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New comment by pikuseru in "Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)"

pikuseru — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:15:45 +0000

“You do it”

“No, you do it”

“Get Bill to do it.”

New comment by pikuseru in "Memo to Ridley Scott: no one needs more Alien: Covenant movies"

pikuseru — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:49:09 +0000

I can’t wait for the Alien / Blade Runner crossover prequel where we find out Tyrell was Weyland’s long lost Dad.

And the black goop in Prometheus is actually made from Midi-Chlorians.

New comment by pikuseru in "I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip"

pikuseru — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:34:26 +0000

At last a post about computing that appeals to me. Low powered and energy efficient computing.

I’ve actually been wondering if it could be possible to design a small computer that powered off in between key presses (paired with an e-ink screen.) If the CPU state could be stored and reloaded in between key presses. I was mainly thinking about turn based games on an e-ink device, but I guess it could be suited to anything event driven that triggered the next set of CPU cycles to perform some work before a “sleep” instruction put the computer back into hibernation.

I did search online to see if anyone was thinking about something similar and there was a paper “Design of a nonvolatile-register-embedded RISC-V CPU with software-controlled data-retention and hardware-acceleration functions” which looked interesting.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277306462...

New comment by pikuseru in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

pikuseru — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:05:42 +0000

If you don’t like it don’t use it

New comment by pikuseru in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

pikuseru — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:23:45 +0000

If your butthole looks like Copilot I recommend you have a trip to the doctors for a check up

New comment by pikuseru in "Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem"

pikuseru — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:22:45 +0000

The thing that caught my eye immediately was the sandboxing. I have no idea why Node and npm don’t have sandboxing by default. It would greatly help with some of these worms and supply chain attacks.

New comment by pikuseru in "Almost Always Unsigned"

pikuseru — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:58:52 +0000

What if I’m making a 2d game and need to go left

New comment by pikuseru in "Pi squared is nearly 10"

pikuseru — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:10:26 +0000

BBQ

New comment by pikuseru in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

pikuseru — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:25:01 +0000

No.

New comment by pikuseru in "Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML"

pikuseru — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:42:17 +0000

“Layers upon layers of opaque incantations”

You’ve described software.

New comment by pikuseru in "Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML"

pikuseru — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:35:28 +0000

Because a team of browser engineers have already written and reviewed the code to do it for you; and (hopefully) it’ll be performant, properly tested and accessible… ;-D

New comment by pikuseru in "Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB"

pikuseru — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:02:29 +0000

Of the many cool things I liked about this, removing the missile from the array by swapping it with the last missile and decrementing the missile count was a nice trick.

New comment by pikuseru in "Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth?"

pikuseru — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:13:33 +0000

I remember being idealistic when I first started. Now I’m just jaded and cynical. Don’t try looking for meaning in any of it, you won’t find any. The system just churns along. And everyone with it. Play the game and nod along. Your job doesn’t define who you are. Just be thankful because you could be in a worse situation.

New comment by pikuseru in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

pikuseru — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:47:24 +0000

I’m glad it’s not just me. These LED headlights are terrible and dazzle me all the time. It’s especially bad with SUVs that have lights right in your eyeline, when you’re driving a “normal” car.

New comment by pikuseru in "Do you know that there is an HTML tables API?"

pikuseru — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:32:29 +0000

They’re probably still quite useful for displaying tabular data - there’s also semantics involved, it’s not primarily just a layout mechanism.

New comment by pikuseru in "People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses"

pikuseru — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:42:52 +0000

Free healthcare as well

New comment by pikuseru in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

pikuseru — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:16:22 +0000

“It just works”

New comment by pikuseru in "A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025"

pikuseru — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:13:11 +0000

Windows 10

New comment by pikuseru in "Ask HN: How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s?"

pikuseru — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:06:11 +0000

How about making a new game with help from your son (even if it’s ideas) and making some new memories? ;-)

The problem I found is that a lot of the stuff I made is tied to the hardware, OS and SDKs I used to make and run it (especially PalmOS and J2ME stuff - although Apple is just as bad.)

Luckily I’ve been able to find an emulator called Cloudpilot Emu to run some of my old PalmOS games in the browser.

I think if I was doing a game now and wanted to be able to look back on it in 10 to 20 years time I’d be doing it in C with SDL or JavaScript - although you’re betting on those being around. Or at least some virtual machine / runtime that could be ported to some new OS / platform.

New comment by pikuseru in "Long Term Support"

pikuseru — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:08:01 +0000

I wish most software was developed and supported like this