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'Part of the motive was making the player feel immersed in the experience and exposed' — Rebellion says '90s cassette futurism' inspired Alien Deathstorm with an engineer protagonist who 'felt like a natural fit'

Alien Deathstorm head of design Ben Fisher says the game's engineer protagonist "felt like a natural fit" in the game's environment and narrativeHe says Rebellion wanted to match an interesting character with "interesting mechanics" and landed on an engineerProducer Martin Willingham says "the motive was making the player feel immersed in the experience and exposed"Rebellion has revealed the influences behind Alien Deathstorm and explained why it chose an engineer pro

Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF

Some time ago my coworker who was working on first version of Perforator (https://github.com/yandex/perforator) kept talking about eBPF, so I got curious about its ISA and restrictions. That was around the time I read about DOOM on pregnancy test, so I thought: "what if someone run DOOM inside of Linux kernel in eBPF? Surely, with some restrictions, this should still be possible?"I started to play around with it somewhere in 2024 - first stripping DOOM to bare minim

Architectural Breakdown: AI-Generated Tests Can Make Coding Agents Worse. Here's How to Check Yours

## Audit Findings**Critical gaps identified:**1. **Race condition in `resource.setrlimit`**, no lock protects the getrlimit/restore sequence across concurrent callers2. **Fake sandbox**, `{"__builtins__": __builtins__}` grants full CPython runtime and is not a sandbox at all3. **`TimeoutError` never fires from `exec()

How I turned my Linux terminal sessions into daily speedrun challenges

I’ve been using Linux for many, many years now, but I still keep learning new things all the time. It seems like, no matter what task you’re running, there’s a faster way to do it. So I decided to start focusing on these speed gains to see just how fast my terminal life can be.

4 surprisingly useful ways to use your Android phone's built-in NFC reader

Android's NFC reader does more than tap to pay. Held against the right tag or accessory, it can do a ton of stuff. Here are just some things you can do that will immediately improve your experience.

# I Built a RAG Document Assistant with FastAPI, React, FAISS and Ollama

I Built a RAG Document Assistant with FastAPI, React, FAISS and OllamaI've been learning more about Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and I wanted to understand what actually happens inside a RAG application.So instead of building another simple chatbot, I decided to build a complete application around documents.The result is CloudRAG:https://github.com/abderaoufsec/CloudRAG What does it do?The idea is straightforward.You upload documents, then ask questions about them.Instead of

I let my smart home devices chat in Discord and it was hilariously disappointing

We ask our smart home devices to do a lot for us, and rarely spare a moment to think about what life might be like for them. I decided to give some smart home devices personalities and let them loose in their own Discord chat to see what they would say if they could.

NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, September 12 (game #923)

Looking for a different day?A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Friday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, September 11 (game #922).Strands is the NYT's latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it's great fun. It can be difficult,

3 of the best Netflix shows to binge this weekend (September 11 - 13)

As we wait patiently for more of Netflix's September crop of TV series to make their way to your algorithm, here's this weekend's lineup of bingable shows to settle in with—my top pick is still hoping for Emmy gold on Monday, and two are great shows, regardless of their age.

Go Into Story Interviews — Black List Writers

Over the years, I’ve interviewed dozens of writers whose scripts appeared on the annual Black List: 97 to date. Their collective insight into the craft is major resource for writers. Read, learn… and enjoy!Thomas Aguilar and Michael Ballin (2021 Black List)Matt Altman and Dave Matalon (2024 Black List)Leigh Cesiro and Erica Matlin (2021 Black List)Filipe Coutinho and Ben Mehlman (2021 Black List)Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer (2010 Black List)Rajiv Joseph and Scott Rothman (2012

Treeporter

I Built Treeporter: Send Files from an iPhone or others Directly to GitHubAfter several weeks of development, I’m excited to share Treeporter.Treeporter is a Progressive Web App (PWA) that allows you to send files from an iPhone directly to a GitHub repository. FeaturesGitHub authenticationDemo modeFile uploadsZIP import supportConflict managementAutomatic commitsPull Request creationInstallable as an iPhone app (PWA) Tech StackReactTypeScriptViteVitePWAGitHub APIJSZip Why I

React 19.3 ships View Transitions and Fragment Refs

React 19.3 is out. The React team published the release on September 9, 2026, promoting two long-experimental features to stable: View Transitions and Fragment Refs. The release notes on GitHub credit 52 contributors, with 47 pull requests behind View Transitions alone and 26 behind Fragment Refs.There are no breaking changes. Every feature here is something you opt into. View Transitions, and when they actually fireThe new <ViewTransition> component animates elements as they enter, e

3 award-winning movies to watch on Netflix this weekend (September 11-13)

Some weeks, the easiest way to find something good on Netflix is to skip over the newest releases and instead look into its library. The platform's diverse catalog has a lot to offer, especially when it comes to movies that have swept award shows during their respective runs.

I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

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I got DOOM running on Android Auto, and it&#039;s exactly as impractical as it sounds

<p>“Can it run DOOM?” It’s the question people love to half-jokingly ask about every gadget with a screen. Android, of course, can run DOOM — but what about Android Auto? That’s an entirely different beast.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/09/doom-on-android-auto-car-screen.jpg' />

If coding is solved, what now?: Measuring the sloppiness of code

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Building A UX ROI Case That Survives The Boardroom

Sooner or later, a CFO looks at your wireframes and asks what any of it actually does for the bottom line. Storyboards don’t answer that question, and the era when a 5-minute pitch could answer it ended, unfortunately, a while ago.These days, if you want to win budget, buy-in, and backing for UX, the design has to be provably good for the business, not only for the people using it.And proving that takes more than taping a dollar sign to a redesign. You have to understand how your organization de

Show HN: Swiftcruit – AI assisted technical assessment platform

the platform can create highly relevant real world assessments from just the JD, candidates can solve the problem in our ai assisted IDE generating detailed scorecards including how they use AI. the demo shows the core features. would love the feedback. how are you judging AI proficiency in technical interviews ?

Ask HN: How do you decide an idea is worth building before you start coding?

I’ve been thinking about the gap between having an idea and actually deciding it deserves weeks or months of work.Building has become much cheaper. A developer can prototype something surprisingly fast now.But the decision before building still seems messy.When you’re evaluating an idea, what evidence do you actually trust?Customer interviews?Existing workarounds?Competitor reviews?Search demand?People already paying for alternatives?Your own experience with the problem?And maybe more impor

Your digital movies aren’t really yours, but this (legal) trick helps

Buying digital movies is a risky business. There's no guarantee that you'll always be able to access the TV show or movie that you paid for. While some companies are actively removing people's content, there's one thing you can do to give your collection a better chance of survival.