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Wonderhop is a free browser-based daily game featuring four modes—Sky, Abyss, Past and Future—each with seven questions and a 30-second time limit per question. Players try to guess the most common answer, the rarest answer, or the oldest and most recent answers among other players' responses, earning up to 100 points per question for a total score out of 700.
A developer launched Indigene, a web tool posted to Hacker News's Show HN section, which recommends native plant species tailored to a visitor's geographic location. The project appears to be in an early or loading stage, with limited details available beyond its stated purpose of promoting native planting.
A new project called Brickbrag has launched on Show HN, offering a browser-based multiplayer world built from bricks. Users can chat with other real players, send gifts of coins and bricks, race friends, or simply hang out and watch the town's activity, with an NPC bus driver as the only non-player character mentioned.
Jevman ran 100 games per AI model against scripted Pac-Man ghosts, with each game ending after three lost lives or a 5-minute cap. At every junction the model was asked to weigh the maze, pellets and ghost positions and output movement probabilities, with a 2-second deadline before a backup rule took over. Results were ranked by mean score with a 95% margin of error, and models within that margin were treated as tied.
An individual has been supporting the education of a child in rural Tanzania for ten years, covering costs related to schooling and well-being. The effort emphasizes the importance of sustained donations in creating long-term benefits for children in underserved areas.
A developer has released a browser-based project that renders art history as a walkable 3D museum, pulling artist and artwork data from Wikipedia. The project, shared on Hacker News, lets users navigate gallery walls and a 'star map' view to browse works by multiple artists in one virtual space.
A developer named Roady has launched a Show HN project described as a Factorio-like game where in-game components can be unreliable, requiring players to build networks to verify trustworthy information. The creator says the game uses AI-assisted coding and frames the mechanic as a metaphor for determining who or what to trust amid conflicting claims.
A developer has released Offrun, a tool that consolidates management of multiple AI coding agents into a single workspace. The Show HN post includes an example debugging scenario: an upload test that intermittently failed because it checked a file before the upload had finished, fixed by waiting on the upload process itself rather than a fixed timer.
A developer posted a Show HN introducing Breadcrumb, a macOS tool that records user activity and organizes it into scoped rule sets to feed context to AI tools. The demo shows folder-based scopes, such as one for a '/acme' project with 28 local rules plus 22 global rules, and a command to list all configured scopes.
A developer shared a Show HN project that overlays an animated stickman fighting game onto any website, letting visitors interact with a destructible interface layered over live pages. The tool includes controls for restarting matches, opening new sites, adjusting background and sound, and embedding the effect elsewhere.
A Show HN submission titled 'Jev Plays Pokémon Red' presents a fictional in-game dialogue from Pokémon Red as a vehicle to promote Frigade, an AI assistant that learns a product and guides users step-by-step inside an app. The post frames Professor Oak's guidance to the player as a metaphor for what Frigade offers to software users.
Paul, a developer who describes himself as currently unemployed, built Koi.rest, a website showing a virtual koi pond meant for quiet, shared relaxation. He says he used AI tools to build it since he doesn't know JavaScript, prioritizing getting something working over building it perfectly himself.