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OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
529•klaussilveira•9h ago•146 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
860•xnx•15h ago•519 comments

How we made geo joins 400× faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
72•matheusalmeida•1d ago•13 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
180•isitcontent•9h ago•21 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
182•dmpetrov•10h ago•79 comments

Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use

https://vecti.com
294•vecti•11h ago•130 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
69•quibono•4d ago•13 comments

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
343•aktau•16h ago•168 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
338•ostacke•15h ago•90 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
434•todsacerdoti•17h ago•226 comments

Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
237•eljojo•12h ago•147 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

https://mirageos.org/blog/delimcc-vs-lwt
13•romes•4d ago•2 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
373•lstoll•16h ago•252 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
6•videotopia•3d ago•0 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-vault-prolok.html
41•kmm•4d ago•3 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

https://github.com/denuoweb/ARM64-ADK
14•denuoweb•1d ago•2 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
220•i5heu•12h ago•162 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
91•SerCe•5h ago•75 comments

Show HN: R3forth, a ColorForth-inspired language with a tiny VM

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
62•phreda4•9h ago•11 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
162•limoce•3d ago•82 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
38•gfortaine•7h ago•11 comments

I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
127•vmatsiiako•14h ago•53 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/female-asian-elephant-calf-born-smithsonians-national-zoo-an...
18•gmays•4h ago•2 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
261•surprisetalk•3d ago•35 comments

I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

https://kirkville.com/i-now-assume-that-all-ads-on-apple-news-are-scams/
1029•cdrnsf•19h ago•428 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
55•rescrv•17h ago•18 comments

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
83•antves•1d ago•60 comments

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676
18•denysonique•6h ago•2 comments

Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
5•neogoose•2h ago•1 comments

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain
109•ray__•6h ago•54 comments
Open in hackernews

Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects

https://ripplegame.app/
155•mooreds•1mo ago

Comments

John7878781•1mo ago
I wonder if this could be used to gauge someone's optimism/pessimism.
4ggr0•1mo ago
i'm sold, but please add a historic or archive mode, i need more...
TuringTest•1mo ago
Came here to say the same. The game tastes as too little with just one question; when you get the gist of how it works, it's over.
nick238•1mo ago
I pulled out the data that I could see; strangely it seems to be the 16th question but the page shows "#736"

Data as JSON: https://gist.github.com/nicktimko/fb48810b448275a4d7817e2b65...

Or if you want to download it yourself (yay for Gemini giving me a Node one-liner to parse a JS object to get JSON. Beware it uses `eval`!!!)

    curl -sSL https://ripplegame.app/assets/index-B2aU9M_o.js | \
        grep -E -o -p "\[\{id:1\,.+\"}]}]" | \
        node -e "const vm=require('vm'); let b=''; process.stdin.on('data',d=>b+=d).on('end',()=> { try { const script=new vm.Script('('+b+')'); console.log(JSON.stringify(script.runInNewContext({}),null,2)) } catch(e) { console.error('Invalid JS') } })"
ReaLNero•1mo ago
Try this: https://vladimirtech-eng.github.io/ripple-mirror/
4ggr0•1mo ago
perfect, thanks :) amusing to play a bootlegged version of a free game...
frenchmajesty•1mo ago
Cool concept! However, the fact that it's on a timer and you can only try the next even in 1m is a killer feature (in a not-good way). Same for not being able to view the leaderboard
em-bee•1mo ago
i get "next puzzle in 3.5 hours" WAT? it's interesting, but i'd like to play a dozen questions in my 5 minute break, not just one.
nialv7•1mo ago
This kind of smells LLM, which is fine. But I do want to see the facts backed by citations.
Mistletoe•1mo ago
Does it only have one example? Really would like more.
gfysfm•1mo ago
This is really cool! It's interesting that you can "cheat" by knowing the historical situation in advance. But I guess there's no way around that - if the situations involved were hypothetical, it would be unsatisfying when you guessed "wrong". It'd be neat to see really obscure examples drawn from history.
HauntingPin•1mo ago
This is cool but it needs to be bingeable to really make it big. I don't think this works as a Wordle once a day kind of thing. I was going to send it to a non-tech friend who'd love it, but decided against it once I saw the 23 hour timer. She would've hated me.
ReaLNero•1mo ago
Try this: https://vladimirtech-eng.github.io/ripple-mirror/
HauntingPin•1mo ago
Is this a non-limited version? After finishing a ripple, it could really use a "Random" button that lets you easily continue with another ripple, just so people can directly keep going.
ReaLNero•1mo ago
Yeah, just switch to level 1 in the level switcher! You should be able to go thru them all by just clicking next puzzle after that
fn-mote•1mo ago
Cute, but you can do only one day at a time. I would have had to like it more to be motivated to bookmark it and come back tomorrow.
jrowen•1mo ago
Idk the intended demographic but it felt too easy or even heavy-handed. Three of the four options in each round sound like "and everyone lived happily ever after." Only one sounds like something that would happen in real life and continue the story.
noduerme•1mo ago
For the 18th Amendment, we can probably mostly agree on what happened. But it only works because the wrong answers are very obviously wrong (and virtually impossible). But that forces you into answering along the path which is clearly not as wrong, even though it's full of vague sweeping generalizations. There were many small time bootleggers, for instance. I think it's a crummy idea to reduce history this way - who are you trying to teach a lesson, and why should someone trust that your interpretation of the chain of events is accurate?
mirekrusin•1mo ago
You mean GPT’s, right?
paxys•1mo ago
I leave this comment whenever a new game with this "one game a day" model pops up:

You are not Wordle. You are never going to recreate the virality of of Wordle. The artificial restriction on gameplay does not help you because 99.999% of your users are going to play it and move on rather than bookmark your site, set a reminder and come back the next day. Instead let them play a bunch of games NOW and they may get hooked.

ReaLNero•1mo ago
Try this: https://vladimirtech-eng.github.io/ripple-mirror/
Aboutplants•1mo ago
Pivot this to be a history learning app, I find this kind of learning to be addictive.
DecoPerson•1mo ago
Too much speculation. Take the 18th amendment one. Maybe prohibition did have the desired effects, in addition to the undesirable side effects. The two are not mutually exclusive.
kittikitti•1mo ago
What are the second and third order effects of the CIA capturing Maduro?
dmichulke•1mo ago
Increased security for "unapproved" leaders of a state. Allies will help out of fear instead of common goals. Resentment among allies. Appeasement until counter control is effective
DocTomoe•1mo ago
Fasttracking WMD programs up to and including nuclear for country leaders who are feeling a bit too 'abductable' for comfort.
mrgoldenbrown•1mo ago
I would call this a history quiz, not a puzzle. The "ripples" are not deducible from the info given.
LorenPechtel•1mo ago
Disagree. I just tried it--yes, I knew the history but I would have predicted those results anyway.
bgbntty2•1mo ago
Why can I only play #736? What's up with games nowadays that only give you 1 puzzle per day? IIRC the original Wordle was like that. Is it designed to make you bookmark the URL and visit it every day? I doubt most people would do that.
dzink•1mo ago
The time delay is a dark pattern, the questions are too easy, and the login for leaderboard would makes sense if users could do longer question sequences with escalating difficulty. I would do this as a tree of possible consequences instead - let people share a red path most people would choose and a green path that should be chosen as the desirable outcome. See what shows up.
chii•1mo ago
> I would do this as a tree of possible consequences instead

Games like Detroid:Become Human has a good UI for showing the decisions, and outcomes (as well as unexplored ones in grey).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=21627...

jsmo•1mo ago
Nice!
lurk2•1mo ago
> Next puzzle in 4 hours

What is the point of this? I’m not going to return to a site with a cooldown timer after using it once.

dmichulke•1mo ago
I just played one (can iI play any of the past ones?)

But this should be mandatory game-theoretic education for politicians (if it really is what I think it is).

verisimi•1mo ago
It's as if this can be known in advance. And that the most acceptable reason/justification is provided (terrorists, child abuse prevention) knowing the likely result at the end of the cascade (security cameras, restrictions, de-anonymised internet).
blue1•1mo ago
Unusable on iphone SE, the UI is cropped on the bottom and cannot be scrolled.
agnishom•1mo ago
While this could (today's instance was not particularly mind blowing) be interesting, I don't like the idea of calling a trivia based on historical facts a puzzle
ivolimmen•1mo ago
It seems I know more about American history than I thought. Cool puzzle.
derekh3•1mo ago
I wanted more and didn't want to wait so I asked Claude (Opus 4.5) to make me a game in this style with 40 new scenarios. https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/0bed2bde-9d0c-442f-a76a-f...
ggfdh•1mo ago
I’d see if you can find examples from outside the US or in lesser known fields—economics must have some great examples. Great idea and great UI!
dannyfritz07•1mo ago
Firefox won't let me view it because it says the connection is insecure. Not sure what is happening.