Hacker News with Generative AI: Inheritance

Optimizing an HTML5 game engine using composition over inheritance (radicalfishgames.com)
We started with HTML5 game development around the end of 2011. We bought an impact.js license and started working on CrossCode. And since CrossCode demanded 3D collision, we modified the engine – and continued doing so until almost every nook and cranny was changed in one way or the other. So it’s safe to say that we did not only develop a game but a whole game engine with it.

Game Development, HTML5, Software Engineering, Optimization, Inheritance

7 points by JSLegendDev 49 days ago | 0 comments

Bank of Mum and Dad: why we all now live in an 'inheritocracy' (2024) (theguardian.com)
Family wealth dictates our life choices. So is the Bank of Mum and Dad now behind so many of society’s growing inequalities?

Economics, Inequality, Family, Social Issues, Inheritance

26 points by herbertl 165 days ago | 28 comments

How can you represent inheritance in a database? (2010) (stackoverflow.com)
I'm thinking about how to represent a complex structure in a SQL Server database.

Database Design, Inheritance, SQL Server

35 points by stefankuehnel 194 days ago | 22 comments

Who died and left the US $7B? (sherwood.news)
It was the biggest estate-tax payment in modern history, but no one knew who made it. Then an anonymous phone call pointed to one man.

Taxes, Inheritance, Wealth, Mystery, US News

456 points by jsnell 262 days ago | 551 comments

You can inherit a dead relative's GOG account–if you have a court order (arstechnica.com)