "Pre-2022 Books"

fallat — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:42:09 +0000

There has always been shit books - let that sink in.

There will be _more_ shit books now, but that's the only difference.

There will be probably a constant rate of "good" books.

New comment by fallat in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

fallat — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:24:11 +0000

Did you even read what SKG was advocating for in detail? Because it answers your question.

New comment by fallat in "An Attempt at Explaining Why You Want to Use Forth"

fallat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:39:53 +0000

Updated with feedback from last year & now annotated with HTML for nicer typesetting.

An Attempt at Explaining Why You Want to Use Forth

fallat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:39:53 +0000

Article URL: https://im-just-lee.ing/forth-why-cb234c03.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527121

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by fallat in "The best relationships are all-encompassing."

fallat — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:55:04 +0000

/remindme 1 year

New comment by fallat in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

fallat — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:43:42 +0000

Can concur. I would say I am doing 3 things per day now instead of 1.

New comment by fallat in "Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)"

fallat — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:20:36 +0000

> You need to do mid-frame tile updates just to show a full bitmap frame.

Right!

> So the mid-screen update is to go from one tile dictionary to the other

Yes

I guess I'm missing something here, but I remember doing this myself like 15 years ago

New comment by fallat in "Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)"

fallat — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:09:33 +0000

This is false. You can do it in 1. It just involves mid-frame tile switching IIRC or using characters / sprites to fill in the rest.

New comment by fallat in "Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team"

fallat — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:13:05 +0000

Don't jinx it

New comment by fallat in "I quit drinking for a year"

fallat — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:47:55 +0000

Nice! I'm doing the same. 9 months in. Everything you said is on the frickin' money. Every. single. word. Canada Dry Zero is my new "thing". That "thing" by the way, is the dopamine reward.

New comment by fallat in "Clay PCB Tutorial"

fallat — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:32:15 +0000

I feel like foregoing the whole PCB would be better, and just wirewrap, or "free-air" solder.