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Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

https://tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon
22•andrewjanke•5d ago

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moffers•8m ago
I loved MUDs as a kid, and really do miss the sense of immersion and depth that came from joining a long established server and just exploring.
groffl•7m ago
Wow, using legit computer lore in the first 95% of the article and then admitting LLM at the end.

Kiddo is not creating anything, that's a delusion.

clemailacct1•5m ago
Yikes, this is a bit too harsh.
skinfaxi•5m ago
What? The article even states there's only one use of AI. What are you talking about?

> Wish is the only AI feature in Canon, and it’s strictly limited to a single tutorial item per day. In a gameworld where everything else is explicitly written by humans for humans. And that alone was instantly polarizing.

zabzonk•1m ago
I honestly think the child would be far better served with Scratch rather than some half-assed adventure writing language.

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/
274•flaburgan•5h ago•86 comments

Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auct...
195•pseudolus•2h ago•113 comments

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/
594•gavide•14h ago•375 comments

Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

https://tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon
22•andrewjanke•5d ago•5 comments

Rethinking Database Programming

https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming
113•honungsburk•5h ago•53 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol
516•Topfi•15h ago•331 comments

As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/as-wisconsin-cities-flee-flock-its-shared-camera-netw...
46•xoa•1h ago•9 comments

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
402•shdon•14h ago•171 comments

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/
706•DeepLogin•16h ago•411 comments

Finger: Social network that never died

https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/
46•andros•5h ago•20 comments

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera
244•pizzaiolo•14h ago•56 comments

IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoTFywZpPcc
53•kls0e•2d ago•22 comments

Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791%2826%2900405-2?_returnURL=https%3A...
61•newsomix9xl•8h ago•22 comments

Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/fairly-ranking-the-most-brilliant-birds/
45•moultano•2d ago•5 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights
666•ibotty•23h ago•118 comments

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug
395•galnagli•22h ago•149 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)
486•inigyou•6d ago•87 comments

The Benchmarkpocalypse

https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/
134•cyndunlop•10h ago•39 comments

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759
228•linggen•18h ago•47 comments

Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items

https://www.repaircafe.org/
143•rglover•13h ago•29 comments

The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-road-to-ms-dos-2
90•whobre•6d ago•38 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/
350•plurby•1d ago•164 comments

An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

https://moddedbear.com/an-update-on-leaving-gmail-for-fastmail/
273•neogodless•19h ago•170 comments

Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet

https://www.science.org/content/article/shattered-skeleton-scottish-castle-first-confirmed-death-...
80•hermitcrab•5d ago•54 comments

Sun Clock

https://sunclock.net/
255•Gecko4072•20h ago•81 comments

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

https://www.librarian.net/notoai/
315•ColinWright•22h ago•189 comments

Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure

https://irz.fr/en/articles/openclimbing-open-guide-en/
28•zbycz•2d ago•12 comments

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
971•mooreds•17h ago•588 comments

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/
174•qingcharles•20h ago•68 comments

Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

https://twitter.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089377982536388964
5•porridgeraisin•31m ago•0 comments