Topics Everyone Is Talking About No264

🚀 Django 6.0 Released
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🧠 Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Lowers Persuasion Costs
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🎮 Unreal Tournament 2004 Is Back
A great example of how classic multiplayer titles can come back to life through passionate communities and open collaboration with original creators.
The Unreal Tournament 2004 community has officially revived the game with support from Epic Games. The OldUnreal team is providing installers and patches to ensure compatibility with modern systems, fix bugs, and restore editing tools. The release is free and features cross-platform updates, along with testing invitations for server admins and modders.
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⚡ walrus (High-Performance Distributed Log Streaming Engine)
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🤖 What I Learned Building a Minimal and Opinionated Coding Agent
An insightful take on the evolution of LLM-based developer tools, highlighting the movement toward open, lightweight, and transparent alternatives to corporate coding assistants.
Mario Zechner describes his experience developing ‘pi’ — a minimalist coding agent composed of modules like pi-ai, pi-agent-core, and pi-tui. The project emphasizes simplicity, transparency, and control in working with large language models across providers. Zechner critiques the complexity of existing frameworks such as Claude Code and Codex, promoting a YOLO-mode approach with minimal abstractions. His system unifies LLM APIs, simplifies tool execution, and focuses on effective context engineering for coding workflows.
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