Playing Zork 1 on a CP/M emulator on Linux (2021)(kevinboone.me)

33 points by linuxkernal 5 days ago | 14 comments

A tutorial on building the z80pack Z80 emulator and cpmtools on Linux to run CP/M 3 and play the Infocom text adventure Zork 1.

The Ken Thompson Hack(wiki.c2.com)

98 points by stephc_int13 2 years ago | 27 comments

It's always TCP_NODELAY(brooker.co.za)

744 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 232 comments

Marc Brooker's blog post arguing that Nagle's algorithm causes latency issues in distributed systems and TCP_NODELAY should be enabled by default.

It's Always TCP_NODELAY(brooker.co.za)

446 points by eieio 10 months ago | 160 comments

Marc Brooker's blog post arguing that Nagle's algorithm is outdated and TCP_NODELAY should be enabled to avoid latency issues in distributed systems.

We Took over ChatGPT Accounts(simonwillison.net)

7 points by paaloeye 12 days ago | 0 comments

Simon Willison link post summarizing Parameter Labs' exploit chain that escaped ChatGPT's sandboxed HTML previews via MathLive postMessage and YouTube oEmbed to take over accounts.

Headline Driven Development(spakhm.com)

179 points by MrBuddyCasino 2 years ago | 63 comments

I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it(edw.is)

599 points by eliasdaler 2 years ago | 240 comments

Elias Daler's blog post on learning Vulkan and building a small game engine with two demo games in three months, with code on GitHub.

VVVVVV Source Code(github.com)

385 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 72 comments

GitHub repository by Terry Cavanagh hosting the source code of the indie platformer game VVVVVV, with desktop and mobile versions.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 11 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

Open Source Games(opensourcegames.dev)

4 points by tokozedginidze 23 days ago | 0 comments

Open Source Games is a curated directory of new open-source games found on GitHub, filterable by genre, platform, play style and controls, with play links.

AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary(popcar.bearblog.dev)

64 points by popcar2 1 month ago | 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.