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New comment by thenthenthen in "Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch"

thenthenthen — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:52:14 +0000

Its practically media-archeology yes

New comment by thenthenthen in "GameBoy Workboy"

thenthenthen — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:00:45 +0000

Funny it works for me while being on a vpns that gets blocked everywhere…

New comment by thenthenthen in "Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art"

thenthenthen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:42:09 +0000

On ios safari the bottom 5 cubes are just 1 flat pancake, chrome ios does render the cubes but have slight artifacting on the edges mmmmm

New comment by thenthenthen in "Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art"

thenthenthen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:37:29 +0000

Almost wondering if it’s intentional! Pretty bug!

New comment by thenthenthen in "Eagle Computer: The rise and fall of an early PC clone"

thenthenthen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:39:45 +0000

I am curious as to where they produced their clones

New comment by thenthenthen in "The iPhone's Last Stand"

thenthenthen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:37:19 +0000

On step into the markets in Shenzhen and you will know it is not over. That new foldy iphone is a bit dodgy tho..

New comment by thenthenthen in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

thenthenthen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:13:00 +0000

What do you do with the old guts? I suspect plenty of people would be interested in those (me included)

New comment by thenthenthen in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

thenthenthen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:11:51 +0000

Came here looking for some examples, i tried some pcb routing, its horrendous. But you inspired me to maybe just run with it? Like design a alarm clock and see what abomination ‘it’ will come up with and just run with it/produce it anyway? Would be fun!

New comment by thenthenthen in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

thenthenthen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:03:46 +0000

Ooh the heatmap to tiles idea is cool!

New comment by thenthenthen in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

thenthenthen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:52:29 +0000

Tools? Mmmm i tried making a openCV based tool to recognise circular objects on sat. imagery, it didnt work at all (tried for two weeks), changed to a LLM, it seemed to work, or it was just a little bit off, O gave up. If anyone wants to collab in this space, shout out! Ah also a translation tool for pdfs… its also stuck in limbo, forgot why again…

New comment by thenthenthen in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

thenthenthen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:44:51 +0000

Signal the messaging app/platform? A funny thing is that Signal barely works (with VPN ofc) here in China. Sending media/images is impossible. Sometimes it’s blacked out weeks on end. Everything else seems to work fine ish (again with VPN ofc).

New comment by thenthenthen in "Teenage Engineering: Introducing APC-2"

thenthenthen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:52:08 +0000

Consistency is super hard to achieve if you are not cutting daily in a (climate) controlled environment, even then, you will burn out the cutting head transducers, your cutting heads will dull (super fast). Operational costs are pretty high. Wonder how much they will charge for this lathe. I guess 40-80k USD?

New comment by thenthenthen in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"

thenthenthen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:12:03 +0000

There is one company that sells similar lathe cutters in Europe. To aquire it you need to go on a multi day training in a remote Swiss forest. Then it’s around 10.000 EUR in equipment, granted you supply your own record player (sl1200 ~700EUR). But yeah cutting high quality stereo records is an art. No matter the money you throw at it, it will involve a lot of maintenance, skill, experience, spare parts, mastering skills, consumables, and time (these cut in real time). Indeed, who wants to do that? I welcome any effort in this niche though!

New comment by thenthenthen in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

thenthenthen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:54:15 +0000

Huh half time?

New comment by thenthenthen in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

thenthenthen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:52:37 +0000

Honestly this is why i stopped playing and watching any soccer. Every match the city would turn into a fortress and still there would be regular riots, the game seemed to have taken second seat and its more about whats going on around it. Even when games got cancelled because of violence in the stadiums, the ‘game’ would continue outside (violence). So tiring, boring, destructive, terrible.

New comment by thenthenthen in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

thenthenthen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:47:53 +0000

It’s not so popular in China. Basketball is somehow.

New comment by thenthenthen in "Learn PHP in 2026 (Yes, Really)"

thenthenthen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:35:40 +0000

I loved php came bundled with OSX, you just run php -s portnumber (iirc) as and you have a php enabled webserver running locally, so fun for experiments and super convenient especially compared to nowadays… i would prolly use Python, so make venv, activate, etc etc.

New comment by thenthenthen in "HateArena – A free and open source arena shooter"

thenthenthen — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:26:05 +0000

Omg Sauerbraten! That brings back memories!

New comment by thenthenthen in "HateArena – A free and open source arena shooter"

thenthenthen — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:44:44 +0000

What is/was the Cube engine (used in)?

New comment by thenthenthen in "Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries"

thenthenthen — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:07:18 +0000

Mmm im in China and played a third party game through steams Spacewar dev game (enabling steam p2p i think) like 3 weeks ago and it worked fine.