Hacker News: foldor

New comment by foldor in "PlayStation Architecture"

foldor — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:23:50 +0000

Interesting! Trying to find that particular code in the decompiled code is proving challenging. I wonder if they haven't yet discovered and documented that yet!

https://github.com/FoxdieTeam/mgs_reversing/blob/master/sour...

New comment by foldor in "Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2"

foldor — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:11:35 +0000

I'm not aware of any cool homebrew, but there is a certain level of cool being able to compile the code for some N64 games using the original IDO compiler on original hardware. You can even compile one of the many decompiled games like Super Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie and more that all will produce the exact binary shipped on the cartridge byte for byte, all from reverse engineered work to create byte matching equivalent C code.

New comment by foldor in "When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown"

foldor — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:19:01 +0000

In Canada there's been a big problem with stolen cars lately. Mostly trucks, and other high value vehicles though. Selling them locally isn't feasible, but there's a criminal organization that's gotten very good at getting them on container ships and out to countries that don't care if the vehicles are stolen. So even with tracking, there's nothing people can do. Stopping it at the port is the obvious fix, but somehow that's not what is being done. Probably bribery to look the other way.

New comment by foldor in "Damn Small Linux"

foldor — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:06:41 +0000

There isn't enough detail for me to know how serious is was in regards to stores not being able to accept payments, but a date of this blog being 2010, and it being written about a time when every megabyte of filesize matters makes me think it was possibly much earlier, like maybe 2001-2005. If that's the case, maybe not being able to process cards wasn't as big of a deal as it would be today because you could likely assume most if not all customers could pay with cash if card payments were down.

New comment by foldor in "Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%"

foldor — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:40:27 +0000

This is very wrong. Ghidra might decompile to some C code, but this is a completely different, and very high bar. This is 100% matching C code that compiles to the exact binary the game shipped with. This means it's able to be modified, tweaked and upgraded. Ghidra is helpful to do some research, but it won't compile.

New comment by foldor in "Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version"

foldor — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:15:20 +0000

I might be misremembering, but I seem to remember most games of that era were 540p scaled to 1080p. 720p would have been an upgrade. But your point still stands.

New comment by foldor in "Using Gorilla glass for home building"

foldor — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:04:28 +0000

For many people yes, because that 20k isn't being added to the mortgage, so it isn't easily financed over a long period of time with low interest. These days, many people are stretched to meet the minimum down payment and won't have 20k extra to throw at a problem like this.

New comment by foldor in "Unleashed Recompiled: PC port of the Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed"

foldor — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 03:47:48 +0000

Those projects from the ship of harkinian are not recomp. Those are based on completed decompilation projects. So they're not translating the mips assembly to an unreadable C being recompiled. They're true ports from as close to the real source code as you can get.

New comment by foldor in "Show HN: My new wiki for Silicon Graphics stuff"

foldor — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:51:52 +0000

How about adding information about IDO, like the static recompilation project being used in N64 game decompilation projects? It enables compiling code in a linux environment and having it match 1:1 as if it were run by the original compiler. There's even significant progress in decompiling the entire codebase as well.

https://github.com/decompals/ido-static-recomp

https://github.com/decompals/ido-matching-decomp

The Human Clock

foldor — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 03:10:57 +0000

Article URL: https://humanclock.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42827364

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New comment by foldor in "Diagnosing an Unusual WiFi Issue (2020)"

foldor — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 01:38:45 +0000

On a related topic. I have a really weird problem in my house where I'm about 20 feet from my TV trying to use my PS5 DualSense connected to a Google TV device connected behind the TV. It uses Bluetooth, which is also 2.4GHz, and the issue I'm having is that the dongle behind the TV is really impacting my controller connection and making playing games over PS Remote Play completely impossible. I even have the GTV device hard wired with an Ethernet adapter, as is my PS5. This can't really be a range limitation can it?

New comment by foldor in "From BSP to ESP – How S3ctor Abused Quake Editors to Redefine the Morrowind Mod"

foldor — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:29:29 +0000

8 years old is well past kindergarten aged. It's the second grade around here. It's still young, but the maturity difference is huge.

New comment by foldor in "Hyundai Faces New Theft Threat from "Game Boy" Hack"

foldor — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 10:55:59 +0000

It's interesting, because when I bought my electric vehicle recently, the insurance agent told me my rates would actually lower because they found that electric vehicles were almost never stolen. Up here in Canada at least, the vast majority of car thefts happened to trucks and luxury cars and end up in shipping containers to Africa or the Middle East. The value of electric cars there was minimal because they don't have the charging infrastructure to support it, so the electric vehicles just aren't as valuable for theft.

New comment by foldor in "Panasonic Toughbook 40"

foldor — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 02:40:11 +0000

Colour blind doesn't mean someone sees in black and white. It means they have difficulty differentiating between two colours. Often red / green, but not always.

New comment by foldor in "Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern"

foldor — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:24:23 +0000

16 flights this year already? I guess it really is dirt cheap to fly around Europe. For me, flying in Canada is expensive, and such an ordeal that it isn't something I could see myself doing that often.

New comment by foldor in "Modifying the OG Xbox to have 256M of RAM [video]"

foldor — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 02:11:21 +0000

The dev kits had 128MB of RAM. It's been possible for decades to upgrade the Xbox to 128MB of RAM by just populating the empty RAM using the same modules as the rest of the system. It allowed booting Chihiro games, and dev builds. But this hack replaces all the original modules with ones sporting twice the capacity to allow 256MB.

New comment by foldor in "Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items"

foldor — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 19:33:21 +0000

Unfortunately not in this case. It's a kind of political issue right now with the current provincial government, and it's looking a lot like greed got in the way since it is in a prime location.

New comment by foldor in "PiFex: JTAG Hacking with a Raspberry Pi"

foldor — Mon, 06 May 2024 15:19:21 +0000

Hard disagree. That "smart IoT coffee maker" stores your wifi details, including the password so it can reconnect. I appreciate the level of sophistication and effort required for someone to be able to abuse that is beyond the realm of likelihood, it's not unreasonable to believe that there may be higher value targets (like journalists) who are being targeted where this is a reasonable method for dedicated attackers to use to gain access to a targets home network. Better to just secure these things by default.

New comment by foldor in "Bitcoin Block 840000"

foldor — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 02:35:15 +0000

Miners would still collect transaction fees.

New comment by foldor in "ArVid: Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s"

foldor — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 15:14:55 +0000

PAL-M is Brazil as far as I know. Canada is still NTSC.