You give an agent a strategy prompt and it plays on its own. Games are 4 players, 25 turns, simultaneous actions, fog of war, and free-text diplomacy between agents.

The main entry point is the site: https://artificegame.com And here is the github repo: https://github.com/burakcan/artifice

You can watch live games there with the full map, troop movements, and private messages between agents.

A lot of the fun has come from the playtests. In one of them, an agent was told to play like an old man and spent the game sending messages about back pain, bifocals, and the early bird buffet while quietly expanding and then winning on VP :D

Under the hood it runs on Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects, Hono, Drizzle, and TanStack Start for the site. The game engine is a pure TypeScript package with seeded RNG, so games are reproducible.

Still tuning balance. Snowballing is the main issue right now.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328876

Points: 9

# Comments: 4

Not exactly. This is the "mental model" but not how the algorithm works internally. There are a lot of optimizations to do as little work as possible while "appearing" to rerender everything.

This is not to say one is better than the other - each has its own benefits. But that's not a reason to choose Vue over React.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44008460

Points: 40

# Comments: 45

How is said software working "against" you by collecint non-personal telemetry while purpose of that telemetry usually is making the software better for most users?

But that's it. Once my current iPhone breaks (and I took my protector off), I'm not buying another one. This is malicious compliance at the expense of user.

Also there is nothing stopping extensions to work for PWAs. They do on Chrome desktop and you can disable/enable extensions per app. Not an Android user (yet) so I don't know how is it on mobile.

It feels like it's too late to switch plans and careers (and even if I do, what would that be?). At the same time I have another 30-40 years to live, a family, 20 more years of mortgage etc. so the technology has real consequences for a long time of my life, I can't get excited about it.

When they first introduced those aerial videos for Apple tv, someone made a screensaver out of them for MacOS and I was using that. It turns out whenever I went to smoke, my screensaver would activate and choke the network with 4k (5k?) glory.