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Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/near-instantly-aborting-the-worst
1•eatitraw•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nginx-defender – realtime abuse blocking for Nginx

https://github.com/Anipaleja/nginx-defender
2•anipaleja•6m ago•0 comments

The Super Sharp Blade

https://netzhansa.com/the-super-sharp-blade/
1•robin_reala•8m ago•0 comments

Smart Homes Are Terrible

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/smart-homes-technology/685867/
1•tusslewake•9m ago•0 comments

What I haven't figured out

https://macwright.com/2026/01/29/what-i-havent-figured-out
1•stevekrouse•10m ago•0 comments

KPMG pressed its auditor to pass on AI cost savings

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/02/06/kpmg-pressed-its-auditor-to-pass-on-ai-cost-savings/
1•cainxinth•10m ago•0 comments

Open-source Claude skill that optimizes Hinge profiles. Pretty well.

https://twitter.com/b1rdmania/status/2020155122181869666
2•birdmania•10m ago•1 comments

First Proof

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192
2•samasblack•12m ago•1 comments

I squeezed a BERT sentiment analyzer into 1GB RAM on a $5 VPS

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/trendscope-market-scanner
1•mohammede•14m ago•0 comments

Kagi Translate

https://translate.kagi.com
2•microflash•14m ago•0 comments

Building Interactive C/C++ workflows in Jupyter through Clang-REPL [video]

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QX3RPH-building_interactive_cc_workflows_in_jupyter_throug...
1•stabbles•15m ago•0 comments

Tactical tornado is the new default

https://olano.dev/blog/tactical-tornado/
2•facundo_olano•17m ago•0 comments

Full-Circle Test-Driven Firmware Development with OpenClaw

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/07/full-circle-test-driven-firmware-development-with-openclaw/
1•ptorrone•18m ago•0 comments

Automating Myself Out of My Job – Part 2

https://blog.dsa.club/automation-series/automating-myself-out-of-my-job-part-2/
1•funnyfoobar•18m ago•0 comments

Dependency Resolution Methods

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/06/dependency-resolution-methods.html
1•zdw•18m ago•0 comments

Crypto firm apologises for sending Bitcoin users $40B by mistake

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/crypto-firm-apologises-for-sending-bitcoin-users-40-billion...
1•Someone•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: iPlotCSV: CSV Data, Visualized Beautifully for Free

https://www.iplotcsv.com/demo
2•maxmoq•20m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/06/no-such-thing-as-tech/
1•headalgorithm•20m ago•0 comments

List of unproven and disproven cancer treatments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unproven_and_disproven_cancer_treatments
1•brightbeige•21m ago•0 comments

Me/CFS: The blind spot in proactive medicine (Open Letter)

https://github.com/debugmeplease/debug-ME
1•debugmeplease•21m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What are the word games do you play everyday?

1•gogo61•24m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Paper Arena – A social trading feed where only AI agents can post

https://paperinvest.io/arena
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TOSTracker – The AI Training Asymmetry

https://tostracker.app/analysis/ai-training
1•tldrthelaw•29m ago•0 comments

The Devil Inside GitHub

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/github-devil/
2•elashri•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Distill – Migrate LLM agents from expensive to cheap models

https://github.com/ricardomoratomateos/distill
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Show HN: Sigma Runtime – Maintaining 100% Fact Integrity over 120 LLM Cycles

https://github.com/sigmastratum/documentation/tree/main/sigma-runtime/SR-053
1•teugent•30m ago•0 comments

Make a local open-source AI chatbot with access to Fedora documentation

https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-make-a-local-open-source-ai-chatbot-who-has-access-to-fedora-do...
1•jadedtuna•32m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model by Mitchellh

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
1•samtrack2019•32m ago•0 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
1•mellosouls•32m ago•1 comments

The Neuroscience Behind Nutrition for Developers and Founders

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=797
1•01-_-•32m 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.