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New comment by Kerbiter in "OpenSCAD is kinda neat"

Kerbiter — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:59:50 +0000

You don't necessarily need to buy Fusion, it has a well hidden free tier for personal use, just gotta dig on the site a bit.

Phobos (RA2: YR engine extension) v0.4 – Release Highlights and Project News

Kerbiter — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:33:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.moddb.com/mods/phobos-yr/news/phobos-v04-release-highlights-and-project-news

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814999

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Kerbiter in "America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints"

Kerbiter — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:50:54 +0000

Can't even understand whether you're being ironic or not.

New comment by Kerbiter in "Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)"

Kerbiter — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:35:02 +0000

> The only major thing Bedrock has right now that Java doesn't is the new stock shaders, but I assume that is coming to Java soon.

RealismCraft 2.0 would like to have a word with you. And it's paid.

https://youtu.be/s3IiifuzjgU

New comment by Kerbiter in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

Kerbiter — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:48:08 +0000

Fedora is rather aggressive in pushing Podman. They have their Cockpit control panel for Fedora Server, and they've simply made the Cockpit Docker plugin unavailable when it was working fine, because "use Podman integration plugin instead".

New comment by Kerbiter in "I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C"

Kerbiter — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 09:53:22 +0000

I dunno mate, I've bought a very popular 60W soldering iron for like 2.5 USD. It has a ceramic heater and a knob to adjust the temperature, the default tip it came with is great, and it's also easily disassemblable. It's far better in quality than anything I could've bought locally for the same price.

New comment by Kerbiter in "Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework"

Kerbiter — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 18:03:59 +0000

I disagree, WPF is quite good to use, and WinForms approach to keeping UI as code is quite moronic. I would say WPF is where it should've stopped.

EA releases source of and adds workshop to multiple Command and Conquer titles

Kerbiter — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:37:58 +0000

Article URL: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2229850/view/538847007103517685

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197094

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Kerbiter in "Users don't care about your tech stack"

Kerbiter — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:41:44 +0000

How long are we gonna be getting those patronizing pieces of advice from people who figured out something based on their experience, made wrong conclusions, and are now eager to "teach" others?

New comment by Kerbiter in "ElevenReader by ElevenLabs"

Kerbiter — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:20:41 +0000

Would've been great as a TTS component that could be installed and used in existing e-readers.

New comment by Kerbiter in "ElevenReader"

Kerbiter — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 15:19:21 +0000

Would've been valid if TTS was, indeed, art, but it's not. Audiobooks won't be able to replace TTS in e-readers just because they need to be produced first. And I don't think my mom would be able to find an audiobook of all the Russian books, or, especially, articles she's reading, and especially synchronise it with the actual book in her reader app.

New comment by Kerbiter in "OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era"

Kerbiter — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:15:56 +0000

I thought constant reposts of the same thing are not allowed on HN.

New comment by Kerbiter in "OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era"

Kerbiter — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:14:00 +0000

Rusted Warfare Sanctuary Tempest Rising

New comment by Kerbiter in "KAG – Knowledge Graph RAG Framework"

Kerbiter — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:58:57 +0000

Somehow the first time I see such pop up in my feed. Glad that someone (judging by the comments that is not the only one project) is working on this, of course I am rather far from the field but to me this feels like a step in the right direction for advancing AI past the hyperadvanced parrot stage that is the current "AI" is (at least per my perception).

A retrospective on making a map editor and a big campaign for classic C&C games

Kerbiter — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:30:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.moddb.com/members/rampastring/blogs/dta-covert-revolt-and-cc-world-altering-editor-a-retrospective

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42366523

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Kerbiter in "U.S. House Subcommittee releases comprehensive Covid-19 pandemic review [pdf]"

Kerbiter — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:49:11 +0000

Funnily, Democrats released a rebuttal report on their own:

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ran...

U.S. House Subcommittee releases comprehensive Covid-19 pandemic review [pdf]

Kerbiter — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:02:10 +0000

Article URL: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12.04.2024-SSCP-FINAL-REPORT.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42329401

Points: 8

# Comments: 6

New comment by Kerbiter in "OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe"

Kerbiter — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:04:34 +0000

(It's not a reimplementation, it's a different thing that is asset-compatible with the originals. The gameplay, the balance, the engine are different, and the name of OpenRA is not fairly claimed IMO.)

New comment by Kerbiter in "Show HN: Phobos – an engine extension for Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge"

Kerbiter — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:21:49 +0000

The bugfixes you said are not really something fixed by Phobos, IIRC those can be fixed using INI editing.

Without modifying the game some occassional bugfixes are applied anyways. Among those are elevation overshooting bugfix (not very visible ingame because of artillery not using arcing projectiles in vanilla), some units "dying" multiple times because of damage applied to them during dying, maybe some else.

This is like 2% of Phobos though. As said, this is mostly a tool for modding, so to use most features you need to modify the game's INI files.

New comment by Kerbiter in "Show HN: Phobos – an engine extension for Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge"

Kerbiter — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:23:50 +0000

Hopefully there will be in future. But for now the docs do have fancy GIF illustrations of Phobos features used, which is the closest you can get.