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Captain Bible Reverse Engineering

https://github.com/peterkelly/captain-bible-re
11•peterkelly•5d ago

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paulryanrogers•36m ago
As much as I love DOS gaming, Christian games just trigger too many bad memories for me.

Plenty of other ports and RE efforts of games from the era to keep me busy for a while.

Curious the motivation behind this one.

yjftsjthsd-h•24m ago
I'm surprised at the use of qemu+freedos; I would think dosbox would be easier to set up and to interact with?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
464•tosh•7h ago•271 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
81•moelf•3h ago•38 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
248•piotrgrabowski•7h ago•57 comments

Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/06/should-ai-labs-be-treated-like-the-ow...
29•reasonableklout•1h ago•37 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/
146•aagha•6h ago•49 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
417•RickJWagner•12h ago•533 comments

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-cl...
390•delduca•8h ago•257 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/
153•artninja1988•8h ago•167 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale
165•moonikakiss•7h ago•171 comments

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/
139•MarcoDewey•10h ago•35 comments

Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025)

https://xvw.lol/en/articles/oop-refl.html
56•birdculture•4d ago•5 comments

Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years

https://travelandtannins.com/workers-drilling-in-romania-broke-into-a-cave-sealed-for-5-5-million...
7•yk•3d ago•0 comments

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/water-system-controllers-dont-belong-on-the-inter...
123•Bender•4h ago•79 comments

Carl's Required Reading

https://carlkolon.com/reading/
98•cckolon•6d ago•11 comments

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych
50•theanonymousone•6h ago•2 comments

Captain Bible Reverse Engineering

https://github.com/peterkelly/captain-bible-re
11•peterkelly•5d ago•2 comments

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/
246•poly2it•14h ago•118 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...
237•inigyou•17h ago•222 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/
165•m3h•14h ago•42 comments

Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

https://textlog.cc/about
138•stagas•14h ago•60 comments

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice
94•jnord•12h ago•85 comments

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

https://github.com/Wyzer-Lang/wyzer
173•v0id_isgood•13h ago•100 comments

Why are all the amounts values negative?

https://bankstatementconverter.com/blog/posts/2026-08-02-why-are-all-amounts-negative/
35•4pkjai•5d ago•9 comments

Curlese, Five Years Later

https://www.hypertesto.me/en/blog/2026/08/curlese-five-years-later
9•rovr138•4d ago•2 comments

Möbius-Strip Crosswords

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/
53•ibobev•10h ago•7 comments

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
718•boplicity•1d ago•391 comments

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website

https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/
373•petercooper•10h ago•353 comments

Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop?

https://londonist.com/london/history/oxford-street-beavers
53•bookofjoe•4d ago•31 comments

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-infer...
886•itvision•1d ago•666 comments

Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system

https://www.righto.com/2026/07/ibm-604-trigger-tube-module.html
21•geerlingguy•5d ago•4 comments