Hacker News: valorzard

New comment by valorzard in "Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser"

valorzard — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:47:24 +0000

When trying to do quick play on Windows 11 Firefox, I got an error saying it couldn't capture my mouse

New comment by valorzard in "Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust"

valorzard — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:29:53 +0000

yeah i mean more so, is the goal for topcoat and toasty and friends to become like Spring Boot from Java but for Rust. (also it was nice meeting you at the zscaler talk you gave a couple of weeks ago)

New comment by valorzard in "Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust"

valorzard — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:59:28 +0000

This might sound dumb, but is Tokio slowly (if it hasn't already) become the Spring/Spring Boot for Rust?

New comment by valorzard in "Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20"

valorzard — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:48:23 +0000

Does the backend output c++20? If so, why? I’m curious what specific features you guys are using from c++20.

Have c++20 coroutines been useful at all?

New comment by valorzard in "LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions"

valorzard — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:11:49 +0000

Also, one issue I have with this repo is that, since so much of it seems to use Claude, as an actual human I struggle to read and parse any of the information.

For example, what’s the performance like?

New comment by valorzard in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

valorzard — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:27:07 +0000

I've seen a couple of these "distributed" postgres extensions.

My question is, has any of them been talked about being upstreamed to postgres itself? Or, adding a custom built in feature to postgres itself?

New comment by valorzard in "Theseus: Translating Win32 to WASM"

valorzard — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:58:12 +0000

So if you are writing a WASM component model, and you were hoping to use Web Workers/SharedArrayBuffer, how would that work?

Do the virtual threads map on top of the Web Workers? Or are the Web Workers themselves green threads?

I was assuming Web Workers are OS threads

New comment by valorzard in "Theseus: Translating Win32 to WASM"

valorzard — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:19:26 +0000

Iirc the async stuff in the component model isn’t actual threads but rather green threads, but correct me if I’m wrong

New comment by valorzard in "Theseus: Translating Win32 to WASM"

valorzard — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:27:05 +0000

I also tried doing multithreaded wasm in Rust, and I got some weiiiiird errors. Definitely not stable yet.

New comment by valorzard in "Buildcraft Is a Compiler Problem"

valorzard — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:25:12 +0000

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought about the classic 1.2.5 mod with the giant quarries that mined out entire chunks of the world, and the pipes you could use to make a Jaffa cake factory

New comment by valorzard in "Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)"

valorzard — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:44:20 +0000

Someday I’ll use fossil.

Someday (maybe if there’s a way to do Git LFS style stuff in it)

New comment by valorzard in "Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming"

valorzard — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:21:02 +0000

This might be a dumb question, but using this + clang bounds-safety, whats the difference between this and something like Zig or Odin.

What do you think C would need in order to reach the user experience of those languages?

New comment by valorzard in "How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter"

valorzard — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:16:49 +0000

Do you think this exercise has taught you anything that could make fil c itself better?

New comment by valorzard in "Modern Common Lisp with FSet"

valorzard — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:29:13 +0000

I remember watching you give a version of this talk at the Bay Area Lisp meetup!

New comment by valorzard in "Computer-generated dream world: Virtual reality for a 286 processor"

valorzard — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:36:41 +0000

Japanese PC-98 games have an aesthetic that’s so unique. There’s this one Twitter account that posts images from visual novels from that era and they all look so pretty: https://x.com/PC98_bot Also on bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/pc98bot.gang-fight.com

New comment by valorzard in "Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993"

valorzard — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:47:25 +0000

Time lords can’t do anything, they’re all dead (twice now, thanks RTD)

Maybe the doctor could take you back there with a TARDIS, but time paradoxes and fixed points in time and all that

New comment by valorzard in "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games"

valorzard — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:14:04 +0000

From what I can tell taking to people in the discord and stuff, people seem to do it all the time and not run into any issues. Still, it would be neat if they got off winforms and switched to something like Avalonia

New comment by valorzard in "Show HN: Mystral Native – Run JavaScript games natively with WebGPU (no browser)"

valorzard — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:36:18 +0000

This is so interesting!! I had a very similar idea! I would love to see if you could port games made with phaser or three js to this engine (though I think anything that involves the DOM is a no go sadly)

New comment by valorzard in "Guix for Development"

valorzard — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:12:49 +0000

Yeah Guix has a Dockerfile export

New comment by valorzard in "Linux is good now"

valorzard — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:38:19 +0000

Your house sounds like a great place to hold a fighting game local tournament (or something like the old Smash Summit series for Smash Bros Melee and Ultimate before Beyond The Summit shut down)