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Show HN: A strategy game about the AI race where you can't verify alignment

https://criticalwindow.org/
5•micstradev•1h ago
I made a strategy game where you play the US or China through the AI race, 2026 to 2030, sixteen quarterly turns in the browser. One run takes about half an hour.

At the start, the game seals two dice you never get to see. Inside: how hard alignment really is, and how fast takeoff compounds. You get eval reports, but only as ranges, and they flatter you most exactly when your systems are least aligned. At the end you get a debrief which shows what your evals said each quarter and also what was actually true. I lost every run I played myself so far.

Every number in the game is source-backed or a labeled design choice. Some of them are wrong somewhere. There is an issue template for challenging a number with a better source, and the better source wins.

No accounts, no tracking, no server, works offline after first load. AGPL, nonprofit. Cards and parameters are plain JSON. Contribution is possible without writing code. Would like to have your thoughts if it is fun to play, how you like it and what you would improve. Any feedback is welcome and most importantly, if we got something badly wrong.

Code: https://github.com/chipmates/criticalwindow

Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Save 65% of Tokens? We Test

https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/07/speak-to-ai-agents-like-cavemen-tosave-tokens/
1•adletbalzhanov•25s ago•0 comments

Microsoft device telemetry key to unmasking alleged Scattered Spider hacker

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/microsoft-device-telemetry-key-to-unmasking-alleged-scattered-spid...
1•_____k•1m ago•0 comments

I Changed My Name

https://robida.net/entries/2026/07/01/i-changed-my-name
1•surprisetalk•2m ago•0 comments

Zero-defects code: the prescient Microsoft memo from 1989

https://digitalseams.com/blog/zero-defects-code-the-prescient-microsoft-memo-from-1989
1•Brajeshwar•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I pre-registered the rules,then measured AI agents shipping wrong fixes

https://github.com/kolesnikov-arch/patchward
1•kolesnikov-arch•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Using the secure enclave in a pass/password-store iOS client

https://sepass.modiot.com
1•floathub•5m ago•1 comments

How can Rust be so fast in the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks?

https://kerkour.com/rust-fast-techempower-web-framework-benchmarks
1•Keyb0ardWarri0r•6m ago•0 comments

Packing the Infinite Truck

https://pehar.dev/reflections/packing-the-infinite-truck/
1•dinkopehar•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Loopers – Open-source fail-closed firewall for AI agent runtimes

https://github.com/CURSED-ME/loopers-oss
1•varad-khoriya•6m ago•0 comments

A 13-agent pipeline that ships full-stack web apps from a Markdown spec

https://github.com/lemoine-agency/demo-facture-simple
1•frnic0las•6m ago•0 comments

The missing 500M: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth's first crust

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/the-missing-500-million-cosmic-bombardment-melted-earths-...
2•rbanffy•6m ago•0 comments

Germany's 60K-game preservation project collapses after €1.5M funding dries up

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/germanys-1-5-million-project-to-build-the-w...
3•thunderbong•8m ago•0 comments

Meta's AI 'Perv Glasses' Now Come with Stupid Comcast-Esque Usage Restrictions

http://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/06/metas-ai-perv-glasses-now-come-with-stupid-comcast-esque-usage...
4•beardyw•9m ago•1 comments

Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/06/apprentice-developer-defied-orders-then-got-a-job...
2•LorenDB•9m ago•0 comments

Global renewable capacity factors datasets

https://bayesian.energy/blog
2•p44v9n•10m ago•0 comments

I Built a Telegram Client for Pi

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@atharva-again/pi-tg
2•atharva-again•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Orchestrate parallel Claude Code and Codex agents on a live map

https://github.com/Latand/live-log-viewer-next
2•latand6•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We track 1,397 AI agents. 43 famous ones (402k stars) have gone dark

https://agentcrush.xyz/ghost-report
2•AgentCrush•11m ago•0 comments

The Nature of Launch Day

https://seths.blog/2026/06/the-nature-of-launch-day/
2•herbertl•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Captchainbox – make senders work to get into your inbox

https://www.captchainbox.com
1•felixdoerp•12m ago•0 comments

Microsoft joins AI-driven tech layoff wave with 4,800 job cuts

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/microsoft-joins-ai-driven-tech-layoff-wave-with-48...
1•root-parent•13m ago•0 comments

Loop Engineering's Missing Half

https://x.com/compose/articles/edit/2073814852167184384
1•sankarn_ai•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Flying Drones with Natural Language

https://jakedecamp.com/product/flying-drones-with-natural-language/
1•silksowed•14m ago•0 comments

We asked AI agents to fix real security bugs. This is what happened

https://mobb.ai/blog/we-asked-ai-agents-to-fix-real-security-bugs-this-is-what-happened
1•k1r111•14m ago•0 comments

Will GPUs Accelerate Your Traditional SQL Workload?

https://www.starburst.io/blog/will-gpus-accelerate-your-traditional-sql-workload/
1•abadid•15m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Quiet Sky, a weather app built for privacy

https://github.com/NW-Hiker-Skier/quietsky-privacy-proxy
1•Aaron_NW•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is anyone using Jujutsu version control (JJ) exclusively?

3•cabyambo•15m ago•0 comments

CppRTOS

https://github.com/borisRadonic/CppRTOS
2•BorisRadonic•18m ago•0 comments

Go Report Card has been sunset

https://goreportcard.com/
1•atkrad•18m ago•0 comments

Xbox to Lay Off Up to 3,200 in 'Most Significant Restructure' in Company History

https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/xbox-layoffs-3200-4-studios-sold-1236802326/
4•drayfield•18m ago•0 comments