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How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU — Pizza Legacy Blog

How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU — Pizza Legacy Blog

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I've been working on Pizza Legacy, an open-source reimplementation of the 1994 DOS game Pizza Tycoon. The game has a close-zoom street view of the cities, and when you scroll around it you can see a steady stream of cars driving through the streets. Maybe 20 or 30 tiny sprites at a time, but they navigate the road network, queue behind each other at intersections, and generally look like a living city. Yes, it was a bit buggy because sometimes they would drive through…
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They’re Made Out of Meat

They’re Made Out of Meat

💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Copyright, Terry Bisson, 1991 Originally published in OMNI, 1991, and featured in HARPER’S and around the internet since. It has even made its way into several books on consciousness and brain science. I’m surprised, pleased, and proud. But please do not reprint, perform, alter or adapt in any way without first checking with the author. Thanks.   “They’re made out of meat.” “Meat?” “Meat. They’re made out of meat.” “Meat?” “There’s no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet,…
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The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: "She", for example, is younger than "he", and seems to be an amalgamation of two Old English female pronouns, Birkett says – "heo" and "seo". "[These] probably combined over time, to make 'she'," he says.Vikings and werewolvesAnother commonly used modern pronoun, "they" – along with "them" and "their" – is actually not Old English at all, according to Birkett. It arrived with Old Norse, a Scandinavian language spoken by the Vikings who invaded and settled in England from the 800s onwards. "They" then spread…
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Claude mixes up who said what, and that’s not OK

Claude mixes up who said what, and that’s not OK

✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The bug Claude sometimes sends messages to itself and then thinks those messages came from the user. This is the worst bug I’ve seen from an LLM provider, but people always misunderstand what’s happening and blame LLMs, hallucinations, or lack of permission boundaries. Those are related issues, but this ‘who said what’ bug is categorically distinct. I wrote about this in detail in The worst bug I’ve seen so far in Claude Code, where I showed two examples of Claude giving itself instructions and…
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The American Society of Cinematographers 
Voyage: Creating…

The American Society of Cinematographers Voyage: Creating…

🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The 3-D space in the pre-visualization didn't always relate to the physical stage, but effects cinematographer Bill Neil and his associate, Paul Gentry, found it to be useful, if only as a timing guide. Neil explains, “It was a wonderful communications tool between the visual effects team and the director to help clarify what his vision contained, and to reach a common understanding."Neil insisted on shooting the city background plates before filming the cars in order to create interactive light on the vehicles that would…
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The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Table of Contents This is a long article, so I'm breaking it up into a series of posts which will be released over the next few days. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB; these files will be updated as each section is released. Introduction Dynamics Culture Information Ecology Annoyances Psychological Hazards Safety Work New Roles for Humans Where Do We Go From Here This is a weird time to be alive. I grew up on Asimov and Clarke, watching…
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botctl — Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents

botctl — Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: YAML frontmatter for settings, markdown body for the prompt. --- name: code-reviewer interval_seconds: 60 max_turns: 20 --- Review open PRs and post comments... Spawns Claude with your prompt, tools, and workspace. Runs, logs, and sleeps on a loop. $ botctl start code-reviewer -d ✓ Harness started (pid 48201) $ botctl logs code-reviewer -f [run #1] Reviewing PR #49... Every run saves its session. Resume where Claude left off, or send messages to redirect a running bot. $ botctl start review --message "focus on PR…
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Claude Managed Agents overview – Claude API Docs

Claude Managed Agents overview – Claude API Docs

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: First stepsPre-built, configurable agent harness that runs in managed infrastructure. Best for long-running tasks and asynchronous work.Anthropic offers two ways to build with Claude, each suited to different use cases: Messages APIClaude Managed AgentsWhat it isDirect model prompting accessPre-built, configurable agent harness that runs in managed infrastructureBest forCustom agent loops and fine-grained controlLong-running tasks and asynchronous workLearn moreMessages API docsClaude Managed Agents docs Claude Managed Agents provides the harness and infrastructure for running Claude as an autonomous agent. Instead of building your own agent loop,…
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Open source security at Astral

Open source security at Astral

💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Astral builds tools that millions of developers around the world depend on and trust. That trust includes confidence in our security posture: developers reasonably expect that our tools (and the processes that build, test, and release them) are secure. The rise of supply chain attacks, typified by the recent Trivy and LiteLLM hacks, has developers questioning whether they can trust their tools. To that end, we want to share some of the techniques we use to secure our tools in the hope that they're useful…
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App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off

App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Thanks to the new possibilities afforded by AI coding tools, the App Store is seeing a resurgence in new app submissions, even as Apple continues to take issue with some of the ways these apps are built and behave. Here are the details. Amid app submission surge, Apple turns to AI to scale App Store review The Information reports that while new app submissions to the App Store fell 46% between 2016 and 2024, “the number of new apps that showed up in the App…
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