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Show HN: Fribble – my collection of daily games

invalidusernam3 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:53:16 +0000

Hi HN

I'm sharing a small (but hopefully fun!) sideproject I've been working on for the last few months.

I'm a big fan of daily games like Wordle, Connections, the Worldle etc... and have been wanting to make something similar for a while.

The idea kind of spun out of control and I ended up with a small platform for daily games. It currently has 10 games (+ 1 new game being tested))

This first iteration was more about building the platform and methodology for allowing me to add new games quickly and easily, so some of the games are pretty simple. I'm planning to add at least one new game per month from here on out. The games are available from the landing page without an account, but the full experience with an account is more fun with daily streaks, unlockables, and a leaderboard.

I would love some feedback on the idea, the site and the games. And if you have any ideas/suggestions for new games I would love to hear them.

Looking forward to your feedback

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invalidusernam3 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:06:33 +0000

That looks like inflation.

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invalidusernam3 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:55:24 +0000

I would happily pay more for a claude model that performs the same but speaks normal English. The proliferation of claudespeak in the workplace is driving me insane. Every ticket, every PR feedback, every comment in the codebase is poisoned with its ridiculous unnatural vocabulary

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invalidusernam3 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:25:39 +0000

Hoardings is UK English (so... English) for the advertising boards around a football pitch

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invalidusernam3 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:47:34 +0000

I've been working on a daily games platform called fribble - https://fribble.io/

It's a collection of daily games with some classics like crossword and sudoku, some geography games like draw the country shape and pick the country from a borderless globe, and a few more. Ten daily games in total.

Word Shift and Nine Grid are my the ones I enjoy the most. Would love some feedback!

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invalidusernam3 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:08:36 +0000

LLMs seem to work well with tailwind which I assume is because there was a lot of tailwind in the training data. As a human I never found tailwind to be particularly easy to work with anyway (mostly because I can't be bothered to learn another CSS framework) so I was constantly checking the docs when manually writing code. But I do like the rigidity it forces, which is probably a good thing for AI coding as well.

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invalidusernam3 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:03:55 +0000

Claude is great, but I have come to really hate the way it "talks". It's so irritating and there seems to be no way to make it speak normal English. So many claudisms in every response

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invalidusernam3 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:33:40 +0000

It's just how the font looks: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Syne

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invalidusernam3 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:48:12 +0000

Non latin characters are sometimes inputted by holding down a key. For example on my keyboard holding down z shows ź,ž and ż with a corresponding number to select which one I would like to type. I haven't checked but one would assume if you're detecting keydown the input at that time will be z, and keyup would record ž (or whatever was selected).

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invalidusernam3 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:55:07 +0000

Why would you choose not to have empathy for a living creature?

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invalidusernam3 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:00:26 +0000

Why didn't he step down for his metaverse then?

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invalidusernam3 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:47:37 +0000

Off the top of my head I would have thought zero width characters (eg: U+200B, U+200C) making some unique identifier sprinkled in amongst the output. But obviously far from foolproof since they could simply be removed.

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invalidusernam3 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:13:19 +0000

You hit the nail on the head. A couple years ago I started prototyping a similar node based AI workflow builder which worked well but everyone I showed it to was either; confused at how to use it (even for super basic stuff), or liked it but poked holes by asking "can it do x, can it do y" which it couldn't. There is such a small niche of people technical enough to use something like this that wouldn't just opt in for coding it themselves (especially with AI assisted coding nowadays)

I do still use a part of it on one of my projects for building multi-step image processing pipelines for AI property photo editing (ffocal.io for the curious) that are configurable in the admin panel and it works super well and is useful for modifying and testing pipelines. So there are use cases, they're just very narrow

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invalidusernam3 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:45:41 +0000

This seems like an insane thing to have to do for visiting a supposed first world country. If phones had been around during USSR times I imagine you would have had to do the same. Personally I will rather just avoid any travel to the US, and I hope others do the same.

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invalidusernam3 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:19:28 +0000

What regulations specifically do you find make it hard for you to start a business or hire people?

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invalidusernam3 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:02:32 +0000

Exactly, I think a lot of people aren't thinking about it this way, they're imagining a faster version of ChatGPT. In reality if it was a frontier model running a these speeds it would change so much about how we interact with computers. It would be custom hyper specific software on demand.

Looking for a lamp in a specific style?

"Make a VR application set inside my apartment (based on all the photos of my apartment from my photos directory) with all lamps under $100 that fit Scandinavian interiors and could be delivered to my house before Friday. Place the lamp on the dining room table, allow us to: cycle through lamps, change time of day, and interact with all the lamps and furniture".

Five seconds later and bam you have this new piece of software that you'll use once and then dispose of.

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invalidusernam3 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:36:20 +0000

An exact opposite way around version would be more useful in my opinion, where the actual text content was garbled but displayed correctly for humans, eg: "JLKKP" is readable as "HELLO" for humans but the actual string is "JLKKP"

Surely there is a bigger use case of AI processing text rather than OCR? Yes it would be a pain to type, but that's easy enough to fix with a little application transposing typed characters to garbled

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invalidusernam3 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:30:51 +0000

Same for me. Messing with browser scrolling is such a cardinal sin in web development

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invalidusernam3 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:16:20 +0000

Why only focus on youngsters? Many of the older generations that I see online seem to have been impacted massively by social media in a negative way. Yes in theory adults should have freedom to choose, but when your app is the digital version of crack cocaine I think there should be some rules.

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invalidusernam3 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:05:33 +0000

I think it's mostly due to mobile phones. Most people seem to spend a substantial amount of their free time staring at their phone screen rather than engaging with books or other forms of entertainment. Phones being bite sized entertainment orientated is probably changing the way people feel about longer forms.