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Show HN: Hangin' Man – A modern take on classic hangman game
by ars2107_ | 2025-06-10 10:23:30+00:00
Hello HN,

I recently built a hangman game called Hangin' Man! It's just a weekend project, nothing crazy, but I'd been wanting to create this for ages out of frustration with the lack of decent hangman games out there.

I love playing word games - I regularly play Wordle, Skribbl, you name it. But hangman was my favourite game growing up. I'm really disappointed by the hangman options available online. Most of them look like they're from the 2000s and use kindergarten-level words.

So this is my attempt at making "the hangman game" for the internet. It has a competitive mode for word geeks and a casual mode for beginners. The difficulty actually adapts, and you can customise your character with accessories (because why not make it fun?).

Please share any feedback and help me make this better! Also, I could use some advice on how to get this in front of the right people who might actually enjoy it.
by karlperera | 2025-06-10 10:23:37+00:00
I've been sending newsletters for many years and in the last few years I have run two newsletters, one about self growth and inspiration and the other about astrophotography, for my company Astroimagery.

Now I am merging the topics of personal growth and space/ astronomy/ astrophotgraphy and I believe this is an idea which can work well. Do you think the cosmos and space can inspire self growth?
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-10 10:24:22+00:00
Re: germ theory:

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine...

> It's important to note here that our understanding of Kennedy's disbelief in germ theory isn't based on speculation or deduction; it's based on Kennedy's own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled "Miasma vs. Germ Theory," in the chapter "The White Man's Burden."
by trashtester | 2025-06-10 10:26:20+00:00
Presidents may not be able to pardon themselves, but they ARE immune from prosecution through the regular legal system for any actions taken as part of the office as president.

The only way to go after them (given the current SCOTUS, who made the ruling above), is impeachment. And for that, the president has to do something so bad that 67 senators are willing to find the president guilty.
by polotics | 2025-06-10 10:27:02+00:00
So that there's a trace on the Internet on how seriously LG takes the social engineering going on with oblivious Smart-TV users to enable creation of residential-proxy armies, I did report the BrightData apps to LG at the right email address, and received this useless reply:

Apps Support 02:49 (9 hours ago) to me

Dear valued user,

Hello. This is your LG webOS "Report an App" Service Representative

Apps (LG Store, Below: Apps) is an open-market service that enhances the user experience in LG smart media products. Customers can download and use apps in a variety of categories, including education, entertainment, life, news, etc.

With Apps, customers can download the apps of their choice using the app recommendations, search, or browse features.

Apps that are available in Apps are registered after going through a verification according to LG's process.

And the registered app will be applied on the terms of conditions form the app supplier’s own policy.

If you have any further inquiries regarding the inconvenience, please contact app supplier Customer Support E-Mail

- sdk@brightdata.com

Thank you for using LG webOS, and we will continue to strive for better services for our customers.

Thank you.

LG webOS "Report an App" Service Representative
by Leftium | 2025-06-10 10:27:04+00:00
Right now, it has been opened to "Distinguished Members"[1]:

> We are about 15% done and are ramping up our efforts. In fact, just last week, we have released access to the first (very, very early) preview of Kagi Mail with just bare basics in place to our distinguished members.

[1]: https://blog.kagi.com/first-three-years
by vdupras | 2025-06-10 10:27:32+00:00
In Dusk OS, I implement does> but with one level of indirection removed. Rather than using create, you bind any number to a behavior. Example:

: foo 1+ does> . ;

42 foo bar

bar \ prints 43

If you want, you can add the "traditional" indirection in the initialization part, for a similar effect.

So, not quite the same, but almost, and I think it echoes the intuition you have, which is also mine.
by oblio | 2025-06-10 10:27:35+00:00
Please don't that, in general. Don't be an absolutist.

"Car free" doesn't mean "ban all the cars":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoAtoaAgm0g

0. This discussion is about urban environments. Suburbs/rural areas will probably be car centric forever (or at least for a long time). If you don't or plan to live in a city, you should move on from this conversation.

1. Of course you'll be able to use car or van to move furniture.

> And take your children and their equipment to activities, etc.

2. What kind of equipment do said children have, pianos??? You can use public transport perfectly well.

In dense enough environments with decent public transit things are generally not that far away by public transit. And a backpack + at least 1 big bag/1 trolley bag fit perfectly well in all but the most crowded public transit.

> Nevermind the issues of poor timetabling and service for public transport, and the risk of crime.

3. All of these are resolved when large amounts of people use public transport and people actually care about it. If it's only for poor people.. yeah, you get US public transit. And regarding crime, fairly sure that in most places your overall risk of death/serious injury is still higher in a car.

* * *

> A personal car is freedom.

A personal car is freedom.

Being forced to only use personal cars everywhere and at all times is slavery.
by timmg | 2025-06-10 10:27:51+00:00
> their revenue comes mostly from Google, they need to diversify

Arguably, they get more revenue than what they need to fund browser development. So they could be banking a fair amount. That would allow them to build an endowment that might keep them funded in perpetuity.

I think there’s an option where they don’t diversify and don’t act like a tech startup and do fine. Maybe Wikipedia is a model for them.
by Y_Y | 2025-06-10 10:27:54+00:00
Thank you for the correction. Indeed the main force of the French Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Départementale) is much more like a "regular" police force than I described.

The unit I was confusing with the Gendarmerie as a whole was the Mobile Gendarmerie, whose role is more similar to the the Guardia Civil and Carabinieri.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Gendarmerie

I wouldn't have included GIGN, since I they appear to be much smaller and have a more "special”/"tactical" role.

I'll also note that the the Gendarmerie don't appear to be sending a team to the AWC (the olympics of smashing through the ceiling and shooting you in your bed) in two weeks, whereas the Guardia Civil and Carabinieri will. This may be a geopolitical thing though.

https://www.kasotc.com/14th-annual-warrior-competition
by unyttigfjelltol | 2025-06-10 10:28:49+00:00
An aggressive litigant might claim the AI was essential to assist the founder in communicating with counsel, and thus similarly protected to some degree. This is coming up in search results as an "agency" rule and the founder still would need reasonable expectations of confidentiality from Claude, etc.

There are legal research AI's and tools out there, which sophisticated non lawyers probably use. Discovery rules haven't been a deterrent because of the companion work product doctrine which is an adjuct to the American Rule-- you generally can't use discovery to extract legal research from the other side.
by marci | 2025-06-10 10:28:50+00:00
> Behemoths are important because only do they have the economies of scale to take massive losses on R&D and built massively expensive and complex things like rockets, hyperscalers, etc.

I think you meant:

The main advantage of behemoths is their ability to buy startups like candy when they are to big and become risk-averse. Then you don't see startups becoming behemoths anymore, except for the unicorns (called unicorn for a reason).
by MzHN | 2025-06-10 10:29:04+00:00
Thunderbird is fully funded by donations[1]

Of course Thunderbird's budget is in a different magnitude than Firefox but I'd guess the amount of users is also in a different magnitude.

As far as I know there has never been an attempt to fund Firefox by donations. You can _only_ donate to Mozilla, which does not go to Firefox development.

People keep saying it wouldn't work but it has also never been attempted so we do not know for sure.

[1] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving...
by lproven | 2025-06-10 10:29:30+00:00
You absolutely could dual boot them. I did it at the time.

I reviewed BeOS 5 at the time:

archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/PCW%20200007%20July%20Created%20From%20PCW%20Cover%20CD%20%28No%20Cover%29/page/n50/mode/1up
by curtisblaine | 2025-06-10 10:29:34+00:00
That America was built on immigration one century (or even one decade) ago doesn't say anything about what America should do now. America is a nation that has borders and a right to control immigration, like all other nations in the world. When America wants more immigration, the American government raises the number of legal immigrants allowed per year. When they want less, they lower that number. Illegal immigrants, hard working or lazy, have nothing to do with that.
by mrtksn | 2025-06-10 10:29:44+00:00
Trust but verify. It will come up with ideas and claims, google all that for authoritative sources and people who went through all this. Ask again for anything contradicting you can find and ask for edge cases you can think of. Change the wording and ask again to see if it gives you the same advice.

IMHO hallucinations are not that bad when you have a human in the loop.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-10 10:29:58+00:00
I’ve always found an “heuristic” approach useful.

Instead of saying “I want to be there, then.” (A goal), or “I won’t accept a less than 40% success rate.” (A constraint), I say “That hill seems to be the one I want to climb. I know that it gets colder, as I go up the mountain, so I’ll pack some long underwear.”

But I suspect that my own definition of “success” may be somewhat orthogonal to that of a lot of folks, hereabouts.
by spaceman_2020 | 2025-06-10 10:30:10+00:00
I don't know whether it's coming for my job or not, but I've found it incredibly useful for dealing with situations I'm completely unfamiliar with.

For example, I have a small hobby business with a few friends. One of them suggested that we put up a stall at a major upcoming exhibition.

I've never done one of these before, so I asked GPT o3 to help me figure out what instructions to share with my fabricator. The output was so good that the fabricator said I'd made his job 5x easier.

Once I got the 3d render, I asked o3 to help me figure out how to draw more attention. It gave me display ideas for different budgets, copy ideas, and layout ideas.

The display ideas were fantastic and it would have taken a few hours of brainstorming to come up with them.

The copy ideas were also really good. I've worked as a copywriter in the past and gun to my head, I could maybe get about 10% more juice out of them. For the average business, it was perfectly fine at first pass.
by pxc | 2025-06-10 10:30:31+00:00
> There was no fuss and no drama.

I didn't write my initial comment here to relitigate this, but you are absolutely the one rewriting history. I remember reading about it because I was a KDE user at the time. But sources are easy to find; there are blog posts and press articles cited in Wikipedia. Here's a sample from one:

> Do you have any idea how hard it is to be merging between two totally different trees when one of them doesn't have any history? That's the situation KDE is in. We created the khtml-cvs list for Apple, they got CVS accounts for KDE CVS. What did we get? We get periodical code bombs in the form of them releasing WebCore. Many of us wanted to even sign NDA's with Apple to at least get access to the history of their internal vcs and be able to be merging the changes incrementally, the way they can right now. Nothing came out of it. They do the very, very minimum required by LGPL.

> And you know what? That's their right. They made a conscious decision about not working with KDE developers. All I'm asking for is that all the clueless people stop talking about the cooperation between Safari/Konqueror developers and how great it is. There's absolutely nothing great about it. In fact "it" doesn't exist. Maybe for Apple - at the very least for their marketing people. Clear?

https://web.archive.org/web/20100529065425/http://www.kdedev...

From another, the very developer they later hired described the same frustrations in more polite language:

> As is somewhat well known, Apple's initial involvement in the open-source project known at KHTML was tense. KHTML developers like Lars were frustrated with Apple's bare-bones commitment to contributing their changes back to the project. "It was hard, and in some cases impossible to pick apart Apple's changes and apply them back to KHTML," he told us. Lars went on to say, "This kind of development is really not what I wanted to do. Developers want to spend their time implementing new features and solving problems, not cherry picking through giant heaps of code for hours at a time."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/06/ars-at-wwdc-intervie...

This uncooperative situation persisted for the first 3 or 4 years of the lifetime of Apple's fork, at least.

> The reason why it’s fair play is that the license allows it. Google is no white knight out to avenge the poor KHTML users from 2003.

You're right about this, though.

Anyway, there's no need to deny or erase this in order to defend Apple. Just pointing to other open-source projects they released or worked with in the intervening years, as many other commenters have done in reply to my initial comment, is sufficient!
by holowoodman | 2025-06-10 10:30:34+00:00
> Wind/Solar/etc cannot produce fertilizer - arguably the most important use of fossil fuels.

You can create ammonia (and thereby nitrogen-based fertilizers which you are probably referring to) from electricity, water and air alone. However, doing it with gas or oil is often cheaper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-023-00362-y

However, the process is very old and proven, see e.g. this historically significant and well-known facility from 1907: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsk_Hydro_Rjukan
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-10 10:30:39+00:00
>ASML, being Dutch, and crucial to essentially all cutting semiconductor production, gives Europe leverage

It doesn't.

Firstly, ASML's core EUV light source tech is licensed from the US who threatened to pull the plug if ASML sold EUV steppers to China. That's what actual leverage looks like.

Secondly, you also need cutting edge semi fabs, which EU lacks. If it were that easy ASML would open some fabs in its own back yard with its cutting edge machines and keep the highest profits for themselves instead of letting TSMC, Samsung and Intel have them, but it's not easy. EU semi fabs are behind Taiwan, the US, China and Japan in node sizes despite having ASML domestically which is a huge blow for domestic industry and leverage. That's like making the best hammers but having no idea how to use them effectively.

Thirdly, once you have the lithography machines and the fabs, you also need top IP to make cutting edge high margin chips with them, which the EU lacks. The highest grossing chips are all US IP: Nvidia, Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, Intel, Amazon, Ampere, while European chip companies are way down below the pecking order in profitability: Infineon, NXP, ST, making low margin chips the likes of Nvidia and AMD can't be bothered.

Fourthly(is that correct in English?), once you have your litho, fabs and high end chips, you can now put all those powerful chips into datacenters to create powerful cloud hyperscalers, which the EU lacks. EU has nothing close to AWS, GPC, Azure, Tencent, Alibaba.

This is what tech dominance looks like. And EU is third place behind the US and China.
by rollcat | 2025-06-10 10:31:22+00:00
There always were ways to "upgrade" your Windows edition (Home -> Pro, etc) through less official channels. I can imagine these "corporate" patches will also make their way somehow.

There's also enough community interest to maintain Win10 support for more legitimate projects: <https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat>.

I'd also like EU to step in and mandate a continued patching period proportional to the number of deployed devices. After all, it's in their own interest: many devices used in day-to-day administration/operations likely do not need an upgrade; landfill is costly; etc.
by Bender | 2025-06-10 10:31:51+00:00
I just get a http error status and a blank page. Are they saying that HN sent too many people to their site? If so how many is too many for them? HN active user base is not that big so I would assume the issue is too many AI bots scraping and following links from HN which also means the AI bots are ignoring rel="nofollow" if that is the case.
by ben_w | 2025-06-10 10:32:42+00:00
> How can Europe catch up and do that in a sovereign way?

Europe, or the EU?

Because DeepMind, despite being owned by Google, was started in and still has HQ in the UK.

Also, given Musk burned his bridges with Brazil, most of Europe, then the US Dems, Canada, SA, and now the US Reps, I don't see him going anywhere any more. Even with his personality aside, Tesla would have an uphill battle getting people to trust that their Optimus won't get hacked and turn into Mr Stabby The 100% Deniable Robot Assassin.
by lan321 | 2025-06-10 10:33:52+00:00
To me AI in law seems better since you have a judge at the end. If you get something wrong it'll most likely be fine. There seems to be some tolerance for mistakes when representing yourself so it's most likely helpful for small claims and fighting tickets/fines. In a perfect world people wouldn't be paying BS fines or letting people scam them because they can't be arsed to take 2-3 days to deal with it the first time (once you've done the spiel once it's much easier).
by Draiken | 2025-06-10 10:34:10+00:00
> Bold conclusion, but why is it absurd?

It doesn't learn anything, it simply regurgitates words based on probability. How we can compare a human learning from other humans to a machine mathematically accessing a zip file with human knowledge is beyond me. It's simply not even in the same ballpark.

> New ways of making thinks has always had an impact on the old ways of making things. Are you proposing we should seek no new ways of making things?

Let's not pretend that any of this is about making things easier or better for everyone. This is to make money and any benefit is a mere side-effect.
by roenxi | 2025-06-10 10:34:56+00:00
We can actually read the argument, I don't know why people are linking to CNN: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/depa...

The argument seems to be more of a no-confidence move because the Californians can't keep order. They'll presumably treat the wording seriously but I think the "form of rebellion" is more a jab at the people who keep harping on about insurrections. Looks like a bad argument from any angle I can think of (they aren't invited and there isn't an actual rebellion to put down).
by sebastiennight | 2025-06-10 10:34:58+00:00
OK, found it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot

> Starting with Firefox version 133, you have the option to use an AI chatbot of your choice in an updated sidebar. The sidebar allows you to keep a variety of browser tools, including a chatbot, in view as you browse. Right now, you can choose from the following chatbot providers: Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat by Hugging Face and Le Chat Mistral.
by simonh | 2025-06-10 10:35:06+00:00
1960s - Herbert Simmons predicts "Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do."

1993 - Vernor Vinge predicts super-intelligent AIs 'within 30 years'.

2011 - Ray Kurzweil predicts the singularity (enabled by super-intelligent AIs) will occur by 2045, 34 years after the prediction was made.

The predicted advent of general purpose AI recedes into the future by more than 1 year per year.
by elric | 2025-06-10 10:35:27+00:00
Are they serious?

Vertical tabs? That's a trivial feature that's been implemented by plugins for decades. I've been using vertical tabs for as long as I've been using firefox, probably since it was still called Phoenix or Firebird.

Smart search: what even is that? Is that the default garbage in the address bar that I have to disable on every fresh install? I don't want my browser to search. I've got search engines for that. I might want a better in-page search, with regex support. Maybe even with fuzzy search support. But that's probably not considered "smart".

AI-powered features: such as what? Why would this be a compelling feature? A better editor on saved form data would be actually useful. Editable, per-website autocomplete in forms would be useful. But I guess that's not as flashy.

If these are their best ideas for "the next era of the internet", they might as well throw in the towel.

I'm trying my best not to be too negative, but yikes they make it hard.
Ask HN: What is the right scope of responsibility for two devs?
by dindindin | 2025-06-10 10:35:29+00:00
Hey everyone!

I’m a swe at an automotive company, and am working on an internal app, with one other developer. Our boss is at the same time the product owner / manager, and I’m struggling to understand how I feel about the team dynamics, given that we don’t really have any set processes, but essentially work on whatever is currently prioritized.

- We are both juniors, fresh from university

- We don’t have any sort CI/CD pipeline, we push to Git and deploy via Github Actions

- One of us (me) focuses on doing the UI, UX + Frontend design, whereas the other does Backend.

- We don’t do Jira, our system tends to be to work on things, show him our progress and he provides his input

- This input can however change the direction of the feature meeting after meeting.

- We are responsible for making everything work - so far it more or less has, as we’ve successfully piloted and launched to users, but it is beginning to feel like a house of cards

- We are also working on other responsibilities, (we are the data analytics / digitalization) team. I also have an intern for the side-topics, though it does take a lot of capacity from my day work.

Recently, I’ve noticed that as the project complexity grows, me and the other dev have had communication difficulties (I think he is a great dev, but the pressure and lack of documenting due to the output expectations leads to me forgetting information about endpoint quirks, etc): we don’t have a set system for documenting things in place, we use our Teams chat but I feel like we can do much better.

Is this situation normal? Would love to hear your opinions / tips on how to navigate this, as it has definitely taken a toll on my mental health recently.