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2D Vehicles

The story of a 2D vehicle physics prototype created in 1996 and later remastered as Motion Lab.

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Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry

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Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI

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Knuth reward check

Twenty years ago I got a reward check from Donald Knuth.

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Grieving the loss of details

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Triple-A Minesweeper

Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.

1307 points

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Nix wrote half of my debugger

A few days ago I wrote about Rewind VM, a deterministic VM where every run of a Nix build is a pure function of its inputs, thread schedule included! I have been using it to find, reproduce and solve numerous race conditions in Nix builds, but it’s been making me feel a little crazy. What is this superpower, and why is nobody else using it? The tool has quickly grown a source panel, stack frames, bookmarks, a “Compare” tab, a lot more gdb support, thread lanes, which show who held the CPU at every step, and “Check from here”, which…

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Bitwarden Dual License Model

Hello everyone! Starting in the next release, the Bitwarden apps published to the various stores will be the commercially licensed builds. No action is needed, and the apps will work exactly as they do today. Bitwarde…

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REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

Reverse engineer apps, binaries and browser behavior with your coding agent. Follow clear guides and try interactive examples with REA.

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The Lightbulb Computer

A new direction for computing: projecting information into the real world to augment it, with a device that combines a projector and computer vision in the shape of a large lightbulb.

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Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction

An open-source, on-device personal information filter — among the smallest and most effective that can reasonably run in a browser.

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Unikernels were hard. key word: were

Justin Cormack, who worked on MirageOS back in the day, called me at the pub to talk about why unikernels are coming back. The friction that made them hard is gone, the operating system is design debt, and if you care about security you should seriously consider them.

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Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen

An unescaped separator in Telegram Desktop’s single-instance IPC lets one clicked link read arbitrary files off the disk and send them to the attacker, session files included.

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Takeshi's Castle

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Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

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How strong is the strong interaction?

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Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well

Call of Duty: Black Ops, Halo: CE, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Skate 3 and many more titles have been decompiled and ported to web browsers overnight

60 points

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Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation

Early evidence from InnovationEval: No

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Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

Your personal AI agent in your own Cloudflare account. Chat, memory, tasks, notes and scheduled reminders, deployed with one command: npx create-talorys@latest. Free-tier friendly, single-user, no telemetry. - rociiu/talorys

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Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster

DuckDB 2.0 alpha vs 1.5.5 on one laptop: recursive CTEs up to 90x, VARIANT 6x faster than JSON text, async I/O 2.4x on S3. What changes, and how to model data to get the speedup.

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On this day

Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

2D Vehicles

Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry

Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI

Knuth reward check

Grieving the loss of details

Triple-A Minesweeper

Nix wrote half of my debugger

Bitwarden Dual License Model

REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

The Lightbulb Computer

Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction

Unikernels were hard. key word: were

Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen

Takeshi's Castle

Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

How strong is the strong interaction?

Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well

Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation

Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster

On this day

Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.

The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.

Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+.

The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.

Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.

Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11.

Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.

A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.

Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.

A 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.

US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.

The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.

The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.

The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant began operations in Eurajoki, Satakunta, Finland.

Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.

U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.

Aeroflot Flight 773 is destroyed by a bomb over Moscow Oblast, killing 25.

Fiji becomes independent.

Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec Vice Premier Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec.

The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.

The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.

France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.

The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.

The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War.

The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party and the Kuomintang about the future of China.

Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.

In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.

A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.

Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.

The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.

RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the largest loss of life on the Irish Sea.

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.

The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.

The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.

The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.

Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.

In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.

War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter Eagle from the Royal Navy.

The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.

In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy.

Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion.

Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise, defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.

The Kingdom of Hormuz recognises the sovereignty of the Portuguese king following a battle with the forces of Afonso de Albuquerque.

The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, attempt a mutiny.

Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark.

Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.

The Battle of Karbala marks the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.

The second church structure of Hagia Sophia was inaugurated.

The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to leave the province.

On this day

Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.

The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.

Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+.

The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.