Hacker News: flatiron

New comment by flatiron in "Haiku R1/beta6 has been released"

flatiron — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:36:46 +0000

> The problem is, Linux is improving too quickly for Haiku. Ain’t it the truth. It’s really great now the snowball is fully in flow down the mountain with Linux. But at the same time it’s sad that there’s little time for anything else. We are a bit of a victim of our own success. We beat the drum in the 90s that Linux needs to win and now that it won what does it really mean. Free and open source to do anything but at the same time, why in the world use anything else. We have come a bit of a Chromium in that regard (or it became us?)

New comment by flatiron in "Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface"

flatiron — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:58:44 +0000

My htop file is read only. But it’s silly that you need to do that.

New comment by flatiron in "Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder 'MrICQ' in U.S. Custody"

flatiron — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:59:31 +0000

I got a speeding ticket in Colorado on a business trip and later moved clients and thought to myself “meh I just won’t pay it I won’t be back to Colorado any time soon” and I was stopping entering the country on a trip from the Caribbean for “outstanding warrants”. If I can get stopped for that they should know if they have real criminal charges to not play around.

New comment by flatiron in "DALL·E 3 is now available in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise"

flatiron — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:21:21 +0000

i stand corrected, thanks. what an odd way for them to collect data considering they seem more than capable of making a form on their own website...

New comment by flatiron in "DALL·E 3 is now available in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise"

flatiron — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:36:55 +0000

Yeah nothing suspicious about a random google doc instead of a direct link to OpenAI. I would suggest nobody fill this out.

New comment by flatiron in "City Stuck with Harambe Memorial Bridge After Rogue Google Maps Edit"

flatiron — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 18:03:07 +0000

> City officials said that the joke won’t last long. Once the bridge is officially completed, the on-site memorial will be removed. Finally, an official edit request will go to Google after a name is decided on October 16. Harambe, unfortunately, will not have a bridge named after him.

so they aren't stuck with it.

New comment by flatiron in "MGM expects $100M hit from hack that led to data breach"

flatiron — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 15:10:10 +0000

"yes MGM please go to your local CVS and pick up a green dot card and fill it with 10 million dollars and give me the code on the back once completed"

New comment by flatiron in "Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01"

flatiron — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 21:34:26 +0000

every x86 has had halt. win95 was just not using it even though you could write a 10 line program to get context switched in when idle that would halt it. it was one of my first programs as a child on a 486 66 dx2.

i just had chat gpt generate said program and i think its very similar to what I wrote. I'm unsure if it ever did anything but i've always been interested in efficiency:

#include

void main() {

  printf("Setting process priority to low...\n");

  SetPriorityClass(GetCurrentProcess(), IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS);

  printf("Halting the processor when no other programs are running...\n");

  while (1) {
    __asm {
      hlt
    }
  }
}

New comment by flatiron in "P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945)"

flatiron — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 00:00:41 +0000

https://chat.openai.com/share/b0f021ec-20b8-4b6d-bf6d-e8aa83... at least for me gpt-4 gave a summary and said it cant crack it

New comment by flatiron in "Dolphin Emulator: Progress Report February, March, and April 2023"

flatiron — Sun, 21 May 2023 13:10:44 +0000

Is that scalable to real stuff though? At work we pretend out stuff is perfect and nobody is going to put their name on fixes because they are now the next support person for said fix. Open source has no expectation of support.

New comment by flatiron in "Dolphin Emulator: Progress Report February, March, and April 2023"

flatiron — Sun, 21 May 2023 13:08:11 +0000

The mame architecture is not friendly to dynarec which is necessary for GameCube and wii.

New comment by flatiron in "I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (2022)"

flatiron — Sat, 20 May 2023 12:45:44 +0000

Imagine a 6502 game boy? 3 hours of battery but those spirits would fly. Also imagine a PPU similar to NES. Would have been tons of ports. I’m actually not sure why they didn’t go this route. They didn’t use stock 6502 so repackaging would have been fine.

New comment by flatiron in "I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (2022)"

flatiron — Sat, 20 May 2023 12:43:22 +0000

Didn’t EA go to court with Sega over exactly this? I believe the court said using a trademark as a device to prevent access to a device was not applicable.

New comment by flatiron in "It Wasn't AI"

flatiron — Mon, 15 May 2023 17:49:08 +0000

It works…ish. GPT4 is pretty good at detecting what it wrote but I was able to get a false positive with the United States constitution. Or maybe we can go deeper and say maybe it was AI generated?

New comment by flatiron in "OpenBSD 7.3 on the es40 Dec Alpha emulator"

flatiron — Sat, 13 May 2023 19:13:26 +0000

I wish I could try this out but I can’t figure out the root password.

New comment by flatiron in "Please, please stop using Xorg with Asahi Linux"

flatiron — Sat, 13 May 2023 13:43:06 +0000

Steamdeck?

New comment by flatiron in "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release"

flatiron — Fri, 12 May 2023 13:33:42 +0000

Personally I think BOTW wasn’t “seeing what works everywhere else and polishing it” it really felt like a new game nobody had ever done before.

New comment by flatiron in "Sony PlayStation 2 Development Kit (2020)"

flatiron — Sat, 06 May 2023 23:22:43 +0000

Release products sell tens of millions. Ever nickel saved in parts or weight is felt significantly. You only make 1K of these so whatever.

New comment by flatiron in "Releasing 3B and 7B RedPajama"

flatiron — Sat, 06 May 2023 14:29:46 +0000

Doubtful since they were released yesterday. That being said I will be deploying something to our lab this week to play with.

New comment by flatiron in "Heavy marijuana use increases schizophrenia in men, study finds"

flatiron — Thu, 04 May 2023 20:48:29 +0000

I believe the question has always been causation or correlation. Do people with schizophrenia use marijuana to self medicate or does marijuana cause schizophrenia. Apparently from this study it’s the later.