Hacker News: mathnode

New comment by mathnode in "Using Thunderbird for RSS"

mathnode — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:44:35 +0000

Yes I have been doing this for years. I also have my gmail account plumbed in so I have a local copy of my emails; easy archiving. And yes I manually copy my opml changes across devices and I like it!

New comment by mathnode in "Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features"

mathnode — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:29:57 +0000

Of all the unnecessary AI integrations; firefox is the one I am least concerned or annoyed about. I will however be disabling anything AI related they introduce.

New comment by mathnode in "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games"

mathnode — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:46:10 +0000

It's a lovely facelift of their website, but am I correct in saying the editor is Windows only, still?

New comment by mathnode in "Open source server code for the BitCraft MMORPG"

mathnode — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:07:00 +0000

Old man here shaking his fist. While I acknowledge and appreciate the technical effort and let’s face it, an exemplary example in preserving games long after they are maintained by the original creators. But this is not an “rpg”, it’s a gathering, crafting, and hanging out simulator. That’s fine by its own definition, but I don’t see any mechanisms which allow for actual roleplay? Please prove me wrong

New comment by mathnode in "Tixl: Open-source realtime motion graphics"

mathnode — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:28:39 +0000

https://friction.graphics might be what you are looking for

New comment by mathnode in "1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18"

mathnode — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:27:45 +0000

A chromebook or an ipad with a keyboard. Don’t over complicate it for her or anyone else. Give them something that makes what they know even easier, and also open up new avenues without having to learn a lot.

Ubuntu if it’s just an os replacement. She doesn’t know or care what debian or chromium is.

New comment by mathnode in "GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders"

mathnode — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:31:33 +0000

Honestly thanks to Lutris, I have no want of a native linux GOG client and would rather GOG and others contributed to an already excellent solution and for there to be less distributor owned clients.

New comment by mathnode in "Zed is now available on Windows"

mathnode — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:47:40 +0000

I tried it for a bit. But unless you want to use their choice of lsp/linter/whatever from what you are used to, then you will waste even more time customising zed to your needs from your previous solution.

New comment by mathnode in "Intel Arc Pro B50 GPU Launched at $349 for Compact Workstations"

mathnode — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 23:24:20 +0000

Because we don't need data centre hardware to run domestic software.

New comment by mathnode in "Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard"

mathnode — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:58:38 +0000

This is excellent news. So many artists are now using procreate on iPad Pros as their primary platform. I do not miss the days of using puppet to juggle the configs of various overly expensive and user hostile dcc software. The barrier to entry used to be so high for designers.

New comment by mathnode in "Dead Games"

mathnode — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:16:12 +0000

Yes there are far too many asset flips and game templates that are just sold a individual games.

New comment by mathnode in "Dead Games"

mathnode — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:15:38 +0000

I would definitely appreciate the Roblox crowd making a play for older gamers, who can also code.

New comment by mathnode in "Dead Games"

mathnode — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:13:21 +0000

Yes sorry perhaps a little more context helps for others that don't understand what we are talking about. Roblox and Fortnite are creative platforms as well as gaming platforms that rival if not excel the older modding tools because they make distribution so easy; good ideas flourish in these spaces. Lethal Company is a great example of a Roblox game mode(?) that excelled beyond the Roblox boundaries. I don't have the evidence at hand, but for anyone spending an afternoon in any modern game engine (UE, Unity, Godot) with their built in asset marketplaces and game templates, will see just how many games out there are just asset flips and not worthy of preservation.

Assets and templates don't make a game. Ingenuity does, and folks...the fledgling game designers are using platforms like Roblox and Fortnite as their jumping off point.

New comment by mathnode in "Dead Games"

mathnode — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:25:15 +0000

While I definitely advocate for Ross Scott's effort behind https://www.stopkillinggames.com, there are still many titles I think that really don't qualify for the level of effort to keep them preserved. I am too old for Roblox, I have tried some Fortnite, but in my day shakes stick, new ideas were expressed through some kind of mod. DOTA and CS are exceptional examples of this.

Not every idea has the automatic inertia it needs to be the next big hit.

I also speak as fan of games like Deceive Inc and First Class Trouble, I applaud Garry's effort in this case. The game engines and distribution platforms make it a lot easier to push your idea as a product instead of being just that, an idea.

New comment by mathnode in "Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim"

mathnode — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:03:25 +0000

What is cursor in this context? A vim plugin?

New comment by mathnode in "Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life and Morrowind Engines"

mathnode — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:04:38 +0000

In my youth I cut my teeth on the quake 2 sdk. And even without a 3D suite and a c compiler I could get creating. When the Rage toolkit became available, almost none of the community were as besotted with eagerness as they had done before. It was a 30GB+ download with some hefty base requirements. While rage could run on a 4 core machine, not many gamers at the time had 16 core Xeon’s and 16gb of ram! The worst the HL2 modding scene had to contend with was running Perl on windows.

New comment by mathnode in "Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines"

mathnode — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:51:00 +0000

Think of it as a fantasy console, like pico-8 which despite the extreme restrictions is home to some incredible content that of which exceeds many big studio engines. The imposed ceiling now allows a solo dev or a team to now concentrate on delivering gameplay and vivacious content instead of graphical gimmicks which eat resources both for the consumers and creators.

Nobody argues that FTL, Minecraft, baba is you, Stardew valley, RuneScape, or dwarf fortress are not a high enough resolution.

New comment by mathnode in "Publishers Have Said the Quiet Part Out Loud About Retro Games"

mathnode — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:57:21 +0000

Could this be linked to instead?

New comment by mathnode in "K1 Buys MariaDB"

mathnode — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:09:59 +0000

Not MySQL Raft? I am desperate to see the source.

New comment by mathnode in "K1 Buys MariaDB"

mathnode — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 23:48:48 +0000

Logical replication does exist in pgsql, which is great. What it still lacks however (and I am sure they will very quickly catch up on) is the user facing process of being able to fix or sync a broken node without a rebuild. I'm also pretty sure pgsql logical replication is single threaded? Things like pg_rewind are layered on fixes that other database users don't have to depend on or learn. Except Oracle (because it's a mess).