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New comment by cowboy_henk in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

cowboy_henk — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:34:15 +0000

The main reason for adding a daily puzzle (or really the seeded RNG) is that part of the game loop is retrying the same seed to find the best lines for that map. Since all pieces are deterministic, we've found it fun to retry the same map to see if a different line works better. It also adds a competitive/multiplayer element to the game, rather than it just being for single player use.

I think both "play styles" make sense, we've just found it more fun to share with friends this way!

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

cowboy_henk — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:51:21 +0000

Just fixed this, let me know if you run into more issues.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

cowboy_henk — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:21:25 +0000

Admittedly some of the auxiliary features were made with Claude's help, but I'd argue that's not what makes this interesting. The game (core loop, sprites, etc) were all made by hand.

The passkey feedback is good though, I see a few more people have had issues with it. I'll have a look at fixing it!

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

cowboy_henk — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:59:13 +0000

It was a matter of time I suppose. Would love to see the solver!

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

cowboy_henk — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:51:03 +0000

There is some polish with Claude over the past few weeks, but we wrote the engine over 10 years ago actually. Each piece moves using a modified version of A* to simply find the shortest path to Prince Chazz (the piece controlled by the player).

Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike

cowboy_henk — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:50:31 +0000

Article URL: https://princechazz.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616304

Points: 418

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New comment by cowboy_henk in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

cowboy_henk — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:40:01 +0000

TNO literally stands for "Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research" (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk).

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

cowboy_henk — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:29:09 +0000

Pretty sure salaries at large tech companies are way higher in places like London, Zurich or Amsterdam than in Warsaw or Prague for example. Berlin may be closer to the eastern countries.

It might help to discuss actual ranges instead of "intimate experience" so we can tell if your experience matches reality.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Zed 1.0"

cowboy_henk — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:12:41 +0000

Agreed, this is the main reason why I keep switching back to other editors.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "SpaceX files to go public"

cowboy_henk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:51:23 +0000

Isn't it much simpler than that? Dividends and profits are taxed. Reinvesting to grow revenue isn't. That's why you see companies doing stock buybacks; prevents them from paying taxes, prevents their shareholders from paying taxes.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering"

cowboy_henk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:09:56 +0000

This only holds if you understand what's in the tests, and the tests are realistic. The moment you let the LLM write the tests without understanding them, you may as well just let it write the code directly.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs"

cowboy_henk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:42:58 +0000

> sorry if this was not clear

It's easy to make that mistake reading your post because of sentences like

> I want to convince you that all of these things (except true master-less p2p architecture) are easily doable without CRDTs

> But what if you’re using CRDTs? Well, all these problems are 100x harder, and none of these mitigations are available to you.

It sure sounds a lot like you're calling CRDTs in general needlessly complex, not just the yjs-prosemirror integration.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?"

cowboy_henk — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:30:38 +0000

That's a cynical take, but a more positive interpretation is that pivots are needed if your company isn't actually solving a problem. Otherwise people would pay for it, and the founders would be getting rich. So you need to pivot until you actually create a solution to a problem that people will pay for.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "SoundCloud has banned VPN access"

cowboy_henk — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:08:48 +0000

If Apple started routing all iPhone/Mac traffic through some anonymizing VPN by default, services that block it would absolutely lose lots of customers.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

cowboy_henk — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:49:29 +0000

But wallets aren't associated with a real person by default, unless it's created through some service that does KYC. If you can get anonymous tokens in an anonymous wallet, who cares if the transactions are public?

Show HN: Browser Based Softbody Physics

cowboy_henk — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 22:22:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.maanraket.nl/experiments/peachy-keen/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46091357

Points: 2

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New comment by cowboy_henk in "A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition"

cowboy_henk — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:52:17 +0000

UIs made in the HyperText Markup Language are, in fact, text.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity"

cowboy_henk — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:14:35 +0000

* only in the middle of the day, when the real price of that electricity may be negative, so it's still sold at a profit

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Cloudflare tells U.S. govt that foreign site blocking efforts are trade barriers"

cowboy_henk — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:02:36 +0000

That's a bit rich coming from Cloudflare, a company that routinely blocks access to important and legitimate websites to huge parts of the world. A huge part of Cloudflare's customers use them specifically to block users' access to websites.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Living Dangerously with Claude"

cowboy_henk — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:52:07 +0000

You're right to be concerned. OPs method is how you get pwned through prompt injection.