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New comment by maxilevi in "Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool"

maxilevi — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:18:44 +0000

Oops, will open source too!

New comment by maxilevi in "Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool"

maxilevi — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:18:16 +0000

IMO better syntax and VM than Java and easier to write performant code than other VM based langs like Python + good tooling

New comment by maxilevi in "Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool"

maxilevi — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:45:05 +0000

I get what you mean and I agree but I wanted to highlight the difference between this and all the vibe coded games opus 5.5 can one shot

New comment by maxilevi in "Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool"

maxilevi — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:54:49 +0000

I started this game almost 10 years ago in high school as a way to learn OpenGL. Scope creep quickly took over, and it eventually became a full 3D game and engine with animations, rendering effects, dynamic terrains, etc, with ~100k lines of code and native Linux and Windows support.

Thought I'd share it! With AI coding now, it feels like a relic of another era. Crazy to imagine writing 100k lines by hand today!

Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool

maxilevi — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:44:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/maxilevi/project-hedra/tree/pre-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50199389

Points: 203

# Comments: 40

Building Your Own Sandboxes

maxilevi — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:31:44 +0000

Article URL: https://alfonsocampodonico.com/posts/building-your-own-sandboxes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158339

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by maxilevi in "Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF"

maxilevi — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:39:24 +0000

but they don’t, the price of an h100 per hour has been going up across the year because you can squeeze more utility out of the computations

New comment by maxilevi in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

maxilevi — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:41:42 +0000

since when ngrok is doing ai

Ggml C++ port of VITS for text-to-speech

maxilevi — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:25:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/maxilevi/vits.cpp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411699

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Hedra – an open-world 3D game I wrote from scratch before LLMs

maxilevi — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:35:46 +0000

With the current inflow of LLM aided software, I thought I would share a cool "hand-coded" project from the previous era (I wrote this in highschool so roughly ~8 years ago).

Hedra is an open world 3d game written from scratch using only OpenGL and C#. It has quite a few cool features like infinite generation, skinned animated mesh rendering, post processing effects, etc. Originally the physics engine was also written from scratch but i swapped for the more reliable bulletphysics.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377736

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by maxilevi in "How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page"

maxilevi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:18:58 +0000

It was never about hard work its about who owns the means of production. And it turns out the best way to amass huge amounts of wealth is creating something so you have ownership and working on growing it for decades.

Jeff had similar compensation as jassy when he was ceo. It’s just that he is also the owner.

New comment by maxilevi in "How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model"

maxilevi — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:04:11 +0000

thats not true in practice

New comment by maxilevi in "Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults"

maxilevi — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:09:38 +0000

Canada wouldn't be able to defend from an invasion

New comment by maxilevi in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

maxilevi — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:02:55 +0000

I just said LLMs

New comment by maxilevi in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

maxilevi — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:50:57 +0000

I don't mean search in the reductionist way but rather that its much better at translating, finding and mapping concepts if everything is provided vs creating from scratch. If it could truly think it would be able to bootstrap creations from basic principles like we do, but it really can't. Doesn't mean its not a great powerful tool.

New comment by maxilevi in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

maxilevi — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:00:18 +0000

LLMs are just really good search. Ask it to create something and it's searching within the pretrained weights. Ask it to find something and it's semantically searching within your codebase. Ask it to modify something and it will do both. Once you understand its just search, you can get really good results.

Why Silicon Valley Tech Wunderkinds Will Only Ever Have 1 Good Business Idea

maxilevi — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:54:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/06/18/why-silicon-valley-tech-wunderkinds-overestimate-their-own-smarts-and-abilities/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46575797

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by maxilevi in "USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994"

maxilevi — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:26:08 +0000

AED is pegged to the USD

New comment by maxilevi in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

maxilevi — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:37:31 +0000

most of them are non binding letters of intent, i don't think it's as trite as you put it

New comment by maxilevi in "A 27M parameter model beating LLMs on reasoning tasks"

maxilevi — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:49:16 +0000

Try it and let us know