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Making maps with noise functions (2022)

https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/terrain-from-noise/
51•benbreen•5d ago

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hexator•1d ago
This is probably the most definitive guide on the subject. Rather famous in the procedural generation community
sebnado•1d ago
It's a really good approach for procedural maps, but if you want to achieve realism, you'll likely need something like Gaea
ryan42•22h ago
Great stuff, I love the detailed explanations. I'm getting more into making my own games in Godot, and may try to implement this with it!

Also, Realm of the mad god is a great game!

Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown
225•asicsp•4h ago•98 comments

Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language

https://github.com/neocanable/garlic
10•neocanable•27m ago•0 comments

There should be no Computer Art (1971)

https://dam.org/museum/essays_ui/essays/there-should-be-no-computer-art/
33•glimshe•2h ago•29 comments

Plutonium Mountain: The 17-year mission to guard remains of Soviet nuclear tests

https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/plutonium-mountain-inside-17-year-mission-secure-legacy-soviet-nuclear-testing
22•jmillikin•2h ago•10 comments

EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1l2655n/the_eu_commission_refuses_to_disclose_the/
288•nickslaughter02•2h ago•155 comments

AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-makes-the-humanities-more-important
151•findhorn•8h ago•100 comments

Spark AI (YC W24) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer in San Francisco

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spark/jobs/kDeJlPK-software-engineer-full-stack
1•tk90•41m ago

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/headline-to-come/
19•sebastian_z•29m ago•2 comments

My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/
1617•tabletcorry•15h ago•2010 comments

GUIs are built at least 2.5 times

https://patricia.no/2025/05/30/why_lean_software_dev_is_wrong.html
103•mpweiher•3d ago•61 comments

NYC Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/nyregion/ebikes-scooters-cyclists-nyc.html
15•bookofjoe•39m ago•1 comments

Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts

https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider/
623•gregorywegory•22h ago•390 comments

A Complete Guide to Meta Prompting

https://www.prompthub.us/blog/a-complete-guide-to-meta-prompting
74•saikatsg•3d ago•13 comments

Fun with Futex

https://blog.fredrb.com/2025/06/02/futex-fun/
22•ingve•6h ago•2 comments

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994)

https://localroger.com/prime-intellect/mopiall.html
72•lawrenceyan•8h ago•32 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)

317•whoishiring•21h ago•321 comments

How to Store Data on Paper?

https://www.monperrus.net/martin/store-data-paper
112•mofosyne•3d ago•40 comments

Implementing a Forth

https://ratfactor.com/forth/implementing
44•todsacerdoti•3d ago•6 comments

A High-Level View of TLA+

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/high-level-view.html
24•blobcode•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello

https://github.com/kanbn/kan
426•henryball•1d ago•195 comments

Ukraine's Autonomous Killer Drones Defeat Electronic Warfare

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-killer-drones
11•rbanffy•1h ago•1 comments

Illicit crypto-miners pouncing on lazy DevOps configs leaving clouds vulnerable

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/illicit_miners_hashicorp_tools/
4•rntn•36m ago•0 comments

How to post when no one is reading

https://www.jeetmehta.com/posts/thrive-in-obscurity
585•j4mehta•1d ago•237 comments

Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project)

https://github.com/lixiasky/vanta
230•lixiasky•21h ago•69 comments

Show HN: I build one absurd web project every month

https://absurd.website
231•absurdwebsite•16h ago•50 comments

Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017)

https://shot97retro.blogspot.com/2017/12/sid-meiers-pirates-in-depth-written.html
78•benbreen•3d ago•29 comments

Conformance checking at MongoDB: Testing that our code matches our TLA+ specs

https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/engineering/conformance-checking-at-mongodb-testing-our-code-matches-our-tla-specs
82•todsacerdoti•14h ago•38 comments

Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers

https://github.com/onlook-dev/onlook
380•hoakiet98•4d ago•78 comments

Teaching Program Verification in Dafny at Amazon (2023)

https://dafny.org/blog/2023/12/15/teaching-program-verification-in-dafny-at-amazon/
45•Jtsummers•14h ago•13 comments

MonsterUI: Python library for building front end UIs quickly in FastHTML apps

https://www.answer.ai/posts/2025-01-15-monsterui.html
78•indigodaddy•16h ago•28 comments