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New comment by hcs in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

hcs — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:30:59 +0000

Chris Crawford called this "process intensity", he noted it at least back to 1983 with Dragon's Lair, discussed in this 1987 article https://www.erasmatazz.com/library/the-journal-of-computer/j...

New comment by hcs in "Some Unusual Trees"

hcs — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:09:46 +0000

Or you can just hit the Random button https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

New comment by hcs in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

hcs — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:51:55 +0000

There's a restrictions on games with even simulated gambling

New comment by hcs in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

hcs — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:26:43 +0000

You are more quickly being carried by the ground further from where you would otherwise be. Hope that clears it up.

New comment by hcs in "The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon"

hcs — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:50:58 +0000

Not the same thing but I was reminded of a joke about the puzzle game Stephen's Sausage Roll:

> I have calculated the value of Pi on Sausage Island and found it to be 2.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240405034314/https://twitter.c...

New comment by hcs in "On The Need For Understanding"

hcs — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:58:44 +0000

As they say in a somewhat different context: worse is better

New comment by hcs in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

hcs — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:50:43 +0000

> But what if you could push?

There are a number of so-called "bounty" programs like this for software, I don't know how well any of them work.

New comment by hcs in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

hcs — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:53:02 +0000

Or grade accounts by the logarithm of how many accounts were registered before them, like Slashdot. (This is tongue in cheek as I assume yours was.)

New comment by hcs in "IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL"

hcs — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:12:07 +0000

> The "inability to act" which, as Forrester points out, "provided the incentive" to augment or replace the low-internal-speed human organizations with computers, might in some other historical situation have been an incentive for modifying the task to be accomplished, perhaps doing away with it altogether, or for restructuring the human organizations whose inherent limitations were, after all, seen as the root of the trouble. [...]

> Yes, the computer did arrive "just in time." But in time for what? In time to save--and save very nearly intact, indeed, to entrench and stabilize--social and political structures that might have been either radically renovated or allowed to totter under the demands that were sure to be made on them.

- Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason (1976) pp 29-30

New comment by hcs in "IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL"

hcs — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:29:52 +0000

I imagine it's a case where you hire a dozen or so test attendants.

New comment by hcs in "A Programmer's Loss of Identity"

hcs — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:48:06 +0000

A Seymour

New comment by hcs in "7zip.com Is Serving Malware"

hcs — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:21:41 +0000

Maybe this is too obvious to say but it doesn't matter what they're selling the access for, it's the unwanted installation of the proxy that's malware. If you're buying access from a service that gets its residential network access that way you're contributing to the problem.

New comment by hcs in "You can't trust the internet anymore"

hcs — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:55:23 +0000

Seems much more likely it's just going through a list of all games, collated from databases that humans have painstakingly curated.

New comment by hcs in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

hcs — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:21:17 +0000

Do you need assistance?

New comment by hcs in "The largest number representable in 64 bits"

hcs — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:36:37 +0000

Surely you've been on HN long enough to know people just read the headline. Not that it would stop all sniping, but that headline doesn't even include "program" (or "compute").

New comment by hcs in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

hcs — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:30:11 +0000

On Switch 2 there are also pure license dongles in the form of the Game-Key Card. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Game_Card#Game-Key_Ca...

New comment by hcs in "Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems"

hcs — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:33:34 +0000

After decompression, with the performance characteristics you'd expect. If it has to come off disk it's still a win or at least usually breaks even in their measurements. https://cedardb.com/blog/string_compression/#query-runtime

The paper suggests that you could rework string matching to work on the compressed data but they haven't done it.

Virtual Boy on TV with Intelligent Systems Video Boy

hcs — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:32:50 +0000

Article URL: https://hcs64.com/video-boy-vue/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46792572

Points: 97

# Comments: 44

New comment by hcs in "Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'"

hcs — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:04:50 +0000

Flips switch

How about now?

New comment by hcs in "EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators"

hcs — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:03:44 +0000

Oh this looks right up my alley, I'll check it out on desktop.

Posted a few times previous, without discussion, though I'd missed it:

Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524890

Links on author's site https://r-labs.io/#emudevz