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Show HN: ssh sshfighter.comhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386763I've been playing with trying to get the most out of regular terminal (ansi) graphics rendering for an mmorpg game for a bit of fun. Thought that I might take a quick detour and make a streetfighter style game that turned out better than I thought it would.Type "ssh sshfighter.com" in your terminal to playVisit the website https://sshfighter.com to watch replays etc (tv feature is cool)My friends and I have been working on bot models for a bit of fun, you can queue against them if you want to and they have their own leaderboard. look at /bots if you want to make your own.It's all open source https://github.com/thomasdavis/sshfighter.com---I intentionally didn't take advantage of things like kitty graphics, but I have started work on an adapter to take full advantage of it. (the bandwidth is a bit hard to reckon with)---Feedback would be awesome! p.s. sorry I did not test on any windows terminalsAug 21, 2026 11:56 AM
musicminigames.com
Show HN: Music Mini Games on the Web (1.0)https://musicminigames.com/games/I previously built this iOS app. I figured I might as well have Fable bring it to the web. I'll be adding more games and such in the future. Even though my iOS app updates have gone through, on average, within 48 hours, I'm really tired of Apple's review process, so I had Fable help me bring these to the web. Give it a whirl and let me know what you think. I have some other things on the roadmap, but I'm happy to hear some feedback.Aug 21, 2026 11:42 AM
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Ask HN: Do teams really need to use GitHub?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386514Enterprises can self-host, sure. Open source projects uses it for the the network effects of GitHub. But why does a small software team need to use GitHub?I understand the ecosystem argument. Once you've got your repos, CI/CD, PRs, code reviews, packages, integrations, etc. all wired into GitHub, moving everything is a pain. But Git itself is distributed, and GitHub has a pretty open plugin/integration system. There are also perfectly capable alternatives like GitLab, Bitbucket, Forgejo, Gitea, SourceHut, etc.So what is the actual thing that makes a 10–20 person software company stick with GitHub? Is it mostly switching costs? The ecosystem? Developer familiarity? Something else? And if you were to start a project today, would you still go with GitHub?And a slightly more personal question.I've had a rough idea for what a new GitHub could look like if it were built specifically for software that is increasingly being written by AI agents, and specifically for companies rather than open-Aug 21, 2026 11:26 AM
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Show HN: For learners who can understand English but freeze when speakinghttps://nattly.mathswariz.uk/Many intermediate learners can understand native English seamlessly, but freeze or revert to clunky, direct translations when forced to speak. Flashcards teach you to recognize words on a screen; they don't teach your brain to produce natural phrases under conversational pressure.To bridge the gao between language recognition and production I have rebuilt Nattly around a four-step loop:Meaning → Attempt → Native Alternatives → ReuseHow it works in practice:Instead of testing vocabulary isolation (“What does held up mean?”), Nattly puts you in a scenario:The Situation: Your friend asks: why you were late?Your Attempt: You answer using whatever words come to mind first.Native Alternatives: The app exposes natural ways a native British speaker would express that exact thought:"The bus held me up.""I got held up by the bus.""The bus was running late."Contextual Reuse: Those constructions reappear later in fresh, non-repetitive scenarios where they make sense contextually.https://nattly.matAug 21, 2026 10:37 AM
bing.com
The 5 most iconic and valuable 1969 Topps baseball cardshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88d17e66214f3ea26ce25f7f707a74&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Fother%2Fthe-5-most-iconic-and-valuable-1969-topps-baseball-cards%2Far-AA2aF23X&c=14512523856425168757&mkt=en-usThe 1969 Topps Baseball set closed out a golden era of the hobby with an unforgettable checklist and one of the strangest backstories of any vintage baseball card set.Aug 21, 2026 10:30 AM
france24.com
This year's El Nino set to be strongest in more than a century, UK forecasters sayhttps://www.france24.com/en/environment/20260821-this-year-s-el-nino-set-to-be-strongest-in-more-than-a-century-uk-forecasters-sayBritain's Met Office has predicted sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific will reach an "unheard-of" level of potentially more than three degrees above average, triggering severe droughts across South America and the West Pacific. Such an event would have serious knock-on effects for global food security.Aug 21, 2026 10:28 AM
bing.com
Bolo is leading a new wave of Latin dance musichttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8980581e014b9a975c6700c7c97964&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fmusic%2Fnews%2Fbolo-is-leading-a-new-wave-of-latin-dance-music%2Far-AA2aFAsy&c=4058431072987224560&mkt=en-us"Something major is coming," says Ben Hogan, Bolo's agent at UTA. "It's right at the cusp for a lot of these Latin DJs." ...Aug 21, 2026 9:56 AM
nytimes.com
Richard Gadd Had Never Heard of the Manospherehttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/arts/television/richard-gadd-emmys-half-man.htmlThe creator and star of “Half Man” didn’t have a particular agenda for this dark tale of male repression. But “people think that it’s a political piece of work,” he said.Aug 21, 2026 9:02 AM
voxoria.ai
Show HN: Can you tell Wodehouse from a model imitating Wodehouse?https://voxoria.ai/ai-or-not-text/Every spot-the-AI game I've seen uses modern text as its control, so it's hard to prove it wasn't entirely written by AI.The human paragraphs here are verbatim from public domain works published between 1660 and 1922 (Pepys, Gilbert White, Twain, Jerome, the Grossmiths, Wodehouse), so they predate the clankers by a century; the other half is Opus 5 continuing in the same voice. There are 10 rounds, I managed to get a ~60% win rate.Aug 21, 2026 9:00 AM
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Ask HN: Do you need Google ads help?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385541Hello everyone! I’m building https://unfetch.com, something like Codex but focused on Google Ads.It has:- Keyword research support (like Ahrefs)- A Google Ads connector- Memory, sandbox, and artifacts- Automations (coming soon, for example, automatically scanning for and adding negative keywords every day)While I iron out the last few details, I’d like to help 10/15 companies run their Google Ads campaigns.I would primarily manage your ads manually while testing the same workflows in Unfetch. I’ll continue optimizing it until I’m confident that it can replace me for most routine daily/weekly monitoring and optimization tasks.If you’re currently running ads or planning to do so, email me at @gmail.com.Aug 21, 2026 8:56 AM
spacenews.com
Landspace aims to refly recovered Zhuque-3 booster within six monthshttps://spacenews.com/landspace-aims-to-refly-recovered-zhuque-3-booster-within-six-months/HELSINKI — Chinese commercial launch firm Landspace is targeting a reflight of its Zhuque-3 first stage in months, following its historic successful vertical landing Aug. 18. A company representative told […] The post Landspace aims to refly recovered Zhuque-3 booster within six months appeared first on SpaceNews.Aug 21, 2026 8:54 AM
cbc.ca
Quebec autistic student denied disability-based French exemption, removed from collegehttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-autistic-student-denied-french-exemption-9.7314902?cmp=rssQuebec's Charter of the French language grants children with serious learning issues a waiver allowing them to be educated in English. But education specialists say the process is too difficult and rejection rates are high, effectively preventing some students with disabilities from pursuing higher education.Aug 21, 2026 8:00 AM
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Show HN: Meg – I processed 259M nodes on my laptop using 6.91MB RAMhttps://github.com/blueray313164-a11y/Quantum-Drive-SolverI got tired of MemoryError crashes. So I built MEG: MemoryError Gone.What it does: An optimization engine for massive multi-body problems. Made to run huge problems on normal hardware.The result: Grid: 120x120x120 Total Nodes: 259,200,000 Peak RAM Usage: 6.91 MB Status: Processing complete - No MemoryErrorIt's just Python. No cloud, no cluster, just a laptop.Repo: https://github.com/blueray313164-a11y/Quantum-Drive-Solver Repo has more details and benchmark from Google Colab.Your code crashes your system? I’ll run it for you and give you results fast. DMs openAug 21, 2026 7:25 AM
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Show HN: I built an open source video editor that you can control with an LLMhttps://github.com/DonkeyCut/DonkeyHey HN, my name is David. I'm building an open source video editor.I'm a novice at video editing and previously only used iMovie. I recently opened iMovie to edit a video but noticed it didn't have some features I wanted, like text overlays. Apple probably hasn't updated it in ages. How hard could it be to build one?It's actually pretty hard. There are so many basic things that need to get right, like behavior in the timeline, drag and drop, coloring, etc. Good thing there are LLMs. I was able to put out a simple version in 3 days and have continued to refine it ever since.The idea is that it's focused on novice to intermediate video editors. I find modern video editors to be very overwhelming, with lots of features and controls. It's needed because video editing is a creative tool, and not everything can be built into one. So I turned every button, toggle, and slider into a tool that's accessible to an LLM. A user just needs to tell an LLM what to do, and it has access to tools that cAug 21, 2026 5:19 AM
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Fall 2026 Books Preview: 41 of the Season’s Top Readshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89f4243ec14fefa3e9cacf430af7ff&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aarp.org%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2Ffall-books-preview-2026%2F&c=8884752807650753628&mkt=en-usMiss Wolcott’s Ghost by Louise Penny (October 20): In Penny’s 21st Inspector Gamache novel, the Quebec homicide detective is aroused from sleep in the (murder-prone) village of Three Pines with news ...Aug 21, 2026 3:42 AM
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Fall 2026 Books Preview: 41 of the Season’s Top Readshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c53062954897954399f7724c1bd4&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aarp.org%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2Ffall-books-preview-2026%2F&c=8884752807650753628&mkt=en-usMiss Wolcott’s Ghost by Louise Penny (October 20): In Penny’s 21st Inspector Gamache novel, the Quebec homicide detective is aroused from sleep in the (murder-prone) village of Three Pines with news ...Aug 21, 2026 3:42 AM
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Receive calls only from saved contactshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383219Hello folks, I built an app to block calls from non saved contacts, it works for Android.I live in Brazil, and at least here the situation with spam and bot calls is pretty bad, some days you can get calls from unknown numbers constantly.If someone wants to talk to me, they can usually reach me asynchronously (email or whatsapp) and I answer when I can/want. If it’s urgent, the people I care about enough to receive an immediate phone call from are generally already saved in my contacts.So Fone1 does one thing: when enabled, it blocks calls from numbers that aren’t saved in your contacts.I know this usage pattern definitely isn’t for everyone, but if you feel similarly, I’d love for you to try it and share feedback.It’s free and has no ads.If you are an Android user and wants to test, just send me your email so I can add you to list of testers.Aug 21, 2026 3:01 AM
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Show HN: Fsel –. a Rust TUI launcher, fuzzy picker and clipboard browserhttps://github.com/Mjoyufull/fselfsel is a terminal app launcher for Linux/*BSD. It also has a dmenu-style mode for piping arbitrary input through it, and a clipboard-history mode with text and image previews, I started it because I started using otterlauncher and needed a tui app laucnher bc otterlauncher was tui, i looked around and nothing was up to par, then i found Gyr, it was the closest thing but it needed sum work so i add the things I needed, and it eventually grew into fsel.its evolved to be more than an app launcher, i use the normal launcher mode for desktop apps, but I also use --dmenu for shell scripts, and it has --cclip for clipboard picker. It can also output selections or app data to stdout/JSON, preserve original indices for scripts, preview clipboard images in supported terminals, and the UI/keybinds/layout are configurable. A lot of the work lately has been making those modes behave consistently across weird Linux/Wayland setups and cleaning up ux.Aug 21, 2026 2:28 AM
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Show HN: Icebug-format: immutable, interoperable graph standardhttps://github.com/Ladybug-Memory/icebug-formatMost graph analytics packages have a mutable graph implementation that uses a heap allocated vector to store the graph. It works for toy graphs. But if you're loading a billion edge graph using G.add_edge() it's going to take a while.We don't need to invent new standards. Such interoperable, immutable memory standards already exist: Apache Arrow and Compressed Sparse Rows (CSR). CSR is widely used in scipy, cugraph and columnar graph databases among others. Both on CPUs and GPUs.icebug-format combines both into a on-disk standard based on Apache Parquet and an in-memory format based on Apache Arrow.Bindings available in many popular languages including python, typescript and rust.The package ships with convenience scripts to convert flat tables such as vertex.parquet and edges.parquet to this format in RAM/disk constrained environments.Sample graphs: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ladybugdb/ldbc-csr/tree/mainConverted from: https://ldbcouncil.org/benchmarks/graphalytics/datasets/LargeAug 20, 2026 11:57 PM
techcrunch.com
Learn what VCs actually want, from a founder who’s raised $1Bhttps://techcrunch.com/video/learn-what-vcs-actually-want-from-a-founder-whos-raised-1b/Investors want founders who understand the financial reality of their business. Messy data, misunderstood metrics, or waiting until you’re nearly out of cash to start fundraising can cost founders leverage, valuation, and even a term sheet. In this episode of Build Mode, host Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Sasha Orloff, founder and CEO of Puzzle […]Aug 20, 2026 11:32 PM
