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Solving the "Zork" Mystery

https://www.dpolakovic.space/blogs/zork-part2
9•dpola•3d ago

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dpola•3d ago
I looked into the well known triva about name of most popular text adventure.
low_tech_love•3d ago
Don’t want to be that guy but brace yourself for part 2… if the first one disappointed you in some places, the 2nd is going to beat you to a pulp. And I won’t even start on the third. I’m the kind of person who prefers not to finish a game than to read hints or walkthroughs, and parts 2 and 3 have been sitting on my unfinished stack for literally decades. :(

I Miss Terry Pratchett

https://www.mahl.me/blog/the-spell-that-wouldnt-leave/
142•gorgmah•1h ago•89 comments

80386 Microcode Disassembled

https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/
86•nand2mario•2h ago•15 comments

On The <dl>

https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/
48•ravenical•1h ago•14 comments

Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles

https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html
42•tosh•2h ago•16 comments

Solving the "Zork" Mystery

https://www.dpolakovic.space/blogs/zork-part2
9•dpola•3d ago•2 comments

Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda

https://notesbylex.com/shipping-a-laptop-to-a-refugee-camp-in-uganda
567•lexandstuff•16h ago•198 comments

Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby

https://github.com/amatsuda/rubish
95•winebarrel•7h ago•55 comments

Improving C# Memory Safety

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/improving-csharp-memory-safety/
71•soheilpro•1d ago•4 comments

Why Japanese companies do so many different things

https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many
758•d0ks•23h ago•357 comments

BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork

https://xcancel.com/josefprusa/status/2054602354851254330
227•Tomte•5h ago•80 comments

The quadratic sandwich

https://fedemagnani.github.io/math/2026/04/08/the-quadratic-sandwich.html
91•cpp_frog•3d ago•6 comments

A 1955 Los Alamos computer experiment changed our understanding of chaos

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/science-of-unpredictability
17•LAsteNERD•3d ago•3 comments

US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/us-tech-firms-share-dutch-regulator-officials-names-with-senate/
121•zqna•3h ago•90 comments

ArcBrush – Node-based 2D image editor

https://arcbrush.com/
43•NatKarmios•2d ago•14 comments

Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

https://www.theverge.com/tech/930447/microsoft-claude-code-discontinued-notepad
359•robertkarl•20h ago•319 comments

Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the rust rewrite

https://twitter.com/i/status/2058064720553222567
40•bundie•2h ago•18 comments

Fast Factorial Algorithms

http://www.luschny.de/math/factorial/FastFactorialFunctions.htm
21•nill0•3d ago•5 comments

Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

https://www.anthropic.com/research/glasswing-initial-update
472•louiereederson•18h ago•283 comments

Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/20/yeunjoo-choi-from-igalia-on-chromium.html
42•eatonphil•3d ago•10 comments

DHS Quits Granting Green Cards–Almost

https://www.cato.org/blog/dhs-quits-granting-green-cards-almost-entirely
96•malshe•3h ago•77 comments

Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug

https://temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news/how-decades-sleep-research-led-new-sleep-apnea-drug
195•colinprince•16h ago•114 comments

Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (2020)

https://horses.extension.org/blood-pumping-mechanism-of-the-hoof/
102•thunderbong•3d ago•33 comments

CISA tries to contain data leak

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/lawmakers-demand-answers-as-cisa-tries-to-contain-data-leak/
229•speckx•21h ago•52 comments

Deno 2.8

https://deno.com/blog/v2.8
382•roflcopter69•1d ago•159 comments

Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark

https://modelrift.com/blog/openscad-llm-benchmark/
400•jetter•1d ago•154 comments

A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft

https://modrinth.com/mod/waylandcraft
241•Jotalea•2d ago•57 comments

Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-science-spaghetti-neutron-gluten-free.html
86•layer8•3d ago•32 comments

What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260519-00/?p=112339
47•supermatou•2d ago•13 comments

Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/comparing-an-lz4-decompressor-on-four-legacy-cpus/
86•tosh•3d ago•6 comments

Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/22/experience-found-baby-subway-now-26-year-old...
174•Michelangelo11•6h ago•50 comments