frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

I'm Not a Robot Game

https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/
79•meetpateltech•3d ago

Comments

singularity2001•2d ago
Level 47: Din Don Dan harder than Deep Blue;)
Tiberium•1h ago
It's very easy if you've played rhythm games before, like Stepmania or osu!mania. I noticed that the music was very desynced, and playing with arrows is really hard on a laptop, so I remapped arrows to DF JK (how I played in osu!mania), and easily passed it (97% acc) without sound on the first try.
Breza•15h ago
The progression in difficulty is great, really hooks you then ramps up
danhau•1h ago
I couldn‘t get past 4. Either Neal or I don‘t know our vegetables.
phito•1h ago
Fruits and berries are not vegetables. But potato man is :)
Etherlord87•1h ago
Tomato is a berry.
phito•1h ago
I did not select tomato.
ArekDymalski•55m ago
A common mistake is to consider a tomato a vegetable, perhaps it might help.
booleandilemma•17m ago
Have you considered you might be a robot?
blixt•1h ago
Ironically, by the end it’s easier to make a bot solve it than do it the human way
phito•1h ago
Really fun and creative! Currently stuck at 17 (draw a circle) because I'm using a laptop in a car :(
MagicMoonlight•1h ago
I beat it by making the circle as big as possible, because that increases the acceptable range of errors
defraudbah•1h ago
48 levels, wow
junon•1h ago
Gave up at 33, the brands one. That's really cute.
Chance-Device•1h ago
It crashed for me at level 7, then restarting level 2 had some bug, so I gave up. Shame.
cubefox•1h ago
I gave up at the vegetable robot check (number 4). Pretty difficult!
MagicMoonlight•1h ago
I really enjoyed the little driving game
Tiberium•1h ago
The facial exam (emotions) was quite interesting, although not very accurate, I had to spend over 1 minute on some of the emotions. At least it's powered by a very tiny ML model that runs locally in the browser, powered by https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/face-api.js

> The face expression recognition model is lightweight, fast and provides reasonable accuracy. The model has a size of roughly 310kb and it employs depthwise separable convolutions and densely connected blocks. It has been trained on a variety of images from publicly available datasets as well as images scraped from the web. Note, that wearing glasses might decrease the accuracy of the prediction results.

Panzerschrek•1h ago
Stuck on level 11. What is Waldo? Should I fail this level to prove I am not a robot?
OlivOnTech•54m ago
Search "where is waldo" online. It's a famous book series where you have to find a person on complex setups
Kiro•1h ago
How do I solve level 7? It wants me to select stop signs and bikes from a bunch of letters.
delusional•1h ago
You select the words.
sedatk•57m ago
I gave up at "Mark all squares of the 64th floor of the Empire State Building"[1]. I had even spent an hour on the chess challenge, but that one looked tasteless if I wasn't missing a trick. I thought that I was supposed to try all the floors close to 64 (considering the topmost one below the tower was 86). I really didn't have the patience for that, especially the possibility of missing to mark an overflowing pixel line, etc.

Also, I hit a bug at the AI challenge which prevented me to pass it. So I had to spent at least 5-6 more tries to pass it.[2]

Fun, but wouldn't go near it again :)

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lz3gxm42jc2w

[2] https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lz2o4mdrzc2l

nialv7•48m ago
Is there something I am missing for level 6? Tic-Tac-Toe is not winnable if I don't start first.

Edit: never mind. turn off dark reader if you have the same problem.

pmg101•16m ago
I just jumped in quick before it could go
toxik•42m ago
Happy to stop on the panorama level, 48 levels? Jesus!
jansan•39m ago
I got stuck at the level where it asked me this:

"You're in a desert, walking along when you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not with out your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?"

austinjp•37m ago
Excellent! I had to give up at the Waldo level, impossible on mobile.
munchlax•19m ago
Totally doable on mobile. Perhaps you can set Firefox to always allow zoom in a11y settings. Zoom helped me a lot.

I got stuck on finding a "guitar cat" in Germany.

booleandilemma•18m ago
I always admire the level of effort Neal puts into his creations. Bravo!
vessenes•18m ago
I’d like to see browser agent modes publish their scores on this. Definitely the next great benchmark
jachee•11m ago
I got to 30 before I called it. Been too long since I’ve done sliding-tile puzzles to remember the algorithms.
binaryturtle•7m ago
Can't get past level 2 with Firefox 78 ESR. "Select all the squares with a Stop Sign", but no squares for selecting show up, so there's nothing to select. Unless I miss a joke somewhere in there?
cornonthecobra•6m ago
I couldn't get past level 3? It never shows any text in the box

Less is safer: How Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

https://obsidian.md/blog/less-is-safer/
325•saeedesmaili•11h ago•146 comments

I'm Not a Robot Game

https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/
80•meetpateltech•3d ago•35 comments

Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners

https://focusstream.media
16•pariharAshwin•2h ago•15 comments

If all the world were a monorepo

https://jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the-world-were-a-monorepo
137•sebg•4d ago•40 comments

PYREX vs. Pyrex: What's the Difference?

https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/products/life-sciences/resources/stories/in-the-field/pyrex-...
40•lisper•2h ago•20 comments

Compiling with Continuations

https://swatson555.github.io/posts/2025-09-16-compiling-with-continuations.html
37•swatson741•3d ago•1 comments

High-performance read-through cache for object storage

https://github.com/s2-streamstore/cachey
37•pranay01•5h ago•6 comments

If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents

https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-agents-and-code-review/
22•imasl42•4h ago•8 comments

Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory

https://weuseelixir.com/
158•taddgiles•13h ago•29 comments

Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abuse for data exfiltration

https://www.codeintegrity.ai/blog/notion
121•abirag•11h ago•32 comments

Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed

https://feedmaker.fly.dev
129•mustaphah•12h ago•21 comments

Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ant-queens-seem-to-defy-biology-they-lay-eggs-tha...
388•sampo•21h ago•122 comments

The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press

https://windowsread.me/p/best-youtube-downloaders
330•Leftium•21h ago•150 comments

Sangaku Puzzle I Can't Solve

https://samjshah.com/2025/08/05/sangaku-puzzle-i-cant-solve/
12•speckx•3d ago•0 comments

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/internet-archives-big-battle-with-music-publishers-en...
312•coloneltcb•4d ago•121 comments

Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]

https://pup-e.com/goodbye-rubygems.pdf
651•jolux•1d ago•220 comments

Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to Be Agent-First

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00997
16•derekhecksher•5h ago•4 comments

Claude Can (Sometimes) Prove It

https://www.galois.com/articles/claude-can-sometimes-prove-it
3•lairv•2d ago•0 comments

Three-Minute Take-Home Test May Identify Symptoms Linked to Alzheimer's Disease

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-minute-take-home-test-may-identify-symptoms-linke...
89•pseudolus•14h ago•44 comments

A 3D-Printed Business Card Embosser

https://www.core77.com/posts/138492/A-3D-Printed-Business-Card-Embosser
79•surprisetalk•2d ago•24 comments

Kernel: Introduce Multikernel Architecture Support

https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250918222607.186488-1-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com/
156•ahlCVA•17h ago•44 comments

Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin's ideas at home

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/your-very-own-humane-interface-try-jef-raskins-ideas-at-h...
92•zdw•15h ago•13 comments

Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig

https://github.com/barddoo/zedis
102•barddoo•11h ago•74 comments

Micro-LEDs boost random number generation

https://discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/25936/micro-leds-boost-random-number-generation/
44•giuliomagnifico•3d ago•14 comments

Shipping 100 hardware units in under eight weeks

https://farhanhossain.substack.com/p/how-we-shipped-100-hardware-units
129•M_farhan_h•1d ago•74 comments

An untidy history of AI across four books

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/perplexity
104•ewf•15h ago•35 comments

R MCP Server

https://github.com/finite-sample/rmcp
90•neehao•3d ago•12 comments

Faster Argmin on Floats

https://algorithmiker.github.io/faster-float-argmin/
17•return_to_monke•1d ago•7 comments

Grok 4 Fast

https://x.ai/news/grok-4-fast
71•meetpateltech•7h ago•42 comments

Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-adding-new-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-bloom...
1074•mriguy•13h ago•1386 comments