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iberatoron Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

Nope . Software renderer.

Quake 2 and Half life had pure software renderer for people who didn't have 3D acceleration cards such as Voodoo.

It was slow but worked on ANY graphical card :)

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

You should add guest-logbook as in 90" and 00" to it :) Or whole fucking BBS system :) THAT would be cool

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

Why would you ban Main Kampf? Have you ever even read it?

Its ultra important for historical/social and linguistic education.

I read it when I was 14, and I'm from Poland.

It is AWFUL and PAINFUL to read due to the horrible styling - which amuses me to this day. :) That's why no need to ban it hehehe

Nowadays books are for intellectuals, not for the masses... That's why I would be ok for any modern teenager to read anything 18+ or anti-whatever books :) It's net positive no matter of content IMO.

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

Each state is part of the USA, and each state DOES ban some books.

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

USA is ultra conservative on the average in comparison to just any European state for example.

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

GREATEST strategy and philosophical game I have witnessed in the past 30 years...

Peak of complexity and maturism in games...

iberatoron Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later

winevdm allows me to run all 3.11 apps on windows :) Its amazing - works even for 32bit era.

iberatoron Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

People can be held accountable for war crimes. That's why they are less willing to commit them and obey orders blindly.

Ai is like 8yr old with gun: unpredictable

iberatoron Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95

nope. 14fps on pentium 200mhz with 32mb ram in 512x400 or similar mode (640x480 was too much)

iberatoron New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste

that's 200% bullshits. Countries that invested into desalination plants are known to create death zones right where brine is sent back - even if miles from the coast

iberatoron Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? (2014) [pdf]

Women with higher testosterone levels prefer more risks.

For example: when women are starting dating and fell in love: their testosterone level go up for 2 months

iberatoron Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)

this is not jpg or png but some dynamic stuff.

It freezes up my phone. Why do you need to complicate the stuff so much?

Direct jpg or png could be rendered even by pentium 100 with 32mb of ram...

iberatoron A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)

except this guy is right.

iberatoron Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)

Not even one map as jpg or png to see on the webpage!!!

Whats the point of this project? You expect us to load npm just to see some maps?!

iberatoron US banks rely on a 65-year-old programming language

This article is a lie. Cobol is still developed and far far from the original lang. It supports ibject oriented programming for example.

Its like C++ - changing and evolving.

It works and its battle tested. 99% people criticizing cobol never actually used it or worked with it

iberatoron Why China got rich and India didn't

China has more political parties in parliament than the USA. Stop spreading FUD

iberatoron Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)

cool story :)

iberatoron Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)

zmodem/xmodem can still be used over ssh :) kermit is actually still in development.

I used it in like 2021 to transfer some data over serial from some really old laptop (386sx). Was faster than txp/ip over plip/slip

iberatoron MP3s from Google Drive in Music Assistant on Home Assistant

just create mp3 server

iberatoron Handmade Hawaiian Islands Map

Laughable project. Sorry but I expected a WAY lower scale. People were able to map entire cities block by block by hand in the 16th century...

This is not even a map but an outline of islands and without any scale...

"A map without scale and legend is not a valid map" - i know that from 4th grade...

Most disappointing post of 2026 so far.

At least there is no AI slop. 2/5

iberatoron Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer

Run Unix v6 on it :) 16 bit and works with like 80kb of ram

iberatoron Linux/M68k

NetBSD still support 486 and even 386 i think. Out of tre box. Netbsd supports even vax 780 from 1979 (first modern 32bit architecture) :)

iberatoron Linux/M68k

you would live NetBSD

iberatoron Razor 1911 and the Amiga Demoscene

I bet all members are now professors at universities :)

iberatoron Wake up! 16b

I was the opposite hehe

iberatoron I love my Bluetooth keyboard

When I was homeless I programmed a virtual machine with a custom architecture with my own instruction set, assembler and almost finished FORTH compiler - all using 10$ cheap BT keyboard with some cheap phone running termux...

It's a pain as most of those keyboard hijack some control keys - so it was all tmux and vim hehe

Also wrote some python live debugger/tracer but then python changed it bytcode again AND made JIT into mainline :(

All at the busy as fuck mall hehe

funny times

iberatoron Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)

please make the whole planet a single map. like fsx did

iberatoron Flipper One – we need your help

sdr waterfall takes a lot of memory

iberatoron Haiku

Im pro NetBSD but freebsd have mkst developers and adoption rate. its business tested

iberatoron Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait

I'm pro USA but i try to be fair.

iberatoron Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone

jt8 would work. designed for ultra low db reception. We are talking here -20 dbm and chattable