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I'm not trolling. I actually want to know the answer, although my comment may feel less than diplomatic.

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tomcam··on Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
I couldn't detect it from my casual read. English is almost certainly OP's second language so it seems much more forgivable.
tomcam··on 507 Mechanical Movements
I don't approve. I can't find a donation link.
tomcam··on Dolly Parton has died
Oh. You weren't kidding! It's good. They avoid all the traps, like not trying to outdo Jimmy Page's guitar solo.
tomcam··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
You're killing me here lol
tomcam··on Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record
That's what she said
tomcam··on I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip
> I have the original 8080 manual in front of me

In case anyone's wondering what makes HN so damn great

tomcam··on I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip
I am thrilled by this. While the world is understandably complaining about the price of RAM and CPU I keep thinking about the demo scene or people like this. In the worst case scenario, we could retool our lives to some extent using optimized version of older tech.
tomcam··on Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a
I don’t think it looked awful:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microsoft_Windows_1....

But admittedly I did prefer the Mac.

tomcam··on Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
Also he had the kid switch to smoking filtereds
tomcam··on Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone
> Initial results showed children's lungs in London were smaller in capacity than those in Luton

Sure but they had to live in Luton

tomcam··on An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
That’s great. Thank you.
tomcam··on An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
If you reply to an email, does it use the “primary“ domain name or does it use the same domain it was sent to?
tomcam··on Jaithon 3, a fast programming language with the perfect syntax
Congratulations! What target environments does it support?
tomcam··on Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
The Turbo Pascal programming environment was based on UCSD Pascal.
tomcam··on Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory
At my age, getting my game back sounds fabulous
tomcam··on Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack
The bass part is sick af
tomcam··on Atomic Clocks
We didn’t have that in the Los Angeles area that I know of
tomcam··on H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon
I'm totally following this
tomcam··on Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack
"Beaver Attack" was not on my 2026 Hacker News headline bingo card
tomcam··on Atomic Clocks
Long before most of you were born there was a special number you could call to get the time here in the USA. It would give you a localized time every 10 seconds. It was considered an authoritative value, but I knew that normal analog clocks drifted a fair amount, and I was fascinated by the Time voice.

There was also a special number to dial that was called Information. When I was about 12, I suddenly thought that’s amazing, you can just call and get information. What I didn’t know at the time was that it only applied to phone numbers.

One day, I called Information and asked them how accurate the time number was and what mechanism was used to deliver it. Incredibly, they connected my preadolescent self to a public relations person at AT&T. That person somehow took me seriously and hooked me up with another party. And that person told me about the cesium atomic clock used to keep track of the time.

Later, I would call Information to find out the acreage occupied by the Los Angeles Zoo, and it was then that they brusquely explained to me that the number was not for general knowledge.

tomcam··on The most official water costs $120k a gallon
I got mine at a NIST surplus sale for just $55k/gallon. I think it was mismarked.

OK I just made the whole story up

tomcam··on Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]
Bigger picture: don’t use someone else’s trademark for a domain anyway
tomcam··on Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.
> Keep in mind that nobody on the care team had previously discussed any risk or indeed any tradeoffs whatsoever. This was at one of the best-regarded children's hospitals in the USA.

I bet you live in the Seattle area. Similar experience with my daughter.

tomcam··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
What sizes of SUV, trolleys, fridges, and storage basements would meet with your approval?
tomcam··on The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II
Same. I was just able to order an original kit on eBay for $40, so demand isn’t high.
tomcam··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
Absolutely incredible work. This is one of the most amazing news articles I’ve encountered in decades. Congratulations team!
tomcam··on Will It Mythos?
I feel like this could achieve techempower-level legend status
tomcam··on Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)
I have been wondering this for 25 years. Now I understand why New York City has so damn many empty buildings.
tomcam··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
Wow! Great link. I’m better than average but… yeah, I’d upgrade her to goddess. She’ll just carve a new axe handle when she feels like it. Truly humbling.
tomcam··on FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language
Can't wait to try this on Mac (English manual install intstructions at https://github.com/kekcleader/FreeOberon/commit/489c5a929bf9...). I feel like Oberon is very much worth a look for people interested in small, powerful languages.
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