<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Fraterkes</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Fraterkes</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:26:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Fraterkes" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "Mojo 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Significant indentation is why people love python. Can 2 billion people be wrong?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:09:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264523</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As an aside, are there any habitual modafinil takers here? I had a period in college where I took it very rarely when I had to cram. Worked pretty well.</p>
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<p>Nice! Any tips for finding spaces like that? I guess it's mostly finding coworking spaces that are focused around a specific discipline (I know there are a few gamedev ones for example) so that you already have a lot in common?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:41:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245126</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Disasterpeace has a bunch of breakdowns of his work on his youtube channel. Including a session about his work on Fez. He's a really interesting guy, both artistically and technically very skilled.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:49:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229345</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Jolt is essentially the same physics engine that was used in the Horizon games, the performance there should be able to get quite good.<p>If you're making any kind of even slightly ambitious 3d game you probably need to be using gdextensions (ie writing custom engine-extensions in C++). I'll add that the engine source is very accessible. It's deliberately pretty bare C++, so if you have a decent amount of C# / C experience you should be able to find your way around it pretty easily.<p>Unity is a bit better when it comes to performance foot-guns and messiness (and in some ways much worse). Unreal seems to be pretty frictionless for getting something working that looks impressive, but if you're not very experienced performance is going to be a big issue there too (there seem to be very few games made in Unreal that run well on mediocre / older hardware).<p>Godot's a mess in the sense that it is trying to expand in every direction at once right now. I think it'll be in a pretty different state in 2-3 years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:49:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102893</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102893</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe I should get a thicker skin, but the prevalence of “autistic” as shorthand for “moronically literal-minded” on a place as prudish as hn is a bit surprising.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:53:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49067254</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49067254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49067254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "Kill The Cookie Banner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your condescension is also obviously unhelpful here. Do better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:00:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061870</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sort of a callous thing to say about a person having a crisis of faith so bad they're talking about killing themselves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:16:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051677</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051677</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "Networking and the Internet, from First Principles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it's perfectly possible that substance-wise this article was entirely written by the author, but comparing the style of the article to the style of the author's comments, I'm personally pretty sure the text has been significantly edited (cleaned up if you like) by ai.<p>Is that bad? Maybe not! But it's unfair to tar the people here pointing it out as paranoid.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:39:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873995</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "Networking and the Internet, from First Principles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's 2 [dead] fairly anodyne comments here. Are they bots? And if so, how can people tell?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:15:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871813</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871813</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People are complaining about their views getting polluted, they’re not saying they literally can’t see the night sky. If you’d like hn comments to be smarter, consider starting with your own.</p>
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<p>Hey! Bit of an unusual question maybe: if this stuff further exarcerbates the loneliness epidemic and atomization of society, will you be able to live with yourself you think? If you hear about teenagers only spending time with your chatbot in 5 years, will you feel some amount of personal responsibility or not? Always curious to hear you guys' perspective on that kind of stuff!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:02:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835134</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t know if you’re joking, but liquid breathing has only really been tested on rats, like famously the one from The Abyss <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss</a>, which died a couple of days later.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:57:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803442</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803442</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "Behind the scenes with the Midjourney scanner [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One thing that’s kinda awkward in the video: they mention one of the big shortcomings of ultrasound being that it can’t image “airy” organs like the lungs, and their expert responds to that by mentioning that the amount of angles/devices means that you still get imaging of everything surrounding the lungs.<p>But the critiscism isn’t that the lungs would obstruct you from imaging certain areas, it’s that there’s just very salient parts of the body that you can’t really image with ultrasound, which means this would not be a full bodyscan even if the resolution was incredible.<p>I think there’s some genuine intent here, if for no other reason than that it seems silly to transition from ai to hardware if you’re purely trying to grift. I just wish they responded candidly to the obvious questions people have.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:58:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803028</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803028</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very sophomoric reading of Lacan.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:52:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797402</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797402</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "AI has torched the market for junior programmers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Alright, I’m at the start of my career but do have a genuine burning interest in programming. Am I fucked or not?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:30:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788748</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "Maybe you should learn something"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ll chime in. I started learning to draw in my early twenties, couple hours a week. What helps a lot is joining a club, I’ve got a group in my town that just goes to a bar one night a week and draws and chats for 3 hours. Great way to ensure that you get at least a few hours of drawing in, even if your week is too busy for “practice”.<p>It takes about 2-3 years of mild practice to get good enough that you’ll routinely impress yourself, about 5 years to get good enough that you could do paid commissions.<p>Seems like a long time, but unless you start in your seventies you’ll have decades left of enjoying being an artist afterwards.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:45:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784146</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784146</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The world's a scary place, but that's no excuse to make it worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:13:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766738</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any resources for getting better at that skillset (high-velocity but largely stable ai-enhanced coding, if I understand you correctly)? I’m always pretty skeptical of these claims but I wouldn’t mind being proven wrong</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:06:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48748073</link><dc:creator>Fraterkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48748073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48748073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Fraterkes in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I honestly think that a 1$ “deposit” to submit a pr for new contributors (to be returned if the pr is merged) could help with a lot of OSS problems</p>
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