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14 Killed in protests in Nepal over social media ban

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/massive-protests-in-nepal-over-social-media-ban/
226•whatsupdog•2h ago•124 comments

ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way

https://micahflee.com/iceblock-handled-my-vulnerability-report-in-the-worst-possible-way/
91•FergusArgyll•1h ago•40 comments

RSS Beat Microsoft

https://buttondown.com/blog/rss-vs-ice
74•vidyesh•2h ago•39 comments

Package Managers Are Evil

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2025/09/08/package-managers-are-evil/
36•gingerBill•1h ago•36 comments

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Adventure Prototype Recovered for the C64

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/09/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crusade-adventure-prototype-re...
24•ibobev•1h ago•1 comments

Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

https://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driver
697•dmitrybrant•13h ago•225 comments

VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/vmware_in_court_opinion/
84•rntn•1h ago•26 comments

The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge

https://twitter.com/samhenrigold/status/1964428927159382261
873•leephillips•22h ago•423 comments

Why Is Japan Still Investing in Custom Floating Point Accelerators?

https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/09/04/why-is-japan-still-investing-in-custom-floating-point-acc...
132•rbanffy•2d ago•33 comments

Formatting code should be unnecessary

https://maxleiter.com/blog/formatting
241•MaxLeiter•14h ago•325 comments

GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/
287•simonw•1d ago•222 comments

How inaccurate are Nintendo's official emulators? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjYmSniQyM
61•viraptor•3h ago•12 comments

Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations

https://www.guru3d.com/story/intel-arc-pro-b50-gpu-launched-at-for-compact-workstations/
156•qwytw•15h ago•177 comments

Look Out for Bugs

https://matklad.github.io/2025/09/04/look-for-bugs.html
31•todsacerdoti•3d ago•19 comments

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/09/08/meta-research-child-safety-virtual-reality/
14•mdhb•45m ago•0 comments

Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-story-of-creative-technology
123•BirAdam•15h ago•73 comments

How many SPARCs is too many SPARCs?

https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-08-20/
39•naves•2d ago•11 comments

Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution

https://github.com/immich-app/immich
25•rzk•5h ago•5 comments

Writing by manipulating visual representations of stories

https://github.com/m-damien/VisualStoryWriting
6•walterbell•3d ago•3 comments

Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09430-z
85•officerk•3d ago•15 comments

How many dimensions is this?

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/how-many-dimensions-is-this
93•robin_reala•4d ago•22 comments

No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

https://www.usatoday.com
13•ericmay•42m ago•4 comments

Show HN: Veena Chromatic Tuner

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.magima.digitaltuner&hl=en_US
42•v15w•7h ago•23 comments

I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-09-07-bye-intel-hi-amd-9950x3d/
283•secure•1d ago•293 comments

Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code

https://spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-programming-languages-daniel-temkin
63•eso_eso•3d ago•35 comments

Taking Buildkite from a side project to a global company

https://www.valleyofdoubt.com/p/taking-buildkite-from-a-side-project
75•shandsaker_au•15h ago•9 comments

Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/03/garmin-satellite-smartwatch/
211•mgh2•4d ago•194 comments

How to make metals from Martian dirt

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2025/August/Metals-out-of-martian-dirt
74•PaulHoule•18h ago•81 comments

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1986) [pdf]

https://www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/86-020.pdf
102•benterix•17h ago•24 comments

What is the origin of the private network address 192.168.*.*? (2009)

https://lists.ding.net/othersite/isoc-internet-history/2009/oct/msg00000.html
214•kreyenborgi•1d ago•83 comments
Open in hackernews

Action was the best 8-bit programming language

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/action-was-the-best-8-bit-programming
35•ibobev•4d ago

Comments

kragen•19h ago
Turbo Pascal also came out in 01983 for 8-bit computers, but "Action!" looks pretty comparable. TP came out in November, though, so maybe "Action!" was earlier.

F83 was also an IDE for 8-bit computers (with multithreading, reflection, macros, a single-stepping debugger, and virtual memory) but despite the name didn't come out until 01984. (It was a model implementation of the Forth-83 standard, thus the misleading name.)

As wduquette pointed out in the previous thread in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45132286, Apple Pascal was an IDE for Apple's 8-bit machines four years earlier. I would add that the UCSD p-System it was based on was available for other 8-bit machines as well, but I don't know what year. But those were bytecode interpreters and so very slow. F83 was intermediate, using indirect-threaded code.

timbit42•17h ago
Both Pascal and Action! descended from Algol so there are some similarities.
kragen•15h ago
I meant that both Turbo Pascal and "Action!" "had (...) integrated into one package: the monitor, compiler, text editor and debugger" and compiled to native code, not that the languages were syntactically similar, although I agree that there is some syntactic similarity, especially if the points of comparison are BASIC, FORTH, and assembly.
pella•19h ago
discussions ( 2 days ago ) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45131243
dwheeler•15h ago
Action! is a cool language.

However, by design it did not support recursion, directly or indirectly: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Action Variables were assigned constant locations, which made things easier for the cpu, but that's a harsh limitation.

It was only available on Atari and for a while you had to have a cartridge to run its programs. For many, these were deal-breakers, as you couldn't release your programs to many.

As always, trade-offs, but pretty big ones.

whartung•13h ago
I believe that static assignment is the default for Turbo as well. If you want re-entrant/recursive calls, they were selectively enabled through a directive.

But at least it was directly supported by Turbo.

6502 and stack frames don’t really get along. 65816 was a much better citizen in that regard.