Hey HN, I'm building Netshell, a single-player hacking simulation set in the late 90s (1997-2001). You play as a hacker navigating the early internet era - dot-com bubble, Y2K paranoia, corporate espionage.
What makes it different:
- Authentic CDE/Motif desktop environment
- Real terminal with actual UNIX commands (ls, cat, ssh, nmap, etc.)
- AI NPCs powered by local LLMs running on your machine
- NPCs remember conversations and have persistent state
- Multi-pass pipeline that prevents hallucinations through citation-grounded generation
The AI system was the hardest part. We wrote a paper on how we prevent NPCs from making things up: https://beyondlogiclabs.com/devlog/papers/npc-pipeline/
Hey HN, I'm building Netshell, a single-player hacking simulation set in the late 90s (1997-2001). You play as a hacker navigating the early internet era - dot-com bubble, Y2K paranoia, corporate espionage.
Still in development. Would love feedback from the HN crowd - especially on the AI architecture decisions.
Discord for updates: https://discord.gg/7S2nvMQQ86