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New comment by ivm in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

ivm — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:44:48 +0000

It takes about 6 seconds to get the site fully rendered on MacBook Air 2017 in Chile. HN is slightly above 1 second in comparison.

New comment by ivm in "Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE"

ivm — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:51:28 +0000

Yes, I guess a big part I skipped is that it may not be such a good fit for action games, where asset-dependent interactions, such as collisions, can affect the game model.

But games closer to the tabletop end of the spectrum (think strategy, puzzles, etc.) are basically apps: they're not doing much in the world itself, but rather rendering it based on the existing state and accepting user input to modify that state.

New comment by ivm in "Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE"

ivm — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:36:21 +0000

I've also been making a game engine based on MonoGame (and prime31/Nez), and one thing I recommend looking into is headless mode for both the game and the editor. I started my engine in the first place because I want to get back into gamedev, but there's no way I'm going back to the convoluted editor-centered workflow of Unity/Godot. And with proper MVVM, you can get the game headless too, so agents can play without the UI and run thousands of simulations of the gameplay.

Overall, MVVM should be getting a renaissance because of how well it determines the layers and data flow for AI. I have multiple projects using it, and even in early 2025, models had almost no issues understanding my code and implementing new features. Now I set up MVVM-inspired headless architectures including for Swift or React Native projects and it works like a charm.

Uncle Bob: My current strategy is to not read any code written by my agents

ivm — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:04:43 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/unclebobmartin/status/2080257779395154409

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031391

Points: 6

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New comment by ivm in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

ivm — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:03:15 +0000

AvaloniaUI has their community in Telegram, and there are other tech ones. Endless meme channels in different languages too. Also, most of Russian-speaking emigrant groups & news channels are in Telegram, some of them with tens of thousands of participants.

New comment by ivm in "Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way"

ivm — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:40:28 +0000

Spanish is not that bad: the conjugations are not gendered, while there are fewer than 20 major irregular patterns and about a dozen especially quirky verbs that you have to memorize in a few tenses (there are no 100% irregular verbs, most have at least some regular forms).

Source: I develop a conjugation app for a living

New comment by ivm in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

ivm — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:07:43 +0000

> You see the dawn of this age everywhere, from Iran to online age verification regimes, and this is only the beginning. This is why the world ahead will feel medieval in structure while remaining hypermodern and even futuristic in technology. It is a Frank Herbert world. It will be organized around overlapping zones of protection, extraction, and controlled access, rather than around universal inclusion into a single normative space.

https://turbulence.substack.com/p/the-gated-age

New comment by ivm in "Apple WWDC 2026"

ivm — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:37:10 +0000

Yeah, I'm struggling to find a wallpaper that looks good under the transparent menu bar + the vertical dock on the right. So now it's almost black solid color.

New comment by ivm in "Magnifica Humanitas"

ivm — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:24:02 +0000

HN Guidelines: Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

New comment by ivm in "Magnifica Humanitas"

ivm — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:37:42 +0000

The events you mention still took place within the Abrahamic framework of thought. Ideas like a linear timeline progressing from A to B (rather than a cyclical one) or utopian political projects bringing final justice to society are Abrahamic in nature.

So I agree with the grandparent comment: unless one takes the time to study and truly understand other belief systems, it's hard to see how Western "secular" schools of thought remain Christian because we're submerged in them since childhood.

Everything Is Computer

ivm — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:52:51 +0000

Article URL: https://turbulence.substack.com/p/everything-is-computer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215412

Points: 4

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New comment by ivm in "C# in Unity 2026: Writing more modern code"

ivm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:30:06 +0000

Probably MonoGame is the best option for your case then

New comment by ivm in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

ivm — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:24:14 +0000

México is because of the old orthography, before it was Don Quixote too.

New comment by ivm in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

ivm — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:55:02 +0000

FWIW I easily moved from ActionScript game development for Facebook to Objective-C game development for iPhone, riding both hype waves as a result. So, it was a decent tech pick in 2007-2009.

New comment by ivm in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

ivm — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:49:49 +0000

Spanish would be great, there's a serious lack of Spanish TTS on Android compared to iOS and the quality is not the best.

New comment by ivm in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

ivm — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:25:56 +0000

Same here. It makes indies a one-man army again, like in the good old days before the complexity explosion of the 2010s.

New comment by ivm in "Marketing for Founders"

ivm — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:14:24 +0000

It did not work even before AI. The rise of "indie hacking" in the late 2010s brought in thousands of hustlers creating similar lists, and many of them were simply selling shovels to other indie hackers (including the lists themselves). By the time of the pandemic, the "submit to every directory & community" strategy was already useless.

New comment by ivm in "Digg is gone again"

ivm — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:12:37 +0000

Because there's no real discussion in such broad communities. Only jokes, generic replies, and silly fights. They're equivalent to comment sections on news sites.

New comment by ivm in "Digg is gone again"

ivm — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:22:12 +0000

There strategy did not make any sense: only a few pre-approved broad-and-shallow forums about everything instead of trying to attract niche communities from Reddit or even FB Groups.

New comment by ivm in "Adobe Animate will be discontinued"

ivm — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:23:42 +0000

Yes, Rive launched scripting last year