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Issue #8
April 17, 2026
Nothing in this issue needs more than a coffee break. 1D Chess, Starfling, and Hormuz Havoc all load in a single tab and hit in under a minute, and this...
Issue #7
April 10, 2026
Two of this week's picks sit at opposite ends of the vibe spectrum: one lets you build a GPU, the other was made by someone who quit their soul-sucking job...
Issue #6
March 13, 2026
Late this week, sorry about that. It's been a hectic one personally. But the picks are scrappy: a color guessing game with 41 HN points, a coding arena that...
Issue # 5
March 6, 2026
This week's picks range from party games with strangers to realistic flight physics. These are all passion projects from indie devs who don't have marketing...
Issue #4
February 27, 2026
From dropping movie trivia to reshaping matter at the particle level, this week's picks have unusual range. What they share is that satisfying feeling of a...
Issue #3
February 20, 2026
This week we've got a puzzle game that racked up over 1,200 HN points, a game that uses LLMs to judge your social skills, a word game built by friends, and a...
Issue #2
February 13, 2026
Welcome to the "first" HN Arcade newsletter! I don't count the initial issue. My wife (not a gamer or HN user) was the only subscriber :) But now we have a...
Issue #1
February 6, 2026
The best indie games from Hacker News Welcome to the first issue of the HN Arcade newsletter. Each week, we highlight the best indie games discovered through...