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Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0

https://asahilinux.org/2026/04/progress-report-7-0/
94•elisaado•2h ago•2 comments

Statecharts: hierarchical state machines

https://statecharts.dev/
83•sph•3h ago•16 comments

Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amateur-armed-with-chatgpt-vibe-maths-a-60-year-old-pr...
471•pr337h4m•19h ago•306 comments

Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/
279•chiefalchemist•12h ago•171 comments

The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things
584•milkglass•6h ago•349 comments

Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame

https://blog.playcanvas.com/turning-a-gaussian-splat-into-a-videogame/
55•yak32•2d ago•10 comments

Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

341•_-x-_•12h ago•126 comments

USB Cheat Sheet (2022)

https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html
375•gwerbret•15h ago•66 comments

Cheating at Tetris

https://chalkdustmagazine.com/features/cheating-at-tetris/
19•t-3•3d ago•4 comments

I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards

https://www.npmjs.com/package/ooko
47•okovooo•2d ago•44 comments

GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q2/000504.html
93•zdkaster•9h ago•34 comments

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)

https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/
43•subset•5h ago•4 comments

Mahjong: A Visual Guide

https://themahjong.guide/
126•iamwil•2d ago•36 comments

OpenAI Privacy Filter

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/
234•tanelpoder•3d ago•46 comments

Flickr: The first and last great photo platform

https://petapixel.com/2026/04/22/flickr-the-first-and-last-great-photo-platform/
198•Nrbelex•3d ago•94 comments

The Free Universal Construction Kit

https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
331•robinhouston•4d ago•72 comments

My .config Ship of Theseus

https://shift1w.com/blog/config-of-theseus/
9•jacobwiseberg•2d ago•0 comments

Terra API (YC W21) Hiring: Applied AI Strategist(Health Intelligence)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/terra-api/jobs/DY7BCZU-applied-ai-strategist-market-intelli...
1•kyriakosel•6h ago

The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/shall-we-play-a-game
40•jger15•2d ago•2 comments

Quirks of Human Anatomy

https://www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/lewheldquirk/figlegq6.htm
47•gurjeet•1d ago•21 comments

Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you...
283•speckx•20h ago•179 comments

Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter

https://www.edenai.co
82•muzzy19•4h ago•43 comments

The Joy of Folding Bikes

https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes
198•pavel_lishin•3d ago•133 comments

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/
227•gasull•9h ago•121 comments

The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024)

https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/
88•offbyone42•12h ago•12 comments

America's Geothermal Breakthrough

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-...
123•sleepyguy•17h ago•140 comments

Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/vaxfp.html
131•signa11•2d ago•12 comments

Show HN: A free ESG stock screener that publishes its losses and methodology

https://jumpstartsignal.com/
6•irldexter•3h ago•4 comments

Hokusai and Tesselations

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/
123•srean•19h ago•15 comments

Simulacrum of Knowledge Work

https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/
163•thehappyfellow•19h ago•67 comments
Open in hackernews

Cheating at Tetris

https://chalkdustmagazine.com/features/cheating-at-tetris/
19•t-3•3d ago

Comments

crtasm•1h ago
and time for a quick game of https://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html
xandrius•19m ago
Picking 100,000 blocks for this challenge shows how little the author knows about tetris. A "kill screen" in the traditional tetris averages around 2000-4000 blocks (rough estimate). And that's already pretty hard to reach.

Someone good at tetris would never take such a challenge because they know how much that is. While a mathematician who just want to make a catchy post seemingly would.

I believe that even if you sent the "worst" configuration of blocks, a really good player would be able to stick around for 500-1000 blocks every time (unless glaring mistakes), especially if they expect an attacker choosing the blocks. If the attacker chooses random, that would actually be an advantage since the real game chooses pieces almost at random (AFAIK it's not pure random).

So, this post is like challenging someone who's good at tennis at making 100,000 of shots every single time: it's just orders of magnitude so off, that the player would know you're a total noob simply for asking.

xen0•7m ago
Indeed, at 3 pieces per second (I don't have a good sense of how fast good tetris players play, but I've seen some videos and it looks like they can average more than one a second), it's 10 hours of constant play.

Playing at such a speed for 10 hours is kind of insane. Playing it without error is not human.

valadaptive•6m ago
Yes, the article says this at the end:

> In regular Tetris games, the speed at which the blocks fall steadily increases. This causes players to make more and more mistakes and, just like the holes in the S and Z columns, these mistakes will stack up until game over is inevitable. Ultimately, small mistakes due to the time constraints will likely be what causes your friend to lose the challenge, so you probably won’t have to wait 69,600 blocks to beat your friend.