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Show HN: Cerno – CAPTCHA that targets LLM reasoning, not human biology 8 by plawlost | 16 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: PhAIL – Real-robot benchmark for AI models 11 by vertix | 8 comments I built this because I couldn't find honest numbers on how well VLA models [1] actually work on commercial tasks. I come from search ranking at Google where you measure everything, and in robotics nobody seemed to know. PhAIL runs four models (OpenPI/pi0.5, GR00T, ACT, SmolVLA) on bin-to-bin order picking – one of the most common warehouse operations. Same robot (Franka FR3), same objects, hundreds of blind runs. The operator doesn't know which model is running. Best model: 64 UPH. Human teleoperating the same robot: 330. Human by hand: 1,300+. Everything is public – every run with synced video and telemetry, the fine-tuning dataset, training scripts. The leaderboard is open for submissions. Happy to answer questions about methodology, the models, or what we observed. [1] Vision-Language-Action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision-language-action_model on Hacker News. I built this because I couldn...

Do your own writing 84 by karimf | 16 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I made a "programming language" looking for feedback 7 by alonsovm | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Typing and Keyboards 19 by jpmitchell | 19 comments on Hacker News.

OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 4 by caminanteblanco | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Improving personal tax filing with Claude CLI and Obsidian 8 by iamspoilt | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Browser-based SFX synthesizer using WASM/Zig 10 by galsjel | 1 comments on Hacker News.

John Bradley, author of xv, has passed away 96 by linsomniac | 37 comments on Hacker News.

The Oxford Comma – Why and Why Not 6 by taubek | 6 comments on Hacker News.

ARC-AGI-3 85 by lairv | 56 comments on Hacker News.

Ball Pit 11 by memalign | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Welcome to FastMCP 12 by Anon84 | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls 29 by doughnutstracks | 77 comments https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/todays-layoffs on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/XA1sgC4

Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application 8 by luu | 0 comments on Hacker News.

AI Risks "Hypernormal" Science 3 by mailyk | 0 comments on Hacker News.

GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating system 52 by CrypticShift | 16 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Termcraft – terminal-first 2D sandbox survival in Rust 12 by sebosch | 0 comments I’ve been building termcraft, a terminal-first 2D sandbox survival game in Rust. The idea is to take the classic early survival progression and adapt it to a side-on terminal format instead of a tile or pixel-art engine. Current build includes: - procedural Overworld, Nether, and End generation - mining, placement, crafting, furnaces, brewing, and boats - hostile and passive mobs - villages, dungeons, strongholds, Nether fortresses, and dragon progression This is still early alpha, but it’s already playable. Project: https://github.com/pagel-s/termcraft Docs: https://pagel-s.github.io/termcraft/ Demo: https://youtu.be/kR986Xqzj7E on Hacker News. I’ve been building termcraft, a terminal-first 2D sandbox survival game in Rust. The idea is to take the classic early survival progression and adapt it to a side-on terminal format instead of a tile or pixel-art engine. Current build includes: - proce...

Former FBI Director Robert Mueller Has Died 31 by WarOnPrivacy | 12 comments on Hacker News.

Meme Buildings 3 by speckx | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Switch Your Phone to an MVNO 6 by surprisetalk | 1 comments on Hacker News.

From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story 26 by ofrzeta | 2 comments on Hacker News.

NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute 16 by sdpmas | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste 24 by visiwig | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Wanter – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web 34 by susam | 23 comments on Hacker News.

Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox 14 by syrusakbary | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Mistral Releases Leanstral 8 by Poudlardo | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games 29 by htdt | 10 comments I’ve been working on this for about a year through four major rewrites. Godogen is a pipeline that takes a text prompt, designs the architecture, generates 2D/3D assets, writes the GDScript, and tests it visually. The output is a complete, playable Godot 4 project. Getting LLMs to reliably generate functional games required solving three specific engineering bottlenecks: 1. The Training Data Scarcity: LLMs barely know GDScript. It has ~850 classes and a Python-like syntax that will happily let a model hallucinate Python idioms that fail to compile. To fix this, I built a custom reference system: a hand-written language spec, full API docs converted from Godot's XML source, and a quirks database for engine behaviors you can't learn from docs alone. Because 850 classes blow up the context window, the agent lazy-loads only the specific APIs it needs at runtime. 2. The Build-Time vs. Runtime State...

Agent Skills – Open Security Database 11 by 4ppsec | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV 37 by Amorymeltzer | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Autoresearch Hub 6 by EvgeniyZh | 2 comments on Hacker News.

In Praise of Stupid Questions 6 by ibobev | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it 46 by angst | 6 comments on Hacker News.

'AI is African intelligence': The workers who train AI are fighting back 25 by beepbooptheory | 5 comments https://archive.ph/yS8xb on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/9rIB4uD

The Darkness from the Darkness 5 by lermontov | 0 comments on Hacker News.

I Was Interviewed by an AI Bot for a Job 6 by speckx | 5 comments on Hacker News.

FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers 14 by steelbrain | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Rethinking Syntax: Binding by Adjacency 17 by owlstuffing | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How to be alone? 52 by sillysaurusx | 79 comments For the first time in my life, at 38, I'm alone. When I was 18 I basically moved out of my parents' straight in with my highschool sweetheart, and we were together ever since. That chapter of my life is over now, and I'm finding the adjustment very difficult. There are a few parts to the difficulty. One is that when I have something to say about my day, there's nowhere to say it; no one on HN cares whether I fixed up the blinds or cooked pork steaks. I hang out in an IRC chatroom for that, but sometimes nobody's around for hours. Another is that weekends are hard. I used to be in a house filled with life each weekend, and now it's me and my dog (and my cat, when he decides to grace me with his presence). Having animals helps somewhat, but it's still hard simply being alone with myself for ~60 hours. I'm also finding it difficult to think of things to do. My default action is to play games, but it...

CasNum 44 by aebtebeten | 8 comments on Hacker News.

War Prediction Markets Are a National-Security Threat 22 by fortran77 | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick 4 by theblazehen | 0 comments on Hacker News.

70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023) 43 by eatonphil | 19 comments on Hacker News.

A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs 16 by mvdwoord | 6 comments on Hacker News.

AI and the Ship of Theseus 27 by pixelmonkey | 7 comments on Hacker News.

US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says 57 by tartoran | 25 comments on Hacker News.

New York could prohibit chatbot medical, legal, engineering advice 47 by bluepeter | 49 comments on Hacker News.

Why payment fees matter more than you think 18 by dxs | 5 comments on Hacker News.

19th century silent film that first captured a robot attack 8 by ynac | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Why does C have the best file API 10 by maurycyz | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Microgpt explained interactively 30 by growingswe | 1 comments on Hacker News.

A new account made over $515,000 betting on the U.S. strike against Iran 12 by doener | 6 comments on Hacker News.