How hard is 'hard'? Reading a trivia question's difficulty from the answer spread
A difficulty label is a guess made before anyone answers. The answers tell you whether the guess was right. Difficulty shows up in two places after…
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The Necessity Trap: Finding Security in Systemic Slack
Observing patterns outside accepted lines. There's a peculiar weight to the term "necessary." We talk about necessary infrastructure, necessary safe…
The Dinosaur Game's Speed Curve, Decoded: A Reverse-Engineer's Field Notes
If you've ever tried to push a run past 999 in Chrome's offline runner, you've probably wondered why the dinosaur suddenly feels unfair around the 7…
Free Is a Design Choice: Building a Board Game Platform Without Ads or Paywalls
-- title: "Free Is a Design Choice: Building a Board Game Platform Without Ads or Paywalls" description: "Why YiBoard runs on a free-forever model:…
Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store
Aptoide has become the first app store distributed inside Google Play under a judge's order.
Designing a Solvability Gate for 15 Puzzle Implementations
Every 15-puzzle implementation eventually hits the same quiet question: given a starting arrangement, can the player ever reach the goal? The answer…
Building an Escape Room Puzzle Designer in typescript with NodeJS
Escape rooms have become increasingly popular as interactive entertainment experiences. The key to a great escape room lies in its puzzles—they need…
Aux Control — Let the whole room vote on the music
Built this for house parties/get-togethers where everyone has opinions about the music and no one wants to be DJ all night. How it plays: the host s…
A Hypervisor(-less) Denuvo bypass for Linux
the kernel patch is in the compiling instructions. Comments
Vector Strike: Semantic Search Database Defender
Have you ever wondered how vector databases like Pinecone, Milvus, Qdrant, or pgvector search through billions of high-dimensional documents in mill…
Put NetHack on my community app and this 38-year-old game keeps outsmarting me
I added NetHack to my community app a while back, unmodified upstream binary running on a shared box. I thought I was adding "an old roguelike". I w…
Token Factory: Understanding the pipeline
Have you ever wondered how high-performance LLM deployment frameworks like vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, or Hugging Face TGI actually optimize model serving?…
Day 3: Watch your grammar with AI, it may cost you — Understanding BPE Tokenizers 🍓🔡
You've probably seen the memes. Someone asks GPT-4 how many r's are in the word strawberry , and it confidently answers 2 . It's not a reasoning fai…
I Built 40+ Free Browser Games in Vanilla JS — Here's What I Learned
I Built 40+ Browser Games in Vanilla JavaScript — Here's What I Learned Over the past few months, I built GamelyByte — a collection of 40+ original…
End-to-End Procedural Generation in Caves of Qud (2019)
In this 2019 GDC Math for Game Developers session, Freehold Games' Brian Bucklew & Jason Grinblat do an end-to-end walk-through of the systems u…
Если ты хороший игрок в Dota 2, то ты хороший Devops
Играешь или играл когда‑то в Dota? Тогда я уверен, что ты сможешь научиться DevOps и стать в нём одним из лучших. Включай вниман…