Hacker News Reader

to-too-twoon Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2

With talk here of Ruby stagnating, has anyone checked out Crystal? I have not but have been curious about it.

to-too-twoon Open Source Games

Shout out to Cube for giving us the ENet library.

to-too-twoon My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures

Anyone using it for game dev? Like just having the agent try to build a game?

to-too-twoon EverQuest

I was 9 when I first played EverQuest - I'm now 35. That game taught me how to type on a keyboard.

Probably the game that influenced my life the most. RIP Brad, and shout out to the team.

to-too-twoon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

I think if you made this a plugin for an existing engine, say Godot, you could get a lot of use out of it. I'd use it!

to-too-twoon Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)

Why? He's made significant contributions to political discourse and science.

to-too-twoon How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers

This might be a terrible idea, and likely would never work for a multitude of reasons, but I was wondering if everyone in the future were gaming via streaming services that way players wouldn’t be running the game on their own hardware or software.

to-too-twoon Minimum Viable Blog

Makes me think of https://bearblog.dev/.

I've been thinking about using Obsidian as a static site generator.

to-too-twoon Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

I want to work on a grid-based inventory system similar to those found in aRPGs and extraction games in the Godot engine.

to-too-twoon Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

> https://interestingbars.com

How does this work? I searched Boston and got zero results?

to-too-twoon Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

Is this a competitor to Heroiclabs (Nakama, Hiro, Satori)? Just trying to understand more where Talo fits. Seems like it's Hiro + Satori wrapped in one, but minus Nakama which would be the game server.

to-too-twoon Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

Sounds cool. I'm interested in netcode using Godot. Is there a Git repo I can check out?

to-too-twoon Ask HN: What books have been worth your time?

What did you get from it? I read it, but like most self-help books - I felt like it could've been 1/4 the size. The book could've been 10-20 pages.

Once the message is clear, they become a slog IMO. The author was smart in coming up with something catchy like "deep work" to mean, you get shit done and do some of your best work and learning when you have time set aside being distraction free.

to-too-twoon Web apps built with Ruby on Rails

1) You love the Ruby programming language.

2) It's battle-tested. Tried and true. Batteries included. Can have a web app with most functionality needed running in minutes.

3) There are more reasons, but there are other good options as well. No reason to use Rails if you're not interested in Ruby.

to-too-twoon Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life and Morrowind Engines

Damn this looks sweet! I’m gonna check this out. Cool project!

to-too-twoon My second year without a job

I'm depressed studying computer science. Been thinking about quitting seeing how people with years of experience can't even find work.

to-too-twoon Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control

I can’t believe it has gone this far. I was flying out of Logan airport (Boston) and had to have my face scanned right boarded the plane. There was nothing about opting out. It seemed like I didn’t comply, I wasn’t flying.

I hate this. Feels so wrong and dystopian. They need to abolish this. It’s so unnecessary.

to-too-twoon Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model (2012)

Seems like the site is getting the HN Hug of Death: <The connection has timed out>

to-too-twoon Internet Archive: Security breach alert

I'm also on HIBP over 10x. What are we supposed to do? Create a new email address for every service we sign up for?

I don't know what the best practice is for keeping our personal data safe anymore.

to-too-twoon What do I want? (SWE Burnout)

The comments make me feel disheartened to be studying computer science hoping to get into the industry.

Seemed like 6 years or so ago people made it sound like this was the best industry to get into. Recruiters hitting people up left and right, six figure salaries, work from home, sometimes interesting work instead of CRUD and React.

Now I wonder if I’m making a mistake and should be going after a trade but I enjoy technology and writing code and don’t want to do physical labor.

to-too-twoon Feynman's Garden

> I have often thought about writing a blog from my experiences, but after I write the thoughts down seem like common sense in nature or just plain ranting.

Same. Trying to get over that and just write anyway.

to-too-twoon Depression (2014)

So fucking sad.

to-too-twoon Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far

Maybe this is a totally different market from what I'm in, but as an indie game developer, this reads dystopian to me.

to-too-twoon Ask HN: What do you use local LLMs for?

Is there something similar to RecurseChat but for Windows?

to-too-twoon Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?

As someone enrolled in a bachelors program for computer science, this terrifies me.

Makes me wonder if I’m wasting my time and should be perusing something else.

to-too-twoon Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?

I think there should be strict laws around outsourcing. Maybe companies that pay X amount of taxes (related to their earnings) have to ensure Z amount of their employees are nationals.

It just doesn’t seem fair that they get to take advantage of their home countries infrastructure while providing employment to other countries.

I was laid off due to outsourcing.

to-too-twoon Memories from old LAN parties

Some of my fondest memories are LAN parties. We used to play all sorts of games, some of the usual suspects like Counter-Strike, Age of Empires II, etc, but my favorite is when we did 3v3 DotA.

We had three people in one room on a team, and the opposing team in another room. The winning team would walk into the room after the match to talk about the highlights, but the losing team would say "Nope, get out, let's run it back!"

to-too-twoon Indie Game Dev: Assessing Risk

When was this originally published?

to-too-twoon Show HN: Rivet – Open-source game server management with Nomad and Rust

I’m curious about this as well. Seems similar to Nakama [1] and they’ve got some gotchas that aren’t right up front about payment.

1. https://heroiclabs.com/nakama/

to-too-twoon Ask HN: What are some easy ways to earn some side money?

This is something I’ve wanted to get into. Any advice? I’d actually like to start a small game development agency.