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AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-swarms-unleashed-in-minecraft-to-build-a-thriving-civilization-50-agent-teams-fail-after-falling-into-paralyzing-bureaucracy
22•entryleveljobsc•58m ago

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GuestFAUniverse•33m ago
Germany 2027 and onwards.
radial_symmetry•22m ago
HAHA this is the only comment right now and exactly what I came in here to say
ddtaylor•10m ago
Direct article: https://labs.ycombinator.com/projects/games/index.html
bhouston•4m ago
I think that is a common failure case. It isn't that different that agents getting stuck in other types of loops, distractions. There is this great short novel about it by Adrian Tchaikovsky, "Service Model":

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

bad_haircut72•4m ago
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Norway makes shithouses great again

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515•giuliomagnifico•3h ago•281 comments

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
1606•karpathy•18h ago•426 comments

Proving and Improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.39302
25•Anon84•1h ago•4 comments

Novellas with Groff

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-31/0/POSTING-en.html
12•dverlaeckt80•53m ago•1 comments

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothi...
573•ecares•16h ago•171 comments

Radiation Map of the World

https://radiaverse.com/
32•slater•3d ago•12 comments

One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-026-02144-0
19•croes•1d ago•4 comments

Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing

https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/
198•doodlesdev•12h ago•98 comments

Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard

https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve
324•guregodevo•15h ago•157 comments

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

https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf
578•oger•19h ago•276 comments

Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

https://xn--69f31l4t57c0mag4b613h.xn--7uh4898msjaso/🆆🆃🅵/
31•n_plus_1_acc•4h ago•24 comments

Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2

https://kevs3d.co.uk/phoria2/
6•kevs3d•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

https://outcrop.rocks/
52•headsupernova•2d ago•8 comments

AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-swarms-unleashed-in-m...
22•entryleveljobsc•58m ago•5 comments

Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother

https://blog.zamzar.com/2026/10/30/20-years-766-million-files-two-chameleons/
163•whyleyc•2d ago•40 comments

The Ocean 'Was the Color of Chocolate.' Mexico Declares War on Seaweed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/world/americas/mexico-seaweed-navy.html
28•bookofjoe•1d ago•22 comments

Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02292
125•hapax_legomena•12h ago•66 comments

Understanding Email Encryption

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-encryption/
58•nmjenkins•1d ago•12 comments

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/
167•luu•8h ago•112 comments

No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQRmSlcTq9c
96•surprisetalk•2d ago•79 comments

The "Moon Trees"

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/moon_tree.html
12•momentmaker•1h ago•0 comments

Altoids Project

https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/
130•uvdn7•15h ago•7 comments

Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half

https://fullycharged.show/podcasts/podcast-361-why-electrification-could-cut-global-energy-use-in...
163•toomuchtodo•19h ago•107 comments

Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020

https://maketecheasier.com/arecibo-zinc-creep-collapse/
137•ohjeez•1d ago•43 comments

A brief history of just-in-time: forty years of JIT work, from 1960–2000

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/857076.857077
53•gjvc•3d ago•1 comments

A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-1580-map-shows-why-data-visualization-is-never-neutral/
65•the-mitr•1d ago•7 comments

It's the memory latency, stupid

https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/
226•ntur1337•20h ago•73 comments

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1xl2pr3/lenovos_encrypted_fingerprint_usb_drive_is_j...
3•entryleveljobsc•10m ago•0 comments

Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4

https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4
294•aphyr•1d ago•166 comments

Pilot-wave hydrodynamics (Quantum phenomena in macroscopic hydrodynamic systems)

http://thales.mit.edu/bush/index.php/4801-2/
67•peter_d_sherman•1d ago•14 comments