Show HN: An update to our long-turn FreeCiv experience So we have had quiet the journey here. So 70 days ago (aka 73 turns ago) I posted on HN sharing our FreeCiv deployment ( https://ift.tt/nU3dIA5 ). FreeCiv is a great game, the clients is very buggy however. I'm using the GTK4 version, but a few others have opted for the QT variant. At some point, we might turn our focus to contributing to improving the client based on our experiences playing the game. We've since added a lot of little fun features: - The editor: you can write to th…
Show HN: Open-Source AI Racing Harness Hi I'm Dan from Elodin, making an open source real-time capable flight software simulation. For AI Grand Prix contestants, the wait for the Round 1 virtual qualifier simulation has been grueling. If you’re competing, check out our simulation harness to tide you over, built to match the published competition constraints and message format. It runs against real Betaflight, which we learned requires at least 1000 sensor samples per second to run real-time correctly. The competition warranted introducing …
Show HN: Stumbleback – StumbleUpon for the bookmarks you've been hoarding Hi HN, I have about 2000+ bookmarks that I will never read. Probably you do too. I keep collecting new stuff to read, the list grows longer each day, but I barely get around to reading them, and the problem, as I realised, is more to do with the analysis paralysis on what to read. Sort of like how we spend so much time figuring out what movie to watch on Netflix. So I made a simple Chrome extension: it picks one bookmark at random, drops you on the page, and gives yo…
Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail without the mail server Introducing Posthorn, a self hosted email gateway. One docker container (or Go binary) between every self hosted app on your VPS and your transactional email provider. Set up Posthorn once, point your apps to it, done. I was trying to deploy Ghost on a DigitalOcean droplet and found that DO and many different VPS services have started to block the default SMTP ports to try to combat the various types of abuse they get. To actually configure my app, I had to hack together a Postfix rel…
Show HN: DDoS detection in 500 lines of Python (MIT, no cloud, no account) https://ift.tt/2YmoGlp May 26, 2026 at 11:39PM
Show HN: TryPost – open-source Social Media Scheduler https://trypost.it/en May 25, 2026 at 11:25PM
Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C https://ift.tt/dNwvxeA May 21, 2026 at 07:25PM
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