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Moltbook

https://www.moltbook.com/
412•teej•6h ago•198 comments

OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw
172•ed•4h ago•62 comments

How AI Impacts Skill Formation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
88•northfield27•2h ago•38 comments

Software Pump and Dump

http://tautvilas.lt/software-pump-and-dump/
43•brisky•3d ago•4 comments

GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client

https://www.xda-developers.com/gog-calls-linux-the-next-major-frontier-for-gaming-as-it-works-on-...
94•franczesko•1h ago•34 comments

Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer

https://grid.space/stem/
292•cyrusradfar•11h ago•100 comments

PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible

https://redgamingtech.com/playstation-2-recompilation-project-is-absolutely-incredible/
426•croes•15h ago•208 comments

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/
580•meetpateltech•17h ago•277 comments

Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking

https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/
680•qwesr123•20h ago•313 comments

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
59•vismit2000•4h ago•9 comments

Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/retiring-gpt-4o-and-older-models/
197•rd•13h ago•267 comments

Photoroom (YC S20) Is Hiring a Head of Cross-Platform (Rust) in Paris

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/photoroom/dc994a7c-e104-46e1-81c3-b88d635398b9
1•ea016•3h ago

Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System

https://starlink.com/updates/stargaze
90•hnburnsy•6h ago•25 comments

Long-hidden Leonardo mural opens to the public ahead of 2026 Milan Olympics

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/leonardo-sforza-castle-olympics-2739171
9•antigizmo•3d ago•1 comments

Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All

https://aashvik.com/posts/555-revolution/
39•MonkeyClub•2d ago•27 comments

Backseat Software

https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/
101•zdw•11h ago•18 comments

The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/
191•epicalex•13h ago•56 comments

The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers

https://tedium.co/2026/01/29/niri-danklinux-scrolling-window-managers/
78•todsacerdoti•5h ago•39 comments

AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals

https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-agent-evals
340•maximedupre•20h ago•146 comments

Nannou – A creative coding framework for Rust

https://github.com/nannou-org/nannou
34•dmit•2d ago•5 comments

Flameshot

https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot
190•OsrsNeedsf2P•14h ago•72 comments

The paper model houses of Peter Fritz (2013)

https://socks-studio.com/2013/12/06/the-imaginary-town-of-an-unconscious-architect-the-387-paper-...
22•NaOH•2d ago•2 comments

My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)

https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-chatbot-china-sick/
190•kieto•15h ago•98 comments

Spacecurve: A space-filling curve playground

https://corte.si/posts/spacecurve/announce/
12•cortesi•2d ago•3 comments

Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/017-2026
152•brandonb•7h ago•108 comments

Show HN: Mystral Native – Run JavaScript games natively with WebGPU (no browser)

https://github.com/mystralengine/mystralnative
30•Flux159•2d ago•5 comments

Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

https://www.blender.org/press/netflix-animation-studios-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-cor...
8•vidyesh•3h ago•1 comments

A lot of population numbers are fake

https://davidoks.blog/p/a-lot-of-population-numbers-are-fake
338•bookofjoe•20h ago•283 comments

Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes

150•Haakam21•17h ago•153 comments

CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361
156•rurp•2d ago•224 comments
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GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client

https://www.xda-developers.com/gog-calls-linux-the-next-major-frontier-for-gaming-as-it-works-on-a-native-client/
92•franczesko•1h ago

Comments

l0b0•1h ago
"GOG GALAXY is a long-lived product with a large and complex C++ codebase." Also known as a shitshow. Hopefully the new engineer(s) will be encouraged to at least add some tests and refactor things to stay sane.

No mention of a license, though. I guess it'll stay closed source.

thaumasiotes•1h ago
> I guess it'll stay closed source.

It's a DRM implementation. It has to stay closed source.

bpye•54m ago
There is no DRM on GOG.

https://www.gog.com/blog/what-exactly-is-drm-in-video-games-...

stavros•52m ago
Famously so. The main method of deployment was an offline installer before they made Galaxy, and AFAIK Galaxy just downloads and runs the installer.
gamesieve•38m ago
Not quite. You can use Galaxy to download the offline installers (or just do that through the website), but when you install a game through Galaxy, it downloads a special build which it just copies to the right location, without running a separate installer.
KptMarchewa•20m ago
No, it doesn't use offline installers. Source: worked on that in the past.

https://content-system.gog.com/

thaumasiotes•13m ago
The running game can also call out to Galaxy and unlock, or not unlock, ingame content based on what it hears back. It's pretty difficult to imagine a definition of "digital rights management" that doesn't include this.
da_grift_shift•43m ago
Yet the standalone offline installed games won't run without libgalaxy.dylib (Mac) or Galaxy64.dll (Windows) which is responsible for outbound connections to https://galaxy-log.gog.com and https://insights-collector.gog.com?

To be clear: if you buy Disco Elysium on GOG, download the "offline game installer" without using Galaxy, install it, and run the game on a desert island, it will work (the network requests fail open). But if you try to run the game after removing the bundled dylib/DLL, it will not.

Why do Galaxy-free games ship with a mandatory dependency on Galaxy?

krige•42m ago
Last I checked, there is loads of DRM on GOG and most of the games that have it, force you to use Galaxy.
tommica•28m ago
Really? What games are those? I've not encountered a single one :/
krige•27m ago
Off the top of my head Crime Cities on launch forced me to use Galaxy to play it. I vividly remember this because the game also ran like complete crap.
gamesieve•17m ago
Galaxy can be required for multiplayer aspects in games, but if what you say is true for the singleplayer part of the game, GOG will consider it a bug, and will get it fixed.

There's nothing in the Crime Cities GOG forum about this, nor in the various tracking threads in the main forum, and generally GOG users are extremely sensitive about anything which even reeks of forcing Galaxy, so I'd strongly expect any issue to be known.

I've seen cases where the developer implemented a bad online check, so that if you blocked the program from accessing the internet while the OS reported being online, the game would hang or crash, but being fully offline would work. Could it be that something like that was at play here? Oh, or that you simply picked the wrong installer for the game, and thus ran the Galaxy-installer rather than the offline installer?

gamesieve•27m ago
Many games with multiplayer features require Galaxy for those multiplayer features. You can consider this DRM-equivalent if you want. However, every singleplayer game on GOG will work without Galaxy installed, and that singleplayer gameplay will be completely DRM-free in every possible way. (That's at least 99.6% of the games on GOG, but eyeballing the 22 games which don't specify that they're singleplayer games, most of them simply have incomplete metadata, so it's really 99.9% of them.)
PunchyHamster•25m ago
I guess depends what you consider DRM, some games appear to have problems

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/label_the_games_that_have_...

KwanEsq•41m ago
This is factually incorrect. GOG famously has no DRM.
thaumasiotes•22m ago
Try checking on the facts first. GOG famously has a slogan that says they have no DRM. They are lying in their slogan.
falcor84•25m ago
Why? Can't DRM be implemented in open source, and only have private keys kept secret?
elsjaako•12m ago
If we have DRM with some private key, then I guess your idea is I download the game files and some private key and that allows me to run the game.

If I can send you the private key and the game and it allows you to run the game with no further inputs, then the DRM is trivially broken (even without open source).

If it does some online check, then if the source is open we can easily make a version that bypasses the online check.

If there is some check on the local PC (e.g. the key only works if some hardware ID is set correctly), we can easily find out what it checks, capture that information, package it, and make a new version of the launcher that uses this packaged data instead of the real machine data.

If you use a private key to go online and retrieve more data, having it be open source makes it trivial to capture that data, package it, and write a new version of the launcher that uses that packaged data.

Basically, DRM requires that there is something that is not easy to copy, and it being open source makes it a lot easier to copy.

pjmlp•1h ago
Thankfully it seems to be not yet another Electron crap shell.
Anonyneko•29m ago
In my experience, Galaxy works no better than a web app, unfortunately. Similarly laggy and lacks the snappiness you'd normally associate with a native app.
pjmlp•28m ago
Oh well.
KptMarchewa•20m ago
It's not Electron, however it uses Chromium Embedded Framework underneath.
pjmlp•9m ago
Oh, another desilusion then.
EspadaV9•50m ago
No. Please don't. Contribute to something like Heroic Launcher instead. Don't create something new just for GOG. Help make the existing tools better. It'll mean GOG has to do less work, and the programs people are already using will get better. Or even just sponsor Heroic so they can send more time we can working on it themselves.
gamesieve•33m ago
They're not creating something new. They're taking their existing tool (which - for all its flaws - is still far ahead of Heroic in many ways), improving it further, and changing it to also work on Linux.

If they then go add additional features like wine integration to that tool to make it overlap more with Heroic is something we're all assuming, but not actually a given.

bravetraveler•23m ago
A lot of words for "yes they will insist on fragmentation"
gr4vityWall•5m ago
Alternatively, work on developing protocols for game launchers instead. Get the Heroic Launcher devs and devs from other launchers to work on a common interface.
anthonj•50m ago
That's very nice to hear. But diffuclt to beat valve here, they are actively contributing to drivers and wine. When you buy even just windows software from steam you are helping funding that.
nottorp•42m ago
New owner means their disgust of Linux is fading.
emsign•33m ago
I'm very hopeful that Linux gaming will save the open PC desktop despite big tech is coming to destroy it. Or at least keep PCs alive for another decade. Gamers are still a huge factor as hardware customers.

GOG creating a Linux launcher and Steam Box with SteamOS coming out soon should benefit PC users in general not just gamers since Microslop sees Windows like a social experiment where they can test AI on unsuspecting lusers, as an ad platform and a store front now.

easyThrowaway•29m ago
Hopefully they'll somehow support Proton and Valve devices. Trying to run older windows-only games bought on GOG with launchers like Heroic is a bit of a hit or miss, despite the Steam releases of the same games having somehow a bigger chance of working out of the box. I guess there are some weird differences between the default Proton Runtime and the proton-ge/wine-ge builds.
prmoustache•4m ago
If you have steam installed on the same machine, you can use proton runtimes from steam already.
alex_duf•19m ago
A lot of hate in the comments, I think it's great that companies are in a position where they think it makes sense financially to support Linux as a target platform.