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2D Vehicles

https://patkerr.co.uk/2d-vehicles/
65•Michelangelo11•3d ago•14 comments

Knuth reward check

https://www.thomas-huehn.com/knuth-reward-check/
88•Curiositry•4h ago•32 comments

Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

https://github.com/rociiu/talorys
196•rociiu•8h ago•101 comments

Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI

https://www.ft.com/content/052610c5-22b4-4dd4-932e-b7f9f0628b6a
31•arkj•1h ago•16 comments

Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster

https://motherduck.com/blog/why-duckdb-20-is-faster/
16•tosh•1h ago•1 comments

Grieving the loss of details

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/grieving-the-loss-of-details/
223•signa11•4d ago•159 comments

Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry

https://www.opengroup.org//openbrand/register/
185•john_alan•8h ago•173 comments

Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2026/10/07/microsoft-execution-containers-policy-drive...
109•smokel•1d ago•21 comments

Rampart: Browser native on-device PII radaction

https://ndstudio.gov/posts/say-hello-to-rampart
51•nateb2022•1d ago•19 comments

REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

https://rea.tools/
633•modinfo•19h ago•272 comments

Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well

https://kotaku.com/we-might-be-cooked-as-these-vibe-coded-web-browser-ports-of-halo-the-simpsons-...
41•astlouis44•1h ago•30 comments

Bitwarden Dual License Model

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750
273•Cider9986•5h ago•206 comments

Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen

https://beaksec.github.io/posts/telegram-desktop-one-click-account-takeover/
358•g-b-r•16h ago•195 comments

Triple-A Minesweeper

https://minesweeper.mikelacher.com/
1299•robin_reala•1d ago•257 comments

Nix wrote half of my debugger

https://fzakaria.com/2026/10/07/nix-wrote-half-of-my-debugger
5•ingve•1d ago•0 comments

Takeshi's Castle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi%27s_Castle
18•tosh•37m ago•5 comments

I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall

https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/09/28/i-would-like-the-value-of-my-home-to-rise-while-my-pr...
151•colinprince•6h ago•328 comments

PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial

https://chronicles.popvax.com/p/popvax-goes-clinical
83•jajoosam•4h ago•16 comments

OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

https://openscad.org/
42•b-man•3d ago•42 comments

Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-chernobyl-particles-reveal-unexpectedly-stable.html
105•geox•3d ago•34 comments

Eye of Sauron: Long-Range Hidden Spy Camera Detection (2024)

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/zhang-qibo
273•ortusdux•3d ago•63 comments

`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach

https://cphpost.dk/2026-10-10/news/round-up/123456-password-used-in-massive-danish-cpr-data-breach/
349•baal80spam•9h ago•182 comments

Whooping Cranes Learned to Migrate by Following Costumed Pilots

https://theverifiedpost.com/article/whooping-cranes-ultralight-costumed-pilots-operation-migration
32•kgolubic•1d ago•4 comments

Unikernels were hard. key word: were

https://ghuntley.com/unikernels/
17•ghuntley•5h ago•10 comments

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/10/fda-toxic-chemicals-food-analysis
121•NewJazz•4h ago•60 comments

WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload

https://tonym.us/wsl2-vs-wsl3-benchmarks.html
215•tonymet•2d ago•191 comments

Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-use-autoregressive-diffusion-to-generate-market-data/
162•jsomers•1d ago•52 comments

Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text

https://www.datocms.com/blog/handling-less-common-scripts
46•steffoz•4d ago•29 comments

Cloudflare acquires Deno

https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare
1326•ilreb•1d ago•684 comments

Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

https://carrierexplode.com/
398•simplyalec•1d ago•46 comments
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2D Vehicles

https://patkerr.co.uk/2d-vehicles/
63•Michelangelo11•3d ago

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VMG•28m ago
No, I don't want to see the prompt. Yes it has some llm tics, but it's clear that he went back and forth before arriving at this. Why would I be interested in the transcript?
whateveracct•14m ago
Pangram says the first half is human and second half is gen AI.

Ran out of steam, I guess...

fxtentacle•8m ago
I'd say you're fully off the mark here. That page contains serious architectural insight on how to make a "designed" car feeling work within a "physically correct" collision engine. Getting the balance right is super hard and he explains how to do it. I'm confident no AI could do that architecture, so this is most likely hours of hard work with a thin layer of LLM gloss on top.
NewsaHackO•34m ago
>One weekend in late August 1996, I wrote a 2D physics simulation which later became the basis of the vehicle system in the eventually popular game "Grand Theft Auto" aka "GTA".

I don't mean to be... judgemental, but if you had the talent to go something like this, why devolve on the remake? One could think that a person with your level of skill would be one of the main vanguard for hand coding. Again, I don't want to be too judgemental, as I am not a great programmer and use assisted tools when planning and designing personal apps, but I am just curious.

GaryBluto•31m ago
Why needlessly do extra work when it's easier than ever before to modernize what is already made? Why would he want to be a vanguard for "hand coding"?
DonaldPShimoda•24m ago
Sometimes the reward lies in the doing, not in the done.
zeven7•9m ago
He's already done the doing.
AustinDev•8m ago
And for that same reason people knit their own scarves but they don't expect the scarf they see at the store to be hand knit.
slowin•32m ago
It still feels great to play! I love the history too, it's actually a great example of why prototyping "toys" is so important in product development. It allows you to play with isolated concepts without baggage or the expectation to make things production grade. Just getting straight to the point.

Great story, programming and mechanics.

londons_explore•8m ago
This is what taught me how to do handbrake turns.

And shortly after I learned how expensive tyres were, I stopped doing handbrake turns.

joshu•8m ago
no dynamics model (uses bicycle model) but i built a solver for parking

http://truckslop.joshu.dev/

hendry•6m ago
Feels like the original, just need some thing to run over.
gaghak2010•2m ago
It's an interesting project, although not a physics expert I am so curious what the original version looked like!