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Reading the title initially I was thinking about the Half-Life remake. :)

ibobevon Understanding the design of the the Super Nintendo video system

Hi Fabien,

A bit unrelated, but the links to your books at your website are no longer working. I tried to connect to you via email for this issue. Is this intentional or you will fix them?

Best regards, Ivan Bobev

ibobevon Homegrown Rendering with Rust (2021)

The article's author now works with his girlfriend on this[1] game also written in Rust.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198150/Tiny_Glade/

ibobevon Ask HN: Why do games companies not release source code for old games?

ID Software released the source code of their classic games up to "Doom 3: BFG Edition"[1] but it is unlikely that they will release the code for any of their newer games. I think that the reason is using a closed-source middleware owned by other companies in their newer titles.

Any modern AAA game even with its own engine uses one or more third-party middleware which hinders its release as an open source.

[1] https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG

ibobevon Inventing Cyrillic

Actually, the Cyrillic alphabet was invented in the First Bulgarian Empire by the disciples of St. Cyril and Methodius who created the Glagolic alphabet before that. The Cyrillic alphabet is the greatest civilizational achievement of Bulgaria for its entire history.

ibobevon Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

Did someone watch Tucker Carlson's interview with the Telegram creator Pavel Durov?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ut6RouSs0w

ibobevon Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)

I created a list of links to various freely available online learning resources about computer programming, math, and science:

https://github.com/bobeff/programming-math-science

Most of them are collected from HN posts.

ibobevon Overview: What are Cpp2 and cppfront? How do I get and build cppfront?

I do not understand why there is a push to change the C++ syntax. There are plenty of new natively compiled languages like D, Go, Rust, Zig, Nim, Odin, Crystal, and so on. If you do not like C++ you always can use some of them instead. The problems that make C++ unsafe are semantic and not syntactic ones.

ibobevon Condvars and atomics do not mix

Why this article was flagged?

ibobevon Create More, Consume Less (2021)

It is an excellent analogy of a human being's value as a common fraction. The numerator is what a person gives to society and the denominator is what he takes.

ibobevon Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)

I'm currently going through a hard copy of the book's third edition. But I'm wondering whether the description of the language in the book is detailed enough. Could you share some opinions on whether it will be good to go through some other JavaScript books after it? I'm considering going through "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide"[1] or "The Modern JavaScript Tutorial"[2] after it.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Most-Used-Progr...

[2] https://javascript.info/

ibobevon Doom Released Under GPLv2

For a moment I hoped that the source of Doom (2016) is released. :(

ibobevon Why Y is pronounced as "igrek"

We have the same pronunciation in Bulgaria. Our math classes also are calling it "igrek". :)

ibobevon Is RISC-V ready for HPC? Evaluating the 64-core Sophon SG2042 RISC-V CPU

Sophon CPU? Is this a reference to "The Three-Body Problem" novel?

ibobevon Ask HN: How to create web, mobile, and desktop apps from a common code base?

Could you recommend a good book or online learning resource for Flutter?

ibobevon Ask HN: How to create web, mobile, and desktop apps from a common code base?

I want the mobile and desktop versions to be able to operate in offline mode with a local database.

ibobevon Ask HN: How to create web, mobile, and desktop apps from a common code base?

One of the versions will be a website, but I want mobile and desktop versions to be able to operate in offline mode with a local database.

ibobevon Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is – and he knows who killed it

Why exactly this article is flagged?

ibobevon The Netwide Assembler (NASM)

Could you provide a link to the book?

ibobevon Bevy 0.12

Do any commercial video games that use Bevy exist? Could I find somewhere a list of games using the engine?

ibobevon Modern Pascal is still in the race (2022)

I miss the ease with which you put some graphics on the screen via the Borland Graphics Interface library for Turbo Pascal. :)

ibobevon Remembrance of Earth's Past

I just finished reading of the first book. It is one of the best sci-fi novels I ever read.

ibobevon Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?

This reminds me of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk) talk by Jonathan Blow. He compared the startup time of an older and newer version of Photoshop. The newer one was several times slower despite basically being the same program.

ibobevon Apple reveals Vision Pro, a AR/VR headset unlike any other

Does this headset support the OpenXR API?

ibobevon Can we create a thread for some of the best materials on CS available online?

I'm maintaining the following list of freely available books and articles about computer science, programming, math, and physics: https://github.com/bobeff/programming-math-science

ibobevon Show HN: StratusGFX, my open-source real-time 3D rendering engine

When the project includes some 3D renderer the readme needs also to include some screenshots.

ibobevon Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab

Doesn't a new semiconductor fab requires billions of dollars to build? How they will organize mass production? Or maybe they will manufacture only small batches of custom chips?

ibobevon A Pig Quest

Can you elaborate on what kind of projects you were working on together?