Garlictos 1.9: new characters, Danger levels, and the retention number I keep failing
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Garlictos 1.9: new characters, Danger levels, and the retention number I keep failing

Garlictos 1.9 is out on Google Play. It's the garlic wave survival thing I've been making alone in Godot 4, and this update is mostly about giving people a reason to come back, because that's the number I keep failing at. What's in 1.9 3 new characters: fighter, speed demon and ranger. You upgrade them with diamonds in a temple screen. Danger levels, for when the normal run gets too easy daily login rewards quests The number I keep failing at ...
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System design for physical AI: read-only fire protection monitoring across a hundred factories

This is the engineering summary of an open reference architecture. The paper, its object model as JSON and the model register are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: https://muhammadumar89.github.io/codeninja-research/factory-fire-monitoring-saudi-arabia/ . The operator is described by class, never by name. An operator of industrial cities in Saudi Arabia has a factory estate in the thousands, a hundred of them classed high risk. Fire alarm panels, fire pumps, fire water tanks and energy meters ...
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Building a Production-Ready CRUD API in Laravel: Menu Categories for Django Developers

Building a Laravel CRUD API: Menu Categories for Django Developers As a Django developer learning Laravel, one of the first things I wanted to understand was how Laravel handles CRUD APIs. In Django REST Framework, I would normally use a model, serializer, ViewSet, and router. Laravel has similar concepts, but they are organized differently. In this article, I'll build a menu-categories API with: Create List Retrieve Update Delete Validation Standard JSON responses Pagination ...
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How to Practise Java Daily: A Simple Routine for Students?

Most students who struggle with Java don’t lack ability. They lack a routine. They watch a long tutorial on Sunday, feel productive, and then can’t write a loop from memory on Wednesday. Java rewards the opposite pattern: short, repeated, hands-on sessions where you type code yourself, break it, and fix it. Here is a daily routine simple enough to survive a college timetable. Why Daily Practice Beats Weekend Marathons Programming skill builds cumulatively, and retention fades quickly without...
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Building a To-Do List App in Python (With File Saving)

πŸ“Œ Quick Info Topic: A beginner project that saves data to a file Target Audience: Beginners who know the basics and want a real project Goal: Build a working to-do list that remembers tasks after you close it 1. Introduction "My first two projects didn't save anything. Close the program, everything gone. Then I learned how to save data to a file β€” and suddenly my programs could remember." 2. What We're Building A simple CLI to-do lis...
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Your control arm is a probe too

A few days ago I wrote up a test that passed on Windows and failed on Linux, and one of its three lessons was: give every negative probe a control arm. A probe that asserts "nothing is listening on this port" cannot, on its own, tell "the listener is gone" from "I built the probe wrong" β€” so you stand up a second listener you know is running, and check the probe reports it . That advice is right. It is also not enough, and I know because my control arm lied to me. This is the follow-up: t...
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The AI boom is making the cheapest smartphones disappear

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-data-center-memory-chip-shortage-cheap-smartphones-digital-divide/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974238 Points: 16 # Comments: 4
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Coyote vs. ACME pro AI rights?

Enjoyed CvA last night & had strong sentiment of AI rights subtext, anyone else? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974374 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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Our minds aren't equipped to handle AI

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1003794/ai-education-computational-model-thought Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974928 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
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Ask HN: Would you pay for saving AI cost?

I was testing a bunch of token saving techniques and tools for my coding agent, and surprisingly it can save 20-60% cost. I bet most people do not want to pay attention on cost saving tricks every time while building, so I'm curious if people will pay for someone else to reduce their Ai bills. and what would you need to see before trusting to pay and how much? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975157 Points: 2 # Comments: 2
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Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/05/1143813/bringing-predictive-analytics-to-the-agentic-ai-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975292 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing

Article URL: https://blog.pipetogrep.org/2026/09/11/resurrecting-ichat-audio-and-video-conferencing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49973878 Points: 40 # Comments: 9
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We are going to kill "unalive"

Article URL: https://www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/kill-unalive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49975083 Points: 23 # Comments: 8