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New comment by danbolt in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

danbolt — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:22:32 +0000

I’ve seen bounties for re-adding C# to web exports to Godot 4. [1] It’s something that’s had some technical roadblocks for the engine’s developers, and looks like it might take a bit of time. [2]

There tend to be a lot of drive-by AI PRs attempt to “re-add” the feature, often not quite addressing the situation comprehensively. It seems like a bit of a local minima trap for the bots. [3]

[1] https://app.opire.dev/issues/01J8YJ06HPSY7ZAMAW08T83YBD

[2] https://godotengine.org/article/live-from-godotcon-boston-we...

[3] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/119972

New comment by danbolt in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

danbolt — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:06:49 +0000

I don’t have diabetes, but I’ve heard from people with T1 that Welch’s work well for the reasons you mentioned.

When I browse the candy aisle at the store, I often wonder if certain treats tend to be better than others for administering glucose. In your experience, are there ever certain properties of candies that are more useful than others?

New comment by danbolt in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

danbolt — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:19:40 +0000

I’ve noticed something similar with vibecoded game rendering logic submitted by peers. Sometimes it will be peppered with extraneous checks for nullptr, or early returns on textures that have zero size.

I often wonder if it’s the statistical nature of the LLM mixed with a request in the prompt.

Designing GPUs for Developers: A Conversation with Godot

danbolt — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:34:00 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.imaginationtech.com/designing-gpus-for-developers-a-conversation-with-godot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102207

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by danbolt in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

danbolt — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:12:58 +0000

Please elaborate, poopmonster! What sort of skills are required to expertly use an LLM?

New comment by danbolt in "The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon"

danbolt — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:27:18 +0000

Yeah, I’m quite surprised at this comment. Commercial video games are mass-produced products, and as much as I dislike designers being bogged down in technical minutiae, having a sense of industrial design for the thing you’re making is an incredible boon.

Fumito Ueda was notably quite concerned with the technical/production feasibility of his designs for Shadow of the Colossus. [1] Doom was an exercise in both creativity and expertise.

[1] https://www.designroom.site/shadow-of-the-colossus-oral-hist...

New comment by danbolt in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

danbolt — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:35:12 +0000

I’ve been using COSMIC on a spare laptop, and enjoying it, but I’m stuck on 22.04 until their Iced rebase finishes and have IME working. [1]

Making a new DE plus compositor is a lot of work, but I do hope it works well for the Pop_OS developers.

[1] https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/issues/2174

New comment by danbolt in "Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance"

danbolt — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:09:47 +0000

Can you elaborate on what you mean by “organized criminals”? I hope you’re not poisoning the well!

I ask this as someone who has no love or support for the Liberals.

New comment by danbolt in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

danbolt — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:38:08 +0000

I’ve only seen that movie on an old MacBook about a decade ago, but I can certainly believe it’d be a treat seeing it the way you mention.

Funny enough, I want to see a version of Chungking Express that feels processed to look like an early-2000s digital camera.

New comment by danbolt in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

danbolt — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:01:19 +0000

My unfounded hunch for the computing bit is that home computers became more and more commonplace in the home as we approached the 21st century.

A Commodore 64 was a cool gadget, but “the family computer” became a device that commoditized the productivity. The opportunity cost of applying a computer to try something new went to near zero.

It might have been harder for someone to improve the productivity of an old factory in Shreveport, Louisiana with a computer than it was for the upstarts at id to make Doom.

New comment by danbolt in "Seed of Might color correction process (2023) [pdf]"

danbolt — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:48:50 +0000

Super Mario 64 is a video game that’s had a lot of rereleases, both official and unofficial. I sometimes wonder if the most people who have experienced it did in a way that wasn’t like the original Nintendo 64. The Switch version sold almost as many copies. As a kid, I beat it with arrow keys on an emulator in 2001.

When I read the responses to this document, I wonder if Dragon Ball is the same, where the collective nostalgia is actually quite diverse.

New comment by danbolt in "Happy Zelda's 40th first LLM running on N64 hardware (4MB RAM, 93MHz)"

danbolt — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:28:36 +0000

Can you elaborate on the “partially correct” bit? I’d like to understand the programming of the ROM better.

New comment by danbolt in "Happy Zelda's 40th first LLM running on N64 hardware (4MB RAM, 93MHz)"

danbolt — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:29:51 +0000

I think the source code in the GitHub repo generates the ROM in the corresponding screenshots, but it seems quite barebones.

It feels very much like it’s cobbled together from the libdragon examples directory. Or, they use hardware acceleration for the 2D sprites, but then write fixed-width text to the frambuffer with software rendering.

New comment by danbolt in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

danbolt — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:59:07 +0000

What’s the game? Genuinely curious!

New comment by danbolt in "Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video]"

danbolt — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:15:23 +0000

My first job out of school was on one of the HD expansions at SkyBox Labs. It was mostly grunt feature work and desync fixes, but I remember that some of the handcoded ASM from the legacy pathfinding had been one-to-one translated to C++.

I always wondered if that contributed to the pathfinding regressions that were talked about online. Or, you learn about compiler-induced accidental UB in school, and part of me wondered if something was happening there.

Sleeping Dogs Minimap Technical Fundamentals

danbolt — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:54:29 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@jestey/sleeping-dogs-minimap-technical-fundamentals-43544aefc1e6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983512

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by danbolt in "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"

danbolt — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:32:51 +0000

If you’re being objective about a programming language, its strengths and weaknesses are always going to a reflection of the game you’re trying to make. Python’s ecosystem will get you very far making web services, but less so with cert on consoles.

C# and GDScript are no different. They both have made design decisions for particular reasons.

You’re a skilled developer in real languages, so I’d encourage you to explore why other developers might prefer a DSL for their needs!

New comment by danbolt in "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"

danbolt — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:52:43 +0000

My philosophy has always been “ergonomic scripting or drop to C++”, so I’m quite okay with it.

C# has always felt a bit clunky to me. It’s nice to have alternatives.

New comment by danbolt in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

danbolt — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 02:49:53 +0000

I tried the 7DFPS Game Jam this month, trying to learn a little more 3D modelling, as well as Godot. It was my first time using the engine to produce a HTML5 build.

https://danbolt.itch.io/7dfps-2025

New comment by danbolt in "Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction"

danbolt — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 05:20:47 +0000

Within the scope of a game’s production, the programmer time spent dogfooding the new audio format can be used towards something else that improves the value of the end product.

The uncompressed audio for latency-sensitive one-shots usually isn’t taking up the bulk of memory either.