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New top story on Hacker News: Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly 36 by rabahs | 6 comments on Hacker News. These are my notes from porting my Amiga game, which I originally built in Baghdad in 1993 in MC68000 assembly, to Godot, using Claude Fable 5 during last July holiday. It took an evening! Getting the feel right and shipping it took a few more weekends and evenings. I spent the last few weeks analyzing what Claude did, feeding it my 33 years of memory of how I built the game, my notes and the git repos. It wrote the first draft of the article, and I edited line by line over a week. The screenshots of my 1993 map editor is the first I have run it since then. The one thing I never checked myself is the 108-byte explanation. Please post any questions. I am also releasing the original game for free.
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New top story on Hacker News: We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora 17 by torutofu | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New top story on Hacker News: Why do so many tools have JSON config files?

Why do so many tools have JSON config files? 3 by stagas | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New top story on Hacker News: I Don't Have a Smartphone

I Don't Have a Smartphone 44 by speckx | 30 comments on Hacker News.
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New top story on Hacker News: The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain

The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain 13 by pminimax | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New top story on Hacker News: UEFA's Champions League draw creates unfair clusters; a Cayley graph fixes it

UEFA's Champions League draw creates unfair clusters; a Cayley graph fixes it 12 by erdems | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development

Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development 35 by AntonioLi | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I’m Antonio from Nori Robotics ( https://ift.tt/3johDuN ). We build a $1,688 bimanual mobile robot in San Francisco for robotics developers and researchers. I started working on Nori while doing robotics research at Columbia. I was teaching robots through human demonstrations, but getting my hands on affordable hardware was difficult. Most labs have one or two expensive robots, which makes it hard to collect large datasets, run long experiments, or test across several robots. So I built my own. After seven iterations the latest Nori has: * 19 degrees of freedom * Two 7+1 DOF arms with a 1.5 kg payload per arm * A 55 kg telescoping lift * A differential wheeled base * Four 720p, 30 fps RGB cameras * 2D lidar * A dual microphone array with full-duplex voice communication * A 432 Wh battery * A Raspberry Pi 5 with 4 GB RAM (SLAM and safeties are run on boar...
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