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Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
1•birdculture•56s ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•6m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•8m ago•1 comments

I replaced the front page with AI slop and honestly it's an improvement

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•12m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•14m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
2•tosh•20m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
2•oxxoxoxooo•24m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•24m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
2•goranmoomin•28m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•29m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•31m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•33m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
2•myk-e•36m ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•37m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
4•1vuio0pswjnm7•39m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•40m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•42m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•45m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•50m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•52m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•55m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•1h ago•1 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•1h ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•1h ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•1h ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Bird Game 3 – Online trend or marketing genius?

2•SergiuNistor•1mo ago
I keep seeing reels related to Bird Game 3 (here's a compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSu1OuTQBfM).

Bird Game 3 is depicted as this old game (~2009 iirc) which used to have lots of players, and cool, engaging multiplayer mechanics, giving you this sense of "second-hand nostalgia". Some reels even claim that the servers have been closed. I rarely play games (maybe once a year), but the reels indeed convinced me to at least look into the game, especially since it is so popular.

However, it turns out Bird Game 3 never existed, and all the videos are AI-generated. There are 3 possibilities: 1. This is just a trend, and people simply keep it going for fun 2. This is a genius market validation/marketing scheme for a game that's about to drop soon 3. All of the above

Curious about your opinions. It might be that this approach is already popular, but I was not aware of it.

Comments

Nair0•1mo ago
I pretty much saw the trend evolving over time, and I'm pretty sure it's just something that happened, nothing planned.

There is an indie dev making a Bird Game prototype now, because of the trend, but it's a small project so I doubt he had this in plan.

SergiuNistor•1mo ago
Oh I'm sure a lot of people are trying to develop the game, as a result of the reels.
bityard•1mo ago
Are you trying to imply that someone would actually lie in an advertisement or marketing campaign?
SergiuNistor•1mo ago
It's not simply the classic "let's act like we got the tech ready (we do not) and we will launch soon". There's an interesting nuance to it.

It's more like "let's act like this game already existed for 15 years, and this is what the gameplay was like, and people loved it".

icetearun•1mo ago
Wild how convincing AI content can be. Shows the power of perception in marketing. For creators or indie devs trying to test ideas, tools like Amplift.ai can help validate interest and reach audiences without needing a real product yet.