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New comment by unleaded in "Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)"

unleaded — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:40:45 +0000

Mesen has texture packs. Don't know about sound, you'd have to reverse each game's sound driver first. https://vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Famicom/NES_Sound_Dri...

New comment by unleaded in "My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii"

unleaded — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:31:28 +0000

Same guy who made NT for Macintosh https://github.com/Wack0/Macintosh and GC/Wii https://github.com/Wack0/entii-for-workcubes if you're unaware.

New comment by unleaded in "Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11"

unleaded — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 01:33:21 +0000

Tried it. If I open it with a disc in, it shows the "No CDROM devices found" message. If I open it without a disc in, it shows the menu, then when I put in a disc in Windows shows a weird error: https://files.catbox.moe/6y3qpy.png

It acts generally weird (buy a £10 dvd drive from ebay and try it yourself if you want any more detail, useful thing to have anyway) and obviously I can't get it to play anything.

The RTM version gets a bit further, doesn't show that weird Explorer error, but I still can't get it to play anything and opening the playlist crashes it vs on the Beta version where it actually listed the tracks.

I suspect the cd player is trying to take control of the drive and fighting with Windows trying to be helpful, don't know if there's a way to turn it off.

Write Moby Dick, approximately

unleaded — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:33:55 +0000

Article URL: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/152856/write-moby-dick-approximately

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50193955

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by unleaded in "Getting Banned from r/java"

unleaded — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 11:30:16 +0000

Is it? Go look at ai written pull requests on any open source project, even using the fancy models. The code works but they write needlessly verbose comments above everything, don't follow the existing code style, and reinvent the wheel instead of checking if the source already has implementations for things.

New comment by unleaded in "EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise"

unleaded — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:04:45 +0000

Looks fine to me. What are you seeing?

New comment by unleaded in "Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick"

unleaded — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:34:38 +0000

Reminds me of the classic "P Diddy Calls Bjork" https://www.negrophonic.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/bjork...

New comment by unleaded in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

unleaded — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:23:52 +0000

What a shame, I feel like this is a curse most of the Chinese labs have. Every other model is pretty good and stands out, then the next one is just a clone of Claude that does better on benchmarks and can oneshot Minecraft 2 or whatever but is just worse to use.

New comment by unleaded in "Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly"

unleaded — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:57:05 +0000

There are two types of generic PS2 to usb adapters, the one designed for pc (usually has two ports) and the one designed for PS3. The PS2 to PS3 controller adapters work perfectly with the right drivers (DSHidMini on Windows).

New comment by unleaded in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

unleaded — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:28:59 +0000

>An estimated 88% of PS2 games are already lost forever.

This is certainly not true. Where did you read this?

also, emulators exist, it's not recomps or nothing.

New comment by unleaded in "New gTLD Application for .lan"

unleaded — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:13:02 +0000

..Why? Just to annoy people?

New comment by unleaded in "Zig v0.17.0"

unleaded — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:13:43 +0000

Project maintainers know what level of AI use is acceptable for themselves, and quantifying it and enforcing it for random contributors is very difficult.

Someone Torturing LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI

unleaded — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:54:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/someone-torturing-llms-in-a-robot-prison-has-triggered-the-dumbest-debate-in-ai-yet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49916388

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by unleaded in "MCP was always a bad idea?"

unleaded — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:00:20 +0000

Every few years we're all doomed to reinvent COM again.

New comment by unleaded in "Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown"

unleaded — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:47:09 +0000

There are also two SC-88Pro emulators coming v. soon. There is a MAME driver that will be in the next release https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/16080 (you can build it right now of course but I have no idea where you would find the roms) and also this: https://synthanatomy.com/2026/09/the-usual-suspects-88emu-a-...

New comment by unleaded in "λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study"

unleaded — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:41:52 +0000

Couldn't agree more. To add on I think you can learn so much by doing something incredibly stupid you're really not supposed to in an intentionally constrained environment (in a good way, like the grandparent comment). The sort of absurd things that get posted here occasionally and get a few commenters genuinely annoyed that they're doing that with their time instead of curing cancer. Plus it tends to be easier than it looks.

(I think some people have caught on to this and found out that Claude is pretty good at it.. not sure what the point of that is but whatever)

New comment by unleaded in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"

unleaded — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:00:01 +0000

As long as AI is only able to create crap that people are embarrassed to admit they watch (which I think is likely IMO just given how it works) I think we'll be mostly fine. Trash TV didn't ruin the television industry and mobile shovelware didn't ruin the gaming industry.

New comment by unleaded in "The safest job from AI may be writing"

unleaded — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:41:59 +0000

A lot of the replies are insisting AI will get better at writing with more development but I don't see it. Even if you have a mathematically perfect writing AI you still run into the same problems you would have if you handed off your writing task to someone on fiverr or something. It can't magically know what you want to say, it only has the information you gave it. A prompt complex enough where it won't get any wrong ideas has to contain as much information as the output would have.. so just write it.

New comment by unleaded in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

unleaded — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:22:14 +0000

Torrents aren't that scary. If you have the patience for local AI you can figure out qBitTorrent in less than an hour.

New comment by unleaded in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

unleaded — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:15:01 +0000

You are not the first or 100th person to come up with this idea. I don't really get it either but there must be a reason it hasn't really happened.