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Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life

https://github.com/ericjenott/Evertop
268•harryvederci•6h ago•94 comments

Prolog Adventure Game

https://github.com/stefanrodrigues2/Prolog-Adventure-game
55•shakna•3h ago•7 comments

Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii

https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/
405•edent•9h ago•82 comments

Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue

https://github.com/nari-labs/dia
391•toebee•11h ago•134 comments

Cheating the Reaper in Go

https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/04/21/go-arenas/
74•ingve•6h ago•10 comments

A new record for California's highest tree

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250417145019.htm
35•docmechanic•2d ago•13 comments

Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams

127•alexdanilowicz•14h ago•83 comments

101 BASIC Computer Games

https://github.com/maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games
38•sohkamyung•5h ago•18 comments

Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomers-lone-black-hole.html
134•wglb•9h ago•100 comments

A new form of verification on Bluesky

https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification
258•ink_13•12h ago•175 comments

Ultra-precision formation flying demonstration for space-based interferometry

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05001
47•PaulHoule•6h ago•9 comments

A M.2 HDMI capture card

https://interfacinglinux.com/2025/04/18/magewell-eco-m-2-hdmi-capture-card/
103•Venn1•9h ago•32 comments

Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature

https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/04/pipelining/
284•Mond_•16h ago•247 comments

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them

https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0178-why-llm-powered-programming-is-more-mech-suit-than-artificial-human
231•matthewsinclair•13h ago•146 comments

Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs

https://github.com/codingmoh/open-codex
60•codingmoh•10h ago•24 comments

Visiting Us

https://www.epic.com/visiting/
81•tobr•7h ago•77 comments

AI assisted search-based research works now

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/
168•simonw•14h ago•74 comments

An Update on Pahole

https://lwn.net/Articles/1016243/
4•signa11•2d ago•0 comments

The Labyrinth of Villa Pisani in Stra, an Intricate Pathway

https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/travel/the-labyrinth-of-villa-pisani-in-stra-suggestions-of-d-annunzio-and-an-intricate-pathway
9•gnabgib•3d ago•4 comments

Local LLM inference – impressive but too hard to work with

https://medium.com/@aazo11/local-llm-inference-897a06cc17a2
64•aazo11•11h ago•50 comments

Cekura (Formerly Vocera) (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cekura-2/jobs/xaoCPco-founding-engineer
1•atarus•7h ago

Dumb statistical models, always making people look bad

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/04/18/dumb-statistical-models-always-making-people-look-bad/
81•hackandthink•2d ago•19 comments

Getting forked by Microsoft

https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/
1613•phillebaba•17h ago•859 comments

FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/04/ftc-takes-action-against-uber-deceptive-billing-cancellation-practices
343•pinewurst•10h ago•198 comments

Pydrofoil: Accelerating Sail-based instruction set simulators

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04389
16•luu•6h ago•0 comments

Reworking 30 lines of Linux code could cut power use by up to 30 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-energy-consumption
278•gslin•20h ago•100 comments

An update to our pricing

https://windsurf.com/blog/pricing-v2
116•mefengl•9h ago•69 comments

Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing

https://sam.elborai.me/articles/tabular-programming/
98•dgellow•15h ago•23 comments

How I use Kate editor

https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-i-use-kate-editor/
176•todsacerdoti•1d ago•56 comments

Adding keyword parameters to Tcl procs

https://world-playground-deceit.net/blog/2025/04/adding-keyword-parameters-to-tcl-procs.html
51•BoingBoomTschak•11h ago•14 comments
Open in hackernews

101 BASIC Computer Games

https://github.com/maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games
38•sohkamyung•5h ago

Comments

prvc•3h ago
BASIC, that is.
esafak•2h ago
The title should be corrected.
dang•2h ago
We've put an ASIC in there. Thanks!
vunderba•3h ago
If you are craving a BASIC fix, I highly recommend getting a DOS emulator like DosBos-X and just installing a copy of Quickbasic 4.5 (which has a compiler among other niceties over the original Microsoft QBASIC). You can easily find it on the Internet Archive.

There are modern variants like QB64, but personally I find that BASIC really loses a lot of its appeal/flavor when you move from an interpretative language to a compiled one.

https://dosbox-x.com

I made this a while ago and it ran beautifully in DosBox on my Mac:

https://specularrealms.com/q-basic

ForOldHack•2h ago
I was craving a BasicA fix, so rather than run the ROM extractor on an IBM, I found the extraction program with them extracted. No 43-line mode like qbasic... :(.
jasperry•3h ago
Many happy memories of checking out books like this from my public library and trying to get the programs working on the C64. The BASIC dialect never matched exactly.
alisonatwork•2h ago
Me too, except with the CPC. After going through enough of them, I got to a point I could flick through the book in the library and figure out what was going to work ahead of time, what could be adapted and what went way beyond my abilities (usually anything that shoveled machine code into DATA blocks). It was neat imagining the incredible capabilities of computers other than my own and then trying to figure out a way to make mine do something like it too.
kreelman•2h ago
Similar for me in my early teens. I used an Australian machine called the Microbee, https://www.microbeetechnology.com.au/classic-plus-kit-compu...

A clever friend of mine wrote BASIC games that he sold back then. I think they had a bit of Z80 assembler built into it too.... Can't remember what names of them were though.

The 'hires' graphics mode (511*255, monochrome) were encoded into sprites. There were only 128 characters from memory. There were all sorts of tricks to try and get around that issue.

The best games used the sprites plonked into char positions.

smackeyacky•1h ago
The ‘bee was how a lot of us Australians of a certain age got into computers. The only real competition it had was the C64 as other things like the Apple II and IBM compatibles were just too expensive in comparison to that $399 intro price.

It was a bit weird to program for, as you said the basic was not quite the same as the popular platforms. It did mean you learned a lot about the machine itself, how memory was laid out, how to get those PCG graphics right.

It’s funny now to be able to see very similar cultures sprang up around less successful machines in other countries.

khazhoux•2h ago
Would be better if the programs were JPGs that you had to type in
ForOldHack•2h ago
MS Office OCR works great for this, it did the Rogue.c jpegs in no time, but there are missing routines. I wonder if an AI could fill the gap.
Mountain_Skies•1h ago
A listing made on a dot matrix printer that contain PETSCII graphic characters might make it struggle. It'd be interesting to see if the LLM could infer the intended character.
dang•2h ago
Related. Others?

Updating “101 Basic Computer Games” for 2021 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26273866 - Feb 2021 (65 comments)

NaOH•1h ago
From your own 2023 comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36945046

Play Basic Computer Games in the Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34377776 - Jan 2023 (1 comment)

Basic Computer Games (1978) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28572761 - Sept 2021 (12 comments)

Basic Computer Games (ported to C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, VB.NET) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26188324 - Feb 2021 (3 comments)

BASIC Computer Games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604142 - April 2019 (120 comments)

BASIC Computer Games (1978) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9026063 - Feb 2015 (31 comments)

Atari Archives: BASIC Computer Games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3200133 - Nov 2011 (23 comments)

BASIC Computer Games Book, published in 1978 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866103 - Nov 2010 (36 comments)

There's also

More Basic Computer Games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41984335 - Oct 2024 (1 comment)

Basic Star Trek Games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42709559 - Jan 2025 (1 comment)

BASIC Star Trek Games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43070752 - Feb 2025 (2 comments)

Vintage Basic - Games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25502018 - Dec 2020 (1 comment)

genghisjahn•1h ago
I loved Amiga Basic. My first taste of programming without line numbers.
Narishma•1h ago
Are any of the games any good?
chasil•1h ago
I remember variants on this for several platforms by the authors:

Don Inman, Ramon Zamora, Bob Albrecht.

TRS-80: https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-TRS-80-Level-II-BASIC/dp/047...

TI-99/4a: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-TI-BASIC-TI-99-4A/dp/081...

Visual basic for dos: https://www.amazon.com/Visual-MS-DOS-Prentice-Innovative-Tec...

VIC-20: https://www.amazon.com/Vic-BASIC-User-Friendly-Guide/dp/0835...

Here is the full TRS-80 text: https://archive.org/details/trs-80-level-ii-basic-a-self-tea...

Who were these guys? They were all over the map.

wduquette•26m ago
This exact book is how I learned to program, back in the late ‘70’s. Lots of good memories.