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nyanpasu64's blog
Personal blog · nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/bloghardwareprogramminggames
nyanpasu64's blog is a personal blog at nyanpasu64.gitlab.io about hardware, programming and games. Since 2022, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts on CRT displays, 480i video timings and modelines, and an amdgpu sleep-wake hang fix. The posts are cited as background and sources, not praised directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Adventures in programming, hardware, DSP, and chiptune
Most-linked posts?
- I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-12-30
- Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-05
- A Guide to CRT Photography2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-12
- /blog/crt-modeline-cvt-interlacing/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-11
What Hacker News says?
Isn’t the hook called PM_SUPEND_PREPARE as per https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/amdgpu-sleep-wake-hang/#so...
Comment linking /blog/amdgpu-sleep-wake-hang/
on “I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs”Submitted I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs as a story · 772 points
HN discussionSadly CRTs are now out of production, and 480i SDTVs have whine (I can't stand my TV's whine, and IDK if it needs a recapping or if other TVs are any better) and are particularly unsuited for modern computers and displays due to interlacing, overscan, and low pixel rate (photos of me trying to run modern PC games at 480i at https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/amdgpu-stray-crt-480i/ ). And bizarrely, the prices of the…
Comment linking /blog/amdgpu-stray-crt-480i/
on “Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?”Submitted Making iron gall ink from oak galls as a story · 93 points
HN discussionOr you hunted around in the pre-WWW world for a modeline database, and hoped your monitor was included. Here's a more modern incarnation and more background (the non-stippled kind): https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Modeline_Database https://tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO/ https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/crt-modeline-cvt-interlaci... https://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl
Comment linking /blog/crt-modeline-cvt-interlacing/
on “Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple”Submitted Diagnosing video signal loss on Wii and GBS-Control as a story · 59 points
HN discussion> In that case you can serve both input and output within the same IO callback, thus the playthrough latency will be only a single period. By playthrough latency, do you mean having the output play the same audio being captured from the input/mic? One period of loopback/playthrough latency is only possible if you can instantaneously copy data from the input to output buffers (for example by using the same hardware b…
Comment linking /blog/low-latency-audio-output-duplex-alsa/
on “Can Analog Make a Comeback?”Submitted A Guide to CRT Photography as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI believe the AMD sleep issue was just fixed, and is available in 6.14: https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/amdgpu-sleep-wake-hang/
Comment linking /blog/amdgpu-sleep-wake-hang/
on “Diagnosing bugs preventing sleep on Windows”Submitted Fixing sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs as a story · 13 points
HN discussionOne (extreeeemely pedantic) difference is that (I think) HDMI begins and ends its vsync pulses when the preceding hblank begins, whereas VGA begins and ends them slightly later when the preceding hsync pulse begins (I documented this at https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/crt-modeline-cvt-interlaci... ). I also think that DP rouuuughly reflects CRT timings complete with active vs. blanking intervals, but doesn't actua…
Comment linking /blog/crt-modeline-cvt-interlacing/
on “Displayport: A Better Video Interface”Submitted I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs as a story · 9 points
HN discussionCome on... Isn't that fun? https://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog/crt-modeline-cvt-interlaci... :-) TBH I've been mostly unimpressed with the early Linuxen. At the time they had almost nothing which NetBSD didn't have, and I knew that really well. Gentoo 'ricing' well. But it was clear that there was momentum behind the Linux hype. It was on CD-Roms in magazines, in book stores. While *BSD wasn't known generally, just by…
Comment linking /blog/crt-modeline-cvt-interlacing/
on “Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust”Submitted An 8BitDo Switch controller adventure as a story · 6 points
HN discussionCRT gaming is fun, both for older console and PC gaming, and even modern games to a degree. The colors are richer than cheap LCDs, the scanlines and/or smoothing act as a beauty filter over visuals, and the strobed image produces unmatched motion clarity (outside of modern gaming monitors with backlight/OLED strobing modes) though it can get uncomfortable for 60fps games (or god forbid 50fps PAL). I've written about…
Comment linking /blog/crt-appearance-tv-monitor/
on “Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his Sparc4 was running slow”Submitted Fixing kernel updates not applying in Fedora 43 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/ I write about hobby projects including CRTs and analog video, basic electrical engineering, and technology/programming/audio tinkering. The website is implemented in Zola using a customized template.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A guide to CRT photography – nyanpasu64's blog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (2025) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted (Mostly) disabling the Cyberduck nag on macOS as a story · 1 points
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