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OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
594•klaussilveira•11h ago•176 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
901•xnx•17h ago•545 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
22•helloplanets•4d ago•17 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
95•matheusalmeida•1d ago•22 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
28•videotopia•4d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
203•isitcontent•11h ago•24 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
199•dmpetrov•12h ago•91 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
313•vecti•13h ago•137 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
353•aktau•18h ago•176 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
355•ostacke•17h ago•92 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
459•todsacerdoti•19h ago•231 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
24•romes•4d ago•3 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
259•eljojo•14h ago•155 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
80•quibono•4d ago•19 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
392•lstoll•18h ago•266 comments

Was Benoit Mandelbrot a hedgehog or a fox?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01122
7•bikenaga•3d ago•1 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
53•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
3•jesperordrup•1h ago•0 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
235•i5heu•14h ago•178 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
46•gfortaine•9h ago•13 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
122•SerCe•7h ago•103 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
136•vmatsiiako•16h ago•60 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
68•phreda4•11h ago•12 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
271•surprisetalk•3d ago•37 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
25•gmays•6h ago•7 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1044•cdrnsf•21h ago•431 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
13•neogoose•4h ago•9 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
171•limoce•3d ago•92 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
60•rescrv•19h ago•22 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
89•antves•1d ago•66 comments
Open in hackernews

Stride Game Engine 4.3 with .NET 10 Support

https://www.stride3d.net/blog/announcing-stride-4-3-in-dotnet-10/
35•bj-rn•2mo ago

Comments

eknkc•2mo ago
Let's say I want to create a small 2D game. I'm no game dev so nothing fancy, just a PoC. I'm willing to take a code first approach and I love C#. What is my best best?

- Unity seems promising but they have a weird version of mono running things and not so recent C# features available. Might be a non issue.

- Godot seems more promising for my use case but I feel like they want you to use GDScript. I don't want to use GDScript while there is a perfectly capable C# engine there. Is .NET second class in Godot?

- MonoGame was basically abandoned for a long time. I wonder if it got any better. That might be a little too much "code first" though.

Stride.. I just heard it the first time ever. Its a shame. And apparently it is a proven engine especially in VR space. Jumped on it, unfortunately no macOS support available so can't dig in right now.

danielbarla•2mo ago
Godot is a great engine, and .Net support is very good. You can't go far wrong with it, especially for small 2D games.
glimshe•2mo ago
Godot has full C# support and it is a first class citizen. GDScript has a few advantages, the main being game package size, but they are extras from the fact it's a custom language. The C# development experience is smooth.
greener_grass•2mo ago
MonoGame is stable and still receiving updates.

I would strongly suggest that for quick code-first prototypes. The boiler-plate of "load a texture and render to screen" is quite minimal - you could perhaps make a small library for yourself?

It also has no opinions about how you structure your game data. This means you can represent things like a Flappy Bird clone as just a `Vector2`, rather than having to bash a graph of entities in the shape you want.

bob1029•2mo ago
Unity is easily your best option if you've got any sensitivity to platform targeting issues. They are working on a CoreCLR conversion but no telling if it will actually see the light of day.

The lack of modern c# features and hijacking of things like null coalescing operators are annoying but it's not something that ruins the overall experience for me. The code is like 20% of the puzzle. How it all comes together in the scene is way more important.

johnfn•2mo ago
Godot's support for C# is fantastic. I highly recommend it.
rednab•2mo ago
Recent versions of Unity are actually using Roslyn ¹) but they are admittedly running a bit behind on C# language version. The currently supported version is at 9 while 14 came out last month. It's not really a huge issue in practice, though.

With Godot 4, the big difference between Godot and Godot .NET is that the version with NET support does not build to web and mobile support is 'experimental' ²). Also, they are two completely separate downloads and editor binaries, which makes switching languages decidedly non-trivial.

For a 2D game, if you can live without building to web, I'd pick Godot. Otherwise, I'd pick Unity.

¹) https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.2/Documentation/Manual/csharp-...

²) https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/scripting/c...

lionkor•2mo ago
> which makes switching languages decidedly non-trivial.

No, it does not. The C# version supports both GDscript and C#, so just download that if you ever plan to use C#.

DoctorOW•2mo ago
Microsoft is a big advocate of C# and game dev, so they sponsor .NET support in Godot. First class support absolutely.
debugnik•2mo ago
AFAIK Microsoft is not a Godot sponsor, if you mean in terms of money or time? The companies listed down in this page are Godot sponsors:

https://godotengine.org/donate/

As for advocacy, Microsoft's "Game development with .NET" page points first and foremost to Unity and their outdated, proprietary .NET toolchain; only by digging you get MonoGame/Godot/Stride listed. And if you dig for bindings, they'll first point you to a couple of open source DirectX bindings unmaintained for over 7 years.

I'd say they stopped caring about .NET specifically for game dev as soon as they abandoned XNA. Now they're doing the bare minimum that nets them Visual Studio licenses, which I'm not sure they care much about anymore after Copilot.

DoctorOW•2mo ago
Googled it:

> During the past year (2020), Ignacio Etcheverry worked on significantly improving C# support and its integration in Godot, adding support for Android, HTML5 and iOS, as well as popular third party IDEs. This was financed thanks to a generous donation from Microsoft.

https://godotengine.org/article/help-us-reach-next-funding-g...

debugnik•2mo ago
Nice find, thanks! Turns out Godot reached to Miguel de Icaza for a few grants from Microsoft for C# integration around 2017-2020. Coincidentally, I can't find any mention of Microsoft grants for Godot after de Icaza left MS. I guess we found who used to care for Godot at MS. Still, cool that they did it.
kfuse•2mo ago
Raylib is a very good option for 2D games. For me it was the easiest way to translate my toy Doom renderer from javascript that used html canvas to C#.
pjmlp•2mo ago
The thing with MonoGame is that it was designed to be an opensource version of XNA, thus it doesn't have an evolution path.

FNA has done some experiments going beyond XNA 4 API design, however for the type of 2D games XNA was designed for, there is little else to add anyway.

jslakro•2mo ago
MonoGame is not abandoned, here are two good examples of frameworks on top of MonoGame/FNA: https://github.com/prime31/Nez https://github.com/isadorasophia/murder
PoorRustDev•2mo ago
I have released commercially successful (for a single dev) games with Godot and C#. GDScript is just the default because most newer Godot users prefer the Python-like syntax, and being a custom language it has some extra features and integration in the editor.
bob1029•2mo ago
> Bepu Physics

This is a seriously impressive physics engine. Their design is difficult to integrate with but the performance is insane.

https://youtu.be/tjtwSq3u6Dg

Genbox•2mo ago
Wow. That is actually very impressive. Things have moved quite a lot since I did a physics engine.

What makes it difficult to integrate?

bob1029•2mo ago
https://github.com/bepu/bepuphysics2/blob/master/Demos/Demos...
Genbox•2mo ago
Thanks!

The direct hooking into the narrow phase solver is the most performant way to go about it, but it does present several issues in state management. I did the same thing in Farseer Physics Engine, but also added high level events on bodies[1]. The extra abstraction makes it easier to work with, but due to the nature of delegates in C#, it was also quite a bit slower.

They could do with creating defaults for the narrow phase handler, buffer pool, threat dispatcher, etc. for devs who don't need extreme performance and just want a simple simulation.

[1] https://github.com/Genbox/VelcroPhysics/blob/ddf8292da6bc59e...

dschuetz•2mo ago
OK, but why?
pjmlp•2mo ago
Great news, Stride has been coming along quite nicely during the last years.