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Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by imzadi on Monday July 14, 2025 @07:01PM (#44566314)
You might want to add even the most basic input filtering
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by arm32 on Monday July 14, 2025 @07:18PM (#44566403)
Whoever's writing racist shit, I hope you step on a lego.
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by jihadjihad on Monday July 14, 2025 @10:21PM (#44567272)
A 2x2 brick on its side, right in the middle of the arch of the foot.
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by egypturnash on Monday July 14, 2025 @08:24PM (#44566700)
This is as if you handed a vibe coder a transcript of a text adventure you bought on tape for £2 back in 1983 and told it to make something vaguely like it.

Does anyone involved in creating this speak English? The first room I go to is the "Engineering Putrid Pyramid". I'm visiting places with names like "Iridescent Event horizon" or "Storage Dim Study" or "Maintenance unsettling Lobby". Title case doesn't work like that. Implicit order of adjectives doesn't work like that.

Arrrgh. I need to go play a real text adventure to clean my head out now.

Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by mardef on Monday July 14, 2025 @11:14PM (#44567542)
Same feeling. After scratching my head at some of the descriptions I decided to just head as far southeast as I could. I was met with a bunch of edgy comments and a penis drawn on the screen.
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by kyrylo on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @01:32AM (#44568107)
The descriptions and titles are generated by a script. They have nothing to do with vibe coding.
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by arcfour on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @08:48AM (#44570586)
AI also doesn't work like that unless it's extremely bad, but you're free to rant about nothing, nonetheless.
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by alienbaby on Monday July 14, 2025 @08:42PM (#44566798)
That was unexpectedly fun. After realizing you might need to go down to keep going up, I gave up.
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by kyrylo on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @01:34AM (#44568120)
Haha, I actually struggled to find the way out myself. I thought it was unbeatable, but luckily, someone managed to beat it pretty quickly.
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by Trung0246 on Monday July 14, 2025 @11:21PM (#44567569)
I like to ruin the fun :(

Floor 1: 0691eda5-6d12-46af-997b-7c7137ecfc53 (E E E S E E S)

Floor 2: 47857e86-d1c4-47e5-b72b-10887d4065ea (E E E N W W W N E E E E S)

Floor 3: 6b8dcc36-fedb-4480-9419-4c258de5d51f (N W S W S S E S W W W W S S E E S)

Floor 4: d23ee5f7-2a4e-466d-a1a2-6c97e8d9ed51 (N W N N W N N W W S E S W S W N W N N N N E E E S E N E E E S S E N N E)

End: 6dad5397-df78-40b5-872d-7f4aeaa625b8 (S S S S W N N N W S S S S E S E S S W W N W S W N N)

Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by Surac on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @05:37AM (#44569490)
Trump Background. Drove me away
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by kyrylo on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @06:06AM (#44569634)
Someone hacked it. People go to great lengths to vandalize
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by kyrylo on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @07:20AM (#44569993)
No more Trump
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by pona-a on Thursday July 17, 2025 @05:09PM (#44598243)
It seems you are letting any client with a session token update the entire wall. The endpoint simply takes the base64 PNG and sets it as the wall.

I was thinking maybe taking a diff, limiting its maximum area, and rate-limiting might at least discourage that.

Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by kyrylo on Friday July 18, 2025 @01:14AM (#44601429)
Thanks for the heads-up. You’re absolutely right! Rate-limiting could help, but it would make quick strokes difficult, so I decided against it.

I’ve already implemented a few measures, but I’d rather not share the details publicly.

Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by trallnag on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @11:09AM (#44571959)
I had my fun with this page lol
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by jamsey on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @07:51PM (#44588147)
omg I love this! I spent ages playing with it lol
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by verelo on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @08:41PM (#44588477)
the layout shift due to the inconsistent size of the text makes clicking NSEW super annoying. Id love to see that fixed!
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by kyrylo on Thursday July 17, 2025 @05:51PM (#44598647)
How would you fix it?
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by eddd-ddde on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:17PM (#44617945)
You could place the buttons first then the text.
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by kyrylo on Saturday July 19, 2025 @04:13PM (#44618945)
Yeah that solves the issue but imo it breaks the flow
Re:Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built ... by dylanhouli on Friday July 25, 2025 @01:43PM (#44685970)
No clue what this is actually about but the drawing collaboration is cool