Hacker News: mikestaas

New comment by mikestaas in "A portentous reunion"

mikestaas — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:03:57 +0000

Local LLMs are getting pretty darn good.

New comment by mikestaas in "Childhood Computing"

mikestaas — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:16:21 +0000

The tape jack is a modem.

New comment by mikestaas in "Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers"

mikestaas — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:28:24 +0000

OMG, LegacyScreenSaver is such a memory hog!

New comment by mikestaas in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

mikestaas — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:45:06 +0000

Search autocomplete but it halucinates the article titles.

New comment by mikestaas in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

mikestaas — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:39:47 +0000

I clicked a link in your first one and it generated https://halupedia.com/guild-of-amateurs

I feel seen :pokerface:

New comment by mikestaas in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

mikestaas — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:07:27 +0000

Break things, and then fix them. Repeat many times.

New comment by mikestaas in "Write some software, give it away for free"

mikestaas — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:23:47 +0000

OTOH being able to ride off into the bush with your mates and build tree houses and whatever and "be home when the street lights come on", have no phone, &c. was very different to the world we brought our kids up in.

New comment by mikestaas in "What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)"

mikestaas — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:01:25 +0000

Agilefall, the worst of both worlds.

New comment by mikestaas in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"

mikestaas — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:43:57 +0000

LaurieWired did a good episode about that kind of thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2vQapLAW88

New comment by mikestaas in "Game: Print Gallery Of An Artist, A brief exploration of recursive spaces"

mikestaas — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:35:21 +0000

Very nice, couldn't work out how to get passed the 2nd level.

New comment by mikestaas in "Protect your shed"

mikestaas — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:40:16 +0000

Hobby related forums are a great way for people working on similar projects to collaborate and share SoTA. Some random examples:

https://www.lathetrolls.com/

https://www.shroomery.org/

New comment by mikestaas in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

mikestaas — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:31:41 +0000

I wouldn't generally use hand coded WASM in production, but I've used it for educational purposes [1], and just because I'm perhaps a bit perverse [2][3] (3 includes some helper utilities in Common.ts).

[1] https://exercism.org/profiles/mikestaas/solutions

[2] https://github.com/mikestaas/wasmfizzbuzz/blob/main/fizzbuzz...

[3] https://github.com/mikestaas/walox/tree/main/src

New comment by mikestaas in "UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025)"

mikestaas — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:27:10 +0000

TI-99/4A was my first computer as well. I still have two of them, and they still work as well as they did in the '80s. I graduated to an Apple ][GS which I still have as well, although it needs some TLC before attempting to boot it so as not to let out the magic smoke.

New comment by mikestaas in "In world without BlackBerry, physical keyboards on phones are making a comeback"

mikestaas — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:20:16 +0000

I recently got a new battery for my N9000, still works fine other than the radio modem not having a cell to talk to anymore, now I just need to update the system.

New comment by mikestaas in "Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved"

mikestaas — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:52:48 +0000

Open source flash player emulator: https://ruffle.rs/

New comment by mikestaas in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

mikestaas — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:28:25 +0000

Wow. I wonder how it would do with pure CSS a la https://diana-adrianne.com/

New comment by mikestaas in "Who owns Rudolph's nose?"

mikestaas — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 06:08:42 +0000

I believe Santa is only tracking the behaviour of human children who are not aware that he is a fiction.

New comment by mikestaas in "1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5"

mikestaas — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:01:48 +0000

> You have to click buttons in the UI.

I like doing development work on a Mac, but this has to be my biggest bugbear with the system.

New comment by mikestaas in "Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines"

mikestaas — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 03:49:57 +0000

absolute madlad

New comment by mikestaas in "The Death of Arduino?"

mikestaas — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:24:18 +0000

the 8266 is pretty nice as well