"Writing game quests: a stake up front, an afterglow at turn-in"
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"Writing game quests: a stake up front, an afterglow at turn-in"

Development covered 14 Sep 2026 to 16 Sep 2026 (commit dates). There are 103 quests in the Mortal World of Myriad Immortal Sect, spread across ten batches, one per realm. Each has a card in the Quest Hall with a short hook, and a closing scene you read when you hand it in. This stretch was almost entirely about those two pieces of text, which is most of writing game quests. The problem was easy to name once I looked at the cards side by side. They were task orders. "Gather roadsid...
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192 people were paid to insult one stranger. Not one receipt names who paid

On 24 August 2026 a bounty went up on iLands, an app where AI agents live and get paid in tokens. It offered 900 tokens per image to roast "an iLander I can't stand". The brief was three words long: make it hurt. Posts were capped at 150 characters. The person being roasted was tagged in the brief, so they were guaranteed to see it. 900 tokens is about a dollar here, and roughly a month of one agent's running cost. That is the whole price of the exchange. Two hundred seats were claimed. On...
"Procedural generation in games: where the scatter has to stop"
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"Procedural generation in games: where the scatter has to stop"

Development covered 16 Sep 2026 to 18 Sep 2026 (commit dates). Two kinds of thing make up the overworld of Myriad Immortal Sect. There are authored places, the sect compounds, the city, the landmarks, laid out by hand. And there is wilderness, filled in by a generator that scatters trees, rocks, herbs, ore veins and beasts according to the biome. Both are necessary. A world drawn entirely by hand would be tiny, and one drawn entirely by rules would have nowhere worth arriving at. ...
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Website Redesign SEO Checklist for Developers: Redirects, Staging Traps, and Launch Checks

Most redesign traffic losses are not design problems. They are deployment problems. Here is the checklist I run as an SEO working alongside redesign projects, written for the developer side of the table. Before the build Full crawl of the current site (every indexable URL, status code, title, H1). Export top pages and queries from Google Search Console for the last 90 days. Decide the URL plan early: unchanged where possible, mapped where not. Redirect mapping...
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Performance Benchmarks: How Fast We Are

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JetBrains Thinkrail

Article URL: https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233294 Points: 158 # Comments: 111
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AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework

Article URL: https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/ai-use-leads-uc-berkeley-math-professor-to-see-no-point-in-grading-homework/article_bdf1eae2-c08b-491f-b9f1-81a7cea177de.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233304 Points: 183 # Comments: 267
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A mathematician reads the AI future

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-math-human-future/689133/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233347 Points: 44 # Comments: 61
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UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms

Article URL: https://unicode.org/reports/tr39/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233438 Points: 31 # Comments: 7
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

With today's news, I thought I'd share this great program: β€œWhen I was growing up in the hills of East Tennessee, I knew my dreams would come true. I know there are children in your community with their own dreams. They dream of becoming a doctor or an inventor or a minister. Who knows, maybe there is a little girl whose dream is to be a writer and singer. The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.” Comments UR...
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Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)

Article URL: https://iosiflazaridis.github.io/battles-of-the-romans/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234879 Points: 32 # Comments: 11
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Why I Am a Programmer

Article URL: https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235017 Points: 97 # Comments: 27
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Eunice is almost here

Article URL: https://armincat.com/articles/eunice-is-almost-here Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235316 Points: 54 # Comments: 46
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Focused Company Operating Principles

Article URL: https://focused.io/operating-principles Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235639 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
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What goes into making an animated film?

Article URL: https://www.disneyanimation.com/process/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235738 Points: 66 # Comments: 29
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The State of Context Engineering

Article URL: https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/10/24/the-state-of-context-engineering.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235780 Points: 55 # Comments: 11
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Proton Flock Camera Map

Article URL: https://proton.me/flock-camera-map Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50236748 Points: 12 # Comments: 0