OSDeveloper's comments

On: C is not a low-level language (2018)

[OSDeveloper]

I would say it is only a low level language if it's a form of assembly or used in systems programming like Linux or OpenBSD or whatever else in the kernel land

[Detrytus → OSDeveloper]

I would say that any language that has if-else instruction, for loop, and the ability to define functions/procedures is "high level".

[renewedrebecca → Detrytus]

You can do all those things with a macro assembler.

[mystified5016 → Detrytus]

Assembly has all of these features.

On: Show HN: My from-scratch OS kernel that runs DOOM

[OSDeveloper]

Hey unmapped (I am ThatOSDeveloper on GitHub and discord it's my display name) I never knew you got doom running on it, pretty cool, but I have a few questions, is it the original doom, is it on disk or an initramfs and do you use freedom or the shareware doom wad with the engine you use?

[kleiba → OSDeveloper]

It's doomgeneric, as can be seen in the article, with a fairly small amount of modifications, as can be seen at the top of this page.

[UnmappedStack → OSDeveloper]

Hi, I use DoomGeneric which is a portable fork of Doom. It's on a TempFS loaded from an initrd. I use doom1.wad.

On: Ask HN: How do you monetize personal code if it's not an "app"?

[OSDeveloper]

SaaS is what you want, turn your API scraper into a tool let someone scrape another API 29 times before they have to pay, sell some of your libraries the old unix way, you sell it, and they get the source for however many dollars you choose, use stripe for all your payment stuff and you should be good.

On: Getting a Signal on the Moon: 4G network for lunar missions

[OSDeveloper]

Sorry you need to upgrade your plan for that.

On: A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs

[OSDeveloper]

I think that projects like this are pretty smart, and I like little simple hacked-together things like this, most likely made in a weekend.

On: Peering into the Linux Kernel with Trace

[OSDeveloper]

This is a pretty interesting method to prove/debug the kernel on the fly

On: Ask HN: Does any one know if Firebase is a successful from Google's perspective?

[OSDeveloper]

It is still used a lot by many hundreds of corporations and likely makes them profit, so I would assume yes.

[muzani → OSDeveloper]

We use it too, but anything that requires actual funds, we would migrate to AWS or refactor.

Like we'd use to allow PMs to change banners/copy on the fly, but Supabase is better. It does RAG but Supabase does that better too. Firebase functions are really good for prototyping, but once it starts to cost money, we move it to AWS. It's good for feature flagging, and we moved that to Growthbook. Analytics started on Firebase and were moved to open source so we'd own the data. The only thing they do well is Crashlytics and that's free.

If everyone was as bad a customer as us, I would assume they're in trouble.

Unfortunately a lot of people have trust issues with Google. We don't want them controlling data and certainly nothing as core as functions, DB, and feature flagging. Then when people don't use these things, Google kills it real fast.

[OSDeveloper → muzani]

I suppose, but firebase is used in some applications, though of course a lot of them are just during testing, so assuming everyone was not like you they would make profit, but assuming a mix, they would make only a bit of profit, so it would be more like a small side project/nice feature that google provides that makes them a little bit of money.

On: AmigaOS Updated in 2025

[OSDeveloper]

This is pretty cool that they still update such an old OS

On: SDL2 for macOS 9 “rough draft”

[OSDeveloper]

I think it's amazing that we would have a new way to make apps running on macOS 9 systems since with a well known standard such as SDL2 we could make far more apps.