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klaussilveiraon Ly – A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD

I'm using this just because of the Doom animation. It's just too (zero)cool to start the day as if it was a scene from the Hackers movie.

klaussilveiraon Red Alert 2 in web browser

C&C is open source: https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert/blob/main/LI...

klaussilveiraon How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

But how are you going to circumvent the user firewall? He still has to open ports there, even using STUN or Steam Relay or Hamachi.

klaussilveiraon How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

> inane sycophantic reiteration

That's a pretty good way to put it.

klaussilveiraon How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

Andre Lamothe's "Tricks of the 3d Game Programming Gurus: Advanced 3d Graphics and Rasterization" is a great book for anyone interested in graphics programming from those days.

klaussilveiraon How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

He most definitely is cooking something. Seen contributions from him to chocolate-quake: https://github.com/Henrique194/chocolate-quake/pull/60

As well as bug reports: https://github.com/Henrique194/chocolate-quake/issues/57

I personally would love to get some help with my chocolate Doom 3 BFG fork, specially with pesky OpenGL issues: https://github.com/klaussilveira/chocolate-doom3-bfg

klaussilveiraon How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

You can kinda solve that problem with STUN servers. Most games on Steam use Steam Datagram Relay, which also solves this: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/multiplayer/stea...

It's like in-engine Hamachi. Works really well with P2P games.

klaussilveiraon How I wrote the fastest Blender exporter and so could you!

Been waiting for this post since I saw your tweet on it, Taha. Really impressive work. I'm currently working on a similar setup for U3D, so we can ditch the editor and focus on the engine itself.

It's a shame Blender doesn't support C++ plugins natively, without having to do a custom build.

klaussilveiraon Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change

Same experience here. Couple with one of the Redmond themes, and all of a sudden everything looks similar: https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Redmond-Themes

Just works.

klaussilveiraon Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change

Which VSTs you had problems with? Have you tried LinVst?

klaussilveiraon Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change

Ubuntu was always like this. Use Debian.

klaussilveiraon OpenMW 0.50.0 Released – open-source Morrowind reimplementation

https://osgameclones.com

Also: https://freegamer.blogspot.com/

klaussilveiraon Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia

Finally. NOK to the moon. Now do BB.

klaussilveiraon 'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming

I feel the complete opposite: AI sucked the boring out of programming. I don't have to write boring boilerplate anymore. I don't have to crawl for hours over terrible documentation just to get a library to spit something out. I can quickly iterate on any idea and realize it's a bad one and pivot. I can create benchmark comparison code in seconds and go for the best result. I don't have to write release notes, or write OpenAPI examples.

I get to do all the fun stuff. It's amazing.

klaussilveiraon Rust cross-platform GPUI components

Sad to see that the C++ community is sleeping on this. There are no modern GUI components or toolkits, specially under such a permissive license.

Excited about the future of Rust GUI development, this is fantastic.

klaussilveiraon Mesh2Motion – Open-source web application to animate 3D models

What algorithm is it using for applying weights? Blender uses automatic bone heat weighting, but sometimes it can fail.

There's an open-source plugin that does surface-based heat diffusion and also this really clever voxel solution: https://superhivemarket.com/products/voxel-heat-diffuse-skin...

klaussilveiraon Dreamcast.rs: Rust environment for Dreamcast development

What's a good place to get a GDEMU and BBA?

klaussilveiraon Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

This is one of the things I miss the most about hacker conferences. The sharing of tools, scripts, tips and tricks. It was, and still is, just as fun as trading cards.

klaussilveiraon rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC

Currently attempting to do that with original q1: https://github.com/klaussilveira/exp-quake/commit/c9b7cab515...

klaussilveiraon rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC

Oh, man! This is really cool. Do you maintain a blog or a patreon that allows people to follow the progress on the project?

Any way I can buy you a beer?

klaussilveiraon The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop

I would have to disagree. Since Windows 11 rolled out, calls from family have increased. This is not the usual "where is my printer", but basic stuff: "where are my files", "why can't i find the backup drive", "where is my computer", followed by "why do they change stuff".

Microsoft seems to insist on alienating a whole generation of computer users. I expect that this next Christmas I'll be doing a lot of Vista or 7 installations.

klaussilveiraon Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy

Sadly, does not ship to the US.

klaussilveiraon Notes on switching to Helix from Vim

That limits to only 2 selections. If I keep pressing Alt + S, it does not select multiple instances of the first selection.

Also, I can't immediately start typing like in Sublime to replace the content. For example:

"test/filenameA.c"

"test/filenameB.c"

"test/filenameC.c"

"test/filenameD.c"

If I select test/ with the cursor, then A-s, it won't select 3 and 4. If I do this, however:

C-d = ["search_selection", "extend_search_next"]

It does select test/, in all 4 lines, but I can't immediately type "blah" to change test to blah.

klaussilveiraon Notes on switching to Helix from Vim

Does not work on Linux. Also, double-clicking to expand selection like in Sublime does not work.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/10208

klaussilveiraon Notes on switching to Helix from Vim

> requires manual construction from a sequence of commands

Right, I saw some people share some snippets here before. But none of them act like Sublime does. I can't double-click a token and Ctrl + D to select next instances of it in my file.

klaussilveiraon Notes on switching to Helix from Vim

Helix still has no way to emulate Sublime's Ctrl + Click (placing multiple carets), nor Sublime's Ctrl + D (duplicating selections and creating a multiple caret for each)?

klaussilveiraon Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time

Time to dump VTI?

klaussilveiraon How I block all 26M of your curl requests

> so there's literally no evidence of mechanical means.

Keystroke dynamics and mouse movement analysis are pretty fun ways to tackle more advanced bots: https://research.roundtable.ai/proof-of-human/

But of course, it is a game of cat and mouse and there are ways to simulate it.

klaussilveiraon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

After that Deus Ex remaster fiasco, I wanted to see how the famous Unreal 1 dithering technique would look on Quake's software renderer. Getting a clean build of it on Linux was fun in itself: https://github.com/klaussilveira/exp-quake

I can't take much credit for anything really, all of the meat came from Tim Sweeney himself: https://www.flipcode.com/archives/Texturing_As_In_Unreal.sht...

I miss the golden days of flipcode.

klaussilveiraon My Deus Ex lipsyncing fix mod

Revision is much better than this and it was made by fans: https://store.steampowered.com/app/397550/Deus_Ex_Revision/

Given this "remaster" by Aspyr, I'm glad Nightdive exists.