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New comment by kryptonomist in "Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why"

kryptonomist — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:20:15 +0000

Let’s hope we see a new wave of desktop apps rewritten natively, thanks to LLMs. Whether they use Rust with GPUI, C++ with Dear ImGui, or something else entirely, that would be great. Personally, I’m so fed up with bloated UIs. Windows is full of them, and it’s a pity considering how powerful our CPUs are.

New comment by kryptonomist in "VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next"

kryptonomist — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:48:45 +0000

Reminder for French-speaking readers: you have access to over 23,000 scanned computer magazines on Abandonware Magazines, including many about video games.

https://www.abandonware-magazines.org/

New comment by kryptonomist in "Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time"

kryptonomist — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:16:27 +0000

Though the Atari ST was a superior machine.

New comment by kryptonomist in "DBASE on the Kaypro II"

kryptonomist — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:05:31 +0000

According to users of the Kaypro II from that time, it was a very robust machine. It was even used on the 1984 Paris Dakar edition.

New comment by kryptonomist in "Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]"

kryptonomist — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 14:24:44 +0000

So, LZEXE was written on an Amstrad PC1512 (of course in 8086 assembly).

New comment by kryptonomist in "A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland"

kryptonomist — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:35:24 +0000

One of the best pieces of advice about software engineering as well.

New comment by kryptonomist in "Full-size Amiga A1200 retro gaming system comes armed with modern HDMI port"

kryptonomist — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 18:01:26 +0000

"The A1200 is essentially a Linux single-board computer running emulation, possibly one of the UAE (Ultimate Amiga Emulators) that have been around for decades. What makes The A1200 different from just building your own with a Raspberry Pi is that we get a full-sized recreation of the Amiga 1200, and that includes a working keyboard. "

Full-size Amiga A1200 retro gaming system comes armed with modern HDMI port

kryptonomist — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 18:01:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/full-size-amiga-a1200-retro-gaming-system-comes-armed-with-modern-hdmi-port-25-classic-games-pre-orders-and-launch-date-announced

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45705771

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by kryptonomist in "A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports"

kryptonomist — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:03:01 +0000

One great musician to listen to during late coding sessions.

New comment by kryptonomist in "You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why They Do Not Work (2019)"

kryptonomist — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:34:01 +0000

"Can we use a distributed database instead? If the answer is ‘Yes’, why go for blockchain at all? Indeed, blockchain is slower and more resource-intensive."

The key factor when assessing a blockchain project is indeed to see what is the advantage of a blockchain vs a usual database.

Most of the time, there is none. Worse, cost of a blockchain is more expensive as pointed by the article.

And you still need an authoritative registry somewhere if there any physical item involved.

In addition to that, blockchain projects faces another business issue: to be really decentralized, you have to lose control of what you put on the blockchain, which is hard to conceive for a private company.

New comment by kryptonomist in "Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite"

kryptonomist — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:46:32 +0000

From at I remember, at least in Europe, it's only from 1994-1995 that you could start thinking having a better proposition with a PC than with an Amiga/Atari ST. In order to surpass what you had on an Amiga 500/600 in terms of games, your needed at least a small 386 VGA.

Before that, the only way to get a configuration at the same price was typically some Amstrad PC (typically the popular PC1512), far less capable in terms of graphics and music.

New comment by kryptonomist in "From ACS to Altair: The Rise of the Hobby Computer"

kryptonomist — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:20:05 +0000

We often hear about the seminal Popular Electronics magazine, but interesting to see that some others have had also a huge influence.

The Radio-Electronics TV Typewriter magazine is also mentioned by Steve Wozniak while working on the Apple I.

New comment by kryptonomist in "Scroll-Driven Animations"

kryptonomist — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:24:38 +0000

To be honest, I find it sometimes pleasing, like when introducing some new programming libs:

https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui-concepts/explo...

New comment by kryptonomist in "Old Games Magazines"

kryptonomist — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:53:00 +0000

French readers are blessed with Abandonware Magazines and more than 20k scanned magazines: https://www.abandonware-magazines.org/

GPD WIN Mini – 7-inch gaming clamshell handheld (2024)

kryptonomist — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:33:03 +0000

Article URL: https://gpd.hk/gpdwinminisdfewr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40632882

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kryptonomist in "Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook (2017)"

kryptonomist — Sun, 26 May 2024 08:23:13 +0000

Glad to see those valuable principles written, even if it seems we are heading in the complete opposite. At least we can try to apply them on our side business.

These were also true in the early ages of aviation:

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

DBASE Classic

kryptonomist — Sat, 18 May 2024 15:41:43 +0000

Article URL: https://dbaseclassic.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40399909

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Replica of Penny's Computer Book from Inspector Gadget (Arduino Nano ESP32)

kryptonomist — Sun, 12 May 2024 12:39:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.instructables.com/Pennys-Computer-Book-from-Inspector-Gadget/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40333949

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kryptonomist in "Online Cryptography Course (2017)"

kryptonomist — Thu, 02 May 2024 17:12:40 +0000

Yes, the Coursera title was "Cryptography I", so I was expecting another part, but ten years after, I still do not see any. A great course anyway.

New comment by kryptonomist in "The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself"

kryptonomist — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:22:33 +0000

As a regular user of this wonderful archive.org project, I found it a pitty that no agreement could be found with editors such as Hachette regarding old books.

Without archive.org, it seems no money at all was made from them. A subscription to access these old books would be a win-win, with a part redistributed to editors. Access could be made from archive.org or why not, directed to a frame in editor websites.

Same for old magazines which are really appreciated by the retrocomputing community.