Hacker News: andystanton

The Grim and the Dark: Jon Heder's journey into the world of Grimdark art [video]

andystanton — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:29:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBJefwNkLqo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712883

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Bobby Prince Jr (composer of classic Doom soundtrack) has passed away

andystanton — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:07:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.legacy.com/legacy/robert-bobby-prince-lll

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595355

Points: 11

# Comments: 3

Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp

andystanton — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:25:32 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/meta-to-test-premium-subscriptions-on-instagram-facebook-and-whatsapp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46778563

Points: 16

# Comments: 6

New comment by andystanton in "Show HN: Atlas of Space"

andystanton — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:52:51 +0000

Love it, thank you for sharing. Can't wait to show my kids later!

Are the background stars randomly generated or do they correspond to the actual galaxy? Distant points of reference would be interesting to see.

New comment by andystanton in "Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month"

andystanton — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:30:52 +0000

The Book of Shaders [1] perhaps? It's about fragment shaders rather than geometry but it felt to me like a good introduction to generating things programmatically.

[1]: https://thebookofshaders.com/

UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

andystanton — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:43:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729325

Points: 199

# Comments: 282

New comment by andystanton in "Release of GLM 1.0.0"

andystanton — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:54:15 +0000

Oh wow, what a great project. Almost 4 years since 0.9.9.8.

App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+ and More Experiencing Outage

andystanton — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:38:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/23/app-store-apple-music-apple-tv-outage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34916869

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by andystanton in "Show HN: PlantUML based collaborative UML editor is now open source"

andystanton — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 12:06:39 +0000

We make extensive use of sequence diagrams using PlantUML at my work. We don't rigorously adhere to the correct UML arrow types and so on, instead preferring it as a fast way to clearly communicate data flow over time. The fact that it's in a text format means it can be conveniently edited and stored in source control.

I've had less success with component diagrams to represent our systems because the layout engine in PlantUML is (or used to be) quite limited. This resulted in diagrams that didn't communicate the system as well as if I manually drew boxes and lines.

There is a fantastic plugin for Jetbrains IDEs that generates the diagrams in real time which is great for fast feedback, and can be used for driving out diagrams while presenting video calls.

Overall, my conclusion is that you can pick the parts that are useful to you and the people you communicate ideas with.

Computer Latency: 1977-2017

andystanton — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 13:01:18 +0000

Article URL: https://danluu.com/input-lag/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32137817

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

Outage: App Store Connect, Test Flight, & Xcode Cloud

andystanton — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 08:51:17 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32106157

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by andystanton in "‘Blade Runner’ at 40"

andystanton — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 11:21:51 +0000

The album Sanctuary by Infinity Shred evokes similar feelings to the Blade Runner score for me.

The track Jasmine (demo) by Jai Paul has a completely different vibe but a gorgeous Vangelis-like synth tone in the chorus. reply

Great question - lots of good recommendations to look into.

New comment by andystanton in "Quake 1 gets its first major co-op content update in 25 years"

andystanton — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 09:58:27 +0000

I'm curious about the target demographic for this and other re-releases (Doom for example). I played first time round and am more than happy to play this for the nostalgia, but are there also new players? What would make someone growing up now pick this up over Fortnite or Call of Duty? Is there demand, or is it just that making content for older games is less expensive than creating a new AAA title?

Streamlining Render Passes in Vulkan

andystanton — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:36:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.khronos.org/blog/streamlining-render-passes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29178485

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

1Blocker 4 introduces on-device Firewall

andystanton — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 17:58:45 +0000

Article URL: https://backstage.1blocker.com/1blocker-4-0-now-with-in-app-tracker-blocking-2b7ebf0b4acb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26959244

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Facebook bans UK far right groups and leaders

andystanton — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:08:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47974579

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19690117

Points: 8

# Comments: 4

New comment by andystanton in "Java 12"

andystanton — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:34:21 +0000

Local type inference[1] means you can write:

  var foo = new Map();

The static initialisation methods on collections[2] let you write

  var foo = List.of(1, 2, 3);

It's still clunkier than many newer languages but it is improving.

1. https://developer.oracle.com/java/jdk-10-local-variable-type...

2. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/util/List.htm...

New comment by andystanton in "Essential C (2003) [pdf]"

andystanton — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 22:03:45 +0000

Question for C experts, the article states:

C takes the middle road -- variables may be declared within the body of a function, but they must follow a '{'. More modern languages like Java and C++ allow you to declare variables on any line, which is handy.

I know this is not the case in C11 for example, but is there a compile-time speed-up when declaring variables in this way, or any other benefit?

New comment by andystanton in "Path Tracing vs. Ray Tracing (2016)"

andystanton — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:07:58 +0000

Disney's Practical Guide to Path Tracing is a good resource for explaining path tracing: https://youtu.be/frLwRLS_ZR0

New comment by andystanton in "Want to Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code"

andystanton — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:42:58 +0000

> I was listening to a friend's music podcast tonight and they were talking about how industry will seize on any shred of creativity so that they can use it to sell cars, and this contributes to people getting defensive about the things they like becoming popular. There is a latent fear that just over the horizon, some marketing asshole is waiting to get their hands on something that is meaningful to you, in order to abuse that connection so they can buy themselves a boat.

What was the podcast out of interest?