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coldcity_againon Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike

In the most general terms, a procedurally generated world with permadeath. The term's inspired by Rogue[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)

coldcity_againon Judge Learns Both Sides Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

https://archive.ph/My7GF

coldcity_againon ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol

Just a ping to say that's done and waiting to be merged.

coldcity_againon ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol

Now done.

coldcity_againon ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol

On it :)

coldcity_againon ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol

Happy to PR. I'll do in 2 parts, as needs the platformio env as well as UART-aware serial init in adapters and terminal.

coldcity_againon ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol

There are 1300 commits. What is everyone smoking today?

coldcity_againon ESP32 Bit Pirate, a Hardware Hacking Tool with WebCLI That Speaks Every Protocol

The snark in these comments! @geotp please don't be put off, this is great work.

Found it in recent days and couldn't have been better timing for what I needed to do.

I have it running well on a Heltec WiFi LoRa 32(V3) with very minor patches to support the CP2102 UART.

coldcity_againon Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

A great position to take. Strong opinions, weakly held.

coldcity_againon Every Byte Matters

I love to see stuff like this. And an active Vectrex gamedev and PC/Amiga sizecoder I strongly agree with the sentiment!

coldcity_againon A 10 year old Xeon is all you need

Thanks very much. I'd forgotten that these were Westmere generation! Experimenting anyway; at least the RAID controller is behaving, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has gone on cleanly.

coldcity_againon A 10 year old Xeon is all you need

This is great work.

I'd love if anyone knows how I might fare with an old Dell R710 with 2 x Xeon 5600 (12 cores total) and 96Gb of DDR3.

coldcity_againon Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

Great to see how far this has come on. Brilliant work!

coldcity_againon Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

Strongly disagree. Looks coded with love and fingers.

coldcity_againon Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

Ahh THAT's what it was reminding me of. Thanks! CEP2 was great indeed.

coldcity_againon Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

For a realtime-ish solution I wonder if you've seen Ninjam[1]? It used to be that most evenings one could find various populated rooms; the serverlist[2] shows that the infrastructure's all sat there ready for people to come.

You play over the most recent (eg) 16 bar repeat. At the end of each repeat, everyone gets the updated loop. It's easier to experience than describe but is surprisingly effective and bypasses a whole class of latency issues.

[1] https://www.cockos.com/ninjam/

[2] http://autosong.ninjam.com/server-list.php

coldcity_againon Build a Radio Wave Detector with Balls of Aluminum Foil

This coherer also must be bumped between received sigs.

coldcity_againon Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

are you familiar with the actual game Brogue[1]?

1: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/

coldcity_againon dBase: 1979-2026

dBase was one of my first exposures to databases. As a largely penniless computer-obsessed kid in the late 80s/early 90s I was big into sending off for any freebies offered in the ads of the pages of UK BYTE.

Somehow I scored a (stripped down?) copy on multiple floppies that I couldn't even use, as an Amiga owner - but incredibly, this freebie came with a fantastic paper manual which I devoured.

coldcity_againon How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?

I like that. And if poetry can be defined as succinct use of language (perhaps a dubious assertion), then code can be poetry.

coldcity_againon How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?

Yes, very much so. A ping is a request, a pong a response.

coldcity_againon Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal

I hoped for a moment this was a mouse pointer replacement that adds a tiny human character, who starts the day with energy and vigour... only to become more decrepit and worn out as 5pm approaches.

coldcity_againon Hear your agent suffer through your code

There are certain usage tracking anomalies that can be advantageous.

coldcity_againon Hear your agent suffer through your code

It goes! Great, thank you!

coldcity_againon My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

Nice writeup and great domain. I don't know Zola and don't know if this is a common template or a custom jobbie but it's lovely.

coldcity_againon Hear your agent suffer through your code

I really want this! Any chance of a Cursor version?

coldcity_againon Artemis II Launch Day Updates

glad to have been wrong on this one!

coldcity_againon Fast and Gorgeous Erosion Filter

Bryce! One of the most fantastic[1] UIs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_%28software%29#/media/Fi...

coldcity_againon NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast

Can't understand why there doesn't seem to be much wider excitement at all, around "our Apollo 8", that I've been waiting decades for (late 40s here).

Apparently here in the UK our schools are hardly even hyping it.

coldcity_againon Artemis II Launch Day Updates

I'm watching it rapt, but also wondering which KIND of leaky will result in a scrub..