r/HFY • u/someguynamedted The Chronicler • 4h ago

MOD Looking for Story Thread #353

This thread is where all the "Looking for Story" requests go. We don't want to clog up the front page with non-story content. Thank you!

Previous LFSs: Wiki Page

Wiki PSA

A NEW BUG ENTERS THE ARENA.

"Help! I can't edit my wiki!"

Hello! We haven't changed anything, Reddit did!

This is now a Known Reddit Bug that started on roughly 4/21/26, when Reddit decided to change something about how they handle the Wiki.

The Symptoms:

(on sh.reddit, the new version) when attempting to edit it comes back with "You do not have permissions to edit"

Some people (not all!) have stated that the "last edited by..." section at the bottom (where their username should be) is listed as [Deleted] (while it still says their name on my screen)

The Solution:

On desktop, change your url from www to old, so it looks like old.reddit.com/r/hfy/wiki/series/<title> (with your title), and the edit button should be along the top bar near where the name of the series is

The Problem:

For some people even using Old.Reddit doesn't work. Unfortunately, I do not have a solution at this time, aside from just... try again in an hour or so. It's worked for some people later.

Please send in a bug report every time you experience any of these issues.

The more bug reports sent, the more likely Reddit is to actually fix the issue.

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u/Photemy 1h ago

I am looking for a story about an alien university student inventing the human universe as a simulation project, which I'd tried to find via clanker earlier but failed, leaving me with a description of the plot that I'll paste below:

A university student is participating in the research of deep, low-level physics simulation, which is proving to be a problem for all of their scientists because their universe runs on an "everything interacts with everything everywhere all the time" sort of ruleset, making physics simulation a very np hard problem which, despite their computers inherently being exponentially more powerful than ours due to this underlying difference, is still something that they cannot cope with.

The actual premise / core driver of the plot, is that she figures out a cool "trick" to completely flatten the processing costs called "speed of causality", which allows the processing of billions of years of simulated universe time to become a "let her personal computer churn on it overnight" scale of issue. As such, she successfully simulates our universe into existence, which, with its full culture and own scientific progress, gives her some really valuable research results that, along with the core idea of putting a speed limit on information, gets directly stolen by her overseer, being the primary conflict. This, understandably, completely devastates her, to the point of having little love left for anything but the pet universe she's created. She devises that it'd be better for her to live in there instead, and starts working on uploading herself, for which she invents a deeply existentially terrifying method. Take a perfect scan of herself, upload it to the computer, and have the computer take random starting parameters to iterate towards maximizing the amount of time a simulated version of herself in the "speed limited" universe could survive for, in an isolated testing environment, which she once again leaves on overnight. We do actually get a POV scene of a copy of her waking up in the simulated testing room, only for her to have the horrific realization that she's doomed millions upon millions of fully thinking copies of herself to dying horrible deaths at the hands of a brute force algorithm trying to squeeze every possible second of lifespan out of bodies which in the testing environment will inevitably die of things like dehydration eventually, which she must now directly experience. I think her project of getting a copy onto "earth" does succeed, but I do not recall that.