Hacker News: greeniskool

New comment by greeniskool in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

greeniskool — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:43:40 +0000

I feel you about the frontends being buggy. Right now I've settled with Droid-ify[1] for doing my F-Droid browsing.

New comment by greeniskool in "San Francisco Graffiti"

greeniskool — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:12:53 +0000

Having a bit of a cultural shock at how English doesn't have a separate name for the "cruder" graffiti (such as tags) vs the more socially accepted street art. The former is typically called "pichação" [1] in Portuguese, and I was taught this distinction when learning about modern art movements back in elementary school.

[1] https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picha%C3%A7%C3%A3o - I recommend looking into a machine translated version of the Portuguese Wikipedia article, as the English Wikipedia article reads far more biased

New comment by greeniskool in "Super Mario 64 for the PS1"

greeniskool — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:58:28 +0000

There was actually an unauthorized third-party CD-ROM drive for it, the Bung Doctor V64[1]. It didn't actually expand the available ROM space beyond what was possible with cartidges, but its still interesting in that it was allegedly used by licensed Nintendo devs as a lower-cost alternative to the devkits officially provided to them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_V64

New comment by greeniskool in "The Sega Master System"

greeniskool — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:26:33 +0000

Sadly, not anymore - TecToy lost the Sega license a few years ago. In the later years, they were simply rebranding AtGames plug-and-plays with the Atari and Sega licenses; and more recently, they did a half-assed attempt at launching a rebranded Ayn Loki in response to the handheld PC boom[0]. They don't do much in the gaming business anymore, instead focusing in the smart appliances and credit card readers for businesses.

[0] https://www.loja.tectoy.com.br/produto/zeenix-pro-16gb-de-ra...

New comment by greeniskool in "Animalese.js Demo"

greeniskool — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:27:53 +0000

From the Github README:

  animalese.js is a JavaScript library that synthesizes an approximation of the villager speech sounds from Animal Crossing.

New comment by greeniskool in "Animalese.js Demo"

greeniskool — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:25:37 +0000

Japanese and Spanish happen to have very similar pronounciation. It's a neat detail in the Animal Crossing games that seems to have gotten mostly lost in translation for the English version.

Slugging It Out in Open Source [video]

greeniskool — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:34:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zti-n6DnT0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45073272

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Wplace – A Live Canvas over the World Map

greeniskool — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:49:33 +0000

Article URL: https://wplace.live

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758580

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by greeniskool in "16colo.rs: ANSI/ASCII art archive"

greeniskool — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:26:52 +0000

Obligatory Bad Apple conversion https://16colo.rs/pack/badapple/BADAPPLE.ANS

Nintendo 64 Architecture

greeniskool — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 10:10:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/nintendo-64/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44199362

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by greeniskool in "Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii"

greeniskool — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:04:56 +0000

> Rebooting NetBSD reboots the whole console, and not just the NetBSD ‘app’, so you’ll find yourself back at the Wii Menu after any kernel patch or system upgrade.

This can be mitigated by installing Priiloader, and having it autoboot into either the Homebrew Channel or the NetBSD .dol file

New comment by greeniskool in "A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C"

greeniskool — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:22:08 +0000

I wonder if the Android port of Advance 3 came in hand here. That version was ported to Java — and being unobfuscated, would've been a great reference point.

New comment by greeniskool in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

greeniskool — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:44:02 +0000

Anna's Archive encourages (and monetizes!!) the use of their shadow library for LLM training. They have a page dedicated to it on their site. You pay them, and they give you high download speeds to entire datasets.

New comment by greeniskool in "Building Game Prototypes with LÖVE"

greeniskool — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:22:53 +0000

Should mention love.js isn't officially supported, and isn't 100% compatible with the LÖVE API. It will work just fine for a lot of games out of the box, though

New comment by greeniskool in "Show HN: Silent Poems – Visual expression of unspoken thoughts"

greeniskool — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 19:21:29 +0000

If you press tab, then Ctrl+A then backspace, you can delete the help icon.

Very cute website, I really like how every glyph looks, some more abstract than others.

New comment by greeniskool in "Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?"

greeniskool — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 11:03:29 +0000

All versions of RPG Maker frequently go on sale on Steam, the older ones you can get for pennies. XP, VX and VX Ace support Ruby as a scripting language, meanwhile MV and MZ supports web export and JS scripting. Can't recommend these programs enough.

New comment by greeniskool in "Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?"

greeniskool — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 10:52:50 +0000

SmileBASIC is another coding environment on Switch. The DSi and 3DS versions were quite popular, I'm surprised the Switch version didn't catch on as much as they did

New comment by greeniskool in "Deep Live Cam: Real-time face swapping and one-click video deepfake tool"

greeniskool — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 14:38:38 +0000

Face tracking has existed for years now. I frankly don't see what's different between what you described and FaceRig.

New comment by greeniskool in "A slightly more fun way to disable Windows Defender (through the WSC API)"

greeniskool — Fri, 24 May 2024 20:47:03 +0000

That was my first thought too. If I understood correctly, the developer claims that the API requires a signed binary in this issue: https://github.com/es3n1n/no-defender/issues/1

Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic

greeniskool — Thu, 23 May 2024 20:41:36 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.danielschroeder.me/2024/05/voxel-displacement-modernizing-retro-3d/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40459652

Points: 141

# Comments: 11