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Drift

Hot air balloon simulator

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points · traction gained Oct 17, 02:39 UTC → Oct 17, 13:13 UTC · % shown only when the previous traction was 5+

Still tracked: re-read by each daily run while under ~168h old (window closes ~Oct 22, 21:38 UTC).

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45h

listed Oct 15, 21:38 UTC

Traction (points) over time

3 readings (one per daily ingest run). Dots are recorded values; lines just connect them — nothing in between is measured.

Key statistics

Traction: 4points
Comments
Rank in MISC this week: #15of 87 HN
Rank overall this week: #141of 993 HN
Sector hit rate: 10.8%9/83 · 7D
Traction line: Below10+ points
First reading: 4Oct 16, 14:01 UTC
Last reading: 4Oct 17, 13:13 UTC
Readings: 3over 40h

Launch-day race · #24 of 170 Show HN launches on 2026-10-15

#22I think Apple should have built this a long time ago4 points
#23My AI induced mania in embedded computer graphics engineering [video]4 points
#24Drift4 points
#25ƜackDown4 points
#26Turbo Lisp4 points

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