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At Age 25, Wikipedia Refuses to Evolve

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-at-25
1•asdefghyk•34s ago•1 comments

Show HN: ReviewReact – AI review responses inside Google Maps ($19/mo)

https://reviewreact.com
1•sara_builds•59s ago•0 comments

Why AlphaTensor Failed at 3x3 Matrix Multiplication: The Anchor Barrier

https://zenodo.org/records/18514533
1•DarenWatson•2m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How much of your token use is fixing the bugs Claude Code causes?

1•laurex•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agents – Sync MCP Configs Across Claude, Cursor, Codex Automatically

https://github.com/amtiYo/agents
1•amtiyo•6m ago•0 comments

Hello

1•otrebladih•7m ago•0 comments

FSD helped save my father's life during a heart attack

https://twitter.com/JJackBrandt/status/2019852423980875794
2•blacktulip•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Writtte – Draft and publish articles without reformatting, anywhere

https://writtte.xyz
1•lasgawe•12m ago•0 comments

Portuguese icon (FROM A CAN) makes a simple meal (Canned Fish Files) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9FUdOfp8ME
1•zeristor•14m ago•0 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC Concludes 25-Year Run with Final Collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
2•gnufx•16m ago•0 comments

Transcribe your aunts post cards with Gemini 3 Pro

https://leserli.ch/ocr/
1•nielstron•20m ago•0 comments

.72% Variance Lance

1•mav5431•21m ago•0 comments

ReKindle – web-based operating system designed specifically for E-ink devices

https://rekindle.ink
1•JSLegendDev•22m ago•0 comments

Encrypt It

https://encryptitalready.org/
1•u1hcw9nx•22m ago•1 comments

NextMatch – 5-minute video speed dating to reduce ghosting

https://nextmatchdating.netlify.app/
1•Halinani8•23m ago•1 comments

Personalizing esketamine treatment in TRD and TRBD

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1736114
1•PaulHoule•25m ago•0 comments

SpaceKit.xyz – a browser‑native VM for decentralized compute

https://spacekit.xyz
1•astorrivera•25m ago•0 comments

NotebookLM: The AI that only learns from you

https://byandrev.dev/en/blog/what-is-notebooklm
1•byandrev•26m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An open-source starter kit for developing with Postgres and ClickHouse

https://github.com/ClickHouse/postgres-clickhouse-stack
1•saisrirampur•26m ago•0 comments

Game Boy Advance d-pad capacitor measurements

https://gekkio.fi/blog/2026/game-boy-advance-d-pad-capacitor-measurements/
1•todsacerdoti•26m ago•0 comments

South Korean crypto firm accidentally sends $44B in bitcoins to users

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/crypto-firm-accidentally-sends-44-billion-bitcoins-use...
2•layer8•27m ago•0 comments

Apache Poison Fountain

https://gist.github.com/jwakely/a511a5cab5eb36d088ecd1659fcee1d5
1•atomic128•29m ago•2 comments

Web.whatsapp.com appears to be having issues syncing and sending messages

http://web.whatsapp.com
1•sabujp•30m ago•2 comments

Google in Your Terminal

https://gogcli.sh/
1•johlo•31m ago•0 comments

Shannon: Claude Code for Pen Testing: #1 on Github today

https://github.com/KeygraphHQ/shannon
1•hendler•31m ago•0 comments

Anthropic: Latest Claude model finds more than 500 vulnerabilities

https://www.scworld.com/news/anthropic-latest-claude-model-finds-more-than-500-vulnerabilities
2•Bender•36m ago•0 comments

Brooklyn cemetery plans human composting option, stirring interest and debate

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/brooklyn-green-wood-cemetery-human-composting/
1•geox•36m ago•0 comments

Why the 'Strivers' Are Right

https://greyenlightenment.com/2026/02/03/the-strivers-were-right-all-along/
1•paulpauper•37m ago•0 comments

Brain Dumps as a Literary Form

https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/brain-dumps-as-a-literary-form
1•gmays•38m ago•0 comments

Agentic Coding and the Problem of Oracles

https://epkconsulting.substack.com/p/agentic-coding-and-the-problem-of
1•qingsworkshop•38m ago•0 comments
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Appleii Air Attack.BAS

https://basic-code.bearblog.dev/applesoft-air-attackbas/
18•ibobev•4mo ago

Comments

TMWNN•4mo ago
In 1977, the Apple II was the only personal computer in the world on which this sort of game—color, animation, sound—was possible. Not TRS-80, not Commodore PET.

Put another way, from 1977 to 1979 (when the Atari 8-bit appeared), the Apple II was the world's best video game machine.

JKCalhoun•4mo ago
I feel like "color" and "sound" should be in quotes, but point taken, ha ha.
badc0ffee•4mo ago
> Put another way, from 1977 to 1979 (when the Atari 8-bit appeared), the Apple II was the world's best video game machine.

I suppose if you restrict this to personal computers with keyboards, that's true. But the Atari VCS (2600) came out in 1977 and had better sound, and in some ways better graphics, than the Apple II.

TMWNN•4mo ago
2600's sprites and better-than-beeper sound aren't enough to make up for the Apple II's other advantages. Consider this homebrew version of Pac-Man for 2600 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPttWAND5ok>. Would you rather play that, or the Atarisoft version from 1983? <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYML_8zOBXk>
badc0ffee•4mo ago
I do like the detail of the Apple II version better, but like I said the Atari 2600 did have some advantages, like a 128-colour palette that gives you a yellow Pacman.

One of my favourites from the era with a nice arctic sky (and great gameplay): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl1jGOu5No0

TMWNN•4mo ago
> better sound

Amazingly, the Atari 7800 has worse sound hardware than the 2600/5200! That's got to be up high on the list of Tramiel skinflinting.

badc0ffee•4mo ago
Is the sound just worse on 7800 games, or does it affect 2600 compatibility?
TMWNN•4mo ago
I misspoke. The 7800's sound hardware is worse than the 5200's (which is the same as the Atari 8-bit), but is the same as the 2600. Still, having audio hardware (or, really, anything else) decrease in quality from the previous generation is not a virtue for the console or Atari.
JKCalhoun•4mo ago
That's wild. I was convinced you could not do an arcade-style game in BASIC on the Apple II.

I tried (at the time) to figure out shape tables (a kind of vector graphic) as those seemed like the way to go (short of my learning assembly — which was not going to happen). I never got a shape table to appear on screen.

It's too bad there were not more system calls you could make to handle higher level graphics functionality.

deepthaw•4mo ago
The emulator runs way too fast - probably because I'm on a MacBook Pro with some bizarre refresh rate.

Very impressive demo nonetheless.

hu3•4mo ago
Same here with AMD 9800X3D processor and a 300Hz monitor.
nerdsniper•4mo ago
Yep, totally unplayable on M3 MBP. I don't think the issue is the screen refresh rate - I lowered that to the lowest it goes in System Preferences (47.95 Hz) and it's still essentially just as bad as the "ProMotion" setting (presumably 120Hz).