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felipellrochaon Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust

I don't get the complaints about the horrible syntax. The syntax is fine... Which is weird cause I only get complains from c/c++ folk, and that set of languages have objectively AWFUL syntax

felipellrochaon Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected

This comment reads so angry only because the OP doesn’t like what they read

felipellrochaon Stop Killing Games

To be fair, the legislation also kills any sort of multiplayer games, so it's in the same spirit. It just takes the idea to its logical conclusion. As a game developer, if this thing passes, I would just not build multiplayer ever anymore.

felipellrochaon Bun support is now limited and deprecated

I would argue the opposite. The decision to rewrite was based on politics, and the decision to deprecate support was based on actual engineering.

felipellrochaon Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'

Because Nolan is known for his hits and misses

felipellrochaon Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue

This can’t be legal, can it?

felipellrochaon California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate

Have you ever been to Europe?

felipellrochaon Bankruptcies Increase 11.9 Percent

Not by far

felipellrochaon Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)

This is such a sad comment. You can call people and make a plan. It's called socializing.

felipellrochaon Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone

Howard?! Is that you?!

felipellrochaon I decompiled the White House's new app

You think this administration is trustworthy?

felipellrochaon Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia

Hehehehe, grounded.

felipellrochaon Migrating the American express payment network, twice

140ms is still a ton of time to do a simple transaction

felipellrochaon If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems

If you truly believe that, why don’t you just transform code directly to assembly? Skip the middleman, and get a ton of performance!

felipellrochaon Codegen is not productivity

Man, if this were true we’d see a crazy, massive explosion of quality products being written, and launched. While we see some use, i don’t perceive an acceleration. In fact, i see a lot of trivial bugs being deployed to prod.

felipellrochaon Codegen is not productivity

I guess that what people debate on here is what “decent” mean. From my experience, these llms spit out dog shit code, so 20 agents equal 20x more dog shit.

felipellrochaon Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

We’re building Chaotic, a high-performance 3D game engine and editor written in Rust. It targets WebAssembly and WebGL2, making it possible to deliver near-native performance and console-quality visuals directly in the browser. On top of the engine, we’re currently developing a multiplayer cozy farming game inspired by Animal Crossing called Fireflies Meadow: https://firefliesmeadow.com/?admin=SkipTheLine&skip=IKnowWha...

Fireflies Meadow isn’t ready for prime time yet, but we’re proud of the progress so far and actively iterating on it.

If you’re interested in the engine, the game, or just want to follow along, feel free to reach out on our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/mHsQayQNdp

I’d be curious to hear your feedback on whether the game is working for you or not.

felipellrochaon Accounting for Computer Scientists (2011)

Money must flow from a source to potentially multiple destination. Because of that previous fact, you must have at least two postings per transaction (the double in double entry). If you manage to move money correctly without any errors, those postings in that transaction will add up to zero, making it trivial to verify you've done everything correctly without any errors.

felipellrochaon French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]

Suspension of disbelief.

felipellrochaon AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out

Hehehehehheeh

felipellrochaon Async/Await is finally back in Zig

Being fully multithreaded comes with significant overhead, while browsers essentially proved how much unreasonable performance you can get out of a single cpu using async because of javascript’s async model.

It is hard to describe just how much more can be done on a single thread with just async.

felipellrochaon The fundamentals still matter

Oh god, there will be money in this for sure, but at what cost?!?

felipellrochaon Why English doesn't use accents

English is your favorite language to read and write? Said no one ever…

felipellrochaon A Blacklisted American Magician Became a Hero in Brazil

How did I know this was going to be about Mr M?

felipellrochaon Linguists find proof of sweeping language pattern once deemed a 'hoax'

Came here to say the same. I’m brazilian and can translate every single one of those phrases without losing any meaning. What a shit set of examples.

felipellrochaon Kelp – simple replacement for homebrew on macOS

Last week I had to download a dependency on Homebrew. It had been a while since I had downloaded anything as my personal device had been stable for a long time, so dependencies were out of date. Well, homebrew decided to upgrade EVERYTHING before it started the new download, all without my prompt. An hour later, I was met with a device that was full of issues, and it took me an entire week to fully get back to normal. Not saying I hate homebrew, but I welcome any competition in this space.

felipellrochaon WebGL Water (2010)

Webgl2fundamentals is pretty great :)

felipellrochaon Great things about Rust that aren't just performance

but I don't need to add a flag in Rust

felipellrochaon Spline Distance Fields

Boy... I hate questions of the form "Why not just". Which, to be fair... is not the exact form, but the intent of the question.

felipellrochaon Memory64

Wait, how does that work?