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Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
250•theblazehen•2d ago•82 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
22•AlexeyBrin•1h ago•1 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
705•klaussilveira•15h ago•206 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
967•xnx•21h ago•558 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
66•jesperordrup•5h ago•28 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12501
7•onurkanbkrc•42m ago•0 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
135•matheusalmeida•2d ago•35 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
42•speckx•4d ago•34 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
68•videotopia•4d ago•6 comments

ga68, the GNU Algol 68 Compiler – FOSDEM 2026 [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/PEXRTN-ga68-intro/
13•matt_d•3d ago•2 comments

Jeffrey Snover: "Welcome to the Room"

https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/
39•kaonwarb•3d ago•30 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
45•helloplanets•4d ago•46 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
237•isitcontent•16h ago•26 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
237•dmpetrov•16h ago•126 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
340•vecti•18h ago•147 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
506•todsacerdoti•23h ago•247 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
389•ostacke•21h ago•97 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
303•eljojo•18h ago•187 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
361•aktau•22h ago•186 comments

Cross-Region MSK Replication: K2K vs. MirrorMaker2

https://medium.com/lensesio/cross-region-msk-replication-a-comprehensive-performance-comparison-o...
3•andmarios•4d ago•1 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
428•lstoll•22h ago•284 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
71•kmm•5d ago•10 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
25•1vuio0pswjnm7•2h ago•14 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
23•bikenaga•3d ago•11 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
96•quibono•4d ago•22 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
270•i5heu•18h ago•219 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
34•romes•4d ago•3 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1079•cdrnsf•1d ago•461 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
64•gfortaine•13h ago•30 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
304•surprisetalk•3d ago•44 comments
Open in hackernews

There's a COMPUTER inside my DS flashcart [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq0pJmd7GAA
64•surprisetalk•7mo ago

Comments

conradev•7mo ago
I've been playing around with an esp32 SD card for similar retrofits: https://github.com/FYSETC/SD-WIFI-PRO
boffinAudio•7mo ago
Nice project! I have a couple of the Transcend SD-WIFI cards in my studio - one thing that I really like about them, is the Lua-based interface that allows programmatic control, remotely, of the filesystem. This has been quite useful.

Do you have any plans to support similar functionality?

kazinator•7mo ago
In the age of "Doom on a Pregnancy Tester!", I don't even click on this kind of stuff any more. Sorries!
opan•7mo ago
While the Doom stuff seems like it's kinda soulless attempts at e-cred, this is more interesting because 1) it's an old/historical product (SuperCard DSTWO) that was actually in use rather than something someone made recently and 2) it was made with functionality in mind rather than showing off for the sake of it. Specifically it allowed SNES and I think GBA emulation on a system that would normally be way too weak for it. I remember hearing the chip in this flashcart was roughly equivalent to a PSP. I had one back in the 2010s and it remained useful even with a 3DS as for years you couldn't run DS games off the SD card on 3DS, and I think trying to emulate SNES/GBA on 3DS was also not great. Later on this flash cart became less desirable than the more basic DS-only ones because it had a big power draw even when not being actively played (IIRC), so if you left it in your 3DS and played digital 3DS games it was an extra drain.

I will agree, though, with the general Doom sentiment as well as the clickbait title. Seeing the description say it was the SuperCard DSTWO restored my faith.

These days with TWiLightMenu, a DSi or 3DS doesn't have much use for this flashcart, or any other, but it remains useful for a DS Phat/Lite.

kazinator•7mo ago
OK, I take back my shallow dismissal and am looking into it. :)
bmacho•7mo ago
There should be at least one comment for every article that explains what one should look at. A link is not enough.
ayaros•7mo ago
f4mi's channel isn't so bad... it's a little click-baity sometimes, but I often get a kick out of Gen-Z's amusement when dealing with technology just before their time.
zxexz•7mo ago
I’d go as far as to say that f4mi’s channel is quite excellent. And her production quality and writing is top tier.
dottjt•7mo ago
I actually have this flashcart. The issue with it is that it drains a heap of battery, so it's not ideal if you're just playing NDS stuff.

I also tried to fit the entire DS game library on an SD card for this flashcart, and the main challenge was figuring out how to organise the files so that it wouldn't crash the cart.

Basically you can't have everything in the one folder cause I think it tries to load everything all at once, so I had to separate it by a-z. And even then, I think I've limited to around 100 files per folder.

kokada•7mo ago
I also had this flashcard, I remember that the part where the CPU was located would get slightly warm after using it for a while.

It was funny because the CPU was so tall that the cartridge case had a cutout for it, otherwise the case would not close.

selcuka•7mo ago
Dreamcast memory cards (VMU - Visual Memory Unit) [1] were mini handheld gaming consoles with an 8-bit Sanyo LC8670 CPU and a monochrome screen. Some Dreamcast games let you "download" mini games into the memory card and play them independent of the main console.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMU

zoklet-enjoyer•7mo ago
There were a lot of cool homebrew games and animations for VMUs too
14•7mo ago
I would be fun to compare it to the Apollo computers. I assume it has much more computing power which also highlights just how crazy efficient they were back in the day with such limited computing power.