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The world's longest railway tunnel is being built under the Alps

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/01/world-record-made-in-europe-the-worlds-longest-rail...
1•vrganj•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Tips for Longevity, as a Software Engineer

1•2bird3•10m ago•0 comments

Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/each-blade-a-single-crystal
1•whycome•10m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Please, I need your help to try out an iOS app I work on

1•erosa01•10m ago•2 comments

Alert-Driven Monitoring

https://simpleobservability.com/docs/alert-driven-monitoring
1•khazit•10m ago•0 comments

ImagePrint 1.52 Released

https://www.imageprint.io/blog/whats-new-in-imageprint-1-52/
1•coragi•12m ago•0 comments

CPU Work and GPU Work

https://www.talhoffman.com/2026/05/03/cpu-work-and-gpu-work/
2•talhof8•15m ago•0 comments

Fisheries and Aquaculture

https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/fisheries-and-aquaculture.html
1•mooreds•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hello, World in many different languages

https://languages.jdunn.dev/
2•jdironman•19m ago•2 comments

NOAA forecaster on how this year's El Niño could shatter records

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/one-of-the-most-rapid-transitions-that-ive-seen-...
2•ukz•19m ago•0 comments

I Have Lived in Your Camp

https://green.spacedino.net/i-have-lived-in-your-camp/
1•mooreds•21m ago•0 comments

The Petroleum System Is Entering Its Volatile Decline Phase

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/04/29/the-petroleum-system-is-entering-its-volatile-decline-phase/
1•xbmcuser•22m ago•0 comments

Company said I could move and then changed their mind

https://www.askamanager.org/2026/04/company-said-i-could-move-and-then-changed-their-mind-how-do-...
2•mooreds•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance (5 year update)

https://projectionlab.com/
1•scubakid•27m ago•0 comments

Custom Voices and Voice Library

https://x.ai/news/grok-custom-voices
1•tjek•29m ago•0 comments

I'm a late arrival to short-form video – its effect on my life has shocked me

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/03/algorithm-short-form-video-overload
2•andsoitis•30m ago•0 comments

Sandwich Theorem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze_theorem
1•_Microft•33m ago•0 comments

Pipelight

https://pipelight.dev/
1•fulafel•34m ago•0 comments

After giving away $26B MacKenzie Scott's wealth remains largely unchanged

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/after-giving-away-26-billion-in-philanthropy-mackenz...
1•gscott•35m ago•0 comments

The Lobster in the Hot Pot – OpenTentacle

https://opententacle.com/article/2026-04-05/
1•birdculture•35m ago•0 comments

Dogs' brains began to shrink at least 5k years ago

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/29/dogs-brains-shrink-5000-years-ago
1•gmays•36m ago•0 comments

What are the chances a hurricane will hit my home?

https://www.noaa.gov/stories/what-are-chances-hurricane-will-hit-my-home
1•bilsbie•37m ago•0 comments

How the JVM Optimizes Generic Code – A Deep Dive [pdf]

https://cr.openjdk.org/~jrose/pres/202603-SpecializedGeneric.pdf
2•Tomte•39m ago•0 comments

I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now

https://hoeijmakers.net/thirty-years-of-caching-sorted-in-an-afternoon/
3•robhoeijmakers•40m ago•1 comments

Robotics startups are losing to slow feedback loops

https://www.simbiotic.dev/blog/robotics-startup-development-speed
1•nikhilol•40m ago•0 comments

I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph

https://mohibulsblog.netlify.app/java/100daysofjava/graph/
1•celurian92•47m ago•1 comments

Learn concurrency – a deep dive into multithreading with Python

https://blog.geekuni.com/2026/04/python-concurrency.html
2•aquastorm•48m ago•0 comments

StackGraveyard.dev – Live mortality scores for NPM packages

https://www.stackgraveyard.dev/
1•tlseternal•49m ago•0 comments

What If Your Boss Monitored Your Emotions?

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/05/worker-surveillance-emotion-ai/687029/
2•Brajeshwar•49m ago•1 comments

1984 Called: It predicted our AI-obsessed reality

https://medium.com/@tk512/the-ai-predictions-in-the-movie-electric-dreams-1984-0c6a47a6326e
1•sgt•50m ago•0 comments
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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