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No practical purpose. Probably done to make the page look "cool" and clean, at the expense of actual usability and proper navigation.

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You don't need a refrigerator when your apartment is so darn cool.

Unfortunately the 9 dollar price and the lack of assurance that this is not just a toy doesn't make me very compelled to buy it. Would have thought more about it if it were something like $1, though.

Hey, Gabriele here. Nothing weird going on. It just uses it for Google Analytics (the official library has a bug where it won't work unless it has full network access on Android). Of course, there are also the ads, and they also make network requests.

Fear not. I don't plan on pulling a flappy bird. Although I now kind-of understand what Dong Nguyen might have felt like, even if at a much smaller scale.

Done! Did I win HN?

I had this a lot while developing 2048. At some point, I'd feel like I could collapse letters while typing, and that's when I decided I should probably stop playing so often.

Hahah, I knew this was coming sooner or later. Thanks! Great job!

EDIT: This AI is a better player than me.

That's pretty funny! Well done!

Not sure if I can do that. Wouldn't it be unethical and unfair to the other developers?

It's there!

That's true! I noticed it as well, and it's pretty awesome.

Are you sure you aren't using an outdated cache? I updated it to work with Firefox when I first saw the huge amounts of traffic coming in. Maybe try refreshing a few times.

Thanks! I shouldn't take all the credit for it though. The game is basically a clone of the two games I've been inspired by, as an attempt to make my own version and learn new things along the way!

I kind of hate myself too, I haven't been able to do anything other than playing since I finished building the game :P

That's cool! My current strategy is just to keep going until I lose. Admittedly, I'm pretty bad at my own game :P

Heh, nice trick! The only way to get high score is to actually play, though :P

If that's real, congrats! I had started doubting that anybody would ever win the game :P

I've been playing this all day today. I basically created my own demise.

The latest stats show no "game-win" events :P It might just be a matter of time though.

EDIT: oops, there was a bug in the win/lose tracking so I probably missed out on a few wins. I fixed it now, so it should hopefully track it if someone else wins!

Right now there are around 2100 people on the site and an average visit duration of around 4 minutes :)

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)!

We got this idea as a silly joke, but some of you might actually find it useful! Technically, it might make design workflows easier by allowing you to browse your history with something like Github.app.

You could probably do it in bad faith as long as you don't say it out loud. Maybe those guys are doing it in bad faith too. You'd never know.

I kind of like the HAPI concept but it feels strangely redundant. Especially in the responses, where almost half of the k/v pairs are just for "decoration" purposes. I concede that it does make things a slight bit easier to read, but are you guys sure it isn't bordering on redundancy for the sake of redundancy?

Very nice idea, by the way! Congrats!

Except it would be much harder to use and understand.

Doesn't this break bitcoin's concept of no central issuer? If you have to send stuff to the organiser, that's somewhat of a central authority, isn't it?

This doesn't make much sense. I think this would only make sense if each and map were actual language constructs, like for example in Ruby, but in this case you're bringing in an entire library just for that and that's a bit gross and pointless.

I was pretty taken by this site, I did the teasers, signed up, selected my skills and interests but then when I wanted to continue I started getting 500 errors. I had to leave quick so I didn't try to find a way around but I would have had some fun if it wasn't because of that. Haven't managed to actually use the site.