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New comment by momocowcow in "Every GPU That Mattered"

momocowcow — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:31:19 +0000

not a very good list, from a historical perspective it’s missing many important cards, as mentioned by others

also, the gpu did not exist until 1999

looks like this was created for engagement

New comment by momocowcow in "The curious case of retro demo scene graphics"

momocowcow — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:33:23 +0000

It was considered "pretty lame" in the 90s, yet the best did it. It was just harder to figure it out.

New comment by momocowcow in "The curious case of retro demo scene graphics"

momocowcow — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:16:17 +0000

The famous spinning head from second reality is directly taken from the book "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way". Check it out on page 72

New comment by momocowcow in "Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines"

momocowcow — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:26:43 +0000

Enjoy shipping console titles that run at a constant 60 fps with no GC.

Again, fine for pet projects on PC :)

New comment by momocowcow in "Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines"

momocowcow — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:19:52 +0000

No serious devs even uses Unity coroutines. Terrible control flow and perf. Fine for small projects on PC.

New comment by momocowcow in "Streaming AI agent desktops with gaming protocols"

momocowcow — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:27:11 +0000

What’s the most intricate system that’s been written with this?

New comment by momocowcow in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

momocowcow — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:03:50 +0000

Whatever I put in, it wants me to read Sapiens :_(

New comment by momocowcow in "rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC"

momocowcow — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 07:54:12 +0000

I saw a few of these things in the 90s and they definetly were not cool. They were slow, clunky or produced artifacts. You needed close integration between the game and renderer for perf.

Funny how history turns out.

New comment by momocowcow in "I just want an 80×25 console, but that's no longer possible"

momocowcow — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:55:33 +0000

To the trash heap you snappy applications. Thank god for electron based IDEs.

Needless complexities have simply crept in other parts of the machine.

New comment by momocowcow in "Our love letter to Internet Relay Chat [video]"

momocowcow — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 18:29:02 +0000

Why are we now using Discord instead of this? I never had performance issues with text based irc clients.

New comment by momocowcow in "Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure"

momocowcow — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:45:58 +0000

Why the downvotes on this one?

New comment by momocowcow in "Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds"

momocowcow — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:42:57 +0000

Nice clean journalistic blurb from NPR. Case close! Too much food makes you fat, not genetics. Until the next article in a month.

New comment by momocowcow in "Ask HN: Anyone using augmented reality, VR, glasses, helmets etc. in industry?"

momocowcow — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:58:21 +0000

This. I’ve seen businesses where sending a crew to a very remote location in the wilderness (natural resources, oil, mining, etc) is very cost prohibitive. The less time spent over there figuring out what’s up, the better. They’ll have software devs model the remote site in Unity or whatever then have the crew rehearse the task at hand in VR.

New comment by momocowcow in "The Grug Brained Developer (2022)"

momocowcow — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:11:50 +0000

This statement explain his position very clearly. Anyone who did any serious DOS programming understands it well.

"A debugger is how you get a view into a system that's too complicated to understand. I mean, anybody that thinks just read the code and think about it, that's an insane statement, you can't even read all the code on a big system. You have to do experiments on the system. And doing that by adding log statements, recompiling and rerunning it, is an incredibly inefficient way of doing it. I mean, yes, you can always get things done, even if you're working with stone knives and bare skins."

New comment by momocowcow in "Why do we get earworms?"

momocowcow — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:03:12 +0000

For a moment I thought I was reading the companion article to «I let Claude Code write an entire book»

New comment by momocowcow in "John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025"

momocowcow — Sun, 25 May 2025 08:05:29 +0000

Read the quake pvs article linked to in this thread.

On top of my head as I remember it.. one of the reasons for Quake's use of a bsp was to allow back to front rendering of the world geometry without the use of a zbuffer. This was required to get decent performance with the software rasterizer.

I'm not 100% sure what's most commonly used these days, but for a large open world requiring data streaming, I could see the use for something like an octree and even portals.

New comment by momocowcow in "John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025"

momocowcow — Sat, 24 May 2025 10:29:02 +0000

Exactly, I played through underworld on a 386 16mhz. Being an rpg, the lower fps was much more tolerable than in Doom, which was in fact unplayable.

New comment by momocowcow in "Persuasion methods for engineering managers"

momocowcow — Tue, 13 May 2025 08:08:16 +0000

These aren't persuasion methods but techniques to exploit common cognitive biases. One thing I learned by reading Cialdini's "Influence" book is to call out such tricks when exposed to them. Hopefully, none of this is required when working in an organization which hires for cultural fit and shared vision.

New comment by momocowcow in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

momocowcow — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:14:37 +0000

There are no native Czech speakers in their management. It's a similar story as the Yandex guys going off to Nebius Group in the Netherlands after the invasion.

New comment by momocowcow in "Layoffs Don't Work"

momocowcow — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:46:30 +0000

You are still not testing if they can code. But whether under the scrutiny of another person, they can code. Maybe this is important to you, maybe peer programming is important to you for example. I remember a young dev who couldn’t pass such tests, as he would get too nervous, yet he had written the core tech for many shipped products. The type of guy you would just stick in dark room. With age this type of stuff settles down.