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328 points by WithinReason | 61 comments
Ars Technica article on a 12TB leak of Steam data revealing over a decade of unreleased PC game content, including cut Portal 2 material and Half-Life 2: Episode 3 hints.
1484 points by newobj | 340 comments
Show HN AMA post by a former Meta compiler engineer who, after being laid off, made the roguelike pachinko game Ballionaire, which sold ~200,000 copies on Steam.
504 points by JayOtter | 495 comments
A personal blog essay by indie game developer Joel Auterson encouraging people to make their creative projects anyway despite doubts.
149 points by talboren | 240 comments
An X article by a startup CTO arguing that engineers still have leverage over AI coding agents because of experience-based intuition and tacit knowledge.
282 points by jakevoytko | 309 comments
Blog post by Jake Voytko arguing that while software may be degrading today, software from the 1990s and 2000s was far buggier, citing crashes, lost work, and insecurity.
11 points by abe94 | 8 comments
A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.
64 points by popcar2 | 54 comments
A personal blog post arguing that AI tools are enabling mass decompilation of video games, which the author sees as both exciting and worrying.
333 points by yurivish | 300 comments
Ajeya Cotra's Substack post arguing a METR report shows AI is already roughly doubling AI capabilities progress at Anthropic, implying rapid compounding toward superintelligence.