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Response to AI slop is from Robin Williams

Article URL: https://jayacunzo.com/blog/your-move-chief

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703452

Points: 12

# Comments: 3

Show HN: Decomp Academy – Learn to decompile GameCube games into matching C

Over the past few months I've been heavily involved in the decompilation community. I've been hands-on decompiling a beloved game from my childhood (Star Fox Adventures). I started this journey with zero prior decomp experience—and to make things worse I had never really touched C nor assembly either.

Learning how to decompile was challenging. It's difficult to find any good learning resources for it and any open-source projects for this are inactive and/or contain little actual learning material.

So I put together Decomp Academy! Decomp Academy is an interactive way to learn how to decompile PowerPC assembly back into C. The site runs a live Metrowerks CodeWarrior GC/2.0 compiler, converts your C into assembly, and then checks how close your assembly matches the target. If even 1 instruction or bit is off, that's a fail. This is the gold standard for video game decompilation and this is much stricter than a normal decompile.

As of writing there are 250+ lessons on the site and the lessons start at the very basics so anyone with a little programming experience should be able to jump straight in, even if you're not a C expert. Some lessons also have real functions taken from live open source decomp projects (Star Fox Adventures, Mario Party 4, Pikmin, Metroid Prime). The idea being you learn everything you need to know to be able to jump in and contribute to a real decompilation project when done.

The site is completely free, open source and you have access to all lessons without having to sign up. All lessons are stored in markdown in the repo (src/curriculum), it's trivial to add or modify lessons. The site is very new and the lessons are rapidly changing every day with a whole C++ section on the way. The site has already been well received by the decomp community and I'm happy to share it with HN. I'm very keen on others to contribute to this project and I hope this becomes the best resource on the internet for learning the art of decompilation. Please let me know what you think!

Source: https://github.com/JackPriceBurns/decomp-academy-fe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703412

Points: 20

# Comments: 7

AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide

Article URL: https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes/blob/main/rdma_cluster/setup_guide.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48703258

Points: 25

# Comments: 1

Choosing a Public DNS Resolver

Article URL: https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702273

Points: 60

# Comments: 18

Show HN: Starglyphs - A constellation puzzle game based on Euler paths

I am a big Dragon Age fan and sunk hundreds of hours into Inquisition. It had this minigame called astrariums where you had to solve these shapes based on constellation guides by tracing stars. I'm a hobby game dev and wondered if I could procedurally generate these puzzles so they were always solvable. Turns out you can, so I built a space puzzle game around it with a colorful aesthetic. I released it in web form here but I'm currently working on getting it on Steam and mobile.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702104

Points: 11

# Comments: 3

Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/michigan-spent-1-8-billion-and-only-created-602-jobs/ar-AA26Cusu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702060

Points: 120

# Comments: 51

What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis

Article URL: https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/mood-by-microbe/202606/what-ozempic-does-to-the-gut-brain-axis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701984

Points: 78

# Comments: 159

Instagram is testing more ways to customize ‘Your Algorithm’

Instagram users could soon see more ways to tune their content.

Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC

Article URL: https://dobrowolski.dev/article/enhancing-x11-application-security-with-lxc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701936

Points: 33

# Comments: 7

Teenage Engineering adds lo-fi mode, USB audio, and more to its KO II sampler

Teenage Engineering has already issued multiple substantial updates for its surprisingly capable $329 EP-133 KO II sampler. Its latest is one of the biggest yet. OS 2.5 adds audio over USB, selectable sample rates for lo-fi fun, sample reverse, an arpeggiator, equal-length autochopping, and it extends the maximum length of a sample from 20 seconds […]