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Re: Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Post by stanko »

yuppiepuppie wrote: post #109
stanko wrote: post #108

Lovely! Of course, I added mine as well, which got better feedback on “What are you working on” thread than I expected. Since then I released two updates but Show HN thread didn’t catch on. I’m still actively working on it. Atm I’m tweaking level difficulty to make it easier to start and then ramp up the difficulty. I have a todo list defined, and I’m having so much fun going through it. edit: typo https://muffinman-…

Hey! Did you add an issue? cause I dont see it here https://github.com/andrewgy8/hnarcade/issues Happy to merge it in :)

I did, you already merged it, thank you!

Re: Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Post by yathern »

eps wrote: post #85
yathern wrote: post #44

Fantastic idea! I didn't see my https://words.zip game here so I'll submit it, even though it didn't get mucht traction on HN - it's up to 288,000 words found now!

This is truly excellent. The grid is completely randomly generated?

Yup! A fairly simple deterministic RNG such that it can be generated both client and server side. This strategy greatly reduces the burden of transmitting all the letters as you scroll around, only needing the subset of found words

Re: Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Post by yathern »

yuppiepuppie wrote: post #110
yathern wrote: post #44

Fantastic idea! I didn't see my https://words.zip game here so I'll submit it, even though it didn't get mucht traction on HN - it's up to 288,000 words found now!

BTW Amazing site! Zooming out, it reminds me of that reddit canvas thing they did a while back where everyone got their space to own.

Thank you! Definitely an inspiration, sort of like a human proof-of-work canvas

Re: Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Post by bookofjoe »

yuppiepuppie wrote: post #110
yathern wrote: post #44

Fantastic idea! I didn't see my https://words.zip game here so I'll submit it, even though it didn't get mucht traction on HN - it's up to 288,000 words found now!

BTW Amazing site! Zooming out, it reminds me of that reddit canvas thing they did a while back where everyone got their space to own.

million dollar homepage

Re: Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Post by efreak »

yuppiepuppie wrote: post #99
koito17 wrote: post #22

Nice concept. One question: was the data generated by an LLM? Don't mean this in a snarky way. The Lichess entry links to a non-existent HN thread[1], and "Show HN: Lichess" does not appear in HN search results. I found a hit for a Lichess client written in Elisp[2]. At least I discovered a cool piece of software. [1] https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/games/games/lichess [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46…

Yeah, that one and 3-4 others were generated by Claude for local development. Unfortuantely, I didn't vet every link it generated. I'll fix them up now. Like the other poster said, the vast majority of games are either generated by users or the script.

Suggest in the future not using LLM for random/placeholder data. Obvious placeholders work better (they're obvious. Obviously. Word fatigue, anyone?). For paragraph data that needs to be wrapped eventually, either use lorem ipsum or whatever random chain of thought about what you're building.

Re: Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Post by yuppiepuppie »

stared wrote: post #6

Thank you for sharing! I like the idea, I feel there is some work ahead so I could find it useful. I opened that to see what are the most recommended games on the Hacker News (and perhaps posts introducing these, notes by authors, discussions). Yet, I got alphabetic sorting. (Good for librarians, the worst possible for actual recommendations.) How about: sorting some by upvotes and linking posts (with dates) when it…

Thanks for the feedback. Screenshots have now been added :)

Re: Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Post by stared »

yuppiepuppie wrote: post #119
stared wrote: post #6

Thank you for sharing! I like the idea, I feel there is some work ahead so I could find it useful. I opened that to see what are the most recommended games on the Hacker News (and perhaps posts introducing these, notes by authors, discussions). Yet, I got alphabetic sorting. (Good for librarians, the worst possible for actual recommendations.) How about: sorting some by upvotes and linking posts (with dates) when it…

Thanks for the feedback. Screenshots have now been added :)

Nice, thanks!

Do you also analyze history? As I had some of my previous submissions, vide https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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