frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Show HN: A chess.com profiler that runs Stockfish in the browser

https://the-law-1.github.io/chess-insights/
1•the_law•49m ago
Hi HN!

I've been wanting to work with data, and I've also been in (yet another) chess era. So I started working on (yet another!) chess programming project.

You enter your chess.com username, a date range, and a max number of games. The tool fetches your games via the public chess.com API, identifies the ~10-15 most critical positions per game (captures, promotions, large clock drops, pre-checkmate sequences) and runs Stockfish at low depth on each of those positions in a Web Worker right there in the browser.

From that it builds a profile across all your games: - Which piece type you blunder with most - Which openings give you the most trouble - How your avg clock usage correlates with winrate - Endgame performance broken down by material configuration - Piece activity in wins vs losses - Castling timing and its correlation with results - and more, in varying degrees of usefulness

Stack: Vue 3 + TypeScript, chess.js for PGN parsing, Stockfish WASM in a Web Worker.

No backend, no login, no data leaves your browser. Built this for myself but figured others might find it useful. Would especially love feedback from stronger players on whether the insights are actually useful or just noise. So far, even though some stats are obvious (my winrate improves when I think longer, interesting!), it helps to visualise it.

Information/disclaimer: As this web tool runs only in the browser, I have made performance concessions to keep it as light and fast as possible. For this reason, some of the statistics may not be 100% accurate. It's more of a proof-of-concept/experiment. However, if you found it fun, interesting, or you have feedback or feature requests, let me know and I'll be happy to chat. It also uses somewhat experimental features (WASM/service workers) and is prone to some unexplainable bugs sadly. Thanks for reading!!

An Accent in the National Anthem

https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/16/immigration-assimilation-melting-pot-baseball-america/
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

JA4 fingerprinting: a better way to identify clients

https://bunny.net/blog/ja4-fingerprinting-a-better-way-to-identify-clients/
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

Are We Asymmetric Yet?

https://areweasymmetricyet.dev/
1•mzyz•1m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

https://www.seangoedecke.com/steering-vectors/
1•Brajeshwar•2m ago•0 comments

The Transformation of Documents: Repositories Are the New Unit of Knowledge Work

https://blog.sigplan.org/2026/05/15/the-transformation-of-documents-repositories-are-the-new-unit...
1•rbanffy•3m ago•0 comments

Venus Surface Formations Puzzle Planetary Scientists

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/bizarre-venus-surface-formations-puzzle-planetary-scientists
1•rbanffy•4m ago•0 comments

Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, MHC, Compressed Attention

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/recent-developments-in-llm-architectures
1•vismit2000•8m ago•0 comments

Wow – these are the AI sources worth paying attention to

https://fav0.com/en/2026-05-16/
1•Justin3go•14m ago•0 comments

Research paper of Atlantic white shark migratory patterns

https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v580/p1-16
1•realsharkymark•16m ago•1 comments

Someone forked my repo, then submitted a PR written by Claude

https://github.com/dacracot/Klondike3-Simulator/pull/53
2•dacracot•19m ago•1 comments

Math, Bits, Magic, and a Bit of Abnormal C Programming

https://alexeev-dev.bearblog.dev/math-bits-magic-and-a-bit-of-abnormal-c-programming/
1•alexeev-prog•19m ago•1 comments

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/openai-launches-chatgpt-for-personal-finance-will-let-you-conne...
1•mwexler•22m ago•1 comments

Jane Street Interview Simulator

https://janestreet.gg/
1•throwaway2037•22m ago•1 comments

Popular node-IPC NPM package compromised to steal credentials

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/popular-node-ipc-npm-package-compromised-to-steal-...
1•Brajeshwar•26m ago•0 comments

Virtual memory explained as a dialogue between a process and the Linux kernel

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/virtual-memory
2•wizerno•27m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do you still spend time maintaining Claude.md / AGENTS.md files?

2•david_d8912•27m ago•0 comments

MiniPlasma

https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/MiniPlasma
1•throwaway2027•29m ago•0 comments

Why 'Smart' Products Have Started to Look Like the Dumb Choice

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/magazine/dumb-phones-tvs-retronym-smart-tech.html
2•reaperducer•30m ago•0 comments

MiniPlasma, a Powerful LPE

https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/2026/05/
2•throwaway2027•31m ago•0 comments

Why DKIM Fails and How to Fix Every Type of Alignment Error

https://dmarcguard.io/blog/dkim-alignment-failure-fix/
2•meysamazad•31m ago•0 comments

The world model that every AI godfather is racing to figure out

https://fortune.com/2026/04/23/goldman-sachs-ai-world-model-missing-link/
1•fcpguru•33m ago•2 comments

US Government openly schemes to indict Raúl Castro as prelude to invading Cuba

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/16/raul-castro-cuba-indictment-trump-invasio...
3•ck2•34m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Layrr – Point Click and Edit any site

https://www.npmjs.com/package/layrr
1•kiranjohns•34m ago•0 comments

What Is JEPA? Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture Framework Prediction

https://medium.com/@tahirbalarabe2/what-is-jepa-085ca776013a
1•fcpguru•34m ago•0 comments

Google sued for firing staff who tried to follow 'Don't be evil' motto (2021)

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2021/12/01/google-sued-for-firing-staff-who-claim-they-tried-...
1•gurjeet•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: League of Early Adopters – Give product feedback, get product feedback

https://sitenote.ai/league-of-early-adopters
1•sarim•41m ago•1 comments

AI Agents Are Tools, Not Replacements

https://derogab.com/2026/05/15/AI-Tools-Not-Replacements/
1•derogab•47m ago•1 comments

My Mom taught me HTML (and the rest was history)

https://ascii-tweezers.bearblog.dev/my-mom-taught-me-html-and-the-rest-was-history/
1•speckx•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A chess.com profiler that runs Stockfish in the browser

https://the-law-1.github.io/chess-insights/
1•the_law•49m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Exchange, Windows 11 hacked on second day of Pwn2Own

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pwn2own-day-two-hackers-demo-microsoft-exchange-wi...
2•Brajeshwar•49m ago•0 comments