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Feds Seek Access to Three Texas State Parks for Border Wall

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02042026/texas-state-parks-border-wall-construction/
1•geox•49s ago•0 comments

Debian Is Figuring Out How Age Verification Laws Will Impact It

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Undecided-Age-Laws
1•breve•1m ago•0 comments

A new (BETA) version package for verifying PyPI attestations of Python packages

https://github.com/Halfblood-Prince/trustcheck
1•halfblood1010•2m ago•0 comments

ACE on a USB→HDMI Adapter

https://blazelight.dev/blog/ms2160.mdx
1•theblazehen•3m ago•0 comments

LLM 'benchmark' – writing code controlling units in a 1v1 RTS

https://yare.io/ai-arena
2•levmiseri•8m ago•0 comments

Syd sandbox has new Tutorial

https://man.exherbo.org/sydtutorial.7.html
1•hayali•12m ago•0 comments

Making a Type Checker/LSP for Nix

https://johns.codes/blog/making-a-type-checker-lsp-for-nix
1•birdculture•16m ago•0 comments

The Oxygen Apocalpyse: how bacteria used a spin diode to wipe out ancient life

https://keiran-rowell.github.io/oxygen/2026-04-02-the-oxygen-apocalypse/
2•KR_compchem•17m ago•0 comments

Shibuya's New 'G-Cha and Ba-Cha' Cafe Is Run by Senior Citizens

https://spoon-tamago.com/shibuya-senior-citizen-cafe/
1•herbertl•17m ago•1 comments

Void: Netflix open-sources a model for physics-aware video object removal

https://firethering.com/void-ai-video-object-removal-physics/
1•steveharing1•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dev Personality Test

https://personality.4m1r.dev/
1•4m1rk•19m ago•0 comments

Seat Pricing Is Dead

http://seatpricing.rip/
6•arnon•20m ago•0 comments

Mad Television Tycoon

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3565020/Mad_Television_Tycoon/
1•doener•25m ago•0 comments

Mecha: A flat-file content management system for minimalists

https://github.com/mecha-cms/mecha
2•indigodaddy•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Harness CLI – Open-source agent loop for long-running app development

https://github.com/hyspacex/harness-cli
1•huanyux•25m ago•0 comments

Offering 1 free hour on marketing and distribution for early builders

1•zonementale•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Weakmap – weak map for Go without use of finalizers

https://codeberg.org/yarmak/weakmap
1•Snawoot•32m ago•0 comments

Cindy Cohn: Privacy's Defender – Fighting Digital Surveillance for over 30 Years [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APYidsm5FOs
2•verdverm•33m ago•0 comments

Dropping capitalist-individualism for democratic-socialist spiritualism

https://thenotoriousdmg.substack.com/p/non-alignment-and-its-consequences
4•himanshu7net•34m ago•0 comments

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
1•lschueller•34m ago•1 comments

Google Now Lets You Change Your Gmail Address

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-change-your-gmail-address/
3•mgh2•35m ago•1 comments

Camels, sailboats and poultry trucks: One man's no-fly journey around the world

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/travel/egyptian-traveler-omar-nok-round-the-world-without-flying
2•NaOH•40m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw CVE and Security Advisory Tracker

https://github.com/jgamblin/OpenClawCVEs/
4•_____k•42m ago•0 comments

SEC Rubio Revokes Green Cards of Foreign Nationals W Ties to Iranian Terror

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/04/secretary-rubio-revokes-green-c...
1•737min•42m ago•0 comments

All the Worst People Seem to Want to Be 'High Agency'

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/opinion/high-agency-silicon-valley.html
7•mrkaye97•42m ago•1 comments

Should you upload blood test results to AI?

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/health-data-perplexity-claude-ai-d792a2df
3•bookofjoe•43m ago•1 comments

OpenRouter Raises $120M at a $1.3B Valuation

https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/openrouter-helps-companies-pick-the-best-ai-for-the-job-and-could-...
4•ryanatallah•45m ago•2 comments

Local LLM for OpenCode Gemma 4 26B A4B. No GPU required

https://grigio.org/the-best-local-llm-for-opencode-gemma-4-26b-a4b-no-gpu-required/
2•grigio•46m ago•0 comments

Hobby CNC machining and resin casting (2015)

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/
1•achierius•47m ago•0 comments

Is MCP Dead? What We Learned on MCP, CLI, and Skills

https://milvus.io/blog/is-mcp-dead-cli-and-skills-for-ai-agents.md
4•Fendy•50m ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

Sopwith – 1984 Game (2000)

http://www.sopwith.org/
58•elvis70•3h ago

Comments

justinhj•2h ago
This game was so fun. I think there's a lot of unexplored game design in this style of 2d aviation.

The multiplayer game Altitude was a good modern example.

jauntywundrkind•2h ago
Lufteauser is a bigger space & higher motion, but has hit some good vibes for me, in this zone. Single player.

We were always begging the daycare to let us play this. Very solid.

teamonkey•1h ago
Do you mean Luftrausers?
lstodd•2h ago
Highfleet is nice.
sheiyei•1h ago
We had an awesome split screen dogfighting game on a Win98 PC where everyone had a Spitfire-like plane and tried to take the others down. You could land at your base and heal etc. Super fun. I think it was called Iron Birds? Don't think I've found it since.
NooneAtAll3•2h ago
I fondly remember what essentially is a more modern clone of Sopwith - "Pe-2 diving bomber"

It is fun. Shoot-bomb-rearm/refuel in missions, upgrade your plane in between

jesse_dot_id•2h ago
This is the first computer game I remember playing on my brother's Commodore Colt. I was very bad at it.
contingencies•2h ago
Superior successor was Wings of Fury. The DOS version.

Honorable mention: Choplifter. Gameboy.

pan69•2h ago
I remember playing this on my families Olivetti M24. It was very difficult. Maybe because the game was speed sensitive and the M24 was an 8086 running 8Mhz. Good times nonetheless.
jedberg•2h ago
I played this on the original IBM PC. (Un)fortunately, my dad got the 8MHz upgrade, so the game was really hard, because it was built for a 4MHz clock.

Luckily someone eventually realeased a DOS utility that would fake a 4MHz clock by making everything take two cycles.

Good times. :)

hencq•1h ago
I think ours had a turbo button that would double/half the clock speed. Good times indeed :)
jedberg•1h ago
I seem to recall that the turbo button didn't come along until the 80286, but some of the PC clones had them before that.

My 486 definitely had a turbo button (that was the one I built after using the original PC for so many years).

vasac•1h ago
The Turbo button worked wonders for Tetris. You start it with turbo turned on, so Tetris adjusts to the computer’s speed - but it only does this once, at startup. As soon as the blocks start falling, you turn the turbo off, and now your Tetris runs at half speed. I even managed, a few times, to roll over a score of 32,768 (ah, those signed integers).
stephenhuey•1h ago
Discovered this on an old Apple 2 in the 90s. Loved the basic physics of things like flying inverted or flying down low and then releasing a bomb while pulling up into a steep climb so the bomb would fly more laterally to a target.
waltbosz•1h ago
I was just thinking of this game last night. I was wondering if AI could take the ASM and convert it into a browser game. Playable w/o DOSBOX.
migueldeicaza•1h ago
Did the site get slashdotted?
danw1979•1h ago
The first time I ever saw a PC it was running Sopwith. Must have been 1989. I loved the game, but it was this exotic new machine that really interested me. It had 5.25” floppies, probably a 286 and quite an old machine by then.

I had only used Z80/128k machines up to then. My dad had an Amstrad 6128, with those 3” “hard” floppies, sturdy, with a decent thick metal gate.

This PC was a very different beast. I remember being confused about the disks. They seemed weak and unprotected ! you could literally see that delicate magnetic surface through the opening. I had always been told never to touch it, but there it was, just asking to be touched…

NikolaNovak•1h ago
One of first games I ever played at my dad's work when I was probably 6 or 7 years old. I've always enjoyed flight Sims, understanding this dubiously qualifies :). I've enjoyed the strategic aspect of fuel and bomb management and while the ai is simple, it provided a challenge.

I now have kids of my own; over the winter I setup an old laptop with old games, and started introducing them chronologically to games like Sopwith, Paratrooper, Alley Cat etc.

My 6 year olds son comment on this game in his journal:

"I like: everything. I don't like: nothing."

Took me a second to not over interpret the seeming double negative :-)

Update : years later I played wings of fury on my cousin's amiga 500 ; far better game but not the same magic :)

ChrisArchitect•1h ago
More info on the SDL Sopwith port project https://fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith/
nikolay•28m ago
That's an outstanding port! Kudos!
Sharlin•49m ago
The classic Sopwith clone from the golden days of the Finnish shareware game scene, Triplane Turmoil, turns thirty this year. It was open sourced in 2009 and community-ported to more modern platforms via SDL. Was a lot of fun back in the days of shared-keyboard multiplayer.

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

nikolay•35m ago
I've spent endless hours playing Sopwith! What a legend!
fwip•31m ago
As a small kid, I learned how to use the DOS command line to launch this game on my parents' PC. I also remember really enjoying Sopwith 2, which added cows, among other things.
pavel_lishin•3m ago
I remember playing this game on my dad's computer, and being largely baffled at what I was supposed to do. Shoot, drop bombs, of course - but how do I land, refuel, how do the points work?

Still a core memory, though.