https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2512.21377/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48645429urn:hackerpapers:mention:2512.21377:48645429Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:23:40 GMT<p>Attestation-gated anti-cheat is invasive, and the direction it points is grim. But &quot;covers for incompetently designed netcode&quot; doesn&#x27;t hold at all. Netcode and cheat-resistance are mostly orthogonal. Netcode is latency-hiding — prediction, reconciliation, interpolation. Cheating is the client being an endpoint you don&#x27;t control. You can have flawless netcode and still get wallhacked, because a wallhack touches the renderer, not the wire. You have to ship that data for the client to draw the level. Server-side validation kills the cheats that surface as state: speedhacks, teleports, impossible…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2512.21377/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CR