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New comment by iberator in "All about the IBM 1130 Computing System"

iberator — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:53:10 +0000

I always wondered what if time hardware development stopped in 1969: how far we couuld go with such machines with new fresh software? :)

New comment by iberator in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

iberator — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:22:28 +0000

I think that there are actually mods for this game chaning the AI. Actually you can create your own custom faction using just config files and notepad - all out of the box:)

New comment by iberator in "Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs"

iberator — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:19:21 +0000

Why nearly all modern kernels requires 4MB as hardcoded minimum of memory?

I remember runnning a.out(elf predecessor) based linux on 2mb if ram in the past for example (slackware 3 i think).

This is generic question - not about Linux only

New comment by iberator in "Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs"

iberator — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:15:36 +0000

You are the right person to ask as you understand the core of the problem:

Why all modern(ish) kernels require 4MB of ram as a hardcoded value? Is it because of the ram page size or what?

New comment by iberator in "Show HN: Tamper-evident audit trail for AI coding agent activity"

iberator — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:13:40 +0000

Delete it all. Make it private and sell it hehe Great idea!

New comment by iberator in "Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95"

iberator — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:15:28 +0000

Nope . Software renderer.

Quake 2 and Half life had pure software renderer for people who didn't have 3D acceleration cards such as Voodoo.

It was slow but worked on ANY graphical card :)

New comment by iberator in "Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb"

iberator — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:07:43 +0000

You should add guest-logbook as in 90" and 00" to it :) Or whole fucking BBS system :) THAT would be cool

New comment by iberator in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

iberator — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:05:55 +0000

Why would you ban Main Kampf? Have you ever even read it?

Its ultra important for historical/social and linguistic education.

I read it when I was 14, and I'm from Poland.

It is AWFUL and PAINFUL to read due to the horrible styling - which amuses me to this day. :) That's why no need to ban it hehehe

Nowadays books are for intellectuals, not for the masses... That's why I would be ok for any modern teenager to read anything 18+ or anti-whatever books :) It's net positive no matter of content IMO.

New comment by iberator in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

iberator — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:53:40 +0000

Each state is part of the USA, and each state DOES ban some books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_banning_in_the_United_Sta...

USA is ultra conservative on the average in comparison to just any European state for example.

New comment by iberator in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

iberator — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:47:57 +0000

GREATEST strategy and philosophical game I have witnessed in the past 30 years...

Peak of complexity and maturism in games...

New comment by iberator in "Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later"

iberator — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:13:54 +0000

winevdm allows me to run all 3.11 apps on windows :) Its amazing - works even for 32bit era.

New comment by iberator in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

iberator — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:41:13 +0000

People can be held accountable for war crimes. That's why they are less willing to commit them and obey orders blindly.

Ai is like 8yr old with gun: unpredictable

New comment by iberator in "Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95"

iberator — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:29:43 +0000

nope. 14fps on pentium 200mhz with 32mb ram in 512x400 or similar mode (640x480 was too much)

New comment by iberator in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"

iberator — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:42:46 +0000

that's 200% bullshits. Countries that invested into desalination plants are known to create death zones right where brine is sent back - even if miles from the coast

New comment by iberator in "Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? (2014) [pdf]"

iberator — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:37:24 +0000

Women with higher testosterone levels prefer more risks.

For example: when women are starting dating and fell in love: their testosterone level go up for 2 months

New comment by iberator in "Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)"

iberator — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:10:22 +0000

this is not jpg or png but some dynamic stuff.

It freezes up my phone. Why do you need to complicate the stuff so much?

Direct jpg or png could be rendered even by pentium 100 with 32mb of ram...

New comment by iberator in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

iberator — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:08:12 +0000

except this guy is right.

New comment by iberator in "Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)"

iberator — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:01:11 +0000

Not even one map as jpg or png to see on the webpage!!!

Whats the point of this project? You expect us to load npm just to see some maps?!

New comment by iberator in "US banks rely on a 65-year-old programming language"

iberator — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:50:15 +0000

This article is a lie. Cobol is still developed and far far from the original lang. It supports ibject oriented programming for example.

Its like C++ - changing and evolving.

It works and its battle tested. 99% people criticizing cobol never actually used it or worked with it

New comment by iberator in "Why China got rich and India didn't"

iberator — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:46:02 +0000

China has more political parties in parliament than the USA. Stop spreading FUD