Hacker News: shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shellwizardHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:43:35 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "[dead]"]]>TIL that MAME emulates the SGI Indy and that let's youinstall Irix on it. I have a new project for next weekend

]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:22:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941663shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941663https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941663<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "Godot 4.7 Beta with HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements and Editor Enhancements"]]>Which local model are you using and what hardware do you run it on?

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:07:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917598shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917598https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917598<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft"]]>3Com / US Robotics - dead

Nortel - dead

Global crossing - dead

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:34:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917105shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917105https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917105<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "GPT-5.5"]]>Death by snu snu

]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:40:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882457shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882457https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882457<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"]]>Similar to panzer general then?

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:01:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667035shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667035https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667035<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive"]]>For more nostalgia: https://images.ira.abramov.org/Propaganda/

]]>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:20:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503012shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503012https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503012<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"]]>Arr matey

]]>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:21:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482285shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482285https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482285<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"]]>What? Drivers?

]]>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:30:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47464822shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47464822https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47464822<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "Show HN: AI-powered one-click translator for Pokémon GBA ROM hacks"]]>This would be great for all of the Japanese novel games

]]>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:36:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385420shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385420<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"]]>There's openrgb, authors not all brands/models are supported

]]>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:30:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385086shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385086https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385086<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "I Hacked My Laundry Card. Here's What I Learned"]]>Thanks for saving me some time :D

]]>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:10:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362137shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362137https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362137<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's"]]>That returns a 503 error

]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:34:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319406shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319406https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319406<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "My Homelab Setup"]]>It depends on the type of hardware that you use for your server. If it's really server grade you're totally right. For example cheap memory+CPU+MB x99 off AliExpress are cheap but they're not very efficient.

In my case I fell in love with the tiny/mini/micros and have a refurbish Lenovo m710q running 24/7 and only using 5W when idling. I know it doesn't support ECC memory or more than 8 threads, but for my use case is more than enough

]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:39:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305525shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305525https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305525<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "The switch to Linux and the beginning of my self-hosting journey"]]>There's always been backports in Debian if you needed more recent software than what is available on the stable branch

]]>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:42:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968694shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968694https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968694<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine"]]>Impressive, given how old Q1 engine is. It brings back memories of Paranoid Doom mod: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/p-r/par...

]]>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:41:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958950shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958950https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958950<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "Quake Brutalist Jam III"]]>Don't forget about Doom (1993) and Doom 2 (1994), 30 years old and still have a large community of users and mappers, even John Romero released episodes 5 and 6 for the original Doom. On the other hand I used to play some single player maps for Q1 some years ago, the site [quaddicted](https://www.quaddicted.com/) was wonderful

]]>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:31:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546781shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546781<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"]]>No problem using uBO and FF

]]>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:02:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546420shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546420https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546420<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "Japanese electronics store pleads for old PCs amid ongoing hardware shortage"]]>You've got to [download more ram](https://downloadmoreram.com/)

]]>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:44:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543172shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543172https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543172<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "US threatens EU digital services market access"]]>What alternatives to Microsoft, Google, IBM or AWS exist in Europe?

]]>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:59:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46299711shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46299711https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46299711<![CDATA[New comment by shellwizard in "Bad UX World Cup 2025"]]>No mention of Spotify's terrible UX in mobile devices?

]]>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:21:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049597shellwizardhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049597https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049597