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DOOM, simulated and rendered inside the Firebird SQL database using WASM

https://github.com/mariuz/firebird-doom
6•mariuz•1h ago

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phishin•39m ago
ALL CAPS.
karel-3d•35m ago
`Error: Firebird query failed for: SELECT * FROM doom_tic(?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?): fetch failed: validation error for column "PUBLIC"."PLAYER"."HEALTH", value "** null **" -At procedure "PUBLIC"."DAMAGE_PLAYER" line: 10, col: 3 At procedure "PUBLIC"."MONSTERS_THINK" line: 94, col: 11 At procedure "PUBLIC"."DOOM_TIC" line: 22, col: 5`

Does that mean I died?

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
455•Philpax•14h ago•143 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
200•ishan0102•12h ago•70 comments

Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024)

https://liquidbrain.net/blog/accountability-and-joy/
35•luu•2d ago•9 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
189•E-Reverance•12h ago•44 comments

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

https://dbushell.com/2026/10/03/deno-to-node/
167•ibobev•11h ago•95 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
356•outlier99•12h ago•236 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
546•tosh•23h ago•248 comments

Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing

https://blog.pipetogrep.org/2026/09/11/resurrecting-ichat-audio-and-video-conferencing/
48•thepipetogrep•6h ago•12 comments

An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/08/03/an-algorithmic-failure-beneath-the-secret-ballot/
79•leecoursey•2d ago•49 comments

Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors

https://smarthomescene.com/reviews/best-selling-zigbee-temperature-sensors-tested/
114•walrus01•2d ago•52 comments

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

https://www.debugbear.com/blog/example-dot-com-redesign-history
222•jgx0•10h ago•143 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
203•vinhnx•2d ago•47 comments

Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

https://www.vivienhenz.com/common-lisp
162•misterchocolat•6h ago•221 comments

Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally

https://globalsolaratlas.info/
55•stratts•11h ago•36 comments

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorke...
437•rdmuser•11h ago•312 comments

The complement of true is true, except when it's false

https://dryperspective.github.io/posts/complement-of-true/
12•aw1621107•1d ago•1 comments

Using A.I. and machine learning to decode communication of sperm whales

https://blue-continuum.com/the-man-who-listens-to-whales
22•dnetesn•1d ago•7 comments

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
204•farslan•19h ago•89 comments

Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers

https://github.com/ahmetomerv/photoc
34•ahmetomer•2d ago•5 comments

Fundamentals of circadian entrainment by light (2021)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14771535211014792
3•NaOH•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster

https://www.stelabouras.com/blog/entombed-raycaster/
23•stelabouras•2d ago•5 comments

Ephemeral Testing

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/
56•ibobev•10h ago•19 comments

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
64•greyface-•1d ago•7 comments

Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

https://gwern.net/doc/design/2026-10-03-gwern-samon.html
42•networked•10h ago•20 comments

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
258•maguay•23h ago•217 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
156•Vosporos•19h ago•41 comments

Protect Your Friends and Loved Ones

https://ephemeral.cx/2026/07/protect-your-friends-and-loved-ones/
37•speckx•2d ago•11 comments

Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfol...
192•0xedb•1d ago•125 comments

The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fully-implantable-cochlear-implant
91•rbanffy•4d ago•73 comments

Anthropic Subscriptions Offer 5x+ More Value Than OpenAI

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/anthropic-subscriptions-offer-5x
14•nsoonhui•2h ago•12 comments