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DOS Memory Management

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos-memory-management/
9•supermatou•2h ago

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burnt-resistor•1h ago
Later, V-Com Memory Commander allowed 902 KiB of free conventional memory instead of something like 623 using a number of tricks.
KellyCriterion•1h ago
AUTOEXEC.BAT & HIMEM.SYS rulers - rise your hand if you liked it: XMS, EMS and all that - what a great time before we had unified mem, right? :-D

LOL

TMWNN•1h ago
From Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_game>:

>By 1993, PC games required much more memory than other software, often consuming all of conventional memory, while device drivers could go into upper memory with DOS memory managers. Players found modifying `CONFIG.SYS` and `AUTOEXEC.BAT` files for memory management cumbersome and confusing, and each game needed a different configuration. (The game Les Manley in: Lost in L.A. satirizes this by depicting two beautiful women exhaust the hero in bed, by requesting that he again explain the difference between extended and expanded memory.)

KellyCriterion•34m ago
If you want a fight, take this!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIMEM.SYS

:-D

LOL

Good ol days....

Leaving Google has actively improved my life

https://pseudosingleton.com/leaving-google-improved-my-life/
237•speckx•2h ago•134 comments

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/openai-raises-110b-in-one-of-the-largest-private-funding-rounds...
213•zlatkov•7h ago•337 comments

The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock

https://www.origami-robotics.com/blog/dexterity-deadlocks.html
55•shmublu•2h ago•33 comments

NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-artemis-moon-program-overhaul/
139•voxadam•5h ago•156 comments

A better streams API is possible for JavaScript

https://blog.cloudflare.com/a-better-web-streams-api/
325•nnx•8h ago•110 comments

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/longmont-co/daniel-simmons-12758871
349•throw0101a•3h ago•145 comments

Let's discuss sandbox isolation

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/52/lets-discuss-sandbox-isolation/
60•shayonj•3h ago•16 comments

A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-system...
153•WalterSobchak•7h ago•162 comments

Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-02-26-writing-a-guide-to-sdf-fonts/
43•chunkles•3h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions

https://github.com/hjtenklooster/claude-file-recovery
15•rikk3rt•5h ago•5 comments

Allocating on the Stack

https://go.dev/blog/allocation-optimizations
96•spacey•5h ago•41 comments

Modeling cycles of grift with evolutionary game theory

https://www.oranlooney.com/post/grifters-skeptics-marks/
67•ibobev•3d ago•28 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/59yPaCs-enterprise-account-executive-ae
1•asontha•3h ago

Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification

https://github.com/c3d/db48x/commit/7819972b641ac808d46c54d3f5d1df70d706d286
92•iamnothere•6h ago•38 comments

Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss
348•zhisme•12h ago•171 comments

Building secure, scalable agent sandbox infrastructure

https://browser-use.com/posts/two-ways-to-sandbox-agents
35•gregpr07•7h ago•7 comments

Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/victory-tenth-circuit-finds-fourth-amendment-doesnt-support...
414•hn_acker•6h ago•67 comments

PCB Tracer

https://pcbtracer.com
14•Luc•3d ago•4 comments

Implementing a Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code

https://antirez.com/news/160
104•antirez•2d ago•55 comments

Reading English from 1000 AD

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260224.html
86•LAC-Tech•3d ago•30 comments

"Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything"

https://unsung.aresluna.org/just-a-little-detail-that-wouldnt-sell-anything/
73•bobbiechen•3d ago•15 comments

Can you reverse engineer our neural network?

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-our-neural-network/
242•jsomers•2d ago•175 comments

Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down

106•mousepad12•11h ago•149 comments

A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/politics/chatgpt-china-intimidation-operation
66•cwwc•6h ago•46 comments

We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM

https://www.mendral.com/blog/llms-are-good-at-sql
140•shad42•6h ago•82 comments

Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser

https://retrotick.com/
156•lqs_•8h ago•45 comments

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
2813•qwertox•23h ago•1490 comments

Sprites on the Web

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/sprites/
90•vinhnx•3d ago•16 comments

Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died

https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/17193/red-dwarf-rob-grant
153•nephihaha•2h ago•41 comments

F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

https://f-droid.org/2026/02/26/board-of-directors-nominations.html
155•edent•11h ago•106 comments