SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers(mitpress.mit.edu)

92 points by mckelveyf 3 months ago | 28 comments

A study of research on the psychology of expertise in weather forecasting(mitpress.mit.edu)

34 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 13 comments

Sid Meier's Memoir: A Life in Computer Games(wwnorton.com)

88 points by diggan 2 years ago | 30 comments

The CRPG Book Project (2023)(crpgbook.wordpress.com)

102 points by ibobev 2 years ago | 25 comments

How to Build an Origami Computer(quantamagazine.org)

46 points by digital55 2 years ago | 7 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

How to run a city builder on 16 MHz(larstofus.com)

79 points by rex64 4 days ago | 23 comments

Blog post explaining how the original SimCity ran on a 16 MHz 386SX by spreading simulation work across frames, with similar examples from Assetto Corsa and Lumen.

SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)(thran.uk)

463 points by speckx 5 months ago | 185 comments

A personal blog post explaining how to get SimCity 3000 running well on a modern Windows 10 PC with a 4K monitor, fixing widescreen, resolution, and scrolling issues.

Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits(permit.petercai.com)

877 points by pcai 6 days ago | 421 comments

Landing page for Permit Pending, a free browser city-builder game where the player, as mayor, must get projects past zoning boards, neighbors, appeals courts and elections.

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2(radical-elements.com)

150 points by lexx 23 days ago | 143 comments

Blog post by Alex Lingris, the second part of an essay arguing city-building games like Cities: Skylines 2 lack soul.

Show HN: A modern low-poly SimCity 2000 clone, built by Opus 5.5(dator.dev)

28 points by drdator 20 days ago | 11 comments

Building an economy simulator from scratch(thomassimon.dev)

396 points by Ruddle 3 years ago | 168 comments

A blog post by Thomas Simon walking step by step through building an economy simulator from scratch.