Hacker News: robinpdxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=robinpdxHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:26:48 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by robinpdx in "SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99"]]>Unreal Tournament 99 and Deus Ex are two of my happiest game memories. This is a really ambitious project and it’s lovely to see those old games getting some love! Still hoping for a Deus Ex remake…

]]>Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:47:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41329973robinpdxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41329973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41329973<![CDATA[New comment by robinpdx in "Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase"]]>This looks awesome and like something I could leverage on my team. I’m trying to modernize the back end of our chat service (at a large company you’ve heard about), to support real-time instead of polling and modern affordances like typing indicators, read receipts, and reactions.

I’ve built a prototype of a full stack using Flask + SocketIO + SQLite as well as an iOS client to prove the concept to the VPs.

How well do you think this can scale? Any plans to make native SDKs for iOS and Android?

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