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Garry Newman
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Garry Newman's personal blog at garry.tv covers games and programming. Since 2007, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “What Unity Is Getting Wrong”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Garry Newman's blog for his critiques of Unity's deteriorating versions, a Lua vs JavaScript scripting post, and personal posts on a cyberstalker and weight loss.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- What Unity Is Getting Wrong6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-05-22
- Stalkers and Abuse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-27
- /2014/08/16/i-fell-out-of-love-with-lua/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-09
What Hacker News says?
I always have this quote from Garry Newman of GMod & Rust (a Unity Project) fame at the back of my mind when hearing any news about Unity's new demos. > The short movie demos aren't impressive. It's embarassing when half your keynote is a group of artists explaining how they spent 6 months re-writing half the engine to render something that they could made in Maya in a week. - https://garry.tv/unity-2020 Really wish…
Comment linking /unity-2020
on “Hyper-realistic digital humans in Unity”Submitted What Unity Is Getting Wrong as a story · 362 points
HN discussionUnity is great and really took the mantle from Flash/Director back in the day. Unity is also a big part of why mobile games have taken off, that combined with the ability of anyone to publish to mobile stores and more. The problem is definitely churn and shaky foundations. Unity has a "version 2" problem, the "second-system effect" is a major tenant of Unity engineering which sucks [1]. I really wish they locked dow…
Comment linking /unity-2020
on “Unity Software Inc S-1”Submitted Cheaters in Garry's Mod as a story · 47 points
HN discussionLike some others who are commenting, I use Unity for my job every day, and it's not been a great experience these last few years, each 'part' (graphics pipelines, documentation, Editor and tooling, and so on) has been steadily deteriorating over the versions. This article from Garry (from Garry's Mod, Rust and so on) from earlier in the year is still all accurate: https://garry.tv/unity-2020 Sadly, I wonder how much…
Comment linking /unity-2020
on “Unity Software Inc S-1”Submitted Garry Newman's Portable Workstation: A Hard Drive as a story · 14 points
HN discussionDyon (from that link) looks very cool! I'd also like to add that JavaScript is another language used in this arena, and there is a crate with V8 bindings ( https://crates.io/crates/v8 ). Even Garry Newman (creator of Garry's mod) wrote that he believes JS would have been better than Lua for scripting: https://garry.tv/2014/08/16/i-fell-out-of-love-with-lua/
Comment linking /2014/08/16/i-fell-out-of-love-with-lua/
on “Making a Game in Rust”Submitted Valve VR Demo as a story · 4 points
HN discussion1. Indexes start at 1. That's your opinion. 2, 3. Using "it's easier for new users" is not a good argument for a good programming language. x = x + 1 is not hard to grasp. It's not, but it's more typing. I would argue that ++x and x += aren't that hard to grasp. 4. Javascript has bitwise operators even though it only has doubles. It simply casts it to an int32 before doing the operation 5. Continue is very much nece…
Comment linking /2014/08/16/i-fell-out-of-love-with-lua/
on “How to make a game from scratch using Lua and Löve”Submitted Unity Quiz as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot a woman, but Garry of Garrysmod fame has a very interesting set of blog posts about dealing with and eventually befriending his internet stalker in an attempt to curb the guy's worst behavior. http://garry.tv/2015/11/10/stalkers-and-abuse-part-1/
Comment linking /2015/11/10/stalkers-and-abuse-part-1/
on “I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12”Submitted PC Hardware Design Sucks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI agree and like your style. Messaging is ideal for decoupling, sending/receiving data and it makes networking parts of the game much easier. Every game engine or system I use I set it up this way. I always make my components or entities data backed so when people say you can't have data-oriented in GameComponent systems it seems they haven't done much game development. I usually have most of it in JSON and in previ…
Comment linking /unity-2020
on “Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?”Submitted Being Sued as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis article hit close to home, albeit my contact with a cyberstalker was (thank god) very brief it was a nerve-wrecking experience, to which end I panicked and deleted a lot of accounts and profiles in an attempt to make it harder to track my online activity. I was scared the stalking and harassment would become more personal, "leaking" in to the real world -- but it thankfully did not. A lot of the (non-technical)…
Comment linking /2015/11/10/stalkers-and-abuse-part-1/
on “I’ve Had a Cyberstalker Since I Was 12 (2016)”Submitted Turn That Lockfrown Upside Down as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGarry's blog post about this was particularly insightful.[0] He shares a graph of his progress and how it goes both forwards and backwards, as well as the things he's learned along the way. 0: https://garry.tv/2018/10/17/fatty/
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on “Type 2 diabetes: NHS to offer 800-calorie diet treatment”Submitted Tips on Becoming a Gamedev as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThey're not working on a production device, but they have an internal prototype which the few third-parties who've tested it consider mind-blowing even compared to OR's Crystal Cove. It might be the result of Ellsworth's work though https://twitter.com/DaveOshry/statuses/423961443889717248 (Palmer is Palmer Luckey, founder and CEO of Oculus Rift) https://twitter.com/TheDavidHensley/statuses/423591891171426... https:…
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on “What VR could, should, and almost certainly will be within two years [pdf]”Submitted Garry Newman about Game Developers Conference 2016 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI haven't used Unity, but from what I've read, Unity has a reputation for promising shiny new APIs and then neglecting/deprecating the old API before the new one is production-ready. This blog post describes some examples: URP or HDRP Render Pipeline, current UI system vs new UIElements, current UNet multiplayer support vs new system that will require integration with DOTS, ... https://garry.tv/unity-2020
Comment linking /unity-2020
on “Unreal Engine 4 .NET Core integration”Submitted Stalkers and Abuse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe creator of Garry's Mod and Rust had a relevant blog post on this recently. There's a section specific to the multiplayer issues. https://garry.tv/unity-2020
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on “Show HN: Ballparq – a small PaaS for Godot games”Submitted Kinecting GMod as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Story of Snabbo - Creation & launch of an iPhone game as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted "10 Things That Coding Taught Me" as a story · 1 points
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