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C64 MERCENARY (1985): a novel exploit bug at the start of the game

https://gamesexplained.com/c64/mercenary/
9•a1r•3d ago

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a1r•3d ago
100 paces NW of the starting position is an invisible patch of grass where the author forgot to include a height check. Press E and you teleport to the Colony Craft, far above you. This bug has gone unnoticed for 41 years!
aenis•26m ago
Omg. Mercenary was a game that left a huge mark on me. I played it on Commodore PLUS/4 when I was 9. The freedom to explore! The hidden elevator far outside the city. The destructible buildings. The satellite!

U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2026/09/26/u-s-postal-inspectors-shut-down-website-selling...
90•ilamont•2h ago•46 comments

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/
665•crorella•4h ago•601 comments

How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
397•rbanffy•9h ago•227 comments

PS5 Relapse Exploit

https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit
173•therepanic•6h ago•98 comments

Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s

https://github.com/lostmsu/TurboGPT
24•lostmsu•2h ago•3 comments

NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

https://somethingbig.ai/computer
76•rossant•2d ago•39 comments

Tcl/Tk 9.1

https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1.html
211•dmux•4h ago•65 comments

A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]

https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-lik...
398•damaru2•12h ago•126 comments

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

https://space.bl2.net/
31•wanick•2h ago•7 comments

America.gov

https://america.gov/
163•plesiv•7h ago•128 comments

Dots: Always-on agents

https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/
401•alvis•4h ago•307 comments

Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)

https://cathsenker.co.uk/stuck-in-the-suez-canal-the-short-version/
23•joebig•2d ago•1 comments

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

https://jagi.studio/posts/phyllotaxis/
247•evakhoury•1d ago•41 comments

Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/science/virus-molluscum-human-gene.html
60•gumby•1d ago•20 comments

Ask HN: What are you reading?

67•dan-bailey•8h ago•186 comments

Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

https://frostyard.github.io/nsl/
61•bketelsen•7h ago•49 comments

Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)

https://www.withouthotair.com/
127•0sake_rs•9h ago•68 comments

C64 MERCENARY (1985): a novel exploit bug at the start of the game

https://gamesexplained.com/c64/mercenary/
9•a1r•3d ago•2 comments

GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

https://www.anthropic.com/research/glm-5-3-and-the-spread-of-advanced-cyber-capabilities
130•Philpax•4h ago•96 comments

A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

https://sujithjay.com/inventing-work
136•amortize•1d ago•32 comments

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves
214•nicowaltz•10h ago•85 comments

Walking Men

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/09/walking-men.html
69•surprisetalk•1d ago•24 comments

ChatGPT Pro 500

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers
161•prodigycorp•4h ago•169 comments

Using any C++ library in Godot

https://blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/godot/cmake/2026/09/29/Using-Any-Cpp-Library-In-Godot.html
152•czoido•13h ago•52 comments

Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host
680•barry-cotter•10h ago•619 comments

Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/27/258/
113•zaik•2h ago•81 comments

Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market

https://gamersnexus.net/news-features/memory-companies-have-destroyed-consumer-market
78•DeepLogin•2h ago•54 comments

Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/09/26/digital-audio-on-the-zx-spectrums-1-bit-beeper/
52•ibobev•2d ago•15 comments

DevDay 2026 Recap

https://openai.com/index/devday-2026-recap/
81•polygot•4h ago•36 comments

What if Jev spoke Arrow?

https://columnar.tech/blog/what-if-jev-spoke-arrow/
26•ianmcook•5h ago•5 comments