A GTA modder has got the 1997 original working on modern PCs and Steam Deck

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Ready2Play Complete package to play easy and without installation on modern Windows systems. Just extract to desired location and start the launcher to play, Enjoy! Features - Improved compatibility and performance - GTA + London + 1961 (Windows version) - Supports Steam version (Install detectio...

Vouch

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The Vouch project is a trust management system that allows projects to configure and enforce access control based on user vouching and denouncing, with a web of trust across projects. It uses a flat file format called Trustdown (.td) and integrates with GitHub via GitHub Actions and a CLI, allowing projects to implement their own policies for vouching and denouncing users.

I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color

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The user created a Game Boy Color game that renders images in real time using normal maps and optimized the code for performance, using self-modifying code and a custom dot product formula. They also experimented with using AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT to generate code, but ultimately found that human-written code was more efficient and reliable.

Voidtools Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly

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The Little Bool of Doom (2025)

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The user encountered a compilation error with the chocolate-doom package due to a clash between a custom boolean type and the C23 standard's bool keyword. The issue was caused by undefined behavior when reading an invalid _Bool value, which was resolved by changing the code to use the C99 standard.

Roundcube Webmail: SVG feImage bypasses image blocking to track email opens

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Roundcube's sanitizer allowed external resources on <feImage> due to a bug, enabling attackers to track email opens. Fixed in 1.5.13 and 1.6.13, the issue was caused by a mismatch in attribute handling.

Show HN: I created a Mars colony RPG based on Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars books

A Mars colony game about surviving and building on the Red Planet.

Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models

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Experts see vulnerabilities in AI models that others don't because they simulate how the model will be interpreted by others in an adversarial environment. The key difference is that experts model the world and its agents, while AI models are trained to produce coherent output without considering how others will react to it.

GitHub Agentic Workflows

GitHub Agentic Workflows deliver automated repository improvements via simple markdown files, with security-first design principles and controlled boundaries. It uses AI agents to analyze issues, generate reports, and maintain repositories, but requires careful human supervision and caution.

RFC 3092 – Etymology of "Foo" (2001)

Foo is a mysterious second world war product, gifted with bitter omniscience and sarcasm. 'foobar' is an acronym for ftp operation over big address records [rfc1639] - from the us military in world-war-ii. it is sometimes shortened to "fouled up...&#35; by hackers. the term was first used in the

Formally Verifying PBS Kids with Lean4

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The user discusses their favorite childhood TV show Cyberchase, which taught them math concepts through problem-solving, and how it inspired their interest in computer science. They then use the Lean theorem proving language to formally model a problem from the show, "Problem Solving in Shangri-La," and prove that a strategy for winning the game is correct.

Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing

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Running a personal Autonomous System (AS) on the public internet is possible with sponsoring LIRs and FreeBSD routing tools. This setup provides provider-independent addressing, real BGP peering, and a deeper understanding of internet routing.

International Image Interoperability Framework

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Many of the images and audio/visual resources that are fundamental to research exist in silos, with access restricted to locally-built applications. IIIF gives you and your audience freedom to work across barriers. Examine, compare, annotate, and share. IIIF enables easy use across repositories, with tools to aid research and presentation. Publish once, reuse often. IIIF serves high-quality ...

Exploiting signed bootloaders to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot

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The article discusses how to create a bootable USB flash drive that can boot various computer recovery software without disabling Secure Boot on a PC, using a signed bootloader and modifying existing code to achieve this. The author created two disks, Super UEFIinSecureBoot Disk and Silent UEFIinSecureBoot Disk, which can launch any operating system or .efi file, even with untrusted or ...
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Researchers studied 217,122 UK Biobank participants aged 40-64 and found that higher omega-3 blood levels were associated with lower risk of early-onset dementia. Increased omega-3 intake may slow EOD development, but further research is needed to confirm these findings.

Dave Farber has died

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Dave Farber, known as the "grandfather of the Internet," passed away at 91. He was a renowned professor, technologist, and mentor who taught at Keio University and co-directed the Keio Cyber Civilization Research Center.

Bun v1.3.9

Bun is a JavaScript runtime that supports concurrent and sequential execution of package.json scripts with prefixed output. It also includes improvements for CPU profiling, Markdown rendering, and regular expressions.

Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin

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The writer's daughter curated an exhibition about her mother, Ursula K. Le Guin, featuring her first typewriter and allowing visitors to type on it. The exhibition is a tribute to her mother's writing and legacy, showcasing her willingness to learn and change.

Amazon delivery drone strikes North Texas apartment, causing minor damage

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A Community-Curated Nancy Drew Collection

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Open Library volunteers organized a Nancy Drew book series collection with a collaborative approach led by Emily, a librarian and educator. The project involved manual tagging and metadata cleanup, with contributors from around the world working together to create a valuable resource for the public.

Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it

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The author's company took four years to find a $50 billion buyer, and they wish a book like this existed during that time. This book documents the author's mistakes and lessons learned from their experience.

The 'Little red dots' observed by Webb were direct-collapse black holes

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OpenClaw is changing my life

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OpenClaw transformed my workflow by allowing me to step back and manage projects through communication, freeing me to focus on higher-level work. It enabled me to pursue multiple ideas and projects simultaneously, bringing me closer to my dream of owning a company with a team.

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

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id Software developed Quake on HP 712-60 and DEC Alpha server, then switched to Windows NT with Visual C++ 4.X. A user recreated the experience of building Quake's win32 binaries on Windows NT 4.0 with Visual C++ 6.

Kolakoski Sequence

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The Kolakoski sequence is an infinite sequence of 1s and 2s where each number determines the length of the next run of the same number. It is a fractal that encodes its own representation and has various properties such as being cube-free and not eventually periodic.

Reverse Engineering Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600

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The Raiders of the Lost Ark game for the Atari 2600 uses a 2-bank ROM with bank-switching to run game logic and display kernels. The game is structured around the NTSC television signal, with four phases: VSYNC, VBLANK, Kernel, and Overscan, and features various kernels for different rooms and game logic.

Credentials for Linux: Bringing Passkeys to the Linux Desktop

A cross-desktop effort called Credentials for Linux aims to bring Passkeys to Linux desktops. It includes a Rust library and a D-Bus service for credential management, enabling sandboxed apps and browsers to use hardware security keys and phones.

Why E cores make Apple silicon fast

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Apple silicon Macs use Efficiency cores for background tasks and Performance cores for foreground tasks, allowing for efficient multitasking. This design, based on Quality of Service, prioritizes foreground threads on Performance cores and background threads on Efficiency cores.

Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition

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To bypass billing in Copilot, use a free GPT-5 Mini model to launch a subagent with a premium model like Opus 4.5, consuming only 1 initial premium request. This allows for almost unlimited usage of the premium model with only 1 additional request.

Matchlock – Secures AI agent workloads with a Linux-based sandbox

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Matchlock is a CLI tool that runs AI agents in isolated, ephemeral microVMs with network allowlisting and secret injection via MITM proxy. It provides a secure environment for agents to run code without exposing the host machine to risks.