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I built a multiplayer version of the 4,500-year-old Royal Game of Ur

https://royalgameofur.app
5•potentdream•50m ago

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paradoxyl•25m ago
Fun and intuitive, obvious forerunner to backgammon. It's quite a feeling to play a boardgame so old. Thank you.
potentdream•24m ago
Thank you for the response! Feedback accepted. Anything to be polished?
potentdream•9m ago
kindly upvote if ya'll enjoyed the game.

Should your Claude Code sessions cache for five minutes, or an hour?

https://cacheanalyzer.com/
1•rmason•36s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why does Hacker News use the obsolete HMAC?

1•irongem•1m ago•0 comments

Broadcom pledges to lock down open source Python and Java libraries

https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/08/31/broadcom-pledges-to-lock-down-open-source-p...
2•theanonymousone•2m ago•0 comments

Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.4

https://www.swift.org/blog/embedded-swift-improvements-coming-in-swift-6.4/
1•maguszin•3m ago•0 comments

Perceptron AI releases Isaac 0.5: 36B, open weight, embodied foundation model

https://twitter.com/perceptroninc/status/2092678357775442103
2•ceith•3m ago•0 comments

Inside the hunt for suspected Chinese drone spies over US military bases

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/31/politics/drone-incursions-us-bases-chinese-spies
2•cisc•3m ago•0 comments

Omarchy Quattro is the #3 Linux distro by active 1Password users

https://twitter.com/jmeller/status/2094429848647197145
2•porridgeraisin•4m ago•0 comments

YouTube blogger Markiplier becomes GoPro's largest shareholder with 8.5% stake

https://forgeeks.net/markiplier-gopro-largest-shareholder/
1•kuuuzya•4m ago•0 comments

When Japan Tried to Create Artificial Intelligence in the 1980s

https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/tech-trends/japan-fifth-generation-computer-project-ai/
1•SeenNotHeard•5m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare Unveils Adaptive Intelligence to Counter AI-Fueled Bot Attacks

https://securityboulevard.com/2026/08/cloudflare-unveils-adaptive-intelligence-to-counter-ai-fuel...
1•CrankyBear•5m ago•0 comments

Microsoft 365 Is Down

https://status.cloud.microsoft/m365/referrer=serviceStatusRedirect
3•jaynate•5m ago•0 comments

SDL's Agents.md

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/AGENTS.md
2•delduca•6m ago•0 comments

A '70s Improv Book Became Silicon Valley's Required Reading

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/opinion/silicon-valley-theater-improv.html
1•apparent•7m ago•0 comments

Fish Bad, Sugar Good and Other Medieval Ideas About Food

https://lithub.com/fish-bad-sugar-good-and-other-medieval-ideas-about-food/
1•mooreds•8m ago•0 comments

Mobile Is One of MOQ's Video Streaming Biggest Opportunities

https://www.red5.net/blog/moq-mobile/
1•mondainx•9m ago•0 comments

Trump pushes Apple to change 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' on its maps

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2l80eq5lxno
3•unfunco•9m ago•1 comments

Two sentences our security scanner can't tell apart and how we solved it with ML

https://delphisecurity.ai/blog/what-we-learned-building-a-runtime-security-sensor-for-ai-agents
1•delphiaisec•11m ago•0 comments

The Fast Life of a Hot Atom

https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/the-fast-life-of-a-hot-atom
1•thm•12m ago•0 comments

Aquifer: A novel approach to retry storm mitigation

https://github.com/rjpruitt16/aquifer
1•rjpruitt16•12m ago•0 comments

Tech bros panic as post-Trump accountability comes into view [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06ZUlomOthg
4•devonnull•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tool suite for C lvl managers, who must remain anonymous

https://invisibleexit.com/
1•SipitenoMK•14m ago•0 comments

1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe

https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/1password-funds-ethnic-cleansing/
5•Philpax•18m ago•0 comments

35 years later, Torvalds' hobby project remains developed worldwide

https://www.techradar.com/pro/its-35-years-since-linus-torvalds-first-revealed-linux-calling-it-j...
1•mushstory•22m ago•0 comments

'Superhuman' AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/31/superhuman-ai-tool-spots-heart-disease
2•sandebert•23m ago•0 comments

Anthropic's LLM Watermarking

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10032
1•Curiositry•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Xyzzy – AI teamwork in one Python process, with a tamper-evident log

https://github.com/Project-Nexus-YR/XYZZY
2•Yashiru•23m ago•0 comments

Building a Billion-Vector Search System Without Putting Everything in RAM

https://pub.towardsai.net/building-a-billion-vector-search-system-without-putting-everything-in-r...
1•syumei•24m ago•0 comments

Escaping Spotify's Recommendation Basin

https://ykumar.me/blog/spot-kick/
4•ykumards•24m ago•0 comments

Trump 'Directly' Pushing Apple to Update Lake Ontario to Lake America in Maps

https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/31/trump-directly-pushing-apple-to-update-lake-ontario-name-to-lake-a...
6•pseudolus•25m ago•0 comments

Logging the trades my bot rejected was worth more than logging the ones it took

https://regimetoken.xyz/skipped-trades
1•nbk88•25m ago•0 comments