Hacker News: bel8

New comment by bel8 in "Parallel agents in Zed"

bel8 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:13:36 +0000

thanks for sharing. I'm looking for the next Sublime and this might be it.

New comment by bel8 in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

bel8 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:47:54 +0000

Sadly I coudn't make Chrome crash here. Would be fun.

Chrome Version 147.0.7727.101 (Official Build) (64-bit). Windows 11 Pro.

Video: https://imgur.com/a/pq6P4si

I use uBlock Origin Lite. Maybe it blocks some crash causing script? edit: still no crash when I disabled UBO.

New comment by bel8 in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

bel8 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:40:56 +0000

I quite like when games keep playing some visual-only animations when paused.

Like torch flames and trees swaying in the wind.

New comment by bel8 in "Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine"

bel8 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:02:49 +0000

In their case it was a small game so they didn't spend much time debugging (if at all).

For big projects you'd first spend time (and possibly money) trying to fix whatever is broken before updating Unity which would break more things.

New comment by bel8 in "Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine"

bel8 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:57:39 +0000

> The developers just load up an old version of Unity to work in.

Exactly. It's common in game dev industry to keep using the same version of Unity for a project. Sometimes a minor version is updated, and I do mean sometimes, because large projects break for the smalles changes (despite semver).

New comment by bel8 in "Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared"

bel8 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:15:37 +0000

There's a wave of "desktop games" on Steam. Most of them are Idle genre or tamagochi like.

For those I find these exoctic shaped windows are fun and a great differentiator.

Example:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666510/Rustys_Retirement...

Bundle with a ton of these games:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/48558/BottomOfYourScre...

New comment by bel8 in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

bel8 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:34:34 +0000

Sorry about that. I'll search somewhere better to post it while I don't have a website for it.

Meanwhile I found this random image upload website which might work:

https://freeimage.host/i/image.B0iOHxt

New comment by bel8 in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

bel8 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:24:30 +0000

I'm creating my first game!

- Janky screenshot of progress so far: https://i.imgur.com/4afs5lv.png

- 2D single player browser game

- infinite procedural generated world

- build your starship

- manage a crew

- explore, harvest, trade and plunder the universe

- Frontend: Phaser 3 + WebGL + TypeScript https://phaser.io

- Backend: Workerthread + EliCS + TypeScript https://elixr-games.github.io/elics

- I made a Discord for it and I post daily videos of progress: https://discord.gg/FZa6w2TP

- I might open source it but since I play to make this a commercial game, I'm not sure yet. But I'm glad to help anyone with similar projects if I can

My challenges with it are:

- Keeping FPS above 60

- Art. I'm very bad with art

- Having something playable within 20 days