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Take a trip to Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth

https://soranews24.com/2026/02/07/take-a-trip-to-japans-dododo-land-the-most-irritating-place-on-...
1•zdw•24s ago•0 comments

British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years

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BookTalk: A Reading Companion That Captures Your Voice

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Is AI "good" yet? – tracking HN's sentiment on AI coding

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Project Pterodactyl: Incremental Architecture

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1•blenderob•13m ago•0 comments

Crypto firm accidentally sends $40B in Bitcoin to users

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Fantasy football that celebrates great games

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StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

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3•simonw•15m ago•0 comments

John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds

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Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics

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Smart Homes Are Terrible

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2•tusslewake•27m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: A chess middlegame trainer so I can stop blundering

https://dontblunder.com
5•aaronpierron•3mo ago

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aaronpierron•3mo ago
Normal chess puzzles teach you tactics, but no matter how many I do, I still make bad moves.

I made a site that rates every move in a position with Stockfish (a chess engine, stronger than every human) to give you feedback. Hopefully doing enough of these will reduce the likelihood of catastrophic blunders in real games.

Still a work in progress, and more game modes to come, but hopefully it's fun for any chess players out there. Feel free to ask me questions and I'll reply in the comments.

ecalifornica•3mo ago
This is great! How do you design the puzzles and score the moves?
beardyw•3mo ago
If it was me I would score the move by the change in stockfish, before and after.
aaronpierron•3mo ago
Good question! I used an open chess database of a few million games, then filtered for master level play with both players >2000 elo. These get stripped for middle game positions, so after move ~12 and while there’s enough material left on the board. Stockfish is then used with a high multi-pv to calculate move quality for all available moves.

Stockfish is run in two passes, one fast and one slow. The fast one gets rid of positions unlikely to make good puzzles (only one good move, one side clearly winning, etc.) while the slow one calculates move quality more accurately. Moves are rated relative to the best move in the position, with loss scored in centipawns (1/100th of a pawn). So, losing a pawn for nothing would be ~100 centipawns of loss. Anything over 300 centipawns lost is a blunder, and all blunder moves are scored equally bad.

Each puzzle takes a strong computer ~10 seconds to generate, but I managed to compile about 30,000 for the site. I plan to add more in the future for specific players/tournaments/openings!

zippyman55•3mo ago
This summer I picked up Frank Erwich's two books (The 100 Tactical Patterns Yo Must Know). This is a study book and a work book. I usually get lost in chess books (expert rated) but I found this book really well worth the time to walk thru mostly middle game patterns.