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How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry

flashgamehistory.com

This Flash game is called Canabalt. A businessman crashes out of a window and starts running...
This Flash game is called Canabalt. A businessman crashes out of a window and starts running to escape the destruction of his city. Canabalt sparked the entire endless runner genre of gameplay, which is now one of the most popular genres on mobile. The game has since been included in the New York Museum of Modern Ar...
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Seized, settled, let: how Airbnb and Booking.com help Israelis make money from

theguardian.com

The villa is stunning. The private swimming pool; the lush, landscaped terrace with firepit; the long...
The villa is stunning. The private swimming pool; the lush, landscaped terrace with firepit; the long dining table with its expansive balcony view; the pingpong table; the piano.But the jewel in the crown, according to the Airbnb listing, is the experience of watching the sun rise over the nearby mountains from the ...
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Nuclear Reactor Lasers: From Fission to Photon

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Nuclear reactor lasers are devices that can generate lasers from nuclear energy with little to no...
Nuclear reactor lasers are devices that can generate lasers from nuclear energy with little to no intermediate conversion steps. We work out just how effective they can be, and how they stack up against conventional electrically-powered lasers. You might want to re-think your space warfare and power beaming after th...
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China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns

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Norwegian fuel supplier refuses U.S. warships over Ukraine

ukdefencejournal.org.uk

In a strongly worded statement, the company criticised a televised event involving U.S. President Donald Trump...
In a strongly worded statement, the company criticised a televised event involving U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, referring to it as the “biggest shitshow ever presented live on TV.” Haltbakk Bunkers praised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his restraint, accusing the U.S. of “p...
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Lisp in Your Language

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Ancient DNA Points to Origins of Indo-European Language

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others.A researcher s...

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Show HN: I took over Painteresque, a 14 year old Objective-C app and rebuilt it

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Painteresque lets you make your photos look like paintings, charcoal drawings, colored pencils, lithographic print, vintage,...
Painteresque lets you make your photos look like paintings, charcoal drawings, colored pencils, lithographic print, vintage, trippy, retro, portrait, etc.Just select a photo from your photo album or camera for Painteresque to revisualize, and a few seconds later the resulting image is ready to save. You can choose f...

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China advises citizens specializing in AI to avoid traveling to America

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Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing

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Abusing C to Implement JSON Parsing with Struct Methods

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Build a JSON parser in cInstead of using by itself functions: attach functions to a struct...
Build a JSON parser in cInstead of using by itself functions: attach functions to a struct and use these as methodsmake it C issue family free (segfaults, leaks, stack overflows, etc…)provide an ergonomic APIC 1#include "json.h" 2#include <stdlib.h> 3 4int main(void) { 5 struct json json = json_new(JSON({ 6 "object"...
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Python as a Second Language Empathy

ballingt.com

abstract It’s different! Let’s talk about how. Why? Because as Python experts (you did choose to...
abstract It’s different! Let’s talk about how. Why? Because as Python experts (you did choose to come to a Python conference so likely you’re either an expert already or in time you’re going to become one if you keep going to Python conferences) we have a responsibility to help our colleagues and collaborators who d...
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Why Can't We Screenshot Frames from DRM-Protected Video on Apple Devices?

daringfireball.net

Nora Deligter, writing for Screen Slate in June 2023, “Elegy for the Screenshot”: About five years...
Nora Deligter, writing for Screen Slate in June 2023, “Elegy for the Screenshot”: About five years ago, Catherine Pearson started taking screenshots of every bouquet featured on The Nanny (1993–1999), the six-season CBS sitcom that was then streaming on Netflix. She was just becoming a florist, and she found the arr...
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Federal spending is stable over time

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Among the leading fantasies of the moment are that federal employment and spending are “out of...
Among the leading fantasies of the moment are that federal employment and spending are “out of control,” so drastic action is needed to put things back in order. These are lies. Some people who utter these lies probably know better and some don’t, but they’re still lies. First, let’s look at federal expenditures and...
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A Letter to the American People

18f.org

March 1, 2025 For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving you to make government...
March 1, 2025 For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving you to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed to make government technology not just efficient but effective, and to save money for American taxpayers. However, all ...
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Microsoft Copilot continues to expose private GitHub repositories

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Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?

ycombinator.com
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Infinite Retrieval: Attention enhanced LLMs in long-context processing

arxiv.org
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Nearly 25 years later, Terminator 2 is getting a new video game

gizmodo.com

Despite not having a new movie in six years, Terminator has been recently kept alive through...
Despite not having a new movie in six years, Terminator has been recently kept alive through TV and video games. The next game for the franchise goes back to its past—specifically, its game-changing sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Developed by Xeno Crisis and Final Vendetta creator Bitmap Bureau, Terminator 2D: ...
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Show HN: I made a website where you can create your own "Life in Weeks" timeline

lifeweeks.app
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Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market

swapfest.berlin

Rungestraße 20 12:00 – 18:00 Register here BERLIN SWAPFEST April 19th @ c-base BERLIN SWAPFEST April...
Rungestraße 20 12:00 – 18:00 Register here BERLIN SWAPFEST April 19th @ c-base BERLIN SWAPFEST April 19th @ c-base BERLIN SWAPFEST April 19th @ c-base BERLIN SWAPFEST April 19th @ c-base BERLIN SWAPFEST April 19th @ c-base BERLIN SWAPFEST April 19th @ c-base BERLIN SWAPFEST April 19th @ c-base BERLIN SWAPFEST April ...
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18F GitHub Repositories

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Efabless – Shutdown Notice

efabless.com
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Video Encoding Requires Using Your Eyes

redvice.org
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