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EverQuest (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xd8V
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Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs? (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6x7Cx
Soham Parekh is all the rage on Twitter right now with a bunch of startups coming out of the woodwork saying they either had currently employed him or had in the past.
Serious question: why aren't so many startups hiring processes filtering out a candidate who is scamming/working multiple jobs?
Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xczr
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xczr
I'm a software developer with 20+ years of experience but during this time I never programmed any games, but I really wanted to for the longest time. With the advent of AI coding agents I thought that this is the best time to try and so I've learned a bit of Phaser.js (a Javascript based game engine) and entered Beginner's Jam Summer 2025 - a game jam for beginners in the game dev industry that allows AI coding. After around 25-30 hours (working mainly after my full-time day job) I managed to submit the game I called "Tower of Time" (the theme of the jam was "Time Travel").
You can play it in your browser here: https://m4v3k.itch.io/tower-of-time
The goal of this project for me was first and foremost to see if AI coding is good enough to help me with creating something that's actually fun to play and to my delight is turns out the answer is yes! I decided to document the whole process for myself and others to learn from my mistakes, so both the code AND all the prompts I used are published on GitHub (see submission link). The art assets are largely taken from itch.io artists who shared them for free, with some slight touch ups. Sounds came from freesound.org.
I've also streamed parts of the process, you can watch me working on the final stretch and submitting the finished game (warning, it's 5+ hours long):
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2503428478
During this process I've learned a lot and I want to use this knowledge in my next project that will hopefully be more ambitious. If you have any comments or questions I'm here to answer!
Zig breaking change – initial Writergate (Score: 154+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xbDD
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Larry (cat) (Score: 153+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xcfd
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Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xcei
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Wind Knitting Factory (Score: 152+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xaWL
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The Rise of Whatever (🔥 Score: 161+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xbGa
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A list is a monad (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wUWp
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Trans-Taiga Road (2004) (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6x8ih
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Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6x9ZX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6x9ZX
AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xah5
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xah5
Peasant Railgun (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6x9Mg
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6x9Mg
Hilbert's sixth problem: derivation of fluid equations via Boltzmann's theory (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6x4FU
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Tools: Code Is All You Need (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6x9hS
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6x9hS
Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wYwb
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Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6x2Lk
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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip (🔥 Score: 156+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xcZz
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Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? (Score: 153+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xcwF
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xcwF
Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xcBe
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xcBe
WASM Agents: AI agents running in the browser (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xbJx
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Where is my von Braun wheel? (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6x9HG
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Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean (🔥 Score: 156+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xbGq
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Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase (Score: 153+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xa5z
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xa5z
My open source project was stolen and relicensed by a YC company (🔥 Score: 177+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xbus
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6xbus
Show HN: Sink – Sync any directory with any device on your local network (❄️ Score: 150+ in 6 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wNgV
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wNgV
i made sink. it's a simple little tool that continuously syncs folders between 2 devices. no cloud, no email, flash drives, no bs.
it just uses your local wifi. run it on your machines, tell them to trust each other, and you're set. and if you manage to edit the same file at once, it handles the conflict and saves both copies.
for anyone who just wants to get files from point a to b without the headache. hope it makes your life a bit less annoying.
github: https://github.com/sirbread/sink
binary: https://github.com/sirbread/sink/releases/tag/v0.1
About AI Evals (❄️ Score: 152+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wZLX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wZLX
Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology (🔥 Score: 150+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6xatY
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https://github.com/google/longfellow-zk
Introducing tmux-rs (🔥 Score: 164+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6x9Xm
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Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6wYM3
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6wYM3