Hacker News: msephton

New comment by msephton in "Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields"

msephton — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:47:53 +0000

Tap the black hole and it gives you ability to add and remove.

New comment by msephton in "ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]"

msephton — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:41:30 +0000

I recommend seeing a specialist for a proper diagnosis. It'll be worth it.

New comment by msephton in "Apple Pass Designer"

msephton — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:20:09 +0000

When I worked at Apple a dozen years ago I pushed hard for this to be built. We were using our own slap dash solution, but we wanted something everybody could use.

Better late than never!

New comment by msephton in "Show HN: Ito – streaming neural TTS for the ESP32-S3 (4.9 MB, no NPU, no cloud)"

msephton — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:33:09 +0000

Curious why it's not been tested on hardware?

New comment by msephton in "ModRetro + Codex"

msephton — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:31:02 +0000

So the ModRetro × OpenAI collab only requires a free plugin for you to develop GBC games in the Codex the app

But play-testing on a real Chromatic requires a firmware update and API key that came in the box with the DevDay devices

https://support.modretro.com/en_us/chromatic-devday-edition-...

I just tried it and prompted a GBC version of YOYOZO, my GOTY game. Wild times.

New comment by msephton in "RSS Feeds for Last.fm"

msephton — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:22:23 +0000

Cool!

I'm wondering why my recommended tracks are different between the two feed formats? Same uid as here.

Also, my JSON feed doesn't seem to validate and is not served with the proper MIME type.

New comment by msephton in "ESP32 can stream I/Q up to 80MSPS 10bit from 2GHz/5GHz by tapping Wifi/BT stage"

msephton — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:14:32 +0000

> turn supported chips into low-cost software-defined radio receivers for the 2.4 GHz band

The Genius Trick Behind Exile's Impossible Map

msephton — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:12:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdPz9dLmOtI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894715

Points: 1

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New comment by msephton in "Novelist accused of using AI to write book removed from French prize list"

msephton — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:34:23 +0000

Sad to see such unfounded claims tarnishing the work of this author. Surely it should be innocent until proven guilty. These text analysers all say different things about a piece of text, yet here the result of one has taken away this guy’s prize and perhaps career. There’s a legal case for defamation, surely?

New comment by msephton in "NOTE4 – a $55 ESP32 S3 e-ink task display with open API's"

msephton — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:39:09 +0000

Which of these images is a photo of a real physical device? It seems to me that they are all a mix of renders and ai images (the ones where the speaker holes are not evenly spaced, and with nonsense text on nearby keyboards). I don't necessarily mind, but such images don't sell the device. I want to see a real one being used.

Also: I can buy it on AliExpress right now so I don't see the point of a waitlist.

New comment by msephton in "Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?"

msephton — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:19:27 +0000

Made my day.

New comment by msephton in "Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster"

msephton — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:54:01 +0000

There's only one way to find out...race time!

New comment by msephton in "Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS"

msephton — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:52:42 +0000

I admire how black and white you are about this. Your use of the word never...says a lot. Personally, I see in shades of grey and never say never.

New comment by msephton in "Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia"

msephton — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:59:16 +0000

I agree this would have been more interesting.

New comment by msephton in "The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris"

msephton — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:48:24 +0000

It's worth your time reading and comparing the earliest version of Garasimov's account, as it has been edited over the years under pressure from the other parties involved.

Most notably, when The Tetris Company decided to change the year of creation of Tetris, they requested Garasimov change it on his page, which he confirmed by email to somebody who asked about the reason.

I'm not sure this is the absolute earliest, but you get the idea https://web.archive.org/web/20060821183909/https://vadim.ove...

And the earliest mention I can find of the dates if conception (not creation) is in A Japanese interview from 1989 before the facts started to be changed https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/02/03/tetris-date-of-co...