Hacker News: Vermeulen

New comment by Vermeulen in "S&box is now an open source game engine"

Vermeulen — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:35:21 +0000

Source2 is the giant legacy codebase I was referring to.

New comment by Vermeulen in "S&box is now an open source game engine"

Vermeulen — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:10:49 +0000

I don't understand what they got basing off the Source engine. Maybe it made sense when they started 6 years ago - to allow using Hammer and such. But at this point they've made their own editor, networking, scene system... why is it still attached to a giant legacy codebase.

New comment by Vermeulen in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

Vermeulen — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:34:24 +0000

A multiplayer survival game based around voxel physics.

Can be described as Astroneer-like setting, Teardown voxel physics, in a Valheim-like online multiplayer survival game.

Game isn't really announced yet but I've shown some videos of the tech: https://x.com/Alientrap/status/1909316208563732866 (On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWISaUmvit4 ) https://x.com/Alientrap/status/1918024969939808654

New comment by Vermeulen in "WASM Wayland Web (WWW)"

Vermeulen — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:28:14 +0000

Been arguing for this for years now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33415400

The main argument against it seems to be that a browser forces standards - while really the the strength of this approach is that standards will naturally evolve, rather than forced by 2-3 companies

New comment by Vermeulen in "What I Learned Failing to Finish a Game in 2024"

Vermeulen — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:47:53 +0000

I Expect You To Die, Among Us VR, Until You Fall. All good stuff

New comment by Vermeulen in "John Wheeler saw the tear in reality"

Vermeulen — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:21:04 +0000

There is zero chance this is what you meant, but I wrote a short story with that concept in 2013: https://www.3delement.com/?p=309

Did you end up finding what you were referring to? None of the other comments actually match that

New comment by Vermeulen in "Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control"

Vermeulen — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:51:22 +0000

It's amazing to me how little moderation they do for Ad content. My Instagram ads are constant crypto scams. Maybe there just isn't the same incentives to moderate companies paying to scam your users, as opposed to free users posting their political views

New comment by Vermeulen in "So you want to build a browser engine"

Vermeulen — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:38:20 +0000

Yeah - there really is a opportunity now to rethink browsers as just sandboxed rendering windows using WebAssembly + WebGPU.

Could still have typical DOM rendering handled with Webassembly delivered by the web sites (ideally cached). The challenge is though still having standards and accessibility options. That VeryGoodGraphics example allows for no text selection - and doesn't at all handle zooming. Still though it'd be a good bottom up way for a new browser to disrupt Chrome

New comment by Vermeulen in "Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket"

Vermeulen — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:23:52 +0000

No - this is the graph: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GO1eps3WgAEzQYa?format=jpg&name=...

Immigration is the only thing providing GDP growth. Otherwise the Canadian economy is clearly broken

New comment by Vermeulen in "Canadians are angry with their biggest supermarket"

Vermeulen — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:11:06 +0000

Blaming 'corporate greed' is a easy thing for politicians to do. It's then not their actions that are causing prices to go up.

Easy to point at things like 'record profits' of Loblaws, without looking at if their margins have changed (they haven't). If you keep the same margins and have the amount of business with inflation then of course there are 'record profits'.

New comment by Vermeulen in "Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative"

Vermeulen — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:35:37 +0000

Git LFS is a giant hack ontop of Git. Most game devs I know moved away from it over time (back to Perforce or SVN). It might seem okay at first - but deep into a project you'll want to rearrange/rename folders and keep history logs, and discover that Git LFS doesn't actually work like normal Git and your file history wasn't kept. Only once you start dealing with issues will you find all the weird hacks Git LFS does ontop.

I'd say Git not working well for game dev isn't a pitch that Diversion needs to make, because it's already clear to most game devs.

The Scene System – s&box

Vermeulen — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 17:14:33 +0000

Article URL: https://sbox.facepunch.com/news/scene-system

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39057975

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

AR Prototypes: Realtime Fluid and Smoke

Vermeulen — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 04:07:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.3delement.com/?p=848

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38705333

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

2023 AR Prototypes: Reflections, Mirrors, Gaussian Splats

Vermeulen — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:53:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.3delement.com/?p=867

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38243025

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Vermeulen in "Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries"

Vermeulen — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:55:50 +0000

As a side note, it's funny to call criticism of the governments overreaching bill 'bootlicking'. If there is one boot you should be afraid of stomping on your face it's the governments

New comment by Vermeulen in "Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries"

Vermeulen — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:35:27 +0000

You said you 'didn't know enough about it' to defend it, not that you didn't care, and yet still can say confidently "There is no scenario where C-18 has any relevance to this". There is such clear contradiction to that that arguing with you is definitely pointless.

New comment by Vermeulen in "Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries"

Vermeulen — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 16:13:13 +0000

By saying 'regulatory uncertainty', they are saying the uncertainty of C-18 applying to Bard. Very very clearly. It's a legal risk to them right now. And yet you, who also just said they don't know enough about C-18 to comment on it, knows for certain it wouldn't apply to Bard. Incredible

New comment by Vermeulen in "Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries"

Vermeulen — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:53:58 +0000

How can you so confidently say C-18 has no relevance to this - then in the same comment say you don't know enough about the law to comment on it?

If you don't understand C-18 that's fine - but then you can't confidently say that it can't apply to Bard. Seems pretty clear based on how C-18 is written that it absolutely could.

You have the ability to doublethink here to the point of arguing is likely pointless - but clearly by saying Google knows they can 'weaponize the bootlicker sorts' you are calling people who criticize this bill 'bootlicker's.

New comment by Vermeulen in "Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries"

Vermeulen — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:30:43 +0000

"if they scrape and present their content" - and you don't think this is relevant to Bard? It's less them 'punishing' Canada, and more being uncertain how these insane linking laws will be applied to this new technology. If Bard can summarize a News article from Canada that is very relevant to C-18.

Funny to call criticism of this bill 'bootlicker sorts' - when really your then defending the governments protection of the Canadian media oligarchy

New comment by Vermeulen in "Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?"

Vermeulen — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 20:37:27 +0000

Love this idea, been waiting for you to ship to Canada and now finally purchased :)

Currently your Android app isn't available in Canada yet though