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soxfox42··on Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
You might be confusing softbuffer for minifb here, as softbuffer doesn't do any window handling of its own. All window management and event handling happens through winit (or another crate providing a HasWindowHandle implementation).
soxfox42··on Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C
Seems like a cool idea, but I can't even complete the first task. The compiler service seems to be broken, since in both lessons and the playground I just get "Could not write source: No space left on device (os error 28)".
soxfox42··on Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer
RISC-V's instruction encoding is designed to keep the bits of literals in common positions between different instruction types. I believe this is to simplify/speed up instruction decoding. The MSB of the literal is always the MSB of the instruction, which makes sign extension consistent. Most of the other bits in the J-type encoding line up nicely with the I-type or U-type encodings.
soxfox42··on Show HN: Website to APK Convertor
This domain was registered today, yet the website claims "10,000+ Apps Created" and lists a copyright date of 2024. None of the links in the site footer work, nor does the "See How It Works" button. There's nothing to show that this site can even do what it claims, and it immediately requests payment without allowing you to verify that any given site will work with it.

Basically, I'm saying that this looks like a simple AI generated scam.

soxfox42··on Fizz Buzz without conditionals or booleans
That solution fails for any value that is a multiple of neither 3 nor 5. In those cases, the result should be the original number.
soxfox42··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
As of macOS 15 (I think?), that shortcut stopped working, it will just show the same unverified software warning.
soxfox42··on Apple is reportedly going to rename all of its operating systems
They've all been receiving yearly releases for a long time now – macOS has had them since Lion, iOS had them from the beginning, and the others are similar.
soxfox42··on Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)
hammer - red = lock