Hacker News: michalpleban

New comment by michalpleban in "Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel"

michalpleban — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:33:21 +0000

I am obviously missing something here, but how is it "command line"?

New comment by michalpleban in "Show HN: Make senders work to get into your inbox"

michalpleban — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:37:38 +0000

These services pop up from time to time. All they share a fatal flaw: accepting money for email delivery turns email from a communication medium into a service. And a service carries a different set of obligations - someone paying to send an email to me expects that they are buying my time spent on reading their email and replying promptly. I am never going to sell my time like that.

New comment by michalpleban in "Our Amish Language"

michalpleban — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:29:36 +0000

Thank you, that makes much more sense now.

New comment by michalpleban in "Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended"

michalpleban — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:46:29 +0000

Mind you, this is ICANN's description, which applies to global domains and not country domains like .me. Country registries can (and do!) assign different meanings to these statuses; for example in .pl clientRenewProhibited has a completely different meaning.

New comment by michalpleban in "Our Amish Language"

michalpleban — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:37:32 +0000

> Difficult to communicate affection, impossible to say the word love. We have no distinct word for it.

I wonder what it says about a community that its language has no word for "love".

New comment by michalpleban in "Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended"

michalpleban — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:22:01 +0000

The status that actually says the domain is suspended is serverHold.

New comment by michalpleban in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

michalpleban — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:56:40 +0000

I can post on the Internet whatever I want without providing any ID whatsover.

New comment by michalpleban in "The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)"

michalpleban — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:00:11 +0000

Sadly it is not just Medium, but a bunch of other Windows apps too. For example, in Active Presenter, typing one of the letters (I think it is Ó) stops screen recording, which makes the program unusable in many situations - I cannot record myself typing anything in Polish. Other apps similarly assign shortcuts to Alt + Ctrl + letter, somehow overriding the keyboard layout driver.

New comment by michalpleban in "Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon"

michalpleban — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:26:38 +0000

The headline made me fear that I will need to shell out a few more bucks for 4164 DRAM chips, but fortunately this does not seem to be the case.

DDR3 is not "retro", for chrissakes.

New comment by michalpleban in "Summer of '85: DOSBOS is rejected by ANALOG Computing"

michalpleban — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:18:53 +0000

They sort of did this with BASIC 4.0 and later for Commodores. We had CATALOG for listing files, SCRATCH for deleting them, HEADER for formatting and so forth. These were standard BASIC commands, and could be used in programs as well as directly.

Running DOS and Unix on an 8-bit Commodore (2024) [video]

michalpleban — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:06:00 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2334-running-dos-unix-on-an-8-bit-commodore/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920494

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by michalpleban in "QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video] (2025)"

michalpleban — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:34:16 +0000

But how would you place this Z8000 assembly in the memory to be executed? Most likely via some script that used the terminal too, so simply calling the routines via the terminal was easier, though slower (IIRC formatting the drive took over 2 hours).

New comment by michalpleban in "QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video] (2025)"

michalpleban — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:55:45 +0000

The speaker here. This is not QNX. This is Coherent, a Unix-like operating system from the eighties.

New comment by michalpleban in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari continues"

michalpleban — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:40:21 +0000

No.

New comment by michalpleban in "Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]"

michalpleban — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:00:13 +0000

In the end I gave four away, so I bought five more ;)

New comment by michalpleban in "Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]"

michalpleban — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:59:43 +0000

It's a TSOP48 package, I guess you could clamp it but not that easily. The bigger problem I see is that if you try to program it in-system, you need to apply power to it, and since the power rail is shared with the CPU, the CPU will wake up and try to read the chip, messing with the programming.

New comment by michalpleban in "Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]"

michalpleban — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:04:56 +0000

Thank you!

Hacking the last Z80 computer – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

michalpleban — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:09:12 +0000

Article URL: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/FEHLHY-hacking_the_last_z80_computer_ever_made/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46923554

Points: 66

# Comments: 8

New comment by michalpleban in "East Germany balloon escape"

michalpleban — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:38:48 +0000

The ruler is not "avoiding" elections due to war, he is prohibited by the constitution to hold them during wartime (not to mention the feasibility of letting the inhabitants of occupied regions to exercise their voting rights). So it is not a dictatorship in any sense.

New comment by michalpleban in "YesNotice"

michalpleban — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:01:06 +0000

I entered the question:

> Has my girlfriend agreed to marry me?

It says:

> Answer: No

> Estimated availability: Unknown

I am heartbroken.