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Stories by viraptor

How inaccurate are Nintendo's official emulators? [video] (youtube.com)
HN 125 pts 58 comments by viraptor Sep 8, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread
Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure (semicomplete.com)
HN 100 pts 93 comments by viraptor Nov 16, 2025 thread
Exploring Different Keyboard Sensing Technologies (lttlabs.com)
HN 74 pts 49 comments by viraptor Jan 28, 2026 thread
Python dependency management difficulty is an unhelpful meme (blog.viraptor.info)
L 40 pts 94 comments by viraptor Oct 12, 2022 python Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryProductivity / Career / Business thread
Foone reverse engineering Skifree (Twitter thread) (nitter.net)
L 35 pts 2 comments by viraptor Jun 12, 2022 reversing Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Alternative https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1536053690368348160 (nitter sometimes can't handle foone-sized threads)
Why use docker for a home server? (blog.viraptor.info)
L 26 pts 32 comments by viraptor Sep 19, 2022 linuxnixsystemd Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Optimising memset and memcpy (mobile.twitter.com)
L 22 pts 13 comments by viraptor Nov 27, 2021 assemblyperformance Systems / Low-Level / OSData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Meshtastic 64 - A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64 (64jim64.blogspot.com)
L 15 pts 4 comments by viraptor Sep 27, 2025 retrocomputing Gaming / Retro ComputingMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
How fast can you read? [video] (youtube.com)
HN 14 pts 1 comments by viraptor Jan 5, 2026 thread
Is IP fragmentation still considered vulnerable? (blog.apnic.net)
L 12 pts 0 comments by viraptor Sep 28, 2025 networking Data / Databases / InfrastructureSecurity / Privacy thread
Virtual Surround Sound Headphone setup on Linux with Pipewire (kaeru.my)
L 10 pts 0 comments by viraptor Nov 21, 2021 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Show HN: SVG but Dramatic (blog.viraptor.info)
HN 9 pts 1 comments by viraptor Oct 5, 2025 thread
Supply chain security for the 0.001% (and why it won't catch on) (blog.viraptor.info)
HN 8 pts 0 comments by viraptor Sep 27, 2025 Security / Privacy thread
Expert Excuses for Not Writing Unit Tests (boyter.org)
L 7 pts 0 comments by viraptor Sep 23, 2022 satiretesting Programming (General) thread
A process murder mystery - a debugging story (blog.viraptor.info)
L 7 pts 0 comments by viraptor Jun 1, 2021 debugginglinux Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Supply chain security for the 0.001% (and why it won’t catch on) (blog.viraptor.info)
L 6 pts 0 comments by viraptor Sep 28, 2025 macsecurity Security / PrivacyApple / macOS / iOS thread
nix-template: Make creating nix expressions easy (github.com)
L 5 pts 0 comments by viraptor Nov 22, 2021 nix Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
When is a Tor exit not an exit (defenceforstartups.com)
L 5 pts 3 comments by viraptor Dec 22, 2016 privacysecurity Security / Privacy thread
Own automatic phishing list and Tor-to-Tor tunneling (blog.viraptor.info)
L 5 pts 0 comments by viraptor Oct 6, 2016 security Security / Privacy thread
Escape from Woomera (en.wikipedia.org)
HN 4 pts 0 comments by viraptor Jan 17, 2026 thread
A New Breed of Analysers (daniel.haxx.se)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by viraptor Oct 10, 2025 thread
Why Are the AirPods Pro 3 a Nightmare to Test? (lttlabs.com)
HN 3 pts 0 comments by viraptor Oct 9, 2025 thread
Unleashing the Hound: How AI Agents Find Deep Logic Bugs in Any Codebase (muellerberndt.medium.com)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by viraptor Sep 5, 2025 AI / Machine Learning thread
Air Traffic Controller Hiring Supercharge at FAA Academy (transportation.gov)
HN 2 pts 0 comments by viraptor May 13, 2025 Productivity / Career / Business thread
The Steamdeck is my guitar rig (video) (youtube.com)
HN 1 pts 0 comments by viraptor Feb 9, 2026 thread
Making an Advanced Fluid Simulation for My Game (video) (youtube.com)
HN 1 pts 0 comments by viraptor Oct 25, 2025 thread
Ask HN: Examples of continuous work agent templates
HN 1 pts 1 comments by viraptor May 11, 2025 thread
I'm after examples / papers on prompts and workflows that work well with continuous behaviour. So far there's lots of "build a plan and finish this task" style agents. I'm after some examples of "look at your existing state and knowledge, look at new events, the la...