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Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim

https://silentshark.app/
1•epaga•1h ago
I posted an early beta of this game a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180924 - May 2026 (45 comments) and today released the full version.

You all gave extremely valuable and helpful feedback back then - thank you so much for that. It led to a lot of improvements:

* I reworked the onboarding tutorials multiple times for clarity, adding protections to stop players from shooting themselves in the foot

* I dropped the Comic Sans-reminiscent font and replaced it with Barlow Condensed

* I improved the layout of the dials for all screen sizes to keep players on top of things

* I added an "Angle-on-Bow recognition trainer" for practicing estimates of ship angles

For the full version, I fleshed out a full campaign with radio intelligence, patrol zones, and lots of historical events impacting things like which naval bases still exist, which types of missions are given, and how reliable your torpedoes are. (And just for fun, I added a full cribbage mini-game as well!)

Now, just minutes ago - almost exactly six months after I started development - I fully released Silent Shark on Steam (Windows, macOS, and Linux) and can't wait to see where things go from here. I have lots of ideas that could work well with this more map-centered approach.

The Steam page is here => https://store.steampowered.com/app/4705650

The landing page is here => https://silentshark.app

I'd be really interested in whether you think the onboarding is clear enough now, and if you have related game ideas that might benefit from a more map-based UI.

Solving Hack the Box Challenges with Grok 4.6

https://theaq.blog/2026/08/12/solving-htb-challenges-with-x-ai-grok-4.6.html
1•HonzaT•3m ago•0 comments

Custom Git Trailers with Magit

https://blog.fidelramos.net/software/emacs-custom-magit-trailers
1•fidelramos•4m ago•0 comments

Ruminating about mutable value semantics

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/ruminating-about-mutable-value-semantics/
1•fanf2•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We revived the archived Kubernetes Dashboard (Angular 16 → 22)

https://github.com/isms-core-project/kubernetes-dashboard
1•isms-core-adm•8m ago•0 comments

You Can't Count on a Key

https://primecrunch.com/blog/7/you-can-t-count-on-a-key
1•andyhedges•8m ago•0 comments

Does anyone still use Wickr?

https://aws.amazon.com/wickr/download/
1•0xWTF•9m ago•0 comments

A road could change West Africa's urban future

https://apps.npr.org/west-africa-trade-growth-economy-nigeria-ghana-lagos/
1•mooreds•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Linear agent that runs Claude Code sessions on your own machine

https://github.com/MPIsaac-Per/linear-claude-bridge
1•MPIsaac-Per•9m ago•0 comments

Can you tell if a comment is AI?

https://talkshi.com/blog/reddit-or-ai
1•greenfish6•10m ago•1 comments

7 Steps I follow when building infra monitoring from scratch (SLO first)

https://omarghader.github.io/monitoring-infrastructure-guide-2026/
1•omarghader•10m ago•0 comments

The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/09/city-drug-addiction-harm-reduction-policy/687967/
2•speckx•12m ago•0 comments

AI Coding and Its Discontents

https://calnewport.com/on-ai-coding-and-its-discontents/
1•quaintdev•12m ago•1 comments

Which countries have the best cyber security? Albania tops the global list

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/08/12/which-countries-have-the-best-cyber-security-albania-top...
4•billybuckwheat•12m ago•0 comments

OpenCommand: Open catcher-target and pitcher-command data for MLB

https://github.com/tomdoyo/open-command
1•coloneltcb•13m ago•0 comments

I Asked AI to Write a Novel. It's Not So Bad

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/artificial-intelligence-ai-claude-write-novel-anthro...
1•mathgenius•13m ago•0 comments

Apple billboard featuring toddler with iPhone causes controversy in Italy

https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/12/apple-billboard-featuring-toddler-with-iphone-causes-controversy-i...
4•cdrnsf•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tandem Terminal – Share your terminal with a friend

https://tandem-terminal.com/
1•tn_•17m ago•1 comments

Texas Locked a Foreign Company's Domain over Missing Digital ID Checks

https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-locked-a-foreign-companys-domain-over-missing-digital-id-checks
4•Cider9986•20m ago•1 comments

The AI Era Arcs Toward Openness

https://opensource.org/blog/the-ai-era-arcs-toward-openness
1•pentagrama•21m ago•1 comments

AI Agent Sandboxes Stop Escapes. They Don't Tell You What Happened Inside

https://rye.ai/blog/ai-agent-sandboxes-ebpf-runtime-visibility/
1•wakahiu•21m ago•0 comments

Claude for Chrome

https://claude.com/claude-in-chrome
4•mfiguiere•23m ago•0 comments

Y Combinator is doing things

https://twitter.com/jasonfreedman/status/2087613532334616923
2•barry-cotter•24m ago•0 comments

Spect Image Formation [pdf]

https://courses.grainger.illinois.edu/npre435/fa2019/notes/spect%20Image%20Formation,%20Design%20...
1•Eridanus2•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sleezr – Manage your hosts file without opening a terminal

https://www.sleezr.com/en
1•locahl_app•24m ago•0 comments

Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman on Getting to the Fun Faster with AI

https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202607/noti3372/noti3372.html
1•mathgenius•25m ago•0 comments

The spatial distr. of the U.S. childfree population: Does state context matter?

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0352872
1•littlexsparkee•26m ago•0 comments

Linux Security Audit Claude Code Plugin

https://github.com/jonaslejon/linux-security-audit-plugin/
1•jonasl•28m ago•0 comments

Vibe-Coding Startup Lovable Hits $13B Valuation

https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/vibe-coding-startup-lovable-hits-13-billion-valuati...
2•bookofjoe•29m ago•1 comments

The Production AI Stack: A Reference Architecture for Real-Time AI Systems

https://www.moss.dev/blog/the-production-ai-stack
1•srimalireddi•30m ago•0 comments

Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

https://brandur.org/fragments/postgres-without-pgbouncer
3•abelanger•33m ago•0 comments