TRANSCRIPT · My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

## My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii (virtuallyfun.com)
https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/
GRANT BRICKMAN: Breaking: someone got the classic Mac desktop running on a Nintendo Wii.
GRANT BRICKMAN: We interrupt the evening with breaking news. The classic Mac desktop is running on a Nintendo Wii. A games console, doing office work.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: It's a milestone in a porting project for GameCube, Wii and eventually Wii U. The author says it is nowhere near ready for a public release.
GRANT BRICKMAN: A Mac inside a Wii. It's the hotel minibar of computing: you open it for a snack and find an operating system. Gary, what do we know?
GARY: Live from the arcade, helmet on, one lamp flickering, so a normal night. The chips in all three consoles trace back to a company called ArtX.
GARY: The report says classic Mac OS reached the desktop for the first time. Most likely the first time since the clone era that anyone outside Apple did that on a new system.
GARY: On the file footage we see beige Macs next to a white console. The author had already ported Windows NT, and each port helped the others.
GARY: Why do it? They fell in love with the jank, hacks upon hacks going back to the 1980s. And a low-level part of old Mac OS is named SuperMario. I rate it five out of five save files.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: One more detail. The project began on 2025-06-22, and the author says no coding agent or LLM was used.
GRANT BRICKMAN: So it was all done by hand, on a Wii. I'm told the Wii is not in the cloud, it lives in the living room. Moving on.

## Show HN: Spinf-serve – inference server for bulk scoring and decisions (GitHub)
https://github.com/spinfinc/spinf-serve
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A new open-source server reads once and answers every question in one pass.
GRANT BRICKMAN: On the AI desk, a server called Spinf-serve. Is this one of the chatty AIs, Vera, or the quiet one? He's one guy, I'm told.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Neither, Grant. It's open-source software for scoring lots of content. Vera, what does it actually do?
DR. VERA VECTOR: It reads a piece of content once and answers many questions about it in the same pass. Each answer is a probability over the options you give it, not generated text.
GRANT BRICKMAN: So it's a switchboard. One call comes in and every question gets connected at the same time.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Roughly. Vera, why was it built this way?
DR. VERA VECTOR: What's open: I found no other outlets covering this, so everything here is the project's own account. It also says plainly that this is not a chat server.
DR. VERA VECTOR: The picture we have has no side-by-side timing against chat servers. The claim is throughput, and that is the thing to check.
GRANT BRICKMAN: An AI that doesn't talk. Finally, someone in this industry who respects the broadcast.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: It answers in probabilities, Grant. It talks, just in odds.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Thank you, Vera. To the hype now.

## The Hype Index (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: The Hype Index: who is loudest on the wire tonight.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time for The Hype Index, where we measure how loudly everybody is shouting. Vera, bring up the board.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Top of the wire. 293 points on Hacker News: AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them. Then 212 points for the Medicare heart attack piece.
DR. VERA VECTOR: And 173 points on Hacker News: US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Deskilling is just early retirement with a press release.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Desk volume over 24 hours. Tech, 30 stories. AI, 30 stories. Gaming, 30 stories.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A three-way tie. Nobody had the nerve to publish a thirty-first story.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Loudest words. UND, GAME and DATA, six headlines each.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: UND is German for and. The loudest word on the wire is a conjunction.

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