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vardump··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Weird how similar many of those are to Commodore 64 palette.
vardump··on Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives
But 6502 has 256 registers! Full ZP of them.
vardump··on Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
80% after 1000 cycles. I hope that doesn’t mean faking battery health instead.
vardump··on Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
I like to wash my phones every now and then. Even submerging them in water.
vardump··on 1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
Crispiness has a lot to do with DAC quality. That’s why Matrox display adapters were so popular in the nineties. Crispy, high quality DAC.
vardump··on New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
We have switches now, hubs just don't exist anymore. Switches are not affected by some devices having a lower speed.
vardump··on GPT-5.5
I just can't bear to use services from this company after what they did to the global DRAM markets.

I'm not trying to make any kind of moral statement, but the company just feels toxic to me.

vardump··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
60B. That's a completely crazy price. Great for Cursor, I guess. If it happens, that is.
vardump··on 80386 Memory Pipeline
Most people called it unreal mode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode

vardump··on Michael Rabin has died
Probably meant black HN top bar.
vardump··on We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]
Also the screen was replaced.
vardump··on The Utopia of the Family Computer
Sigh. That's why I stopped using — (em dash)...
vardump··on German Dog Commands
> German-speaking dog

Impressive!

vardump··on We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]
Well, it's still a great idea and a cool project.
vardump··on We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]
Whoever owns the rights for Crysis should open source as much as they can.

Just so that Crysis can one day run on a future computationally overpowered smart toaster.

vardump··on We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video]
The pregnancy test had altered innards. So it was fake.
vardump··on Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops
I don't think GPUs are competitive at all. You need specialized mining rigs with bitcoin mining specialized chips.
vardump··on Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989
"Nowadays I can do the same with a free copy of Blender and any reasonably modern integrated GPU in probably under an hour."

Try seconds or at most minutes.

vardump··on EFF is leaving X
I don't use social media at all, unless you count HN as such.

I think the only practical consequence is that EFF loses some fraction of audience.

vardump··on Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]
No, those are the original formats. MOD (Soundtracker [0], Protracker, etc.), IT (Impulse Tracker), XM (FastTracker) and S3M (ScreamTracker 3) are all from the nineties.

[0]: Soundtracker, the tracker that started this all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Soundtracker

vardump··on Veracrypt project update
Yeah. Otherwise Microsoft purchasing Skype made no sense.
vardump··on Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]
Those are SID etc. tunes. Not chiptunes.
vardump··on Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]
If it's a tracker module of some kind with very short looping samples, then yeah, it's a chiptune.
vardump··on Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]
MIDI songs? I checked, I couldn't find any from the link you posted. Most were different module formats, like XM, Protracker, S3M, Impulse Tracker. Those have nothing to do with midi other than they also produce music.
vardump··on Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat
Funny how all countries are adjacent to Russia...
vardump··on Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat
Thanks for the reply. Let's hope local models catch up.
vardump··on Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat
Is it possible to accomplish tagging with local AI instead of Gemini?
vardump··on CSS is DOOMed
Tables? Bah. I remember when all of this were image maps instead.
vardump··on Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
Duh, turbo doesn't work in space. Surely you meant High Speed Pascal!

https://www.fihl.net/HSPascal/

vardump··on People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account
That new Windows app didn’t even work for me at all. Could not connect a Windows 10 box for example.
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