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Mesa on Android: How We Brought Turnip, SkiaVK, and Cuttlefish to CI
GNOME founder and team say DHH is a fascist
Article URL: https://twitter.com/lundukejournal/status/2097867660885123379
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Show HN: Pragma Twice – A dystopian sci-fi themed programming game
Hey HN, I'm Bryan. I released Pragma Twice earlier this week in anticipation for Steam's "Programming Fest". Pragma Twice is a programming puzzle game in the same vein as Untrusted (https://untrustedgame.com/). You have to write real JavaScript code to incrementally improve your playable character's "kernel" over the course of the game. Beating levels autonomously (without keyboard inputs) reveals a competitive time/code golf aspect to the game.
I started developing Pragma Twice over 4 years ago after playing Untrusted and loving it. It took so long to develop because I'm not a full time game developer... between my actual job, my kids, and my own self-motivation, it's taken a lot longer than I originally hoped to get this game shipped! It's definitely what you might call a passion project. Anyway, I plan to keep iterating on it, so give it a spin and let me know what you think!
A few technical details/challenges:
- The game was originally written in vanilla JavaScript, but I later converted it to TypeScript (which had an astonishing ROI)
- Uses PixiJS for the graphics and a custom game engine built around Web Workers + SharedArrayBuffer for sandboxing and guarding against things like infinite loops
- The web version is hosted on GitHub Pages, which was challenging because of the SharedArrayBuffer requirement (I use https://github.com/gzuidhof/coi-serviceworker to work around this)
- The linux/windows versions use Electron
- Uses CodeMirror for in-game editor/console
- Levels built with LDtk
- Automated game testing with Puppeteer
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3528840/Pragma_Twice/
Dev Notes: https://www.bryanpg.com/games/pragma_twice
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643036
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Giving external agents access to Xcode
Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/giving-external-agents-access-to-xcode
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643029
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Who People Talk to When They're Struggling
Article URL: https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/who-do-you-talk-to-when-youre-struggling
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643027
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Sony SEP technology platform to connect creators and fans
Article URL: https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/technology/stories/entries/sep_introduction/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643023
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Designing for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices with CSS (2023)
Article URL: https://blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2023/05/design-foldable-devices/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643011
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Cory Doctorow Says Be Skeptical of the AI Sales Pitch
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2026-09-09/trumponomics-cory-doctorow-questions-the-ai-hype-podcast
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643004
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New Apple Watches have ears
Article URL: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/09/new-apple-watches-have-ears/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639942
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Sharpness Is Power
Article URL: https://baku89.com/sharpness-is-power
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639935
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OpenAI: Defense Factory
Article URL: https://openai.com/the-defense-factory/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639922
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4K Analog Video Feedback Fractal Device Complete
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1z3oM6h8uM
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639914
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Curated List of Osint Tools
Article URL: https://osintech.substack.com/p/osintechs-timeline-171-16072026
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639838
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If PHP Were British
Article URL: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639831
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Kelivo: A Flutter LLM Chat Client. Support Mobile and Desktop
Article URL: https://github.com/Chevey339/kelivo
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639819
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GPS and the Limits of Control
Article URL: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/gps-and-the-limits-of-control
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639811
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OpenClaw Dashboards: Personal Use, Team Workflows, and Building Your Own
Article URL: https://openclaw.ai/podcast/episode-10
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639786
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Show HN: Sindlish, a programming language for Sindhi speakers
Hi, I’m Amanat, a student from Pakistan, and I’ve been working on a programming language called Sindlish.
The idea started from wondering what programming would feel like if the language used the vocabulary of the language you actually speak. Sindlish is designed for Sindhi-speaking communities and currently uses Romanized Sindhi syntax.
A small example:
```text kaam jor(a, b) -> adad { wapas a + b }
adad jawab = jor(3, 4) * 2 likh("jawab =", jawab) ```
It currently has its own lexer, parser, resolver, bytecode compiler, stack-based VM, type system, error handling, collections, closures, CLI/REPL and VS Code support.
It’s still a work in progress, and I’d really like feedback on the language design and the implementation.
Website: https://sindlish.vercel.app/
The website may be a little slow right now since most of my time is going into the language itself rather than the website.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639784
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Experience Shapes Extraordinary Beliefs
Article URL: https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(25)00310-9
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639783
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In this era of AI, it is important to remember what it is like to be a child
Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117244104044239500
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