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The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/02/inside-the-quixotic-team-trying-to-build-an-entire-world-in-a-20-year-old-game/
38•nxobject•2d ago

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Insanity•1h ago
That’s an amazing project. It’s kinda sad that nowadays most AAA games are so locked down that the player will never get into modding.

For myself it started with Jedi Knight, and then eventually mods on the Source engine (CS:S / HL2). To me it’s a good way to get people excited about the possibilities of programming at a fairly young age.

gww•59m ago
That is how I became serious about programming. I played around a bit but I never really wrote anything useful until I started playing Asheron's Call. I learned C++ to write bots and other plugins for Decal (an embedded mod framework).
thrance•54m ago
Modern Bethesda games, for all their faults, are still very moddable. But who needs these when we have Morrowind?

And same. Me personally, I learned Java to mod Minecraft. That's how I got into programming. Overall, I'd say modding is still in pretty good shape.

snowram•6m ago
Roblox commercialized that excitement. Kids now work directly for them and pretty much for free.
sevenseacat•56m ago
Love this so much, as a long-time Morrowind fangirl.

(And yes, I've played TR quite a bit!)

NoboruWataya•33m ago
Love these projects. Both the quantity and quality of the content added are really impressive.

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
2282•qwertox•15h ago•1228 comments

Can you reverse engineer our neural network?

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-our-neural-network/
111•jsomers•2d ago•48 comments

PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/02/26/pmOS-update-2026-02/
44•pantalaimon•2h ago•32 comments

F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026

https://f-droid.org/2026/02/26/board-of-directors-nominations.html
61•edent•3h ago•24 comments

An interactive intro to quadtrees

https://growingswe.com/blog/quadtrees
91•evakhoury•2d ago•6 comments

The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/
333•moultano•10h ago•128 comments

The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/sociology/2003-ashforth.pdf
144•rendx•7h ago•66 comments

Breaking Free

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/
58•Aissen•4h ago•8 comments

Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser

https://retrotick.com/
20•lqs_•1h ago•3 comments

Reading English from 1000 Ad

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260224.html
35•LAC-Tech•3d ago•8 comments

The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/02/inside-the-quixotic-team-trying-to-build-an-entire-world-i...
39•nxobject•2d ago•6 comments

Generative AI Use and Depressive Symptoms Among US Adults

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2844128
6•pseudolus•1h ago•3 comments

Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style

http://dionisiydk.blogspot.com/2026/02/bpatterns-rewrite-engine-with-smalltalk.html
28•mpweiher•5h ago•1 comments

What Claude Code chooses

https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks
489•tin7in•20h ago•189 comments

Ubicloud (YC W24): Software Engineer – $95-$250K in Turkey, Netherlands, CA

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ubicloud/jobs/j4bntEJ-software-engineer
1•ozgune•5h ago

80386 Protection

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/80386_protection/
96•nand2mario•2d ago•24 comments

Compact disc story (1998)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294484774_Compact_disc_story
20•pipeline_peak•10h ago•5 comments

AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026-f1282-paper.pdf
382•DamnInteresting•22h ago•170 comments

What does " 2>&1 " mean?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/818255/what-does-21-mean
341•alexmolas•18h ago•195 comments

Layoffs at Block

https://twitter.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343
798•mlex•16h ago•873 comments

The history of knocking on wood

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/neolithic-habits-machine-age-tools
35•benbreen•2d ago•4 comments

The complete Manic Miner disassembly

https://skoolkit.ca/disassemblies/manic_miner/
27•sandebert•6h ago•5 comments

The Origins of Agar

https://www.asimov.press/p/agar
44•surprisetalk•3d ago•9 comments

Lawmakers say US Military used laser to take down Border Protection drone in TX

https://apnews.com/article/military-laser-border-drone-texas-airport-55aaab7093f7d6dd174f909f3875...
39•thinkcontext•2h ago•36 comments

Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration

https://github.com/Frikallo/parakeet.cpp
84•noahkay13•10h ago•25 comments

OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)

https://osmand.net/blog/fast-routing/
201•todsacerdoti•19h ago•79 comments

Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor

https://www.usecardboard.com/
125•sxmawl•19h ago•70 comments

Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddnry8dnl7o
68•cmsefton•3h ago•62 comments

I rendered 1,418 confusables over 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye

https://paultendo.github.io/posts/confusable-vision-visual-similarity/
83•paultendo•2d ago•39 comments

An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/an-introduction-to-the-codex-seraphinianus.html
95•vinhnx•3d ago•19 comments