Hacker News: Arwill

New comment by Arwill in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

Arwill — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:35:51 +0000

Hate to be the one saying this, but that rootkit is there to prevent you from molesting/cheating other players. So its not an one-sided issue. It is unfortunate that the developers found no other way of fighting cheats, sure.

And by all means, if a game community is so toxic that it has to be policed by extreme measures, it is perhaps indeed better to avoid playing such a game altogether.

New comment by Arwill in "Java 26 is here"

Arwill — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:50:18 +0000

You don't have to tell all this to me, or try to convince me. I was just describing what the general attitude is. Oracle's behaviour is a risk, even if Java is open source.

New comment by Arwill in "Java 26 is here"

Arwill — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:42:24 +0000

> So I am not exactly in the group of people you are attacking.

I wasnt attacking anyone.

Developers are used to the lack of type-safety in JS, and assume that having to code in a type-safe language is something hard. Ive seen this attitude multiple times, it is a known topic.

The issue you are describing is what the author on top mentioned, the culture. It is not just Java, the "enterprise style" coding has infected other languages too. It is the result of how new developers were educated in a time when for example code performance or code readability were only abstract considerations. I fought that style myself multiple times in the past. But thankfully it is going away now.

We are more or less in "chained function call hell" now.

New comment by Arwill in "Java 26 is here"

Arwill — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:18:47 +0000

Once i heard a manager explain "we must get rid of anything Oracle, including Java, because of license reasons". I see this attitude everywhere since.

JavaScript people are too afraid to use Java, that is why something like TypeScript exists.

And for personal projects, C# has become a better and more fun "just works" platform.

New comment by Arwill in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

Arwill — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:59:01 +0000

I have this principle of "5% scripting". If the high level scripting on top of C++ consumes about 5% of frame time, then the language of the script does not matter.

New comment by Arwill in "Videogame stocks slide after Google's Project Genie AI model release"

Arwill — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:27:10 +0000

A DLC and AI slop is not the same thing. Tho Steam reviews will burry both AI slop and bad DLC accordingly. And players do care about reviews.

New comment by Arwill in "Videogame stocks slide after Google's Project Genie AI model release"

Arwill — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:42:51 +0000

Gamers hate AI art as it is, developers hate unreliable AI made code. Lets make something with both.

New comment by Arwill in "Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie"

Arwill — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:06:32 +0000

The problem is the way surface lighting/scattering is calculated, which does not match what traditional offline renders do.

My issue with UE is the opposite, the engine went too far into cinema production, and making it a performant game engine requires code refactoring. At which point an open-source engine might be a better choice. Its a mix of two (three) worlds, and not the best choice for one specific use.

For what is actually hard to do, like character animation, UE is a good choice. The lighting can be replaced more easily than the animation system.

New comment by Arwill in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

Arwill — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:02:09 +0000

Yes. If you get 120M+ in funding, you no longer qualify to be called indie.

New comment by Arwill in "Kidney Recipient Dies After Transplant from Organ Donor Who Had Rabies"

Arwill — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:36:06 +0000

I thought only organs of people dying in accidents are donated, and not someone's dying from an illness.

New comment by Arwill in "Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas"

Arwill — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:53:06 +0000

I had a WTF moment last week, i was writing SQL, and there was no autocomplete at all. Then a chunk of autocomplete code appeared, what looked like an SQL injection attack, with some "drop table" mixed in. The code would have not worked, it was syntactically rubbish, but still looked spooky, should have made a screenshot of it.

New comment by Arwill in "Our dogs' diversity can be traced back to the Stone Age"

Arwill — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:47:42 +0000

I read somewhere, that it might not have been a process, but a unique event. Dogs are not just gradually tamed wolves, but domestication might have been started with a genetic defect that made them tame.

New comment by Arwill in "The game theory of how algorithms can drive up prices"

Arwill — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:56:26 +0000

>strikingly high probabilities to very high prices, along with lower probabilities for a wide range of lower prices

Isn't this describing the strategy of keeping ever high prices, then doing some temporary price cuts/sales/deals?

New comment by Arwill in "The game theory of how algorithms can drive up prices"

Arwill — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:37:47 +0000

>see streaming companies increasing prices every few months They can do that because they are practically monopolies.

New comment by Arwill in "Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA"

Arwill — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:19:37 +0000

Battlefield peaked with BF3

New comment by Arwill in "Rating 26 years of Java changes"

Arwill — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:36:03 +0000

There are libraries, like fastutil, that provide collections for primitive types.

New comment by Arwill in "Rating 26 years of Java changes"

Arwill — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:31:33 +0000

-10 for modules is fair, only 4 for lambdas is not. My programming style changed after using lambdas in Java, even when using a different programming language later that doesn't have lambdas as such.

New comment by Arwill in "Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans"

Arwill — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:00:54 +0000

Substitute orangutans for Australopithecus. That is (one of) the branches that did evolve more intelligence, but didn't survive. I suppose there were lots of such branches, that either merged back into humanity (like the Neanderthals), or died out.

New comment by Arwill in "Technical Analysis of SAP Exploit Script Used in JLR, Harrods Hacks"

Arwill — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:32:50 +0000

I am familiar with SAP, all that you say is only true if you don't know how to do it. I see this a lot, people that are familiar with "normal" technology, try to invent ways to do things in SAP. What is wrong with writing an ABAP program, or using a provided communication/interfacing method to transfer data? If you are stuck on GUI/files/DB level, sure you wont be able to do anything. You can for example generate complete excel files on the server, no need for the GUI. There is a running joke on SAP forums about how many times excel file generation was invented.

Some of the cryptic table names date back to R/2, sure, but they are the de-facto standard data model for those business data. If you have business systems communicating, for example product, business partner or financial data, it will have a mark on it of how those data are handled by SAP.

But then there are CDS views (for some time now) that have long descriptive names, and metadata to help you make database queries. You are not meant to read or write database tables directly (as of some time).

New comment by Arwill in "Technical Analysis of SAP Exploit Script Used in JLR, Harrods Hacks"

Arwill — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:23:55 +0000

The only tool you knew about.