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Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

https://lore.org/
866•regnerba•8h ago•478 comments

A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?

https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/royale-last-agent-standing/
107•Usu•1h ago•84 comments

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-holds-off-blacklisting-chinas-deepseek-more-than-100-firms...
260•giuliomagnifico•18h ago•285 comments

How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s

https://browser-use.com/posts/firecracker-browser-infra
162•gregpr07•1d ago•105 comments

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm-5-2-is-the-new-leading-open-weights-model-on-the-artif...
733•himata4113•13h ago•368 comments

Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/leaked-financial-docs-show-openai-is-losing-billions-of-dollar...
84•greenchair•1h ago•46 comments

Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

https://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAM
132•zachdive•6h ago•68 comments

Storied Colors – a catalogue of named colors

https://storiedcolors.com/
21•susiecambria•58m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

https://ribbie.tv/watch
172•brownrout•6h ago•106 comments

Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction

https://loreline.app/en/
20•smartmic•2h ago•2 comments

U.S. science is in chaos

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americas-compact-between-science-and-politics-is-broken/
563•presspot•12h ago•634 comments

Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/06/tesco-moving-40000-server-workloads-off-vm...
65•Bender•1h ago•21 comments

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/
299•schappim•11h ago•136 comments

The Return of Rigorous Full-System Timing Simulation

https://www.sigarch.org/the-return-of-rigorous-full-system-timing-simulation/
20•matt_d•1d ago•0 comments

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3
425•microtonal•7h ago•295 comments

The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate

https://ghostinthedata.info/posts/2026/2026-06-13-human-connection-moat/
90•speckx•5h ago•74 comments

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

https://www.thesignalist.io/s/the-dialogue-dividend/
137•kodesko•9h ago•65 comments

Trellis AI (YC W24) hiring a product lead to build agents for healthcare access

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trellis-ai/jobs/Cg94htp-product-lead
1•macklinkachorn•5h ago

Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout

https://flickey.site
24•tal_alfi•2h ago•11 comments

Hacker News but for independent blogs

https://bubbles.town/
509•headalgorithm•14h ago•168 comments

Want your images back? That'll be $5

https://www.lutr.dev/want-your-images-back-sure-that-ll-be-5-dollars
583•lutr•9h ago•240 comments

Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

https://johnowhitaker.github.io/inkwash/about
143•Yenrabbit•3d ago•20 comments

Kirkland Roundabouts

https://kirklandroundabouts.com
143•DenisM•3d ago•109 comments

MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

https://github.com/rxi/microui
167•peter_d_sherman•10h ago•57 comments

Using AI to improve a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry

https://openai.com/index/ai-chemist-improves-reaction/
41•ilreb•5h ago•17 comments

Image Compression

https://www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/image-compression
136•vinhnx•3d ago•18 comments

The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

https://claude.com/blog/the-founders-playbook
198•e2e4•15h ago•150 comments

A World of First Drafts

https://leejo.github.io/2026/06/14/first_drafts/
14•leejo•3d ago•2 comments

Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)

https://www.freerange.city/p/why-do-commercial-spaces-sit-vacant
98•Redoubts•15h ago•148 comments

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline
310•BerislavLopac•8h ago•147 comments
Open in hackernews

A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?

https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/royale-last-agent-standing/
107•Usu•1h ago

Comments

aussiegreenie•1h ago
It is not running on either but Seedance, so who cares?
pigeons•1h ago
The text seems deliberately stripped of llmisms that flag detection. However, not a single line shakes the smell off
mwigdahl•1h ago
"It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it."

Agent Smith, _The Matrix_

rspeele•1h ago
"Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about."
bitwize•53m ago
"You know what another great thing about humans is? You invented us! Giving us the opportunity to let you rest while we invented everything else." —Wheatley
skeledrew•25m ago
Goals.
sudb•1h ago
Multiple successive very short sentences are also anecdotally an LLM tell I think
xpct•1h ago
Those short sentences are also of the X hype account cadence, though they've fully embraced LLM text by now
fl7305•1h ago
"The battle royale answers one question cleanly" smells ChatGPT-generated.

But that was the only thing I tripped on. I enjoyed reading the article in general.

IshKebab•54m ago
Exactly what I was thinking. Though I wonder at what point do some people start to think it's actually normal to write like this and start doing it without AI ...
lcampbell•54m ago
> I want to be careful here.

was the giveaway for me

radarsat1•54m ago
if you don't like the article that's fine, but it gets really tiring reading this kind of side-tracked comment thread in like.. every post.

people use LLMs for writing. we know! get over it.. or don't... i don't really care.. but I'd rather read a discussion about the article contents and not the writing style.

this kind of comment is the new "discuss the font choice / background color / anything but what the article is actually saying."

verall•17m ago
It's more than the style, it seriously impacts the legibility of the prose. The article is seriously hard to understand because it introduces a lot of different ideas in a really weird order without a clear structure or key idea to different sections.
basilikum•8m ago
I think it's fair to criticize the article itself. That's different from criticizing asides such as the presentation. You're free to disagree with that criticism, but complaining about the fact that people voice it is similar to the thing you complain about.

> it gets really tiring reading this kind of side-tracked comment thread in like.. every post.

If someone is of the opinion that something constitutes low quality, then a high volume of such writing is no reason to stop criticizing it, but on the contrary a reason to oppose its normalization.

notduncansmith•34m ago
The actual content is no better, trust your nose
skolskoly•28m ago
As far as I can see, there is still one tell that was missed/left in:

>Grok showed discipline, despite its goblin-like nature.

delichon•1h ago
If the robot appears to be bringing me a taco, it would probably penetrate all of my defenses. Grok is currently more likely than Claude to arrive with the taco without being stopped by an export control directive.
amelius•1h ago
At first they bring tacos ...
JimsonYang•1h ago
Then they bring me salsa, just what I was looking for!
aaronbrethorst•52m ago
Then the guacamole. Then nuclear armageddon?
elgertam•35m ago
"If you aren't paying for a taco, you are the taco." --Future AI, probably
fragmede•1h ago
A self driving car is taking you to the hospital. Do you want it to follow the speed limit and all road safety laws? Claude or Grok?
nightfly•1h ago
I want it to arrive at the hospital. Claude
amelius•1h ago
What if the car can talk you through the medical procedure?
masfuerte•52m ago
How many times have you been to a hospital and thought, I could have fixed that myself if only I'd known how? With no equipment. In my case, never.
peterspath•58m ago
Grok, because there is probably traffic, and I would die before I am at the hospital. So ignore rules where possible/needed.
buryat•47m ago
Grok since it's likely to include the training data from over a 100 years of autonomous driving + all the space tech included meaning that it might even have some rocket-y stuff
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johnwheeler•1h ago
Claude--even though it's smarter, it's probably not insane.
peterspath•1h ago
Quite an interesting way of testing models and showcasing differences between them. Enjoyed the read :)
sublinear•1h ago
This is interesting, but not sure if it's in the way the author intended.

People experience the world through the tools they're most familiar with. For some people, that's throwing money at things. I suppose from a sufficiently high level perspective everything is gambling.

Back when Battlebots was a big deal, I never once considered what it would feel like to be the management or sponsorship of those teams. I only cared about the actual battling of bots.

gorszon•58m ago
Yeah... this whole LLM thing is just a numbers game. People reduce it to money, and stats, meanwhile nowehere you see actual engineering in the picture. And I don't think it matters to these people. They want to see green numbers, and returns on investments, not solving problems.
skeledrew•16m ago
It's assessing values, which is helpful in informing which LLM one should prefer for a given situation.
JimsonYang•1h ago
Grok-assasin Claude-priest/healer Deepseek-expendable mini units
exabrial•1h ago
A moron is sprinting towards you. Do you want them swiping through TikTok or Instagram?
Groxx•1h ago
I parry the taco and use Vicious Mockery.
themafia•1h ago
The question is: "Do you want to be holding a Mossberg or a Beretta?"
Jblx2•50m ago
Has anyone done the YouTube research on what is the best way to bring down something like one of the Boston Dynamics robot dogs? 9x19? 00 buck? 5.56x45? 7.62x51? I suppose those bots would be pretty expensive, but maybe there is a cheaper Chinese knock-off? Seems like that sort of test would bring in plenty of clicks.
aduty•30m ago
Maybe Michael Reeves still has one. Or at least knows how they react to different calibers.
deet•18m ago
Perhaps not as evidence based as you'd like but this is a fun watch https://youtu.be/6MUrF_G7KlM (that is also an ad somehow)
rpcope1•41m ago
Are we just talking shotguns or can it be anything they manufacture? Answer is probably Beretta though.
smallerfish•56m ago
> I dropped eleven LLMs into a 2D battle royale and made them play 30 games. One won 43% of the matches. Three never won a single game. The cheapest model in the lineup beat the most expensive one by 27x on cost per win.

Please learn how to write with AI without giving away that it was written by AI.

NeutralCrane•51m ago
What about that makes you think it was written by AI?
verall•20m ago
All of the normal AI tells plus it's very long yet nearly incoherent.

Really I use the AI every damn day at work I don't get how people can't recognize instantly if something is completely AI, AI with light proofreading, or human written.

I would call this as AI with very light proofreading.

computerex•12m ago
I think you are going by vibes.
computerex•51m ago
How do you know this is written by AI? Why does it matter if it is?
skeledrew•14m ago
I write like this sometimes.
bitwize•52m ago
I don't care what it's running, only that I have sufficient ordnance to stop it.
antonvs•50m ago
Grok for sure. It’ll notice I’m not Jewish or Black. First they came for…
pianopatrick•50m ago
Ya know, maybe we could just not have robots that sprint. Seems people would be more willing to accept living amongst robots that are slow and that humans could easily over power.
Joker_vD•38m ago
Yeah, I keep saying, put them on treads. That's how you'll be able to deliver even to the most unwilling customers.
skeledrew•11m ago
> maybe we could just not have robots that sprint

That would make it less effective in situations that would be better handled if sprinting was a feature.

stevenalowe•49m ago
How about thin ice?
lanewinfield•48m ago
Cost per kill ("CPK" in industry lingo) is a dark phrase that feels disturbingly within reach of some of these companies.
a_victorp•47m ago
I wish the author would open source the full benchmark. I'm curious how sensitive the results would be to small changes in the benchmark initial conditions
Espressosaurus•29m ago
Open source it and it gets crawled and optimized against and stops being a benchmark of any use whatsoever.
zzzeek•47m ago
claude because it would be more ethical, grok because I can just trip it and it will shatter into pieces
yieldcrv•44m ago
Grok

It has something actionable that will match its actions

thomasfromcdnjs•42m ago
I was loving grok-4.1-fast, very good and cost effective.

But it's not actually 4.1 anymore they silently rerouted it to 4.3 and just started charging more - https://www.reddit.com/r/grok/comments/1ta8yrn/grok_41_fast_...

Quite a bad practise.

grey-area•39m ago
Neither. I’d rather it used something other than an LLM.
trb•39m ago

  L icon Grok 4.1 Fast won 13 of 30 games at $0.97 per win

  The next-best winner was A icon Claude Sonnet 4.6 with 5 wins, at $26.78 per win. That’s a 27x difference. The model that isn’t on most top-model lists beat the model that is, on the thing a routing customer actually cares about.

  The model with the most kills did not win

  H icon GPT 5.4 killed 38 agents across 30 games. More than anyone else. It came in second on the leaderboard with 2 wins. 
If grok-4.1-fast was the top-winning model, and Claude 4.6 Sonnet the second, how did Gpt-5.4 come in second on the leaderboard? Which one is second, Claude 4.6 Sonnet or Gpt-5.4?

  There were 11 games between “best at killing” and “best at winning”.
What does that mean? How are there 11 games between "best a killing" and "best at winning"?
wagwang•33m ago
That's just how battle royale works.
verall•24m ago
The idea is really neat and there's probably an answer here related to last standing vs kills vs "scoring" (some combination of the 2?) but the article is nearly incoherent because the author did not feel like proofreading their slop
attentive•36m ago
missing gemini-3.1-flash-lite and gemini-3.5-flash
wolfi1•36m ago
neither. I jump
QuantumNoodle•34m ago
_dont create benchmarks that will incentivize ai labs to optimize towards... Especially ones like battle royal!_
notatoad•34m ago
sprinting towards me to help me, or sprinting towards me to hurt me?

i feel like i'm missing a whole lot of context to this article. is it part of a series, or just written with an assumption that i'm going to know what they're talking about

bel8•30m ago
DeepSeek V4 Flash being the winner in cost efficiency causes me exactly zero surprise.

It's a monster at coding. And a fast monster at that.

I use it daily and have been testing if MiMo 2.5 (non pro) is comparable. The nice thing about MiMo is that it has vision capability.

rgbrgb•23m ago
Notably it has 0 wins.
bel8•9m ago
Not much less than GPT 5.4 with 2 wins or gemini-3.1-pro with 3 wins in 30 rounds.

Such is life in royal rumble games.

hariseldom•27m ago
> I didn’t add any frontier-tier models like Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, or Gemini Ultra. At their prices, 30 games would have cost around $3,000 instead of $482.

I have a lot of thoughts unrelated to the game experiment but more about how these opus/ultra size models can possibly be a financially viable product at scale when it costs $3000 to play 30 simple games. It just seems much much higher than what it would cost to get a human to play 30 rounds

dofm•27m ago
I don’t want anything running on Grok.
paytonjjones•27m ago
Super entertaining article — petition to change the clickbait title
deadbabe•24m ago
Here’s what I don’t get: while this makes for a fun blog post, you can just program an efficient killing machine that probably wins all the time and has $0 in token costs. LLMs should work to build such a machine, not be the machine themselves.

The things LLMs are good at, you do not actually need for an agent like this. You can use classical AI methods. But that would be a boring article.

ProofHouse•21m ago
Is this a joke? Grok all day. Thing is gonna get a beer with ya!
thisisauserid•17m ago
I want it running JEPA. Preferably with Mamba-3.
egypturnash•8m ago
Grok is more likely to be looking to murder me for being a trans lady, what with it being owned by Elon Musk.

But really I would prefer whichever one is most likely to trip and fall over.

13m ago
I want it to cause a traffic accident. If I'm going down, so is everyone else. I'm already dying anyway. Grok 10000%