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

https://openciv3.org/
451•klaussilveira•6h ago•109 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
791•xnx•12h ago•481 comments

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
152•isitcontent•6h ago•15 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
145•dmpetrov•7h ago•63 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
19•matheusalmeida•1d ago•0 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

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

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/
84•jnord•3d ago•8 comments

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

https://vecti.com
257•vecti•8h ago•120 comments

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
192•eljojo•9h ago•127 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
321•aktau•13h ago•155 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
317•ostacke•12h ago•85 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
403•todsacerdoti•14h ago•218 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
328•lstoll•13h ago•237 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
19•kmm•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
50•phreda4•6h ago•8 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
110•vmatsiiako•11h ago•34 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
189•i5heu•9h ago•132 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
149•limoce•3d ago•79 comments

Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety

https://github.com/Deso-PK/make-trust-irrelevant
7•DesoPK•1h ago•3 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
240•surprisetalk•3d ago•31 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/
985•cdrnsf•16h ago•417 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
21•gfortaine•4h ago•2 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
43•rescrv•14h ago•17 comments

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain
58•ray__•3h ago•14 comments

Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
36•lebovic•1d ago•11 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
5•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
77•antves•1d ago•57 comments

Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

https://github.com/stablyai/agent-slack
40•nwparker•1d ago•10 comments

The Oklahoma Architect Who Turned Kitsch into Art

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-31/oklahoma-architect-bruce-goff-s-wild-home-desi...
20•MarlonPro•3d ago•4 comments

How virtual textures work

https://www.shlom.dev/articles/how-virtual-textures-really-work/
28•betamark•13h ago•23 comments
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Maxduino Review: Tape Cassette Emulator for Multiple Retro Computers

https://retrogamecoders.com/maxduino-review/
58•ibobev•2mo ago

Comments

asdefghyk•2mo ago
Why all that complication?

Why not just play the audio on a computer speaker to a microphone and maybe a generic audio preamp board ( to get the levels right ) to the destination computer.

Could have the speaker and microphone in a small cardboard box to avoid any audio interference ....

tecleandor•2mo ago
Once you get the speaker, the mic, the cardboard box, the "finding the proper input/output level", the EQ, the "WIIIiiiIIIIiiiIIIiiiiscreeeeech" sounds...

I don't think that device is much more complicated. Also, working with it is way way simpler. Drop the files, press play.

asdefghyk•2mo ago

  RE   "WIIIiiiIIIIiiiIIIiiiiscreeeeech" sounds.
The cardboard box would attenuate that nicely
flohofwoe•2mo ago
That may work with WAV files recorded from cassette tapes, but not the various other tape file formats like TAP or TZX, those are often "shortcircuited" to skip the tunneling through sampled audio. Some of the fastloader formats are also extremely sensitive to irregularities in the signal transmission.
qingcharles•2mo ago
Why a speaker and mic? Why not just connect the headphone out of a PC to the audio in on the old computer?
thijson•2mo ago
My sister corrupted my favorite game. She pressed fast forward on the tape deck while it was playing (and loading). I think that stretched the tape, because after that the game wouldn't load anymore, it would error out.

This happened to me in the early 80's with the family's Tandy Color Computer 1. We didn't have a disk drive, just loaded things using tape drive.

As an aside, I think the modulation used was a simple frequency shift keying, with likely no error correction.