Hacker News: xyzzy3000

New comment by xyzzy3000 in "Game decompilation site is closing because AI has 'broken the community aspect'"

xyzzy3000 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:54:02 +0000

Primary source: https://decomp.dev/

New comment by xyzzy3000 in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

xyzzy3000 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:35:10 +0000

Mythic Beasts.

That is the actual name of the company, not a statement on the scarcity of decent non-US based domain providers.

MI5 Issues Espionage Alert – Cgtri

xyzzy3000 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:25:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mi5.gov.uk/mi5-issues-espionage-alert-cgtri-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E9%80%9A%E7%94%A8%E6%8A%80%E6%9C%AF%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%E9%99%A2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909466

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by xyzzy3000 in "Super Smash Bros. Melee is 100.00% decompiled"

xyzzy3000 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:15:08 +0000

The repo: https://github.com/doldecomp/melee

YouTube Moves to Ban Nerd Reich Podcast

xyzzy3000 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:09:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thenerdreich.com/youtube-moves-to-ban-nerd-reich-podcast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533735

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by xyzzy3000 in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

xyzzy3000 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:58:05 +0000

No, I disagree with you here - it isn't one user and certainly not an abuser. This is reputationally damaging, and doubling down is not helping. Arguably, the doubling down is the most damaging part.

An absence of open expression of disapproval is not the same as approval - people may just be avoiding dogpiling a member of our community.

I would add that people have a right to express disagreement or disappointment in a respectful manner in accordance with the rules of this moderated private space, and we have not had moderation/interventions suggesting otherwise. The criticisms are reasonable, to my mind at least, and probably ought to be taken as a massive hint that something is wrong. We are less than a day in, and it's not too late to fix things.

I am trying not to be too critical, as I have enjoyed previous content from this channel and I wish the poster well for the future.

Gunther von Hagens, creator of Body Worlds and plastination, dies aged 81

xyzzy3000 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:58:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/27/gunther-von-hagens-creator-of-body-worlds-and-plastination-dies-aged-81

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081204

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by xyzzy3000 in "The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car"

xyzzy3000 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:42:41 +0000

The wheel in the photo is on the left, which is wrong in Japan. Domestic Japanese vehicles have the steering wheel on the right.

New comment by xyzzy3000 in "The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car"

xyzzy3000 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:41:10 +0000

The car in the article has the steering wheel on the left, which is the wrong side for vehicles driving on the left-hand side of the road. Domestically-produced cars in both the UK and Japan have the steering wheel on the right.

New comment by xyzzy3000 in "Thought-Terminating Cliché"

xyzzy3000 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:07:02 +0000

"The proof of the pudding is in the eating".

WebGL Raytracer

xyzzy3000 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:23:52 +0000

Article URL: https://oseiskar.github.io/webgl-raytracer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46808167

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

UK gambling regulator accuses Meta of lying about struggle to spot illegal ads

xyzzy3000 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:56:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/uk_gambling_comission_criticizes_meta/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689525

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by xyzzy3000 in "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"

xyzzy3000 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:13:39 +0000

RISC OS has the concept of "OS units" which don't map directly onto pixels 1:1, and it was possible to fiddle with the ratio on the RiscPC from 1994 onwards, giving reasonably-scaled windows and icons in high-resolution modes such as 1080p.

It's hinted at in this tutorial, but you'd have to go through the Programmer's Reference Manual for the full details: https://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/risc-os/wimp-prog/window-theo...

RISC OS 3.5 (1994) was still 2MB in size, supplied on ROM.

New comment by xyzzy3000 in "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"

xyzzy3000 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:35:22 +0000

That's only RISC OS 2 though. RISC OS 3 was 2MB, and even 3.7 didn't have everything in ROM as Acorn had introduced the !Boot directory for softloading a large amount of 'stuff' at boot time.