2026-06-28
Best RPG side quests: 8 games that make the optional stuff feel essential
These games include outstanding side quests that are well worth your time, with memorable storytelling, missable secrets, and unique gameplay.
Retro-inspired Action Platformer Captain Soda Pops Open A Physical Can
We first reported on Captain Soda, a retro-inspired action platformer from developer Ray Flower Games and publisher Leoful, last year. Since then, the game has launched on Steam and Switch,...
Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers
"Before the driver knows what's happened, the pedestrian's head is under the wheel." The post Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers appeared first on Futurism.
What comes with cheap math?
Thanks to conversations with Anson Berns, Gurkenglass, Roman Malov, Sahil, Sam Eisenstat, and others.Over the past two months, I've been doing a lot of "vibe research" (like vibe coding, but...
MMO legend Raph Koster is countering World of Warcraft with Stars Reach, his dream project
The man behind Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies returns with a game that has Steam players skeptical over ambition
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We Are Extremely Skeptical of MidJourney’s Weird Device That It Claims Submerges Your Entire Body and Scans It With Ultrasound
Scientists are highly skeptical. The post We Are Extremely Skeptical of MidJourney’s Weird Device That It Claims Submerges Your Entire Body and Scans It With Ultrasound appeared first on Futurism.
Reinforcement Learning on Forecasting Can Give Us a Superhuman Forecaster
This is a crosspost of a post from my blog, Metal Ivy. The original is here: Reinforcement Learning on Forecasting Will Give Us a Superhuman Forecaster.Why RL on forecasting?When DeepSeek...
We Should Be Scaling RL on Forecasting
This is a crosspost of a post from my blog, Metal Ivy. The original is here: Reinforcement Learning on Forecasting Will Give Us a Superhuman Forecaster.Why RL on forecasting?When DeepSeek...
Reinforcement Learning on Forecasting Will Give Us a Superhuman Forecaster
This is a crosspost of a post from my blog, Metal Ivy. The original is here: Reinforcement Learning on Forecasting Will Give Us a Superhuman Forecaster.Why RL on forecasting?When DeepSeek...
Hack Your Summer
Hack Your Summer I learned about this initiative from DJ Patil this morning: It’s a 4-week, high-velocity production sprint for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates who want to...
Building AI-Powered CMS Automation With Event-Driven Architecture
AI-driven CMS automation isn't about making AI write your content—that's the low-value, high-risk part. The real wins come from offloading the mechanical work that humans do poorly at scale: metadata...
Who wins the 2026 World Cup if “not football” decides?...
Who wins the 2026 World Cup if “not football” decides? This starts with the same 64-team bracket as the actual WC but uses metrics like life expectancy & CO2 per...
The arithmetic hierarchy of real functions
I wrote a fairly accessible introduction to real hypercomputation with Marcus Hutter. The focus is on enabling applications to algorithmic information theory. This project was intended to build my technical...
Anthropomorphic Misalignment research needs stronger evidence
This is a distillation of our ICML 2026 Oral position paper, Position: Anthropomorphic Misalignment Research Needs Stronger Evidence. Joint work by Vansh Gupta, Peter Nutter, Samuel Stante, Andreas Krause, Florian...
MAPPA's next big hit looks simultaneously adorable and unhinged
Jimoto Saiko isn't like anything MAPPA has made before and could be its best series in years when it lands on Netflix.
Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning
"We didn’t receive anything in the mail. I double checked to make sure that there was no emails or anything about it." The post Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower...
Building Medicaid Data Platforms That Scale Across States
Multi-state Medicaid platforms become difficult to scale when state-specific business rules are embedded directly in application code. This article argues for configuration-driven adapter architectures, allowing X12 834 variations, enrollment mappings,...
Brandon Sanderson's Lord of the Rings talk nails one thing fantasy writers get wrong
In an hour long discussion on Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson shared some key takeaways for fantasy readers and writers
A One-Person AI Studio Is Still a Whole Studio
Drawing on the experience of producing an AI-generated animated series, the author argues that AI reduces the cost of content generation but not the burden of creative decision-making. The real...
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