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No, Nintendo and Pokémon did not patent ‘summoning characters and making them battle’

theverge.com Kallie Plagge 2025-09-21 06:30:00

As first noted by Games Fray last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company were granted a US patent earlier this month involving summoning characters and making them battle. Headlines popped up with similarly vague language as concern spread on social media: That’s a thing in tons of games! Can they do that? Is that even allowed? Well, no, because that’s not exactly what they patented. And what they did patent might not stand up to any hypothetical challenges in court. The patent in question, US

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Duolingo Chess Players Soon Can Play Matches With Others

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-23 10:00:05

Android, it's your move. Language-learning app Duolingo announced Tuesday that it is launching its chess instruction to Android phones, three months after introducing the game to iOS devices. The company also said that it will be bringing a player-versus-player mode to iOS in the coming weeks. Duolingo announced the news Tuesday at its flagship conference Duocon, which is being held virtually on the Duolingo website. The company said a "very small percentage" of Duolingo customers had early ac

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OCI Registry Explorer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 00:41:57

Registry Explorer This beautiful tool allows you to explore the contents of a registry interactively. You can even drill down into layers to explore an image's filesystem. Enter a public image, e.g. "ubuntu:latest" : Enter a public repository, e.g. "ubuntu" : Interesting examples FAQ How does this work? This service lives on Cloud Run and uses google/go-containerregistry for registry interactions. Isn't this expensive to run? Not really! Ingress is cheap, Cloud Run is cheap, and GCS is

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Video Games Weekly: It's weird that esports is segregated by gender

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-26 12:35:19

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday (Or, I dunno, Thursday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week.

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Is Hollow Knight: Silksong too hard? Well, it depends on what you mean by “hard.”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-29 10:45:40

For seven years, the discussion around Hollow Knight: Silksong focused on the cult-like levels of devotion among fans patiently waiting for the sequel. Now that Silksong has been available for about a week, though, that discussion has turned decisively toward seemingly endless takes on the game's relative difficulty (or lack thereof). The discussion has gotten so loud that the developers at Team Cherry have vowed to implement a "slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses Moorwing and Siste

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Deliberate Abstraction

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 21:20:52

I recently wrote code to simulate a card game. The details are irrelevant, but it was a great opportunity to put inside-out design into practise, because when I started programming, I didn’t actually know the rules of the game, nor what all the card types were. Thus, I started from a very general core that I did know with certainty: Card - name : string - valid_play : Card -> bool A card has a name and it gets to decide on its own whether it’s legal to play this card on top of another card. Na

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Little Nightmares 3 Hands-On: a Creepy Co-Op Game Arriving Just in Time for Halloween

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-30 18:01:49

After about an hour playing Little Nightmares 3, I'd used a person's bisected halves to solve a puzzle, gotten a high score in a carnival shooting game and escaped the murderous claws of a deranged baby. As a 2-foot-tall youth trying to survive the morbid dangers of one demented area after another with my co-player, I was terrified and delighted. I've only sampled the first two Little Nightmares games, but in my brief preview of Little Nightmares 3, it felt like a refined version of the series'

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We Finally Know What ‘Star Wars’ Is Doing in ‘Destiny 2’

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-04 02:30:54

Back in May, Bungie teased some kind of pseudo-crossover between its shared-world shooter Destiny 2 and Star Wars. Not another skin pack like before, but a full-on expansion subtitled Renegades that would see Guardians explore a sandy planet and wield a laser sword. In a new livestream, the developer pulled back the curtain on Renegades, which was made in collaboration with Lucasfilm. Guardians will explore the Lawless Frontier of Mars, Europa, and Venus and meet the Jedi-like Praxis Order to f

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Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL

news.ycombinator.com Lukas Vogel 2025-10-04 05:12:18

DOOMQL: A DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL I recently stumbled across Patrick’s excellent DOOM clone running in a browser powered by DuckDB-WASM. Ever since I’ve read that, I wanted to push his awesome idea to the logical extreme: Build a multiplayer DOOM-like shooter entirely in SQL with CedarDB doing all the heavy lifting. During a month of parental leave (i.e., a lot of sleepless nights), I tried exactly that. Here’s a sneak peek at DOOMQL: Your browser does not support the video ta

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Marvel Rivals Season 4 Release Time: Angela Abilities and Balance Changes

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-10 02:21:10

Marvel Rivals season 4 is about to begin, bringing a one-winged angel of vengeance to the free-to-play game's roster of playable heroes. No, we're not talking about Sephiroth: The next vanguard is Angela, the former Image Comics angelic bounty hunter and current Marvel Comics Asgardian goddess. While the radiant new tank is the centerpiece of the season 4 update, a new map, hero balance changes, cosmetics and live events will also shake up how the game plays over the next two months. If you've

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‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Is Already Causing Online Gaming Stores to Crash

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-10-10 22:10:13

After six years of waiting, Team Cherry’s long awaited Hollow Knight sequel, Silksong, launched globally today at 10 am eastern. Unfortunately, fans may have to wait a little longer to play the action-adventure game. Online retailers such as the Xbox and PlayStation stores, Steam, and Nintendo eShop, are rife with loading screens and error messages as people rush to buy it. On Steam, players trying to add the game to their cart or complete their purchase are being met with the same message: an

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Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 05:30:06

The internal mechanisms of Transformer Large Language models (LLMs), particularly the flow of information through the layers and the operation of the attention mechanism, can be challenging to follow due to the vast amount of numbers involved. We humans can hardly form a mental model. This article aims to make these workings tangible by providing visualizations of a Transformer's internal state. Utilizing a minimal dataset and a deliberately simplified model, it is possible to follow the model's

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Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 05:54:12

Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources Links Official website Downloads Documentation Mastodon Twitter Support channel (Matrix): #nuclear:matrix.org Discord chat: https://discord.gg/JqPjKxE Suggest and vote on new features here: https://nuclear.featureupvote.com/ Readme translations: What is this? nuclear is a free music streaming program that pulls content from free sources all over the internet. If you know mps-youtube, this is a similar music player but with

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Show HN: LightCycle, a FOSS game in Rust based on Tron

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 06:08:54

LightCycle A classic TRON-inspired light cycle game built with Rust and ggez. Features Single-player and Two-player modes - Battle against AI or a friend - Battle against AI or a friend Adjustable AI Difficulty - Easy, Medium, and Hard AI opponents - Easy, Medium, and Hard AI opponents Boost Mechanic - Limited energy boost system for strategic gameplay - Limited energy boost system for strategic gameplay Visual Effects - Particle trails, screen shake, and glow effects - Particle trails, s

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LayerX uses AI to cut enterprise back-office workload, scores $100M in Series B

techcrunch.com Kate Park 2025-10-16 18:00:00

Aging demographics, labor shortages, the adoption of GenAI, and the 2023 implementation of e-invoicing are driving companies to automate finance, tax, procurement, and HR in Japan. Yet only 16% of digital transformations succeed, and that’s only 4–11% in traditional industries. The main barriers? Weak leadership commitment, a rigid culture, and a lack of digital talent. LayerX offers an AI SaaS platform to help enterprises scale back-office automation. LayerX, a Japanese AI SaaS startup that en

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What Is Complexity in Chess?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 20:45:33

Pacto Visual May 2020 an interesting proposal was suggested. I provided some constructive criticism on research paper A Metric of Chess Complexity by FM David Peng, as well as constructive criticism on the codebase used to validate this experiment. For many months I have refrained from further comment, and although code has not progressed, two things have: 1. Public interest in "complexity" as determined by ACPL (yuck). 2. Lichess has a blogging platform where I can properly address deficien

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Elden Ring Nightreign Is About to Get Tougher With New 'Deep of Night' Mode

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-21 09:42:00

Since Elden Ring Nightreign, the online multiplayer spinoff of 2022's Elden Ring, launched in May, its developer has ramped up the difficulty. Now, Nightreign is about to get even more challenging. A new "high-difficulty challenge mode" called Deep of Night is set to launch on Sept. 11, according to a post from publisher Bandai Namco. Players who take on the challenge will be rewarded with new relics and the self-satisfaction of taking on another challenge put forth by developer FromSoftware.

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Battlefield 6 PC Specs Revealed, Supports 2019 Graphics Cards

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-21 22:16:06

After the wildly successful Battlefield 6 open beta that ran earlier in August, EA has released the specs your PC will need to play the next installment in the popular multiplayer shooter series. There aren't too many surprises on the specs list EA revealed in a blog post Thursday. Players with graphics cards as old as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (released in 2019 and 2020, respectively) with at least 6GB of virtual RAM can play Battlefield 6. That's reasonably inclusiv

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3D printing a building with 756 windows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 14:31:41

I’m writing this in a building with 756 windows. I know because I counted, and spent months researching, measuring, designing, 3D printing, and assembling them for the final project of an architecture course I took last spring. I’m a computer science major, but I make a point of taking a few non-math non-CS courses each year, made possible by Brown University’s Open Curriculumn. Last semester, those courses were in architecture and epigraphy; this blog post is about a project for the former.

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BioShock creator Ken Levine's Judas game still exists, now has key art

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-23 22:16:35

Remember Judas? No, not the biblical figure and not the Lady Gaga bop, this Judas is a project from Ghost Story Games. If you don't remember, it's the game that was reportedly in " development hell " before it was even announced . The team, led by BioShock creator Ken Levine, had gone pretty quiet for a few years after releasing the debut trailer, but today teased a look at some key art and mechanics for the game. The BioShock lineage is clear from the handful of visuals we've seen so far, but

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Skate Hands-On Preview: I Think It Might Be the Perfect Free-to-Play Game

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-24 09:30:03

It's been nearly a decade and a half since the last Skate game was released, but veterans won't have to wait much longer to tear up the streets once again. The next entry in the arcade-y skateboarding series launches into early access on Sept. 16. The franchise reboot (just named "Skate") was developed by Full Circle, a studio composed of much of the same talent that worked on the original games. After a long drought, skateboarding game fans have dined well on the compilation remakes of Tony H

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Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 15:31:50

For those who enjoy Counter-Strike community servers, the situation in Counter-Strike 2 is rather dire. An avalanche of spam has rendered the server browser unusable. The transition from Global Offensive killed multiple small communities. And large server providers have taken advantage of these problems to monopolise the market. Trying to find a server either involves capitulating to these big vendors, or trawling through a trench of spam. Scraping the server browser allows us to have some in

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Huge Parts of the North Sea Seabed Are Upside Down, New Study Reveals

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-29 05:25:03

In the world of stratigraphy, or rock layers, superficial sediments are usually younger than the deeper ones they settle upon. The North Sea, however, has revealed giant mounds of sand that defy this geological principle on a scale scientists have never seen before. Researchers from Norway and the UK have identified hundreds of sand bodies under the North Sea that seem to have sunk deeper into the ocean’s crust, swapping places with older layers, which floated to the top of the sand structures.

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Overwatch 2 will allow KBM on console, but you'll be up against PC players

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-29 17:00:34

Overwatch 2 console players will officially be able to use a keyboard and mouse starting with the release of Season 18. In patch notes posted ahead of the new season, the Overwatch 2 team says matchmaking pools will be tweaked slightly so players are sorted into a Mouse and Keyboard Pool and a Controller Pool. Those playing on a console using keyboard and mouse (KBM) inputs will be paired with PC players and other KBM console players, while the Controller Pool will be reserved only for console p

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Rare Supernova Rips Open a Star, Revealing Its Hidden Anatomy

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-11-05 10:40:56

A new discovery offers fresh insights into the life cycle of massive stars and their imminent death. On September 6, 2021, Steve Schulze, a researcher at Northwestern University, was on the lookout for fresh supernovas when he came across a strange explosion that left behind an extremely exposed corpse. The dying star had a rather stressful death, stripping down to its stellar bone and exposing its inner layers. “We quickly noticed that this supernova was unlike anything we had seen before,” Sc

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Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-07 06:49:15

Many ask themselves, "Why would I use a semantic layer? What is it anyway?" In this hands-on guide, we’ll build the simplest possible semantic layer using just a YAML file and a Python script—not as the goal itself, but as a way to understand the value of semantic layers. We’ll then query 20 million NYC taxi records with consistent business metrics executed using DuckDB and Ibis. By the end, you’ll know exactly when a semantic layer solves real problems and when it’s overkill. It's a topic that

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How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 10:41:02

Operational transformation (OT) is a technology for supporting a range of collaboration functionalities in advanced collaborative software systems. Hero illustration by Rose Wong. When we first started building multiplayer functionality Multiplayer Editing in Figma Today’s public release of Figma contains two long-awaited changes. in Figma four years ago, we decided to develop our own solution. No other design tool offered this feature, and we didn’t want to use operational transforms (a.k.a.

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Figma's Multiplayer Technology (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 16:41:02

Operational transformation (OT) is a technology for supporting a range of collaboration functionalities in advanced collaborative software systems. Hero illustration by Rose Wong. When we first started building multiplayer functionality Multiplayer Editing in Figma Today’s public release of Figma contains two long-awaited changes. in Figma four years ago, we decided to develop our own solution. No other design tool offered this feature, and we didn’t want to use operational transforms (a.k.a.

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Kirby Air Riders launches November 20 exclusively on Switch 2

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-07 20:10:54

Nintendo has confirmed that Kirby Air Riders, a modern revival of the 2003 GameCube cult classic Kirby Air Ride, will be released exclusively on Switch 2 on November 20. The announcement came during a marathon 45-minute Nintendo Direct devoted entirely to the new game, hosted by Kirby's creator Masahiro Sakurai. Sakurai said he was asked to create Air Riders while still working on DLC for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate , and drafted a written proposal for the game at the request of Shinya Takahashi,

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VB AI Impact Series: Can you really govern multi-agent AI?

venturebeat.com Vb Staff 2025-11-08 09:50:00

Single copilots are yesterday’s news. Competitive differentiation is all about launching a network of specialized agents that collaborate, self-critique, and call the right model for every step. The latest installment of VentureBeat’s AI Impact Series, presented by SAP in San Francisco, tackled the issue of deploying and governing multi-agent AI systems. Yaad Oren, managing director SAP Labs U.S. and global head of research & innovation at SAP, and Raj Jampa, SVP and CIO with Agilent, an analyt

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Latest Tech News

No, Nintendo and Pokémon did not patent ‘summoning characters and making them battle’

Duolingo Chess Players Soon Can Play Matches With Others

OCI Registry Explorer

Video Games Weekly: It's weird that esports is segregated by gender

Is Hollow Knight: Silksong too hard? Well, it depends on what you mean by “hard.”

Deliberate Abstraction

Little Nightmares 3 Hands-On: a Creepy Co-Op Game Arriving Just in Time for Halloween

We Finally Know What ‘Star Wars’ Is Doing in ‘Destiny 2’

Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL

Marvel Rivals Season 4 Release Time: Angela Abilities and Balance Changes

‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Is Already Causing Online Gaming Stores to Crash

Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example

Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

Show HN: LightCycle, a FOSS game in Rust based on Tron

LayerX uses AI to cut enterprise back-office workload, scores $100M in Series B

What Is Complexity in Chess?

Elden Ring Nightreign Is About to Get Tougher With New 'Deep of Night' Mode

Battlefield 6 PC Specs Revealed, Supports 2019 Graphics Cards

3D printing a building with 756 windows

BioShock creator Ken Levine's Judas game still exists, now has key art

Skate Hands-On Preview: I Think It Might Be the Perfect Free-to-Play Game

Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser

Huge Parts of the North Sea Seabed Are Upside Down, New Study Reveals

Overwatch 2 will allow KBM on console, but you'll be up against PC players

Rare Supernova Rips Open a Star, Revealing Its Hidden Anatomy

Why Semantic Layers Matter (and how to build one with DuckDB)

How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)

Figma's Multiplayer Technology (2019)

Kirby Air Riders launches November 20 exclusively on Switch 2

VB AI Impact Series: Can you really govern multi-agent AI?

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