`stty` is not Linux specific, it's common to all Unix-derived systems (including Mac OS X, for example). Windows is not Unix-derived.

HN got really trigger happy in the last few weeks.

That part of the comment only is partially correct, and not was even the main point of my comment; what I really meant was that it doesn't belong in windows, and the main point was that the code is not portable.

A reaction to the new moderation proposals, maybe?

Were you expecting WINAPI wMainMain(...)?

As an obfuscated c example I was expecting portable code. Anyone hoping that as many people as possible try their code should aim for that.

Obfuscated C is always with caveats. The fact that it uses terminal escapes and stty suggests its not going to work on anything other than a colour xterm, if you're lucky, there are no sunspots and the wind is blowing in the correct direction...

I'm not sure that's a common goal for obfuscated c code

Same here. stty is available through cygwin, although I didn't result in a playable game.