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How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money

https://ayoships.com/breakdowns/block-blast
13•motionlessveloc•3h ago

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MDTHLN•37m ago
> The lethal puzzle is a generator, and any rule can ask for it.

Ashamed of myself for getting halfway through the article before realising it was AI written.

Jaxkr•19m ago
The fact that impossible puzzles are generated to bait rewarded-ad views is something I've always suspected in mobile games, but I dismissed it as a skill issue on my end.

Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro
844•Jowsey•13h ago•494 comments

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/
126•otoolep•5h ago•14 comments

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c
49•stmonty•2h ago•6 comments

Apple Music 404 Not Found

https://music.apple.com/this-url-doesnt-exist
704•frizlab•18h ago•219 comments

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1334•sohkamyung•1d ago•230 comments

Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

https://block.xyz/dessa
340•dsr12•11h ago•129 comments

A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents

https://danielball.com/notes/ai_image_generation.html
31•westsmith•3d ago•4 comments

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone
821•pavel_lishin•14h ago•538 comments

CVE Tracker

https://cve.0xosprey.com/
148•Group_B•9h ago•59 comments

Bringing uv and ty together

https://astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-integration
93•Ravencentric•3d ago•23 comments

The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses

https://funcarena.com/articles/the-quake-fan-who-built-the-map-editor-everybody-uses
68•klaussilveira•1d ago•5 comments

Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/canadians-are-running-out-time-oppose-dangerous-c-22-survei...
388•hn_acker•1d ago•206 comments

One Man's Pan Am 747 Replica [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFwHGGfPz4
20•Teever•8h ago•1 comments

The Real Kevin Bacon

https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/
280•xnx•3d ago•76 comments

The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300M Games [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2eVAaw1UM
6•zdw•3d ago•3 comments

OBS Studio 33

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/33.0.0
6•pentagrama•1h ago•0 comments

C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur

https://martinfinkel.com/blog/gaussian-blur-c-vs-csharp/
55•martz•3d ago•8 comments

Show HN: Corgi, a helpful {agent, terminal} multiplexer

https://corgi.computer/
67•eiopa•10h ago•17 comments

How Block Blast harvests its players for ad money

https://ayoships.com/breakdowns/block-blast
13•motionlessveloc•3h ago•2 comments

The past, present, and future share a show floor at Pinball Expo 2026

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/the-past-present-and-future-share-a-show-floor-at-pinball-...
26•civicpivot•2d ago•5 comments

Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines

https://www.jefftk.com/p/air-purifiers-as-white-noise-machines
104•luu•13h ago•106 comments

Rise of collagen-eating microbes may help explain gaps in the fossil record

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/rise-of-collagen-eating-microbes-may-help-explain-gaps-in-the...
33•gmays•3d ago•0 comments

UUIDv7: Timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities

https://alexsci.com/blog/uuidv7-is-weird/
128•ibobev•13h ago•106 comments

Alzheimer's breakthrough: 2 hrs of sleep restored without clearing brain plaques

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261018084421.htm
75•amichail•4h ago•21 comments

A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna

https://e360.yale.edu/features/2026-film-contest-second-place-cerrado
43•throwaway2037•2d ago•10 comments

Evolving Threat: http2shell is an RCE in Node, Python, and more

https://nitter.click/AikidoSecurity/status/2113759110625906950?__galadriel=lPmlGl9id4oAd5UeBwMhlY...
142•cowlevel•7h ago•77 comments

How is music possible

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/music
110•rafaelc•13h ago•74 comments

Rune 1.3: adds TypeScript, a Helix editor, Kitty graphics and OSC-7501

https://rune.build/blog/rune-1-3-release
50•ernestrc•10h ago•12 comments

Is this the new cyber normal?

https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/is-this-the-new-cyber-normal/
157•drewsberry•19h ago•185 comments

CowAgent – Open-Source Super AI Assistant

https://cowagent.ai/en/
4•ankitg12•3h ago•0 comments