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10 REM"_(C2SLFF4
That is the first line of the 80s microcomputer BASIC game The Wizard's Castle initially written for the Exidy Sorcerer platform.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,961 posts.
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9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
More than 93,000 visible appearances of brands promoting unhealthy food and drink, alcohol, gambling and speculative products were recorded during coverage of the largest FIFA World Cup in history, new research has found. Unhealthy food and drink brands accounted for more than seven in ten, with 65,722 appearances.
3723
I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens
How I burned a full Claude limit in 30 minutes and built my own deep research pipeline instead: 3 subscriptions, shared memory, a clear role for each model. You can build the same from what you already pay for.
3724
Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm
Research has confirmed for the first time that people with active gambling accounts who receive regular ‘free bets’ and other direct marketing offers place a lot more bets, spend far more, and suffer greater related harms than gamblers who have opted out of such offers.
3725
Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
3726
Aligned to whom?
You are relying very heavily on the priors of the model to do a good job for you. What happens when you cannot judge whether those priors are good?
3727
I learned Unity the wrong way
I spent 3 years building Unity games by copying tutorials and stitching forum scripts together. Then an interviewer asked me what Queue<T> was. I could not answer.
3728
The End of an Athlon
When I was researching the mess related to strange and poorly documented CPUID bits in the Athlon MP and XP processors , I had to swap a lot of CPUs. This was uneventful in most cases… but only most.
3729
Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users
Malicious ClawdBot skills target ByBit, Polymarket, Axiom, Reddit and LinkedIn, installing malware on unsuspecting OpenClaw user machines.
3730
Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source
Software engineer, Warsaw.
3731
Go.sum is not a lockfile
In Go, go.mod acts as both manifest and lockfile. There is never a reason to look at go.sum.
3732
SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering
The real difference between texture-atlas, SDF, MSDF, and Slug glyph rendering on the GPU: how each works, where each breaks, and when to use which.
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How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice
Stop re-learning things you've already figured out. Two simple ways to document any process, and find it again when you need it.
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Permacomputing
By Devine Lu Linvega
3736
Monte-Carlo Simulations
Monte Carlo simulations (or methods ) is the technique of applying randomness and the Law of large numbers to the solution of various scientific and engineering problems. One of its first documented uses was by Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann for nuclear weapon simulations after WWII [1] .
3737
Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64
Did you ever wonder why explosions and other effects looked so much cooler on the original PlayStation than they did on the Nintendo 64?
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Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic
Among the personalities honoured by the President of the Czech Republic on the occasion of the national holiday on 28 October this year are two graduates of Brno University of Technology. Tomáš Mikolov, a renowned expert in artificial intelligence, and Filip Maleňák, creator of the Záchranka mobile app, received state…
3739
Feeling Sad about AI
Coding in Rust and others; making coding videos.
3740
What will be left for us to work on?
My keynote at ICML 2026
3741
Expanding Project Glasswing
We’re extending Project Glasswing to approximately 150 new organizations in more than fifteen countries
3742
GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims
Looking for a DV safe phone in Australia? This 2026 guide covers tech abuse on normal phones, what a privacy phone can and cannot do, and where to get help.
3743
Postgres isn't slow, your storage is
A recap of Sai Srirampur's POSETTE 2026 talk on storage performance in Postgres, with a local NVMe vs. EBS benchmark and the production setup behind it.
3744
OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof
When OpenAI released their proof that solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations can blow up in finite time, they also released a formal proof in Lean 4.
3745
Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time
This computer was so good and so far out there, we didn't know what we had.
3746
Memorizing session transcripts isn't useful
Keep track of artifacts, not scratch. Alt title: Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap
3747
KDE onboarding is good now
And my history with KDE
3748
It's Not Just X. It's Y
Against the Quantification of Integrity When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language. 💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs and what it means for writing, student assessment, and thinking. "It's not x, it's y.
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Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds
A tour of erm, a local CLI that removes disfluencies from English speech recordings using faster-whisper, a few detectors that look at the audio directly, and ffmpeg.
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Dream-1
Today, we're releasing Dream-1, a World Action Model that controls robots it has never seen, performs tasks it was never shown, and runs from $3/hour.