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Show HN: Zion Cluster (another indiehacker cursor game)
Hi HN,

I wanted to share my new project—a multi-player twist on the classic Asteroids game. I built this game on seeing other Indiehackers make cool things and I wanted to learn game development as salty B2B SAAS product manager.

Here’s a quick overview:

What It Is:
A multi-player version of the classic Asteroids game where you can battle against bots in real time, human multiplayer coming soon. Dodge asteroids, collect power-ups, and compete for the highest score in a fast-paced arena.

Why I Built It:
I wanted to recreate the nostalgic feel of the original Asteroids while adding modern multi-player elements. The project was a fun way to learn about real-time networking and game physics, and I’m curious to see how the community reacts (if at all).

Technical Details:
* Built using Cursor with a combo of Sonnet 3.5 and 3.7. Tts HTML5, JavaScript, WebSockets hosted on render.

* I tried to focused on smooth, fast gameplay and a simple, retro visual style (think vector scanning).

Its barely working:
Fair warning its rough, it takes ages to load and there is no loading indicator. The game mechanics can be glitchy, the bots are overzealous and aggressive.

What I’m Looking For:
Feedback on the gameplay, suggestions for new features, and thoughts on performance improvements. If you’re into retro games or have ideas for enhancing multi-player interactions, I’d love to hear from you!

You can check out the live version here: https://astro-c9ad.onrender.com/

Thanks for taking the time to try it out. I’m looking forward to your feedback!

-Rich
Promising one! Looking for Ruby integration
4chan became the normie
partition by sensor first, then timestamp (or the reverse if it makes sense). If they are avro, orc, or parquet, stage and register them directly with Iceberg (see AppendFilesCommit) and compact occasionally. Newer files (uncompacted) will be small, older files will be larger and more optimized.

You can also do this with a landing table or even branches+WAP.
The UI is awful, Discord volume isn't exposed, no option to do it, either, so you have to adjust game audio or individual user audio. They put the whole kitchen sink in, for some reason, too, there's a text chat in the voice rooms that needs to be user-revealed for some reason, instead of being exposed by default. Most of it is unintuitive at first use.

Then there's the many contraindications e.g. privacy policy, walled garden, and the dog shit internal indexing and the fact that it isn't externally indexed, there's a lot of pertinent information on there from skilled individuals that could serve society a la the BBS era that will never be surfaced again because it's now being posted to Discord, though that's tangential. I hate it, but it's easy enough to use, though negligibly dofferent compared to Skype, which had many of the same issues.

I think the biggest attractor for my friends was being able to idle in a server so it was easy to start a party vs starting a call on Skype which requires a little more arrangement. Lower cost less friction.

I don't remember marketing, though.
https://suboptimalism.neocities.org/optimalism/posts/shock-c...
Maybe you should inform Russia that. They sure seem to think eastern Ukraine is theirs because of russian language speakers.
feels like this is growing trend : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43280615
Thank you! I feel like with Python we cracked the code rewriting issues very much to a point where Ruby could be supported fast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene#Equable_climate_problem

> BAYSPAR measurements indicate extremely high sea surface temperatures of 40 °C (104 °F) to 45 °C (113 °F) at low latitudes,

I'm going to take a wild guess that humans aren't doing so good near the equator with 45°C oceans. Though it's definitely interesting that the temperature gradient flattened out so much.
What is the reasoning behind the thing being 50% more expensive in the EU? Still reasonable, just wondering.

Kinda like that this one is cheaper on the SSO plan than the other advertised here that starts at $20/user and proudly advertises no SSO tax.

Kinda easy if you make your plan as expensive as github enterprise.
I see a political post with 500 comments, I don't even have to read it to know the main arguments.

It amazes me that in this day and age people still (500 as your example states is actually quite low for some of the political shit on HN lately) continue to "argue" and discuss politics. It is 2025, literally everyone is in their own echochamber.

minds of people that still use "X" are basically being ran by state-sponsored media (amazing no one realizes this, would wonder what would happen if say Hillary bought X tomorrow...lol), minds of other people are being ran by whatever other place they do their own research - in 2025 no one will ever be able to "convince" someone else about anything or "open their eyes" to what they are being subjected to - it is suuuuuuch a waste of everyone's time to discuss politics. then you have droves of people complaining that many posts get flagged - the flaggers I believe are just people trying to save 500+ people from wasting their precious time :)
The German government, and maybe to a lesser extent the EU more generally, feels that the privacy of citizens from corporations (especially foreign ones, especially American tech ones) is important to preserve and protect. Privacy from the government is a different matter. The government, due to its being duly elected by the people, has an implicit right to pry into people's affairs if such prying can be justified as serving the public interest.

It's quite a different attitude than the USA. The USA is almost unique in being individualist to what some might consider an extremist degree, to the point where if the government intends to violate someone's fundamental rights, they may do so only under very limited circumstances and must document everything and prove that those circumstances had been met. In most of the democratic world, individual rights are just one factor that needs to be balanced against public safety, public order, etc. and the government has much wider latitude to violate even constitutionally protected rights on its own say-so.

This is how you get German prosecutors on 60 Minutes, grinning and laughing as they describe the shock people undergo as they are arrested and their computers confiscated and searched over literal mean tweets. For the Germans, it's normal -- necesssary, even, to have a functional society. To Americans it's abhorrent.
I’d like to remind everyone that learning to play music, learning dancing or sports requiring complex coordination also count.

Oh, and a question at the back of my mind: wouldn’t using AI to avoid minimize all of us spending time in the struggling-to-figure-something zone lead to earlier decline on a massive scale?
Projects Panama, Valhalla, and Babylon: Java Is the New Python
There is no gun control that leads to no school shootings. It is simply not possible.

The best thing we can do is to address the root cause, and react as quickly as possible when there is a problem. We have police presence at basically every single public arena -- government buildings, hospitals, stadiums, malls, etc; we should have police presence at schools too, along with the training to do their jobs effectively.

The harsh reality is that school shootings make up a vanishingly small number of students who will die of gun violence, let along those that die from any cause.

[The FBI says 105 people](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-...), excluding shooters, died in mass shootings in 2023, of which a subset will be students. Even if we assumed every mass shooting victim in 2023 was a student, something like 10x the number of students will die from poisoning, another 10x from suffocation, another 22x from motor vehicle collisions, etc.

I think this is a uniquely American problem because America is a unique country. No other nations have the incredible wealth, diversity, and rights of America, and looking to other countries to emulate is imo, a mistake.
very much haha, it seems like a lot of people are realizing the upcoming potential with coding agents using them
If something terrible happens to you in your life, you don't get to just take it out on random people. That goes doubly for those reaching a hand out in assistance.
> I do find it interesting that we hold these platforms liable but not the phone/pager/mail service.

Phone and mail networks in letter and spirit obey the law: they don't listen to people's private conversations and they give up complete user info on request by law enforcement. There is nothing more they can do.

Discord has built the capability to read every message, public or private, that any user sends. So they are ethically obligated to stop bad things happening on their platform. Whatsapp/Signal have built their platforms so they can't read user private messages, so they have no ethical obligations to stop bad things happening on their platform, beyond banning users in response to legal orders.
Bluesky has an algorithmic feed even though people think it doesn't.

I am annoyed by emotionally negative political content on Mastodon and had to make a number of rules (no "fascist", "republican", "Trump", ...) to make it tolerable.

I found Bluesky's algorithmic feed eliminated about 75% of emotionally negative content and thought it was a good feed without any rules (though I was being careful who I follow.) Then the inauguration happened and there was a huge exodus of people from X and the feed either got overwhelmed with them or they were deliberately giving activists and journalists a lot of visibility so they build up followers quickly.

I've been wanting to make a "negative people" filter to make it easier to choose people to follow, the idea is to make a ModernBERT + LSTM classifier which I think will outperform my miniLM + pooling + SVM classifier. I need something that can look at images and detect "text in images" such as screenshots and image memes to block those too.

So from my viewpoint people can post what they want, but I won't read it. Probably Threads is using some technology like this to suppress politics and negativity in general.

To tell if something is true you need to make a god. Politics and negativity aren't quite the same thing, but they are fellow travelers.
I would guess (albeit a guess based on decades of real life experience across several countries) that the instruments are still on the roof (it costs money to remove them) the data and instrument routines are being kept up by a DoD adjacent SIGINT team that look after a forest of antenna, instruments, rack mount IT gear etc, and the data is still going back home to the US.

The literal at embassy upkeep costs for these atmospheric instruments is zero given it's minor work piggybacking on required existing staffed infrastucture that's not going away.

What's probably been cut is the "making it public" part that has a third party contractor take pooled embassy data and put it up on a website for all the world to see.

That needn't be expensive .. but it's been cut all the same.

Of course the US still runs embassy instruments, esp. in 'hostile' locations - seismic to detect tunneling, air quality to detect gassing, radiometric for nuclear hazards, network sanity and canary services to trip digital intrusion, etc. None of that is going away.

> I think a dedicated, secure blah blah network for air quality sensor data is indeed over engineered.

I'm sorry, are you on HN but don't actually have any IT experience?

The dedicated secure high bandwidth network is for the embassy .. a literal US outpost in a foreign potentially hostile land.

It's for secure comms, SCIF to SCIF comms, diplomatic communications, backup for military | intelligence usage.

Air quality and other met data is a trivial low bandwidth data load that could transmit in full on a shitty low baud POTS phone .. there's no issue having an embassy SIGINT officer set and forget a pipe on the existing network infrastructure, their time is paid for, the equipment is there.
This thread has four different promotions for alternative services I’ve seen. Is this an Atlassian thing? Where everyone dislikes their stiluff so much they want to build their own? Or is it like time-tracking, which is something everyone has built at least once in their career as a programmer?
I think the only issue is on some things, rewards can undermine intrinsic motivation... external rewards work for tasks where extrinsic motivation works well
We are a very happy customer of better stack - it’s a genuinely great product that did not let us down so far and it’s way more intuitive than my previous experiences with Opsgenie (setting up escalation policies was a nightmare in opsgenie)

We also use the AI features quite a bit, but they can be easily ignored if unwanted
I want to see a marketplace that makes it non-free to send a message to the seller and non-free to ghost a buyer.
Enjoyed the blog post and great job getting it done by the 28th.

How did you choose what you were going to penalize yourself with?
you can only do what you are hired and empowered to do
Dogcarts
Shouldn't the web server only respond to a configred domain, else 404?
Here's the issue: Prediction isn't only about performing experiments in science, or engineering tasks. It's an ongoing process and something that may very well be tied to our very existence as conscious observers, in that it extends our spatiotemporal sense.

Forget Einstein for a minute. When you drive a car, you hold a mental model of your position and velocity in time and space, of the expected behaviors of other drivers, of the conditions of the road, and you continually adjust your behavior in accordance with that model. Almost anything that requires attention is something that requires us to build a mental model of the future -- and predict that future.

So, yeah, you can hew closely to validated scientific theories and "predict" how things will happen in that sense. But, as you walk home from your meeting at the astronomical society, you stop at a crosswalk, look both ways, and you're back to making essentially probabilistic predictions about how crossing the road is going to go.

I get the sense that you dislike them, but really LLMs are not so different. How they handle probability and prediction is different in degree, but I don't think that it's entirely different in kind.

> And it showed that it still seemed to be guessing an output instead of actually checking to build the output (as if remembering that very often "2+2=4" instead of checking "1 and 1, and 1 and 1: 1, 2, 3, 4").

You've never memorized your multiplication tables?

Boss Terry Tao has a reasonably high opinion of the abilities of LLMs as mathematicians, which is remarkable -- really astounding -- considering how they're built and trained, as essentially language prediction and manipulation machines.
> They could totally inflate prices in the long term, and not just create inflation

This will all happen. But as I said, this is a trade-off. Devalue the currency, incentivize local production, increase exports, revive the working class – that's the long term goal.

> but reduce the standard of living Americans are used to.

Whose standard of living though? It's well and good if you're in a comfy desk job with health care and a pension. The discontent that led to Trump's rise is real, and it's routinely overlooked when considering how to counter him. Of the everyday people, those who have stable jobs and purpose aren't voting for Trump. (Of the wealthy, it's probably a lot more cynical who voted for Trump)

I'm not in favor of the policy, the manner in which it's being applied, or the people that are doing it, but reversing off-shoring is a consequence of using protectionist policies – be it tariffs, or subsidies.

High-skill work, and pencil-pushing desk jobs don't cover 100% of the population, and has lead to a lot of unproductive busy-work in the cities. The offshoring of blue-collar work bred the discontent that led to Trump. Trump fancies himself the new William McKinley and is using the cudgel of tariffs to re-onshore manufacturing. This is a process he started in his first administration, that was retained by Biden, and now he's doubling down and doing exactly what he promised he would – and somehow his voters are surprised?

Worse still, those service economy jobs keeping the coastal cities alive (both low skill and high skill) are on the verge of being replaced by AI – whether that's one year or 20, I don't know—though I'm wagering the latter. Physical labor is going to become more valuable as robotics is still way behind in technological development. I don't have a crystal ball, but I'd wager that–at least counterfactually—the US will have more jobs by enacting protectionist policy.

> Worst case is that American Juche turns out to be just like North Korean Juche.

Do you really in your heart of hearts think this is going to happen? I'm pretty sure the subjugation of the American people by the government would be feasible, let alone easy.
Can this handle smaller models like Qwen 1.5B, or does it need some real intelligence to get the tool calling to work?
presumably it has a DNS record
The cynical in me thinks that probably it was bug in the anti-piracy code.
Recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187518
If you could make it as fast and reliable as ethernet you will be even richer. Cabling and getting those right at the scale of big cloud providers is a costly matter. Not to talk about technician errors losing these providers a lot of money which you will be able to solve.
There were still quite a few hitchhikers in the mid-1990s and I would always pick them up. I heard some tall tales but I never felt threatened. People have become absurdly risk-averse.
I believe that the group pulling out the dead trees was wrong. A good search term for this topic, btw, is "large woody debris".
> (like it used to be)

When are you imagining this "used to be" true? This technology was invented about thirty years ago, by Netscape, which no longer exists but in effect continues as Mozilla. They don't write an operating system (then or now) so it's hard to see how this is "centralized at the OS level".
I remember seeing a Ted talk on poverty impacting cognitive abilities.

A quick search returned some articles. Here’s one: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7525587/

A Ted talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/rutger_bregman_poverty_isn_t_a_lac...
Depends if it's configured like that, by default usually no
Starship Flight 8 launched and fails
That's OK if it's the government paying for it.

Mechazilla makes for a nice show, but Starship was supposed to be landing on the Moon by now.
Sony's MiniDisc Camcorder – It Almost Changed Everything
So what happened to the Starship itself ?
Completely anecdotal, current student, but some people learn differently from in person class vs online/remote. Also, imo not every degree/course is best done online (e.g., trades, arts, performing arts). Right now I am taking classes which cannot be done online.

I do however understand where you are coming from. MIT courseware is abundant, youtube, library resources, github `awesome` lists...

If there wasn't bureaucracy/capitalism surrounding higher education i wouldn't mind it coming from tax dollars since it would be another log added to the fire per se. Plus it helps to create a stronger workforce (theoretically, assuming graduates). Without the right safeguards, free college edu wouldn't work, would be nice tho
> You can't solve the bot problem without thorough, labor-intensive moderation.

I want to see a social network that solves the bot problem by requiring a fee to post.
ha, indeed, now i see. seems like users (and @dang apparently) decided this topic was too hot to let it go through. it’s a bit sad, as it’s probably the largest news since the fall of USSR, but i get the idea. maybe let just a few pass each day ?
Question: How does a subdomain get discovered by a member of the public if there are no references to it anywhere online?

The only thing I can think of that would let you do that would be a DNS zone transfer request, but those are almost always disallowed from most origin IPs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_zone_transfer
I too have this question.
I do this, and it definitely helps me with recall, much to the detriment of upper management that think I'm just not paying attention and wasting time.
tl;dr: By using the CT logs as a trusted timestamping service, if I understand it correctly?
I think this mainly comes down to how good you are at systematic thinking. For example it's really hard to build a habit without some form of reward mechanism, but once that habit is built the reward comes from the consistency of keeping the habit. This type of reward oriented behavior is probably quite good for that initial difficulty most people have in building a habit, but once you have the system in place it becomes second nature to keep doing the task and as a consequence usually introduces some negative association with skipping it. Think the gym for example.
3/20/25 – Nvidia quantum computing day
Looks rad! Can't wait to integrate this into my workflow
Rapid unscheduled disassembly.

Kinda like the Federal government.
The US have the death penalty too, so implying that those countries have a low homicide rate because of it is quite far-fetched.

Not to mention at least in the US the death penalty is more expensive than a lifelong prison sentence, so it's simply not a good idea.
I mean school debt where I said professional debt.
For some context, wikipedia has a good table and diagram of codecs that do well at low bitrates, many of which are very old (G.722 from the late 1988, Speex from 2003, Opus from 2012 for a few examples)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)#Quality_co...
yay :) happy to hear that
Beyond the Hype: Real-World Tests of Mistral's OCR
We put Mistral AI's new OCR to the test against complex documents that matter for real business use cases. While it outperforms a lot of frontier LLMs, we found critical limitations for finance, legal, and healthcare domains.
It started tumbling for some reason. Still waiting for more details.
I'm having the same issue.

https://securitytrails.com/ also had my "secret" staging subdomain.

I made a catch-all certificate, so the subdomain didn't show up in CT logs.

It's still a secret to me how my subdomain ended up in their database.
We find that spatial perception and spatial reasoning remain very difficult even for the strongest models like o3 or Claude 3.7
It is increasingly illegal, for the drivers too. They don't want people walking on highways, nor cars stopping randomly.
I just tried your prompt: o1, gpt4.5, gemini 2 pro solved it correctly (21-19-36), sonnet3.7 and grok3 failed because of the parsing error you described.
You're probably better off linking this in the ongoing thread that's sitting on the top of the front page right now.
'Awful' seems awfully subjective there. Can Skype even reasonably be grouped with Teamspeak? If all you want to do is quickly chat with a group, is Discord not actually far more annoying, all else equal?

Windows isn't beating out Linux in the desktop space because Linux is awful. Network effects are much more significant.
When you have a pair of programmers sitting around the same tree. Could also be a pear tree.
The animation on the page looks an awful lot like autoregressive inference in that virtually all of the tokens are predicted in order? But I guess it doesn't have to do that in the general case?