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mylespon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

https://micro-arcade.netlify.app/

I have been making a micro-arcade of one button games using a fun little library I found.

It is so fun to just have an idea and implement it in under an hour or two. It is a great creative outlet.

Give them a play if you have a second, they are very rough around the edges but are playable on mobile or browser.

https://micro-arcade.netlify.app/

mylespon The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void

In Australia from my experience "not bad" = "good", "pretty good" = "amazing", "bit shit" = "really shit".

I don't think its as much that everything positive is just a non-negative, but that everything (especially emotions) is shifted towards the medium. Maybe it comes from a desire to not be abrasive and always soften everything, but I'm not sure.

mylespon Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots

Hive is my favourite for anyone looking for another abstract strategy boardgame. It has been very fun and feels very deep.

mylespon Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots

A fun and fairly popular one is Hive. It is a physical game akin to chess but has an active community online on https://hivegame.com/

mylespon Constraint satisfaction to optimize item selection for bundles in Minecraft

I think it would be a worse game by quite a lot. Most of the "fun" moments in minecraft come from the stories of moving back and forth between your home and your mine for example. If there was no constraint the only thing stopping you from mining as much as you would ever need is your boredom.

mylespon Show HN: 0xDEAD//TYPE – A fast-paced typing shooter with retro vibes

Weird, this seems to be getting keyboard input from somewhere else. My split keyboard using ZMK I use for everything else (including writing this comment) does not work, but my old crappy standard one does. Is there some reason that it uses some other type of keyboard input that excludes certain keyboards?

mylespon Typr – TUI typing test with a word selection algorithm inspired by keybr

monkeytype.com has this option, along with many many more.

mylespon I Solved a 7-Day Calculation Problem in a Weekend

This whole article reads like it was written by someone with no ability to step back for a second and think of other much easier solutions. They just go all in on the first thing they think of even when it is not effective at all.

Just increase the increment size, or if you really want 1c increments you could precompute every 5c or so and then just do linear interpolation between them.

mylespon I Solved a 7-Day Calculation Problem in a Weekend

My first instinct would be to do a one or two in the middle then both of the extremes. The assumption that it would be a normal distribution is so strange to me in this situation.

mylespon I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt

As an Australian, I find it crazy that getting food from a cafeteria at school is the norm in the US.

In Australia you bring food from home 90% of the time. On special occasions or every now and then you order lunch from the canteen.

It seems almost against American individualism to have a communal meal where everyone is served up the same food and sit indoors in a dining hall. Maybe it is just strange to me but I can't be the only person to think this.

mylespon I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt

A solution that I have seen implemented and discussed is a flat, very low fare. High enough to keep people off public transit that are disrespectful of it, but low enough to allow almost anyone to take it thus increasing ridership. An added bonus is when using a transit card to tap on and off, the statistics of ridership are still readily available for governments to better plan infrastructure.

If you pick a low enough price you even decrease the number of fare dodgers, which means that enforcing is not as important or costly.

mylespon Sitters and Standers

Software Developers were the most obvious outlier in Asian workers and non-citizen workers. It is surprising how much of an outlier it was, even compared to other similar white collar jobs.