Hacker News: s3arch

New comment by s3arch in "Is coding dead because AI has taken over it?"

s3arch — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:40:31 +0000

I am on the same page as yours on "Web Technologies". But fundamentally they are not obsolete.

Is coding dead because AI has taken over it?

s3arch — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:59:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jehuamanna.com/blog/2026/is-coding-dead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46790068

Points: 14

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New comment by s3arch in "Show HN: I'm writing an alternative to Lutris"

s3arch — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:33:14 +0000

And it's hard to write what I am doing with the project than actually writing the code. But when the project goals become visible easily then people get interested in it.

New comment by s3arch in "Ask HN: – Build Gaming Setup AIO: Steam – GoG – Epic Games – RetroArch – PPSSPP"

s3arch — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:48:27 +0000

Thank you. This is great feedback and validation of my thoughts. I appreciate you taking time to write this experience of yours, which is of great benefit for this project.

Ask HN: – Build Gaming Setup AIO: Steam – GoG – Epic Games – RetroArch – PPSSPP

s3arch — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:22:10 +0000

Currently, we can legally play PC games using the Proton compatibility layer, retro games, and PlayStation games on Linux through emulators, provided we pre-own all of the games.

I have customized (refactored packages of) Linux to directly boot into the games dashboard and start playing the games. Well, there are options to switch to emulators, the Steam app, etc.

It also has the ability to sideload games, which is intended solely for testing purposes.

This way, one will be free from the hassle of installing games and configuring everything by hand himself.

Finally, as a gamer, I get the best of many worlds. PC, retro, PlayStation, etc. I get to play both using controllers as well as a mouse and keyboard.

I want to sell desktops without charging for the operating system, and I will contact all the vendors who build customized PCs to install this operating system.

I have spoken to a few vendors who built custom PCs during my PoC, and they have asked for the OS to install before selling to gamers.

As a PC gamer, would you love to try out such stuff to get a rich gaming experience with minimal configuration and setup?

Which gamer is ready to try out this setup based on the price/configuration?

A. <$600

B. $600 - $1000

C. $1000 - $2500

D. >$2500

Do you have any feedback, opinions, suggestions, or likes/dislikes? Please share.

Thank you.

PS: I am going crazy with these setup ideas and justifying my decision to proceed only if there is some valuable feedback. I have spent hours and hours tweaking the OS and making it run on various devices. Those who liked this have displayed their interest in having this OS and shipping it with them in their hardware distribution. This can be considered as a cry for help not to do free work.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44593770

Points: 1

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New comment by s3arch in "A bullet hell game written in bash"

s3arch — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:05:44 +0000

telnet doom.w-graj.net 666

New comment by s3arch in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

s3arch — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 04:28:08 +0000

Making android based TV consoles to play top Android games using key mapper mapping from touch to gamepad.

New comment by s3arch in "WhenFS: Calendar Is Now a File System"

s3arch — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 19:07:39 +0000

can you help me understand more.

New comment by s3arch in "Ask HN: TV Consoles for Android Gaming – Joining Company with Equity"

s3arch — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:41:13 +0000

How could the legal aspect affect here allowing ported games to played from another platform?

New comment by s3arch in "Ask HN: TV Consoles for Android Gaming – Joining Company with Equity"

s3arch — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:53:54 +0000

The recent TV box I have has 8 GB of RAM and 64 GB of ROM. Will this still be insufficient to play games?

As a hardcore gamer, how many games would you install at a time? How much could the total size of those installed games be?

Ask HN: TV Consoles for Android Gaming – Joining Company with Equity

s3arch — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:34:39 +0000

I am going to be a part of a new company that will sell Android-based consoles for gaming on TVs using gamepads. The goal is to make affordable gaming consoles available to large audiences.

Earlier, I had figured out a few tricks and techniques to run top-selling Android games on the existing China TV boxes. The rest of the folks from this new company are good at operations, supply chain management, marketing, branding, and hiring. I am the last piece of the puzzle to handle the tech. We have already approached a couple of investors, and the future looks promising.

There are a lot of things to be figured out. How to run games on the stock TV ROM. If it is possible to extract the drivers and other modules, can I build my own OS by compiling it from the AOSP source? How do I keymap touch events to joystick gamepad events? How do I push the updates? How do we ensure these keymappings work by default for all screen sizes and resolutions?

The final question is: should I even be working on this problem statement full-time. I am going to get decent equity, but I feel the problem statement is overly simplified. I might have less time to learn or figure things out after the funding happens, and I might not have so much mental freedom to seek out and make mistakes.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41058128

Points: 1

# Comments: 6

New comment by s3arch in "Scratchapixel 4.0, Learn Computer Graphics Programming"

s3arch — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:49:40 +0000

Any alternative resources to learn Computer Graphics Programming from scratch and indepth?

New comment by s3arch in "Running multiple Flutter applications on a single web page"

s3arch — Sun, 19 May 2024 00:03:32 +0000

It is a known fact that when a Flutter application is compiled for the web, we can run only one Flutter application at a time on a page. When we try to integrate multiple Flutter apps into a page, it throws an error due to a conflict in the _flutter object name space variables.

Running multiple Flutter apps on a single web page is an essential component of having a micro-frontend up and running in Flutter space too. Also, we can integrate multiple smaller Flutter apps into an existing project for greater composability.

Here I demonstrate how we can run multiple Flutter apps on a single page without any external libraries. This is purely on a research stage and not production ready.