Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike
In the last week we’ve had three major model updates: Gemini 3 Pro, Codex Max 5.1, Claude Opus 4.5. We thought we’d give them a challenge: Build a basic version of Counter Strike. The game had to be a 3D UI and it had to be multiplayer. If you’re curious, pop open (an ideally large […]
JSON Schema Demystified: Dialects, Vocabularies and Metaschemas
If you’ve ever tried to dive into JSON Schema, you’ve probably encountered a wall of terminology that makes your head spin: schemas, metaschemas, dialects, vocabularies, keywords, anchors, dynamic references. It feels like the community invented new words for things that already had perfectly good names, just to make the rest of us feel inadequate. I’ve […]
C++ Web Server on my custom hobby OS
After a long break from working on my hobby operating system, I finally got back into it and finished a very important milestone: a working web server. Web browser accessing HTTP server on my OS Networking was always integral to my hobby project. The first goal was getting the basic networking stack working: Ethernet, IP, […]
The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
Recently, I’ve been experimenting with ‘one-shot’ decompilation, leveraging Claude’s headless mode in a continuous loop. The results have been surprisingly positive. In the three weeks since adopting this workflow, I’ve made more progress on Snowboard Kids 2 than in the preceding three months. ‘One-shot’ in this context means that Claude follows the prompt and exits. […]
Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
I don’t remember when I first started noticing that people I knew out in the world had lost their sense of erotic privacy, but I do remember the day it struck me as a phenomenon that had escaped my timeline and entered my real, fleshy life. It was last year, when I was having a […]
So you wanna build a local RAG?
When we launched Skald, we wanted it to not only be self-hostable, but also for one to be able to run it without sending any data to third-parties. With LLMs getting better and better, privacy-sensitive organizations shouldn’t have to choose between being left behind by not accessing frontier models and doing away with their committment […]
Airloom – 3D Flight Tracker
Air Loom – 3D Flight Paths Initializing 3D Space… N S E W Fly Mode Controls W/A/S/D – Move forward/left/back/right Space – Move up Shift – Move down Mouse – Look around Click anywhere to start flying
Lobsters Interview
By Susam Pal on 12 Sep 2025 I recently had an engaging conversation with Alex (@veqq) from the Lobsters community about computing, mathematics and a range of related topics. Our conversation was later published on the community website as Lobsters Interview with Susam. I should mention the sections presented in that post are not in […]
True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network
English | Русский True P2P Email on top of Yggdrasil Network What is Tyr? We’re taught that email must go through servers. Why? Because the Internet was built around centralized infrastructure. Every email you send travels through multiple servers – your provider’s server, maybe a few relay servers, and finally your recipient’s provider’s server. Each […]
AI Adoption Rates Starting to Flatten Out
