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New comment by Stevvo in "The Glass Backbone: Why the Army's Logistics Will Break in the Next War"

Stevvo — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:54:42 +0000

A limited view of the threat. All very well worrying about keeping your armored brigade combat team fueled up, but that won't be much use when the same weapons that threaten the logistics have destroyed all the Abrams and Bradleys that use the fuel. The Army is still under the delusion that its possible to win a peer conflict, not having learnt the lesson of the cold war there will be no winners in this hypothetical fight.

New comment by Stevvo in "Electric anti-aircraft interceptor drone breaks world air speed record at 434mph"

Stevvo — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:04:16 +0000

Anyone can build this style of interceptor with commercial off the shelf parts for a a few thousand dollars. It's also reusable. A rocket for the same budget will be unguided and single use. Not useable as an interceptor.

New comment by Stevvo in "Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2"

Stevvo — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:25:20 +0000

Meanwhile, the B-29 was under development in the US. Built almost entirely by women, men refused to fly it citing safety concerns.

So Paul Tibbets, (who went on to drop Little Boy on Hiroshima) taught a crew of women to fly the aircraft.

The logic being; if women can fly it safely, then surely men can too.

EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why

Stevvo — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:46:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/eve-onlines-carbon-engine-is-now-open-source-fenris-creations-explains-why

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780387

Points: 403

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New comment by Stevvo in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

Stevvo — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:54:59 +0000

Switzerland is a democracy, another concept foreign to Americans. People vote on all sorts of things all the time.

New comment by Stevvo in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

Stevvo — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:55:29 +0000

Ok but most of the populated areas of the Canary Islands are a tourist shithole, not somewhere you would want to live.

New comment by Stevvo in "The best thing that's ever happened for multiplayer games?"

Stevvo — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:58:56 +0000

Why would you wait for inputs on server? That's a stupid idea. You can rollback on the server when mis-predicted inputs arrive late.

New comment by Stevvo in "Ask HN: What will you work on when Fable 5 comes back online today?"

Stevvo — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:45:58 +0000

Nothing. The announcement says Fable will fall back to Opus 4.8 for coding.

New comment by Stevvo in "Trump made more than $1B from crypto in first year back in office"

Stevvo — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:23:42 +0000

Challenging Suharto for most corrupt politician of all time. Much like Suharto, nothing will be done about it. Shame on you America.

New comment by Stevvo in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

Stevvo — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:54:06 +0000

This was true until a couple of years ago. Recently things really picked up. That said, there are still many years old open PRs unmerged that make great additions; maybe this policy will free up resources to move forward with those.

New comment by Stevvo in "The best thing that's ever happened for multiplayer games?"

Stevvo — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:24:51 +0000

By "player hosted servers", I meant players rent a server box with Hetzner or OVH or a managed server with a provider like Nitrado. Local player hosted servers have never really worked for anything more than LAN.

New comment by Stevvo in "The best thing that's ever happened for multiplayer games?"

Stevvo — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:09:41 +0000

2. Is an absurd example. That is not how you do networked physics in 2026. You use jolt for cross-platform determinism with rollback, replicating only inputs.

New comment by Stevvo in "The best thing that's ever happened for multiplayer games?"

Stevvo — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:00:36 +0000

I don't know if any of those "tons of reasons" are actually valid; checking the top 10 multiplayer games on Steam by player count all of them allow player hosted servers.

New comment by Stevvo in "The best thing that's ever happened for multiplayer games?"

Stevvo — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:05:32 +0000

There is nothing "democratizing" about hosting your game's servers on AWS.

Your game can have zero hosting cost if you just let players host their own servers. Let people play the game they paid for, forever, instead of locking them in to playing on an AWS server then killing the game in a couple of years when it's not profitable anymore.

New comment by Stevvo in "Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub"

Stevvo — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:00:45 +0000

WASM port: https://motionmark.itch.io/poseidonwasm

New comment by Stevvo in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

Stevvo — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:27:19 +0000

He doesn't recognize it. He claims in the post he was fired because certain leaders were afraid of being disrupted.

New comment by Stevvo in "Wolves are reconquering Europe. Can people learn to live with them?"

Stevvo — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:08:02 +0000

That is a glorified trail camera, really does very little to help people live with wolves. What does is a strict hunting quota; the government decides how many wolves there should be, rather than nature.

New comment by Stevvo in "Steam Machine launches today"

Stevvo — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:16:14 +0000

Might be the first hardware Valve has priced correctly. All previous hardware was underpriced leaving it unavailable for months/years on end.

New comment by Stevvo in "Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)"

Stevvo — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:12:35 +0000

China claims to be building a successful communist state. The argument goes that you need to have wealth first before you can redistribute it, and China is currently in the wealth-building phase of achieving communism.

New comment by Stevvo in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

Stevvo — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:31:48 +0000

No reason to see it in AAA games. They already have to run on Series S, which has ~8 GB usable memory. Consoles are the primary target for any game (if they are not, it is not AAA). So minimum specs remain relatively static through a generation.