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Scorched Earth 2000 is back

http://www.scorch2000.com/web/
47•meshko•1h ago•18 comments

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-l...
535•haunter•3d ago•352 comments

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/
501•speckx•11h ago•159 comments

A History of IDEs at Google

https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
280•laurentlb•4d ago•203 comments

Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book

https://ardoedo.it/kempelen/
91•Eswo•2d ago•28 comments

The Emacsification of Software

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/
197•rdslw•19h ago•133 comments

Marco Polo: Finding a friend with only distance and motion

https://www.jackhogan.me/blog/marco-polo
39•jackhogan11•2d ago•5 comments

Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-exami...
253•bookofjoe•6h ago•362 comments

The Other Half of AI Safety

https://personalaisafety.com/p/the-other-half-of-ai-safety
45•sofiaqt•1h ago•53 comments

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
309•jnord•1d ago•236 comments

Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

https://github.com/nooga/xsofy
161•andsoitis•3d ago•70 comments

Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration

https://www.tryardent.com/
68•vc289•9h ago•31 comments

The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization

https://avkcode.github.io/blog/us-winning-ai-race.html
165•akrylov•12h ago•470 comments

S-100 Virtual Workbench

https://grantmestrength.github.io/S100/
103•rbanffy•10h ago•20 comments

Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014
203•curiousgal•4d ago•79 comments

The Age of the Amplifier

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-age-of-the-amplifier
8•surprisetalk•1d ago•0 comments

A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools

https://andreafortuna.org/2026/05/13/amarcord/
48•speckx•7h ago•16 comments

Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing

174•pycassa•4h ago•61 comments

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
639•HenryNdubuaku•1d ago•184 comments

After 3 decades of splendid scientific communication, this one's for you, Ned

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/science/2026/05/08/after-3-decades-of-splendid-scientific-communi...
15•rolph•3d ago•0 comments

AEPs: API Enhancement Proposals

https://github.com/aep-dev/aeps
3•nateb2022•1d ago•0 comments

Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads

https://www.theverge.com/tech/929091/meta-ai-threads-account-block
113•logickkk1•5h ago•46 comments

An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins

https://magnusross.github.io/posts/protein-lead-optimisation-1/
140•magni121•2d ago•16 comments

Leaving GitHub for Forgejo

https://jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-github-for-forgejo/
530•jorijn•13h ago•282 comments

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=37.%20Pixter
209•dmitrygr•2d ago•44 comments

I moved my digital stack to Europe

https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/
889•monokai_nl•14h ago•539 comments

Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/medicares-new-payment-model-is-built-for-ai-and-most-of-the-tec...
57•brandonb•4h ago•34 comments

Comparing a 1980s memory map to the Raspi Pico

https://medium.com/@noborutakahashi/a-40-year-old-memory-map-comparable-to-todays-raspberry-pi-pi...
22•Schlagbohrer•3d ago•0 comments

Substrate (YC S24) Is Hiring a Technical Success Manager

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/substrate/jobs/T2fMBhD-technical-success-manager
1•kunle•14h ago

Making the news available at no cost is a victory

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2026/05/12/just-days-tribune-reporting/
111•danso•6h ago•112 comments
Open in hackernews

Scorched Earth 2000 is back

http://www.scorch2000.com/web/
46•meshko•1h ago

Comments

meshko•1h ago
for the 25th anniversary (approximately) I vibecoded what i wanted to do for years -- port of the original remake (yes) to JavaScript. Alive again.
alex_anglin•1h ago
Doing the lords work, as they say. Thank you for sharing.
kylemaxwell•54m ago
I played the hell out of the original DOS game during high school in 1992 (or thereabouts, it's been a while.)
api•34m ago
It was fun. Was a bit younger but played it like crazy too on my 286.

Rollers! Lava! It’s like the author started with a simple tank war game and then just threw in every weird little effect they could code as a creative weapon.

There were all kinds of neat hacks.

The_Blade•28m ago
same, it was a step up from dopewars, but not quite leisure suit larry which one of our friends had

years later i defeated the high score of Stephen Meek and realized with horror Oregon Trail was intended to teach patience not just dysentery damn you MECC!!

el_duderino•13m ago
Same! I remember playing this during my Borland C++ for DOS class in school. Good times.
walrus01•12m ago
Early 90s DOS games were certainly quite creative. I mentally draw a dividing line between approximately the start of the era when the first Soundblaster became a common thing to find in affordable home x86 PCs, and early CD-ROM based games were also available (1991-1992), and the December 1993 release of DOOM and everything that came after. Very interesting era in the time frame in between there.
skeeterbug•44m ago
Oh man, we played this in computer lab in high school to pass time after we were done with our assignments. I believe it was a java/flash version though (year 2000/2001)
meshko•40m ago
yup, it was a java applet. Stopped working when Java in the browser died.
skeeterbug•37m ago
Just played a round, think I found a bug - It was down to one other computer and myself. For some reason the power capped at 235, so neither of us could come close to hitting one another.
meshko•35m ago
you probably got damage. If stuck like this, go to menu and select "mass kill"
Forgeties79•17m ago
Wow that’s a lot to unpack lol
fullstop•4m ago
I brought it back to life at one point as a Java Swing app for my kids, but the server side of things was still wonky. I'm glad to see that it's alive again, I had a lot of fun with this in the early 2000s.
ChrisArchitect•18m ago
A related page:

Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32092060

meshko•4m ago
yeah, that's the original. It is better than this remake but no multiplayer.
Forgeties79•18m ago
Hoooooly hell I totally forgot about this. Talk about dredging up some memories. I don’t think I have thought about this game in literally 20 years.
rickcarlino•3m ago
I did not realize Pocket Tanks was a derivative work.
motgnay•1m ago
LOL nostalgic