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New comment by plopz in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

plopz — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:36:19 +0000

> Does this look normal to have locked videos behind a paywall then have it public and free elsewhere?

Yes, this is very normal on youtube with both patreon and nebula.

New comment by plopz in "The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon"

plopz — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:36:45 +0000

I was pretty disappointed with how Factorio reworked how fluids worked in the expansion. The old system had its quirks and the new system is obviously more performant, but it throws realism out the window which is a bummer.

New comment by plopz in "The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon"

plopz — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:28:19 +0000

One of the main issues with Kerbal Space Program is instability caused by floating point numbers. I know Starcraft 2 was built upon integers.

New comment by plopz in "Waymo Safety Impact"

plopz — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:18:05 +0000

When is waymo going to be available in the north east?

New comment by plopz in "It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]"

plopz — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:20:09 +0000

architects i know say "i designed that", "i worked on that", "i specified that" or "i chose that", they don't say "i built that"

New comment by plopz in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"

plopz — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:01:49 +0000

Very annoying UX, I found it felt like it was breaking continuity and making the ideas on each page disjointed.

New comment by plopz in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

plopz — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:26:27 +0000

I would imagine a trajectory similar to AlphaGo, it starts out trying to replicate humans and then at a certain point pivots to entirely self-play. I think the main hurdle with llms, is that there isn't a strong reward target to go after. It seems like the current target is to simply replicate humans, but to go beyond that they will need a different target.

New comment by plopz in "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"

plopz — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:50:24 +0000

bevy?

New comment by plopz in "Ireland is making basic income for artists program permanent"

plopz — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:55:01 +0000

If someone is born does that mean my share of land decreases?

New comment by plopz in "The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf]"

plopz — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 22:43:24 +0000

Funny you mention nobody uses var anymore when I just saw a post on here yesterday that perf critical code still uses var since it's faster

New comment by plopz in "I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf"

plopz — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:17:39 +0000

is your excise tax really 375? my 2014 honda civic is only $50

New comment by plopz in "Modern Node.js Patterns"

plopz — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 10:49:28 +0000

Module support is still experimental and under a flag and doesn't have any mechanism for mocking.

New comment by plopz in "Modern Node.js Patterns"

plopz — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 10:46:37 +0000

The two I find most annoying

Hoisting/import order especially when trying to mock tests.

Whether or not to include extensions, and which extension to use, .js vs .ts.

New comment by plopz in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

plopz — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 03:25:41 +0000

i believe that secondary stream is used for picture in picture so its lower quality, like 480p or something

New comment by plopz in "'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says"

plopz — Sat, 10 May 2025 18:22:20 +0000

its closer to empty than before you drank

New comment by plopz in "Show HN: Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript type inference from Protobufs"

plopz — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:19:20 +0000

I wish javascript had gone in the same direction as php with types.

New comment by plopz in "Move on to ESM-Only"

plopz — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:07:03 +0000

The main problem with es modules is mocking in tests. How do people work around that issue?

New comment by plopz in "HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere"

plopz — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:40:35 +0000

the big one is multiplayer games. udp is preferred and trying to work with webrtc is awful

New comment by plopz in "TypeScript enums: use cases and alternatives"

plopz — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:14:39 +0000

I think the biggest hurdle in getting something like that to work is how typescript handles the import syntax

New comment by plopz in "Show HN: WebGPU Tech Demo"

plopz — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:06:51 +0000

The slow progress of WebGPU and WebTransport has hurt my enthusiasm for games on the web. I was so excited 6-7 years ago but it feels like everything slowed to a crawl.