How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

73 billiob 2025-11-18 09:17:12 UTC fabiensanglard.net Llama Share 3

id Software's Quake game was able to run on both MS-DOS and Windows 95 by using a single executable, quake.exe, which utilized a DPMI client and server to communicate with the Windows 95 TCP/IP stack. Quake also had a third option to run on Windows 95 through a batch file, q95.bat, which used Mpath's proprietary Chunnel technology to connect to the game's online multiplayer service.

How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one

210 bbayles 2025-11-18 02:17:12 UTC 32bits.substack.com Llama Share 45

At least two video games, NCAA Basketball Final Four 97 and World League Basketball, include a marriage proposal. Other games with marriage proposals include Mortal Kombat 1, Marvel's Spider-Man, and Klax.

Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter

1121 random_moonwalk 2025-11-17 13:17:12 UTC bitsnpieces.dev Llama Share 193

The user built a portable step-sequencer synthesizer for their daughter's third birthday, learning about microcontrollers, CAD, and PCB design in the process. They created a functional prototype with an OLED screen and a SAM2695 synthesizer module, but now face challenges in bringing the product to market due to regulatory and financial hurdles.

Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions

81 kristianp 2025-11-18 03:17:12 UTC github.com/rust9x Llama Share 39

Rust is a fast, memory-efficient language with a rich type system for critical services and embedded devices. It offers comprehensive documentation, diagnostics, and tooling for high productivity.

Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses

350 speckx 2025-11-17 18:17:12 UTC bleepingcomputer.com Llama Share 236

Aisuru botnet launched a 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack on Azure's network using 500,000 IP addresses. The attack targeted a specific public IP address in Australia with nearly 3.64 billion packets per second.

When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale

19 miggy 2025-11-18 07:17:12 UTC infoq.com Llama Share 1

Optimizations that work in small environments can backfire at scale due to hidden costs and complexities that emerge only when systems are under heavy load. To build resilient and efficient reverse proxies, it's essential to prioritize human factors, validate every assumption, and keep the common path lean, focusing on the mundane details that often lead to outages.

Ditch your (mut)ex, you deserve better

64 commandersaki 2025-11-18 06:17:12 UTC chrispenner.ca Llama Share 47

The user discusses the challenges of parallel programming and synchronization in multi-threaded systems, highlighting the limitations of traditional mutex-based approaches and the introduction of new concurrency-related bugs. They propose using Software Transactional Memory (STM) as a more reliable solution for synchronizing parallel processes, citing its ability to prevent data races, ...

Compiling Ruby to machine language

245 todsacerdoti 2025-11-17 20:17:12 UTC patshaughnessy.net Llama Share 44

You're working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope covering Ruby 3.x, focusing on YJIT and ZJIT. YJIT counts function calls to convert code into machine language when a threshold is reached.

Rebecca Heineman has died

481 shdon 2025-11-18 02:17:12 UTC pcgamer.com Llama Share 65

Rebecca Heineman, a 62-year-old game developer, has died after a cancer diagnosis. She was a pioneer in the industry, credited on 67 games, and co-founded Interplay.

My stages of learning to be a socially normal person

465 eatitraw 2025-11-17 16:17:12 UTC sashachapin.substack.com Llama Share 292

The author struggled with social awkwardness and developed various approaches to connect with people, from trying to be witty and urbane to adopting a more flexible and responsive attitude.

Langfuse (YC W23) Hiring OSS Support Engineers in Berlin and SF

0 2025-11-18 07:17:12 UTC jobs.ashbyhq.com Llama Share

Langfuse is an open source LLM engineering platform seeking a Technical Support Engineer to own customer experience, keep a tight feedback loop with product engineering, and help thousands of AI-product teams succeed. The role involves improving docs, engaging with the OSS community, and acting as a named technical contact for high-volume customers.

Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

379 doener 2025-11-17 13:17:12 UTC iflscience.com Llama Share 71

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy and skydiver Gabriel C. Brown collaborated to create a stunning image called The Fall of Icarus. The image shows Brown falling over a hydrogen alpha light image of the Sun, with his silhouette perfectly framed between sunspots.

Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files

104 kaushiksrini 2025-11-18 00:17:12 UTC github.com/kaushiksrini Full Share 24

parqeye lets you peek inside your Parquet files. Instantly inspect their contents, schema, and metadata — right from your terminal. Interactive Data Visualization - Browse through your Parquet data in a table view with keyboard navigation. File Metadata - View Parquet file-level metadata including version, created by, encoding stats and more.

FreeMDU: Open-source Miele appliance diagnostic tools

296 Medusalix 2025-11-17 14:17:12 UTC github.com/medusalix Llama Share 80

FreeMDU is a free open-source alternative to Miele's proprietary diagnostic software, allowing users to communicate with Miele appliances via an optical diagnostic interface. It's highly experimental and requires caution to avoid damaging devices.

Project Gemini

276 andsoitis 2025-11-17 16:17:12 UTC geminiprotocol.net Llama Share 161

Gemini is a timeless internet technology for an electronic library of interconnected documents. It aims to provide a lightweight online space prioritizing readers' privacy, attention, and bandwidth.

LeJEPA

42 nothrowaways 2025-11-18 03:17:12 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 9

Researchers developed LeJEPA, a theoretically grounded training objective for Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures. LeJEPA offers numerous benefits, including a single trade-off hyperparameter and linear time complexity.

Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

418 jinxmeta 2025-11-18 00:17:12 UTC windowslatest.com Llama Share 331

Microsoft is adding an experimental feature called Agent Workspace to Windows 11, allowing AI agents to access user folders and run in the background. This feature is optional and may affect performance and security, but gives users access to new AI experiences.

Run ancient UNIX on modern hardware

93 doener 2025-11-17 22:17:12 UTC github.com/felipenlunkes Llama Share 16

This repository allows running ancient UNIX versions on modern Unix-like systems. It includes UNIX versions released under the Caldera license and other components under different licenses.

The surprising benefits of giving up

84 jnord 2025-11-18 05:17:12 UTC nautil.us Llama Share 71

Researchers found that adjusting goals in response to stress or challenges is often a more beneficial response than persisting with impossible goals. This approach can lead to reduced stress, anxiety, and depression, and is associated with high social and physical functioning.

Ruby Symbols

3 stonecharioteer 2025-11-18 08:17:12 UTC tech.stonecharioteer.com Prefix Share 0

I’ve been befuddled when seeing :name instead of name and I didn’t know what it was at first. I spent some time reading Michael Hartl’s Learn Enough Ruby and I cannot really say I understood Symbols, so I wanted to RTFM. The same Symbol object will be created for a given name or string for the duration of a program’s execution, regardless of the context or meaning of that name. Thus, if Fred ...

WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model

258 meetpateltech 2025-11-17 15:17:12 UTC blog.google Llama Share 114

Google DeepMind and Google Research introduced WeatherNext 2, a more efficient forecasting model that generates forecasts 8x faster with up to 1-hour resolution. It's now available in Earth Engine and BigQuery, and will power weather information in Google Maps.

How when AWS was down, we were not

161 mooreds 2025-11-17 17:17:12 UTC authress.io Llama Share 60

The author discusses how their company, Authress, maintains a 5-nines SLA (99.999% uptime) despite relying on AWS services, which are prone to failures. They explain how they use a combination of retry mechanisms, failover strategies, and automation to ensure their service remains available even when AWS services are down.

Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication

144 pavel_lishin 2025-11-17 16:17:12 UTC scientificamerican.com Llama Share 121

A new study finds that raccoons in urban areas are physically changing due to life around humans, an early step in domestication. The study suggests that animals become habituated to human environments, leading to traits such as a shorter face and reduced fear response.

Show HN: ESPectre – Motion detection based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis

167 francescopace 2025-11-17 18:17:12 UTC github.com/francescopace Llama Share 39

ESPectre is a Wi-Fi sensing project that detects movement using Channel State Information (CSI) without cameras, microphones, or wearables. It uses a mathematical approach with 10 features and multi-criteria detection for movement patterns, with potential for future ML-based enhancements.

Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop

132 anandchowdhary 2025-11-17 19:17:12 UTC github.com/anandchowdhary Llama Share 48

You created a CLI tool called Continuous Claude to run Claude Code in a loop for persistent context across multiple iterations. It maintains a persistent context and results from one iteration to the next.

Core Devices keeps stealing our work

494 jdauriemma 2025-11-18 03:17:12 UTC rebble.io Llama Share 97

Rebble is at an impasse with Core Devices over access to their data and control of the Pebble ecosystem. Rebble wants to give Core access to their data but wants a guarantee that Core won't build a walled garden app store.

Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies

103 surprisetalk 2025-11-17 18:17:12 UTC angadh.com Llama Share 115

Huxley's lecture series discusses non-pharmacological means to self-actualisation through techniques like Alexander technique and Gestalt therapy. He advocates for adapting education to individual personalities and developing new methods to realise human potentialities.

“One Student One Chip” Course Homepage

165 camel-cdr 2025-11-17 19:17:12 UTC ysyx.oscc.cc Llama Share 43

Contact Yu Zihao via yuzihao#ict.ac.cn for lab handout errors or questions. Estimated completion times are based on intermediate learners, with beginners expected to spend 2-3 times more time.

Show HN: Reversing a Cinema Camera's Peripherals Port

34 3nt3 2025-11-17 23:17:12 UTC 3nt3.de Llama Share 2

The user reverse-engineered the protocol of their Sony PXW-FS7 camera's side grip to create custom buttons on the top handle. They designed and built a custom PCB and housing to implement the new buttons, overcoming various challenges and issues along the way.

A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism

90 Thevet 2025-11-17 18:17:12 UTC newrepublic.com Llama Share 120

Effective altruism, inspired by Peter Singer's thought experiment, aims to maximize global good through rational decision-making. However, the movement has strayed from its original aim, attracting controversy and scandal due to its association with techno-fascists and wealthy individuals.