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Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center

https://nypost.com/2026/10/24/business/google-illegally-tore-down-250k-trees-for-finland-data-cen...
91•rustybolt•45m ago•36 comments

TornadoVM 7 Enables GPU-Native Workloads from Java Applications

https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/tornadovm-7-gpu/
34•pjmlp•2d ago•2 comments

OBS Studio 33

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/33.0.0
319•pentagrama•10h ago•100 comments

Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117492375462459244
385•privacyishuman•14h ago•121 comments

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/python-packages-vulnerable-node2shell-brotli-cve-2026-111497
121•theanonymousone•7h ago•62 comments

I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018)

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~doug/quantum_physics/index.html
182•rramadass•5h ago•123 comments

Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro
1002•Jowsey•22h ago•601 comments

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-trap-a-single-antimatter-particle-for-a-month/
159•mooreds•2d ago•56 comments

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

https://blog.calif.io/p/iphone
999•pavel_lishin•23h ago•626 comments

Appreciating the beauty of all your body's scars and scratches

https://1000awesomethings.com/2026/10/08/576-appreciating-the-beauty-of-all-your-bodys-scars-and-...
46•surprisetalk•3d ago•28 comments

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

https://philipotoole.com/twelve-years-of-distributed-sqlite/
291•otoolep•14h ago•43 comments

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

https://edjefferson.com/localwiki/
1459•sohkamyung•1d ago•238 comments

Apple Music 404 Not Found

https://music.apple.com/this-url-doesnt-exist
846•frizlab•1d ago•247 comments

How to run a city builder on 16 MHz

https://larstofus.com/2025/11/16/how-to-run-a-city-builder-on-12-5-mhz/
57•rex64•2d ago•13 comments

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

https://rtfeldman.com/fp-vs-c
183•stmonty•11h ago•44 comments

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

https://danielball.com/notes/ai_image_generation.html
174•westsmith•3d ago•52 comments

Bringing uv and ty together

https://astral.sh/blog/uv-ty-integration
220•Ravencentric•3d ago•71 comments

Show HN: Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706

https://gitlab.com/c4psu13/mali-pagecache-root
21•t20n•4h ago•3 comments

Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

https://block.xyz/dessa
431•dsr12•20h ago•163 comments

GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock
25•fragebogen•5h ago•16 comments

AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist

https://torrentfreak.com/ai-assisted-paper-on-z-library-cites-a-torrentfreak-article-that-doesnt-...
66•TangerineDream•4h ago•23 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...
468•hn_acker•1d ago•242 comments

I built a neural network using DOOM games

https://github.com/mottopanikeiku/doomformer
4•falperc•2d ago•1 comments

Hacker reverses Samsung TV, finds on-board AI listening OpenAI account suspended

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1xdv3e5/hacker_reverse_engineers_his_samsung_tv_and_finds/
371•testing22321•9h ago•119 comments

The Chalk and the Airplane

https://unintendedconsequenc.es/chalk-and-the-airplane/
21•paulorlando•2d ago•7 comments

Apple Security Research Device

https://security.apple.com/research-device/
110•neom•12h ago•49 comments

Tiling Noise – Procedural GPU Patterns

https://catlikecoding.com/godot/procedural-gpu-patterns/09-tiling-noise/
17•ibobev•3d ago•1 comments

The Real Kevin Bacon

https://pudding.cool/2026/10/kevin-bacon/
340•xnx•3d ago•87 comments

CVE Tracker

https://cve.0xosprey.com/
199•Group_B•18h ago•70 comments

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

https://martinfinkel.com/blog/gaussian-blur-c-vs-csharp/
113•martz•3d ago•37 comments
Open in hackernews

One Must Fall 2097 Remastered

https://github.com/Jared-woodruff/OMF-2097-Remastered/
40•hmm37•1h ago

Comments

prologic•1h ago
This has to be one of my most favourite MS-DOS games growing up. Too bad I can't seem to figure out how to play this Web version, the controls seem a bit off?
emaro•59m ago
Arrow keys + Enter for punch and Right Shift for kick worked for me. Haven't tried special moves or anything but seems fun. Bookmarked for later.
tetha•52m ago
Rebind the keys for player one.

That being said, the one player campaign seems way faster and higher damage than I remember. But heck I love this blast from the past.

superkickstart•1h ago
The ai slopped upscales are just horrible.
kennyadam•58m ago
Sshhh.
jerf•55m ago
I'm not sure I've ever seen an "upscale" of any kind of heavily pixelized art to something much higher resolution that doesn't seem similar in quality. There seems to be something fundamental to the pixelized aesthetic that once you try to upscale it just can't be the same and human brains will never read the very upscaled art as "yeah, the same, just depixelized". I've seen plenty of 100% human attempts at this and they all seem to have the same subjective effect to me.
howunfortunate•51m ago
People must just be pickier than me. I see this comment on everything AI from the worst to the best.

I took a glance through and everything looks perfectly fine to me.

hung•55m ago
Part of the charm of the graphics for games of this time was that they were pre-rendered from 3d models. A simple upscale doesn't really do it justice. I'd try re-generating the actual models, then pre-rendering them again in higher res. That might look better.

Also the character portraits are pure nightmare fuel. You went from anime style illustrations to this weird semi-illustrated but with skin textures look. Gross. Those could probably be fixed with better prompting. But yeah, maybe work on the art direction part.

Edit: I guess the graphics are from 3d models? Maybe the textures just need updating then, or like, less upscaling since the original models were basically just flat colors for the most part.

haunter•52m ago
You don't even need to look at the code or anything. This ultra-verbose readme is the perfect sign of AI. 34,000 characters lol
rafram•47m ago
I mean the best sign that the code is AI is that it's a new software project being released in 2026. What isn't?
fxtentacle•52m ago
At first, I was feeling kind of shocked that AI would do a useful and good reverse engineering and produce code that can be extended later, because that totally not matches my experience working with frontier AI models. And, indeed, they started with a working cross-platform GL-accelerated, multiplayer-capable and moddable codebase. And then used AI to remaster it. So the AI contribution seems to be mostly upscaling the old pixel art.

"OpenOMF (MIT): the open-source reimplementation whose reverse engineering this port follows."

https://openomf.org/

mjr00•51m ago
OMF2097 is a classic, but OpenOMF has existed for a while[0] so I'm not sure what this brings to the table beyond being a vibe-reverse-engineered port with really awful looking AI upscaled sprites.

[0] https://github.com/omf2097/openomf

rafram•46m ago
This is based on OpenOMF.
ruler88•49m ago
Can I ask what model(s) you used and how much did the tokens cost to build this?
jsphweid•45m ago
I got a demo of this game on a CD from a cousin in the mid-90s when I was a small child. It had tons of demos on it but One Must Fall 2097 was my favorite. I really liked the music as well, especially the theme.

Many years later after I had long forgotten about it, I was alone traveling across Germany by myself. This game suddenly popped into my head in some Berlin hostel but I couldn't remember the title. I posted on a couple of random forums across the internet and someone identified it from my admittedly terrible description. I remember celebrating in the hostel common kitchen area.

suboto•41m ago
This game was so unbelievably janky, right up there with Apogee’s Xenophage. Great stuff.
ceuk•41m ago
Where did we get these games as kids? I was around 6-7 when I played this on our PC. I don't think my dad was installing them, and we didn't have internet obviously.

The only game I actually remember us buying prior to around the windows 98 era was "Cool World" which my dad let me choose at Woolworths (UK)*

But aside from that I remember sooo many DOS games. Some random ones: Wacky wheels, Paperboy, OMF, Pushover, Doom, Heretic, Contraption Zack, Warcraft, Might and Magic, D generation. One called abyss.exe? What was that?

How did I get all these games (and so many more??) some of them were demos, but not all I don't think.

*Probably not suitable for a ~5 year old in hindsight

katbyte•34m ago
I know we got a lot of demo discs that were the start of games. Brother and I played episode one of doom so many times know it by heart don’t remember the rest of the game. Same for duke 3d
pizza234•32m ago
> Where did we get these games as kids?

Pretty much like audio tapes and VHS... floppies :) That was indeed the time of boot viruses!

Later, in the 90s, there were also warez CDs and DVDs - see Twilight CDs :)

drivingmenuts•40m ago
That trailer music is on-point.
gubidonius•30m ago
If the upscales bug you, F2 flips back to the original 1994 sprites. Works mid-fight too
christkv•28m ago
That game was terrible but still better than Tongue Of The Fatman from a couople of years before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLq5eDsiPOs which was truly horrible. I had a friend who had a 3DO with Samurai Shodown at the same time as One Must Fall 2097 and I was so envious.
glimshe•17m ago
Fun game to vibe-verse. The r/decomps and r/recomps on Reddit are exploding with major projects like this daily. It's a breathtaking pace. It seems that everybody is trying to do it before AI companies stop subsidizing their products for good.