Hacker News: mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mwengeHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 16 May 2026 08:19:48 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mwenge in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on Steve Jobs’s years at NeXT Computer"]]>[flagged]

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 17:57:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151736mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151736https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151736<![CDATA[Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game]]>Article URL: https://tempest.homemade.systems

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871195

Points: 112

# Comments: 41

]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:02:32 +0000https://tempest.homemade.systemsmwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871195https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871195<![CDATA[Mike Little: the British co-founder of WordPress you've probably never heard of]]>Article URL: https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157369

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:27:21 +0000https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157369https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157369<![CDATA[New comment by mwenge in "Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad"]]>Explore a nearly 2000 year old papyrus containing the last book of Homer's Iliad.

]]>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:13:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928680mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928680https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928680<![CDATA[Papyrus 114: Homer's Iliad]]>Article URL: https://p114.homemade.systems/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928679

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

]]>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:13:33 +0000https://p114.homemade.systems/mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928679https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928679<![CDATA[New comment by mwenge in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"]]>If not now, when?

]]>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:13:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746579mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746579https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746579<![CDATA[New comment by mwenge in "Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value"]]>It is indeed proven and the reason they're called Turing machines! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

]]>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:58:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45277425mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45277425https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45277425<![CDATA[Victor's Way]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%27s_Way

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223133

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:24:43 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%27s_Waymwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223133https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223133<![CDATA[New comment by mwenge in "Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider"]]>Well no, as a consumer you need to feel comfortable that you know how to get your money back if there's a problem with your purchase, as a merchant you need similar protections and a stable cost model, and as a bank you need an income model to cover all the costs and risks associated with processing the transaction. Moving the money is the easy part and is not the main set of problems that the card payment schemes have solved.

]]>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:51:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44924500mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44924500https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44924500<![CDATA[New comment by mwenge in "We are no longer a serious country"]]>But this isn't 'buy now, pay later'. This is a tax giveaway to the rich, enabled by future borrowing and savage cuts to public services.

]]>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:55:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183567mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183567https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44183567<![CDATA[New comment by mwenge in "[dead]"]]>Invariably an error I don't understand, why do you ask?

]]>Sun, 25 May 2025 21:36:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44091397mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44091397https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44091397<![CDATA[New comment by mwenge in "The Pain That Is GitHub Actions"]]>Do you have a public example of this? I'd love to see how to do this with Github Actions.

]]>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:02:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43421639mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43421639https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43421639<![CDATA[New comment by mwenge in "Advice on Reading Homer in Translation"]]>If you'd like to give the Iliad a go in the original Greek you can try https://iliad.rocks

]]>Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:31:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567968mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567968https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567968<![CDATA[The ‘Network of Web Trees’ in Gaza]]>Article URL: https://globalvoices.org/2024/06/13/the-ingenious-network-tree-defying-gazas-connectivity-blockade/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40666879

Points: 112

# Comments: 58

]]>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 07:19:07 +0000https://globalvoices.org/2024/06/13/the-ingenious-network-tree-defying-gazas-connectivity-blockade/mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40666879https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40666879<![CDATA[New comment by mwenge in "Executable PDF"]]>View a PDF file, or run whatever little executable program it contains. The choice is yours!

]]>Sun, 02 Jun 2024 22:06:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40557520mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40557520https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40557520<![CDATA[Executable PDF]]>Article URL: https://github.com/mwenge/ExecutablePDF

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40557519

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

]]>Sun, 02 Jun 2024 22:06:48 +0000https://github.com/mwenge/ExecutablePDFmwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40557519https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40557519<![CDATA[Psychedelia syndrome: the pixels and code of Jeff Minter's 'Psychedelia']]>Article URL: https://psychedeliasyndro.me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40095918

Points: 91

# Comments: 10

]]>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 09:04:13 +0000https://psychedeliasyndro.me/mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40095918https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40095918<![CDATA[New comment by mwenge in "The Brotherhood of Morons"]]>Sounds like the thermocline of truth: https://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/15/the-wetware-crisis-the-...

]]>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 14:18:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39629356mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39629356https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39629356<![CDATA[New comment by mwenge in "I Was a Heretic at the New York Times"]]>"Doesn’t all of this talk of ‘voter suppression’ on the left sound similar to charges of ‘voter fraud’ on the right?”

The exact moment you can stop taking him seriously.

]]>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 09:53:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39579762mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39579762https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39579762<![CDATA[New comment by mwenge in "Interactive Code Cells"]]>In the same vein: https://mwenge.github.io/blog/io10.html

]]>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:58:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38687358mwengehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38687358https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38687358