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k0ns0l commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
jesse__ · 2 months ago
I've been working on a 3D voxel-based game engine for like 10 years in my spare time. The most recent big job has been to port the world gen and editor to the GPU, which has had some pretty cute knock-on effects. The most interesting is you can hot-reload the world gen shaders and out pop your changes on the screen, like a voxel version of shadertoy.

https://github.com/scallyw4g/bonsai

I also wrote a metaprogramming language which generates a lot of the editor UI for the engine. It's a bespoke C parser that supports a small subset of C++, which is exposed to the user through a 'scripting-like' language you embed directly in your source files. I wrote it as a replacement for C++ templates and in my completely unbiased opinion it is WAY better.

https://github.com/scallyw4g/poof

k0ns0l · 2 months ago
wow, this is so cool Jesse :)
k0ns0l commented on Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)   nadia.xyz/shameless... · Posted by u/wdaher
hermitcrab · 4 months ago
If you want to see shamelessness in action, check out this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19OaCHOLoxI

(long, but fascinating)

k0ns0l · 4 months ago
kek >_<
k0ns0l commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room   nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder
k0ns0l · 4 months ago
what's with the sign-in to read (nytimes) article?!

:(

k0ns0l commented on XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne   xbow.com/blog/top-1-how-x... · Posted by u/summarity
mkagenius · 6 months ago
> XBOW submitted nearly 1,060 vulnerabilities.

Yikes, explains why my manually submitted single vulnerability is taking weeks to triage.

k0ns0l · 6 months ago
:(

Dead Comment

k0ns0l commented on You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News   jasonthorsness.com/25... · Posted by u/jasonthorsness
montebicyclelo · 8 months ago
There's also two DBs I know of that have an updated Hacker News table for running analytics on without needing to download it first.

- BigQuery, (requires Google Cloud account, querying will be free tier I'd guess) — `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`

- ClickHouse, no signup needed, can run queries in browser directly, [1]

[1] https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUICogRlJPT...

k0ns0l · 8 months ago
+1
k0ns0l commented on Show HN: Node.js video tutorials where you can edit and run the code    · Posted by u/somebee
k0ns0l · 8 months ago
+1

Great works OP!

k0ns0l commented on What if your website had business hours? (2022)   bobbiechen.com/blog/2022/... · Posted by u/bobbiechen
k0ns0l · 8 months ago
no please :(

u/k0ns0l

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