Hacker News: ttsiodras

New comment by ttsiodras in "Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K"

ttsiodras — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:42:34 +0000

Thanks, Mark - for both setups!

It's very nice seeing it put to use in actual Spectrum machines - love it :-)

New comment by ttsiodras in "Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K"

ttsiodras — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:53:04 +0000

Oh wow! I never expected to see this in a real Speccy until I fix the one I have back home (I'm an expat).

Thank you so much! :-)

Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K

ttsiodras — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:55:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ttsiodras/3D-on-a-ZX-Spectrum-48K/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167177

Points: 85

# Comments: 13

Minimal offline Wikipedia with all text, and proper math rendering

ttsiodras — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:21:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ttsiodras/offline-wikipedia-via-slobby-and-mathjax

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909750

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ttsiodras in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

ttsiodras — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:28:35 +0000

Thank you!

SSH teletekst.nl - in Dutch, but just try it (mouse works!)

ttsiodras — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:25:42 +0000

I have no words. Just try it!

And for expats like me in NL, I guess this begs for getting hooked into local llama.cpp/AIs for automatic translation :-)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45850663

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ttsiodras in "How I use my terminal"

ttsiodras — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:00:50 +0000

I have been using xterm's default dabbrev-expand to do the same via "Alt-/" ( https://github.com/ttsiodras/dotfiles/blob/master/.Xresource... ) - which works regardless of what shell you're in.

But I was curious for your approach... so I asked Claude to convert it to bash: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/01a49347-1617-4afe-8476-0...

Works like a charm - pinned it to Ctrl-k, which was free in my setup. I guess I don't have to depend on XTerm for this any more :-)

Thanks!

New comment by ttsiodras in "Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page"

ttsiodras — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 19:17:27 +0000

As soon as I met Forth, I felt I had to hack my own (https://github.com/ttsiodras/MiniForth/) - and did so over a single week, two years ago. I targeted the Blue Pill and the original Arduino, but developed via cross-compilers so that I could test my code in the host.

I became so obsessed with the project that I was looking forward to tinkering with it after coming back from work every day; so it was hacked in 5 evenings and a weekend. It was that much fun, to build a Forth.

I highly recommend the process; I think the only other time I felt so enlightened was when I first met Lisp macros (https://www.thanassis.space/score4.html#lisp).

Emacs [video]

ttsiodras — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 07:52:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36368211

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ttsiodras in "Brute.Fail: Watch brute force attacks fail in real time"

ttsiodras — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 14:51:37 +0000

This is why I come to HN - brilliant ideas that I should have thought of before, but didn't!

I just changed my server, and uninstalled the - now truly useless - fail2ban. I use SSH keys of course, but without fail2ban my server's logs were constantly flooded with hacking attempts.

No longer - wireguard for the win. Thank you, chlorion!