News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

anirbanhere

Re: on Friday June 26, 2026 @11:35PM (#48694882)
I added it in my game website: Ghostfleet.in, check it out. There is a need for moderation in the player names too, chat moderation may not be sufficient and names can be swear words too!!
During development of the game I went through many articles on how the math of of this works, some notable ones are: 1. https://oeis.org/A093614 & https://mathworld.wolfram.com/LightsOutPuzzle.html 2. https://imois.in/posts/the-properties-of-lights-out-the-game...

Show HN: Darkenn – Lights Out style puzzle game with global leaderboard

https://darkenn.com/

I used AI coding tools to create a single-player logic game called Darkenn. It is like a single player version of Go. Every move flips one cell and its neighbours. Under the hood it is linear algebra over GF(2), and the solver computes a minimum-move solution rather than just any solution. I have been personally drawn towards games and what they teach us. Darkenn teaches us seeing dependencies...

( Read More... | 3 comments | on HN )
Re: on Sunday June 21, 2026 @04:28AM (#48616838)
This is so cool, gonna add this to my game website. This can easily help to get me multiplayer matching in the game.
Planted a tree! However I thought palindromes or anadromes might have some symmetry but it wasn't showing up in the tree.