Saturday, 19 September 2026

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I wrote a custom assembler for CHIP-8 in C++

Show HN: I wrote a custom assembler for CHIP-8 in C++
4 by tack1234 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I'm writing a custom assembler for CHIP-8 and just finished adding support for the DB/.byte directive so I can embed sprites in the ROM and finally get something drawn on the screen. It SHOULD support all OG CHIP-8 instructions, but still a ton of rough edges that I'm ironing out. This is my first ever C++ project, just like the CHIP-8 emulator was my first ever C (and emudev) project. It's so satisfying to write assembly and have your program spit out a ROM that actually runs in the emulator you wrote. All code is written by me (a lot of it livestreaming) as evident by the quality, no AI.

New top story on Hacker News: From Stonemasons to Carpenters

From Stonemasons to Carpenters
7 by azhenley | 1 comments on Hacker News.


New top story on Hacker News: AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
51 by ereiamjh | 25 comments on Hacker News.