Show HN: A game about fake news and memes

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15 points | by azermite 13 hours ago ago

11 comments

  • starshadowx2 11 hours ago ago

    Why did this immediately ask me for permission to show notifications? What notifications could come from this?

  • totetsu 9 hours ago ago

    Maybe reading a book or two about media literacy might help you more? It’s a very well studied area. There is lots very basic things about identifying and analysing health claims that is in the public health sector too. Groups like the anti-rumour project also have good materials. https://ccre-cemr.org/impact-community-society/anti-rumours-...

    Maybe look for a university that has their critical reasoning or introduction to academic writing courses online and look at the course readers.

    All of this will help you more than tweak coding a flash card app with an llm.

  • furyofantares 10 hours ago ago

    It just kept going and going and I was quite confused as to when it was going to give me any feedback, but I guess so was just getting them all right and there's no clear feedback in that case?

  • TejasH5 12 hours ago ago

    None of the videos for the fake/real news examples work for me

  • tapland 11 hours ago ago

    "oh I wonder if it will have an off-white background" guessing game when seeing anything posted

  • NDlurker 10 hours ago ago

    I have no idea who Vallas is and that's why I got that one wrong

  • tehnoslow 11 hours ago ago

    Fun game, but I agree with senectus1, it's a bit clunky on desktop

  • senectus1 11 hours ago ago

    I like it, its a bit clunky on the desktop though. the real and fake took me a while to find on a big high rest screen.

    I'd appreciate better formatting of the blind spot and "you got it wrong" results.

    I feel like this is less about news and more about urban legends and old wives tales.

    would be very interested in seeing this become more contemporary and up to date with more recent events.

  • mitxela 2 hours ago ago

    "No stories right now"

  • sublinear 10 hours ago ago

    I like the concept, but it needs more interesting content. I was actually confused for a few rounds.

    As soon as I realized it's just a game of trivia and "spot the AI image/video", my scores improved dramatically. It's like a switch flipped in my brain and I stopped overthinking these.

    It seems like that's the opposite of what you intended?

  • dang 13 hours ago ago

    (Toptext copied from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825108.)

    You probably shouldn't have posted this 14 times - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion" and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html: "a small number of reposts is ok" (14 is not a small number!) But let's not let that get in the way of a good submission.