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cylinder714on Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

Here's a piece on writing portable ARM64 assembly: https://ariadne.space/2023/04/12/writing-portable-arm-assemb...

cylinder714on How Accurate is this? [No Access to X:(]

Replace x.com with nitter.poast.org.

Obligatory link to Markus Kuhn's excellent page on international/metric paper sizes: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html

cylinder714on I Want You to Understand Chicago

Go to YouTube and search for "chicago weekend violence".

cylinder714on TiVo exiting legacy DVR business

Lon Seidman (lon.tv on YouTube) has been covering this closely, and the FCC is aware: https://youtu.be/0YmeEp_N6pY

cylinder714on President Trump creates export controls on "any and all critical software" Nov 1

The OpenBSD project is based in Calgary, btw.

cylinder714on Dollar General's 19,000 Stores Could Solve Rural America's Internet Problem

As someone living in rural Nevada and served by Dollar General and Family Dollar stores, I agree. I don't see what problems out here would be solved by local cloud computing resources. The snippet provided doesn't go into detail.

cylinder714on EasyOS – An experimental Linux distribution (2025)

Barry Kauler is brilliant, but as he's the main driver behind the project, I worry that the bus factor for EasyOS is 1.

cylinder714on Raspberry Pi 500+

Lon Seidman just reviewed a $180 HP laptop from Walmart. Intel N150 processor, can run Linux and has upgradable RAM and storage:

https://youtu.be/FRNz-xakWB8

cylinder714on SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM

I miss the Barcelona Pavilion walkthrough demo.

cylinder714on Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc.

Uzbekistan!

cylinder714on Spiped – secure pipe for SSH, SMTP, etc.

I posted this in response to the news that Kazakhstan is blocking Wireguard connections entirely:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45054598

cylinder714on Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)

https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/

cylinder714on What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate

I just saw an Apple TV teaser for Neuromancer!

cylinder714on Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights

A 1993 article from the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings on how her lack of radio savvy was a major factor in the tragedy:

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1993/d...

An example: she or somebody had a retractable antenna optimized for long-range high-frequency/shortwave radio removed prior to the flight—crazy!

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39239964

cylinder714on Mistaking Mary Magdalene

I watched a bit of the coverage of Pope Francis' coffin being brought into St. Peter's basilica, and heard "Santa Maria Magdalena [pray for us]" chanted by the choir.

Also, the final episode of Martin Scorsese's "The Saints" series dropped, featuring her.

cylinder714on Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank

Yep. Glad they're coming back.

cylinder714on Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank

I used to visit that store once a week, just because.

cylinder714on I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC

"Tiny BASIC was designed by Dennis Allison and the People's Computer Company (PCC) in response to the open letter published by Bill Gates complaining about users pirating Altair BASIC, which sold for $150. Tiny BASIC was intended to be a completely free version of BASIC that would run on the same early microcomputers."

cylinder714on Why I don't discuss politics with friends

The left has called every Republican presidential candidate a Nazi/fascist/authoritarian since Ronald Reagan.

cylinder714on Explore Sutro Tower

#TeamSutro

cylinder714on Tech boss Jan Marsalek is Russian spymaster who has led cells across Europe

https://archive.ph/H7lTL

cylinder714on A map of torii around the world

On the subject of "world map of a particular item," there is The Guinness Map, a very accessible map of all the world's pubs that serve Guinness ale on tap:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42406157

cylinder714on Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected

The article references the "Oh-My-God particle, the most energetic particle yet encountered. Here's the late John Walker's excellent piece on that:

https://fourmilab.ch/documents/OhMyGodParticle/

cylinder714on I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language

>Steve Wozniac created a small VM just to manage 16 bit Integers (see the his Byte magazine articles).

It was called SWEET16: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16

A BYTE Magazine article by Wozniak: http://amigan.1emu.net/kolsen/programming/sweet16.html

Porting Sweet 16 by Carsten Strotmann (with source code) http://www.6502.org/source/interpreters/sweet16.htm

cylinder714on Sequent Calculus and Notation – Par Part 1

Support for sequent calculus is built into Mark Tarver's Shen language; here's the relevant chapter in his Book of Shen: https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos_228.html

cylinder714on Why I Chose Common Lisp

Its author is quitting his job to work on it full time: https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-01-10-i-quit-my-job/

cylinder714on A handful of X accounts took Elon Musk 'down the rabbit hole' on UK politics

Archived at https://archive.ph/fBfZj

cylinder714on Take the Pedals Off the Bike

The variation I've read is to lower the seat as far as it can go so that one's feet touch the ground and to have the learner coast down a gentle slope.