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Randomnoon Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]

There's a big gap between the top 2 solvers (Yiheng Wang and Xuanyi Geng) and everyone right now. Yunzhi Lian is 4th in the world.

Randomnoon John C. Dvorak has died

It was changed to '46 today

Randomnoon Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

> It was helped by using the Debug symbols accidentally(?) compiled into the final version of the game.

Don't think this was the case, what helped was it being compiled without optimizations.

Randomnoon GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17

> Wicked For Good

Is this an antithesis to Don't Be Evil?

Randomnoon Saying goodbye to asm.js

The P in PNaCl is Portable.

Pepper was a pun on Native Client (since NaCl = salt). Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) was Google's more secure version of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API). Flash Player was essentially the only thing using NPAPI/PPAPI by the end of its life.

Randomnoon Saying goodbye to asm.js

> (Flascc/Alchemy(?) I forgot all the names this went through)

Crossbridge was its third and most recent name.

Pepper.js is another interesting project from around this time that didn't pan out.

https://github.com/google/pepper.js/

Randomnoon Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

This page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Tilt!_Pinball

Indeed the sources say Doom clone, not port.

Randomnoon Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

Have you read the Wikipedia page recently? It was less complete a couple of years ago

Randomnoon Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

Yes this isn't clean-room. Though none of these decompilation projects have been resolved in court yet. re3 (GTA3/Vice City decompilation) developers were sued by Take Two but they settled out of court.

Randomnoon Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

Just to note, Microsoft provides debug symbols for Pinball

Randomnoon Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved

All the SWFs are archived (which is often not the case on Wayback). Just when the program is requesting to load one, archive.org is returning an HTML-wrapped file instead which fails to load. It would be quite easy to add to Flashpoint.

Randomnoon Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved

Pretty sure it would be working in the Wayback Machine, if archive.org had configured it right.

Randomnoon Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code

> It's not legal

Based on what? Afaik decompilation is a grey area and projects that enforce clean-room design do it to stay out of this grey area.

Randomnoon Show HN: Awesome J2ME

One of the difficulties I had searching for J2ME resources is that the mobile equivalent of the JVM is called KVM (K virtual machine), so most of the search results are about Linux's Kernel-based virtual machine instead.