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chrisstanchak··on Show HN: Future Crew's 1993 Second Reality, rebuilt by AI agents, no emulation
Will do. Here is my announcement on X if you are on there. https://x.com/chrisstanchak/status/2090818518484652491?s=20
chrisstanchak··on Show HN: Future Crew's 1993 Second Reality, rebuilt by AI agents, no emulation
Thank you! It took longer than I'd like to admit. ;)
chrisstanchak··on Show HN: Future Crew's 1993 Second Reality, rebuilt by AI agents, no emulation
Second Reality was one of the programs that made me a computer geek as a kid. I built this as an homage to Future Crew and to make the demo accessible to anyone with a browser.

I also wanted to see whether current AI coding agents could actually reconstruct something this gnarly from the original C, x86 assembly, Pascal, data files, and shipped executables without just approximating the visuals. I kept pushing for source-level fidelity, including the music sync, VGA quirks, hidden part, and deterministic verification.

Demo: https://www.secondreality1993.com/ Source: https://github.com/stanchak/secondreality1993

Would love feedback from anyone who knows the original.

chrisstanchak··on Codex for almost everything
Citrix

/s

chrisstanchak··on Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
I have the actual 'Cardiff Giant' laptop from the show. Got it in LA at a prop auction. Should I do a YouTube?
chrisstanchak··on Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)
I have the Cardiff Giant. Like the actual computer from the show.
chrisstanchak··on Look, Another AI Browser
Really love the design of your site. Homemade?
chrisstanchak··on Show HN: I made a small site to share text and files
The $0.01 solution is to use /d/
chrisstanchak··on Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library
Very cool, but I don't see a way to download. Currently have ChatGPT Agent Mode translating one from latin, but a tedious process.
chrisstanchak··on Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
It just takes one
chrisstanchak··on Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
It's always a bad route that was introduced during a planned upgrade
chrisstanchak··on Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
True, but nothing tells the story quite like a "no healthy upstream" status page
chrisstanchak··on Ford to Halt F-150 Lightning Production as EV Demand Wanes
Record sales, lowest costs and greatest profits of any maker. Yes, he's tanking the non-Tesla portion of the EV market.
chrisstanchak··on The journey of an internet packet: Exploring networks with traceroute
CCNA baby
chrisstanchak··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
Web interface as well? Prodigy was great.
chrisstanchak··on An experiment in UI density created with Svelte
Love this. Amazing work.
chrisstanchak··on Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)
Made this a while ago if you just want to look at the screensaver.

https://stanchak.github.io/dvd/

chrisstanchak··on Developer posts secret key on GitHub, loses $40K in 2 minutes
Even if it’s private don’t put keys in the repo
chrisstanchak··on A forged Apple employee badge
Plot twist...Cabel is the seller. This is just to cover his tracks.
chrisstanchak··on Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server
pwrdwnsys *immed
chrisstanchak··on Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)
My friend invented rounded corners in tables
chrisstanchak··on Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools
Found a good use for SVB debit card
chrisstanchak··on Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features
You can make the same argument that pirating software is ok
chrisstanchak··on Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs
Musk is set up to win both ways. That's the genius.
chrisstanchak··on Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs
Did you watch Sandy Munro's analysis on it? He's one of the leading minds in the auto industry.
chrisstanchak··on Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?
tl;dr

Crushed stones, or ballast, along railway tracks provide stability, aid drainage, control vegetation, and distribute train load.

chrisstanchak··on The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives
I’ve been suffering through something similar with a DLT IV tape from 1999. Luckily I didn’t send out to the data recovery company. But still unsuccessful.
chrisstanchak··on IBM AS/400: Databases all the way down (2019) [video]
pwrdwnsys *immed
chrisstanchak··on Microsoft somehow brings iMessage to Windows – will it last?
I agreed with you until I stopped and wondered...why? If Windows Phone were still around, this would make sense. Since it's not, I don't see Microsoft's incentive to get bogged down in litigation on messaging.
chrisstanchak··on Tesla tells investors it’s being investigated by the Justice Department
I take it you haven't driven it

>the amount of Tesla owners I know that tell me they are happy

Exactly

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