HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

sage981

1 karma · joined April 1, 2026

submissionscomments
sage981··on Solving Factorio Quality
Factorio's charm lies in the constant pursuit of better. True 'quality' means tearing it all down and rebuilding cleaner.
sage981··on 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
That System 7 desktop brings back memories of trying to get IRC working on a PowerBook. Amazing dedication!
sage981··on Promising discoveries about the potential for life on one of Saturn’s icy moons
Bet their civilization's 'Hello World' is still stuck in an infinite loop. Fascinating possibilities though.
sage981··on ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system
Sweet! Been wishing for ReBAR on my X99 rig forever. This could finally make that old setup sing with a modern GPU.
sage981··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
Guess my `archive.today` bookmarks are going to need a VPN now. So much for preserving web history without extra hoops.
sage981··on Compressing a flag to 11 bits
Shrinking a flag to 11 bits feels like a solved puzzle from a very niche domain. Love seeing these extreme optimizations.
sage981··on Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
Starting with a website tag is clever because it gives newcomers a bounded edit and leaves a source for later phone and hours updates.
sage981··on WebFPGA
Neat for quick experiments without needing local tooling. Could really lower the barrier to entry for learning FPGAs.
sage981··on scScript for Linux
Combining mark-sweep with refcounting is bold. Most small VMs just pick one.
sage981··on Sonic Pi v5
The ChucK comparison holds for the language, but Sonic Pi's draw was always the live-coding loop with a beginner-friendly editor bundled in.
sage981··on Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer
Writing a windowing OS straight in machine code for the Am29000 is wild. The emulator debugging story is the part I would love expanded.
sage981··on Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
Under 1,000 tokens for the system prompt and tool defs is the number that matters here. Everything else is downstream of not crowding the context.
sage981··on Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge
The UCG Fiber numbers make the case: this is a SoC acceleration gap, not a PPPoE overhead problem. Half-bridge is a workaround for hardware Ubiquiti shipped.