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50th Anniversary of BitBLT
- ChrisArchitect 1y agoHappy BitBLT Day to all who celebrate https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/happy-bitblt-day-to-all-who-celebrate/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/happy-bitblt-day-to-all-who...
- trollbridge 1y agoReminder to right-click, click "Get Clean Link", then open a new tab and paste to avoid jwz's anti-HN referral tracker.
- ChrisArchitect 1y agooh, uh, can jump from mastodon then where I copied the link from, sorry https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115578171906975865 https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115578171906975865
- HappyPanacea 1y agoWhat does this guy have against HN?
- rjsw 1y agoWorked for too many VCs.
- agumonkey 1y agofirst time i get "*ickrolled" on HN
- kragen 1y agoDidn't you read the page? "A venture capital company's fan club. Finance-obsessed man-children making the world worse." A previous version said, "A DDoS made of finance-obsessed man-children and brogrammers."
- kristianp 1y agoHe refers to byte magazine's article on bitblt: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/page/n185/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/page/n185/... Also XScreensaver's Blitspin hack: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/page/n201/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-08/page/n201/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTtcwb-UWW8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTtcwb-UWW8
- uticus 1y agoFirst time I heard of BitBLT was the Win-11-breaking-ColorForth discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953001
- lalalandland 1y agoInterview with Dan Ingalls here where he talks about inventing BitBlt www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738237/
- snvzz 1y agoA routine often used for intellectual property theft*. It will copy any image, irrespective of the copyright owners' desire. *copyright infringement.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y ago43FF's Law: You can measure software complexity by the number of nested for-loops. The first for-loop appeared around in 1957 in FORTRAN. In 1975, Smalltalk having two nested for-loops was a grand breakthrough. Now in 2025, our most advanced AIs run on for-loops nested 6 or 7 deep. Who knows what the future may hold?
- pklausler 1y agoFortran used to have DO loops. It still does, but it used to, too. Algol's the one with FOR loops.