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Ask HN: Are small local LLMs good at coding?

1•usermac•49s ago•0 comments

Lessons from Building an Autonomous Claude Code Assistant

https://substack.com/home/post/p-195976188
1•scrollinondubs•3m ago•0 comments

The $11B Casino-Style Economy Built on Players Who Can Never Cash Out

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-social-casino-apps-addiction/
1•FiddlerClamp•9m ago•0 comments

Loadam – k6 load tests, contract suites, and MCP servers from any OpenAPI spec

https://www.npmjs.com/package/loadam
1•Dexcodes•9m ago•0 comments

Stupid NYT

https://walzr.com/stupid-nyt
2•jbegley•9m ago•1 comments

A little comparison between R and Kap

https://blog.dhsdevelopments.com/a-little-comparison-between-r-and-kap
1•tosh•10m ago•0 comments

Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2015)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2432044
1•downbad_•12m ago•1 comments

Thomson Reuters Hit with Privacy Litigation in Michigan Re:Display of SSN Digits

https://www.law.com/2026/05/01/thomson-reuters-hit-with-privacy-class-action-in-michigan-over-dis...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•14m ago•0 comments

How is it that Jakarta has improved so much?

https://indevelopmentmag.com/jakarta-transit-transformation/
1•paulpauper•14m ago•0 comments

CISA KEV: Linux "Copy Fail" CVE-2026-31431 Turns Kernel Bug into Patch Deadline

https://windowsforum.com/threads/cisa-kev-linux-copy-fail-cve-2026-31431-turns-kernel-bug-into-pa...
1•eth0up•15m ago•0 comments

Servers with Personality

https://caolan.uk/links/servers/
1•wrxd•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What does a 9-year undetected memory-only Linux LPE imply?

2•eth0up•17m ago•0 comments

The STL for Geometry: Thirty-Year Evolution of C++ Libraries

https://polydera.com/algorithms/the-stl-for-geometry
1•ZigaSajovic•18m ago•0 comments

Scientists Create First-Ever 'Smell Map'

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/scientists-create-first-ever-smell-map
1•gmays•22m ago•0 comments

AI isn't coming for your job. It's coming for your mind

https://www.bailliegifford.com/en/uk/individual-investors/insights/ic-article/2026-q1-ai-isn-t-co...
1•XzetaU8•22m ago•0 comments

Can countries grow richer by exporting people, not goods?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/04/30/can-countries-grow-richer-by-exporting...
1•andsoitis•24m ago•0 comments

Fungi and the Rise of Mammals [pdf]

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1002808
1•thunderbong•24m ago•0 comments

AI threatens Big Law's talent pipeline

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/02/ai-lawyers-law-firms-artificial-intelligence
1•Brajeshwar•24m ago•0 comments

A lost galaxy called 'Loki' may be hiding inside the Milky Way

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-lost-galaxy-loki-milky.html
1•wglb•25m ago•1 comments

I made an Mobile-Coding Companion, seeking your reviews

https://www.remoot.dev
1•xporpy•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Writing a deep-research agent from scratch

https://deep-research-agent.pagey.site
1•freakynit•27m ago•0 comments

Modern C++ Programming: Busato

https://github.com/federico-busato/Modern-CPP-Programming
1•KnuthIsGod•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Verbalized-Sample-Skill.md Modal Probability-Ranked Answer Distribution

https://gist.github.com/spinchange/ebecc4a548bf163ce4fddae0699a8065
1•spinchange•30m ago•0 comments

The Mystery of the Missing Hotel Toothpaste (2013)

https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/07/toothpaste-in-hotels-why-do-they-provide-shampoo-soap-an...
1•downbad_•30m ago•1 comments

Museum of the Human Web

https://museum.parallel.ai/introduction?era=modern
1•TheBlapse•31m ago•0 comments

Data center land use issues are fake

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-center-land-use-issues-are-fake
1•Kye•32m ago•0 comments

Emergent Strategic Reasoning Risks in AI: A Taxonomy-Driven Evaluation Framework

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22119
1•gmays•32m ago•0 comments

DNS, the Phonebook That Isn't

https://toolkit.whysonil.dev/how-it-works/dns/
1•simplerhumane•33m ago•0 comments

MCP-ratchet: Go package for enforcing tool call order in MCP servers

https://github.com/hexxla/mcp-ratchet
1•sploitzberg•33m ago•0 comments

Why C++ is growing, and why C++26 will likely be adopted quickly [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvr9MTAU_y4
1•dalvrosa•34m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Claude Plays Pokemon – Starter Version

https://github.com/davidhershey/ClaudePlaysPokemonStarter
8•minimaxir•1y ago
This is released by the Anthropic engineer who developed Claude Plays Pokemon.

Comments

minimaxir•1y ago
This is released by the Anthropic engineer who developed Claude Plays Pokemon.
CSMastermind•1y ago
It's interesting to me that they're extracting game state from memory instead of just passing the video into the LLM.
_--__--__•1y ago
Every agent step takes both a visual snapshot and a memory read, the memory gives more consistent tileset and location parsing and also has some stuff like party state/status conditions that isn't usually visible.
CSMastermind•1y ago
Shouldn't the goal be to compare it against a human player that would need to menu for that information?
_--__--__•1y ago
that's probably fair but I imagine that without memory access Claude would have been opening and searching the (completely unordered!) bag to check for progress critical items like the pokeflute every 5 minutes