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Replacing Dairy with Plant-Based Alternatives Can Lead to Nutrient Deficiencies

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/even-replacing-some-of-your-dietary-dairy-with-plant-ba...
1•rdmuser•4m ago•1 comments

What if every Nix build were bit-reproducible?

https://fzakaria.com/2026/11/09/what-if-every-nix-build-were-bit-reproducible
1•iamnothere•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Stop Walking – A 10-level, one-button 3D rage game in the browser

https://stopwalking.online
1•admingiftcure•5m ago•1 comments

Welcome to Ed and Sam's great adventure

https://www.hintz.org/trip/
1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

Locating the Source of a Mysterious Beep

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/9/mysterious-beeps/
1•bigwheels•6m ago•0 comments

Why Don't Artists Join Together in Co-Op Platforms?

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/why-dont-artists-join-together-in
1•paulpauper•7m ago•0 comments

Perhaps Connecting Fridges to the Internet Was a Bad Idea

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/11/fridge-hacks-europe-supermarkets/689328/
1•paulpauper•8m ago•0 comments

What Constant Surveillance Is Doing to Children

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/12/location-tracking-apps-parental-surveillance/689031/
2•paulpauper•9m ago•0 comments

How I Give Feedback

https://diatone.net/feedback
1•s1ddhant•9m ago•0 comments

Horible Public Key Tricks

https://maurycyz.com/projects/badcert/
1•Curiositry•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rat Race (After Dark, 1994), ported from 68k assembly to TypeScript

https://rat-race.heyitsjam.es/
2•shijie•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nenya, a 0.5B-active base trained on 60B tokens, rivals Qwen3.5-2B

https://huggingface.co/ArsalanZ/Nenya-2.5B-A0.5B-Base
1•AZDR•15m ago•0 comments

The Art of Code

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
1•cosjava22•21m ago•0 comments

Parents Sue Google over A.I. Safety Risks on School Chromebooks

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/05/technology/ai-safety-school-chromebooks-google-lawsuit.html
3•tantalor•21m ago•0 comments

Anthropic must face lawsuit over Claude subscription marketing

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/anthropic-must-face-lawsuit-over-claude-subscription-mar...
2•mfiguiere•25m ago•0 comments

Product analytics events, nearly too cheap to meter

https://github.com/hitSlop/slurp
1•Jonovono•27m ago•1 comments

Hinton Lectures 2026 Day 1 Livestream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ef0ocEoBCs
1•interestica•28m ago•0 comments

Four Player Wolfenstein 3D built for charity

https://yeold.press/extra-life-2026-wolf3d-reloaded-a-free-4-player-wolfenstein-built-for-charity/
1•mysterydip•28m ago•0 comments

PeachQ: An open-source implementation of the q programming language

https://peachq.org/
1•nyankosensei•28m ago•0 comments

Does the 5% rule still work for renting vs. buying?

https://thebuyorrentcalculator.com/blog/5-percent-rule-rent-vs-buy
1•danielyaa5•28m ago•0 comments

Cold Outreach

https://tommccarthy.net/cold-outreach.html
1•jger15•29m ago•0 comments

CodeRabbit scales agentic software development and ships 20x more

https://openai.com/index/coderabbit-codex-daybreak/
1•smb06•30m ago•1 comments

The New York Times Doesn't Understand AI's Role in Suppressing Wages

https://gizmodo.com/the-new-york-times-doesnt-understand-ais-role-in-suppressing-wages-2000836392
1•NordStreamYacht•32m ago•0 comments

Tracking the Harm of DOGE Cuts

https://www.clasp.org/doge-tracker/
75•Alien1Being•36m ago•6 comments

A teen used her school Chromebook and Google AI Mode to plan her suicide

https://mashable.com/tech/google-gemini-chromebook-lawsuit-teen-planned-suicide
3•Topfi•36m ago•0 comments

LHCb finds evidence for the decay B0 to mu+ mu-, with improved B0s measurement

https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00230
3•titusblair•36m ago•0 comments

KDE fixes 15 Year Old bug over inaccurate info when copying files to USB Drives

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Fixes-15-Year-Old-Bugs
2•doodlesdev•36m ago•0 comments

Evaporative cooling cuts solar panel temperature by about 30 C in tests

https://spectrum.ieee.org/solar-panel-cooling
6•titusblair•36m ago•2 comments

C15T: The open standard for cookie banners

https://c15t.com
2•nateb2022•37m ago•0 comments

JoesProxy – The free network workbench for your AI agent

https://www.joesproxy.com/
2•SerialForBreakf•37m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: Rat Race (After Dark, 1994), ported from 68k assembly to TypeScript

https://rat-race.heyitsjam.es/
2•shijie•11m ago
Ported to TypeScript from Motorola 68k assembly!

All the rats' behaviors are true to spec: Their distractions (sniffing, turning around, grooming, stopping) are all frame accurate and occur in the same ratios as the original. The artwork and animation speeds were extracted from the old bitmaps and jump instructions and are (as close as I can get) to being frame accurate.

Enhancements:

I ran tens of thousands of simulations and fixed a few unfair advantages rats had if they were in the outside lane—they would lurch forward quickly around the turns resulting in a 43% win rate as opposed to the 33% random roll rate one would expect. Now it's within 0.5% for every training level and every lane.

I also bumped the max rat count up to 8 possible rats, and added a "lane passing" animation. It looks hilarious to see two rats side by side in the same lane, gunning their way to the finish line. Gotta have fair rat races.

I also added my own names for the rats, inspired by Berkeley Systems' naming scheme.

Now we can all scream at our monitors urging Flamin' Furball to turn around and start waddling again like it's 1994.

Github: https://github.com/heyitsjames/rat-race