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The <time> element should do something

https://nolanlawson.com/2025/12/14/the-time-element-should-actually-do-something/
1•todsacerdoti•51s ago•0 comments

Google's Advent of Agents

https://adventofagents.com/
2•shubham_saboo•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: In-browser data exploration toolkit

https://github.com/Datakitpage/Datakit
1•parsabg•5m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Linux-rs Project

https://mateolafalce.github.io/2025/The%20Future%20of%20the%20Linux-rs%20Project/TheFutureoftheLi...
1•lafalce•6m ago•1 comments

Muslim hero risked his own life to save others

https://ahmedelahmed.com
2•dorongrinstein•7m ago•2 comments

Anthropic Outage for Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4/4.5 across all services

https://status.claude.com/incidents/9g6qpr72ttbr
5•pablo24602•11m ago•3 comments

Ozymandias

https://blog.engora.com/2025/12/ozymandias.html
1•Vermin2000•11m ago•1 comments

The Plan Is the Program

https://www.proofofconcept.pub/p/the-plan-is-the-program
1•herbertl•12m ago•0 comments

AI will transform science. Just not the way you think

https://ischemist.com/writings/long-form/will-ai-transform-science
1•hiddenseal•13m ago•0 comments

My Battle with Datetimes in Prod

https://www.datacompose.io/blog/fun-with-datetimes
1•tccole•14m ago•1 comments

Distropack now supports TAR archives aside from RPM DEB and PKG

https://distropack.dev/Blog/Post?slug=introducing-tar-package-support-simple-distribution-without...
1•segfault0x23•17m ago•1 comments

Job security in the age of AI? Get a state license – any state license

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/15/job-security-state-license
3•bookofjoe•17m ago•0 comments

Rethinking a Mathematical Notation for Possible LLM Applications

https://ursaxza.substack.com/p/a-hole-new-word
1•ursAxZA•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Carolina Cloud – 1/3 the cost of AWS for data science workloads

https://carolinacloud.io/
1•bojangleslover•20m ago•0 comments

Avoiding Fallback and Cold Paths

https://timkellogg.me/blog/2021/01/29/cold-paths
1•fanf2•22m ago•0 comments

Trump's new visa fee inhibits hiring teachers in California – CalMatters

https://calmatters.org/education/2025/12/teaching-jobs-california-foreign-worker-visa/
2•bilsbie•28m ago•0 comments

How do you stay focused while working on a computer all day?

1•Ben_Tycho•32m ago•2 comments

Opik Agent Optimizer – Open-Source Prompt Optimization Framework

https://github.com/comet-ml/opik/tree/main/sdks/opik_optimizer
4•calebkaiser•34m ago•0 comments

Is Your Startup Failure Your War or Shame?

https://manidoraisamy.com/startup-failure.html
1•QueensGambit•34m ago•0 comments

Reviving, reproducing, and revisiting Axelrod's second tournament

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15438
2•m-hodges•36m ago•0 comments

Current Game and Season Materials (First Tech Challenge 2025-2026)

https://ftc-resources.firstinspires.org/ftc/game
1•dustfinger•37m ago•0 comments

AI-Driven Development Life Cycle: Reimagining Software Engineering

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/ai-driven-development-life-cycle/
1•asasidh•40m ago•0 comments

Building Secure OTA Updates for ESP32 over BLE with Rust – Harry Gill

https://gill.net.in/posts/building-secure-ota-updates-for-esp32-over-ble-with-rust/
1•mygnu•42m ago•0 comments

Do you think a job seekers front product a bad idea?

1•madeye7•43m ago•0 comments

Tesla Europe registrations drop 36% in November

https://www.automotiveworld.com/news/tesla-europe-registrations-drop-36-in-november/
21•randycupertino•43m ago•2 comments

I've been sleeping on Chinese models

https://kylenessen.com/ive-been-sleeping-on-chinese-models/
2•kylenessen•46m ago•1 comments

A Cosmic Offense: Elias Canetti's contest against death

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/cosmic-offense
2•diodorus•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cut the Crap – A meritocratic community for builders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2xdJ5ISoTI
1•shrutisingh18•47m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Please suggest a smart watch that can be customized

4•VladVladikoff•48m ago•2 comments

Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/copywriters-reveal-how-ai-has-decimated-their-industry/
1•abdelhousni•48m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Bird Game 3 – Online trend or marketing genius?

2•SergiuNistor•8h 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•7h 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•7h ago
Oh I'm sure a lot of people are trying to develop the game, as a result of the reels.
bityard•7h ago
Are you trying to imply that someone would actually lie in an advertisement or marketing campaign?
SergiuNistor•7h 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".