Hacker News: sehugg

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

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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 :)

New comment by sehugg in "What came after the 486?"

sehugg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:58:30 +0000

I had one of those 133 MHz 486 chips, think it was AMD. Nice DOS gaming machine.

New comment by sehugg in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

sehugg — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:22:31 +0000

That's hilarious. I've been following Mario since his work on libGDX and RoboVM.

His blog post on pi is here: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/

New comment by sehugg in "The pleasures of poor product design"

sehugg — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:33:06 +0000

You can see some of these objects at Musée des Arts et Métiers: https://www.arts-et-metiers.net/musee/les-objets-inconfortab...

New comment by sehugg in "RISC-V Is Sloooow"

sehugg — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:25:31 +0000

It's not the wrong design; RISC-V is designed around extensions, and they left room in the instruction encoding for them. They don't have a 800-lb gorilla like Intel shoving the ISA down customers' throats (Canonical is the closet thing) so there is some debate on which combination of extensions are needed for desktop apps.

New comment by sehugg in "Reverse engineering a DOS game with no source code using Codex 5.4"

sehugg — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:27:45 +0000

From the docs, I couldn't tell if it had disassembled very much of the EXE. Looks like it extracted most of the assets, the presence of open-source modding tools for this game in training data likely helped a bit.

New comment by sehugg in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

sehugg — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:06:21 +0000

Realize, though, that just grabbing a frame buffer is not a thing anymore. To render graphics you need GLES support through something like ANGLE, vectors and fonts via Skia, Unicode, etc. A web browser has those things. Any static binary bundling those things is also gonna be pretty large.

And JavaScript is very good at backwards compatibility when you remove the churn of frameworks (unfortunately Electron doesn't guarantee compatibility quite as far back)

New comment by sehugg in "Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer"

sehugg — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:24:18 +0000

That policy doesn't explicitly disallow writers from using LLMs as part of their process, nor does it mention reviewing submissions for content that could be LLM-generated.

I like some of the ideas in the article but there are some very "it wasn't just A, it was B" sentences in there. IEEE has a higher standard.

New comment by sehugg in "DBASE on the Kaypro II"

sehugg — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:15:23 +0000

I note that Clarion is still being developed, version 12 was released last year. I remember fondly using its screen designer to create drop-shadowed dialogs.

New comment by sehugg in "Building a TUI is easy now"

sehugg — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:33:46 +0000

Eh, the NES is better because you get two entire screen buffers. The C-64 gives you only one offscreen row or column to repaint every coarse scroll, and the colormap is fixed so you gotta move all of its bytes while racing the beam.

New comment by sehugg in "How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?"

sehugg — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:35:28 +0000

IIRC there was also an Edie Brickell video.

New comment by sehugg in "Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600"

sehugg — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:43:23 +0000

One of the authors, Dennis Debro, has done a bunch more of these: https://github.com/DNSDEBRO/Disassemblies

New comment by sehugg in "County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security"

sehugg — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:59:06 +0000

They had written authorization from the state court and verbal confirmation from state court officials. They didn't know there would be a pissing match between the judicial branch and the sheriff.