Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderAuthor here. The most recent change is that I started adding debugging UIs to the emulators, using the excellent Dear ImGui (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui). The UI is in a separate version of the emulator, launched with the little "UI" button in the top right corner of the image panels (e.g. https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/kc85-ui.html?type=kc85_4). The UI is updated once per 60Hz frame, so you only see a per-frame snapshot of the microchip pins which on its own isn't that useful yet except for a nice…
That's a work of art. I had a lot of fun with these emulators in recent years. Some time ago I reworked the Spectrum emulator to work with the RP2040: https://github.com/antirez/zx2040 One of the incredible things of these emulators is that the chips are emulated in a completely modular and isolated way, and the interface to take everything together are the pins! Yes, the logical state of the pins in the emulated chip, which is awesome and really shows how…
Looks like here's the source code of the emulators: 8-bit chip and system emulators in standalone C headers - https://github.com/floooh/chips
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 380
- Total comments
- 38
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-28 | Tiny Emus: 8-Bit emulators | ingve | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-11-18 | Tiny Emus: 8-Bit emulatorsFirst breakout · Best thread | ingve | 178 | 18 |
| 2021-11-23 | Tiny Emulators | eatonphil | 27 | 1 |
| 2025-01-14 | Tiny Emus | ibobev | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-02-22 | Tiny Emulators | picture | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-04-27 | Tiny EmulatorsLatest 20+ point return | rcarmo | 168 | 19 |