What does HackerNews think of 2048?

Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News | Sep 2022

This looks very nice, great job!!

I used to use HN-Special[1] (by the same dev who made that 2048 game[2]) but I stopped a while ago and I don't miss it. I like HN as is (for now), but I do have it at 150% zoom using the native browser built in zoom, which works great for my needs.

The one thing I really really want is the equivalent of the "[l+c]" button from Reddit Enhanced Suite. In one click you open both the comments and the submission (if it's just a text one) in new tabs.

1. https://gabrielecirulli.github.io/hn-special/

2. https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048

Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store | May 2018

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I would be really surprised if the miner is contributing any major portion of that size. I just did a very basic search and a random miner I found has binary sizes <1MB

https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases

edit: apparently the actual game is based on https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048 which is HTML+JS, so probably the Snap was bundling in Chromium/Electron, which explains the size.

Ask HN: Good JavaScript single page applications to learn from | May 2015

I like the structure of the game 2048 https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048 and I think it will be highly instructive for you since it implements the MVC pattern without using a framework, and you want to be framework agnostic. 2048 is simple enough that it's an accessible introduction to software design.

Daniel Janus wrote a great analysis of the source code and architecture; I highly recommend reading it: http://blog.danieljanus.pl/blog/2014/04/02/2048/

Three.js – JavaScript 3D library | Apr 2015

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You mean this? https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048

2048 in 3D | Apr 2014

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It's exactly the same under the hood as Gabriele's original 2048 from https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048

2048 | Mar 2014

Hey, author here! I'm pretty overwhelmed that this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here :)

I made this game as a fun weekend project, inspired by another game called 1024 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224) and a spinoff called 2048 (http://saming.fr/p/2048/). I did mine to add animations to the latter, which was a bit hard to play without them.

I discovered Threes only today, and I had no idea it looked so similar. I searched a bit and it appears as if 1024 is also inspired by Threes, so my game is probably the last of a long chain of clones :P

The code is also open-source. You can find it here: https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048

Feel free to ask me anything, and thanks to everyone for the attention! :)

By the way, my highscore is somewhere around 6000. Admittedly, I'm quite bad at playing my own game :P

EDIT: Make sure not to get addicted!

EDIT 2: The game now has swipe gestures and vim keys support (added by @rayhaanj)!

2048 | Mar 2014

The source code's here, in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048