Hacker News: montag

New comment by montag in "Falstad Math and Physics Simulations"

montag — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:53:27 +0000

Legendary

New comment by montag in "Playing with Georgia"

montag — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:14:52 +0000

I was on board until “fake a medium weight”… faux bold is one of my pet peeves. How hard would it be to turn Georgia into a true variable axis font?

New comment by montag in "Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF"

montag — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:11:02 +0000

Really cool. I can see some issues, like Starr King park turned into a lake for some reason, but it’s so much fun to look at. Do you have any way to patch errors and discontinuities at the tile boundaries?

New comment by montag in "Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2"

montag — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:52:57 +0000

I agree. The limitations forced composers to be economical and creative.

As for modern OSTs, I like VA-11Hall-A. Never played it though

New comment by montag in "Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way"

montag — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:14:13 +0000

Misled

New comment by montag in "98.css"

montag — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:43:14 +0000

I used 98.css as starting point for the Winamp theme in https://chiptune.app. It was very easy to modify and extend, thanks!

New comment by montag in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"

montag — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:27:17 +0000

Hm. Underrated comment

New comment by montag in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"

montag — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:08:57 +0000

I thought -- was typically a separator for passing a list of arguments directly to some subcommand

New comment by montag in "Show HN: ClipTunes, string together trimmed YouTube video clips"

montag — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:05:24 +0000

This would be really cool for putting musical samples back-to-back. Like 50 versions of Paganini's Caprice No. 24 in 2 minutes.

I did a double take on the domain name, it's very similar to mine https://chiptune.app :)

New comment by montag in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

montag — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:36:19 +0000

That is a great analogy! I still remember the day my cousin explained that there was a whole internet outside of AOL…

New comment by montag in "The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed"

montag — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:44:20 +0000

Agreed :) lots here to play with: https://chiptune.app?q=silpheed

New comment by montag in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

montag — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:29:06 +0000

It’s pretty. Lots of people have anxiety around the big question. A tool like this can really help.

New comment by montag in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

montag — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:27:26 +0000

Have you thought about building it as a plugin, e.g. for Jetbrains?

New comment by montag in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

montag — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:26:20 +0000

Wow, that’s neat. Perfect for a hyperlight drifter style game.

New comment by montag in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

montag — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:21:05 +0000

Wow, nice.

New comment by montag in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

montag — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:46:33 +0000

I am working on https://chiptune.app.

Most recently, adding SID support, and adding timing information to the emulated formats that don’t have any tagged song duration (e.g., converting NSF to NSFE). This means playing the songs one by one and watching for repeated sequences of writes to the sound chip registers.

New comment by montag in "Show HN: 18 Words"

montag — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:56:27 +0000

What is subitizing?

New comment by montag in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

montag — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:11:55 +0000

I think this is basically correct and aligns with Facebook’s massive push toward e2ee in Messenger. They don’t want to be on the hook, and didn’t do e2ee just for the fun of it

New comment by montag in "Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too"

montag — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:21:21 +0000

I agree that VR goggles hit a ceiling due to simple inconvenience. Whether smart glasses will suffer the same fate is a very interesting question. But the article would be much more effective without the cheap “tech bro” ridicule. Ultimately, after calling every product ugly, the analysis put forward by this author comes down to “short battery life and privacy concerns”.

New comment by montag in "Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died"

montag — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:54:37 +0000

Wondering About My Loved Ones is one of my favorites. Appears also in Spear of Destiny https://chiptune.app/?play=C-eWH0LI