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Kotaku

Vibe-Coded Browser Ports Of Games Work Perfectly, Unfortunately

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

Introducing Rampart

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

Reverse engineering a commercial spatial audio effect | Inter res et verba

Another Dev's Two Cents

Build your own decision model

"System one" decision models are models that infer and respond with calibrated probabilities or every allowed answer. Consider your everyday language model, to get typed output from it (JSON), you may use Structured Output to constrain the output to guaranteed valid JSON. While model prefills the input in one pass,

Service Health & Status Dashboard

Most up-to-the-minute information on service availability, timeline & reports of Yandex Cloud

nitter.net

nitter.net is offline.

Takeshi's Castle - Wikipedia

GitHub - moritzwilksch/diffle: A keyboard-first diff viewer with LSP support and GitHub integration.

A keyboard-first diff viewer with LSP support and GitHub integration. - moritzwilksch/diffle

cockroachlabs.com

Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

How Cockroach Labs built MOLT Sinai, an AI coding “teaching hospital” that shipped IBM Db2 migration support in under two days.

Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes - Nature

Byteification is a general method for retrofitting large language models to operate over bytes such that they approach the capabilities of subword-based systems and may be better for scientific data.

Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking

Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware | WerWolv

How I got many of my childhood games running again after fighting with old Copy-Protection mechanisms

DatoCMS

When localization means more than just EN, DE, IT, ES, FR et al.

A Firefox bug in S'gaw Karen sent us down a rabbit hole of the world's writing systems.

I paid people to try and follow my README – Terence Eden’s Blog

Discretionary Review

A city-building game about trying to get housing built in San Francisco. By Oliver Sin.

Pat Kerr

The 2D physics prototype behind GTA’s vehicles

Explore my 1996 vehicle physics prototype, recreated for the web as Motion Lab.

I wish you the best in the Offline

A handful of people I follow and know about have announced their recent departure. Not from a job (although plenty of that going around), but from social media, AI usage, or in more extreme cases the Internet entirely.

buy-european.net

European Alternatives

European alternatives to popular US and Asian products and services: software, apps, electronics, cars, fashion and more, from companies headquartered in Europe.

PopVax Goes Clinical

First participants safely dosed in Melbourne, Australia, on August 31, 2026, in the first-in-human trial of our broadly-protective COVID-19 vaccine candidate PVX-001.

lineageos.org

Changelog 32 - Slick Seventeen, Awesome Applications, Universal USB Tools

You know what's funnier than 24?

Canadian YouTuber builds 'Flock-like' camera to exclusively track police vehicles, gets a visit from police — officers visit his home to express privacy concerns

Officers reportedly say anti-surveillance control policies may lead to details of active investigations reaching criminals.

Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots

To bring whooping cranes back to the eastern US, pilots in crane costumes led chicks south in ultralight aircraft for 15 years. What worked, and what…

ratfactor.com

How big is a Git commit? - ratfactor

wallhop · Free Paywall Bypass

Read the article. Skip the wall. Paste a link and read it free, no signup.

OpenSCAD

GitHub - othermod/PSPi-Version-6

Contribute to othermod/PSPi-Version-6 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Inside Climate News

New Documents Add to Evidence in Climate Deception Case Against ExxonMobil - Inside Climate News

Court filings by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office include previously undisclosed documents, revealing new details about internal deliberations at the oil giant.

Decade-old RAM is making a comeback

Somehow, DDR4 has returned.

Epoch AI

Can AI automate AI R&D yet?

Early evidence from InnovationEval: No

BetterWispr

BetterWispr: local dictation for macOS

Hold a shortcut, speak, and BetterWispr types clean text into any Mac app. Local speech models, a style for each app, meeting notes and insights. Free and open source, with no account required.

How to Build Wealth as a Career Person

There is a popular idea that substantial wealth belongs mainly to entrepreneurs. We celebrate founders, investors and business owners so loudly that a career person can begin to believe that employ…

500+ Billion Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile A First-Person Shooter

During the last 3 months, I spent some of my time and tokens decompiling a popular first-person shooter. The goal was not to reach a simple proof-of-concept state. Instead, we really wanted an accurate, stable and feature-complete recreation of the game. The avid reader of my blog might have noticed that I had previously written two posts that have since been removed. Everyone else might now be wondering which game I am talking about. To both of you I can only say that corporate America was here

The Lightbulb Computer — Reimagining Spatial & Ambient Computing with Projectors

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.

nyc.gov

Click to Cancel - nyc.gov

Farid Zakaria’s Blog

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 eve

Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster | MotherDuck

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. | Reading time: 15 min read

The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME

I was playing with the nono agent sandboxing tool and it greeted me with a warning: PATH entries the sandbox can write to: ~/.local/bin/ which looked suspicious.

CERN Courier

How strong is the strong interaction? – CERN Courier

A lattice calculation has narrowed the uncertainty on the strong coupling to five parts per mille.

Knuth reward check

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

A neural network that writes Hangul by hand — hangul.ink

Released for Hangul Day 2026: how I collected 4,500 lines of handwriting with a smartpen, adapted Alex Graves' architecture to Hangul, and published the dataset.

ircv3.net

Welcome - IRCv3

Welcome to the IRCv3 Working Group. We

It's all about the bit

I'm sorry, but you still have to think

rat's register allocator

Nanolathe — Open-source RTS engine. Play the Total Annihilation demo.

Play the original Total Annihilation demo in your browser with Nanolathe, an open-source 2.5D RTS engine. Install the native beta, play online with friends, explore the code and build on it.