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Show HN: Alien Abducto-rama: a FUN browser game I made with my kids

https://studio.mfelix.org/alien-abductorama/
4•threekindwords•1h ago
I built this over the holiday break with my two girls (ages 6 and 8). You pilot a UFO and beam up humans, cows, cats, dogs, and sheep for points. They drew all the art while I talked to Claude Code to scaffold the game logic.

The magic moment was watching my kids use voice dictation to talk directly to Claude Code. My 8-year-old asked for a "purpler" tractor beam and watched it change in real time. She wasn’t coding, but she _was_ driving: describing what she wanted, testing the result, and iterating fast. It was really cool to watch... later on she asked me what javascript was and we dug into the source.

Since then we've added a UFO Shopping Mall between waves (spend UFO bucks on power-ups), bombs, laser turrets, a dodge roll called "warp juke," and a top 100 leaderboard. There's also in-game feedback where you can submit and upvote feature requests. Building all these little features has been a great excuse to put in reps with AI coding tools and try out new stuff like Gastown.

You'll need a desktop and keyboard to play. Try to beat my high score! Would love feedback on what to add or what's broken... we'll ship the best suggestions. Thanks and have fun!

Snail Tales

https://snailtales.surge.sh/
1•Anniediamond•2m ago•1 comments

Why Is the US Sliding Toward Authoritarianism?

https://text.tchncs.de/afoqfda99f
7•doener•3m ago•0 comments

The rise of Chinese memory [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzfhhAfxK-A
1•elestor•3m ago•0 comments

Pondpilot: A lightweight local first SQL analytics tool using DuckDB

https://github.com/pondpilot/pondpilot
2•tanelpoder•4m ago•0 comments

A Screen Time Limiting App That Works

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/appblock-app-usage-hard-stop/id6757147703
1•dev_at•4m ago•1 comments

Fear Is More Dangerous Than Evil [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ3-_olGe2s&list=PLcs1ZorNr2uTGPZPZnBa408qLVHjbMTzT&index=4
1•eamag•5m ago•0 comments

Wix plans to let AI write most code, leaving engineers to redefine their role

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r1u0ydglzg
2•myth_drannon•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: I am a surgeon/doctor. What ai literature/courses would you recommend?

2•emmabruns•8m ago•0 comments

Launch of "Russian Starlink" Postponed Due to Satellite Production Failure

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/launch-of-russian-starlink-postponed-due-to-satellite-production-f...
1•giuliomagnifico•8m ago•0 comments

git-pkgs: A Git subcommand that indexes dependency changes into a database

https://git-pkgs.dev/
1•zdw•10m ago•0 comments

Thucydides's Trap Case File

https://www.belfercenter.org/programs/thucydidess-trap/thucydidess-trap-case-file
1•doener•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PromptUI – AI kept giving me the same boring UI. So I fixed it

https://www.promptui.xyz/
1•exos-xyz•14m ago•0 comments

December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more

https://servo.org/blog/2026/01/23/december-in-servo/
1•t-3•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: To chase "The Flow" or to avoid it as progress doesn't come easy?

3•gajnadsgjoas•18m ago•1 comments

Tao Te Ching – Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

https://github.com/nrrb/tao-te-ching/blob/master/Ursula%20K%20Le%20Guin.md
2•andsoitis•19m ago•0 comments

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-00088-9/index.html
14•Anon84•20m ago•0 comments

Shapeshifting materials could power next generation of soft robots

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-shapeshifting-materials-power-generation-soft.html
2•Brajeshwar•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kloak – a privacy-first Discord alternative with no email or passwords

https://kloak.app/
1•lakshikag•26m ago•2 comments

Sylve – Modern Bhyve Virtualization and Clustering on FreeBS

https://gyptazy.com/blog/sylve-a-proxmox-alike-webui-for-bhyve-on-freebsd/
1•indigodaddy•26m ago•0 comments

The future of work when work is meaningless

https://letters.thedankoe.com/p/the-future-of-work-when-work-is-meaningless
3•saikatsg•27m ago•0 comments

ollama launch

https://ollama.com/blog/launch
3•tosh•28m ago•0 comments

We are experiencing an issue with Gmail beginning on Saturday, 2026-01-24 13:02

https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/NNnDkY9CJ36annsfytjQ
17•donutshop•29m ago•11 comments

Agent is building things you'll never use

https://mahdiyusuf.com/your-agent-is-building-things-youll-never-use/
3•googletron•30m ago•1 comments

Discourse Poison Fountain

https://github.com/elmuerte/discourse-poison-fountain
2•atomic128•30m ago•1 comments

I made a CLI tool that turns free Gemini into a local AI agent

https://pypi.org/project/gemcli/
3•bossTheCross•30m ago•1 comments

Surviving the Crawlers

https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/surviving-the-crawlers
2•homebrewer•34m ago•0 comments

Is Greenland in danger of being overrun by Russia and China?

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/greenland-russians-chinese-nato-8q6pvgdx6
4•lysace•35m ago•4 comments

Progress in Graph Processing (2015)

https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2015-12-24.md
2•tosh•36m ago•0 comments

NES Game Genie Technical Notes (2001)

https://tuxnes.sourceforge.net/gamegenie.html
3•PaulHoule•36m ago•0 comments

We won't need CI in 5 years

https://thefridaydeploy.substack.com/p/we-wont-need-ci-in-5-years
3•telliott1984•37m ago•0 comments