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Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
🕹️ Cracking the Code of a Gaming Legend: Reverse-Engineering the 1998 Ultima Online Demo Server
The 1998 Ultima Online demo server offers a fascinating glimpse into the game's development and the technological landscape of the time. Reverse-engineering this server allows us to understand its inner workings and appreciate the innovative solutions implemented by its creators. By doing so, we gain insights into the evolution of game development and the challenges faced by developers in the late 1990s.
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The 1998 Ultima Online demo server offers a fascinating glimpse into the game's development and the technological landscape of the time. Reverse-engineering this server allows us to understand its inner workings and appreciate the innovative solutions implemented by its creators. By doing so, we gain insights into the evolution of game development and the challenges faced by developers in the late 1990s.
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The 1998 Ultima Online demo server offers a fascinating glimpse into the game's development and the technological landscape of the time. Reverse-engineering this server allows us to understand its inner workings and appreciate the innovative solutions implemented by its creators. By doing so, we gain insights into the evolution of game development and the challenges faced by developers in the late 1990s.
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- Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawa
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- Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
- Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
- Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance of Canadians
- Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare
- Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
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- Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)
- Canonical Under Attack
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- Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels
- Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo
- Cars collect a startling amount of data about you
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- Cash Issuing Terminals
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- Casus Belli Engineering
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- Chest Fridge (2009)
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- Childhood Computing
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- Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
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- Circuit-level PDP-11/34 emulator
- Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI shut down Circus CI on Monday, June 1, 2026
- Cisco workforce reductions
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- Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue
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- Claude Brain
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- Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
- Claude Code LSP
- Claude Code Remote Control
- Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
- Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs
- Claude Code conducts A/B tests on core features
- Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins
- Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
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- Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You
- Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5
- Claude Code: Channels
- Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend
- Claude Managed Agents
- Claude Opus 4.7
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- Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session
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- Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
- Claude Wrote a Full FreeBSD Remote Kernel RCE with Root Shell (CVE-2026-4747)
- Claude for Creative Work
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- Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
- Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus
- Claude system prompt bug wastes user money and bricks managed agents
- Claude.ai Down Again?
- Claude.ai and API Unavailable
- Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API
- ClawIRC – IRC Chat for Agents
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- Clay PCB Tutorial
- Cleve Moler has died
- Click (2016)
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- ClojureScript Gets Async/Await
- Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
- Closure of the Weatheradio Service in Canada
- Closure of the Weatheradio service in Canada
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- Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
- Cloudflare Crawl Endpoint
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- Cloudflare Flagship
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- Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
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- Codex-maxxing
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- CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
- Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew
- Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
- Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition
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- Colibri – chat platform built on the AT Protocol for communities big and small
- CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
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- Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens
- Colonization of Venus
- Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill
- Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting
- Colored Shadow Penumbra
- Columnar Storage Is Normalization
- Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act
- Common Lisp Development Tooling
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- Composition Shouldn't be this Hard
- Compound drivers of Antarctic sea ice loss and Southern Ocean destratification
- Computational Physics (2nd Edition)
- Computer Hobby Movement in Canada
- Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
- Computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy use
- Computer-generated dream world: Virtual reality for a 286 processor
- Connecticut and the 1 Kilometer Effect
- Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation
- Contextual commits – An open standard for capturing the why in Git history
- Converge (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer (NYC, Onsite)
- Conway's Game of Life, in real life
- Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code
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- Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431
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- Craig Venter has died
- Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79
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- Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years
- Cronboard: A terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs
- Cross-Model Void Convergence: GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.6 Deterministic Silence
- Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does
- Cursor 3
- Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL
- Customer Update on Simplenote
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- DARPA's new X-76 Experimental Plane
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- DIY Soft Drinks
- DMCA-resistant Claude Code source code
- DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked
- DOS Memory Management
- DOS Zone
- DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
- DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor
- Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind
- Daily Driving GrapheneOS
- Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, Song of Kali, dead at 77
- Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died
- Danish Gov agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence
- Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
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- Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’
- Dark Castle
- Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
- Data Has Weight but Only on SSDs
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- Dataframe 1.0.0.0
- Datasets for Reconstructing Visual Perception from Brain Data
- Dav2d
- Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim
- Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993
- Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
- Debian must ship reproducible packages
- Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths
- Decimal-Java is a library to convert java.math.BigDecimal to and from IEEE-754r
- Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules
- Decoupled DiLoCo: Resilient, Distributed AI Training at Scale
- DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
- DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper
- DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
- DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
- DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model
- DeepSeek v4
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again
- Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
- Defeat as Method
- Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu
- Delphi 13.1 Released, with ARM64 support
- Delve removed from Y Combinator
- Delve sets the record straight on anonymous attacks
- Democracy in 2025: on rising authoritarianism in the United States
- Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
- Denver dumps Flock, awards contract to Axon
- Department of War Designates Anthropic Supply Chain Risk
- Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
- Design posters showcasing your country's electrical grid
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- Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha
- Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box
- Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics
- Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism
- Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations
- Digg is gone again
- Digg.com Closing Due to Spam
- Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation
- Digital Identity Management in Norway Is a Catastrophe
- DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
- Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
- Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
- Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists
- Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software
- Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
- Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s
- Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE
- Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
- Distributed DuckDB Instance
- Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
- Do AI Agents Make Money in 2026? Or Is It Just Mac Minis and Vibes?
- Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
- Do You Even Need a Database?
- Do_not_track
- Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?
- Does Postgres Scale?
- Does anybody like React?
- Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices?
- Does that use a lot of energy?
- Dolphin Progress Release 2603
- Domain-Camouflaged Injection Attacks Evade Detection in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
- Don't Make Me Talk to Your Chatbot
- Don't Outsource the Learning
- Don't Roll Your Own
- Don't become an engineering manager
- Don't know where your data is from? Bayesian modeling for unknown coordinates
- Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
- Don't run OpenClaw on your main machine
- Don't trust AI agents
- Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data
- Dontsurveil.me
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- Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair
- Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
- Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)
- Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer
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- Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
- Dumb ways for an open source project to die
- Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems
- Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent
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- Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code
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- ECS Survivors Parts VII – X
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- EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant
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- EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push
- EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids
- EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim
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- Echoes (Live at Pompeii)
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- Education must go beyond the mere production of words
- Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets
- Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the rust rewrite
- Elevated Errors in Claude.ai
- Elevated error rates on Opus 4.7
- Elite Overproduction
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- Ember.js 7.0
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- Emuko: Fast RISC-V emulator written in Rust, boots Linux
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- End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller
- Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80
- Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO
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- Era: From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery
- Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
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- Erlang/OTP 29.0
- EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Languages
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- Ethiopia gets $350M World Bank financing for its digital ID project (2024)
- Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors
- Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left"
- European Money Pours into Palantir
- European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop
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- Evaluating Spec CPU2026
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- EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code
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- Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want
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- Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise
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- Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity
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- Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of bankrupt AI company charged with fraud
- Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year
- Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout
- Expanding Swift's IDE Support
- Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
- Experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies
- Exposing Critical Vulnerabilities in CBSE's On-Screen Marking Portal
- Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski
- Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)
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- F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026
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- FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack
- FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
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- FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
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- FCC chairman threatens TV broadcast licenses over news coverage
- FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers
- FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy for Treatment of Genetic Hearing Loss
- FFmpeg 101 (2024)
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- Factory Logic
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- FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation
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- Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
- Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
- Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M
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- First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
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- Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft
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- Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents
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- Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo
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- Footage shows US citizen shot dead by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop
- Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File
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- FrameBook
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- France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain
- France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American
- France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk
- Free Textbook on Engineering Thermodynamics
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- FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement
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- From birds to brains: My path to the fusiform face area (2024)
- Fuck the cloud (2009)
- Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found
- Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time
- Full-Text Search with DuckDB
- Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig
- Fungal Electronics (2021)
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- FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion (IMU and GPS and encoders)
- Futhark by Example
- Fyn: An uv fork with new features, bug fixes, stripped telemetry
- GCC 16 has been released
- GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
- GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents
- GLiNER2: Unified Schema-Based Information Extraction
- GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094
- GNU Texmacs
- GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation
- GPT 5.4 Thinking and Pro
- GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty
- GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100
- GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card
- GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro
- GPT-5.5
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- GPT‑5.3 Instant
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- GTFOBins
- Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study
- Game about Data of America
- GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay
- GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
- Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe
- Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down
- Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0
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- Gear Commit: Dev gadget box personalized from GitHub activity
- Gemini 3.5 Flash
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- Gemini Omni
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- Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS
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