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How is the difference not obvious to you just from the name? Do you think that every CLI is an interactive agentic application? Sorry, but this is baffling.
I would recommend everybody to look up the ABC model of flower development and internalize it. Such a fun bit of knowledge.
Oh I know. I can keep wishing though haha
The game is a fun exercise
However, I find that Gwern's stuff in general has gone downhill ever since he has seemingly contracted mild-to-medium AI psychosis. Wish he'd go back to writing.
Congratulations to the team! I love Gleam and am genuinely having fun every time I write Gleam code.
I understand fully vibecoding a fun page like this. But not checking anything or even doing a second pass? Honestly incomprehensible to me
Half of the US ruling class turned out to be pedophiles and nothing happened. Why do you expect anything to happen in this situation?
Thank you for playing!
I’m using ENABLE (Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon) with a lot of added short Scrabble-legal words
1) I've been running a bunch of little daily puzzle games for my friends for a while, finally got around to polishing one for public release
https://picobble.com/
Not like I'm gonna anything much with it, just was fun to get something nice-looking and presentable up for once. Working on polishing more of them and, of course, designing new ones.
2) A font generation system, inspired by Iosevka, albeit much much simpler. Learning tons of interesting technical things about TTF and WOFF2.
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vortegne on Saturday September 12, 2026 @03:45PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://picobble.com/
I've been designing and running daily puzzle games for my puzzle enthusiast friends for a while now. Finally decided to polish one for public release. It's a bit more demanding of time/effort compared to things like Wordle, but I hope there are some word game enjoyers outside of my friend group who might derive some joy from my little game!
Both statements are wrong. But yours is wrong-er. You are thinking of street art. Or just spray paint art. The whole point of graffiti is to "get up". If you don't know what getting up is, you should not be espousing any opinions on what graffiti is and isn't.
without demos this is mostly useless i think
Gotta get those kids hooked on LLM garbage nice and early, great goal.
Please rethink this radically. Actually, I don't think you're fit to do this if AI slop is your first instinct, just not your field.
Crazy to me that people engage with this. This is not pixelart or any art really, it's just a weird blurry mess. Looks terrible.
I didn't follow the thing too closely when it happened. Sure, I was aware of the big picture. But wow, I didn't expect that after all this noise there still hasn't been a release? That's just crazy to me.
I shouldn't be surprised though, of course. Giving any credit or slack to a high-valuation LLM company is a silly endeavor.
looks great! not shade to the other guy, but your job is so much nicer looking
what a miserable human you are?
Classic STEM guy thinking that STEM is the cure for everything
Having Medium on top is a weird choice in 2026, I find. It's been years since Medium was anything but a spam platform, and with the age of LLM-generated writing the whole thing can be written off. I don't even click on any Medium links anymore, it's so rarely worth it.
I was excited about the website up until I clicked into my first color and read the page. Terrible slop writing. Makes me question the author's judgement in general.
Wish them nothing but good rest!
What a lovely-looking OS! Also great to hear that the project isn't aiming for infinite changes!
Will be digging out some old hardware to test it out very soon, this is exciting!
Worse sound quality and even worse longevity.
> I could've never imagined long-term-thinking like this from a former addict.
Nothing personal, but you are part of the problem here. You are why these stories are so rare and difficult to achieve. Not out of malice on your part, most likely. But addicts are not humans to you. Please rethink some things.
Metafiction thought of as a precursor for hypertext fiction is not anything new I believe?
Awesome paper either way, just thinking that the title is quite hyperbolic.
Did read this years ago and read it today again. Just so happy that there are people producing such quality work. Even if I personally don't know much about any of it, I still find myself being totally sucked in while reading.
Is anything in late stage capitalism good for the world? Any and all benefits are accidental and temporary.
Any and all discussions about unions on HN sadly just shows how the supposedly smart people can be extremely misinformed and propagandized. Not even really worth engaging in the discussions when it seems like any compassion has been beaten out of the (mostly USA-based, which explains a lot) audience here.
Happy for the devs, more power to them! For the sake of workers everywhere, I hope the US also catches up one day in empathy and rational thinking, when it comes to labor laws and rights.
You are completely wrong about the IPCC stance. Please read the AR6.
Recently I got into cartography software for a bit and the horrors of the data formats in this industry are real. Feels like everyone under the sun has their own.
All that said, GeoJSON was a great change of pace, I enjoyed using it. While I'm no professional and have no idea what the professional needs are, it was very good for my hobbyist needs.