Chirp Pong is a two‑player competitive pong‑style game that runs entirely in static HTML on two separate phones. The game state is transmitted via audio chirps captured by each phone’s microphone, using the Web Microphone API to interpret the sounds. The project adds graphical and gameplay twists to make the experience more engaging than classic pong.
Simon Willison discusses a new inflection point in October 2026 for creating video games using AI, noting that Claude Opus 5.5 now reliably produces compelling 3D models, music, and especially game design. He reports having successfully "vibe coded" four enjoyable games without inspecting the code, and highlights that the real challenge is now generating novel, delightful concepts that AI alone could not conceive. The author compares Opus 5.5’s fun factor to GPT‑6 Astra, which he finds lacking in that regard.
The article announces the release of the official music video for "DE STAAT - FREEDOM" by Dutch alternative rock band De Staat. It notes that at 00:44 in the video, visual effects are credited to Matties Grooten of Fake it or Leave it. The post also mentions the video’s presence on Hacker News and tags it with music, AI, generative‑AI, and pelican‑riding‑a‑bicycle.
Panache is a real‑time strategy game for mobile and browser set in France’s Belle Époque around 1900, featuring steampunk elements such as dirigibles, steam‑powered trucks, armored ships, and marching fortresses. The game was released under an Apache 2.0 license and already has a French‑language fork that reskins it to a steampunk 1900s France, adding an animated intro and French‑twisted music. The updates are mainly aesthetic, with new models and an intro video showcased on the game’s page.
Stop Making TUIs Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up and running to almost nothing. I wrote about my vibe-coded bandwidth and GPU monitoring macOS task bar apps back in March , and I'm still using both of those on a daily basis.
Simon Willison created an animated transition tool that morphs a map from the Mercator projection to the Equal Earth projection using D3. The project was inspired by the recent UN vote on the Equal Earth map projection and was built with GPT‑6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work. It showcases how modern AI and web technologies can visualize complex geospatial transformations.