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  1. Show HN: Word-finder/anagram solver web app for mobile browsers (wanderinghorse.net)

    This word-finder/anagram solver web app is a side-effect of my recent work on a web app for playing the Paperback word-spelling tabletop game[^1]. After proving its worth embedded in that client, the dictionary was…

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  2. Show HN: JavaScript/JSON and CSS minifier lib in minimal C89 (fossil.wanderinghorse.net)

    For those 1.7 of you who may have need of a JavaScript or JSON minifier which (A) is not based on node.js and (B) is not "poisoned" by the "do no evil" license attached to Douglas Crockford's minifier[^1] (commonly seen…

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  3. Show HN: Rules-free solo-only client for the Paperback tabletop game (wanderinghorse.net)

    My past couple of weeks were spent writing an app with which to play the word-spelling tabletop game Paperback in the browser. Tim Fowers, creator and publisher of the game, has given me permission to post my homemade…

    1 points 0
  4. Louis Zocchi, games industry pioneer, has died (icv2.com)
    130 points 12
  5. Twelve metric tons of KitKat chocolate bars stolen (lemonde.fr)
    2 points 1
  6. Show HN: C-Minus Preprocessor v2 (fossil.wanderinghorse.net)

    About 3 years ago i wrote a custom preprocessor to assist in processing the SQLite project's JavaScript builds (e.g. filtering the small differences between vanilla JS and ESM modules). Recently, that app was forked,…

    2 points 0
  7. SQLite 3.51.0 supports 64-bit browser-side WASM (sqlite.org)
    3 points 1
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  9. Show HN: Teaish – An Alternative to Tcl's TEA (fossil.wanderinghorse.net)

    As the "final step" in porting the SQLite project's build infrastructure from the GNU Autotools to Steve Bennett's Autosetup, we're left with porting over the TEA (Tcl Extension Architecture, a.k.a. tclconfig) build,…

    3 points 0
  10. DarkHorse Digital shutting down – access to content gone soon (digital.darkhorse.com)
    6 points 2
  11. Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf] (drive.google.com)
    340 points 288
  12. Migration of the build system to autosetup (sqlite.org)
    95 points 26
  13. Every Board Game Rulebook Is Awful (PDF) (drive.google.com)
    1 points 1
  14. Comet caught zigzagging its way through space (mashable.com)
    5 points 0
  15. Curse of Knowledge: What It Is, How to Overcome It (forbes.com)
    3 points 0
  16. Ask HN: Your Yearly Power Usage in Kwh?

    Last week we did our electrical meter reading for the yearly re-balancing of our electrical bill (sidebar: here in Germany we typically pay a monthly rate based on average past usage at that residence, and that rate is…

    3 points 3
  17. Free Software Foundation shop is "temporarily closed" (shop.fsf.org)
    4 points 1
  18. gdb-front end: gdb front end with a browser-based UI (github.com)
    2 points 1
  19. Running a ChatGPT-Like LLM on the Raspberry Pi 5 (hackster.io)
    1 points 1
  20. SQLite 3.45 Released (sqlite.org)
    1 points 1
  21. Man lives 30 feet underwater for 100 days, explains the impact on his body (unilad.com)
    2 points 0
  22. Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?

    Shareware was a common software business model back in the 1980s and 90s, though it's rare (or not called that) nowadays. Even the legendary DOOM was shareware, with the first few missions for free and the later…

    106 points 195
  23. 30th anniversary of Windows 3.11 release (xda-developers.com)
    3 points 1
  24. MX Linux 23.1 now available on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 (mxlinux.org)
    1 points 0
  25. How IBM Stumbled Onto RISC (hackaday.com)
    12 points 2