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Limbon Kitten space agency engine, BRUTAL open sourced

There's also a detailed reddit post about the release by Dean Hall: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1x6d2dy/introducin...

Limbon Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

The footnote in the article explains why astrology type apps are effectively "banned"

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_reje...

Limbon AliExpress laptop with Intel 8088 CPU will take you back to the MS-DOS era

Discussed 3 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35995959

Limbon Orange Pi 800 Keyboard PC – A Raspberry Pi 400 alternative powered by RK3399

I have a question regarding "mainline" that I hope someone could help clarify.

What is the difference (in terms of coding, etc.) between mainlining support for a chip into Linux versus pinning it to a specific kernel revision? What makes it easy to bring a chip up on a specific kernel version,but not easy to submit that to the mainline kernel so future versions of the kernel are compatible?

Are there significant changes between kernel versions that require someone to be an active maintainer for the specific chip, making sure changes to the kernel stay compatible with the chip? And thus most manufacturer don't care enough to keep supporting future versions once they get on specific kernel version working?

Limbon Why America has a school bus driver shortage

I have a Class B CDL (with a medical cert restriction since it was for a state job, meaning no commerical jobs unless I get a medical done. I presume driving a school bus would be exempt for this) in New York. I guess I was one of the "500k+" people targeted by NYS, as I received an email asking me to apply to be a school bus driver. I gave it a quick thought before realizing that I work a 9 to 5 job, so there was no way I could even work the job if I wanted to. Besides the other good reasons mentioned in the article and this thread, I'm sure that also restricts the number of applicants because most people can't work during those hours unless they are retired or unemployed.

Limbon A curated list of .NET performance resources

Have you ever looked into Terrarium? It was created by the .NET team a long time ago to demonstrate the capabilities of .NET. You program a creature and simulate an ecosystem which consist of other peoples "creatures" which if I recall correctly were essentially just DLL's of their code.

http://terrariumapp.github.io/

Limbon A Warning to Users of NurseryCam

Wow the thread about the raspberry pi system was a wild ride. For anyone else who wants to give it a read: https://twitter.com/OverSoftNL/status/1357296455615197184

Limbon Show HN: I have found the world's greatest landing page

Even fellow colleagues can send embarrassing notifications on work related accounts. "I can't believe they don't understand such a simple concept" is not something you want appearing in a message addressed to you from a co-worker.

I've seen my fair share of embarrassing messages show up from Microsoft Teams when someone else in my corporation is screen sharing.

Limbon Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find and chat with streamers who are streaming alone

This sounded like a fun idea so I threw together a quick Go project to test it out / learn some go.

https://gitlab.com/ibelimb/twitch-no-gameid

You'll need to get a set of Twitch API credentials from https://dev.twitch.tv/dashboard/apps/create and store the ID/Secret in config.json. Once you start the go program just point your browser to http://localhost:8080/ and you can browse through streams with no gameid set 50 at a time.

Limbon Tesla Software Version 10.0

I wonder what happens if your phone freezes and you can't push the "oh god, stop!" button? Would you still be at fault?

Limbon Much fridge food ‘goes there to die’

Mind sharing the name of the meal planning app?

Limbon The case for ending Amazon’s dominance

None of the "Chomecast" products are Google products, in fact the very first product says this in the description: "Special note: this isn't a Chromecast"

The iPhone while purchasable on Amazon, is not actually sold or shipped by Amazon.

Limbon The Min-T Processor

Very nice! I had the same idea, and had started laying out the designs he was using in KiCAD as well. If you haven't already I suggest picking up a copy of Digital Computer Electronics [0] by Malvino, which he uses as a basis for his designs. It's a great reference and lets you dive a little deeper into the design as well.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Computer-Electronics-Albert-M...

Limbon 32-bit homebrew CPU using 74' series logic

I actually just started breadboarding an 8-bit CPU inspired by Ben Eater's project of the same nature [0]. The book he makes reference to "Digital Computer Electronics" by Malvino provides plans for a complete 'Simple As Possible' CPU using 74LS chips.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2...