Best of 2020

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2020. 74 posts.

Games & Graphics
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The Legend of GayBlade

The recently released video game documentary High Score includes a sequence in the third episode about a game called GayBlade. GayBlade is one of the first commercially-sold LGTBQ-themed video games, a role-playing romp for Windows and Macintosh occasionally referred to as "Dungeons and Drag Queens". Once thought to…

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Factorio 1.1 is getting close

1.1 is getting close kovarex I have been tracking the amount of tasks and forum bugs required to finish 1.1 since the 1.0 release. This allowed me to get quantifiable feedback whether we are actually keeping the timeframe of the 1.1 release reasonable, or digging too deep and expanding the scope too much. If we…

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NetHack 3.6.6

This release primarily corrects a security issue present in NetHack versions 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4 and 3.6.5. For details about the security issues please see https://www.nethack.org/security. You are encouraged to update to NetHack 3.6.6 as soon as possible.