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pikuseruon Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)

“You do it”

“No, you do it”

“Get Bill to do it.”

pikuseruon Memo to Ridley Scott: no one needs more Alien: Covenant movies

I can’t wait for the Alien / Blade Runner crossover prequel where we find out Tyrell was Weyland’s long lost Dad.

And the black goop in Prometheus is actually made from Midi-Chlorians.

pikuseruon I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

At last a post about computing that appeals to me. Low powered and energy efficient computing.

I’ve actually been wondering if it could be possible to design a small computer that powered off in between key presses (paired with an e-ink screen.) If the CPU state could be stored and reloaded in between key presses. I was mainly thinking about turn based games on an e-ink device, but I guess it could be suited to anything event driven that triggered the next set of CPU cycles to perform some work before a “sleep” instruction put the computer back into hibernation.

I did search online to see if anyone was thinking about something similar and there was a paper “Design of a nonvolatile-register-embedded RISC-V CPU with software-controlled data-retention and hardware-acceleration functions” which looked interesting.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277306462...

pikuseruon Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

If you don’t like it don’t use it

pikuseruon Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)

If your butthole looks like Copilot I recommend you have a trip to the doctors for a check up

pikuseruon Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

The thing that caught my eye immediately was the sandboxing. I have no idea why Node and npm don’t have sandboxing by default. It would greatly help with some of these worms and supply chain attacks.

pikuseruon Almost Always Unsigned

What if I’m making a 2d game and need to go left

pikuseruon Pi squared is nearly 10

BBQ

pikuseruon When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?

No.

pikuseruon Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML

“Layers upon layers of opaque incantations”

You’ve described software.

pikuseruon Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML

Because a team of browser engineers have already written and reviewed the code to do it for you; and (hopefully) it’ll be performant, properly tested and accessible… ;-D

pikuseruon Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB

Of the many cool things I liked about this, removing the missile from the array by swapping it with the last missile and decrementing the missile count was a nice trick.

pikuseruon Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth?

I remember being idealistic when I first started. Now I’m just jaded and cynical. Don’t try looking for meaning in any of it, you won’t find any. The system just churns along. And everyone with it. Play the game and nod along. Your job doesn’t define who you are. Just be thankful because you could be in a worse situation.

pikuseruon Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright

I’m glad it’s not just me. These LED headlights are terrible and dazzle me all the time. It’s especially bad with SUVs that have lights right in your eyeline, when you’re driving a “normal” car.

pikuseruon Do you know that there is an HTML tables API?

They’re probably still quite useful for displaying tabular data - there’s also semantics involved, it’s not primarily just a layout mechanism.

pikuseruon People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses

Free healthcare as well

pikuseruon Apple Photos app corrupts images

“It just works”

pikuseruon A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025

Windows 10

pikuseruon Ask HN: How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s?

How about making a new game with help from your son (even if it’s ideas) and making some new memories? ;-)

The problem I found is that a lot of the stuff I made is tied to the hardware, OS and SDKs I used to make and run it (especially PalmOS and J2ME stuff - although Apple is just as bad.)

Luckily I’ve been able to find an emulator called Cloudpilot Emu to run some of my old PalmOS games in the browser.

I think if I was doing a game now and wanted to be able to look back on it in 10 to 20 years time I’d be doing it in C with SDL or JavaScript - although you’re betting on those being around. Or at least some virtual machine / runtime that could be ported to some new OS / platform.

pikuseruon Long Term Support

I wish most software was developed and supported like this

pikuseruon JavaScript Trademark Update

Can I invent a language called Larry Ellison Script and trademark it

pikuseruon What is a modern successor to HyperCard?

I think Scrappy may have been mentioned on HN a few weeks ago, not sure if that fits what you’re looking for.

https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/

pikuseruon How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?

Glad I’m not the only person stood there focusing intently over my spectacles on orange skin looking for defects through the red plastic netting.

pikuseruon I want a good parallel computer

No mention of the Transputer :(

pikuseruon Ask HN: Why does current interest in retro computing focus on the early 80s?

It’s because the folks who are the middle-aged adults with disposable income in their 40’s and 50’s used to have computers from the 80’s.

Although one of the benefits of them is that you can still play and program for them (and even on them.) They’re simpler and more immediate.

pikuseruon Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick

Hope you don’t mind but I’ve copied this So I can refer back to it ;)

pikuseruon Ask HN: How to get back hacker's mentality and joy of coding

Switch off the computer and your phone, take a break from analysing things, take a breath or two, and go for a walk. Give yourself space. Take pleasure from the small ordinary things, without placing any expectations on yourself or the day. Be kind to yourself. Play.

You're a human being, not a human doing.

pikuseruon The Acorn Archimedes and the first ARM processor

It’s only obscure if you’re writing from a position of ignorance.

pikuseruon User's Kindle eBook collection revoked by Amazon (2012)

Ooh color, shiny

https://pocketbook.cz/cs-cz/catalog/color-screen-cz/pocketbo...

pikuseruon User's Kindle eBook collection revoked by Amazon (2012)

Maybe one day there’ll be alternatives, you’ll be able to buy and own books and read them on devices like the Open Book:

https://itsfoss.com/open-book/

In the meantime I’ll be sticking with old paper books.

On the downside they take up a lot of space (but I guess that’s why we have public libraries, charity shops and second hand book shops.)

On the upside they have a great battery life.