From Hacker News
Browser games from Show HN, ranked by Hacker News points
Games their creators showed on Hacker News in a Show HN post: word games, daily puzzles, quizzes and small multiplayer games, mostly made by developers in their spare time. Each one opens in your browser. 52 games · as of Nov 10, 2026
Ranked by points on Hacker News. These numbers come from that site, not from X.
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Build a GPU
Build a GPU piece by piece and learn how GPU architecture works.
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Uncracked City
Question lying AI suspects to solve crime cases set in real cities.
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GeneGuessr
Look at a 3D model of a human protein each day and guess its gene name from similarity clues.
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45x45 Connections Puzzle
Sort clues into categories in a giant 45x45 connections puzzle, alone or with others.
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Which games are on this shelf
Once a day we read public Show HN posts through the Hacker News search API and keep games with 20 points or more that you can play in a browser. We leave out tools and engines, links to source code only, collections, and ports or remakes of commercial games. Points are Hacker News points, not numbers from X.
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