Hacker News: sp8

New comment by sp8 in "Linux for the Sega MegaDrive"

sp8 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:07:11 +0000

I have such fond memories of my time back in the day owning a MegaDrive. It wasn't my first or last games console, but it was my formative one. It was a time in my life when I was into video games (Sonic 2 being the only game I ever played to completion). It pleases me to realise there's still a community around the MegaDrive and - as others has said - this is so crazy but wonderful to see!

500 Tbps of capacity: 16 years of scaling our global network

sp8 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:31:33 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/500-tbps-of-capacity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753476

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all

sp8 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:28:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github_ai_training_policy_changes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529179

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by sp8 in "Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up"

sp8 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:47:51 +0000

I do not and have never owned a C64, but Monkey Island is (in my opinion) one of the pinnacles of gaming so this effort to extend it to yet another platform is wonderful to see!

New comment by sp8 in "Darkrealms BBS"

sp8 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:07:45 +0000

Fidonet was my thing from that era. I know it's nostalgia and I know it was a simpler time but I loved Fidonet and I've not come across any Usenet group, discussion email list or web forum that quite hits the same mark. Mind you, that was probably 30 years ago now...

New comment by sp8 in "NetNewsWire Turns 23"

sp8 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:30:35 +0000

NNW definitely restored my faith in RSS readers. Amazing software, I just use it and sync to iCloud, works flawlessly. Thank you NNW!

Musk firms SpaceX and xAI merge to make most valuable private company

sp8 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:21:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6vnrye06po

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868612

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by sp8 in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

sp8 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:10:59 +0000

Sorry for an empty response but this, 100% this. As a person who is WELL over 6' tall, the very idea that the person in front of me might recline is enough to give me significant anxiety throughout a flight. I once saw a design for seats where the base slides forward if you want to recline - the idea being, if you're going to recline you're going to do so into your own space, not the person behind you. I'd be a big advocate of that change in seat design...

New comment by sp8 in "Uncrossy"

sp8 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:21:35 +0000

Oh that was way more fun than I expected! I feel I shall be playing this regularly!

New comment by sp8 in "Radium Music Editor"

sp8 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:40:04 +0000

Have you ever found anything which loads & plays *MED files properly? Specifically MMD2 format files from SoundStudio. I've also got loads I created back in the Amiga days, and I've still got SS itself running on an old laptop but would prefer something that could play/render them to WAV on macOS.

New comment by sp8 in "Imapsync"

sp8 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:12:05 +0000

Haven't used this tool for many years, but when I needed to help a friend migrate his business email from the email services provided by a web host to Google Workspace (or whatever it was called at the time) this tool worked perfectly (admittedly, only about 3 fairly tame mailboxes).

New comment by sp8 in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

sp8 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:44:35 +0000

That's amazing! My son is also 9 and while I haven't even attempted to teach him coding, he would probably enjoy playing this game more than writing one! My only comment is to join in with the rest of the comments here and say how wonderful it is to see this (genuinely fun!) game and to encourage him to do more!

New comment by sp8 in "When was the famous "sudo warning" introduced? (2019)"

sp8 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:23:57 +0000

I did a similar thing once (off my own back - I was young and naive) on a dead simple web app I wrote. I put a footer that said something like "all access is logged, unauthorised access will be investigated" with the current IP address to try to demonstrate that I had the data to do it. I didn't. And nothing of the sort was logged or investigated. I just hoped it would put people off!

Microsoft Excel's bloopers reel: 40 years of spreadsheet errors

sp8 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:29:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/28/microsoft-excels-bloopers-reel-40-years-of-spreadsheet-errors

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41983194

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by sp8 in "DawVert – a DAW project file converter"

sp8 — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 21:49:16 +0000

Interesting (and cool) to see some support for tracker files in this. Probably a niche ask, but I would love to find a tool that can reliably convert files saved from MED/OctaMED/SoundStudio from the Amiga days. libopenmpt does support some older files of this type (and you can compile ffmpeg with libopenmpt support) but the stash I have of my own music from back in the day are newer and I have been unable to find anything to convert them short of getting OctaMED running again.