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Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

https://immich.app/blog/google-flags-immich-as-dangerous
385•janpio•7h ago•127 comments

Run interactive commands in Gemini CLI

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/say-hello-to-a-new-level-of-interactivity-in-gemini-cli/
43•ridruejo•6d ago•9 comments

Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation

https://github.com/character-ai/Ovi
262•montyanderson•8h ago•97 comments

Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware

https://blog.google/technology/research/quantum-echoes-willow-verifiable-quantum-advantage/
399•AbhishekParmar•12h ago•196 comments

Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs

https://ian.sh/fia
291•galnagli•9h ago•58 comments

Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

https://evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wrote-that-i-use-all-the-time/
565•speckx•13h ago•181 comments

JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart

https://stalw.art/blog/jmap-collaboration/
270•StalwartLabs•10h ago•113 comments

Why SSA Compilers?

https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/10/21/ssa-1/
130•transpute•7h ago•38 comments

Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots

https://abstractboardgames.com/
69•abstractbg•6d ago•22 comments

Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1980397031542989305
153•JnBrymn•1d ago•47 comments

The first interstellar software update: The hack that saved Voyager 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0K7u3B_8rY
35•daemonologist•1w ago•6 comments

Show HN: Semantic Art – Uses natural language prompts to find real artwork

https://www.semantic.art/
8•bbischof•10h ago•1 comments

Rivian's TM-B electric bike

https://www.theverge.com/news/804157/rivian-tm-b-electric-bike-price-specs-helmet-quad
166•hasheddan•9h ago•269 comments

Derek Sivers's database and web apps

https://github.com/sivers/sivers
16•surprisetalk•6d ago•3 comments

Common yeast can survive Martian conditions

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-common-yeast-survive-martian-conditions.html
64•geox•1w ago•34 comments

Element: setHTML() method

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/setHTML
138•todsacerdoti•18h ago•68 comments

The Sodium-Ion Battery Revolution Has Started

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/10/22/the-sodium-ion-battery-revolution-has-started/
9•xbmcuser•2h ago•1 comments

VortexNet: Neural network based on fluid dynamics

https://github.com/samim23/vortexnet
16•vegax87•5h ago•1 comments

LibCube: Find new sounds from audio synths easier

https://github.com/cslr/libcube-public/wiki
26•cslr•4d ago•3 comments

InpharmD (YC W21) Is Hiring – NLP Engineer

https://inpharmd.com/jobs/inpharmd-is-hiring-ai-ml-engineer
1•tulasichintha•6h ago

HP SitePrint

https://www.hp.com/us-en/printers/site-print/layout-robot.html
162•gjvc•10h ago•107 comments

YASA beats own power density record pushing electric motor to 59kW/kg benchmark

https://yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-density-world-record-pushing-state-of-the...
45•breve•6h ago•31 comments

Show HN: Cuq – Formal Verification of Rust GPU Kernels

https://github.com/neelsomani/cuq
50•nsomani•8h ago•34 comments

Cryptographic Issues in Cloudflare's Circl FourQ Implementation (CVE-2025-8556)

https://www.botanica.software/blog/cryptographic-issues-in-cloudflares-circl-fourq-implementation
150•botanica_labs•13h ago•70 comments

I see a future in jj

https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-see-a-future-in-jj/
245•steveklabnik•10h ago•161 comments

I, Sharpie

https://www.commonplace.org/p/chris-griswold-i-sharpie
31•delichon•1w ago•24 comments

Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”

https://josepheverettwil.substack.com/p/the-body-keeps-the-score-is-bullshit
225•adityaathalye•9h ago•247 comments

Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died

https://www.pgdp.net/wiki/In_Memoriam/gbnewby
554•ron_k•18h ago•81 comments

Linux Capabilities Revisited

https://dfir.ch/posts/linux_capabilities/
181•Harvesterify•14h ago•35 comments

Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes as climate warms

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/22/nx-s1-5582748/iceland-mosquitoes-first-time
110•sans_souse•5h ago•33 comments
Open in hackernews

Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots

https://abstractboardgames.com/
69•abstractbg•6d ago

Comments

abstractbg•6d ago
Thought I would post in celebration of 1 year of my website being online. I've been working on it on and off and currently the website allows users to play Hex, Tumbleweed, Amazons, and Connect 6 against friends or against practice bots. I've been a long time player of some of these games and I felt for a long time that the world could use a few more popular abstract strategy games compared to Chess or Go.

If you try it, let me know what you think. I'm always looking for new games or new features to add :)

zem•3h ago
pentominoes would be a nice one to add (players take turns placing pentominoes on the board until someone cannot make a move). probably one of the variants like callisto or blokus where everyone has the same set of tiles in different colours and there are rules around connectedness
abstractbg•2h ago
Thanks! Will try to figure out a version that I can get permission to add to the website.
quuxplusone•1h ago
You're welcome to "Capture Pentominoes" if you want it!

https://club.cc.cmu.edu/~ajo/free-software/pento/pento.html

abstractbg•1h ago
Perfect, thank you!
7373737373•2h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abalone_%28board_game%29 would be cool
abstractbg•2h ago
Thanks!

I haven't added a commercial game before, but I will reach out to the owners of the game and see what I can do.

ixwt•2h ago
I'm personally a big fan of asymmetrical games. A game I've wanted to play but have never had the board to play it on is Unlur [0]. Arimaa [1] is another one with some history behind it that is uncommon.

It is very much appreciated that I don't have to make an account to play. That is one of the most annoying thing on sites like these to play games.

[0]: https://www.iggamecenter.com/en/rules/unlur

[1]: https://www.iggamecenter.com/en/rules/arimaa

abstractbg•2h ago
Thanks for the suggestions! Guest accounts are definitely a necessity. I had been looking at some asymmetrical games like Adugo and Viking Chess, myself.
sloum•2h ago
I also really like asymmetrical games. In particular the various Tafl[0] reconstructions. Some are unbalanced, but some are very balanced and fun to play as either attacker or defender. There are various versions with rule variations to accommodate various board sizes too.

I have not played Unlur. Looks like a cool hex variant. I like the initial phase where who plays white is decided. It is a neat way of working that out.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games

Paracompact•3h ago
As a longtime chess and go player, I was just doing some research the other day into what modern abstracts are out there. I was disappointed by how dry I came up.

Even if you expand the search criteria to include video games, there just aren't many deeply strategic discrete-time games that weren't invented centuries ago and have players online at any given time. Here I exclude games that are perpetually changing and/or have strategies locked behind progression systems and paywalls, such as TCGs and virtual deck builders. The very few exceptions I found were niche Discord communities around games like Tak, Hex, or Advanced Wars.

When did we as a society lose the appreciation for these things? I get why including a component of dexterity in strategic video games (e.g. RTS) is to take full advantage of the medium, but all this in conjunction means we are very likely never to see another deeply studied cerebral game like go, chess, shogi, mahjong, etc. arise ever again.

abstractbg•2h ago
I'm very hopeful that the problem is simply lack of general awareness of these games, and that once there's enough content surrounding them, we'll have a healthy population of people playing more abstract strategy games.

Fun story regarding Hex. It nearly reached what I would call a "mainstream" audience with the movie "A Beautiful Mind" about John Nash starring Russel Crowe. Unfortunately, the Hex scene was cut from the movie! You can watch the cut scene at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTZ3nn2Bge4

ixwt•2h ago
I'm not an expert by any means, but there isn't much to draw people to other games aside from curiosity. When it comes to Chess and Go, there is significant money on the line. Chess was also a proxy fight during the Cold War.
Paracompact•1h ago
> I'm very hopeful that the problem is simply lack of general awareness of these games, and that once there's enough content surrounding them, we'll have a healthy population of people playing more abstract strategy games.

Possibly, but my takeaway from COVID is that games like chess and go (which experienced a bump in popularity during the lockdowns, and have since been dwindling back down) are not merely gems waiting to be rediscovered, but instead appeal to outdated tastes in gaming, and are unlikely to be replicated given market realities. You need approachability for game-one beginners, you need vivid and eye-catching visuals, you need progression systems and content drips to keep players hooked, you need monetization to milk the whales, etc.

mrichey-9988•2h ago
The facebook group "abstract nation" has made having a facebook account worth all the bad stuff associated with facebook. Its lead me to find a ton of great abstracts. It also pointed me to this: https://play.abstractplay.com/
Buttons840•2h ago
What about something like competitive Dominion? There are expansions, but the game is symmetrical. All players have the same abilities in an actual game.

Or Spirit Island at high difficulty?

Paracompact•1h ago
I love Spirit Island! Probably played more hours of that game than any other in my collection. Granted, it's purely a cooperative game, and much more artificially complex ("fiddly") than any abstract. It's the immortal simplicity and competition of games like chess and go that I was looking to rekindle, but I guess they aren't well suited to modern gaming tastes.

Dominion is also great, and in its simplicity literally invented the deck building genre. But it, too, is too artificially complex to become immortal, even before you get into its 16+ expansions. The proliferation of the deck builder genre also makes it less likely any individual game is going to be deeply studied.

Credit to games like YINSH, anyway, that specifically try to appeal to competitive, deep, and mathematically simple foundations. They just don't have what it takes to thrive in the age of monetized bright flashing lights.

cgreerrun•13m ago
Check out Quoridor
abstractbg•10m ago
Yeah, that's another nice one. I've got a Quoridor set myself.
dgrin91•1h ago
As a lay boardgamer, what makes a board game abstract?
vkou•1h ago
Chess is an abstract proxy for a wargame, but is not in itself a wargame.

'Abstract' is somewhere on the chess side of the spectrum between Go and moving miniature battle tanks around and flipping to page 237 of Appendix E to look up how much water the average Italian soldier needed to boil his pasta in the Tobruk campaign.

quuxplusone•59m ago
No text, no chance, perfect information.

If you have to read things, roll things, or hide things, it's not an abstract.

(This fails to include backgammon and Parcheesi when maybe it should, and includes Zark City when somehow I feel it shouldn't, but it's not a bad starting point.)

Additionally: No dexterity (which is kind of a special case of "no chance").