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

https://openciv3.org/
568•klaussilveira•10h ago•160 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
885•xnx•16h ago•538 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
89•matheusalmeida•1d ago•20 comments

What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
16•helloplanets•4d ago•8 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

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

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

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
195•isitcontent•10h ago•24 comments

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

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
197•dmpetrov•11h ago•88 comments

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

https://vecti.com
305•vecti•13h ago•136 comments

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

https://github.com/microsoft/litebox
352•aktau•17h ago•173 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
348•ostacke•16h ago•90 comments

Delimited Continuations vs. Lwt for Threads

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

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
450•todsacerdoti•18h ago•228 comments

Dark Alley Mathematics

https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/three-points/
78•quibono•4d ago•16 comments

PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok

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

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

https://eljojo.github.io/rememory/
248•eljojo•13h ago•150 comments

An Update on Heroku

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
384•lstoll•17h ago•260 comments

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

https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/zlob
11•neogoose•3h ago•6 comments

How to effectively write quality code with AI

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/how-to-effectively-write-quality-code-with-ai/
228•i5heu•13h ago•173 comments

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

https://github.com/phreda4/r3
66•phreda4•10h ago•11 comments

Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
113•SerCe•6h ago•90 comments

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

https://infisical.com/blog/devops-to-solutions-engineering
134•vmatsiiako•15h ago•59 comments

Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server

https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-the-developer-knowledge-api-and-mcp-server/
42•gfortaine•8h ago•12 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...
23•gmays•5h ago•4 comments

Understanding Neural Network, Visually

https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/
263•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/
1038•cdrnsf•20h ago•429 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
165•limoce•3d ago•87 comments

FORTH? Really!?

https://rescrv.net/w/2026/02/06/associative
59•rescrv•18h ago•22 comments

Show HN: ARM64 Android Dev Kit

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

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

https://docs.smooth.sh/cli/overview
86•antves•1d ago•63 comments

Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
47•lebovic•1d ago•14 comments
Open in hackernews

Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board

https://github.com/dvelton/dm-chess
32•dustfinger•3w ago

Comments

d--b•2w ago
I used to play chess over email that way, back in 1994, using a plugin for the Thor email client on Amiga
AndresNavarro•2w ago
Great times. I remember playing something like this on a telnet server on '96, I think they are still some servers running today: https://www.freechess.org/Help/HelpFiles/addresses.html
Y_Y•2w ago
Sometimes the best software is no software. You can do this without some emojified github readme, the text editor your messenger uses will be just fine.

(If you're not a beginner it's probably fine to just use "algebraic" notation anyway.)

bulibuta•2w ago
I thought it was just me disliking this types of readmes. Is this aislop or are people actually wasting time to paste all those emojis everywhere? It is like we are going back to hieroglyphs -- I swear if I see another rocket launch...
burkaman•2w ago
It's LLMs. You can tell from the phrasing ("no X just Y", "isn't A it's B", "pure ___"), and because all of the sections except Screenshots say basically the same thing. A competent person would not write it like this and an incompetent person would not be this meticulous about grammar and formatting.

I realize this sounds exactly like "I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time" but I really can tell.

Edit: Also you can see this was made with https://github.com/features/spark, but that's cheating, it's more fun to make accusations based on vague feelings about the writing tone.

jrmg•2w ago
I wonder where LLMs got this style from, since, while you did see something like it, it wasn’t nearly as widespread before the rise of ChatGPT, so not the most statistically likely form for these to be generated in.

Was it trained into them in the supervised or reinforcement phases?

Has it emerged from prompts extorting them to be friendly, somehow sneaking in from text message training as a result?

Is it now in a self-reinforcing feedback loop as training data grows to include modern Readmes?

sdwr•2w ago
As far as I know, it was trained in because people preferred it in A/B testing
LtWorf•2w ago
Private chats maybe?
3836293648•2w ago
It's mostly AI slop, but they did exist before AI (and they were miserable back then too)
sacredSatan•2w ago
en passant doesn't work in the demo
nomilk•2w ago
This seems to be the Turing Test for chess software.
LtWorf•2w ago
I thought it would at least read the slack websocket and send slack messages. Having to copy paste is horrible.

It's not very hard, you can take inspiration from my project "localslackirc", it even has a tool to extract the slack token from firefox's cookies (if you copy paste code, keep in mind it's GPL licensed).

deevelton•2w ago
Didn’t expect to see this on HN. Thanks for checking it out though. Not a developer, just a lawyer at GitHub, this repo was me playing around with the GitHub Spark tool.
willquack•2w ago
It would be cool to encode the chess board state and turn into the URL so you could hurl urls back and forth over slack to play chess just by clicking on it

but there's something charming about the ascii art over slack in this project that would miss

onsclom•2w ago
this is the way to go!

making a move should automatically copy the new url to your clipboard. you can still keep the ascii charm by server side rendering the ascii chess board as an og description.

onsclom•2w ago
made a non-ascii of this where nice og images of the board are generated!

https://correspondence-chess-production.up.railway.app/