Hacker News: longor1996

New comment by longor1996 in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

longor1996 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:02:20 +0000

Because retooling and relearning development pipelines (on any level/most teams) for games is a horrifically expensive and time-consuming affair... which are resources not spent on developing any one of the potentially dozen or so games. It's just priorities, alas.

New comment by longor1996 in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

longor1996 — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:34:34 +0000

The new C# unions are not reference-only. The attribute/interface allows implementing custom union types by writing `TryGetValue`-methods instead of a single `object? Value {get;}`. The compiler handles this transparently.

New comment by longor1996 in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

longor1996 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:43:22 +0000

Seems to be "native" as in "not a web-browser/view".

New comment by longor1996 in "Show HN: WolfStack – Proxmox-like server management in a single Rust binary"

longor1996 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:06:40 +0000

Err, the website footer takes up the entire lower half of the viewport/screen, on mobile.

New comment by longor1996 in "Graphics Programming Resources"

longor1996 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:18:03 +0000

Well, do I ever have a treat for ya!

https://voxel.wiki/wiki/references/

New comment by longor1996 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"

longor1996 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:27:07 +0000

Location: Europe, Germany, State of BW, District of RV.

Remote: Yes, or hybrid if close by; office only if in-district.

Willing to relocate: No, unable to.

Technologies: C#, Rust, Git, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Vulkan, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Regex, PowerShell, Blender, Unreal Engine, Python, OpenGL, C, CCNA

Résumé/CV: Available on request.

Email: longor [at] mailbox [dot] org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-k-69727719b/

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I've been tinkering with computers for 20 years now, working for the last 9, building a variety of side-projects & prototypes; most recently a binary data-format using gradual typing and writing a wiki focused on voxels. My focus lies mostly around compilers/DSLs, graphics and web-technology.

The current job/contract of creating an "Welding-Assembly Process-Tracking, Reconstruction and Reporting"-System (using C#/Typescript/PostgreSQL) is nearing completion (~1.5 months), so I'm looking for new/interesting opportunities... excluding AI/LLM related things.

New comment by longor1996 in "End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git"

longor1996 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:04:27 +0000

That this is a plausible explanation is... beyond horrifying to me.

New comment by longor1996 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"

longor1996 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:07:10 +0000

Location: Europe, Germany, State of BW, District of RV.

Remote: Yes, or hybrid if close by; office only if in-district.

Willing to relocate: No, unable to.

Technologies: C#, Rust, Git, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Vulkan, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Regex, PowerShell, Blender, Unreal Engine, Python, OpenGL, C, CCNA

Résumé/CV: Available on request.

Email: longor [at] mailbox [dot] org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-k-69727719b/

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The current job/contract of creating an "Event-based Welding-Assembly Process Tracking, Reconstruction and Reporting"-System (using C#/Typescript/PostgreSQL) is nearing completion (~2 months), so I'm looking for new/interesting opportunities.

New comment by longor1996 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)"

longor1996 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:12:54 +0000

Location: Europe, Germany, State of BW, District of RV.

Remote: Yes, or hybrid if close by.

Willing to relocate: No, unable to.

Technologies: C#, Rust, Git, SQLite, Postgres, Vulkan, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Regex, PowerShell, Blender, Unreal Engine, Python, OpenGL, C, CCNA

Résumé/CV: Available on request.

Email: longor [at] mailbox [dot] org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-k-69727719b/

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My current job/contract is nearing completion (~3 months), so I'm looking for something new-ish.

New comment by longor1996 in "Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol"

longor1996 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:35:25 +0000

Maybe you could use unifont glyphs (drawn as SVGs?) as fallback?

New comment by longor1996 in "No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter"

longor1996 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:51:53 +0000

Nah, [BetterFox](https://github.com/yokoffing/Betterfox) still works fine

New comment by longor1996 in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

longor1996 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:08:22 +0000

On the surface level, building/compiling/running, maybe... But properly integrating with a given platform (or hell, version of platform!) is a whole new world of pain. :(

New comment by longor1996 in "Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification"

longor1996 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:21:53 +0000

Given that many tools are relatively small, I'd almost argue it wouldn't take more than 30min, ignoring testing.

New comment by longor1996 in "UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales"

longor1996 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:59:54 +0000

Oh, sorry! Shouldn't have said "all" there... :'D

New comment by longor1996 in "UK's first small nuclear power station to be built in north Wales"

longor1996 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:33:07 +0000

Wasn't all that bad PR mostly caused by the coal/oil industry, doing some serious astroturfing for a decade or so?

New comment by longor1996 in "How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)"

longor1996 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:45:15 +0000

Interesting! Do you have some studies or references at hand for this?

Never heard of "human brain needs nicotine" before...

New comment by longor1996 in "Levels of configuration languages"

longor1996 — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 11:11:46 +0000

The article actually (accidentally or on purpose?) refers to just that:

> How to avoid this madness? Introduce another low-level configuration file. Back to level one...

New comment by longor1996 in "I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)"

longor1996 — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 11:58:27 +0000

It absolutely does, as the definition of a voxel is, roughly, "a 3ormoreD regular grid of point-samples".

New comment by longor1996 in "I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)"

longor1996 — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 11:54:16 +0000

There are quite a lot of successful voxel-based games; see https://voxel.wiki/wiki/projects/ for an incomplete list.

Most people think voxel means 'cube' or 'block', but really it just means "regularly spaced sample in a 3-or-more-D grid".

The voxel gamedev community tends to call Minecraft-y voxel games "bloxel"-based.

New comment by longor1996 in "What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code"

longor1996 — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 19:09:14 +0000

Perhaps redbean might be of interest? It's a web server with all the batteries included, scripted via lua.

https://redbean.dev/