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Perhaps something like Windows 98 Icon Viewer[0]?

[0] https://win98icons.alexmeub.com/

I couldn’t make a Rockbox (the alternative iPod OS) simulator run on my MacBook M2 no matter how many guides I followed, then I fired up Claude code and by modifying the original source code it made the simulator run and I was able to start developing custom plugins for my iPod. It honestly felt great since I only have basic C knowledge.

This is what happens when you hand over the job to a Silicon Valley yuppie with absolutely no car design history. As an Italian, this design feels like an insult and it's mental that a company like Ferrari even approved such a project.

The supercar EV market had such huge potential to innovate and inspire but no we decided to follow these average EV design trends instead.

Link to the actual atlas built by the group [1]

[1] https://itiner-e.org/

I remember back in 2012, thanks to the playlist #4 by Com Truise, I discovered Boards of Canada. I will always be thankful to Datassette for this project!

No my one is a simple ruby sinatra app with no DB. Yeah unfortunately it wasn’t super reliable as heroku but they’re getting better at keeping the instances up

Last month they had a rerun of the movie at the cinema in Dublin (IE) and went to see it with a friend. It was such a surreal experience because after watching it on my laptop so many times I could hear the laughter and the jokes of the audience on the cheesy hacking scenes, it was like watching the movie in 4D, I enjoyed it a lot!

I even brought my PowerBook Duo 280c along with me

Moved from heroku to fly.io three years ago and I don’t regret it, great platform occasionally goes down and requires a bit of attention but the support forum is great

As someone with many animator friends, this sounds very bleak. Their work processes are very similar to software engineering, with the difference that their hiring process is much quicker (they just show a bunch of reels and shots they made for previous films or cartoons, and they’re hired). The sad part is that they have almost no labor rights, and competition is incredibly high, which means pay is very low and turnover is high. All these years, I’ve been setting my expectations that one day my field may become like that.

I can’t wait to get home and try this on my Pi. Past few months, I’ve been building a fully local agent [0] that runs inference entirely on a Raspberry Pi, and I’ve been extensively testing a plethora of small, open models as part of my studies. This is an incredibly exciting field, and I hope it gains more attention as we shift away from massive, centralized AI platforms and toward improving the performance of local models.

For anyone interested in a comparative review of different models that can run on a Pi, here’s a great article [1] I came across while working on my project.

[0] https://github.com/syxanash/maxheadbox

[1] https://www.stratosphereips.org/blog/2025/6/5/how-well-do-ll...

I’m very curious about the monthly bill for such a creative project, surely some of these are pre rendered?

I'm sure someone will install OpenStep and recreate a NeXT computer 2.0

Very interesting explanation, I've always wondered how it was built, I didn't know Paul Irish made a video about this. Thanks for sharing!

I really wish I'd had this tool six months ago when I was designing a GUI program for macOS 9. I wanted to import pictures from my modern laptop to a PowerBook Duo and vice versa. Converting all the assets was a pain, and I think this tool would've been incredibly convenient, even just for previewing the images.

For those wondering about the use case, this is very useful when enabling streaming for structured output in LLM responses, such as JSON responses. For my local Raspberry Pi agent I needed something performant, I've been using streaming-json-js [1], but development appears to have been a bit dormant over the past year. I'll definitely take a look at your jsonriver and see how it compares!

[1] https://github.com/karminski/streaming-json-js

The page referenced in the article, Frame of Preference [1], is such a great example of this feature. When I read it last week, interacting with a live Mac OS system while reading the post felt like magic.

[1] https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/

While I agree with all the previous comments, your comment sparked an idea in me. I started imagining a future where we develop a new programming language optimized for LLMs to write and understand. In this hypothetical scenario, we would still need developers to debug and review the code to ensure deterministic outputs. Maybe this isn't so far-fetched after all. Of course, this is just speculation and imagination on my part.

You indeed have already a QR code, my bad for not seeing it in the first place!

This is very nice and simple. A few areas for improvement, in my opinion: the URL should be easy to copy, paste, or type into another device. I'd suggest designing the route like pindsend.app/pin/CODEHERE. Also, for some reason, copying and pasting the URL didn't seem to work in its current form. I would also consider implementing a QR code to allow quick scanning and redirection on another device, especially a phone, see Wormhole's implementation for reference [1]. Regarding security, the PIN looks quite short; I'd suggest increasing its complexity or length and automatically expiring sessions after a few minutes of inactivity. Additionally, definitely consider implementing end-to-end encryption if you haven’t already.

[1] https://wormhole.app

I've made a Bluesky's firehose animation Matrix-style [1], I personally find it very hypnotic to look at, maybe it belongs to your "fun" section.

[1] https://simone.computer/bluerain

I’m having the same issue as you but for a React 16 Node 12 web app. Building it was great and good fun but after neglecting updating the dependencies it has become almost impossible to upgrade after 5 years. I really wish developer put more effort into developing web tech that would last more in time.

This project is absolutely gorgeous, you really did a great job at mapping each UI elements, really great work!

It's fascinating how walking backward will completely make it forget the previous locations and sometimes even change biomes entirely. Anyway it's still insane that we can do all of this in real time.

This is funny my name is Simone, pronounced 'see-moh-nay' (Italian male), but both bots kept pronouncing it wrong, either like Simon or the English female version of Simone (Siy-mown). No matter how many times I tried to correct them and asked them to repeat it, they kept making the same mistake. It felt like I was talking to an idiot. I guess it has something to do with how my name is tokenized.

this is very neat, I love this kind of experiments! could I ask you what's your hardware configuration for handling so many WebSocket connections? I'm just curious to know what's the maximum capacity of WS connections you can reach now that you posted on HN :)

I recently watched Threads for the first time, and I was scarred. The way it portrays the effects of a nuclear attack was too real and made me feel incredibly depressed for days. It felt almost as if I were looking at a portal into the future, showing how the human race will eventually end.

This is fascinating, thank you for preserving this work! Do you have more details on the machine used by your father to develop these utilities? what process did you follow to extract these from the 3.5mm floppy disk?

my favorite part of the boot screen is: `Circadian Rhythm :not good`

As someone who loves Easter eggs this is the best story I’ve read so far. Thanks for sharing it! I hid one in an internal “time sheet” tool we had at work that would be triggered after typing 666

Great idea, I think this could be very useful! I like the simplicity of the UI.

I'd have spent a bit more time on finding some cool domain name hack instead of a boring .com to be honest, but that's just me.