THE HACKER NEWS GAME CATALOG

Hacker News Games

A curated catalog of 2,592 games created by the Hacker News community.

174 games foundMADE BY THE COMMUNITY
Pawl screenshot

I built this to make unblocking apps on your phone a lot harder. You add a physical key, then put it out of reach or give it to a friend, so unblocking becomes a real hassle.

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Blackbear.app screenshot

My name is Rheisen ( and I’m the founding engineer / creator of For the busy, here is the quick version of what Blackbe

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Mathy screenshot

Mathy is a free tool I made to build math automaticity. If you think of something like Anki for drilling problems/formulas, it's like that but built for math and more convenient: no creating your own cards, it works well on mobile and helps track your progress over time.

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PaperFlip screenshot

I made a tiny iPhone arcade game around one idea: what if Flappy Bird, but the bird never moves — and you fold the pape

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Hopera, a free musical soothing screenshot

I built this small musical game in Lua, with the LÖVE 2d engine. I initially tried building it in Unity but it was more complicated than expected. I use LÃÃ

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ChessNotate screenshot

I just built ChessNotate to turn my handwritten chess scoresheet into a clean PGN to solve my own pain points when it comes to capturing my games (and my son's) A lot of times my son and I make typos (accidentally mixing up B with b), or missing out moves through the middlegame and the frustrating

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