Why “legendary” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Don't confuse iron weapons with steel. Steel was much better than bronze, but they didn't know how to make steel and so examples were rare. (probably not unknown, making iron we…
by bluGill · Sep 30, 2026
Generate a huge load of vulcanus iron plates with speed modules, then feed that into assembler/recycler chain of iron chests (all quality). Or, if energy/space isn't o…
by unglaublich · Sep 30, 2026
The devs have to balance/shape the base game around what they want the average player that is aiming to acquire legendary items to experience. In this case they felt like t…
by infogulch · Sep 30, 2026
Computing an infinite sum of matrix powers seems a bit nasty, but actually reformulating the problem as a transfer matrix (where legendary -> legendary with probability 1) let's…
by djkorchi · Sep 30, 2026
The article has an image of terminal keyboard used by a legendary trader... the key-caps are immaculate; the letters haven't faded at all. Amazing. I wonder if they were double-…
by nxobject · Sep 30, 2026
Factorio team looked at how Ford makes a Lincoln by making 2800 ford explorers and if none of them happen to be a Lincoln they recycle the Explorer into parts and try again, and…
by lowbloodsugar · Sep 30, 2026
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