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New comment by speps in "Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants"

speps — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:14:34 +0000

I love a wam feeling

New comment by speps in "We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer"

speps — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:55:56 +0000

Surely, you're the best person to do that..? Unless you're not human of course.

New comment by speps in "Zig removes support for wasi-Libc"

speps — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:58:47 +0000

It's just not shipping it like musl, it'll just be an external ABI as per: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/35379

New comment by speps in "Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture"

speps — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:25:36 +0000

You reminded me the anecdote about every SID chip sounding different. If you hear a recording of a C64 made song, it’s unique to that chip (and somewhat to the machine as well, timing, crystal, etc.).

New comment by speps in "Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo"

speps — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:46:53 +0000

Ad-free link from original creator: https://paculdo.com/innovative-housewares-inside-out-design-...

New comment by speps in "When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old"

speps — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:49:20 +0000

I joined Asobo Studio[1] for an internship back in 2010, and some code there was already nearly 15 years old as they grabbed the remains of Kalisto[2] including the engine/editor. That editor (Pawap) is still used to this day, although the engine (Zouna) has been rewritten (but uses the same data backend as the old code, albeit heavily updated too). This was probably the oldest codebase I worked on at the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asobo_Studio [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalisto_Entertainment

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

speps — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:51:13 +0000

Might just be because we still communicate with them, having the source might allow bad actors to control them. Hopefully one day, it could be released once obsolete.

New comment by speps in "The Scanline Sweeper: A Glyph Rendering Algorithm [pdf]"

speps — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:33:39 +0000

Well done on the paper, I saw your Reddit post a few days ago. Are you getting it through JCGT for example?

New comment by speps in "Fusion Programming Language"

speps — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:54:10 +0000

It’s not a problem in practice if debug data is emitted properly. For example I used the VS Code C++ debugger extension with Zig.

New comment by speps in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

speps — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:41:19 +0000

They’ve been dabbling in this space within Unreal Engine for a few years. Perforce is the de facto standard in AAA studios from my experience, curious to see what’s going to happen to them.

New comment by speps in "Gaussian Point Splatting"

speps — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:34:02 +0000

Yes splats do reflections

New comment by speps in "Flipper Zero Zig Template"

speps — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:43:03 +0000

Stop the misinformation, it’s just changing where it’s being done moving from the language to the build system itself: https://ziggit.dev/t/cimport-going-away/5132

It’s also decoupling Zig compiler and C compiler so they’re updated independently.

It’s still a bummer in my view as I just replaced my build pipelines with just a Zig compiler instead of emscripten but that’s fine.

New comment by speps in "Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared"

speps — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:03:01 +0000

No need to mess with Win32, Godot supports it: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_window....

There’s a resurgence of transparent apps and games just because of that.

New comment by speps in "I just want simple S3"

speps — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:20:50 +0000

S4 exists: https://mega.io/objectstorage

New comment by speps in "Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg"

speps — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:24:13 +0000

SVG path syntax [1] mentioned as being an inspiration in the article is very similar to Turtle graphics (move, lineto, etc.)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/E...

New comment by speps in "Datahäxan"

speps — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:47:18 +0000

Also called datamoshing, it dates back a few decades already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_artifact#Artistic_...

Reverse-Engineering O2Jam Network

speps — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:42:16 +0000

Article URL: https://dev.cxo2.me/reversing-o2jam-network/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263879

Points: 1

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New comment by speps in "I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color"

speps — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:06:31 +0000

Awesome looking results. As far as I understand it's a "3D" shader in the sense that it looks 3D but it's a prerendered 2D normal map which is then lit using the resulting world space normal.

Here are the frames: https://github.com/nukep/gbshader/tree/main/sequences/gbspin...

New comment by speps in "Vouch"

speps — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:58:53 +0000

The usual way of solving this is to make the voucher responsible as well if any bad actor is banned. That adds a layer of stake in the game.

New comment by speps in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

speps — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:19:30 +0000

It was an issue with the main JPEGXL library being unmaintained and possibly open for security flaws. Some people got together and wrote a new one in Rust which then became an acceptable choice for a secure browser.