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Orteil's personal blog at orteil.dashnet.org covers games and programming. Since 2013, 50 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Cookie clicker”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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52mentions?
50HN people?
2013–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 11 in 2014

Most-linked posts?

  1. Cookie clicker
    28 people · 28 mentions · first linked 2013-08-25
  2. Cookie Clicker
    7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-01-18
  3. A list of everything in the multiverse
    7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-09-04
  4. Random game idea generator
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-03-14
  5. Nested – A universe simulator by the creator of Cookie Clicker
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. Isn't cookie clicker one of the earliest? https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “Stimulation Clicker”
  2. Submitted A list of everything in the multiverse as a story · 36 points

    HN discussion
  3. For those of you loving this, a classic: https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “Stimulation Clicker”
  4. Submitted Random game idea generator as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  5. http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “Click”
  6. Submitted Nested as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Here's an example: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ Opening another tab creates a new bakery, not a view into the same bakery. (This only works if you haven't played before or clear your cookies.) Edit: If you really want to keep the same functionality then you would need to bring server communication into the mix. It's possible to either run the simulation server-side, or at least communicate the state betw…

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs”
  8. Submitted Cookie clicker as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Reminds me of Cookie Clicker: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “It is as if you were doing work”
  10. Submitted Cookie Clicker as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Surprised no one has mentioned Cookie Clicker yet, which I think was what inspired notch to write that game: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ Notch's game was written in Dart and the source code is simple and elegant: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid...

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour”
  12. Submitted Cookie Clicker as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Have you played http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “Show HN: Skynet Simulator”
  14. Submitted Nested as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Wrong game. Go here: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “Placebo Button”
  16. Submitted Cookie Clicker as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Cookie Clicker: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ This game is all client-side so it's easy to cheat. The cool thing is you actually get achievements for cheating!

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “Winning at Candy Crush”
  18. Submitted Cookie Clicker as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. While not as suitable for actually playing tile based RPGs, I am partial to http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/dungeongenerator/ for the nice visual design of the generated dungeons.

    Comment linking /experiments/dungeongenerator/

    on “Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs”
  20. Submitted Cookie Clicker as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Cookie Clicker http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large audience?”
  22. Submitted Nested: A procedural universe generator (2011) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Isn't it just a clone of classic Cookie Clicker? http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “Paperclips”
  24. Submitted Nested – A universe simulator by the creator of Cookie Clicker as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. See Cookie Clicker for the original (or early) quirky game: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “Spaceplan”
  26. Submitted Haikunator – Haiku Generator as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Looks like Cookie clicker [1] [1] http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “Spaceplan”
  28. Submitted Nested: A Procedurally Generated Universe as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. With due respect that's completely wrong. Clicker games have been a thing long before microtransactions were around and popular. I remember sinking an hour or two into cookie clicker: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

    Comment linking /cookieclicker/

    on “Clicker Heroes 2 is abandoning free-to-play”
  30. Submitted Text Based Simulation of the Universe as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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