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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

# Comments: 0

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.

Building a software-defined GPS receiver

speps — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:28:51 +0000

Article URL: https://axleos.com/building-a-gps-receiver-part-1-hearing-whispers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46517311

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by speps in "AMD GPU Debugger"

speps — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:30:33 +0000

Windows has PIX for Windows, PIX is the name of the GPU debugging since Xbox 360. The Windows version is similar but it relies on debug layers that need to be GPU specific which is usually handled automatically. Although because of that it’s not as deep as the console version but it lets you get by. Most people use RenderDoc on supported platforms though (Linux and Windows). It supports most APIs you can find on these platforms.

New comment by speps in "Boa: A standard-conforming embeddable JavaScript engine written in Rust"

speps — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:12:37 +0000

With projects like this competing against well known massive competitors (eg. the browser JS engines), not seeing their main competitors in a benchmark is a massive red flag to me: https://boajs.dev/benchmarks

Not seeing V8, SpiderMonkey JavaScriptCore is very strange...

New comment by speps in "Animalese.js Demo"

speps — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:27:54 +0000

From a quick glance, it's a very simply a premade wav file which has all letters A to Z with 0.15s for each. The final wav is just a concatenation of all of letters from the text, and a silence of each unknown character/space. It doesn't support numbers but could easily be extended beyond what's in the demo. Very clever.

New comment by speps in "Wii U SDBoot1 Exploit “paid the beak”"

speps — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 09:08:56 +0000

Some SBC handhelds do support Pico-8 platform apparently, worth a try:https://youtu.be/R5jZRV2D-rM

New comment by speps in "A new PNG spec"

speps — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 23:09:29 +0000

Do you have any info on the format used in the PNG chunks? I’d love for someone to recreate Fireworks, it was perfectly adapted to a lot of workflows.

New comment by speps in "A new PNG spec"

speps — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:39:09 +0000

Macromedia Fireworks did it 20 years ago, the PNG was the default save format. Of course, it wasn’t JSON stored in there…

New comment by speps in "Show HN: Penny-1.7B Irish Penny Journal style transfer"

speps — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:03:55 +0000

If you play Fortnite right now (until Friday June 7th). You can speak in realtime to Darth Vader, he replies in his voice and in character, he knows who’s playing (the name of the character skin). The technology is here, and used in production of major games. It’ll be a big tide sooner than what people expect.

JCGT – Arc Blanc: a real time ocean simulation

speps — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 16:04:11 +0000

Article URL: https://jcgt.org/published/0014/01/05/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43268401

Points: 58

# Comments: 5

New comment by speps in "Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower case?"

speps — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:25:41 +0000

“a guy” aka Veritasium, the channel with 17M subs

New comment by speps in "Extend Extra Extreme: keyboard extend layer mappings"

speps — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:45:05 +0000

I’m hoping the title is a reference to this excellent game from Xbox Live Arcade days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Extend_Extra_Extreme

New comment by speps in "Asteroid Impact on Earth 2032 with Probability 1% and 8Mt Energy"

speps — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:04:34 +0000

Two terms I never heard in the table for the asteroid:

Parlermo Scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo_Technical_Impact_Hazar...

Torino Scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torino_scale

New comment by speps in "Team 17 Co-Founder Martyn Brown Has Passed Away Aged 57"

speps — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:11:16 +0000

Mobygames page: https://www.mobygames.com/person/1708/martyn-james-brown/

New comment by speps in "Free Microblogging"

speps — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 22:27:51 +0000

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