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New comment by mysterydip in "Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?"

mysterydip — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:02:21 +0000

(Beyond the socioeconomic topics already covered):

Why aren’t eink displays more useful? They seem like they should be. More than e-readers or a calendar.

New comment by mysterydip in "Cooling in Space"

mysterydip — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:46:44 +0000

(I know this is a joke, but it made me think): I wonder what side effects having GW-level heat generation would have on the surrounding area. snowcapped mountains turn to rivers? Spring year round? Something else?

New comment by mysterydip in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

mysterydip — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:53:35 +0000

What I don’t understand is what value is the person adding to this equation? Put another way, what’s the difference between them feeding the wall of text to the LLM, and you feeding the wall of text to the LLM, bypassing them in the process entirely?

New comment by mysterydip in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

mysterydip — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:05:22 +0000

As a fellow 3d-engine-with-foolishly-unreasonable-constraints developer, I love the detail in the explanations here and seeing the process you went through.

New comment by mysterydip in "Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs"

mysterydip — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:44:57 +0000

> The only future plans are bugfixes, optimizations, and adding more apps.

Perfect. Nice to see a platform target stability instead of constantly reinventing itself and its APIs. Definitely want to give it a go!

New comment by mysterydip in "The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python"

mysterydip — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:51:46 +0000

Checked out the book on your recommendation, and they even have a free online option on their site! Very generous: https://www.bishopbook.com/

New comment by mysterydip in "The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games"

mysterydip — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:31:39 +0000

“Ah, but you didn’t buy a thing, you bought a license to temporarily use a thing in ways we deemed acceptable!” -publishers somewhere

New comment by mysterydip in "Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball"

mysterydip — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:46:12 +0000

Love the look of this! Enjoyed watching a bit, will definitely have it on later.

One comment is, during “in between innings” when it was showing around the league and other stats, the text was really small on my phone. If possible I’d rather have it scrolling or switching between pages of data than trying to fit it on one screen. I get that on a tv or pc it’s probably the right size, so not sure if you’d want to spend the effort to have a separate view for small screens.

New comment by mysterydip in "Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks"

mysterydip — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:50:39 +0000

Only $49.99?! I missed the sale!

New comment by mysterydip in "Surface Laptop Ultra"

mysterydip — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:32:07 +0000

I guess if you see customer service as a checkbox you have to have, and also a cost center skimming from your bottom line, you will do whatever to make it as cheap and hostile as possible.

New comment by mysterydip in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

mysterydip — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:23:59 +0000

We need to put a checkpoint before the checkpoint so that never happens!

New comment by mysterydip in "Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange"

mysterydip — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:08:51 +0000

80 bits always seemed a strange choice for floating point, but as soon as you said there’s a 16-bit exponent and a 64-bit fraction part, it made sense.

I assume microcode was a choice for both ease of development/testing/changes and saving die space. Would there come a point later on where performance could be gained by converting the microcode into a full set of discrete logic, or is that not worth the effort?

New comment by mysterydip in "Mini Micro Fantasy Computer"

mysterydip — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:14:10 +0000

> I am a bit reminded of what GeoWorks Ensemble managed on a 640k 8086.

I was looking at similar recently for a project, and came across FrankOS: https://github.com/rh1tech/frank-os

New comment by mysterydip in "Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive"

mysterydip — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:46:51 +0000

Ironically, I think your question is the reason it’s not done more often, or at least some brands make “very obvious” EV’s: because for some customers, they want people to know they’re different (and memorable) from the ICE vehicles.

New comment by mysterydip in "What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC?"

mysterydip — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:26:16 +0000

Not exactly what you’re asking for, but the closest I’ve found (asking the same question) so far: https://www.spiderbasic.com/

New comment by mysterydip in "Googlebook"

mysterydip — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:21:43 +0000

Just curious, did you check the stores’ sites afterwards for false positives or negatives? eg, “no this store doesn’t have anything for you” but it did?

New comment by mysterydip in "[dead]"

mysterydip — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:47:02 +0000

> They can't fire you, HR needs their computers for that, and you have ensured they cannot access those.

Brilliant :)

New comment by mysterydip in "PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs"

mysterydip — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:23:11 +0000

> has read a lot of good blogs but with no practical experience.

I mean, yes essentially, right? Scraping every blog on the topic to generate a response without any actual coding experience behind it is literally how it was made.

New comment by mysterydip in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

mysterydip — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:11:14 +0000

Hardware is just one aspect of sales though. I assume they have much higher margin on software, especially rereleases of existing games on whatever the next platform is.

New comment by mysterydip in "Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation"

mysterydip — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:26:17 +0000

Not exactly the same, but SpaceVenture finally released at the end of last year: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1374960/SpaceVenture/