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A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 02:25:59

Welcome to the world of text adventures! Here, we dive into the art of creating interactive stories that immerse players in thrilling, choice-driven narratives. Whether you're a fellow developer, a fan of retro games, or just curious about text-based adventures, this channel has something for you. Join me as I share insights, tips, and updates on my latest text games. Get ready to shape worlds, solve mysteries, and experience stories where your choices lead the way. Let's bring adventures to lif

Topics: adventures channel games stories text

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cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-21 00:35:00

I spend every day on the hunt for deals that save you money, so you don't have to. And I mean genuine savings; fake discounts don't pass the sniff test. My team and I are continually tracking and handpicking the best offers from the biggest retailers, like Amazon and Walmart, for our CNET Deals text subscribers. I'll send the best sales to your phone to help you score the hottest deals without lifting a finger. Plus, with Amazon announcing dates for its next October Prime Big Deal Days, you'll w

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Building a Deep Research Agent Using MCP-Agent

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 23:36:20

Documenting my journey building a general-purpose deep research agent powered by MCP, and sharing the valuable (and sometimes painful) lessons learned along the way. Background My name is Sarmad Qadri and I'm the creator of the open source project, mcp-agent. My philosophy for agent development in 2025 can be summarized as – MCP is all you need. Or more verbosely: Connect state-of-the-art LLMs to MCP servers, and leverage simple design patterns to let them make tool calls, gather context and m

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Logging in Go with Slog: A Practitioner's Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-23 08:03:01

Logging in Go has come a long way. For years, the community relied on the simple standard log Copy package or turned to powerful third-party libraries like zap and zerolog . With the introduction of log/slog in Go 1.21 , the language now has a native, high-performance, structured logging solution designed to be the new standard. slog Copy isn’t just another logger; it’s a new foundation that provides a common API (the frontend) that separates logging logic from the final output, which is contr

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The Helix Text Editor (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan Frere 2025-09-24 05:27:40

I’ve come to accept that I’m just a sucker for shiny nerd things. I use Rust, despite never having had a professional reason to use it in my life. I switched to Linux in my student years and I’ve never looked back since, even though it constantly breaks and I can’t get my Bluetooth headphones to connect. I have a split keyboard with home row mods set up because I read some random blog posts and it looked cool to me. I literally learned to program because I figured I should learn how to do more n

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The Helix Text Editor

news.ycombinator.com Jonathan Frere 2025-09-24 20:27:40

I’ve come to accept that I’m just a sucker for shiny nerd things. I use Rust, despite never having had a professional reason to use it in my life. I switched to Linux in my student years and I’ve never looked back since, even though it constantly breaks and I can’t get my Bluetooth headphones to connect. I have a split keyboard with home row mods set up because I read some random blog posts and it looked cool to me. I literally learned to program because I figured I should learn how to do more n

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DeepCodeBench: Real-World Codebase Understanding by Q&A Benchmarking

news.ycombinator.com Ravid Cohen 2025-09-29 12:29:52

At Qodo, we’ve created a new benchmark dataset of real-world questions derived from large, complex code repositories. We are excited to release the dataset, methodology, and prompts used in its creation to support further research and development. Motivation Enterprises often maintain massive codebases that are difficult for any individual developer to navigate and fully understand. Whether onboarding, doing routine development, or using AI-assisted workflows, teams often have questions about

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Semantic Line Breaks (2017)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-27 07:14:41

Semantic Line Breaks Summary When writing text with a compatible markup language, add a line break after each substantial unit of thought. Introduction Semantic Line Breaks describe a set of conventions for using insensitive vertical whitespace to structure prose along semantic boundaries. Many lightweight markup languages, including Markdown, reStructuredText, and AsciiDoc, join consecutive lines with a space. Conventional markup languages like HTML and XML exhibit a similar behavior in pa

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Semantic Line Breaks

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-29 04:14:41

Semantic Line Breaks Summary When writing text with a compatible markup language, add a line break after each substantial unit of thought. Introduction Semantic Line Breaks describe a set of conventions for using insensitive vertical whitespace to structure prose along semantic boundaries. Many lightweight markup languages, including Markdown, reStructuredText, and AsciiDoc, join consecutive lines with a space. Conventional markup languages like HTML and XML exhibit a similar behavior in pa

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Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2025-10-03 05:35:47

In Brief At the AI Infrastructure Summit on Tuesday, Nvidia announced a new GPU called the Rubin CPX, designed for context windows larger than 1 million tokens. Part of the chip giant’s forthcoming Rubin series, the CPX is optimized for processing large sequences of context and is meant to be used as part of a broader “disaggregated inference” infrastructure approach. For users, the result will be better performance on long-context tasks like video generation or software development. Nvidia’s

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cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-03 17:14:00

I spend every day on the hunt for deals that save you money, so you don't have to. And I mean genuine savings; fake discounts don't pass the sniff test. My team and I are continually tracking and handpicking the best offers from the biggest retailers, such as Amazon and Walmart, for our CNET Deals text subscribers. I'll send the best sales to your phone to help you score the hottest deals without lifting a finger. With Apple set to announce new products, including the iPhone 17, we anticipate u

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Is OOXML Artifically Complex?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-01 14:07:00

Is OOXML Artifically Complex? A while ago, the official blog of LibreOffice published a provocative article: “An artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool.” Its target is Microsoft’s XML-based file formats — the Office Open XML (OOXML). The article alleges that, although Microsoft put its Office formats through standardization, the spec is engineered to be so complex that it obstructs interoperability with third-party software. Moreover, the complexity is allegedly gratuitous and disco

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Shipping textures as PNGs is suboptimal

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 00:37:16

Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs? The goal of this post is to convince you that this is suboptimal, and walk you through a better approach. I’ll also share my implementation of the suggested approach, but if you’d rather do it yourself I’ll also provide you with the information you need to get started. If you’re using a game engine, it is almost certainly doing what this post suggests automatically, but it doesn’t hurt to double check! What’s wrong with PNGs? source PNGs are great f

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Stop Shipping PNGs in Your Games

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 05:37:16

Are you shipping textures to players as PNGs? The goal of this post is to convince you that this is suboptimal, and walk you through a better approach. I’ll also share my implementation of the suggested approach, but if you’d rather do it yourself I’ll also provide you with the information you need to get started. If you’re using a game engine, it is almost certainly doing what this post suggests automatically, but it doesn’t hurt to double check! What’s wrong with PNGs? source PNGs are great f

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Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 20:28:08

Speeding up the Unreal Editor launch by … not spawning 38000 tooltips? If there is one thing the Unreal Engine doesn’t suffer from, it is it’s lack of features. Over the past years it has been transformed from “just” a game engine into an ‘everything machine’. Games, Movies, Live-Content, VFX, Previz, even virtual fashion shows – it’s a behemoth of an editor with a multitude of tools, most of which are barely used or even known by many of its users. This multitude of features comes with some d

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Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning 38000 tooltips

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 06:28:08

Speeding up the Unreal Editor launch by … not spawning 38000 tooltips? If there is one thing the Unreal Engine doesn’t suffer from, it is it’s lack of features. Over the past years it has been transformed from “just” a game engine into an ‘everything machine’. Games, Movies, Live-Content, VFX, Previz, even virtual fashion shows – it’s a behemoth of an editor with a multitude of tools, most of which are barely used or even known by many of its users. This multitude of features comes with some d

Topics: editor text time tooltip tooltips

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Morse Code Translator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 02:23:29

Translate Morse to English & English to Morse code Instantly Perfect for amateur radio and emergency communications Practice with repeat mode for skill development Toggle slash separators for different formatting styles Use the copy button for quick text sharing Morse Code Creator: use the green morse code generator button to create random phrases Access advanced audio settings to customize frequency (200-1000 Hz), playback speed, and WPM for professional training standards. Download your

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Does anyone still use Morse code?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-07 12:23:29

Translate Morse to English & English to Morse code Instantly Perfect for amateur radio and emergency communications Practice with repeat mode for skill development Toggle slash separators for different formatting styles Use the copy button for quick text sharing Morse Code Creator: use the green morse code generator button to create random phrases Access advanced audio settings to customize frequency (200-1000 Hz), playback speed, and WPM for professional training standards. Download your

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Threads is testing long-form posts with support for formatted text [U: Launched]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-09 01:44:32

Update, Sep 4: The feature is now live. Find the new details below. While Threads already allows up to 500 characters per post (which is more than enough for casual users used to the microblogging format), it is now testing support for long-form posts through “text attachments”. Here’s how it works. Meta has confirmed the test, but has no ETA for the feature As spotted by app researcher Radu Oncescu (via TechCrunch), Threads is testing a new “text attachment” feature on iOS, which could repla

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Threads posts now support 'text attachments' up to 10,000 characters

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-09 17:00:00

That was fast. A week after a new feature for sharing long-form text was spotted in the Threads app, Meta is making the experiment official. Threads users will now be able to append text snippets of up to 10,000 characters to their posts in a feature Meta says is meant to support journalists and creators on the platform. As Engadget detailed last week, the feature is fairly basic for now. Selecting "text attachment" from the post composer opens up a simple text editor that has some formatting o

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You can now attach 10,000 character blogs to your Threads posts

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-10-09 17:00:00

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta is adding a new feature to let you add a bunch of extra text to Threads posts — no screenshots of text blocks required. Starting today, Meta is rolling out a tool that lets you attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, giving you a way to build upon the 500-characte

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Threads challenges X by offering free support for up to 10K characters, plus prominent links

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-09 17:00:00

After recently being spotted testing a way to share longer text, Threads, Meta’s X competitor, is now officially rolling out the feature that allows users to attach up to 10,000 characters of text to their post. The addition has been designed with the needs of creators in mind, as it supports linking out to content outside of Threads, like newsletters, blogs, podcasts, and more. Before this update, Threads supported 500 characters — which is already far more than the 280 characters offered to X

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Ask HN: Gandi is holding my domain hostage. What can I do?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 10:58:25

The short version of the story is that I was on a two-year internet hiatus. During that time my Gandi account with a decade-old domain name got locked. I have been emailing back and fourth with their Abuse department for the better part of a week and they’re slow-walking me at best. I had assurances from the CEO, who I reached via text, that if it wasn’t resolved today to text him back. He has now gone dark on me. I used to love Gandi, but they’re holding my domain name hostage. This doesn’t s

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Tufte CSS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 16:41:57

Tufte CSS Dave Liepmann Tufte CSS provides tools to style web articles using the ideas demonstrated by Edward Tufte’s books and handouts. Tufte’s style is known for its simplicity, extensive use of sidenotes, tight integration of graphics with text, and carefully chosen typography. Tufte CSS was created by Dave Liepmann and is now an Edward Tufte project. The original idea was cribbed from Tufte-LaTeX and R Markdown’s Tufte Handout format. We give hearty thanks to all the people who have contr

Topics: css margin text tufte use

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VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 18:44:01

VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn-taking. A core innovation of VibeVoice is its use of continuous speech tokenizers (Acoustic and Semantic) operating at an ultra-low frame rate of 7.5 Hz.

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Sharing a mutable reference between Rust and Python

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 12:30:25

As part of my ongoing project to reimplement Django’s templating language in Rust, I have been adding support for custom template tags. The simplest custom tag will look something like: # time_tags.py from datetime import datetime from django import template register = template . Library() @register.simple_tag def time (format_string): now = datetime . now() return now . strftime(format_string) # time_tags.py from datetime import datetime from django import template register = template . Libr

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Microsoft VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 05:44:01

VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model VibeVoice is a novel framework designed for generating expressive, long-form, multi-speaker conversational audio, such as podcasts, from text. It addresses significant challenges in traditional Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems, particularly in scalability, speaker consistency, and natural turn-taking. A core innovation of VibeVoice is its use of continuous speech tokenizers (Acoustic and Semantic) operating at an ultra-low frame rate of 7.5 Hz.

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You Don't Need iOS 26 to Do Math in Your iPhone's Messages App. Here's How

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 05:00:02

Apple is set to release iOS 26 this fall -- I'm predicting in less than two weeks -- and it will bring Liquid Glass, call screening and more features to your iPhone. But iOS 18 upgrades your Messages app so that it can solve tricky equations without your Calculator app, and it doesn't need Google to look up conversion rates, either. Prior to iOS 18, if you wanted to figure out how to split a bill with your texting group from afar, you'd have to use your calculator app or Spotlight and then swit

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A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 10:34:24

Until 18 months ago, I wrote every line of code myself. Today, AI writes 80% of my initial implementations while I focus on architecture, review, and steering multiple development threads simultaneously. This isn't another "AI will change everything" post. This is about the messy reality of integrating AI into production development workflows: what actually works, what wastes your time, and why treating AI like a "junior developer who doesn't learn" became my mental model for success. The back

Topics: ai claude code context review

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First attempt will be 95% garbage: 6 weeks with Claude Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 20:34:24

Until 18 months ago, I wrote every line of code myself. Today, AI writes 80% of my initial implementations while I focus on architecture, review, and steering multiple development threads simultaneously. This isn't another "AI will change everything" post. This is about the messy reality of integrating AI into production development workflows: what actually works, what wastes your time, and why treating AI like a "junior developer who doesn't learn" became my mental model for success. The back

Topics: ai claude code context review

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Latest Tech News

A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025

I'll Send the Hottest Daily Deals Right to Your Phone

Building a Deep Research Agent Using MCP-Agent

Logging in Go with Slog: A Practitioner's Guide

The Helix Text Editor (2024)

The Helix Text Editor

DeepCodeBench: Real-World Codebase Understanding by Q&A Benchmarking

Semantic Line Breaks (2017)

Semantic Line Breaks

Nvidia unveils new GPU designed for long-context inference

Sign Up to Get the Hottest Daily Deals Sent Straight to Your Phone

Is OOXML Artifically Complex?

Shipping textures as PNGs is suboptimal

Stop Shipping PNGs in Your Games

Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips

Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning 38000 tooltips

Morse Code Translator

Does anyone still use Morse code?

Threads is testing long-form posts with support for formatted text [U: Launched]

Threads posts now support 'text attachments' up to 10,000 characters

You can now attach 10,000 character blogs to your Threads posts

Threads challenges X by offering free support for up to 10K characters, plus prominent links

Ask HN: Gandi is holding my domain hostage. What can I do?

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VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model

Sharing a mutable reference between Rust and Python

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You Don't Need iOS 26 to Do Math in Your iPhone's Messages App. Here's How

A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

First attempt will be 95% garbage: 6 weeks with Claude Code

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