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New comment by adanto6840 in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

adanto6840 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:41:53 +0000

Great question. I'd love to know if anyone has had any success with handheld buttons/bluetooth remotes or similar, too.

New comment by adanto6840 in "OracleGPT: Thought Experiment on an AI Powered Executive"

adanto6840 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:43:06 +0000

Because the comment is just a copy/paste of the content at the URL at the top of the comment; which doesn’t add anything to the discussion, because it’s not discussion at all. It’s just a wall of text, it’s not clear to me why you’re posting it as a comment (vs linking to it), and simply regurgitating copy/pasted external information isn’t helpful or interesting.

Next time, write a sentence or two of context about what you’re going to link to — who wrote it and when, why it’s interesting, and how/why it’s relevant to the topic at hand.

There’s almost never a need to copy/paste wholesale external content into an HN comment. Especially true when said content is literally linkable, and actually linked, from your comment!

New comment by adanto6840 in "NYC's office-to-residential conversions could create 17,000 new homes"

adanto6840 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:49:00 +0000

I’m sure that structural engineers will be heavily involved. While there are some things to consider or worry about, I don’t know that any of your concerns are actually valid things to be overly worried about.

They’re certainly all solvable and I have no doubt that the PE(s) putting their stamps on it will have valid proven solutions that check out mathematically.

New comment by adanto6840 in "Show HN: Genetic Boids Web Simulation"

adanto6840 — Tue, 27 May 2025 17:41:21 +0000

I've done a lot of work on realtime obstacle avoidance that scales well (targeting ~60-100k agents) -- steering behaviors, flow fields, RVO2/ORCA, and lots more -- for agent-based "old school" tycoon-style simulation games. :)

I'm super intrigued by what you've created, especially to hear about running it in a compute shader! I'd love to talk with you more about it, if you're open to it? I briefly looked for a way to get in touch directly but didn't see any contact info -- my email is in my profile, I'd love to connect! :)

New comment by adanto6840 in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

adanto6840 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:32:30 +0000

It appears to be back online as of 8:30AM PT. I saw it down an hour ago or so, but seems to be operating as usual again now.

That was quicker than I had expected, though I thought they'd probably find a way to avert even a temporary shutdown to begin with.

New comment by adanto6840 in "Flow Field Pathfinding"

adanto6840 — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 15:21:21 +0000

Love it. SimAirport makes extensive use of flow fields -- they're one of the numerous different pathfinding/following systems we use in the game -- but a very important one as they obviously can scale extremely well with agent count.

In SimAirport they're used in a hierarchical way, primarily & specifically for "one level" of the game's overall hierarchical pathfinding systems (longer-distance paths), and they're critical to the game's ability to handle lots of agents.

Always love seeing your content here, Amit! :)

Powerful Realtor Group Agrees to Slash Commissions to Settle Lawsuits

adanto6840 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:55:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/realestate/national-association-realtors-commission-settlement.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39715511

Points: 41

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New comment by adanto6840 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)"

adanto6840 — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:53:01 +0000

  Location:  Las Vegas // London
  Remote:    Yes.
  Relocate:  Yes.
  Technologies:  C#/.NET (+Unity), JS, Ruby, PHP, Python, HLSL/rendering/shaders, C - and many more.
  Résumé/CV:  Upon request.
  Email:  hn@dantonio.info

Entrepreneurial senior-level software leader with >15 years of experience and a proven track record of successfully delivering results. Wide breadth of technology knowledge and business experience.

Reach out if you have something that might be a fit! :)

hn@dantonio.info

New comment by adanto6840 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)"

adanto6840 — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:44:40 +0000

Love this. I'll be reaching out. :)

New comment by adanto6840 in "Multi-channel Audio Part 2"

adanto6840 — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:03:23 +0000

Somewhat tangential, but here's a cool somewhat open-source project related to Dolby Atmos:

https://cavern.sbence.hu/cavern/

https://github.com/VoidXH/Cavern

The visualizer, which is what I was _most_ interested in (along with software decoding) is written in C# and the rendering is done in Unity -- both things I valued & thought were cool. In theory, you could build a DIY multi-channel "receiver" with this type of software if given enough audio outputs (and/or put something like Dante to use).

I explored it a bit further but it's relatively cost prohibitive, especially if you want to do something like accept HDMI input, it gets messy. AFAICT, at least when I went down this research path a few months back, even finding & getting dev kits/boards with HDMI input (of semi-recent generation) was non-trivial & pretty pricey.

New comment by adanto6840 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)"

adanto6840 — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 23:24:11 +0000

  Location:  Las Vegas // London
  Remote:    Yes.
  Relocate:  Yes.
  Technologies:  C#/.NET (+Unity), JS, Ruby, PHP, Python, HLSL/rendering/shaders, C - and many more.
  Résumé/CV:  Upon request.
  Email:  hn@dantonio.info

Entrepreneurial senior-level software leader with >15 years of experience and a proven track record of successfully delivering results. Wide breadth of technology knowledge and business experience.

Reach out if you have something that might be a fit! :)

hn@dantonio.info

New comment by adanto6840 in "Kando: The Cross-Platform Pie Menu"

adanto6840 — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 20:14:55 +0000

Glad to see Don Hopkins mentioned, I came to this thread hoping he had seen it & commented already. I'm curious to hear his thoughts on it! I know he loves radial menus, understandably so -- they really can be quite effective.

New comment by adanto6840 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)"

adanto6840 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:08:30 +0000

  Location:  Las Vegas // London
  Remote:    Yes.
  Relocate:  Yes.
  Technologies:  C#/.NET (+Unity), JS, Ruby, PHP, Python, HLSL/rendering/shaders, C - and many more.
  Résumé/CV:  Upon request.
  Email:  hn@dantonio.info

Entrepreneurial senior-level software leader with >15 years of experience and a proven track record of successfully delivering results. Wide breadth of technology knowledge and business experience.

I'm looking for interesting opportunities -- especially interested in building high-caliber teams, solving challenging problems and ideally working with subject matter that I find interesting.

Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have something that might be a good fit! :)

hn@dantonio.info

New comment by adanto6840 in "A* tricks for videogame path finding"

adanto6840 — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 00:14:39 +0000

One of the more common approaches to AI in games is called GOAP [0][1] (Goal Oriented Action Planning), and it essentially "selects" which action set using the same concept -- graph searching (typically using A*) the available options.

0 - https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/building-the-ai-of-f-e-...

1 - https://web.archive.org/web/20230804100329/https://alumni.me...

See also (not mine): https://github.com/agoose77/goap-resources

New comment by adanto6840 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)"

adanto6840 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 22:06:02 +0000

  Location:  London
  Remote:    Yes.
  Relocate:  Yes.
  Technologies:  C#/.NET, Unity, JS, Ruby, PHP, Python, shaders, C - and many more.
  Résumé/CV:  Upon request.
  Email:  hn@dantonio.info

Entrepreneurial senior-level software leader with >15 years of experience and a proven track record of successfully delivering results. Wide breadth of technology knowledge and business experience.

Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have something that might be a good fit! :)

hn@dantonio.info

New comment by adanto6840 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)"

adanto6840 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:20:44 +0000

  Location:  London
  Remote:    Yes.
  Relocate:  Yes.
  Technologies:  C#/.NET (+Unity), JS, Ruby, PHP, Python, HLSL/rendering/shaders, C - and many more.
  Résumé/CV:  Upon request.
  Email:  hn@dantonio.info

Entrepreneurial senior-level software leader with >15 years of experience and a proven track record of successfully delivering results. Wide breadth of technology knowledge and business experience.

I'm looking for interesting opportunities -- especially interested in building high-caliber teams, solving challenging problems and ideally working with subject matter that I find interesting.

Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have something that might be a good fit! :)

hn@dantonio.info

New comment by adanto6840 in "AirportSim"

adanto6840 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 08:14:12 +0000

Creator of SimAirport here. We fought EAs opposition to the trademark and won; we did the same for the SimCasino trademark. :)

New comment by adanto6840 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)"

adanto6840 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:26:54 +0000

  Location:  Las Vegas, NV
  Remote:    Yes.
  Relocate:  Yes.
  Technologies:  C#/.NET (+Unity), JS, Ruby, PHP, Python, HLSL/rendering/shaders, C++, C - and many more.
  Résumé/CV:  Upon request.
  Email:  hn@dantonio.info

Entrepreneurial senior-level software leader with over 15 years of experience and a proven track record of successfully delivering results. Wide breadth of technology knowledge and business experience.

I'm currently looking for interesting opportunities -- especially interested in building high-caliber teams, solving challenging problems and, ideally, working with subject matter that I find interesting (audio/video, game dev, shader/GPU dev, computer vision, IOT, client/server, performance/optimization, and more).

Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have something that might be a good fit! :)

hn@dantonio.info

New comment by adanto6840 in "Draggable objects"

adanto6840 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 20:28:10 +0000

Looking forward to it! :)

New comment by adanto6840 in "Draggable objects"

adanto6840 — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:41:54 +0000

Likewise, Amit is phenomenal and the content (and especially its presentation) is really second to none. The value he places on ensuring links stay working, and that content is accurate and updated — is truly phenomenal and almost inconceivable these days.

I’ve also always enjoyed every (virtual) interaction I’ve had with him, however brief — and appreciate that he remembers me and the problems/challenges we faced in my games.

SimAirport and SimCasino very likely wouldn’t be the same (or would have taken much longer to achieve, at best) without his content.

Just a class act; one of these days I’d love to buy Amit a beer or a coffee. My invite doesn’t expire, perhaps next time you’re in the area! :)