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Show HN: Per Diem, a daily dice game like Balatro

https://perdiem.loch.tools
1•lwansbrough•59m ago
I love Balatro and have had a fascination with daily games recently. RNGdle in particular sparked my interest because of its dopamine-factory style gameplay. Per Diem takes a similar approach.

In Per Diem, each day you cast 5 dice from a sack randomly. The pips and patterns (ie. snake eyes) are scored, producing your final score for the day. You get one roll a day, so the challenge is maximizing your scoring potential. Charms are the mechanism by which you tilt the odds in your favour: charms can modify the pip score and the multiplier. Each day presents a new "encounter" which slightly modifies the rules of the game, requiring a new strategic approach.

Because charms are not freely available, the game scales over days as you score points, earn coins, and purchase better charms from the shop. In order to keep your score and charms you should sign in. Currently only Discord sign ins are supported - this is admittedly a bit of a growth hack: when you sign in, you can see a leaderboard for each Discord server you're apart of, which makes competition a little more fun.

I made this mostly as a fun way to test out my knowledge on how to build a viral product with some built in growth mechanisms, and now I'm testing to see if it holds up against an audience like HN. :) Let me know what you think!

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1•mmattbtw•4m ago•0 comments

A Million Kakapos

https://blog.mempko.com/a-million-kakapos/
2•birdculture•5m ago•0 comments

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1•se4u•6m ago•0 comments

Quiet BPD: The Hidden War Inside Your Mind

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Multi-functional oral small molecule to treat obesity

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2•eutropheon•13m ago•0 comments

Google Cloud postmortem for us-west1 August incident

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3•fastest963•18m ago•0 comments

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1•sakuraiben•18m ago•0 comments

What the heck is a context layer

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The advent of capable AI tools has highighted a variant of Simpson's paradox

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1•ColinWright•21m ago•0 comments

Australia's Nationwide Phone Outage Was an Embarrassing Failure

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2•anonymousiam•22m ago•1 comments

My $120 GE smart scale's body fat is just 1.5 × BMI − 17.5

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3•Icons8•23m ago•0 comments

Using LLMs to Make the Emacs Web Browser Great Again

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Running local large language models: not as difficult as you might think

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1•sebg•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Note taking app good at Spanish?

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4•elyosh•28m ago•0 comments

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

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3•sebg•30m ago•0 comments

Buried in Meta's $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids' data

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7•sbulaev•32m ago•0 comments

Knowledge Health: observability for your knowledge base

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1•fagnerbrack•38m ago•0 comments

Why I Am Right About AI [by Paul "Claude" Gigot]

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3•samizdis•43m ago•1 comments

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Situs Inversus

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2•sjclemmy•46m ago•0 comments

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2•nadermx•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ArtGram – a notation system for abstract paintings

https://artgraph.co/artgram
1•rituraj•51m ago•0 comments

AI's memory crunch is coming for Android apps

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3•627467•52m ago•0 comments

AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab

https://github.com/calmrocks/ai-engineer-notebooks
2•calmrocks•52m ago•0 comments

I built a pure-Rust headless browser. No Chromium. No V8

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2•syumei•52m ago•0 comments

Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license "vibe code"?

https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.en.html
3•WhyNotHugo•54m ago•0 comments