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Ask HN: Sane casual family co-op game on mobile?

Posted by minusf on Saturday August 08, 2026 @08:28AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Are there any casual games suitable for a father to play remote co-op with a 10 yrs old son that is possible to buy for a reasonable price?Looking at this industry reveals a wasteland of dark patterns, data harvesting, exorbitant recurring fees, reviews with crashing servers, etc.I feel like I should be drowning in choices but after hours of searching I can't find a single game not leaving a...

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Re:Don't fall into the anti-AI hype on Monday January 12, 2026 @06:30AM (#46587027)
It is a useful skill. But regardless of the theme at hand there is also

"You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

People change all the time, and things need to be reevaluated from time to time.

So another skill is to disengage with our heroes when the values start misalign.

Re:I wrote JustHTML using coding agents on Sunday December 14, 2025 @04:50PM (#46267361)
Thank you for the clarification, that was not entirely clear to me from the post.

You also mention that the current "optimised" version is "good enough" for every-day use (I use `bs4` for working with html), was the first iteration also usable in that way? Did you look at `html5ever` because the LLM hit a wall trying to speed it up?

Re:I wrote JustHTML using coding agents on Sunday December 14, 2025 @02:48PM (#46266164)
while it's mentioned in the post, it seems to me a bit burried:

isn't this more like a port of `html5ever` from rust to python using LLM, as opposed to creating something "new" based on the test suite alone?

if yes, wouldn't be the distinction rather important?

Re:Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts on Thursday November 21, 2024 @04:53AM (#42202649)
Made possible in turn by giving safe haven for user content on the big social networks. Turned out to be a double edged sword.

When Rupert tried to lie about voting machines, he was fined couple of hundred mils. All the social networks mouthpiece accounts spouting nonsense suffer no repercussions whatsoever.

Re:Scammers prey on young Chinese desperate for jobs in bleak economy on Sunday August 18, 2024 @03:47PM (#41284868)
The hong kong police had to release this statement recently:

HKPF reminds the public that the following websites are not the official Hong Kong Police Force website.

1. 96o.1ss5623.com 2. joshhyoung.icu 3. amylfraser.xyz 4. tiaflowe.icu

Re:Ask HN: Is Knuth's TAOCP worth the time and effort? (2023) on Thursday December 07, 2023 @06:07PM (#38563037)
nobody is gonna mention TeX? so i will.

yes, i have TAOCP on the shelf and yes guilty of "one day i'll ready it".

but every now and then i open them up and just flip thru that magnificent typography.

Knuth has not just written up all these things, he has developed an entire typesetting system (complete with fonts) to bring technical publishing screaming and kicking into the 20th century (when other software thought kerning and hypenation were creatures from space). it's the only program deserving a version number approximating PI.

Re:A new, independent sovereign AWS cloud in Europe on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @07:54AM (#38011818)
Anybody knows how Amazon is making this happen regarding Law enforcement, US jurisdiction, etc?
Re:1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4th, 2023 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @04:45AM (#37776264)
> 1.1.1.1 has a WebAssembly app called static_zone running on top of the main DNS logic that serves those new versions when they are available.

webassembly? what is that word even doing in a post mortem about DNSSEC failures?

Re:Rupert Murdoch steps down as Fox and News Corp chairman on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:23AM (#37598076)
none of the news anchors should get the kind of dramatic powers they acquired over time. obligatory reference to Network (1976)

here is a fantastic analysis of Network and rise of the news anchors in the framing of Network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlCLZIn38ao

Re:The Future of the Vim Project on Thursday August 10, 2023 @01:01PM (#37078714)
not a heavy :! user, what i used there worked, but afaik neovim recommends :te . that's one of the bigger differences. neovim was very proud to have a fully integrated terminal
Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:48AM (#37050840)
apple maps doesnt have cycling maps for _amsterdam_. none of the eu countries do where i have been
Re:Why is DNS still hard to learn? on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:37AM (#36916987)
behold the dns camel:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/slides-10...

Re:Why I’m quitting Hacker News on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:20PM (#36188610)
https://twitter.com/short_straw/status/1655352280202313734

actually i'm off to lobsters. we are all just giving YC nerd cred for free they dont deserve.

anybody has an invite? ;)

Re:Why I’m quitting Hacker News on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:11PM (#36188520)
so why dont i see that with ai related stuff? hn has been basically a gpt news site the last 4 months. quite sick of it actually. i dont remember even 5 climate change big threads recently, it's like the issue doesnt exist here at all. climate change is not only political - there's tons of research and science involved. but it's better to know someone put gpt on self driving cars that can cook asian fusion hallucinated recipes. hn has its blind spots just like any other site.
Re:‘Massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety com... on Monday May 29, 2023 @02:04PM (#36116345)
"your call can be recorded for training purposes"
Re:WordPress Turns 20 on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:32AM (#36111629)
you must be going to some different hn site.

overall i find it balanced. certain topics will draw certain vocal crowd more and then it will look unbalanced.

on the other hand it's really funny to see "modern development practices and patterns" mentioned in a topic about WP.

are you sir one of them expert technologists from tok tik?

i agree that WP is a cautionary tale but one thing they got really well: never do a rewrite from scratch while being the top dog. it must have been hard to resist that siren song and now we'll have WP till the heat death of the universe.

Re:Nintendo updates 3DS to block Bannerbomb3 despite eShop discontinua... on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @01:46PM (#36061629)
goold old games, gog.com
Re:Nginx 1.25.0: experimental HTTP/3 support on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @02:38PM (#36048843)
.htaccess is self inflicted pain, no need to downvote :)

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