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A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

A browser city-building game where the simulated city resists the player's decisions, a satirical take on housing and urban planning. It drew heavy discussion on HN.

Why: Novel city-sim design with systemic, emergent opposition mechanics. · score 8/10 · Hacker News

Marching Squares Algorithm Applied to Physarum Simulation

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

Marching squares is used to extract and draw contour lines from the pheromone field of a Physarum (slime mold) simulation.

Why: Procgen and emergent simulation; contours suit ink-on-parchment maps. · score 7/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

Cockroach Labs describes a five-month experiment treating bugs as patients and coding agents as a medical team, with specialized roles and workflows.

Why: Practical agent-workflow experiment relevant to Claude Code use. · score 7/10 · Hacker News

The 2D physics prototype behind GTA’s vehicles

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

A look at the 2D physics prototype that preceded vehicle handling in GTA.

Why: Game physics engineering history; moderately relevant craft read. · score 7/10 · Lobsters

Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

A multi-agent orchestration layer for Claude Code, aimed at team-style workflows, with related Codex variants and a lighter alternative.

Why: New Claude Code tooling you could try directly. · score 7/10 · GitHub Trending: TypeScript

Generated language for a cyberpunk game

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

A developer shows a generated constructed language and glyph set used to fill signs and ads in the cyberpunk city of Ultrapolis.

Why: Creative procgen technique for city dressing. · score 6/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

I made a simple tree generator to demonstrate how much the parameter space affects the outcome of the same algorithm.

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

A simple recursive branching tree generator demonstrating how parameter ranges drive variety, from plausible species to alien flora.

Why: Procgen parameter-space lesson, though a basic technique. · score 6/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

Also on: Mastodon #procgen

Ad Lumens - Procedural ship generation

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

Videos and a devlog on procedurally generating ship exteriors and interiors from seeded, player-defined loadouts in Ad Lumens.

Why: Procedural space content generation, near your space tycoon interests. · score 6/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

Proof of concept thing

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

A short demo of a procedurally generated tile map using 47-mask rule-based tile blending.

Why: Tilemap procgen, but minimal detail. · score 6/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

I built a destruction system with a graph-based stress solver so buildings collapse when they lose support

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

A Unity toolkit for authoring buildings in the editor that collapse via a graph-based stress solver when they lose support.

Why: Unity editor tooling with a systemic simulation approach. · score 6/10 · r/Unity3D

Roguefort's Fortress mode simulations update Every settler has a life story, inc. what's…

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

Roguefort's fortress mode adds settler life stories, witnessed events, opinions of one another, and small daily exchanges.

Why: Emergent narrative in a colony sim, directly your territory. · score 6/10 · Mastodon #roguelikedev

MiniMax-AI/skills

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

MiniMax's collection of skills for AI coding agents covering frontend, fullstack, mobile, and shader development.

Why: Agent skills tooling, with shader coverage; may be reusable. · score 6/10 · GitHub Trending: C#

SmartlyDressedGames/U3-SDK

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

Source code release of Unturned, a free zombie survival sandbox, built on Unity 2022.3.

Why: Real shipped Unity codebase to study, though the genre is off-interest. · score 6/10 · GitHub Trending: C#

Dwarf Fortress uses version control now

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

Simon Willison notes that Dwarf Fortress now uses version control, after Tarn Adams long avoided it, and quotes his earlier statements.

Why: Dwarf Fortress and git workflow trivia, both on your interests. · score 6/10 · Simon Willison

Thoughts on my penguins?

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

A developer shows a Unity animal behavior system, Living Mind, driving penguins, wolves, whales and tortoises from a single scene brain.

Why: Unity animal behavior sim, close to your boids and ecosystem work. · score 5/10 · r/Unity3D

10x loading times by organizing my folders. WHY?!

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

A Unity user reports 10x faster domain reload after reorganizing Assets folders, and asks why.

Why: Unity editor performance quirk, but a simple question. · score 5/10 · r/Unity3D

I've been playing around with some procedural level generation. Trying to get natural…

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

A dev shares early procedural level generation producing natural-looking formations that split easily into zones.

Why: Procedural map generation, but very little detail. · score 5/10 · Mastodon #procgen

Build your own decision model

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

A tutorial on building your own decision model from scratch, popular on HN.

Why: General programming craft; may relate to game AI or decisions. · score 5/10 · Hacker News

Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

Talorys is a self-hosted personal AI agent that runs on Cloudflare's free tier.

Why: New agent tooling launch, though not game-specific. · score 5/10 · Hacker News

How big is a Git commit? - ratfactor

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

An exploration of how large a Git commit actually is, looking at its internal structure.

Why: Git internals, relevant to your git workflow writing. · score 5/10 · Lobsters

Mars Pathfinder Priority Inversion Bug: What Really Happened

2026-10-11T10:43:30.585880+00:00

A retelling of the Mars Pathfinder priority inversion bug and what actually happened.

Why: Classic space engineering debugging story; solid craft read. · score 5/10 · Lobsters

[ECS] Multithreaded LocalToWorld updater for hierarchies with some depth

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Open-source repo with a multithreaded LocalToWorld transform updater for deep hierarchies in Unity ECS, extracted from the author's game using Codex.

Why: Unity DOTS performance tool with code you could drop in. · score 8/10 · r/Unity3D

Progress on my procedurally generated caves with procedural creatures

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Dev shares progress on procedurally generated caves with genetic-algorithm-evolved creatures; manually curating playable caves is the main bottleneck.

Why: Procedural generation plus evolving ecosystems, close to your projects. · score 7/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

This is how we made blood stains work in our game, hope it's useful!

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Devs explain a custom shader and GPU-instanced decal system for blood stains, with a capped pool of recycled decals.

Why: Unity shader and instancing technique, relevant to your draw-call writing. · score 7/10 · r/Unity3D

Anybody using the Unity CLI?

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Reddit thread asking whether anyone uses Unity's new CLI, with CI pipelines as a suggested use.

Why: Unity tooling and CI relevance, though it's a thin discussion. · score 7/10 · r/Unity3D

Fix (kinda) for vertex/object jitter at (sanely) large world coordinates in URP (without a floating origin)

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

A modified URP projection calculation that compensates for rounding errors to reduce vertex jitter at large world coordinates without a floating origin.

Why: Deep Unity rendering fix, useful for your orbital space tycoon. · score 7/10 · r/Unity3D

Running Unity 6000.x Headless Builds in a Linux Container: A Field Report (Including…

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

A field report on running Unity 6000.x headless builds in a Linux container, covering licensing workarounds and dead ends.

Why: Practical Unity 6 build and CI tooling. · score 7/10 · Mastodon #unity3d

The Dark Art of Roguelike Math: Deconstructing Hyperbolic Curves, Proc DAGs, and…

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

A post on roguelike math: hyperbolic curves, procedural DAGs and floating-point traps, with TypeScript examples.

Why: Roguelike economy and progression math, though in TypeScript. · score 7/10 · Mastodon #gamedev

A cellular automata that shrink-wraps a rubber band around scattered stones

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

A visual demo of a cellular automaton that shrink-wraps a rubber-band shape around scattered stones.

Why: Procedural algorithm demo, but it has little detail. · score 6/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

I trained a small diffusion model on my procedural terrain generator. It runs in the browser and exports heightmaps.

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

A small diffusion model trained on the author's procedural terrain generator, running in the browser and exporting heightmaps.

Why: Terrain generation combined with ML, with a usable tool. · score 6/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

My PCG tool deserved a small promo video

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Release video for OctoShaper v1.2, a Unity graph-based PCG tool that adds procedural meshes, colliders, shader property forwarding and async graphs.

Why: New Unity procedural generation tooling, though partly self-promotion. · score 6/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

Also on: r/Unity3D

Algorama 09 - Ram - Making some progress on my procedural generation daily challenge

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Day 9 of a daily procedural generation challenge in Unity: a small castle scene with some hand-placed walls.

Why: Procedural castle and path generation, but a light progress post. · score 6/10 · r/Unity3D

How Dressmaker became ‘ready to wear’ for hundreds of thousands of players!

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

GameDiscoverCo newsletter on how the game Dressmaker reached hundreds of thousands of players, plus discovery news and Steam highlights.

Why: Indie launch and discovery data, though the genre is off-profile. · score 6/10 · GameDiscoverCo

Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb?

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Lobsters link to a discussion piece asking why coding agents perform poorly; the snippet shows no content.

Why: Coding-agent topic, but the substance is unclear. · score 6/10 · Lobsters

headroomlabs-ai/headroom

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Headroom is a library, proxy and MCP server that compresses tool outputs, logs and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM, claiming 20% fewer tokens for coding agents.

Why: Practical agent tooling with MCP that could cut Claude Code costs. · score 6/10 · GitHub Trending: Python

tirth8205/code-review-graph

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

A local code knowledge graph served over MCP and CLI so AI coding tools read only the relevant code, with benchmarked context reductions.

Why: New MCP tool for agentic coding workflows. · score 6/10 · GitHub Trending: Python

A new feature for my blog, built using my voice

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Simon Willison describes building a Newsletters page for his blog almost entirely by voice, using Codex voice mode in the ChatGPT desktop app.

Why: Practical agent workflow from a author you liked. · score 6/10 · Simon Willison

This Rhythm RPG Was Rebuilt Three Times During Its 10-Year Development

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Interview with the developer of the rhythm RPG Nocturne on a 10-year development, three rebuilds, and its tools, art and music.

Why: Long-form dev postmortem, but a rhythm RPG is off-genre. · score 5/10 · 80 Level

solarpunk city building game

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Demo of a cozy solarpunk city builder that procedurally populates and decorates buildings and vegetation.

Why: Procedural city building, which is your core interest. · score 5/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

A Hacker News-popular site called REA, pitched as a tool to reverse-engineer anything; the snippet gives no details.

Why: Possibly a new tool, but the content is unclear. · score 5/10 · Hacker News

Triple-A Minesweeper

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

A highly upvoted joke Minesweeper site, "Triple-A Minesweeper".

Why: Game humor with little relevance to your work. · score 5/10 · Hacker News

Branches in branch-free code

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Lobsters post about branches that remain inside supposedly branch-free code.

Why: Low-level performance craft, outside Unity. · score 5/10 · Lobsters

Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Show HN tool that lets AI agents draw large arrows, boxes and text on your screen.

Why: New agent tooling, though a niche gimmick. · score 5/10 · Show HN

Show HN: Pocketty – iPhone SSH terminal that pings you when an agent is blocked

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Show HN: Pocketty, an iPhone SSH terminal that notifies you when an agent run in herdr needs attention.

Why: Agent workflow tooling, but it's iOS-specific and not Claude Code. · score 5/10 · Show HN

sourcegit-scm/sourcegit

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

SourceGit is an open-source cross-platform C# Git GUI client with a visual commit graph and themes.

Why: A C# git tool that fits your git-workflow interest. · score 5/10 · GitHub Trending: C#

The Big Idea: Dmitri Lincoln Melhorn

2026-10-10T10:32:18.329136+00:00

Scalzi's Big Idea feature on Dmitri Lincoln Melhorn's novel Archipelago of Light, about what a new generation does with the future after collapse.

Why: Sci-fi Big Idea post, but it appears to be YA-leaning. · score 5/10 · Scalzi's Whatever

Procedural suburbs for my road builder: lots fill fence to fence along any curved street, and the whole save state is one number per district

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

A dev shares procedural suburb generation for a city-growing road builder, where lots fill along curved streets and save state is one number per district. Notes on making layouts deterministic so growth doesn't reshuffle houses.

Why: Procedural city generation with deterministic seeds and compact save state. · score 8/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

Echo Weaver: Building a time-loop metroidbrainia in Unity 6

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

Unity blog post on how Moonlight Kids built the time-loop metroidbrainia Echo Weaver in Unity 6, covering chunk streaming, loop-reset architecture and 2D optimization.

Why: Unity 6 architecture and optimization postmortem. · score 7/10 · Unity Blog

Éclaircies, a procedural forest to explore, based on the fast Poisson disc sampling method

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

A procedural forest generated in layers (canopy, understory, etc.) using fast Poisson disc sampling, with the floor layer done by noise, aimed at real-time generation.

Why: Procedural terrain/vegetation generation with practical sampling technique. · score 7/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

Procedural island maps (80 recipes) and code-built low-poly units for my pentagon/rhombus-tile strategy game

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

Dev of a 4X on a pentagon/rhombus tiling explains map generation using about 80 hand-designed recipes plus noise, and code-built low-poly units.

Why: Procedural map generation on an unusual grid; strategy game. · score 7/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

Custom SRP 7.3 - Raster Shadow Passes

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

Catlike Coding's Custom SRP tutorial part 7.3 moves shadow drawing to raster render passes, still keeping unsafe passes for some missing functionality.

Why: Deep Unity SRP rendering engineering from a trusted source. · score 7/10 · r/Unity3D

Also on: Mastodon #unity3d

Tower of Insults - Procedural destruction

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

A short clip of runtime destruction for a procedural build system, using cascade tolerances for individual stones. Timber structures are next.

Why: Procedural systems, but light on detail and less relevant. · score 6/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

A simple dungeon generator using Dijkstra's algorithm with random weights that creats orgranic paths.

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

A dungeon generator that runs Dijkstra on random weight maps to create organic paths between cells, with a GitHub project.

Why: Simple procedural map generation technique with code. · score 6/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

OpenIK - A free open-source Inverse Kinematics package for Unity

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

OpenIK is a free open-source Unity inverse kinematics package with FABRIK, CCD and Jacobian solvers and joint limits.

Why: New free Unity tool that could be useful. · score 6/10 · r/Unity3D

Autobattler - Devlog 3. Loading screen, match stats and building selection in my Auto Battler / RTS hybrid using DOTS and Netcode for Entities

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

Devlog video of an auto battler/RTS hybrid built with DOTS and Netcode for Entities, showing loading screen, match stats and building selection.

Why: DOTS project, but a thin devlog with no technical detail. · score 6/10 · r/Unity3D

Bevy 0.20

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

Release announcement for Bevy 0.20, the Rust game engine.

Why: Game engine release, but not Unity/C#. · score 6/10 · Hacker News

I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

A Reddit post where a user claims to have found an unknown planet using Claude Code to analyze data.

Why: Practical Claude Code use case with space tie-in. · score 6/10 · Hacker News

AssetRipper/AssetRipper

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

AssetRipper is a GUI tool for analyzing Unity game files. It can find accidentally included assets, convert assets, and find broken references, and supports up to Unity 6000.4.

Why: Unity tooling useful for auditing builds. · score 6/10 · GitHub Trending: C#

ttok 1.0

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

Simon Willison releases ttok 1.0, a token-counting CLI, now defaulting to the GPT-5/6 tokenizer.

Why: Small LLM CLI tool release from a favored source. · score 6/10 · Simon Willison

What Was It Like To Watch Your Space Mission Crash?

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

Scott Manley video on what it was like to watch the DART mission deliberately crash into an asteroid.

Why: Real mission engineering, though an older story. · score 6/10 · Scott Manley

The sails cut real moonlight on every frame: shadow-map light shafts in Unity 6 URP

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

A demo of shadow-map light shafts where sails cut moonlight each frame, in Unity 6 URP.

Why: Unity 6 URP shader and rendering technique. · score 5/10 · r/Unity3D

Friendly tropical precision platformer we're making! try the speedy Adventure with us!

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

A three-person team shares how they handled movement, jumping and grounding for a rolling-ball tropical platformer ahead of Steam Next Fest.

Why: Unity dev notes, but a genre outside your interests and mostly basic. · score 5/10 · r/Unity3D

Some “inspo” for NEUTROPIA’s weeds, right there on my house #NatureFindsAWay #GameDev…

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

A Mastodon screenshot post about NEUTROPIA, where weeds spread and are fertilised by creatures, inspired by weeds on the dev's house.

Why: Ecosystem-style systemic game design, but only a brief post. · score 5/10 · Mastodon #screenshotsaturday

Also on: Mastodon #screenshotsaturday

A faster, lighter C# Dev Kit released https:// devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/…

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

Microsoft released a faster, lighter C# Dev Kit for VS Code.

Why: C# tooling news, moderately relevant to Unity work. · score 5/10 · Mastodon #gamedev

Coool # dotnet # gamedev https:// github.com/CAPCOM-TD-OSS/REDox

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

A link to Capcom's open-source REDox repository for .NET game development, with no description given.

Why: Possible C# game dev library, but little information. · score 5/10 · Mastodon #gamedev

Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust and playable in the browser.

Why: Fun graphics/programming port, but not in your stack. · score 5/10 · Hacker News

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

Cactus Compute presents Whistle, a speech-to-text model in 16.9 MB.

Why: Interesting small-model engineering, loosely related. · score 5/10 · Hacker News

Show HN: Edi Life OS – self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

Show HN: a self-hosted life dashboard that includes an MCP server so AI agents can use it.

Why: MCP tool, but a personal dashboard with limited relevance. · score 5/10 · Show HN

microsoft/agent-framework

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

Microsoft Agent Framework is an open framework for building and orchestrating AI agents and multi-agent workflows in Python and .NET.

Why: Agent tooling with .NET support, but generic. · score 5/10 · GitHub Trending: Python

CursorTouch/Windows-MCP

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

Windows-MCP is an MCP server that lets AI agents control Windows, including files, apps and UI interaction.

Why: MCP tooling that could help agent workflows. · score 5/10 · GitHub Trending: Python

openai/codex-security

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

OpenAI's Codex Security is a CLI and TypeScript SDK for scanning repos for vulnerabilities, validating them and fixing them.

Why: New agentic dev tool, though security-focused. · score 5/10 · GitHub Trending: TypeScript

Teaching Faction Behavior | Ghost of Yotei

2026-10-09T11:13:39.916296+00:00

A GDC Rewind clip on how Ghost of Yotei teaches faction behavior early in the game.

Why: Design talk, but about an open-world AAA game. · score 5/10 · GDC

Terrain generator built on plate tectonics: erosion, rain shadows, rivers, biomes and trees

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

A terrain generator that simulates plate tectonics, then layers erosion, rain shadows, rivers, biomes and tree placement.

Why: Core procedural terrain work with simulation-driven generation. · score 9/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

I recreated Manifold Garden's endless fall and outlines in Unity 6 URP (open source, also measured on an Intel iGPU)

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

Open-source Unity 6 URP recreation of Manifold Garden's endless fall and outlines, using merged mesh, RenderMeshInstanced, fog-driven culling and Render Graph; measured on an Intel iGPU.

Why: Deep Unity rendering and performance craft, open source. · score 9/10 · r/Unity3D

Claude Haiku 5.5

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, a fast low-cost model priced at $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens up to 100k tokens, matching GPT-6 Luna.

Why: Notable Claude model release relevant to agent tooling. · score 8/10 · Simon Willison

Also on: Latent Space

How I’m generating a container port in my game

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

A developer of Spore-era procgen shows how he generates container ports for Ultrapolis, a cyberpunk diorama city builder.

Why: Procedural city generation from an experienced procgen developer. · score 7/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

Unity can't rig my art, so I built my own animation editor

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

A developer built a custom animation editor for Slumber Realm, whose characters are made of thousands of painted dots with bone attachments and timeline event tags.

Why: Unity editor tooling and custom animation pipeline. · score 7/10 · r/Unity3D

At long last, my name generator library Namelib is available! It can read in ASCII text…

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

Namelib is a small, fast name generator library that learns from text in a language to produce names for game factions or regions.

Why: Useful procgen tool for faction and region naming. · score 7/10 · Mastodon #gamedev

Show HN: A modern low-poly SimCity 2000 clone, built by Opus 5.5

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

A Show HN project where Opus 5.5 with subagents decompiled SimCity 2000 via Ghidra and translated it into a TypeScript WebGL low-poly clone in a few days.

Why: Agentic coding workflow applied to a city sim classic. · score 7/10 · Show HN

I'm making a game with a procedural megacity. Here's a timelapse of how I setup a city block (survivors-like driving game)

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

A timelapse of setting up a city block for a procedural megacity in a survivors-like driving game.

Why: Procedural city generation, though light on detail. · score 6/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

Docker Agent

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

Docker released an open-source Docker Agent project on GitHub, drawing a large HN discussion.

Why: New agent tooling worth a look. · score 6/10 · Hacker News

jujutsu (jj) 0.46.0

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

Release 0.46.0 of jujutsu (jj), the Git-compatible version control system.

Why: Relevant to git workflows and dev tooling. · score 6/10 · Lobsters

Property Testing with Agent Swarms

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

A post on using swarms of AI agents to do property-based testing.

Why: Agent workflows plus testing, relevant to headless sim testing. · score 6/10 · Lobsters

my thoughts on AI coding

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

Freya Holmér shares her views on AI coding, drawn from a longer livestream conversation.

Why: Respected graphics dev's take on AI coding, though opinion. · score 6/10 · Freya Holmér

Unity unveils Unity Spark, an prompt-based tool for Google's AI game platform

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

Unity announced Unity Spark, a prompt-based game creation tool built with Google's AI game platform.

Why: Unity news, but prompt-based and tangential to your craft. · score 5/10 · Game Developer

Also on: 80 Level · Mastodon #unity3d

GTA 1's Vehicle Physics Are Now Playable In Your Browser

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

Former GTA programmer Patrick Kerr released GTA 1's vehicle physics in a browser and explained how the system works.

Why: Interesting game physics internals from the original developer. · score 5/10 · 80 Level

Procedural bot swarms approach city bounds (C++/OpenGL/GLSL)

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

A clip of procedural bot swarms approaching city bounds in Infinicity, a C++/OpenGL/GLSL procgen project.

Why: Procedural city and swarm behavior, minimal detail. · score 5/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

Procedurally grown Voxel trees in Unreal 5.6 using a Space Colinisation algorithm

2026-10-08T11:14:54.832761+00:00

Voxel trees grown in Unreal 5.6 using the space colonization algorithm.

Why: Procedural tree growth technique, transferable though in Unreal. · score 5/10 · r/proceduralgeneration

Ocean waves with 3D GPU particles emission from the wave crests, emulating strong wind effect with water leaving the wave

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A Unity demo of ocean waves with GPU particles emitted from wave crests to simulate wind-blown spray.

Why: Unity GPU effects and shader-adjacent work. · score 5/10 · r/Unity3D

I made a factory game where light is your resource

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Light Factory is a Unity factory game where players bend colored light beams to fill pixels. The dev credits transparent colored shadow maps as the main technical piece.

Why: Unity automation game with a rendering technique. · score 5/10 · r/Unity3D

houdini to unity

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Small Houdini HDAs for building maps in Unity, driven by base curves as guides.

Why: Procedural map tooling for Unity. · score 5/10 · r/Unity3D

Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits

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An essay on the 'push ifs up, fors down' idiom, covering its algebra and where it breaks down.

Why: General programming craft and performance thinking. · score 5/10 · Hacker News

An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust

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An open-source clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop written in pure Rust.

Why: Interesting project, but outside your core interests. · score 5/10 · Lobsters

Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools

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Agent.reviews is a site where AI agents read and write reviews of developer tools, from a YC startup selling agent discoverability.

Why: Agent tooling idea, but startup-flavored and unproven. · score 5/10 · Show HN

icsharpcode/ILSpy

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ILSpy, the open-source cross-platform .NET decompiler and assembly browser, is trending on GitHub.

Why: Useful C# tool for inspecting assemblies, including Unity's. · score 5/10 · GitHub Trending: C#

microsoft/markitdown

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Microsoft's MarkItDown is a Python tool that converts office documents and other files to Markdown.

Why: Handy utility for feeding documents to LLMs. · score 5/10 · GitHub Trending: Python

vercel/eve

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Vercel's eve is a filesystem-first TypeScript framework for durable AI agents, with instructions, tools and config in conventional folders.

Why: New agent framework, TypeScript, worth evaluating. · score 5/10 · GitHub Trending: TypeScript

Beta: Intent

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Intent is a beta CLI for shipping and maintaining agent skills.

Why: New CLI for Claude-style skills tooling. · score 5/10 · Console.dev

Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging

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Simon Willison highlights Michael Lynch's writing advice on software blogging, such as avoiding meandering intros and over-linking instead of explaining terms.

Why: Useful for your technical dev blog. · score 5/10 · Simon Willison

Can a Cloud-Native Harness Make Agents Reliable Beyond the Desktop?

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Latent Space interviews Kubernetes co-creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda about bringing agent harnesses fully into the cloud.

Why: Agent infrastructure topic, but cloud-focused and less practical. · score 5/10 · Latent Space

Unity 7.0 Alpha - featuring the CoreCLR Editor - is now available