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New comment by jazzprogramming in "Show HN: Voronoi Go"

jazzprogramming — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:38:42 +0000

Love it, such a novel idea!

Honestly, as a long time Voronoi enthusiast, the idea of turning a regular grid into a Voronoi diagram is kind of obvious and I admit that this is definitely something that I would like to have come up with myself, but the idea never occurred to me.

The implementation is obviously pretty complex though. And I remember trying to get into regular Go several times along the years and I've always found it very difficult to grasp it (the computer thoroughly beat me every single time!) and I lost the motivation.

I read your tutorial pages, but I learn best by doing so I guess only playing for some significant amount of time will actually help me have a more than skin deep understanding of the game.

I do wish there was a Windows desktop version as the web version is eating 90% of my laptop's CPU when playing against the bot.

Why play is at the core of a meaningful life

jazzprogramming — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:03:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/7b95cdab-7546-432f-b4a1-6509e7648ec5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321735

Points: 2

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New comment by jazzprogramming in "The German Mittelstand"

jazzprogramming — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:40:19 +0000

Sometimes I'm taken aback by the visceral reaction some people have when their spider sense detects LLM impurities in the writing.

I read that same sentence (and the whole article, which I loved) and it didn't trigger anything in me.

It reminds me a bit of the OMG GMOs! craze people used to have a while back (and might still have?).

New comment by jazzprogramming in "Show HN: Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection"

jazzprogramming — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:14:34 +0000

4 comments to heap your scorn on someone's work and what you don't understand. And you say their work is useless.

New comment by jazzprogramming in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

jazzprogramming — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:18:04 +0000

One thing that always comes to mind when I read articles like this is that, suppose he's right and the economic value of 8 billion people becomes close to zero at some point because of AI or something else:

What will 8 billion people be then doing with their time?

Will they be watching Netflix all day in the future?

Or building their dream castle & kingdom in Minecraft instead of IRL?

New comment by jazzprogramming in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

jazzprogramming — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:18:23 +0000

I am working on vorfract, a voronoi voxel world. I've always found the shapes generated by voronoi diagrams so interesting and I quite like the aesthetic.

What new ideas am I thinking about?

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of things left to discover about voronoi diagrams, but for the time being, I'm mainly exploring what's possible to build by using voronoi cells as voxels and devising various tools for cutting them.

Since they're convex polyhedra, almost any shape is possible (in principle, if not in practice) by combining several cells.

What I find particularily interesting is that a solid 3D world can emerge from just a collection of points arranged in different patterns.

https://jazzprogramming.itch.io/vorfract

New comment by jazzprogramming in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

jazzprogramming — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:24:01 +0000

https://vorfract.com

To be honest, it's actually more of a game development log, but it's the closest thing I have to a personal website.

It's hosted on an old Linux PC at home.

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

jazzprogramming — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:37:10 +0000

I've been working on vorfract (a voronoi voxel world) for some time now:

https://jazzprogramming.itch.io/vorfract

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

jazzprogramming — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:30:57 +0000

I'm working on vorfract, a voronoi voxel world:

https://jazzprogramming.itch.io/vorfract

New comment by jazzprogramming in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

jazzprogramming — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:00:25 +0000

Same as last time, I guess. It's a voxel building environment that uses irregular voxels (voxels with sloped faces). I've been working on fixing the bugs for a while now (and there are still a lot of them left).

Browser version here, if you're curious:

https://jazzprogramming.github.io/vorfract/

New comment by jazzprogramming in "Why I chose Lua for this blog"

jazzprogramming — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:01:42 +0000

Speaking of unconventional languages for web development, there's also Wt, for people who are used to building things using C++.

I found it surprisingly good and considering how little I know on how to use HTML/CSS/JS/PHP, the usual web stack, it would have taken me months or more to learn how to build an equivalent site using the standard stack (and then have to maintain it).

Of course, if you're already familiar with web development, that's the best way I guess, but for those who aren't and don't have the necessary time to learn, there are probably alternatives using languages they're familiar with.

New comment by jazzprogramming in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

jazzprogramming — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:49:02 +0000

A voxel building environment using cellular voxels, which allows voxels to have sloped faces.

WebGL version:

https://jazzprogramming.github.io/vorfract/

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

jazzprogramming — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:51:33 +0000

I've been working for some time on a voxel building environment which uses irregular voxels (cellular voxels) instead of the usual cubic grid ones.

If you're curious, you can see it here (needs WebGL2 + Wasm):

https://jazzprogramming.github.io/vorfract/

New comment by jazzprogramming in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

jazzprogramming — Mon, 26 May 2025 06:39:08 +0000

I' working on a voxel building environment, but using irregular (Voronoi) voxels instead of the usual cubic grid ones. Still very much a work in progress:

https://jazzprogramming.github.io/vorfract/

New comment by jazzprogramming in "Louis Armstrong's Last Word"

jazzprogramming — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 09:24:56 +0000

Yes, same here! I was hooked after that, on Louis Armstrong first and then jazz in general.

New comment by jazzprogramming in "Louis Armstrong's Last Word"

jazzprogramming — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:52:56 +0000

My favourite Louis Armstrong recording is "A kiss to build a dream on".

Even today he seems to be larger than life..

I so wish I could have seen him at the height of his career.

Thank you for this.