Hacker News: iberator

New comment by iberator in "A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU"

iberator — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:04:48 +0000

This is a prime example of how to spot poser vs real programmers.

How could one even start programming without sewing HACKERS the movie. cult classic

New comment by iberator in "A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU"

iberator — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:02:13 +0000

Awful. Seriously. 100% CPU usage with "while true:"

New comment by iberator in "Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser"

iberator — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:57:37 +0000

BS. So far AI just destroys jobs and lifes, and does not create literally any more jobs at all.

New comment by iberator in "Why were Victorian elites so effective?"

iberator — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:14:38 +0000

Slavery and Imperialism money.

New comment by iberator in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

iberator — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:13:26 +0000

This is NOT good news.

New comment by iberator in "Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)"

iberator — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:03:37 +0000

what are you using it with? hp unix? netbsd?

New comment by iberator in "C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake"

iberator — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:29:16 +0000

Worth to mention that in the 80" Microsoft was the biggest UNIX vendor with their XENIX operating system:)

New comment by iberator in "Principles for Fast Tokio Applications"

iberator — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:01:00 +0000

What the hell is Tokio? Articles mentions it like once I was expecting some programing principles from Japan

New comment by iberator in "A 386 PC for Your RP2350"

iberator — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:29:19 +0000

MMU can be emulated as part of emulated architecture. Its totally possible to have software only mmu.

New comment by iberator in "NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9"

iberator — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:07:57 +0000

NetBSD holds record for most supported architectures. Like 50 diffrent, while Linux like maybe 20...

Oldest one: VAX780 from 1978(!!!). First 32bit xpu with mmu

New comment by iberator in "How to Create a Tor Exit Node (2015)"

iberator — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:04:13 +0000

I once got raided by the Police for hosting tor node for just literally 3 weeks! (about 5 months later)

Police seized EVERYTHING, and I got my hardware returned to me after like 1 year.

Got caution for sharing pirated software, but they didn't prosecute. It was in the UK.

New comment by iberator in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"

iberator — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:59:43 +0000

Good antivirus should protect you from such attacks. Even zero day ones.

New comment by iberator in "Tmp.0ut Volume 5"

iberator — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:48:48 +0000

Very cool and BBS/hacking style. BUT almost useless on mobile :(

I prefer to use a PC but that kind of articles are perfect to read when commuting.

You could just use
instead of fixed length words per line.

New comment by iberator in "Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a"

iberator — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:41:29 +0000

i meant opoosite. browsing http over gopher

New comment by iberator in "Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer"

iberator — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:39:44 +0000

Please write an article about that French computer Project idea: find 64kb kb of such memory and connect it somehow into Apple2, atari and other 8bit cpus hehe

It must be possible to have some hardware adapter to map RAM into that type of memory.

Or even over serial...

ps. Related story: around 10 years ago Texas Instruments started to use FRAM in some of their 16 bit MCUs (msp430 family)

It works exactly like core memory - data still intact after power resets.

New comment by iberator in "Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel"

iberator — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:15:26 +0000

This os is supposed to be run on bare metal AFIK for same reason

New comment by iberator in "Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it"

iberator — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:17:09 +0000

you should read about ham radio mate... there are some amazing protocols and modulations to save power.

And of course: 7mhz 0.5W transmitter could be heard worldwide... no jokes.

New comment by iberator in "How to compromise your system with a job interview"

iberator — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:13:05 +0000

I got my last job and I didn't own a laptop as I was homeless. Had to borrow it from a mate.

It happens:)

New comment by iberator in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"

iberator — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:10:45 +0000

I read the article. Worth to read. Questions: which Motorola chip CIA wanted? Same for Intel graphics card.

New comment by iberator in "Founder of Chinese property giant Evergrande sentenced to life in prison"

iberator — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:17:11 +0000

Long live the chairman! China seems to be winning. China playing on easy mode tho in comparison to the west. (Authoritarian and centralized government can be VERY effective with applying wherever policy they want)