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1•tomknee•16s ago

US election results are being suppressed on HN

1•rsyring•40s ago•0 comments

Britecharts v3 Released: Accessible D3 Charts for JavaScript and React

https://britecharts.github.io/britecharts/blog/britecharts-3
1•Golodhros•1m ago•0 comments

Google dismantles botnet secretly running on 1.3M Android TV boxes

https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/11/google-dismantles-botnet-secretly-running-on-1-3-million-a...
1•bookofjoe•2m ago•0 comments

Feedback on Binary and Thread CLI (A Small Clothing Company with a CLI and MCP)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@binaryandthread/cli
1•sjmyoung•2m ago•0 comments

The Mona Lisa After 100 Rounds of AI Copying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooPgV0aSTfE
1•feralsimulation•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Scriptable CLI tool for generating images using popular providers

https://github.com/michaeldmueller/etch-image
1•lurkingllama•3m ago•0 comments

Durable Coroutines for TypeScript

https://restate.dev/blog/durable_coroutines
1•calvinfo•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Id|le, little AI-creatures living in the browser (story mode)

https://id-le.com/?story
1•nico•5m ago•0 comments

Hot-Reloading Stateful WebAssembly at 10 Mpps Without Dropping Packets

https://ninegamma.com/blog/stateful-hot-reload/
1•ninegamma•6m ago•0 comments

Debian's Apt Affected by MitM Attack for Arbitrary Code Execution as Root

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-MITM-RCE
1•justicz•6m ago•0 comments

Some of the best ideas are wrong

https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/some-of-the-best-ideas-are-wrong
1•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is AI good enough for math exercises?

2•Qision•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A platform-neutral language for design systems

https://play.milda.dev
1•violapeter•8m ago•0 comments

"At Home in Space" Opens, Caps Air and Space Museum Renovation

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/at-home-in-space-opens-caps-air-and-space-museum-renovation/
2•rbanffy•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?

2•eggbrain•9m ago•0 comments

I got banned from Lobsters for writing like an LLM

https://en.andros.dev/blog/94a77341/i-got-banned-from-lobsters-for-writing-like-an-llm/
4•O1111OOO•9m ago•0 comments

Sovereign AI is how Europe could catch up

https://aleph-alpha.com/
1•JulianPaul•10m ago•1 comments

Show HN: InstallRate – what Claude, GPT and Gemini npm install (20 categories)

https://installrate.com/leaderboard/
1•momenelshamy•10m ago•0 comments

French bank hit by cyberattack, losses estimated at €118M

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/11/04/french-bank-hit-by-cyberattack-losses-estima...
2•curiousgal•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A Lean 4 port of libexpat's XML 1.0 parsing semantics

https://github.com/scidonia/lexpat
1•ambass01•12m ago•0 comments

ReARM now implements Transparency Exchange API v1.0.0

https://rearmhq.com/news/2026-11-04-rearm-26-11-17-release/
1•taleodor•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kube-upgrade-check – find what breaks before a Kubernetes upgrade

https://github.com/runtimez-com/kube-upgrade-check
1•jeevansilpan•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: QAmcp – an open-source tester and monitor for MCP servers

https://qamcp.dev/?from=hackernews
1•Abhiramreddykal•14m ago•0 comments

Twenty Percent of all 'ok' web responses AI gets are not okay

https://www.unite.ai/20-percent-of-all-ok-web-responses-ai-gets-are-not-okay/
1•50kIters•14m ago•0 comments

Microsoft: FSR 4.1 Coming "Soon" to Xbox Game Developers for Series X, Series S

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/10/microsoft-fsr-4-1-coming-very-soon-to-xbox-game-devel...
1•x3qt•16m ago•0 comments

Score the code complexity of your repo. Is it an agentic potato?

https://agenticpotato.com
1•bzerkster•16m ago•1 comments

Rails 8.0.5.2 and 8.1.4.1 released addressing 21 security issues

https://rubyonrails.org/2026/11/4/Rails-8.0.5.2-and-8.1.4.1-have-been-released
2•sebakubisz•18m ago•0 comments

Star Wars space combat SIM that even runs on my rubbish laptop

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/fate-of-the-galaxy-is-a-huge-fully-featured-star-wars-space-comb...
1•Tomte•19m ago•0 comments

US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/04/2026/us-voters-roundly-reject-data-centers-in-ballot-measures
35•justonepost2•19m ago•6 comments
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Show HN: Swarm World – local LLM creatures living in a little tile world

https://swarm-world.4rc4de.com/public/app/
2•kalcode•37m ago
This is a hobby project: a small tile world where every creature is a local language model. A creature only knows what its body senses, written out as text ("You see: a boulder 4 steps northwest; a campfire (burning) 5 steps east ... Others: Loam 2 steps southeast, carrying a stone knife"). It acts by stating an intention, and the world decides whether that works. There are 34 verbs, things like gather, craft, give, teach, dig and climb.

I been watching these swarms happen and I wanted to see what swarms could do, and their emergent behaviors. I was interested in accomplishing tasks with them, I want to see if they can live!

The recent minecraft and mindustry had my brain thinking, if the world was made for AI agents first, maybe they'd be able to do better?

So this world was sorta made to be world-to-text and then text-to-world sorta. They see the whole world as a text adventure.

That ya'll would be entertained too. I can mix models as well, lets other PC register a brain and agents.

I will open source it, just need to make sure there fallbacks for my paid assets.

I'll also post more details by in the comments on the setup.

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kalcode•30m ago
Some more tech details:

24 creatures run on two machines in my house: 12 on gpt-oss-20b on a gaming PC, and 12 on a 1.7B model on my MacBook Pro that I distilled from gpt-oss. Last night it got a second round of training on gpt-oss's answers to its own mistakes, and it now picks the same action as gpt-oss on 40 of 100 held-out decisions (25 after the first round). Live, about 80% of its actions succeed, against about 90% for gpt-oss.

The page is a read-only snapshot every few seconds, cached at Cloudflare's edge, so watching doesn't load the Mac. This part was important to me, cache cache cache! So a live world cant be cached, so i deliver snapshots for public views so Cloudflare can help with traffic.

I've never got into fine-tuning a model, so I also got into LoRa training. Which is very very interesting to me, very new. Curious where little small fine-tuned models of a game or world or app can perform vs the bigger grain.