Entertainment

Art of Roads in Games

Art of Roads in Games

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Not sure if it’s just me, but I often get a primal satisfaction whenever I see intricate patterns emerging out of seemingly disordered environments. Think about the galleries of ant colonies, the absurdly perfect hexagons of honeycombs, or the veins on a leaf. No architect, no blueprint. Just simple rules stacking on each other that result in beautiful patterns. I can’t explain why, but seeing those structures always felt good. Humans do this too. And for me, one of the most fascinating patterns we’ve come up…
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Stop generating, start thinking – localghost

Stop generating, start thinking – localghost

✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Throughout my career, I feel like I’ve done a pretty decent job of staying top of new developments in the industry: attending conferences, following (and later befriending!) some of the very smart people writing the specs, being the one sharing news on Slack about exciting new features of CSS or JS with my colleagues. The joys of working on an internal tool where you only need to worry about latest Chrome, and playing with anchor positioning in a production app while it’s still experimental!…
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mattst88’s blog – Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2

mattst88’s blog – Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2 Since the early 2000s, the potential for upgrading the CPU in the Silicon Graphics O2 with a 900 MHz RM7900 has been blocked by the inability to modify the PROM firmware. To that end, I built ip32prom-decompiler, a program that decompiles the PROM into sources that can be reassembled into a bit-identical image. The decompiler goes to great lengths to produce assembly that is understandable and modifiable by replacing known constants, recognizing and replacing memory addresses with…
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Odd Lots Books

💥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New YorkAnd in…
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AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder for Developers

✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A friend of mine recently attended an open forum panel about how engineering orgs can better support their engineers. The themes that came up were not surprising: Sacrificing quality makes it hard to feel proud of the work. No acknowledgement of current velocity. If we sprint to deliver, the expectation becomes to keep sprinting, forever. I've been hearing variations of this for a while now, but now I'm also hearing and agreeing with "AI doesn't always speed us up". "AI did it for me"…
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Founding Engineer (AI Products) at Toma

Founding Engineer (AI Products) at Toma

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: We're building the AI platform for underserved industries. LLM usage has seen a meteoric rise in the past year, but there is still a significant gap between agentic innovation and its use in the real world. This is especially true for underserved industries like automotive and healthcare, where outdated systems persist due to barriers to entry, legacy software, and high-stakes consequences of hallucinations and failure. Here at Toma (YC W24), we are bridging this gap by providing a customer-centric platform to deploy and monitor…
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Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization

Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization

💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: [Submitted on 29 Oct 2025] View a PDF of the paper titled Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020-2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization, by Petter T\"ornberg View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Using nationally representative data from the 2020 and 2024 American National Election Studies (ANES), this paper traces how the U.S. social media landscape has shifted across platforms, demographics, and politics. Overall platform use has declined, with the youngest and oldest Americans increasingly abstaining from social media altogether. Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter/X have lost ground,…
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Grand Theft Auto: Ready2Play (Full Game, Windows version) – GTA

💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Nice one, right, beauty! What a way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of GTA, even though I am a day late to the celebration, having all three games remastered on such a day is nothing short of respect. This version may even rival the MAX PACK by Toshiba-3. I have not played all the way through this version of the 2D trilogy, but it all looked good to me from the outside and among the few things I messed around with in-game. I love the…
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Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models.

Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models.

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Tickets for AIE Miami and AIE Europe are on sale now! We’ll all be there.Swyx here: we put a call out for Staff Researchers and Guest Writers and Ankit’s submission immediately stood out. As we discussed on the Yi Tay 2 episode, there are 3 kinds of World Models conversations today: The first and most common are 3D video world models like Fei Fei Li’s Marble and General Intuition’s upcoming model, Google’s Genie 3 and Waymo’s World Model, 2) the Meta school of thought comprising…
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Roundcube Webmail

Roundcube Webmail

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Roundcube's HTML sanitizer doesn't treat SVG feImage href as an image source. Attackers can bypass remote image blocking to track email opens.TL;DR: Roundcube’s rcube_washtml sanitizer blocked external resources on , , and , but not on . Its href went through the wrong code path and got allowed through. Attackers could track email opens even when “Block remote images” was on. Fixed in 1.5.13 and 1.6.13.Vulnerability information#FieldValueVendorRoundcubeProductRoundcube WebmailAffected versions< 1.5.13, 1.6.x < 1.6.13Fixed in1.5.13, 1.6.13Disclosure date2026-02-08Background#When allow_remote is false, Roundcube’s sanitizer intercepts image-bearing attributes (src…
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