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The essential Reinhold Niebuhr: selected essays and addresses

https://archive.org/details/essentialreinhol0000nieb
1•baxtr•2m ago•0 comments

Rentahuman.ai Turns Humans into On-Demand Labor for AI Agents

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2026/02/05/when-ai-agents-start-hiring-humans-rentahuma...
1•tempodox•3m ago•0 comments

StovexGlobal – Compliance Gaps to Note

1•ReviewShield•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Afelyon – Turns Jira tickets into production-ready PRs (multi-repo)

https://afelyon.com/
1•AbduNebu•8m ago•0 comments

Trump says America should move on from Epstein – it may not be that easy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4gj71z0m0o
2•tempodox•8m ago•0 comments

Tiny Clippy – A native Office Assistant built in Rust and egui

https://github.com/salva-imm/tiny-clippy
1•salvadorda656•12m ago•0 comments

LegalArgumentException: From Courtrooms to Clojure – Sen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmMQbsOTX-o
1•adityaathalye•15m ago•0 comments

US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-moves-deport-5-year-old-detained-minnesota-2026-02-06/
2•petethomas•19m ago•1 comments

If you lose your passport in Austria, head for McDonald's Golden Arches

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-embassy-mcdonalds-restaurants-austria-hotline-americans-consular-...
1•thunderbong•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mermaid Formatter – CLI and library to auto-format Mermaid diagrams

https://github.com/chenyanchen/mermaid-formatter
1•astm•39m ago•0 comments

RFCs vs. READMEs: The Evolution of Protocols

https://h3manth.com/scribe/rfcs-vs-readmes/
2•init0•45m ago•1 comments

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

https://altermag.com/articles/kanchipuram-saris-and-thinking-machines
1•trojanalert•45m ago•0 comments

Chinese chemical supplier causes global baby formula recall

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/nestle-widens-french-infant-formula-r...
1•fkdk•48m ago•0 comments

I've used AI to write 100% of my code for a year as an engineer

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qxvobt/ive_used_ai_to_write_100_of_my_code_for_1_ye...
2•ukuina•51m ago•1 comments

Looking for 4 Autistic Co-Founders for AI Startup (Equity-Based)

1•au-ai-aisl•1h ago•1 comments

AI-native capabilities, a new API Catalog, and updated plans and pricing

https://blog.postman.com/new-capabilities-march-2026/
1•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

What changed in tech from 2010 to 2020?

https://www.tedsanders.com/what-changed-in-tech-from-2010-to-2020/
2•endorphine•1h ago•0 comments

From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics

https://wesmckinney.com/blog/agent-ergonomics/
1•Anon84•1h ago•0 comments

Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Inertial_Reference_Sphere
1•cyanf•1h ago•0 comments

Toyota Developing a Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine with Flutter and Dart

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fluorite-Toyota-Game-Engine
1•computer23•1h ago•0 comments

Typing for Love or Money: The Hidden Labor Behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/
1•prismatic•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: A longitudinal health record built from fragmented medical data

https://myaether.live
1•takmak007•1h ago•0 comments

CoreWeave's $30B Bet on GPU Market Infrastructure

https://davefriedman.substack.com/p/coreweaves-30-billion-bet-on-gpu
1•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Creating and Hosting a Static Website on Cloudflare for Free

https://benjaminsmallwood.com/blog/creating-and-hosting-a-static-website-on-cloudflare-for-free/
1•bensmallwood•1h ago•1 comments

"The Stanford scam proves America is becoming a nation of grifters"

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/students-stanford-grifters-ivy-league-w2g5z768z
4•cwwc•1h ago•0 comments

Elon Musk on Space GPUs, AI, Optimus, and His Manufacturing Method

https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/elon-musk-on-space-gpus-ai-optimus
2•simonebrunozzi•1h ago•0 comments

X (Twitter) is back with a new X API Pay-Per-Use model

https://developer.x.com/
3•eeko_systems•1h ago•0 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
3•neogoose•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Deterministic signal triangulation using a fixed .72% variance constant

https://github.com/mabrucker85-prog/Project_Lance_Core
2•mav5431•1h ago•1 comments

Scientists Discover Levitating Time Crystals You Can Hold, Defy Newton’s 3rd Law

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-scientists-levitating-crystals.html
3•sizzle•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one

https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-ncaa-basketball
342•bbayles•2mo ago

Comments

cameron_b•2mo ago
This is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
pmarreck•2mo ago
Looks like they got married in 1997

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/07/10/melissa-duffy-scot...

If indeed it's "Scott Elson Corley".

skrrtww•2mo ago
The latter link is referring to different people.
pmarreck•2mo ago
Ah, thanks for pointing that out, you're right.

Deleted the false divorce link ;)

netsharc•2mo ago
It even says Corley, [Actual first name] Scott (Scott as middle name).

Ah, 2025, where people can't even pay attention to the order of words any more.

pmarreck•2mo ago
Maybe DBAD?
koakuma-chan•2mo ago
This feels so medieval, the way the announcement is written.
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS•2mo ago
Pretty standard, actually. Maybe not today, I dunno. I wouldn't say medieval, though.
14•2mo ago
Indeed. It felt like an obituary but to announce a wedding. Looking up the town Wikipedia states a population of just under 20k as of 2020 so back in 1991 when that article was written most likely less. So a very small community and I imagine that back then it was just common for people to make announcements like that.

But I also think the city did hold some old fashioned beliefs and views. 1. "In 1992, Lake Forest gained national attention when it attempted to ban the sale of offensive music to anyone under the age of 18.[15] City council members used existing ordinances against obscenity—defined in the codes as "morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion"—to buttress their campaign.[15] Mayor Charles Clarke stated, "If they sell an obscene tape to somebody underage, we will prosecute."[15] The person who came up most frequently in discussions of obscene content was Ice-T, a rapper who has since also performed as an actor."

Interesting to think back to those days and remember how censored thing were. I was born in the 80s so nude scenes or swearing was just not a thing on standard broadcasting here in Canada. I remember hearing shit on a show at some point and it really stood out. Then channels like Showcase came along and it seemed like it was wild as a teen. Now anything ever aired back then feels tame to today. I am surprised what defines PG13 hasn't been changed because I am certain there is nothing happening in a PG13 movie up to a R rated movie that my teens don't know about. Anyways I am going on here if I continue I am going to start talking about how I am against ID to use the internet. Just found the article like you say strangely written. Cheers

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Forest,_Illinois

aidenn0•2mo ago
While Ice-T was a rapper, I suspect that it was his work with Body Count (a metal group) that was the problem in 1992, as Cop Killer was the poster-child that year for "we need to ban some music"
14•2mo ago
Yes I remember those days. I was pretty young but it definitely made news and was definitely a hot topic. People adamantly argued that music like that was a huge factor influencing defiant, disobedient anti police youth at the time. No mention of the influence of societal and economical disparities many minorities and some communities faced. But the truth is there are many factors that influence all our beliefs and feelings and music is absolutely something that has effect on how we feel.
yed•2mo ago
As someone who grew up in this area at this time period, I can tell you that Lake Forest doesn't have much of a sense of community of it's own separate from the Chicago metropolitan area. North Chicago suburbs tend to sound like small communities on paper, but it's impossible to tell when one ends and another begins, so they all sort of bleed together into a single mega-suburb.

I think it was just normal to put such announcements in the newspaper at this time and this is the format of how it was done.

missingdays•2mo ago
"This content is not available in your region"

Medieval indeed

mproud•2mo ago
The article says High Voltage Software, which is correct.

I hope someone passes this post to him.

mtillman•2mo ago
A guy I know proposed to his wife in the end credits of summoner. They’re still happily married afaik.
xp84•2mo ago
Imagine if you did that - in the end credits - and she couldn’t make it all the way to the end of the game. “Wasn’t meant to be!”
mtillman•2mo ago
Not just that, I think it was summoner 2 which means she’d have to be real committed!
samplatt•2mo ago
Summoner aka the game the "Attacking The Darkness!" video came from! :D
astrocat•2mo ago
The heart-warming gem:

> I sent a note about these Easter eggs to Scott Corley [the game's developer]. He said that he had recently pulled out the game to show the marriage proposal to his son. But he’d forgotten the code and couldn’t make it work! He and Melissa did indeed live happily ever after.

elzbardico•2mo ago
This made my day
theginger•2mo ago
The old trope of forgetting your wedding anniversary cheat code.
QuantumNomad_•2mo ago
At least we know he’s not cheating
giancarlostoro•2mo ago
We got around this by keeping the same number but swapping the months out. Started dating in August, actually got legally married same month, but the ceremony was in October all of the same day. I used the cheat code of familiarity to never forget.
jdeibele•2mo ago
I proposed on 01/01 and got married on 07/07. Both 2001 so 01/01/01 for the proposal but I didn't want to wait until 07/07/07.

I originally wanted to do 01:01 on the 1st but we both were asleep by then. We dated for almost a year before the proposal.

eleveriven•2mo ago
The fact that they did live happily ever after just makes it even sweeter
ralferoo•2mo ago
Or he could have just googled "scott corley melissa".

Using archive.is just because the article is region locked to US-only: https://archive.is/SeCmf

Thorrez•2mo ago
Good thing he didn't just do that, because we got a some good information from Scott's reply.
yreg•2mo ago
Not that it matters, but we would get the same information if he was able to show it to his son that time.
MarkusWandel•2mo ago
"Ever after" with a time limit. If you actually google as someone suggested, the third hit is for the divorce proceedings.
alchemist1e9•2mo ago
Wrong marriage. They are still married today and had four children.
johnisgood•2mo ago
"had" or "has"? Huge difference! I will assume "has".

Edit: oops, yeah, "have", not "has". My bad. :P

alchemist1e9•2mo ago
sorry I changed to “have”.
inanutshellus•2mo ago
Arguably Melissa had four and thus they have four, eh?
UniverseHacker•2mo ago
“Have” is the word you are looking for, “has” isn’t grammatically correct. However, “had” in past tense is also correct, as it refers to the fact that they were born in the past, it does not imply (as you seem to be saying) that the children aren’t alive anymore.
doubled112•2mo ago
I used to have kids. I still do, but I used to too!
johnisgood•2mo ago
You continue to have kids! :D
robotnikman•2mo ago
Aw, that's sweet! Glad it worked out well for him, always nice to see some good news.
proofofconcept•2mo ago
Reminds me of this vid by a guy who did a romhack of Chrono Trigger to propose to his then-gf who was playing through it for the first time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_HMLvLB7b0 "I proposed by hacking Chrono Trigger (Oct 24, 2008, 6m 57s)"

He writes in the description about what he was going for as far as making it seem like part of the actual game while still referencing their romantic history, and how well it worked (good for them!).

powerclue•2mo ago
That's me! I made that 17 years ago, still happily married. Took me like two weeks of full time tinkering. It involved a lot of trial and error messing with a hex editor.
proofofconcept•2mo ago
Good for you both! That is so awesome :D
brian-armstrong•2mo ago
Thank you for sharing the video way back when. I remember thinking it was very touching.
westmeal•2mo ago
Props man, wish you guys a happy life :)
Herodotus38•2mo ago
I remember that video! 14 years ago it inspired me, to program a text adventure game proposal for my wife (still happily married). Thanks!
jihadjihad•2mo ago
The way "romhack" was spelled made me think it meant "romance hack" for a second, which based on the video you linked seems appropriate, too.
Lownin•2mo ago
I'm reminded of this proposal project done with Portal 2 that Valve actually assisted with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8SdYz7cq04
MayeulC•2mo ago
It did make me think of a Borderlands one I heard about. Unfortunately, I cannot find a good writeup, and the video listed here is unavailable: https://gamesbeat.com/7-awesomely-geeky-video-game-marriage-...
AIorNot•2mo ago
Mine did

-back in 2013 I made a short iphone game in unity for my wife and installed it on her phone - when she got past the first level it played a photo montage and marriage proposal, I was also there with a ring btw

BoorishBears•2mo ago
Is Magic The Gathering close enough? https://draftsim.com/mtg-proposal-art/

Apparently it took Richard Garfield (creator of both the game and the card) 3 games before finally drawing the card on a 4th game, and casting it to propose

lovegrenoble•2mo ago
Nice, thanks for sharing.
archargelod•2mo ago
That reminds me about an easter egg[1] in arcade racing game Horizon Chase. If you trace a heart shape (on mobile device/nintendo switch screen) at the start of the race, it plays a short video with a proposal at the end. Game is very fun too.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoeKgQifaO4

rideontime•2mo ago
Fun fact: The song is a music-box version of a song he'd written decades previously: https://youtu.be/LhZHntVt6cI
zkmon•2mo ago
Software teams back then enjoyed much more freedom and natural wild context. IT departments, security, audit etc weren't as pervasive as today. Yahoo chat, movie downloading, online games were all part of work life.
bcraven•2mo ago
I think Sam Andreas' Hot Coffee reveal made a lot of studios very wary of including (on purpose, or accidentally) extra content.
mbg721•2mo ago
Even before that, SimCopter had a bit of a blow-up.
NebulaStorm456•2mo ago
This trope has been used in "Free Guy" movie (not a marriage proposal but as a love letter)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Guy

Guy reveals to Millie that his code is actually a love letter to her from Keys: during the development of Life Itself, Keys had encoded what he knew about her tastes into an AI routine in the game, which was eventually incorporated into Free City, explaining why Guy felt drawn to MolotovGirl.

asimovDev•2mo ago
https://scorley.com

really love Scott's website. what a time capsule. Wish the visitor counter still worked. I hope he's doing alright nowadays

8f2ab37a-ed6c•2mo ago
That's incredible, great find.
muragekibicho•2mo ago
What's the criteria for changing HN post titles?

The earlier posting was 'A marriage proposal hidden across two playstation games' or something like that.

Is there a HN bot doing this or is it the mods?

philipwhiuk•2mo ago
It's the hard suffering mods.
dang•2mo ago
Yes, we changed it in keeping with https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

In this case, though, "Under the microscope: NCAA Basketball Final Four 97 (PlayStation)" didn't seem right, so I used language from the opening paragraph instead. That's one valid place to look, when scouring a page for representative language suitable as a title.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

mos87•2mo ago
ehr.. dozens?

This brings the Fallout 2 memories anyway...

travisjungroth•2mo ago
This one was real.
puzzlingcaptcha•2mo ago
For those who missed out: you could end up in a shotgun wedding then get a divorce in New Reno, Las Vegas-style.
miklosz•2mo ago
Wait till you marry. She will make you play infinite number of games!
skavi•2mo ago
I went to U of I and I’m super curious about that “ I-L-L / I-N-I” option. Any chance someone’s found out what it does?
montag•2mo ago
The Klax port for Game Boy Color (1999) contains a hidden wedding proposal. It took Mike Mika's girlfriend 3 years to find it

https://tcrf.net/Klax_(Game_Boy_Color)

flobosg•2mo ago
Not video games, but the article reminded me of marriage proposals in scientific articles:

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822%281...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037843711...

collinmcnulty•2mo ago
For others clicking through, check the acknowledgements
harel•2mo ago
This little heart warmer taught more more about game/binary hacking than more specific articles on the subject.
eleveriven•2mo ago
A story with emotional weight makes the technical bits stick better
eleveriven•2mo ago
It's like watching someone do digital archaeology, brushing off memory addresses instead of fossils
cowLamp•2mo ago
star wars battlefront 2 (the good one) also has one
wigster•2mo ago
i remember richard garfield (game designer/MTG) created a proposal card...

https://magicuntapped.com/index.php/articles/proposal-the-ma...

demiters•2mo ago
Don't see it mentioned yet - the guy behind the fantastic YouTube channel CodeParade created a beautiful little game, custom engine and everything, all just to propose to his girlfriend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EF91O2wMX0
pgporada•2mo ago
The one I wrote in Perl did. It also worked. https://github.com/pgporada/ourperlgame
alexpotato•2mo ago
I always find stories like this fascinating and heartwarming.

Why?

B/c:

- My wife is not nerdy or technical at all

- In fact, I'm the only one in my entire extended family (cousins etc) that is technical

So anytime I hear a story about married couples where both are SWEs (or equivalent) it's wild to me.

potato3732842•2mo ago
I haven't read the article yet but I assume he's talking about the credits of Star Wars Battlefront 2 from 2005. We'll see if I'm right.

Edit: I was wrong, the author doesn't even list it.

ProfessorZoom•2mo ago
there was one in spider-man, and the girl left him for his brother
ranbato•2mo ago
Grim Dawn by Crate Entertainment has a secret area with a chest containing a wedding ring. Easter Egg for one of their backers to propose.

I'd add a link, but Cloudflare...

mosburger•2mo ago
I didn't do this, but I did use a spare unsigned short (used for memory alignment) in the Quantum Atlas 10K II disk drive's servo firmware to store my wife and I's anniversary date just for yucks. :P
byearthithatius•2mo ago
So incredibly niche and specific but also theoretically viewable/verifiable. This is incredible.
throw7•2mo ago
Does Bill Gates count?
Archit3ch•2mo ago
Reminds me of the player who modded FTL to add an event to propose: https://www.killscreen.com/ftl-proposal/
zillazills•2mo ago
https://www.wowhead.com/npc=121086/shawn#comments

One of the kinder humans I've had the pleasure of knowing and one of the best people I've worked for. He and his wife met playing World of Warcraft. Also, the IRL engagement ring has a UV reactive stone and the same inscription.