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Playing Atari music on Amiga for free

nopakos — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:13:40 +0000

Article URL: https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2026-05-15-ym-fast-emu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151889

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by nopakos in "Generating a color spectrum for an image"

nopakos — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:41:30 +0000

Iteration 7 would be interesting as a video (for a video).

New comment by nopakos in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

nopakos — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:53:42 +0000

Artist who spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC, makes a living as a truck driver.

New comment by nopakos in "Migrating to the EU"

nopakos — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:03:27 +0000

One concern is that if an EU company becomes very successful, it could easily be acquired by a large U.S. corporation.

New comment by nopakos in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

nopakos — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:56:20 +0000

So it should be an accessibility setting. I don't mind if the default is on or off.

ZX Spectrum Basic controls a lunar lander in Kerbal Space Program [video]

nopakos — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:34:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQTh1Davsj8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471011

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support

nopakos — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:45:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.embarcadero.com/announcing-the-availability-of-rad-studio-13-florence-update-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453261

Points: 61

# Comments: 37

New comment by nopakos in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"

nopakos — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 10:02:02 +0000

In Greece it was released as "Τελευταία έξοδος: Ρίτα Χέιγουορθ" literally "Last Exit: Rita Hayworth". People were saying, jokingly, that the title was a spoiler.

New comment by nopakos in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

nopakos — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:55:11 +0000

Hey, fellow civil-engineering-software designer here! [https://www.anadelta.com/en/anadelta-tessera/] Same story, same problems with dongles, perpetual & subscription licenses.

Robert Moreno and the use of ChatGPT that defined his time at Sochi

nopakos — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:57:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.beinsports.com/en-us/soccer/articles/robert-moreno-and-the-use-of-chatgpt-that-defined-his-time-at-sochi-2026-01-24

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46765085

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nopakos in "'Fuck You, Make Me' Without Saying the Words"

nopakos — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:50:04 +0000

It's another sign that -by some measure- "America has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism". There was this opinion piece some months ago in the New York Times by Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt which I recalled when I read this. [https://archive.is/WZMpM]

'Fuck You, Make Me' Without Saying the Words

nopakos — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:00:45 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/fuck_you_make_me_without_saying_the_words

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573068

Points: 14

# Comments: 24

New comment by nopakos in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

nopakos — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:42:33 +0000

I have not tried C++, but Codex did a good job with low-level C code, shaders as well as porting 32 bit to 64 bit assembly drawing routines. I have also tried it with retro-computing programming with relative success.

New comment by nopakos in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

nopakos — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:00:04 +0000

Yes! I’d really appreciate a comparison of Android Auto/CarPlay support, overall responsiveness, and especially the user-experience side, like whether you can permanently turn off beeps and warnings, and how usable (or annoying) the smart features and alerts are.

Graphics API is irrelevant [video] – Shader code to video with C and FFmpeg

nopakos — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 11:48:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNX9H_ZkfNE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443372

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nopakos in "Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time"

nopakos — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 12:05:57 +0000

Mousetrap the board game is the opposite: Hard to setup, almost zero playtime, very hard to put back in the box.

Repeat twice a day because the kids love the idea of the game!

New comment by nopakos in "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"

nopakos — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:05:24 +0000

I use one of them to make an old EEE laptop a dedicated Pico-8 machine for my kids. [https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php]

Europe's cookie nightmare is crumbling. EC wants preference at browser level

nopakos — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:54:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/823788/europe-cookie-prompt-browser-changes-proposal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45979527

Points: 59

# Comments: 94

New comment by nopakos in "1973 implementation of Wordle was published by DEC (2022)"

nopakos — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:43:27 +0000

There is an effort to rewrite the games from the book Basic computer games in modern languages. The word game is here: https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/tree/m...

New comment by nopakos in "Space Elevator"

nopakos — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:29:42 +0000

You can click on it to change to Celsius!