Hacker News: unleaded

New comment by unleaded in "Win16 Memory Management"

unleaded — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:24:10 +0000

It's easy when it's the only way to get things done. Think about how nobody who was learning programming before 2023 was seriously thinking "This would be so much easier if the computer wrote it all for me".

New comment by unleaded in "Win16 Memory Management"

unleaded — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:14:22 +0000

Thank god for the 386.

New comment by unleaded in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

unleaded — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:58:21 +0000

I think 480p resolution can look a lot better than people make it out to be. I reckon people's perception of it has been warped by YouTube serving dreadful low-bitrate 480p video for years.

New comment by unleaded in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

unleaded — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:24:32 +0000

It's too late to decide not to do business with them once they've stopped you from using a product you already bought.

New comment by unleaded in "Prolific Wikipedia editors are threatening to go on strike"

unleaded — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:22:35 +0000

Wiki Workers United is the union for the paid staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, not volunteer Wikipedia editors.

New comment by unleaded in "Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”"

unleaded — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:25:37 +0000

thank god the 2003 source leaked too!

OpenAI Announces Construction of New Data Center on Top of Sick Child

unleaded — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:23:47 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213587

Points: 28

# Comments: 1

New comment by unleaded in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

unleaded — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:21:57 +0000

https://gitgud.io/aeroshell/atp/aerothemeplasma

New comment by unleaded in "LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models"

unleaded — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:41:06 +0000

The idea that humans could "work like" LLMs (or vice versa) is very vague and can be stretched to say pretty much anything. It's a pointless question IMO. I don't think I do, but maybe I really do on the inside and my consciousness makes me think I don't! We don't know.

New comment by unleaded in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

unleaded — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:20:08 +0000

The Full Tilt version also has multiball which is missing from the Windows version. Lock a ball by shooting into a wormhole where the two lights are the same color, lock 3 balls to start.

If you enjoy playing Space Cadet I would really recommend giving Visual Pinball a try. There are so many more pinball games better than Space Cadet, with amazing tables people have made for them all available for free. I think it's Windows only though (very, tables are all scripted in VBScript and PinMAME is loaded as a COM object).

As an aside I tried to hack around with this and found out the programming for Space Cadet is pretty awful (not to disparage them or anything, it works). The state of the lights directly reflects the game state. (This is the cause of the bug where if you drain or start a mission while the rank-up light show is playing, you can skip a rank.)

New comment by unleaded in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"

unleaded — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:17:43 +0000

Many people have thought about this, IIRC it's not physically possible to build because there is a lane that goes under a bumper (which in real life they extend down quite a bit) https://files.catbox.moe/pnaeri.png

New comment by unleaded in "Debian must ship reproducible packages"

unleaded — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:46:28 +0000

Do you have JavaScript disabled? They put one of those anti-scraper things on it.

New comment by unleaded in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

unleaded — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:44:10 +0000

Depends how long ago that was. When it first came out you could only upload UWP apps and hardly anyone used it, in recent years they've relaxed it a lot (you can just publish EXEs and MSIs now, fees reduced/abolished) and I see a lot more open-source projects using it now.

New comment by unleaded in "PC Engine CPU"

unleaded — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:06:43 +0000

It seems to me like there's a pattern with it in regards to differences between Japanese systems and those from everywhere else. Most Japanese arcade games in the early 1980s borrowed heavily from Galaxian's model of tilemap+sprites which pretty much became the standard. But a lot of American games (e.g. Williams' Defender, Robotron, etc. and Taito America's Qix, Zookeeper..) used a big framebuffer & blitter. Maybe memory was more expensive in Japan.

"Invisible" bend insensitive bidi fiber is amazing for home wiring

unleaded — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:12:06 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1sz9li4/invisible_bend_insensitive_bidi_fiber_is_amazing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063485

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by unleaded in "Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan"

unleaded — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:58:49 +0000

What this article is about is that Nintendo used a format standard in the emulation community for the ROM, it's possible they downloaded it but it's not like there's some "downloaded from ROMZ-ZONE.RU" watermark in there. It has been revealed in leaks that Nintendo has an internal ROM vault of pretty much everything ever released on their systems.

New comment by unleaded in "Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan"

unleaded — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:14:50 +0000

New comment by unleaded in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

unleaded — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:13:38 +0000

When people cricitize Linux there's always people responding "it's simple really, just run this super long command and do this and that".. looks like the same thing to me.

New comment by unleaded in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

unleaded — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:55:25 +0000

It's easy to apply the same pattern of "people hated it, then liked it" but I think something's different about AI. I think a lot of the kneejerk reactions are subconscious but I don't think that means they're unfounded or invalid, they just haven't articulated the reason yet.

When AI image generation was a thing that hobbyists were messing around with (before it became good sometime in 2023) a lot of the creative-type people that abhor AI today were interested in it. Same thing with LLMs and stuff like AI Dungeon. ( I don't think AI music generation had a similar hobbyist era but not sure. )

I think the main thing that changed was how big and commercial it became. There's nothing counter-cultural about AI anymore, it's become the polar opposite. Nobody was making billions selling synthesizers & convincing investors it would replace 99% of musicians.

New comment by unleaded in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

unleaded — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:25:00 +0000

This is from the original authors of ZSNES. I think they know what they're doing.

smartassery aside LLMs are pretty shit at esoteric stuff like this. Especially retro stuff in my experience they mainly tend to get super excited about how awesome and retro it is & reiterate misunderstood factoids about it that it knows that aren't that important/that you probably know already. Like showing it to a Reddit comment section.