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Encryption in the 1790s

Wed, 07/29/2026 - 9:44pm
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Show HN: GlobeHoppr – find a route between cities using limited-distance jumps

Wed, 07/29/2026 - 9:42pm

Hi HN,

I built a game where you have to travel from point A to B by hopping through intermediate cities.

Each jump has a maximum range, so you can’t simply select the destination. You need to build a route through cities that are close enough together, using as few jumps as possible.

It sounds straightforward until you need to cross a part of the world where you only know one or two cities. I’ve found that the game exposes a different kind of geographical knowledge: not just knowing where countries are, but understanding how cities connect across a region.

There’s a fixed daily route that everyone can compare, along with unlimited practice games, weekly challenges and multiplayer.

I hope people enjoy it and I would love any feedback!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105241

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Do newer coding models end up training on the AI slop generated by older models?

Wed, 07/29/2026 - 9:40pm

As old coding models were writing and pushing code to public, does the new coding models train on them because generated code by old coding models were not so good?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105219

Points: 1

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The World Is to Focused on Quarterly Earnings

Wed, 07/29/2026 - 9:34pm

Everybody seems to care way too much about what happens in a quarter- nothing material usually, but people make a huge deal about it.

There are two camps in investing: those that think there is a bubble and those that think everything always goes up. There both wrong. Bubbles are inherent with a new wave of technology; each one is different and has its own circumstances. You should not wait for anything because you anticipate one. You cannot time the market well; you should focus on finding companies that either are in the process of developing a moat or adding or transitioning business models, but have not done any of these things yet. You have to analytically figure this out. There is no way to outperform the index by investing in AAPL because you think they have a great brand; so does everyone else.

The camp that thinks everything goes up is right to criticize the people that think there is a bubble because memory sold off, or a company had bad earnings. Technically, no fundamentals have changed, but the broader capital cycle explains why earnings are unsustainable and artificial and will collapse, and demand is high for a new technology because firms do not want to miss out; the initial buzz always comes down, data center backlog is a myth. More on the capital cycle here

This is a long way of saying just buy the index.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105189

Points: 1

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Join my robot revolution [video]

Wed, 07/29/2026 - 8:58pm
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