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I Code 4 Coffee
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I Code 4 Coffee is a personal blog at icode4.coffee about programming, security and hardware. Since 2021, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link I Code 4 Coffee for its Xbox 360 hardware security exploit research, including the 'Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy' article, which commenters call excellent.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Where coffee turns into code!
Most-linked posts?
- Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-08-07
- Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-16
- Fixing rendering bugs in Dead Rising PC2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-14
What Hacker News says?
Interesting project. I would say the issues had, memory leaks. debugging, etc are a lot more common in game dev than you might expect. Much of these problems have been abstracted away by game engines such as Unreal/Unity/Godot, but if you were to go into game dev with C, OpenGL, and a memory restriction (especially when hardware enforced), you might run into the same teething issues. The level editor is a nice touch…
Comment linking /?p=954
on “A MiniGolf game for Palm OS”Submitted Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy as a story · 731 points
HN discussionMisremembered, it was saying it was the most secure code Microsoft has written, not anyone From the excellent: https://icode4.coffee/?p=954
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on “Hardware Security Exploit Research – Xbox 360”Submitted Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit as a story · 471 points
HN discussionFound it! I misremembered, it was making a slightly different claim "The Xbox 360 hypervisor is probably the most secure piece of code Microsoft has ever written." from the excellent article Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy https://icode4.coffee/?p=954
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on “Hardware Security Exploit Research – Xbox 360”Submitted Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit as a story · 274 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 1: System Overview as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted HDD Firmware Hacking as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diagnosing precision loss on Nvidia graphics cards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overclocking the Original Xbox GPU to Play Halo 2 in HD as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing rendering bugs in Dead Rising PC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing Rendering Bugs in Dead Rising PC as a story · 1 points
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