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Combining Space Invaders and Classic Literature and ASCII

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Beat 53% of Show HN launches that day

#68 of 182 on Oct 22

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points · since listing → Oct 23, 14:50 UTC

Still tracked: re-read by each daily run while under ~168h old (window closes ~Oct 29, 20:34 UTC).

comments · buzz +2 in latest interval

19h

listed Oct 22, 20:34 UTC

Traction (points) over time

012Oct 23ListedOct 23, 14:50 UTC · 2 points · 2 comments · 18h after listing
1 reading (one per daily ingest run). Dots are recorded values; lines just connect them — nothing in between is measured.

Key statistics

Traction
2points
Comments
Rank in HDWR this week
#10of 20 HN
Rank overall this week
#285of 953 HN
Sector hit rate
13.0%3/23 · 7D
Traction line
Below10+ points
First reading
2Oct 23, 14:50 UTC
Last reading
2Oct 23, 14:50 UTC
Readings
1over 18h

Launch-day race · #68 of 182 Show HN launches on 2026-10-22

  1. #66AI for Group Chats2 points
  2. #67Murmur, open-source push-to-talk dictation for Mac (BYO OpenAI key)2 points
  3. #68Combining Space Invaders and Classic Literature and ASCII2 points
  4. #69Secure your AI agents on Mac2 points
  5. #70BYOSM, Turn one sentence into a small specialist model2 points
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