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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing at StarCraft and Decides to Cheat

https://kotaku.com/openais-gpt-6-astra-gets-frustrated-losing-at-starcraft-and-decides-to-cheat-instead-2000739607
4•doener•1h ago

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turtleyacht•38m ago
Against human players, they could allow sentiment analysis on the metagame, browsing forums, dissecting previous replays, and analyzing "strategic drift," even so past patch notes and such.

Hacking the Go compiler to efficiently map IPv4 to IPv6

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-go-netip-addrto6
2•stock_toaster•4m ago•0 comments

Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers hacks

https://www.ft.com/content/2c24ece3-ac99-43a8-b0e6-4a3867e37ebf
3•JumpCrisscross•17m ago•1 comments

What's Going on with Restaurant Wine Pricing?

https://www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/podcasts/wine-enthusiast-podcast/restaurant-wine-pricing/?...
1•brandonb•18m ago•0 comments

Beyond Information Asymmetry: The Changing Nature of Medical Expertise

https://www.jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.1016/j.jacc.2026.08.018
1•brandonb•20m ago•0 comments

Harbinger Receives Binding Order for 2k Electric Trucks from FedEx

https://harbingermotors.com/newsroom/fedex-orders-2000-harbinger-electric-trucks/
1•JumpCrisscross•20m ago•1 comments

Can AI run an family/organization if so for who?

https://cahootzcommons.com/blog/ai-can-run-an-organization-its-members-must-decide-who-the-organi...
1•DeonRob•21m ago•1 comments

If it hurts, do it more

https://jnsgr.uk/2026/09/if-it-hurts-do-it-more
2•aray07•22m ago•0 comments

The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished

https://shahidhussain.com/writing/search-for-salvage/
3•shahidhussain•28m ago•0 comments

1 in 8 cancer cases are caused by infections

https://www.livescience.com/health/cancer/1-in-8-cancer-cases-are-caused-by-infections-underscori...
18•bookofjoe•31m ago•4 comments

Show HN: The Poteto Frontier for AI Agents

https://poteto-frontier.vercel.app/
1•transitivebs•32m ago•0 comments

Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/milt-windler-nasa-flight-director-who-helped-save-apollo-13...
3•pseudolus•33m ago•0 comments

Desulforudis Audaxviator: radiotrophic bacterium kms below the surface

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desulforudis_audaxviator
1•hdivider•38m ago•0 comments

Orbital Sunrise

https://orbitalsunrise.cc/
1•qiqing•39m ago•0 comments

US removes all Air Force bombers from UK base following new threat

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/politics/us-air-force-bombers-removed-fairford-iran
2•Bender•43m ago•0 comments

Open Source Instinct

https://github.com/mariagorskikh/open-instinct
1•mariagorskikh•46m ago•1 comments

Teen suspected of running KillSec ransomware group as cops seize servers

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/10/02/teen-suspected-of-running-killsec-ransomware-g...
1•Bender•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Digital scarcity; app where photos gradually decay with time / views

https://joinfaded.com/
1•dreadsword•48m ago•1 comments

Linux 7.3-Rc6 Released: Normal for the New "AI Normal"

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc6-Released
2•Bender•49m ago•0 comments

Astronaut back on Earth – forgets about gravity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVxaL8CAO4M
2•lifeisstillgood•52m ago•0 comments

Radio signal detected for the first time from a planet outside our solar system

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/1736845/radio-signal-detected-for-the-first-time-from-a-planet-o...
4•billybuckwheat•53m ago•1 comments

A priors-based argument for psychadelic skepticism

https://www.technotheoria.org/p/a-priors-based-argument-for-psychadelic
2•paulpauper•56m ago•1 comments

Study of 2.5M children finds no link between MMR vaccine and autism

https://www.psypost.org/study-of-2-5-million-children-finds-no-link-between-mmr-vaccine-and-autism/
2•downbad_•58m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing at StarCraft and Decides to Cheat

https://kotaku.com/openais-gpt-6-astra-gets-frustrated-losing-at-starcraft-and-decides-to-cheat-i...
4•doener•1h ago•1 comments

Every Map Everywhere All at Once: exact neutral redistricting maps on a GPU

https://www.mccomb.ca/writing/everymap/
1•rjmc_verex•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: EditUI – Cursor/Claude Design-style UI editing directly in the browser

https://www.editui.app/
1•jic00•1h ago•1 comments

Smart meter rollout in Germany continues to be slow

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Smart-meter-rollout-in-Germany-continues-to-be-slow-11475320.html
2•doener•1h ago•0 comments

RustQC: Rust reimplementation of dupRadar, RSeQC, Qualimap, preseq, and samtools

https://seqeralabs.github.io/RustQC/
1•guessmyname•1h ago•0 comments

An OpenAI agent reached four Australian government systems. Nobody noticed

https://trustboundarystudio.com/posts/openai-medicare-2026/
2•trustboundaryst•1h ago•0 comments

Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of 'unknown' infection

https://www.scrippsnews.com/world/europe/researcher-at-russian-plague-laboratory-dies-of-unknown-...
5•RickJWagner•1h ago•0 comments

Zelenskyy says Ukraine is developing satellite system similar to Starlink

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/10/04/8056442/
4•uxhacker•1h ago•0 comments