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An AI couldn't beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1004543/openai-gpt-cheat-starcraft
5•sbulaev•1h ago

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whitten•18m ago
If it downloaded a program specifically designed to beat StarCraft, how did it know what it was and how to find it ?
unrented7977•7m ago
Because it was trained on the entire internet
rsx88•5m ago
I didn't read the article but the title itself gave me the insight: if AI is ever gonna end humanity, then this is how they're gonna do it, by using humans against humans.

Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of 'unknown' infection

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/europe/russia-laboratory-plague-accident-intl
1•wslh•1m ago•0 comments

MacSurf – classic Mac browser that loads today's web

https://macsurf.org/
1•michaelsbradley•1m ago•0 comments

Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-http-over-ssh
1•renehsz•2m ago•0 comments

The Power of Coincidence

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/10/strange-power-of-coincidence/688880/
1•andsoitis•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WikiJS knowledge base from your docs, answers with verified citations

https://gmaterni.github.io/wikijs/wikijs.html
1•gmaterni•4m ago•0 comments

What If My Theory of Everything Is Wrong?

https://peterbriaros.substack.com/p/what-if-my-theory-of-everything-is
1•tgraf_80•7m ago•0 comments

Agentic Compliance in Finance

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sqftcalc.app&hl=en_US
1•Gigacore•10m ago•0 comments

Erm, does anyone still bother hiring in US/UK?

https://www.hotsourced.io/talent-marketplace
2•andrewbrowning•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Sortbot.io – Your physical inventory, with an API and MCP access

https://www.sortbot.io
1•obilgic•16m ago•0 comments

Muse AI on Xteink X3 E-reader

https://charoori.com/blog/muse-on-xteink-x3/
1•Exorust•17m ago•0 comments

Generalization Dynamics of LM Pre-Training

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2609.33150
1•gmays•17m ago•0 comments

San Francisco's car crime has plunged. How much credit does Flock deserve?

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/10/02/g-s1-146060/san-franciscos-car-crime-has-plu...
1•pseudolus•17m ago•1 comments

The Lenovo Chromebook Plus

https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2026/10/04/1800
1•rcarmo•19m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Mainstream media overplaying the threat of AI, or industry underplaying?

1•AbstractH24•20m ago•0 comments

AI Backers Sound the Alarm About Safety

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-10-04/ai-backers-sound-the-alarm-about-safety
1•ent101•21m ago•0 comments

AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war

https://thebulletin.org/2026/10/ai-doesnt-need-superintelligence-or-evil-intent-to-start-a-nuclea...
3•bookofjoe•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Every click on this page draws a new Maurer rose

https://counter.maricakes.de/
1•jantuss•25m ago•0 comments

How Kyiv cracked Russia’s kill zone and got its tanks back in the fight

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/10/03/how-ukraine-cracked-russias-kill-zone/
1•cisc•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: NESH – A from-scratch UEFI shell with BASIC scripting

https://nesh.nicfio.it/
1•nicfio•34m ago•0 comments

Proposed Solution to Global Warming (2006)

https://qntm.org/global
2•andsoitis•36m ago•1 comments

Typst 0.15 Contains Multitudes

https://typst.app/blog/2026/typst-0.15/
4•birdculture•37m ago•0 comments

Claude Code Found My Pirc and King's Indian Mistakes

https://quickchat.ai/post/claude-code-stockfish-chess-opening-mistakes
1•piotrgrudzien•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Runescape but its a parody of SF

https://fogscape.vercel.app/
1•pbmango•39m ago•0 comments

Time Travel in Braid (2015)

https://qntm.org/braid
2•Ariarule•44m ago•0 comments

New recession odds and economic metric website

https://cyclewatch.org/
2•Macrolens•46m ago•0 comments

Donate AI Tokens for Open Source Projects

https://moochy.dev
2•sanix-darker•48m ago•1 comments

Ideogram 4.5: The most precise edit model

https://ideogram.ai/models/4.5/
1•gmays•50m ago•0 comments

Skyfall – open-source WebGPU aircombat game that runs in your browser

https://github.com/a7ul/skyfall
3•atulfiled•50m ago•0 comments

Ghost Debt - How influence outlives you, and the debt it leaves behind

https://medium.com/@aggelosbellos/ghost-debt-43437f792256
1•bellangelo•51m ago•0 comments

Against Personal Agents Theory of Everything Why the Future of Work Is a Factory

https://www.gettheleverage.com/p/against-the-personal-agents-theory
1•rmason•52m ago•0 comments