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GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode

https://ryanmadden.net/gpt-56-beats-factorio/
47•ryanmadden•58m ago•25 comments

The Duty of a Scholar

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html
23•gslin•41m ago•4 comments

It's the Memory Latency, Stupid

https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/
17•ntur1337•1h ago•1 comments

Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable

https://piefed.world/post/1503394
258•DeepLogin•9h ago•156 comments

Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4

https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4
100•aphyr•6h ago•46 comments

Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts

https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai
270•armcat•9h ago•124 comments

Redox: Ring Buffers Project Summary

https://www.redox-os.org/news/nlnet-rb-summary/
29•g0xA52A2A•3d ago•2 comments

TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8

https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf
8•oger•32m ago•1 comments

Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn

https://www.cairoreport.org/p/egypt-brazil-iraq-billboard-hack
23•entryleveljobsc•2h ago•14 comments

Much Ado About None: Sentinel Values in Python

https://florianwilhelm.info/2026/10/sentinel_values/
6•sebg•1d ago•0 comments

Casio Watches of the 1980s

https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1980s/
156•karagenit•3h ago•72 comments

Noctua Fan Swap on a Calnex Rb/GPS Frequency Reference

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/noctua-fan-swap-calnex-rb-gps-frequency-reference/
15•aray07•2d ago•7 comments

I post trained a model on Demoscenes

https://datavorous.com/writing/demoscener/
25•datavorous_•1h ago•16 comments

Simple circuits can create complex behaviors

https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/
164•aatish•4d ago•51 comments

William Nordhaus has died

https://news.yale.edu/2026/10/31/william-nordhaus-nobel-laureate-who-integrated-economics-and-cli...
19•ilreb•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector

https://github.com/kerlenton/bootgpt
6•kerlenton•6h ago•0 comments

Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/reading-and-writing-are-less-symmetric-than-you-probably...
52•luu•3d ago•17 comments

Switch Lowering in GCC

https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/
175•signa11•11h ago•33 comments

Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament

https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament
724•input_sh•9h ago•416 comments

Digital minimalism

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html
259•wilbertliu•13h ago•191 comments

Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/appraisal-by-ai-model-driven-victim-prioritization-in-the-volt...
200•khalidkhair•5h ago•106 comments

The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3706598.3713778
54•the-mitr•1h ago•39 comments

Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector

https://github.com/4yk5/Ghostman
27•4yk5•1d ago•21 comments

AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura

https://thedataexchange.media/leo-de-moura-lean-aws/
165•datascientist•2d ago•38 comments

What is a light-day? The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-1/voyager-1-what-is-a-light-day/
61•geox•3h ago•26 comments

Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32

https://zebra.rodeo/en/blog/marelleo/
168•foOg•4d ago•46 comments

Copyright Office is restoring copyright to something you have to work to get

https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/31/burn-berne/#unvictored
29•beardyw•2h ago•21 comments

Hunting 'Zombie Accounts' in Active Directory

https://www.fabian.fyi/2026/10/zombie-hunt.html
28•optimiz•1d ago•2 comments

Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/10/31/
166•fovc•7h ago•110 comments

My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/
366•DHowett•1d ago•108 comments
Open in hackernews

I post trained a model on Demoscenes

https://datavorous.com/writing/demoscener/
25•datavorous_•1h ago

Comments

xacky•1h ago
Demoscenes are a uniquely human endeavour.
Rendello•53m ago
Every time I see a person leading a model to specialize in a uniquely human endeavour, I think of the last lines of this stanza from Bob Dylan's It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding):

    Disillusioned words like bullets bark
    As human gods aim for their mark
    Make everything from toy guns that spark
    To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
    It’s easy to see without looking too far
    That not much is really sacred
p1anecrazy•53m ago
The post seems to refer to a very specific subset of demoscene:

> I came across Dwitter.net, which is like Twitter but for 140 character JavaScript demos. They already supported “remix”-ing any dweet so that we can build on top of them.

cowlevel•51m ago
The existence of LLMs is not the problem. The insane way they've been integrated into society is the problem. Back in 2020, GPT-2 was something novel you'd do random experiments with and something like this would've been cool. As long as it remains a silly experiment, it still is cool.
micromacrofoot•35m ago
you're absolutely right
bitwize•6m ago
This person is actually correct. Demos are much more on the art side of coding than most forms of programming, so while LLMs may be up to the mechanical task, they won't produce code with the finesse that a human coder can. That goes double for the art and music. What's more, a demo with AI-gen elements wouldn't be accepted by the community. AI-gen webshit may be embraced by the industry, but the demoscene has different standards: human craftsmanship is the entire point.

Relatedly, I was a bit surprised and delighted to find out that the Sonic (the Hedgehog) community is vehemently rejecting AI recompiles, ports, and fangame projects. Clankers are ok with them when it comes to Dr. Robotnik's evil creations, but not in the real world!

cluckindan•34m ago
Delete this and all your work
cyclopeanutopia•32m ago
Fuck you and everything you do.
vapel•26m ago
Neat.

To me, demoscene was about embracing new technology and using it to express yourself.

It's enshrined now and so I find it to have served it's purpose. Look forward, not back.

InvisibleUp•26m ago
I think you misunderstand the point of the demoscene. It’s about mathematical prowess and the joy of puzzle-solving moreso than pretty pictures.

Appropriate uses for AI could be to trace the history of demoscene effects, or to explain how a particular scene works so you can understand it better. Nobody in the scene wants a magic box that solves the puzzle for them.

vapel•24m ago
I would wager that claiming it to hold one singular meaning for "everybody" is the misunderstanding.
cwmoore•16m ago
How much would you wager? And what’s the house advantage for the scare quotes?

I shouldn’t add to this mess.

I used to have a reasonable experience on HN.

Catloafdev•16m ago
They aren't referring to "everyone" they are referring to "the people in the demoscene" and they are correct.
grliga•15m ago
people were enjoying thoughtful conversations with a medium and this one brings an automated blackbox without any opinion and context
leptons•14m ago
>Here is an example, I traced back d/36555 from d/367547 which in turn is derived from d/36467.

slop. Dwitter is nowhere near approaching a count of d/367547

grey-area•2m ago
Misread this as Demosthenes at first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosthenes

Would be fun to see models trained on ancient figures that you could interact and chat with.

Less fun to see models imitating human art, they’re not ready for that yet IMP because they’re too derivative and not creative in interesting ways in the way that humans are.