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New comment by namenumber in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

namenumber — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:26:05 +0000

If anybody wants to see how that entire creative process went, there's a "game" called "The Making of Karateka" on Steam that is a nice interactive experience telling the story of Jordan Mechner's start in the games industry and how Karateka came to be.

It's a fun media experience with a lot of playable prototypes.

Gain of Function, Loss of Control

namenumber — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:54:02 +0000

Article URL: https://tamingcomplexity.substack.com/p/gain-of-function-loss-of-control

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413355

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Token Price Index

namenumber — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:44:35 +0000

Article URL: https://tokenpriceindex.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255024

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

A New Way to Study the Miracle of Life

namenumber — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:13:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.corememory.com/p/a-new-way-to-study-life-becoming

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528109

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by namenumber in "How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify"

namenumber — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:05:56 +0000

Seems I'm not the only person doing something like this then.

Personally i started a "To Remember" playlist in about 2009 and have been adding every single track I've liked enough since to said playlist. By now its 4127 songs!

With the timestamps its a great way to relive past periods of my life, and also I can put it on shuffle and get the soundtrack of my life. Been a great boon in my life for a very long time.

Also, to keep track of albums I've listened to i keep a "Where I've Been" list where the first track of every album I've listened to in its entirety goes. Its a small way to fight the ephemerality of listening to an album in the digital environment.

I actually i scrolled through the entire list just two days ago and bathed in the memories, was fun to see all the places I had been and forgotten about.

I really do miss having a rack of CDs to let my eyes float over for the memories, and the digital "equivalent" is a brittle substitute, but it has enhanced my life in many ways so I've come to accept the tradeoff.

New comment by namenumber in "Snow Globe: Open-Ended Wargames with Large Language Models"

namenumber — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:45:27 +0000

Research Paper (2024) : https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11446

December Assessment (2025) : https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Snow-Globe-Multi-Pl...

Snow Globe: Open-Ended Wargames with Large Language Models

namenumber — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:45:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/IQTLabs/snowglobe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464676

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

39C3 – AI Agent, AI Spy [video]

namenumber — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:10:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANECpNdt-4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457012

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33) [video]

namenumber — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:18:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYyfrTIPQY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44869579

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by namenumber in "Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails"

namenumber — Mon, 26 May 2025 19:12:04 +0000

I got started on Duolingo back when it was still a "Help translate the world" app. I've always liked it for getting to dip my toes in a language and learn some basics whilst exploring the language myself through other methods, and I've shown my support of it by paying for Duolingo Super or whatever they're calling it for years on end whilst hopping on and off my language tracks.

But it's just so horrible now, constant gamification, attempts to pull me in with streaks and freezes and notifications and "did you know you can have us nag you even more"-breaks between the lessons I'm actually there for. It's gotten to the point where I'm just done because I've already paid for the service and i just want to be left alone to do the exercises, but they never let me get from one exercise to the next without having to go through at least two or three of those annoying "gamification and engagement" attempts.

New comment by namenumber in "If nothing is curated, how do we find things"

namenumber — Sat, 17 May 2025 20:15:52 +0000

mixcloud has been great for this for me. so many people post their mixes and their radio shows there that there is always something new to explore, and searching for something slightly off that i know i like leads to people using that in a mix so i know we're at least partly on the same wavelength when i start to listen. And then eventually you end up with a list of mixtape makers/DJ's/radio show hosts you trust which is cool, really feels like a world radio show at times.