Hacker News: foxtacles

New comment by foxtacles in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

foxtacles — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:06:28 +0000

Got a refund for the full $200 subscription

New comment by foxtacles in "The long tail of LLM-assisted decompilation"

foxtacles — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:32:57 +0000

I wonder how effective LLMs are going to be for decompiling i.e. games written in C++ targeting the PC platform. I’m not surprised one can get reasonably good results for N64 games, which have always been the easiest to reverse for a number of reasons.

New comment by foxtacles in "Cache"

foxtacles — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:34:53 +0000

Used this API in a service worker together with Workbox to allow https://isle.pizza/ to work completely offline if requested. Works great

New comment by foxtacles in "German Economist fined €16,100 for sarcastic X posts"

foxtacles — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:44:19 +0000

Unfortunately I have to agree with this take. This plus the anti-innovation and risk-averse culture is what drove me out of the country. Living in the United States now and enjoying the environment much more.

(source: born and raised in Germany, lived there for 30 years)

New comment by foxtacles in "Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser"

foxtacles — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:58:22 +0000

d3drm has been implemented from scratch: https://github.com/isledecomp/isle-portable/tree/master/mini...

The entire project can be compiled targeting Emscripten. There's nothing particular to the browser implementation

New comment by foxtacles in "Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser"

foxtacles — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 04:54:38 +0000

It has trouble with regaining focus at times. Try switching back and forth between the game and another tab/window and it will recover eventually (the hanging is just the game being paused when it goes out of focus)

Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser

foxtacles — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 23:03:00 +0000

Article URL: https://isle.pizza

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44351028

Points: 263

# Comments: 72

Show HN: Complete decompilation of Lego Island

foxtacles — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:03:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/isledecomp/isle

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42497173

Points: 251

# Comments: 32

Fastmail Is Down?

foxtacles — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:43:59 +0000

I've not been receiving any emails on my Fastmail account the past few hours. Looks like emails are deferred and not delivered. Anybody else experiencing this?

Status page of fastmail indicates no issues.

edit: nevermind, looks like an issue on my end. I suddenly received 10k+ emails from Google regarding ads account violations and that must have deferred reception of everything else. I haven't noticed these since I have been filtering these and they ended up in a hidden folder.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42209461

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by foxtacles in "Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?"

foxtacles — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 22:39:29 +0000

Agree with this advice. Our consulting agency, also based in Europe, specializes in exactly this - bootstrapping software solutions for companies that lack the in-house experience to do so. After a successful launch our clients usually transition to hiring employees to take over our work - a transition we actively support. It works out quite well in our experience. (contact/website is in my profile if interested)

New comment by foxtacles in "Spider-Man (Neversoft) Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024"

foxtacles — Fri, 10 May 2024 20:58:15 +0000

Yeah I'm not Matt :) No idea if he is on HN

New comment by foxtacles in "Spider-Man (Neversoft) Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024"

foxtacles — Fri, 10 May 2024 20:39:21 +0000

It just removes the warning, which is impossible to get rid of otherwise. This bug has persisted all the way into MSVC 6.0:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000519112833/https://support.m...

Since the warning is relatively useless we opted to fix C2.EXE so that it is never emitted. It generates a lot of noise during compilation otherwise (if you are using templates).

New comment by foxtacles in "Spider-Man (Neversoft) Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024"

foxtacles — Fri, 10 May 2024 20:02:36 +0000

I've been working on a similar project (LEGO Island decompilation). We've developed an extensive set of annotations and corresponding tools that facilitate matching the assembly/binary:

https://github.com/isledecomp/isle/tree/master/tools

We've been considering creating a separate project/repository for the tools since they might be interesting for other projects such as yours as well.

Lego Island Decompilation

foxtacles — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 14:46:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/isledecomp/isle

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36281903

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Germany accuses climate activists of 580 offenses

foxtacles — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 11:19:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-records-580-offenses-committed-by-climate-activist-group/a-65882377

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36280268

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Cerberus: Minimalistic Multi-Shard Byzantine-Resilient Transaction Processing

foxtacles — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 17:12:38 +0000

Article URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6h427354

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36260872

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by foxtacles in "Travel across Germany with the 49 Euro ticket"

foxtacles — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:39:38 +0000

Most likely since you are using a newly created account, and an automated system does this. Happened to me as well and kept happening even after months. Was fixed swiftly after I contacted the site admin about it :)

I believe when people 'vouch' for your dead comments, the issue will go away eventually.

Demoscene in Poland gets accepted as national cultural heritage (2021)

foxtacles — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 18:56:06 +0000

Article URL: http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2021/12/17/demoscene-in-poland-gets-accepted-as-national-immaterial-cultural-heritage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36217442

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014)

foxtacles — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 18:24:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/forests-around-chernobyl-arent-decaying-properly-180950075/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36200738

Points: 241

# Comments: 159

New comment by foxtacles in "JMAP – a modern email open standard"

foxtacles — Tue, 30 May 2023 18:49:31 +0000

Have you considered setting up a rule using the Snooze feature[0]? Using this it should be possible to delay all incoming work email until a time that is suitable for you.

[0]: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-snooze/

Edit: If you want your work emails to arrive only during work hours and otherwise delay them, you can use a Sieve condition in your email rule similar to this:

  anyof (date :value "lt" "date" "hour" "09", date :value "ge" "date" "hour" "17")