Hacker News: vardump

New comment by vardump in "Fuck Android Developer Verification Program"

vardump — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 07:28:36 +0000

You might be able to fix those "weird street-name issues" yourself in Google Maps.

New comment by vardump in "M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review"

vardump — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:47:20 +0000

I hope that was sarcasm.

New comment by vardump in "The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)"

vardump — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:33:15 +0000

This is not elitism, it's about historical accuracy. This is how many remember the games of their youth.

New comment by vardump in "Compiler-style optimization for drawing via Skia"

vardump — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:51:11 +0000

I wonder if same could be done to games. How much unnecessary work are modern games submitting to the GPU?

New comment by vardump in "Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'"

vardump — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:02:18 +0000

I wonder if our universe is the experiment to resolve this.

New comment by vardump in "Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'"

vardump — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:59:28 +0000

I just twisted my mouth sides upwards with my fingers to form a smile in agreement.

New comment by vardump in "T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F"

vardump — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:08:29 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by vardump in "T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F"

vardump — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:05:23 +0000

Can you share the prompt?

New comment by vardump in "A 386 PC for Your RP2350"

vardump — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:45:00 +0000

You certainly did not, as Win95 requires 32-bit, 80386 or better. 286 was a 16-bit CPU.

New comment by vardump in "A 386 PC for Your RP2350"

vardump — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:42:50 +0000

> read the RP2350 errata carefully

Even the latest rev? Can you elaborate a bit?

New comment by vardump in "Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100"

vardump — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:34:47 +0000

It's interesting how people who stare only at P/E make consistently bad investment decisions. Perhaps P/E is not such an important indicator overall?

New comment by vardump in "Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100"

vardump — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:27:09 +0000

I first read that "every $1T brings back $100", thinking, wow, is it THAT bad?

No, it's very unlikely at this point every $1 Nvidia invests brings back $100. Stating something like that is almost a red flag that things are overheating.

New comment by vardump in "The Gemini app is now available for Windows"

vardump — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:10:56 +0000

Did Google do something special to block Windows on ARM?

New comment by vardump in "An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later"

vardump — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:05:58 +0000

Game of Life was everywhere in the eighties. Numerous computer magazine articles and type-ins were published. There was an implementation of it for practically everything.

I once programmed Game of Life for an Amiga bootblock. During the late eighties and early nineties, writing small bootblock intros was a popular hobby.

Bootblock is also where a lot of viruses lived.

New comment by vardump in "Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)"

vardump — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:39:14 +0000

Maybe we can connect multiple Samsung RAM sticks to a grid and call it RAMsputer.

New comment by vardump in "Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash"

vardump — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:16:32 +0000

Yes, that, and P.P.S. Make sure the page works in Chrome.

The page instant scrolled suddenly back to previous video examples after I scrolled down. It was disorienting.

New comment by vardump in "I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip"

vardump — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:43:51 +0000

"easily adds 4Mb RAM". A bit misleading way to say 512 kB RAM.

New comment by vardump in "C64 Lemmings Reloaded"

vardump — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:17:38 +0000

Someone managed to create a longplay of the Fun levels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDrMXBBxEdc

C64 Lemmings Reloaded

vardump — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:22:32 +0000

Article URL: https://lunaticlab.itch.io/lemmings-reloaded

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322377

Points: 1

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New comment by vardump in "Banned Words List"

vardump — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:25:25 +0000

Can that list be real? If so, it's absolutely crazy. A lot of very common words are blocked.