The battery has weakened ofc, the 2 day battery life has dropped to a measly 9 hours, but that's more than enough.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

- Typescript (any web framework, any flavour. well versed with advanced typing, structuring and fixing enterprise scale monoliths. Expert in Svelte and Kit)

- 3D (3D modelling, WebGL (GLSL and TSL shaders, performance optimization and pipelines; think online 3D showcases, websites and general web based realtime rendering)

- DevOps & Deployment (Going from MVPs to globally distributed and highly available services tailor fit to your budget and complexity constraints. Automated maintenance, deployment and scaling)

- Languages (in order of proficiency): Typescript, C#, GLSL, OCaml, Haskell, C++, Python, Lua, Haxe.

I work mostly like a CTO on contract with heavy emphasis on understanding and building every step of an enterprise pipeline. I build highly maintainable solutions tailor fit to your budget, infrastructure and future investment. My goal is to solve your problem in a way that it manages itself without heavy future investment. With over 10 years of experience taking products from idea to market I understand exactly what goes into building a successful tech product. I have worked in multiple industries spanning pharmaceuticals, finance and deep tech. Current research includes building highly performant realtime rendering solutions for the web. Think global illumination at 60fps in the browser.

Résumé/CV:

Email: h4chikuku [at] gmail

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48488042

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My e-mail's on my profile!

A while back I saw a video[0] of people playing chess but using action cards to modify the rules mid-game (skip turns, reverse, draw 2, etc.). It looked incredibly chaotic and really fun to play, so I decided to actually build it as a playable online game. A small difference in Monochess is there's no need to call out a phrase if you just have one piece. I noticed while testing with the mrs. it became really annoying to keep doing this every move.

That also gave me a really good reason to build on Cloudflare using their entire stack, something I've been meaning to get my hands dirty with for quite some time. The app is built using SvelteKit and hosted on Pages, there's a Durable Object worker-backed game server, and D1 as the database layer for accounts/games.

This project included:

- A Custom Engine: Standard chess engines panic when forced into illegal board states. The engine wraps standard chess logic to allow for mid-turn state changes—handling concepts like rolling back a completed move, processing skip turns, etc.

- Custom State Serialization: Standard PGN breaks the moment an action card is played. Monochess uses a custom JSON-based serialization schema that deterministically records both the chess moves and the card actions. This allows the game state to be completely reproducible for history, replays, and validation.

- Durable Objects Game Server: Real-time multiplayer is handled entirely on the Edge via Cloudflare Durable Objects. The DO acts as the single source of truth, managing WebSocket connections, verifying actions against the ruleset, handling disconnects, and running the turn timers.

- D1 Persistence & Matchmaking: Using Cloudflare D1 to store the serialized game records, manage player authentication, and track ELO via a custom Glicko-2 rating implementation.

It's free to play here: https://monochess.pages.dev

Would love to hear what you think, or if you manage to find any absolutely broken card/move combos. There's also a feedback/bug report form on the site itself (writes to CF KV and a worker runs to email it to me (I swear I'm not sponsored by CF xd)).

LLM aid was minimal, but Gemini 3.5 Flash is pretty good for small UI enhacements, and generally organizing components in Svelte. Was pleasantly surprised.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzkKs_b5css

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309054

Points: 3

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so basically a vibe coded Tauri in zig? I don't like calling webview dependent applications "native desktop apps".

Native desktop apps means using the OS primitives and directives to draw the UI imo; WinForms, SwiftUI, and their ilk.

You can of course buy that device, but from personal experience the novelty doesn't last very long and then it just becomes just another device in the drawer graveyard. Also no one's really making new PSP games anymore? so the novelty of the PSP remains in its construction and the software; which becomes limiting as time goes on.

The joystick, buttons all tend to break or stick after 20 years, replacements may or may not be easy to come by for most, so it just makes more sense into building your own retro game device that supports PSP emulation among others.

Pair that with a 30-40$ controller extension like the Razer Kishi and you have a really powerful retro gaming device.

I was first exposed to compilers as a learning subject as a mandatory 2nd year/1st semester course; with the Dragon Book as the main textbook...

This is really interesting because I am working on pretty large codebases simultaneously and the idea that my agent won't have to re-index and re-read all my files over and over again is pretty enticing.

My question is what methods are you using to index and connect these to your agents?

My research has led me to the following but I am basically very confused by what metric to measure how good they are.

1. https://github.com/abhigyanpatwari/GitNexus - seems like the most popular

2. https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp - also interesting/new

3. https://github.com/JaredStewart/coderlm - the tree-sitter based approach seems really good.

Would love to know how people actively using frontier models and methods navigate this domain.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659469

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600314

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