Hacker News: irrlichthn

New comment by irrlichthn in "Bring back crappy forums"

irrlichthn — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:44:12 +0000

I run a small forum and am also the moderator of some small subreddits. I must say the toxicity of sub reddits is so much higher, and people on the old "crappy" forum are so much more polite. I don't know why this is, but maybe because the users flocking to old school forums are maybe a bit older?

New comment by irrlichthn in "Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI"

irrlichthn — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:52:55 +0000

Sounds very negative, but I can confirm - it's the truth unfortunately.

I'm developing windows desktop apps since nearly 30 years now and tried mostly everything Microsoft has thrown at us - Win32 - WinForms - WPF - WinJS - WinRT - UWP - WinUI - MAUI - not sure if that was all - and Win32 always wins. Everything else is incredible broken and stops being supported in such a short time. It's a shame really.

New comment by irrlichthn in "Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine"

irrlichthn — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:32:02 +0000

I thought most of the existing engines out there were too complicated, so I wanted it to be easy to use. Probably that's also why it became that popular.

For a modern engine today - I think the architecture of the engine would look different - and would focus more on creating and organizing content then mostly on rendering.

New comment by irrlichthn in "Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine"

irrlichthn — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 06:15:20 +0000

I originally wanted to create a 3D game - and needed an engine for it. Never made it to the 3D game part, though :)

New comment by irrlichthn in "Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine"

irrlichthn — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:19:45 +0000

Strange to wake up and see this on Hacker News - in 2025. I originally created this but am no longer involved - AMA if you like.

New comment by irrlichthn in "DevHub.app – Developer Utilities for macOS"

irrlichthn — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 07:15:28 +0000

Why not? You likely already do on your phone.

New comment by irrlichthn in "Google Maps Hacks"

irrlichthn — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 14:03:39 +0000

Very cool hack. Thought about that this could be possible several times now, nice that someone actually did and succeeded :)

New comment by irrlichthn in "We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too"

irrlichthn — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 11:29:32 +0000

"I'm not going to fix this crash, because next year, there might be a similar bug, and I'm not sure how to fix that yet." I hope you don't code that way.

New comment by irrlichthn in "Electric cars: New vehicles to emit noise to aid safety"

irrlichthn — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 10:05:45 +0000

I drive an electric car which already does this. Is a very futuristic and smooth sounding noise, and it sounds nice. Not like an ICE engine. People immediately notice you and recognize that you are in some new type of car. It feels positive, not negative at all as some comments here suggest.

Also, there is a button to disable that noise if you want to (at least in the Ioniq)

The craziness of developing a WYSIWYG web editor in 2019

irrlichthn — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:32:14 +0000

Article URL: http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1611

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20181603

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by irrlichthn in "Google de-emphasizes 'Don't Be Evil' motto in its code of conduct"

irrlichthn — Sat, 19 May 2018 03:08:16 +0000

Ever tried adwords? I think my first bug report of it not really working with other browsers was about 6 years ago, that time it was with Opera. My reports usually get verified but commented with "use Chrome instead".

New comment by irrlichthn in "Launch HN: Promise (YC W18) – Cost-effective, more humane alternative to jail"

irrlichthn — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:21:31 +0000

> perhaps the US criminal justice system is just as good at investigating, arresting, and jailing those who commit "crimes"?

Having worked with statistics around this issue and compared them with many other countries, I don't think this is the case. The USA seems to have two problems: A very, unusual high crime rate (about 10 times higher than in the country where I live for example!) and by comparison, a very harsh jurisdictional system. Combined, you get the result you have.

New comment by irrlichthn in "Nobody Wants to Let Google Win the War for Maps All Over Again"

irrlichthn — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:06:04 +0000

It could also be a simple routing bug. You cannot know.

Why Developers Can Ignore Software Reviews

irrlichthn — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 10:37:02 +0000

Article URL: http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1572

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16238195

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Why the Update Fever Is Bad

irrlichthn — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 04:26:24 +0000

Article URL: http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1562

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15727749

Points: 149

# Comments: 110

New comment by irrlichthn in "75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas"

irrlichthn — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 03:48:50 +0000

AFAIK, I can do with my garden whatever I want to do, as long as a I don't turn it into forrest. But that's here in Austria. What you describe sounds terrible. Fines for not mowing? In which country do you live?

New comment by irrlichthn in "75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas"

irrlichthn — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 02:30:41 +0000

Ha, did exactly the same thing, since I noticed nearly no bees or other insects last year. I dedictated around 200 m² of my lawn to nature. I think it helped: This year, there where so much more of them to see.

New comment by irrlichthn in "Implementing Font-Size in Servo: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property"

irrlichthn — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 06:22:23 +0000

I wrote a free responsive website editor (named "RocketCake"), and was surprised how complex CSS and these HTML rules are to implement, although I only needed not all of them. When I told my fellow programmers, they didn't believe me. I'll send them a link to this. Nice article!

Steam Direct and what it means for developers and gamers

irrlichthn — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 15:06:19 +0000

Article URL: http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1549

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14980435

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A guy with a stolen iPhone walks into the Apple Store

irrlichthn — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 06:38:02 +0000

Article URL: http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=1547

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14733832

Points: 5

# Comments: 0