Hacker News: Subdivide8452

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

Subdivide8452 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:20:15 +0000

Totally agree with this. Blizzard nowadays is a giant, but nobody would have blamed them if they remained a small studio, trying to protect what they've worked hard for to create. Just because they have a lot of money now, doesn't legally change a thing. It sucks because Blizzard has become a shitty company, and I'd like these types of devs from Turtle WoW to be able to continue their work, but you have to draw the line somewhere.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

Subdivide8452 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:14:58 +0000

Out of curiosity, as a fellow dev I'm interested in how you go about reverse engineering these types of things. I assume for networking, you keep track of what goes in and out of the live game. How do you go about pathing? How do you reverse engineer spells, how they scale over levels, and how bosses work, when they spawn, and how they spawn (based on non time based factors) ?

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Proton meet isn't what they told you it was"

Subdivide8452 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:15:16 +0000

I think this comment deserves some nuance. Every company has to comply to local laws. Unless you want to run something illegal, at which point it's not a very reliable alternative for all your mail and more.

Proton in some cases was forced to turn over whatever they knew of a few accounts, according to Swiss law. They try to obfuscate as much as possible, so they can't turn over complete e-mail conversations. But some info is in there, and they have to turn that over. But (correct me if I'm wrong) they have to only comply to Swiss law, when there's a court order.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

Subdivide8452 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:26:25 +0000

I think the real crime here is that browsers are able to probe which extensions you have installed.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up"

Subdivide8452 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:52:27 +0000

I was just wondering why this process is not automated. Why do these graphics require redrawing? Resolution difference from EGA?

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up"

Subdivide8452 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:50:08 +0000

This sounds so snobby. VGA Loom was absolutely stunning. I can understand that you may appreciate EGA more, but "messed up" sounds hyperbolic imo.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Building a TB-303 from Scratch"

Subdivide8452 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:24:13 +0000

While I agree that I'd like to know the more esoteric concepts of the 303, you could have worded it differently.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)"

Subdivide8452 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:05:58 +0000

SFML definitely needs more love than it's receiving.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

Subdivide8452 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:13:30 +0000

Access on mobile would be main reason. Perhaps that’s an iOS limitation, and Dropbox on Android is just a perfect replacement.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Plasma Effect (2016)"

Subdivide8452 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:02:14 +0000

Exactly. Like someone stated, it was a bit like "draw the rest of the fucking owl"

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Plasma Effect (2016)"

Subdivide8452 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:20:04 +0000

Loved the intro but that code sample could've used proper variable names.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

Subdivide8452 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:20:20 +0000

If you know what Synology is, you know it's more than just network based storage.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Kalman Filter Explained Simply"

Subdivide8452 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 07:30:49 +0000

Off topic, but why are you one of those people who do a full screen “subscribe to my mailing list” overlay? I never understand why you’d wanna do that.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "I regret selling my startup"

Subdivide8452 — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 07:35:14 +0000

He gives reasons why it didn’t work for him. He gives 10 pillars of his personality, 4 of these pillars were standing due to his company ownership. You don’t need to have the exact same pillars, but you need to project it upon your own life and see how selling the company would effect your personality. Then consider it for yourself if it’s worth it.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "AI Is Already Killing Books"

Subdivide8452 — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 21:49:36 +0000

I am hoping this gives publishers an important role of becoming the quality gatekeeper. The publisher has the relationship with the writer and ensures a certain level of quality. If a writer keeps coming up with nonsense (AI or not), they’ll cut ties. For me as someone who reads about 3-4 books a year, I don’t see an issue with this. It sucks for this indie market, but even before AI, someone had to plough through the shit.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "4B If Statements"

Subdivide8452 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:37:31 +0000

Ironically, I have no idea what you’re implying with this reply. Should I drop the usage of the word ‘just’? Isn’t it clear what I’m saying?

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "4B If Statements"

Subdivide8452 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 08:42:57 +0000

Can’t you just test the last digit of main’s arg and get the best of both worlds?

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Synthesis Methods Explained: What Is FM Synthesis?"

Subdivide8452 — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:16:50 +0000

The end.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Gameboy music and sound archive for MIDI"

Subdivide8452 — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:53:38 +0000

Oh my God. I used to grab MIDI’s from here in my mid to late 90s game development days. This opened up a chamber in my brain that had been closed for 20+ years.

New comment by Subdivide8452 in "Continue will generate, refactor, and explain entire sections of code"

Subdivide8452 — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 11:40:31 +0000

What’s your vision on the replaceability of the human programmer in the next, say, 10 years?