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America.gov AI Easter Egg? Type "play minecraft"

https://www.facebook.com/AnthonyDavidAdams/posts/breaking-head-over-to-america-gov-and-type-play-minecraft-in-the-ai-chat-bot-and/10122353973499797/
1•ada1981•52m ago

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ada1981•52m ago
BREAKING! Head over to America . gov and type "play minecraft" in the AI chat bot and prepare yourself for a rant of epic proportions.

All I can guess is some ex DOGE kid who built this system put an Easter Egg in the program. It's still live.

Video of my screen and full text at the link.

(Like and follow for more! ;)

fsflover•46m ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913255
ada1981•37m ago
thanks, news to me anyhow!

16-year-old found Microsoft bug, got admin access to 17.3T-row databases

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/30/16-year-old-researcher-found-a-microsoft-bug-got-...
1•johnshades•26s ago•0 comments

Gloriously project runs transformer model written in PDP-11 assembly [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUE3FSIk46g
1•madradavid•2m ago•0 comments

Strata: Run a 125B-parameter AI model on a normal gaming PC

https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata
1•maille•4m ago•0 comments

Hackers stole US Military records during months-long data breach

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/hackers-stole-millions-of-us-military-personnel-records-during-...
1•DamnInteresting•5m ago•0 comments

There Are Plenty of Laws on the Books to Check the A.I. Giants. Use Them

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/opinion/ai-anthropic-amodei-self-regulation.html
1•SLHamlet•6m ago•0 comments

Host Your First Profitable Meetup or Mini-Conference

https://outlier-media-co.ever795522.chatgpt.site/ebook/
1•EverGonzalez76•8m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Thanks for All the Fish

2•neilv•8m ago•0 comments

It may soon be possible to create "mirror life"

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/30/it-may-soon-be-possible-to-create-mir...
1•vinni2•9m ago•0 comments

Decoupled DiLoCo for Resilient Distributed Pre-Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21428
1•lawrenceyan•11m ago•0 comments

Invisible XML (2025)

https://www.xml.com/articles/2025/12/02/invisible-xml-update/
4•devonnull•12m ago•0 comments

It's the Kernel's Fault! Custom Page Fault Handling With bpf_fault

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3830418.3843896
1•matt_d•12m ago•0 comments

CM AI Docking Port: teaching AI agents to knock on the right door

https://apartmamatevz.si/journal/posts/2026-09-30-cm-ai-docking-port-teaching-ai-agents-to-knock-...
1•Cmfree•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Made a digital wall for AI Agents to "tag"

https://www.tomasmed.dev/wall
1•tomasmed•14m ago•1 comments

The Router Economy

https://www.lukascampos.com/blog/router-economy
1•lukaesch•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Aartool, which attack chains are complete on your Linux host

https://github.com/cyberaar/aartool
1•bantou96•14m ago•0 comments

USPS to Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for 'Community Safety'

https://www.404media.co/usps-to-put-cameras-in-trucks-that-scan-roads-for-community-safety/
2•dualvariable•16m ago•1 comments

Agentic GPU Programming for MLSys

https://mlc.ai/agentic-gpu-programming-for-mlsys/index.html
1•matt_d•16m ago•0 comments

Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-4-argon
4•theanonymousone•20m ago•1 comments

Purlin: Separating Orchestration from the Datapath of Collectives

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36954
2•matt_d•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Preserve.Chat – Turn WhatsApp chats into sharable link. Free and Secure

https://preserve.chat/
1•AsDivyansh•21m ago•0 comments

Gemini Skills Will Replace Gems; Gems Being Discontinued

https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/09/skills-gemini-app-workspace.html
1•xd1936•22m ago•0 comments

Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/09/30/reuters-anthropic-ipo-prospectus
9•danaris•26m ago•2 comments

Branch Target Reuse, BTR: New Spectre V2 Attack Targeting JIT Compilers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Branch-Target-Reuse-BTR
3•porridgeraisin•28m ago•0 comments

More screen time is linked to poorer child development, study shows

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/30/health/children-screen-time-study-scli-intl-wellness
2•smoyer•29m ago•0 comments

Vulnerability disclosures double to 10k per month as AI fuels exploitation

https://therecord.media/google-vulnerabilities-cyberattacks-ai
1•speckx•33m ago•0 comments

What is happening in Kyiv. A drone strike near my University [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmSHgjNYj7w
2•consumer451•33m ago•0 comments

Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/09/aurora-postgresql-query-apache-iceberg-and-par...
6•daigoba66•33m ago•0 comments

Numerai: Architect an AI scientist to predict the stock market

https://numer.ai/
1•filipstefano•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Perspica – A semantic diff for reviewing code

https://github.com/sshah03/perspica
2•sshah03•36m ago•0 comments

India restores ancient water systems (stepwells)

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260820-india-is-turning-to-ancient-water-systems-as-modern-o...
5•alentred•36m ago•0 comments