For everything else that SimCity 2013 had going against it (and there was a lot), its gameplay actually had challenges to overcome with real decisions to make that had gameplay consequences as you were building out your city. Where you put your utilities mattered. If you didn’t think it through, you were putting your city in jeopardy.

In C:S, it felt like the only real consequence your decisions ever had was that you made more traffic jams to handle. And that’s not even really an obstacle because you could literally raze your entire city and rebuild it with your many millions accrued over time.

But you can’t make a huge city in SimCity (2013), so C:S won.

It also acts as a url shortener for their hardware support pages.

s.team/deck, and s.team/machine take you to the appropriate support pages.

The "linux" support is pretty narrow (because I made this for myself). It's restricted to SteamOS. But I'm sure it could be ported easily, the repository contains documentation about the important parts from reverse engineering the firmware.

I have a Razer Wolverine Xbox controller that has extra back paddle buttons. The controller doesn't expose the paddles directly to PC's over USB. You have to use button remapping on the controller to map them to 'real' Xbox buttons for the PC to see them. But I wanted to use the back paddle buttons on Steam as separate controls.

So I downloaded the latest firmware update off the internet (because what device doesn't have firmware updates these days), installed Ghidra and an MCP server for it, and told Sol to look for how I can expose these extra buttons to a PC host. Maybe we could write a firmware patch?

Turns out the controller already has a special mode to expose those buttons, possibly as a hardware test. But it was enough to write a Linux driver to put the controller into that mode, and a little bit of extra driver code to map the paddles to a Linux controller button, and voila. Paddles working in Steam.

And it only took a few hours to do, too. I spent more time making an open source repository out of the concept than I spent making it work.

And everything inside it is prefixed with “Sexy”. SexyString, SEXY_ALLOC_MAP, SexyTrace...

It’s certainly of an era, haha.

It’s a general beginner tutorial, but blender can be so weird that many skills don’t transfer (like how you move the camera in the viewport).

The tutorial takes you through pretty much everything you need to know to get started with blender. Modeling, texturing, painting, modifiers, compositing, geometry nodes, and rendering. You can skip the parts that seem familiar, since you already know 3DS Max.

If you’re using real yubikeys, it’s protection against losing one. If you had two from the start, you’re not at risk of losing your only way into your account when one goes missing or is stolen.

You'd need at least 24 new M4 Max Studios, or 16 new M3 Ultra Studios, or 3 used 512 GB M3 Ultra Studios just to power one GLM 5.2 instance. And even then, you're probably looking at < 5 tokens per second.

Personally, I think it makes way more sense to pay a model provider $3/1M tokens.

There's a button under the QR code for a "visual test" which is just the usual "pick pictures containing a bicycle" thing.

If the damage resulted from an unexpected problem like a bug, then you’re probably fine. But this phrase was intentionally placed by the author and intended to inflict at least a little damage (destroy code) onto specific users.

Whether some words are legally equivalent to an actual virus, I couldn’t say.

Notepad Next: https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

It’s a (still work in progress) cross platform re-implementation of Notepad++.

It also predates agentic coding, if that’s something that concerns you.

I don't think anybody is arguing that it's selling amazingly well or is a growing market.

And I agree with the argument. It seems a little premature to make this claim now, so close to WWDC.

If WWDC comes and goes with no major announcement for the future of visionOS or the Vision Pro, that would be a significant indicator of Apple having given up.

However when I make comments here, I do it with the intention of reading what people have to say in response.

If I am making a comment with the intention to ignore the responses to it, then that’s a good signal for myself that what I am writing is likely not an appropriate comment for HN, and then delete it.

I often post comments on HN, just to delete them 5 minutes later when I realize I don’t care to deal with the replies I’ll eventually get.

You have to be quick because if someone does reply, you can no longer delete your message.

When you submit a link to HN, there is an entry field for text in addition to the url.

It does not really describe what the text is used for. For links, the content of that field is simply added as the first comment.

Someone who is unfamiliar with the submission process may assume this field should describe what they are submitting, and not format it like a comment.

Then that text gets posted as the first comment and tons of people downvote it, jumping to the conclusion that the weird summary comment is from an AI, and not the submitter describing their own submission.

(I also assumed these comments were AI until someone else pointed this out)

The base M5 has super/efficiency cores.

The Pro and Max have super/performance cores.

It's possible this developer didn't want to do that, so they chose to not publish in the EU.