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C64 BASIC: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”

C64 BASIC: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Games like Ultima have a classic overhead camera view rather than the moving character view that I have been showing in my retro roguelike. How is that implemented?Jay in the Commodore 64 Ultimate Development & Modifications Facebook group asked:Here is my answer (which on reflection wasn’t as helpful as it could have been):The way to do it with c64 characters is the map defines the whole potential area and the “camera view” is a slice of that starting at x, y of the map.So if…
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AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

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đź’Ą Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: In August 2025, I wrote about AWS deleting my 10-year account without warning. Then I wrote about the one human who restored it. Tarus Balog, a 20-year open-source veteran who escalated my case to a Severity 2 ticket, got the CEO’s attention, and proved that even inside a machine the size of AWS, one person could still make a difference. AWS just fired him. This is the finale of a trilogy nobody asked for. The Blog Post That Hit Different¶ On May 23rd, Tarus published…
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EAGLE 3.1: Advancing Speculative Decoding Through Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM, and TorchSpec

EAGLE 3.1: Advancing Speculative Decoding Through Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM, and TorchSpec

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đź’Ą Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: The EAGLE series — including EAGLE 1, EAGLE 2, and EAGLE 3 — has become one of the most widely adopted and practically deployed families of speculative decoding algorithms across both research and production systems. Today, the EAGLE team, vLLM team, and TorchSpec team are excited to jointly introduce EAGLE 3.1 — a major step forward in speculative decoding robustness, efficiency, and deployability. EAGLE 3.1 Innovations While speculative decoding performs well in controlled settings, performance often degrades under different chat templates, long-context inputs, or out-of-distribution…
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Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: One of the surprise breakout software products of the early web was Lotus Notes, a kind of primitive precursor to all-in-one office productivity suites like GDocs, Office365, etc. It was so important that its creator, Ray Ozzie, was promoted to Microsoft's Chief Software Architect, succeeding Bill Gates himself: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wharton-podcast/the-man-who-would-change-microsoft-ray-ozzies-vision-for-connected-software/ People who remember Notes tend to deride it for its clunky user interface and demi-functional administrative tools. But what made Notes so central to Microsoft wasn't its polish – it was the fact that Notes represented…
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Flatpak will depend on systemd – OSnews

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đź’Ą Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: If you visit the Flatpak website today, it lists, as the very first advantage of the project: “Build for every distro: create one app and distribute it to the entire Linux desktop market.” If you then move on to the list of supported distributions, you’ll see the usual suspects, but also distributions like Void Linux, Guix, and Alpine. These last three all have one thing in common: they use an init system other than systemd, because Flatpak doesn’t care what init system you use. It…
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How Shamir’s Secret Sharing Works

How Shamir’s Secret Sharing Works

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: Some secrets are too important to trust to one person, and too important to lose if that person disappears.A company wants three officers present before the master key is used. A family wants account recovery to need more than one envelope. A team wants a backup that survives a missing member without handing anyone the whole thing.Adi Shamir (the S in RSA), published a way to do this in 1979. Split a secret into pieces so that some number of them can recover it, and…
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andreoliwa/logseq-doctor: Heal your Markdown files: convert to outline, list tasks and more tools to come · GitHub

andreoliwa/logseq-doctor: Heal your Markdown files: convert to outline, list tasks and more tools to come · GitHub

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đź’Ą Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: Logseq Doctor: heal your flat old Markdown files before importing them to Logseq. đź“š Read the full documentation NoteThis project is still alpha, so it's very rough on the edges (documentation and feature-wise). At the moment, it has both a Python and Go CLI. The long-term plan is to convert it to Go and slowly remove Python. New features will be added to the Go CLI only. Logseq Doctor is a command-line tool with commands to manipulate your Logseq Markdown files. It provides utilities to:…
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Using AI to write better code more slowly

Using AI to write better code more slowly

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đź’Ą Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But the thing is, LLMs are very flexible. And you can use them just as effectively to write high-quality code more slowly. This statement seems completely obvious to me at this point, and I almost didn’t want to write this post for that reason. But there seem to be enough…
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Designing for and Against the Manufactured Normalcy Field

Designing for and Against the Manufactured Normalcy Field

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đź’Ą Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: This post tells the story of the session at FOO camp this year that I co-ran with Matt Webb on the Manufactured Normalcy Field. It explains the background of the idea, describes the structure of the brainstorming session, outlines its results, and then tracks some of the uptake of the idea since FOO, specifically in a recent episode of A Show with Ze Frank. A few months back, Nick Pinkston turned me on to Ribbonfarm, the blog of Venkatesh Rao, a researcher and entrepreneur.…
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Earthion – Earthion

Earthion – Earthion

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź“Ś **What You’ll Learn**: Return to the genesis of 16-bit gaming with Ancient’s brand new shoot ’em up, Earthion!With Earth’s resources depleted and its environment in ruin, most of humanity has fled to Mars. But when hostile invaders launch an attack on Earth, mankind has no choice but to fight back. As environmental researcher Azusa Takanashi, you’ll pilot the state-of-the-art space fighter YK-IIA and mount the most important counterattack in human history. Losing is not an option!Featuring eight action-packed stages full of stunning visuals, frenetic gameplay, and amazing special…
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