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New comment by mmphosis in "Ask HN: What was it like in the era of BBS before the internet?"

mmphosis — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:07:47 +0000

1) Apple II plus with pulse dial at 110 or 300 baud, once a week or less in 1984 and make sure nobody needs to use the phone, the program that came with the modem or my hacked up version with better throughput.

2) local phone numbers, that use of the word "server" would have been unknown to me

3) again, what's a server?

4) limited discussion, games was the focus, my memory is probably wrong

5) the abbreviated word "tech" would not appear until at least a decade later. Programming was offline in books, class and classmates; not online. It was limited, flaky chat, no "topics" except games

The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem

mmphosis — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:20:19 +0000

Article URL: https://servo.org/slides/2026-02-fosdem-servo-web-platform/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054247

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mmphosis in "Ask HN: Non AI-obsessed tech forums"

mmphosis — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:08:51 +0000

the fediverse

New comment by mmphosis in "Ask HN: What is the most complicated Algorithm you came up with yourself?"

mmphosis — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:59:54 +0000

diff in a text editor

New comment by mmphosis in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

mmphosis — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:12:56 +0000

The Commdore 64 has 64 kibibytes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units

"the C64 took its name from its 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of RAM"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

The Enclosure Feedback Loop

mmphosis — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:41:54 +0000

Article URL: https://michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-feedback-loop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785320

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mmphosis in "Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II"

mmphosis — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:36:37 +0000

https://mmphosis.netlify.app/hires/

The AI Revolution in Coding: Why I'm Ignoring the Prophets of Doom

mmphosis — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:09:58 +0000

Article URL: https://codingismycraft.blog/index.php/2026/01/23/the-ai-revolution-in-coding-why-im-ignoring-the-prophets-of-doom/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757126

Points: 18

# Comments: 15

Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot

mmphosis — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:02:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/09/desktop_classic_system/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46583502

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mmphosis in "Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?"

mmphosis — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:03:48 +0000

Programming was "cooked" before the current Artificial Inference hype. I am not saying reducing the tedium is not beneficial. Where is the innovation, attribution and intelligence?

New comment by mmphosis in "Scientists Discover Oldest Poison, on 60k-Year-Old Arrows"

mmphosis — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:46:57 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547962

New comment by mmphosis in "“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”"

mmphosis — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:42:28 +0000

This website was made by Thomas Bloom, a mathematician who likes to think about the problems Erdős posed. Technical assistance with setting up the code for the website was provided by ChatGPT -from the FAQ

New comment by mmphosis in "Ask HN: What do you use to manage your coding projects?"

mmphosis — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:18:50 +0000

  P=project-name-0.0.0; mkdir $P; cd $P; b install

Super-Flat ASTs

mmphosis — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:01:09 +0000

Article URL: https://jhwlr.io/super-flat-ast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46150677

Points: 100

# Comments: 26

New comment by mmphosis in "Why xor eax, eax?"

mmphosis — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:26:30 +0000

Try to keep the value 0 in the Y register.

  echo tya|asm|mondump -r|6502
                                A=AA X=00 Y=00 S=00 P=22 PC=0300  0
  0300- 98        TYA           A=00 X=00 Y=00 S=00 P=22 PC=0301  2

New comment by mmphosis in "Tell HN: It's now impossible to disable all AI features in Firefox 145 (latest)"

mmphosis — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:36:11 +0000

It is either a fork or new software based on what a people really want or need. This is not an easy hill to climb.

Unfortunately, "configuration" is the survey. I detest both configuration and surveys. Modify the open source code and rip out the Artificial Inference code because Firefox is open source, or build software from scratch: servo, ladybird, your own web browser based on a survey.

New comment by mmphosis in "Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?"

mmphosis — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:50:41 +0000

GNU Linux BSD

  curl

New comment by mmphosis in "Ask HN: Why do people say LLMs create bad code "quality"?"

mmphosis — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:41:23 +0000

Garbage in, garbage out. Beautiful code in, beautiful code out.

Code "quality" is a judgement call. Just like some LLMs, I'll repeat your question: What do you consider quality code?

I treat all code from LLM, search, stackoverflow, etc, as "sample code" that requires review and most likely modification, or writing the code from scratch. Your abilities and laziness may vary.

Also, there are reasons other than code quality not to trust LLMs.

New comment by mmphosis in "The Carry-on-Baggage Bubble Is About to Pop"

mmphosis — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:43:53 +0000

Given that planes still have to have places for ashtrays, and that I predict battery-powered airbusses won't be a thing, I am okay with failing airlines. The Ushuaia/Cape Town railway can't come soon enough.

New comment by mmphosis in "Forth: The programming language that writes itself"

mmphosis — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:36:21 +0000

Yes, Paul Lutus wrote GraForth.

As for vhtab, I don't know.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.forth/c/WqrpoPtxwoM/m/...

A customized figforth 79forth proforth or some other forth lost in a basement.