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Show HN: I tried writing an interactive novel and accidentally built a platform

Hacker News - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 7:53am

A few months ago I tried to write an interactive fiction novel.

It turned into a software project.

As the story grew, managing the structure quickly became difficult: branches, conditions, narrative state… everything started getting messy.

At some point I opened Visual Studio to try to solve the problem for myself. The initial idea was simple: separate the prose from the runtime logic that drives the story.

That experiment slowly turned into a small ecosystem called iepub:

• a structured format for interactive books • a reader runtime that interprets that format • and a visual editor designed for writing interactive fiction

The editor tries to feel like a normal writing tool (something closer to Google Docs) but designed for branching narrative. It lets you define narrative conditions, attach variables to sections, configure probabilistic events (like dice rolls), create narrative variants, and visualize the structure of the story as a graph.

Most of the development ended up happening with AI agents (Codex) acting as development partners, which turned into a surprisingly effective workflow for iterating on architecture, UI components and debugging.

If anyone is curious:

Project: https://iepub.io

Article about the development process: https://medium.com/@santi.santamaria.medel/interactive-ficti...

Happy to answer questions about the project, the architecture, or the AI-assisted development workflow.

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Rockwell Vulnerability Allowing Remote ICS Hacking Exploited in Attacks

Security Week - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 7:32am

The vulnerability was disclosed and mitigated in 2021 but its in-the-wild exploitation has only now come to light.

The post Rockwell Vulnerability Allowing Remote ICS Hacking Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Baltic and Nordic countries work together on a common certification system to support digital wallet applications

Computer Weekly Feed - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 7:25am
Baltic and Nordic countries work together on a common certification system to support digital wallet applications
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Wikipedia Gacha

Hacker News - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 7:11am

Article URL: https://wikigacha.com/?lang

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274020

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Elite Overproduction

Hacker News - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 7:10am
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