7 November 2025

27 links · Friday

OpenMW 0.50.0 Released!

The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.50.0 of our open-source engine! Grab it from our Downloads Page for all supported operating systems. This round number release overhaul…

Rockstar Games alleged union busting

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-31/-grand-theft-auto-studio-accused-of-union-busting-after-firings?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTkzOTg3MSwiZXhwIjoxNzYyNTQ0NjcxLCJh…

A Fond Farewell

After more than 200 years of sharing wit and wisdom, the 2026 Farmers' Almanac will be our last edition. But our story stays alive in you.

Game design is simple, actually

So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not u…

How creepy is the personalization in ChatGPT? – James O'Claire

I’ve been pretty cavalier with using AI. I think once I got used to not fully trusting it’s truthfulness, and instead using it like a teacher that I question and verify. But this past month I’ve been getting more uncomfortable with the answers. Especially ones…

Feature Extraction with KNN • fastknn

The fastknn provides a function to do feature extraction using KNN. It generates k * c new features, where c is the number of class labels. The new features are computed from the distances between the observations and their k nearest neighbors inside each clas…

Introducing the Web Thing Protocol

I am excited to share that the W3C Web Thing Protocol Community Group has published the first draft of the Web Thing Protocol WebSocket sub-protocol, a dedicated real-time protocol for the Web of Things.

The Thing That Changes Everything.

Okay, I’ve been working on this for a long time. A really long time. But now it’s here.Something that’s going to change everything forever. Picture this: you’re out somewhere, your head full of tho…

Reflection – Alex Polozov

Reflection AI is building the frontier open intelligence ecosystem of the Western world. I discuss AI as a platform technology, the importance of Western open …