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HoldOnAMinuteyesterday at 4:56 PM1 replyview on HN

For me it's both - I mourn the loss of my craft ( and my identity ) but I'm also enjoying the "magic".

Last night I was thinking about this "xswarm" screen saver I had in 1992 on my DEC Ultrix workstation. I googled for the C source code and found it.

I asked Claude to convert it to Java, which it did in a few seconds. I compiled and ran it, and there it was again, like magic


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refsetyesterday at 8:46 PM

In case anyone else was curious about the screensaver mentioned, I couldn't find any screenshots so just got Claude to cook up an HTML port: https://refset.github.io/xgrav-canvas-js/xgrav.html

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