Hacker News: s800

New comment by s800 in "Iran is likely jamming Starlink"

s800 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:04:56 +0000

Iranian address space is no longer in the public routing table.

New comment by s800 in "Why the original Macintosh had a screen resolution of 512×324"

s800 — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:54:03 +0000

Not sure we're thinking the same way, but the C64 and Atari had bitmap modes, not just tile or character modes.

New comment by s800 in "Apple M5 could ditch unified memory architecture for split CPU and GPU designs"

s800 — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 03:09:46 +0000

CHIP memory

New comment by s800 in "Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted"

s800 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:16:13 +0000

yes, OTDR

New comment by s800 in "Emulating the Early Macintosh Floppy Drive"

s800 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:49:23 +0000

The Amiga is fixed RPM or CAV, not CLV like the og Mac. With one exception- later models could halve the RPM to read/write HD floppies (1.44MB PC or 1.76MB Amiga).

New comment by s800 in "Don't use 7-segment displays (2011) [pdf]"

s800 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:48:55 +0000

They also wear out quite quickly.

New comment by s800 in "A minimal-part-count way to connect an SD card to a 68K"

s800 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 01:21:03 +0000

that is pretty ingenious

New comment by s800 in "7 watts idle – building a low powered server/NAS on Intel 12th/13th gen"

s800 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:31:20 +0000

I'm running a home server on an N100 (ITX model) with a 32GB DIMM, works well.

New comment by s800 in "Darktable: Crashing into the wall in slow-motion"

s800 — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 16:22:16 +0000

Had me until he used middle-aged as a pejorative.

New comment by s800 in "Toyota recalls nearly 1.9M RAV4s to fix batteries that can cause a fire"

s800 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 17:18:41 +0000

That's ABS.

New comment by s800 in "The colorful charm of Amiga utility disks"

s800 — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:44:53 +0000

Some of the early code was actually BCPL.

New comment by s800 in "The Inverse Jim Cramer ETF"

s800 — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 01:24:41 +0000

Call me when there's an inverse A16z

New comment by s800 in "Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm"

s800 — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 02:03:15 +0000

Always found it strange that macOS didn't follow their OG NeXTstep design for the dock and menus.

New comment by s800 in "I almost bought a scanner"

s800 — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:28:44 +0000

I have an Epson V800 and a Flextight, the output is much better on the flex tight. There's more to it than just the manufacturer's DPI flex.

New comment by s800 in "Commodore 128D Computer (2001)"

s800 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 23:02:01 +0000

No, quite a bit different.

New comment by s800 in "Newsom just signed California pay transparency bill"

s800 — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:25:51 +0000

It's not idealism, it's shifting power to labor / the individual.

New comment by s800 in "The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020)"

s800 — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:01:11 +0000

Just tried that on VICE and got some at signs and a crash. What does it do on real h/w?

For some reason I still remember 646, 53280, 53281 (pokes), 30120, and yes 64738.

New comment by s800 in "FAA approves unleaded fuel for piston fleet"

s800 — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 23:40:55 +0000

Rotary or radial?

New comment by s800 in "Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year"

s800 — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 19:07:45 +0000

Should be illegal.

New comment by s800 in "First Image from JWST"

s800 — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:15:55 +0000

these are the light diffracting off the mirror edges and struts.