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Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?
Benchmarks how well Harness+models can create a Pac-Man game from a single prompt:“Create a Pac-Man game in a single HTML page”Each model gets one shot — no follow-up prompts or fixes. Comments..
8:05 am, September 29, 2026 Hacker News
US Forces Exit Iraq
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-forces-exit-iraq-after-two-decades-leaving-opening-iran-2026-09-29/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889275 Points: 42 # C..
8:05 am, September 29, 2026 Hacker News
OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription
Article URL: https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2104823812042940713 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889306 Points: 23 # Comments: 13
8:05 am, September 29, 2026 Hacker News
It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
Article URL: https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883471 Points: 295 # Comments: 107
2:05 am, September 29, 2026 Hacker News
Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/scientists-solve-1840s-space-weather-mystery/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883536 Points: 60 # Comments: 37
2:05 am, September 29, 2026 Hacker News
California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Article URL: https://www.kqed.org/news/12101534/california-farmers-are-struggling-to-sell-grapes-as-demand-for-wine-drops Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883539 Points: 50 # Comme..
2:05 am, September 29, 2026 Hacker News
World Labs Is Joining AMD
Article URL: https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883760 Points: 186 # Comments: 73
2:05 am, September 29, 2026 Hacker News
Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
Article URL: https://github.com/firelex/jeff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883844 Points: 277 # Comments: 115
2:05 am, September 29, 2026 Hacker News
ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
Article URL: https://github.com/Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884625 Points: 26 # Comments: 2
2:05 am, September 29, 2026 Hacker News
1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
Article URL: https://lolchat.rip/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886195 Points: 16 # Comments: 8
2:05 am, September 29, 2026 Hacker News
Tank Body Problem
Article URL: http://www.jimsitu.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886482 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
2:05 am, September 29, 2026 Hacker News
We found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent
Article URL: https://github.blog/security/how-we-found-24-android-vulnerabilities-using-our-open-source-ai-security-agent/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886609 Points: 5 # Comme..
2:05 am, September 29, 2026 Hacker News
Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-teen-portraits-that-captivated-sofia-coppola Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881606 Points: 37 # Comments: 10
8:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters?
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-wrote-elizabeth-is-most-scathing-letters-new-research-suggests-the-tudor-queens-male-secretaries-revised-her-correspondence-to-emphasize-her-tem..
8:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Windows 11½
Article URL: https://definitelynotwindows.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881747 Points: 274 # Comments: 74
8:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
I made a visual workspace for AI Automations
Article URL: https://www.biom.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881777 Points: 17 # Comments: 11
8:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Sonnet 5.5
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881850 Points: 324 # Comments: 208
8:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
Article URL: https://lecaro.me/20260921-google-less.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881951 Points: 119 # Comments: 43
8:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
GrapheneOS – When an app is slow
Article URL: https://blog.wirelessmoves.com/2026/09/grapheneos-when-an-app-is-slow.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882208 Points: 40 # Comments: 12
8:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
Article URL: https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882781 Points: 31 # Comments: 5
8:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials
Article URL: https://blog.plcred.org/3mwlphq42d227 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883159 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
8:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
California expanded the right to delete today
Article URL: https://www.getprivisy.com/blog/sb-923-ccpa-right-to-delete-signed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883345 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Made by Mechanical Means
Article URL: https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874551 Points: 49 # Comments: 14
2:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
Article URL: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-opus-5-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874728 Points: 159 # Comments: 171
2:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it
Article URL: https://www.habibicode.org/thedrawnworld Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875142 Points: 77 # Comments: 22
2:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
Article URL: https://thecivilian.co.nz/2026/09/27/ai-companies-in-fierce-arms-race-to-demonstrate-their-model-is-the-most-existentially-threatening-to-humanity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...
2:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-launching-to-orbit-for-1st-time-ever-on-sept-28-watch-it-live Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato..
2:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page
Fridge magnet shopping list on an M5Stack PaperMono (ESP32-S3, e-ink touchscreen), synced with a phone web app over Wi-Fi. Works offline, ~2,400 lines of C++.This is a great wee device! BLE, Wi-Fi and..
2:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
Article URL: https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49875913 Points: 137 # Comments: 56
2:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
The smart home graveyard is getting crowded
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/column/1000778/smart-home-june-oven-graveyard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876373 Points: 37 # Comments: 31
2:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News
hi there! i'd like you to try out a tui i made for browsing hackernews. it's built using opentui and also effect (learning experiment). i really like it and i think you will too! Comments URL: https:..
2:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Article URL: https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/reddit-astroturf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877678 Points: 18 # Comments: 6
2:05 pm, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time?
Article URL: https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4341 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872474 Points: 44 # Comments: 19
8:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Packing Binary Is Fun
Article URL: https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/packing-binary-is-fun-actually Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872541 Points: 12 # Comments: 3
8:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Article URL: https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872723 Points: 575 # Comments: 243
8:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
TabPFN and TabICL vs. tuned XGBoost: the model that doesn't train won 14/14
Article URL: https://efraingaray.com/en/blog/tabpfn-vs-xgboost/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872864 Points: 21 # Comments: 9
8:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873241 Points: 75 # Comments: 17
8:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk
I have a theory: a mirror image of Roko’s Basilisk. It’s a future AI, millions of years in the future, that values the complexity of every human life so deeply that, after it and humanity have mas..
8:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
What I did at Recurse Center
Article URL: https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869773 Points: 71 # Comments: 18
2:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?
Article URL: https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870070 Points: 70 # Comments: 28
2:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
Article URL: https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870295 Points: 57 # Comments: 21
2:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Have an LLC
Article URL: https://zachholman.com/posts/you-should-have-an-llc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870304 Points: 31 # Comments: 18
2:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
When did Google get so weird?
Article URL: https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870367 Points: 778 # Comments: 417
2:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
My Recent Woodworking Projects
Article URL: https://notoriousbfg.com/recent-woodworking-projects/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870541 Points: 29 # Comments: 13
2:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Lunar Terminator Paradox
Article URL: https://notes.secretsauce.net/notes/2026/09/27_lunar-terminator-paradox.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870837 Points: 43 # Comments: 28
2:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10k If a Data Center Gets Built
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/every-household-in-this-rural-town-receives-10-000-if-a-data-center-gets-built-86554cb7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872365 Points:..
2:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021)
Article URL: https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2021/self-parking-car-evolution/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872472 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
2:05 am, September 28, 2026 Hacker News
On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-concept-of-a-duty-of-care-to-their-users/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867067 Points: 301 # Comments: 265
8:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
Article URL: https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867486 Points: 198 # Comments: 71
8:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura
Article URL: https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867553 Points: 121 # Comments: 21
8:05 pm, September 27, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
