Claude Code: Game Changer or Just Hype? ⌘ Read more
When you play the Game of RBAC, You either validate, or the world denies your existence — like a King behind the wall.
Download Borderlands 2 for Mac FREE This Weekend on Steam
If you’re a Mac gamer and you love free games, you won’t want to miss out on this deal; Borderlands 2, the classic popular first-person action RPG shooter, is free to download this weekend on Steam (until the morning of June 8 at 10am PDT). And because it’s on Steam, you’ll be able to play … Read More ⌘ Read more
Hack the model: Build AI security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game
Dive into the novel security challenges AI introduces with the open source game that over 10,000 developers have used to sharpen their skills.
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Tilde Games: Exploiting 8.3 Shortnames on IIS Servers ⌘ Read more
** Admitting that they’re really never weekly notes **
While everyone is up to their eyeballs in puzzles playing Blue Prince I’ve been playing some Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword on the Gameboy Advanced. I’ve also set up the playdate to mirror at my computer and have been having fun exploring the games in season 2! Mostly just Dig! Dig! Dino!, so far.
I decided to learn OCaml a few weeks ago. I’ve been writing a rogue clone in it. I am enjoying is and the entire ML fami … ⌘ Read more
Passkeys: The Waterproof Defense Against Phishing Attacks
The Passkeys — a next-generation authentication technology poised to be a game-changer, offering what many describe as a truly waterproof…
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10 Secret Abilities of Well-Known Animals
As kids, we all learned about the world’s most famous animals from books, TV, video games, or the Rainforest Cafe and its incredibly biodiverse gift shop. However, Big Animal is keeping certain secrets from you, and the animals you’ve known and loved since childhood harbor some weird and obscure secret abilities, features, and effects. Read […]
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Nerd Fests Ban Conservatives, Invite Leftists Promoting Terrorism
Game & Geek Expo bans conservatives. ⌘ Read more
I’m finding this very interesting… An evolved neural network that plays the game of tic-tac-toe and so far is a pretty decent player. Here is a visualization of it’s evolved “brain” that underwent GA (genetic algorithm) training with classification learning + self-play. 
prologic@JamessMacStudio
Sun May 25 21:44:41
~/tmp/neurog
(main) 130
$ go build ./cmd/ttt/... && ./ttt
Generation 27 | Fitness: 0.486111 | Nodes: 44 | Conns: 82
… experimenting with building and training a tic-tac-toe game, which evolves a. neural net that learn to paly the game against the best evolved champions 😅
10 Games Milked for All Their Worth
Sticking with what works is nothing new, especially in gaming. New stories, characters, and mechanics are increasingly rare. Long development times and ballooning budgets only compound the issue, as studios must take a larger gamble with every project. Why take that risk when going with a guaranteed success is safer? That mindset prompts developers to […]
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You Can Download & Play Fortnite on iPhone & iPad Again
Fortnite, the wildly popular online action game, is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users to download and play. The app has returned after Apple removed the popular game roughly five years ago while Apple and Epic engaged in an expensive drawn out legal squabble, which ultimately ended up disappointing and irritating … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/05/21/you-can-download-play-fortnite-on-iphone-ipad … ⌘ Read more
Making video games in 2025 (without an engine)
I genuinely believe making games without a big “do everything” engine can be easier, more fun, and often less overhead. I am not making a “do everything” game and I do not need 90% of the features these engines provide. I am very particular about how my games feel and look, and how I interact with my tools. I often find the default feature implementations in large engines like Unity so lacking I end up writing my own anyway. Eventually, my … ⌘ Read more
“Do you have game on your phone?” ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Uses Minecraft to Spread DEI Messaging, Notch Calls That Evil
Plus: Microsoft game studios (where employees have called for the murder of Trump voters) are unionizing. ⌘ Read more
I made a Vim Game in Python ⌘ Read more
** Collaboration is a scary word **
I like programming partially because it’s a practice I can, with appropriate to unhealthy application of effort, usually accomplish something at least proximal to my intention.
This isn’t true for visual art, nor music. Lately I’ve been feeling like the little games and toys I wanna make are sorta hampered by my total inability to make stuff I find aesthetically appealing…so…I’ve been thinking about collaboration. Which is a scary word because, you know, other people and all, but I figured I’d … ⌘ Read more
How to Increase VRAM Allocation on Apple Silicon Mac
Advanced Mac users may wish to manually increase the VRAM allocation on their Apple Silicon Mac for performance reasons when engaging in graphics intensive tasks like running LLMs locally, AI models, or any graphics heavy applications, whether for gaming or video editing. This is possible because Apple Silicon chips offer unified memory architecture, meaning the … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/05/07/how-to-increase-vram- … ⌘ Read more
A Must-Have Tool for Bug Hunters: Find Open Redirect Vulnerabilities on Linux
Automate open redirection detection, save hours of manual testing, and level up your bug bounty recon game.
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you got any games on your phone? ⌘ Read more
Confession:
I’ve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other “modern” social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.
The reason is that it is focused so much on people. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very “ego-centric”. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).
I miss the days of topic-based forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great – and it didn’t even suffer from the need to federate.
Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.
On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But it’s not that great and the protocol isn’t meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of “likes” has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ☹️
Run x86-64 games on RISC-V with felix86
If RISC-V ever manages to take off, this is going to be an important tool in RISC-V users’ toolbox: felix86 is an x86-64 userspace emulator for RISC-V. felix86 emulates an x86-64 CPU running in userspace, which is to say it is not a virtual machine like VMware, rather it directly translates the instructions of an application and mostly uses the host Linux kernel to handle syscalls. Currently, translation happens during execution time, also known as jus … ⌘ Read more
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To the parents or teachers: How do you teach kids to program these days? 🤔
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org hey pascal bro! My first coding class was with an old Borland Turbo Pascal. I made my own little window manager for the assignments for class.
The teacher didn’t appreciate it much since I had to print out the code to turn it in. My Yatzee game was a stack of pages. 🤪
The VTech Socratic method
We’ve had a lot of fun with VTech’s computers in the past on this blog. Usually, they’re relatively spartan computers with limited functionality, but they did make something very interesting in the late 80s. The Socrates is their hybrid video game console/computer design from 1988, and today we’ll start tearing into it. ↫ Leaded Solder web log Now we’re in for the good stuff. A weird educational computer/game console/toy thing from the late ’80s, by VTech. I have a massive soft s … ⌘ Read more
10 Ancient and Obscure Strategy Games from Around the World
Strategy games have been part of human culture for thousands of years. Long before modern board games or digital entertainment, people across ancient civilizations invented clever ways to test their wits, train their minds, and challenge their friends. Some of these games, like chess, Go, and backgammon, survived and are still played today. But many […]
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Beetle RP2350 is a $4.90 Mini Development Board for Embedded Projects
The Beetle RP2350 is a coin-sized development board designed for space-constrained embedded projects. Despite its compact 25 × 20.5 mm footprint, it offers a wide range of hardware features and low power consumption, enabling its use in portable devices such as retro computers, game consoles, lighting controllers, and electronic badges. This board is built around […] ⌘ Read more
Steam to highlight accessibility support for games on store pages
The Steam store and desktop client will soon be able to help players find games that feature accessibility support. If your game has accessibility features, you can now enter that information in the Steamworks ‘edit store’ section for your app. ↫ Steam announcements page I have a lot of criticism for the Steam client application – it’s a overly complex, unattractive, buggy, slow, top-heavy Chrome engi … ⌘ Read more
Can you beat me at the circle game? 😂 https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
That was a wild ride:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSMDb1CWD6Y
Notice how old all these people sound. They started playing this game like 10, 15, 20 years ago, most of them left, but some are still there. I love that level of commitment. 😃
Also interesting from a technical point of view. Creating that virtual world and keeping it running consistently for so long … 🤯
Cozy video games can quell stress and anxiety
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/cozy-video-games-can-quell-stress-anxiety-2025-01-27/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43733097
Points: 502
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3 Free Auto-Clickers for Mac
Auto-clickers are sort of niche software, typically associated with repetitive tasks with data entry, gaming, or software testing, but have gained some broader popularity with many people working from home. If you need an auto clicker for Mac, there are a variety of free autoclicker options for Mac, and we’ll point you to a few … Read More ⌘ Read more
Godot Game Engine Discord Adds Mandatory “Consent to Being Recorded” for Audio Chats
Remember when the Godot Game Engine mass banned Conservatives from their project? ⌘ Read more
Whiskey developer throws in the towel, suggests to just buy CrossOver instead
Isaac Marovitz, the developer of Whiskey, a frontend for Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit and Wine, has decided to throw in the towel. The developer is advising users to buy CrossOver instead, which provides the same service. The reasoning behind their decision seems sound, and are actually quite noble and considerate. First and foremost, it’s the usual problem lone developers run i … ⌘ Read more
guys omg the people behind pico.sh are so nice ;_; one of the people running it emailed me to let me know i had what was likely a malfunctioning (or well, not working as intended) script that was spawning the same SSH tunnel over and over and they wanted to give me a heads up.
and i felt SO BAD because i worried i was straining their service or something so i disabled my 4 tunnels (they were serving little SSH games and services) and got back to them.
but i just woke up to THE NICEST EMAIL EVER reassuring me that i was actually using it as intended, it was just my script that was having problems, and they even said that if it was intended to work that way it was fine and they just wanted to let me know!
so i restarted the tunnels but have since added lockfiles as safeguards so that when the script is run it’ll check if it’s already running :D
Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622719
Points: 505
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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Iliyan Petkov
Get to know Iliyan His fascination with computers and electronics began early, sparked by his father and fueled by various games and sci-fi movies. Over the years, he developed a passion for open-source technologies, system administration,… ⌘ Read more
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@prologic@twtxt.net I only buy stuff like that, for example games on GOG.COM. Or simply CDs or DVDs. (Rarely I “buy” a movie on some popular streaming service, fully aware that this is just “renting it”.)
But yeah, I sadly have to agree with @bender@twtxt.net. 😢
10 Real-Life Crimes Inspired by Fiction
Fictional stories are meant to entertain, provoke thought, or even inspire—but sometimes, they inspire people in the worst way possible. Throughout history, there have been disturbing cases where individuals committed real-life crimes after being influenced by movies, books, TV shows, or even video games. Whether driven by delusions, obsession, or a desire to mimic their […]
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