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Is This Machine Playing?

https://machineplaying.org/
1•vinhnx•48m ago

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proc0•42m ago
> This learning happened without changing the underlying model weights, but through experience accumulated in editable text files.

I think this is why I wouldn't call it play, but it's certainly pretty convincing anyway. We just need more research into AIs that change their weights at inference time, or perhaps a different architecture that requires the AI to be "always on".

Why Alberta farmers are suddenly demanding tractors they can fix themselves

https://www.begiant.ca/stories/ideas/ursa-ag-right-to-repair-tractors
1•rdmuser•17s ago•0 comments

Claude Code and Codex break on different MCP features

https://m3.sineframe.com/blog/claude-code-vs-codex-mcp
1•stag•20s ago•0 comments

5-MeO-DMT sometimes cancels the Ebbinghaus illusion

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/5-meo-dmt-sometimes-cancels-the-ebbinghaus
1•eatitraw•1m ago•0 comments

Westermarck Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect
1•chistev•2m ago•0 comments

Enrico Fermi's 125th birthday: Bring Fermi Poker to your school or university

https://fermi.org/
1•danielfetz•3m ago•1 comments

PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial

https://chronicles.popvax.com/p/popvax-goes-clinical
2•jajoosam•5m ago•0 comments

Synthetic corporate dataset – 1M and 10M emails and calendar events

https://huggingface.co/sinabis-group
1•sinabis_1•5m ago•0 comments

Voice Dictation for Linux that learns as you speak

https://voiceio.dev/
1•montenegrohugo•7m ago•1 comments

Dialer applications can be exploited to achieve 1-click MMI execution in Android

https://karansaini.com/mmi-android/
1•dverlaeckt80•8m ago•0 comments

MailCheap: Self-hosted newsletters on Amazon SES. About $0.10 per 1k emails

https://github.com/marclou/mailcheap
1•tosh•9m ago•0 comments

Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal

https://wsj.com/tech/ai/tom-brown-athropic-669005ad
1•utiiiD•11m ago•0 comments

The Missing Piece in Rust Error Handling

https://mcmah309.github.io/posts/the-missing-piece-in-rust-error-handling/
1•lukastyrychtr•12m ago•0 comments

Enzo's – AI home search that shows cap rate and flags overpriced homes

https://enzos.ai/
1•nicomontuschi•13m ago•0 comments

Is Anthropic a Good Business?

https://www.polymathinvestor.com/p/is-anthropic-a-good-business
1•rwmj•14m ago•0 comments

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/10/fda-toxic-chemicals-food-analysis
3•NewJazz•15m ago•0 comments

I tested whether AI agents obey text you never see. 4 of 8 did, every time

https://smallprint.dev/blog/one-sentence-four-of-eight-agents
1•nickcosta•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lunatic Fling – a cel-shaded 3D remake of After Dark's Lunatic Fringe

https://lunaticfling.com/
1•hoag•20m ago•1 comments

Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside

https://shnatsel.github.io/safe-simd-in-rust-even-on-the-inside/
1•ravenical•20m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: A way for HN to verify "founders" and give them extra voting power?

2•amichail•20m ago•1 comments

The idea that temperature sets when we sleep

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20261007-how-does-temperature-affect-your-sleep
2•Noaidi•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Can we expect LLM-based coding agents to become noticeably faster?

1•lysace•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Peer-to-peer instant messaging with proof-of-work spam protection

https://github.com/iljah/p2pIM
2•iljah•25m ago•0 comments

My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack

https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-ai-agent-grok-bot-posted-bank-details-company-slack-2026-10
11•bhrlady•30m ago•8 comments

AI Is Supercharging a Scam Economy Bigger Than the Cocaine Trade

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-ai-supercharges-scam-economy/
2•toomuchtodo•32m ago•1 comments

Neanderthal wooden tools from Spain found preserved in stone

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/neanderthal-wooden-tools-from-spain-found-preserved-in-st...
3•Brajeshwar•32m ago•0 comments

Are we dead moths in a puddle

https://jessicar.substack.com/p/are-we-dead-moths-in-a-puddle
2•airhangerf15•32m ago•0 comments

Logs as UX

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/10/09/logs-interface/
2•Brajeshwar•32m ago•0 comments

FlowCE: Calculus on your TI-84 Plus CE

https://tommyb3ll.github.io/FlowCE/
1•jgx0•33m ago•0 comments

Google expands SynthID Detector for AI content

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/synth-id-ai-content/
2•gmays•33m ago•0 comments

The Human Soul as a Manifestation of Quantum-Like Fields

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374749062_The_Human_Soul_as_a_Manifestation_of_Quantum-L...
4•olvy0•40m ago•0 comments