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NSA can also legally force companies to spy. Secret spy courts and gag orders are a thing.

Actually there are more such cases against the USA than China in public.

iberatoron WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter

yet on real old hardware it would be 20x slower in real life. same as all native javascript junk - its fast, but non usuable on older hardware

iberatoron Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast

Tallinn might be smaller but it's the capital - so centre of organized crime and money. this does matter in terms of safety

iberatoron The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition

which assembler? modern assemblers with macros are quite easy

iberatoron WASM on the JVM Ships Under the Bytecode Alliance

Usecases?

iberatoron TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer

Cloud computing is not a supercomputer. Different architecture, bandwitch, interconnectivity and latencies.

iberatoron Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

Acer aspire one with NetBSD

iberatoron 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

Cow tongues are amazing with mashed potatoes amd horseradish sauce! Very well known dish in Central Europe

iberatoron Underarm bowling incident of 1981

It's a british myth. 99% world population outside India doesn't care about cricket.

A better metric is the average % of likes from ALL countries.

iberatoron Half-Life 2 in a Browser

wine?

iberatoron An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy

as far i remembered SX emulation adds 37kb to the kernel

iberatoron Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend

You didn't wrote this. Generating code from AI is NOT programming.

iberatoron My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992

This article is fake.

Intel Fortran Compiler and IBM XL Fortran compilers are still developed and very well funded

iberatoron Microsoft will end Office 2021 support in October

Killing itself in the foot.

What about offline and power users?

iberatoron Semiconductor Lifeline Keeps Fighter Jets in the Air

I'm sure they do. They also require double sourcing of components: 2 separate companies at once

iberatoron 'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots

Because it's a crime? A major issue for the homeless is not food but shelter and storage.

In this case risk vs reward it crazy low

iberatoron Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

Wow. That's interesting. Thats tx of 300ghz.

Very interesting application of radio waves.

iberatoron Renting a sewing machine from the library

Sewing machines are great for computer people: you can train your fashion sense and motor skills(!) - most 'nerds' lack it :)

Also it's an incredible women magnet :)

iberatoron Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

I'm from Europe and not FAANG material.

iberatoron Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

Yeah, as backend programmer.

iberatoron Storied Colors – A catalogue of named colors

This webpage is nonsense.

First example I saw was already wrong. COBALT BLUE is not known since 1830 but its ANCIENT.

This webpage is some low effort english centric world and wrong and probably just AI slop.

iberatoron Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

I designed and wrote some custom cpu(stack based RISC cpu with fixed operation/operand size) architecture simulator, with assembler and almost with forth compiler on my phone when I was homeless...

Nowadays out of tech - too tired after 11h shift to do stuff. No weekends.

Got kicked out from McDonald's for being too slow (competing with 20yr olds is HARD), gonna be kicked out from temu in 2 weeks due the AI (80% staff reduction!) despite the best CSAT...

I'm worried about having any job stability. Programmer's ship sailed away I guess. (I lost to the 40B$ AI supercomputer so it's fair :)

/venting off

iberatoron KDE Plasma 6.7 Released

classical UI without fancy non intuitive stuff.

I remember few years ago that i didnt understand how to use the plasma deskrop out of the box. Person with experience of many different oses...

If its not intuitive it sucks.

iberatoron KDE Plasma 6.7 Released

All KDE after 2 and 3 is awful to use.

I remember running KDE 1 running flawlessly on 32mb of RAM having a better desktop experience than today...

iberatoron Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

Unemployment and forced downshifting. From 200k programmer to McDonald's worker and call centre worker in just 4 years...

Its brutal. Once you are out at 35+ for an even year or two - it's impossible to go back.

AI takes jobs faster than creating new ones.

ps. Just got laid off from the Temu call(chat) centre. AI IS taking our jobs.

completely devastated

iberatoron All about the IBM 1130 Computing System

I always wondered what if time hardware development stopped in 1969: how far we couuld go with such machines with new fresh software? :)

iberatoron Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb

I think that there are actually mods for this game chaning the AI. Actually you can create your own custom faction using just config files and notepad - all out of the box:)

iberatoron Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs

Why nearly all modern kernels requires 4MB as hardcoded minimum of memory?

I remember runnning a.out(elf predecessor) based linux on 2mb if ram in the past for example (slackware 3 i think).

This is generic question - not about Linux only

iberatoron Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs

You are the right person to ask as you understand the core of the problem:

Why all modern(ish) kernels require 4MB of ram as a hardcoded value? Is it because of the ram page size or what?

iberatoron Show HN: Tamper-evident audit trail for AI coding agent activity

Delete it all. Make it private and sell it hehe Great idea!