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New comment by sehugg in "WebFPGA (2019)"

sehugg — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:37:40 +0000

The CE40-HX1K iCEstick has inexplicably increased to $158 on the Lattice Store. Pretty spendy for 1280 LUTs. The Olimex Ltd. ICE40HX1K-EVB might be a good substitute at $21.

New comment by sehugg in "Captain Zilog"

sehugg — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:24:19 +0000

Compile this, GOTO breath!

New comment by sehugg in "Show HN: I mapped every US golf course"

sehugg — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:13:18 +0000

Are you planning to feed the info back into OSM?

New comment by sehugg in "Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time"

sehugg — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:20:08 +0000

Windows 95 was hamstrung by DOS compatibility. If you installed OS/2, you could have butter-smooth mouse cursor movement even while formatting a floppy disk and running a DOS (or even Windows!) VM in another window. And if you had a XGA card (which no one did) you had a hardware mouse cursor sprite, just like the Amiga (except only one boring sprite and no cool audio/video tricks)

New comment by sehugg in "Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules"

sehugg — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:38:01 +0000

The LM landing algorithm was also based on a polynomial, with "time-to-go" as the variable. Problems would occur if that variable went negative.

New comment by sehugg in "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"

sehugg — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:17:46 +0000

Well except for Jungle King

New comment by sehugg in "RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch"

sehugg — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:52:20 +0000

The programmable scanline-buffer-based rendering pipeline described in the PDF is worth a read for fans of such things.

New comment by sehugg in "Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows"

sehugg — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:52:58 +0000

And relativity describes the orbit of the quick-moving planet Mercury which shares its name with the quick-flowing element. What a world.

New comment by sehugg in "Organic Maps"

sehugg — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:00:02 +0000

Also current place names. You can sometimes find a business on OSM that has correct metadata, but in many areas the majority are missing or stale (like, closed 10+ years ago.) Solving this is an "interesting" problem to say the least when many businesses these days have nothing more than an Instagram/Whatsapp handle.

New comment by sehugg in "Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction"

sehugg — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:05:11 +0000

It's in the uncanny valley, that's for sure. I never had much luck with it because you have to memorize a ton of specific English phrase templates and remember how they are injected into the game logic, and you often have to escape into regular old procedural logic.

But it's an ambitious experiment, and the docs are worth reading through. Every now and again I give it another try :^P

New comment by sehugg in "Show HN: We built an 8-bit CPU as 2nd year EE students"

sehugg — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:36:15 +0000

The dual phase clocking is perhaps inspired by the 6502.

New comment by sehugg in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

sehugg — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:49:14 +0000

FYI Berke Breathed (Bill's contemporary, occasional collaborator and pen-pal) is still posting new Bloom County comics on his Patreon.

New comment by sehugg in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"

sehugg — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:23:16 +0000

I tried to compile something and the Pi ran out of memory

I think your beef is not with Meshtastic, but with the distro/compiler, and I am going to bet you're compiling C++ with clang.

New comment by sehugg in "Saying goodbye to asm.js"

sehugg — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:12:21 +0000

Hmmm, need a asm.js -> WASM transpiler maybe.

(compiling legacy code with legacy versions of Emscripten is quite frustrating, almost as bad as updating your JS code to be compatible with accumulated changes in the Emscripten ABI)

The Broken Basic Years

sehugg — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:00:37 +0000

Article URL: https://scruss.com/blog/2026/05/19/the-broken-basic-years/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205811

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

NERC Issues Level 3 Alert re: computational loads

sehugg — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:54:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nerc.com/newsroom/nerc-issues-level-3-alert-reliability-guideline-focused-on-large-load-challenges

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025140

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sehugg in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

sehugg — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:09:21 +0000

I sometimes wonder what "Turbo Ada" would have looked like, but I think it would have probably looked like later versions of Borland Pascal. Things like generics and exceptions would have taken some of the "turbo" out of the compiler and runtime -- the code generator didn't even get a non-peephole optimizer until 32-bit Delphi, it would have been too slow.

It might be nice to have Ada's tasks driven by DOS interrupts, though. I think GNAT did this.

New comment by sehugg in "Franklin's bad ads for Apple ][ clones and the beloved impersonator they depict"

sehugg — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:40:56 +0000

I'm guessing Apple had stopped putting board schematics and ROM listings in their reference manuals by the time the ACE came out, or perhaps soon afterwards.

New comment by sehugg in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

sehugg — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:31:04 +0000

IIRC they also had the first native (100% Java) JDBC driver, so you could run from any platform and without weird JNI locking issues when using threads.

New comment by sehugg in "OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1"

sehugg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:09:41 +0000

I really prefer the 2D pixel graphics of the original Civ. But the middle game can be a slog due to micromanagement, e.g. loading units onto boats. I would love to see a few tweaks, fixing bugs like disappearing units, and a stronger AI that doesn't have to cheat :)