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Detecting Claude by Counting Letters

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/08/18/detecting-claude-with-letter-counts
1•iamflimflam1•58s ago•0 comments

Vercel AI Gateway: GPT-5.6 Sol is 50% off for the next month

https://vercel.com/changelog/gpt-5-6-sol-is-50-off-on-ai-gateway-for-the-next-month
1•mirzap•1m ago•0 comments

Textlog Recap: A lot has happened. Quietly, of course.

https://textlog.cc/blog/recap-v1
1•stagas•2m ago•0 comments

The hidden decision behind every delivery promise

https://medium.com/flat-pack-tech/the-hidden-decision-behind-every-delivery-promise-understanding...
1•robin_reala•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Zeroparams, a coding agent with zero parameters because it's just me

https://zeroparams.itdata.nu
1•jonatanholmgren•4m ago•0 comments

Why Loudly Crying Drowns Out Tears of Joy

https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/why-drowned-out
1•lacieargyle•5m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk made flying worse so Palantir could profit

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/981194/faa-air-traffic-elon-musk-peter-thiel-palantir
3•trymas•5m ago•0 comments

Self-hosting your ATProto PDS

https://jola.dev/posts/self-hosting-your-pds
1•shintoist•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: H2AI Chat – multi-AI debate you can self-host with local models (AGPL)

https://github.com/Tonterias/h2aichat
1•h2aichat•12m ago•0 comments

If you can draw the flowchart, you don't need an agent

https://willdady.com/if-you-can-draw-the-flowchart-you-dont-need-an-agent
1•Groady•14m ago•0 comments

An MCP server that turns a Claude conversation into scheduled carousels

https://postnitro.ai/mcp
1•MuneebAwan•15m ago•0 comments

US will allow some private firms to carry out cyberattacks

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/in-a-first-us-will-allow-some-private-firms-to-carry-out-cybera...
3•deepmem•15m ago•0 comments

Microsoft working on Defender patch for ShieldBreak zero-day

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-working-on-defender-patch-for-shieldbrea...
1•DemiGuru•15m ago•0 comments

The Fairphone (Gen. 6)

https://www.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-plus
2•mcraiha•15m ago•1 comments

Anatomy of a delegated audit – an agent, three specs, four traps

https://stl-lang.org/exhibit/
1•scoslab•17m ago•0 comments

Accurate int/float colour conversions

http://lomont.org/posts/2023/accuratecolorconversions/
2•fanf2•17m ago•0 comments

Don't Paste the AI, Please

https://dontpastetheai.com/
2•Bluestein•18m ago•2 comments

One affiliate now brings in half my SaaS sales

https://tinyfound.com/p/backl-io
1•alexbelyanin•18m ago•0 comments

Families with a mutation for gastric cancer have stomachs preemptively removed

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/03/stomach-cancer-total-gastrectomy/686623/
1•ike_usawa•19m ago•0 comments

FritzHole – FRITZ OS DNS filter blocks unwanted content

https://fritz.com/en/pages/fritz-labor-8-40-zusatzinformationen
3•jeffreygoesto•19m ago•0 comments

Earth Mover's Distance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_mover%27s_distance
1•ariru•20m ago•0 comments

AI Does Not Change Goodhart or the Folly of Tokenmaxxing

https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/folly-tokenmaxxing-or-reinventing-wheel
1•swolpers•20m ago•0 comments

Rewriting a production compiler's IR with AI agents in five weeks

https://github.com/CommanderTvis/writing/tree/main/rr-truffle-rewrite
2•CommanderTvis•24m ago•0 comments

A $21B 'Kids in Chips' Startup Is Scooping Up Nvidia Talent

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/a-21-billion-kids-in-chips-startup-is-scooping-up-nvidia-talent-4d099f12
2•_tk_•25m ago•0 comments

Prompt Injection in VirusTotal's Code Insights API

https://exploiting.systems/posts/2026-08-08-prompt-injection-in-virustotals-code-insights-api
3•ropbear•29m ago•0 comments

Conlang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language
1•svenfaw•30m ago•0 comments

As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/as-wisconsin-cities-flee-flock-its-shared-camera-netw...
11•xoa•32m ago•1 comments

KDE's bookmark search ignores Brave because of one unmatched string

https://balint.blog/krunner-brave/
1•balintkorosi•32m ago•0 comments

Constantine's Bridge Has Surfaced from Beneath the Danube

https://thedebrief.org/a-mile-long-ancient-roman-engineering-marvel-has-suddenly-surfaced-from-be...
1•bookofjoe•34m ago•1 comments

Democracy vs. the machine: birth of digital age,the warnings that were ignored

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/18/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital-age-wa...
4•pseudolus•35m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: Syneva – An AI Chatbot Ported to a Kids' Tile-Based Limited Game Engine

https://sprig.hackclub.com/share/VzO62YQXBGOpcbj7xusB
2•kuberwastaken•1y ago

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kuberwastaken•1y ago
I made SYNEVA as a part of my fun-research repo while I learn about LLMs at https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/MiniLMs

I came across Sprig while Scrolling through Hack Club, it's a Javascript game engine that's like Scratch's older brother (fun fact, it's partially made by Scratch's creator too) but has it's own set of unique limitations because it runs on a custom hardware.

All sprites need to be made in Bitmap, you have to use single character variable names but most importantly, you can only use 8 characters to control the "game".

I had to make a virtual keyboard implementation (which was awful btw) using WASD to navigate keyboard, K to select and I to send the message.

also, it doesn't have any audio support and uses an event sequencer to get any music into it (got around it by making https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/Sprig-Music-Maker that converts midis to it)

SYNEVA is a rule based chatbot, so not technically AI but hey, still pretty fun and really cool to use (I also made it understand slang and some brainrot, so try that out too lol)

Hope you enjoy it :)