Hacker News: motorpixel

New comment by motorpixel in "Modern Rendering Culling Techniques"

motorpixel — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:35:30 +0000

Roblox just gave a talk at this exact intersection of topics (user generated content and high performance culling) last month at GDC.

https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/optimizing-a-large-time-...

New comment by motorpixel in "The AI Industry Is Lying to You"

motorpixel — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:45:10 +0000

Someone please correct my math.

The article says 240 Gigawatts of capacity is allocated for AI datacenters.

New York City draws about 10 Gigawatts in the hottest months of the year due to extra load from AC use.

So am I understanding correctly that these people want to foist upon the power grid 24 NYCs?

New comment by motorpixel in "Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew"

motorpixel — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:08:57 +0000

If I have to deal with even the mention of another package manager in the cross-platform dev ecosystem I am going to snap

New comment by motorpixel in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

motorpixel — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:40:30 +0000

Writing 1300 lines of non-cross-platform windowing code sounds like masochism. GLFW is right there.

New comment by motorpixel in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

motorpixel — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:07:12 +0000

I am too lazy and not enough of a snob to write several paragraphs on why Aeropress is objectively better and different from French Press, but it is, and I hope someone can step up and do that here.

New comment by motorpixel in "My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed"

motorpixel — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 04:07:23 +0000

It's just the "dev kit". Snapdragon for the laptop form factor is alive and well. You don't need a devkit for a laptop running Windows and QCOM easily figured that out.