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More details about the electronic bible (released in 1989): http://pnylab.com/products/bible/main.html Very interesting read and a neat product from a technical perspective. I'd li…

MAME is a really impressive piece of software. It emulates tens of thousands of machines and goes into painstaking detail to get things right. One of the coolest aspects of their c…

I think electrical/phone sockets were placed at that level because many telephones were designed to hang on the wall (docking onto and covering up the faceplate) for easy access. M…

This is really cool. What do you think the remaining ~1% is?

Do you have any links to these discussion posts? This sounds very interesting, and I'm intrigued to learn more about the hardware explanation for this phenomenon.

Wow! I actually met Aead last week while he was printing parts for this project (we both work at the same place). Surreal to see it at the top of HN.

Neat tool, I could see this being handy for debugging TUI tools. I noticed that it works with _escaped_ ESC characters ("\x1b", "\u001b", "\033") but it didn't recognize raw ESC ch…

This was the neovim plugin that really caused me to stick with it. I've been using this plugin for over a year, after the (short) initial period of frustration with the delays I wa…

There's a MIT license in both source files, but I added a copy of it to the project root for those that have this constraint. Thanks!

This is super cool. Any insight into how this may have been designed? High-quality, compact hash functions are really useful in C.

I ordered one of these posters a few years ago as a gift for my mom, who is a scientist. Large posters with lots of information to get lost in are always fun. This one does not dis…

yep, I started using it when I was 5, so that tracks.

paint.net is one of the only pieces of software that I miss from Windows. After having started with Tux Paint, I found paint.net extremely intuitive and easy to use (very nice for …

Have been renting in Boston for two years because I go to school here, I'm renting again next year. It's not uncommon in my zip code for rents to be raised $150-200/bedroom/month e…

I've had this list bookmarked for years. Thanks for this!

Not really. The very first computer I used growing up (~2005 dell inspiron) had one but I could barely use a keyboard at that point. Haven't had access to one since. Do you use one…

I could actually see myself using this, if it is reasonably precise. A lot of the software that I use is GUI-only, and I really don't like taking my hands off of the keyboard to re…

A few implementations of true(1): coreutils: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreutils/coreutils/master... openbsd: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/usr.bin/true/true.c?rev=1.1 bus…

I'm curious, why does this situation require Western experts in particular?

PatorJK's Text to Ascii Art Generator[1] is still in my opinion the easiest to use tool to preview Figlet-style fonts/text and has almost every font under the sun. Still seems very…

Adam Ragusea is one of my favorite YouTubers. Viewers seem to have strong feelings about specific details and choices he makes in his videos/recipes, but in my experience, his cont…

Used to be pretty deep into the TI calculator hacking scene, I know that there were definitely programs/firmware images out there that allowed you to fake clearing the calculator's…

Admittedly, C89 has very little utility, especially among people my age. For example, my university progresses from Racket to Java to C++, and has a systems course that partially t…

I totally missed this, good point. Slightly unrelated, but just thought I should mention: the sokol libraries are awesome!