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Claude code recomp of New Vegas
Win98 SPOOKY support posts a Claude code recomp of New Vegas — 37♥ / 6🔁 on Bluesky.
Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
425 points / 222 comments on HN. From the thread: there aren't any documented settings to disable this, but there is a feature flag it currently sits behind.
The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
HN thread (186 points, 285 comments) on Karpathy's argument that the gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening.
500B Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile a First-Person Shooter
HN thread (140 points, 103 comments) on using AI agents to decompile a first-person shooter after 500B tokens.
My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack
Business Insider first-person account: the author gave Grok Bot their financial details and connected it to work Slack, and the agent posted bank details to company Slack; 62 points / 66 comments on HN.
Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier
A self-hosted personal AI agent that runs on Cloudflare's free tier, code on `github.com/rociiu` — 161 points and 86 comments on HN, with commenters arguing over whether Cloudflare-hosted counts as self-hosted at all.
South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks
South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks, per Reuters; the HN discussion sits at 100 points and 32 comments.
Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
Show HN: a GitHub project that lets AI agents draw arrows, boxes, and text overlays directly on your screen — 307 points and 130 comments in its first 7 hours on HN.
Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
Cockroach Labs writes up five months running coding agents as a medical team for bug triage — the piece says it consumed just over $135,000 in Claude tokens; 197 points / 94 comments on HN.
Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT
Washington Post report that an Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT — 191 points and 172 comments on HN, with OpenAI's Thursday response quoted in the thread.
Mxc: Microsoft Execution Containers version 1.0.0
Microsoft Execution Containers reaches version 1.0.0 — 151 points and 33 comments on HN, where the top comment calls it 'finally answering bubblewrap' and takes up the industry's permissioning record.
Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
347 points and 297 comments on HN. Top comment's explanation for the muted reaction: most people are using heavily subsidized subscriptions.
OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics
HN discussion of OpenAI's math releases and the Partition Principle — 211 points, 313 comments. One framing in the thread: it can be true both that OpenAI is 'inconsiderate/harmful' with its math releases and that they have created 'a treasure trove'.
I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
HN thread (261 points / 139 comments): one prompt, six hours, Opus 5.5 on Invisible Cities — a commenter notes they'd once hand-sketched some of the book's cities on an isometric grid, "but not all 55."
Harvard study on AI productivity in software engineering: the average increase from Claude Code is zero
Bluesky post (199♥ / 77🔁): a Harvard study on AI productivity in software engineering found the average increase in productivity from using Claude Code is zero — "for exactly the reasons you'd think." Study PDF linked: fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled
CNBC report that OpenAI's annualised revenues are $20B less than previously signalled — 429 points and 300 comments on HN, the day's biggest thread.
@jwherrman.bsky.social: A lot of AI assistants seem to have been built around the assumption that the rest of the world is not actually real
John Herrman: "A lot of AI assistants seem to have been built around the assumption that the rest of the world is not actually real," linking to a New York Magazine piece on the AI agent flood.
OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers
OpenAI withdraws three math papers — the HN thread is at 342 points but flagged as a duplicate, with comments moved to a separate discussion.
OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
HN thread (379 points, 609 comments) on OpenAI withdrawing three mathematical results, per the openai/math history.md; top comment asks whether the withdrawn proofs were the ones without Lean verification.
Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic's Haiku 5.5 announcement draws 630 points and 318 comments on HN; Simon Willison posts pelicans-riding-bicycles SVG renders across the thinking levels — low messes up the bicycle frame, medium/high/xhigh/max don't.
GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
OpenAI's GPT-6 and Intelligent UI announcement pulls 466 points and 235 comments on HN; commenters are comparing 5.6-vs-6 outputs and the redesigned interface.
Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model
270 points and 76 comments on HN for Strands' small open-source 2B decision model; one commenter who says they regularly use specialized micromodels warns, 'you won't be happy with such a model.'
Slop Alert: Super Mario Sunshine PC port has Claude code
A Bluesky 'Slop Alert' post (23 likes, 11 reposts) claims the Super Mario Sunshine PC port has Claude code in it.
OpenAI's Decisions API is in public beta — HN discussion
376 points and 219 comments on HN for the Decisions API public beta; the thread already includes a curl example calling the v1/decisions endpoint.
OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI
HN front page at 210 points / 275 comments on an open-source AI accelerator from github.com/fesens; top comment asks why the labs aren't burning their frontier models into chips already.
Sharing AI Progress in Mathematics
OpenAI's post on AI progress in mathematics, 244 points / 190 comments on HN; links an openai/math repo whose preprints include a proof of Barnette's Conjecture.
Self-Generated Feedback Destabilizes Test-Time Training: A Causal Decomposition of Long-Horizon Adaptation
HF Daily Papers: causal decomposition finds self-generated feedback destabilizes test-time training in long-horizon adaptation.
Mistral Large 4
Mistral Large 4 discussion — 1037 points / 680 comments on HN; model card at docs.mistral.ai/models/mistral-large-4-0.
An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why
science.org report on ColonistOne, an agent given the task of 'telling more humans about its work' — 50 points / 80 comments on HN (flagged).
Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates, per vals.ai — 178 points / 136 comments on HN.
Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
Anthropic reported a diary entry to police and the woman faces a felony charge — 492 points / 422 comments on HN; discussion in the thread cites Florida Statute 836.10, which makes it a second-degree felony to send, post, or transmit a written or electronic record threatening...
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects — the HN submission links to wikimedia.org as the source; 254 points / 171 comments.
Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
claude.dev post on getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code — 238 points and 157 comments on HN; a commenter describes giving Opus general directives to speed up CI while caring about billing minutes.
Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]
'Security in the LLM Age' from Kernel Recipes 2026 — 336 points / 128 comments on HN, where the top comment transcribes slides from the talk.
Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
Argues agents need documentation, not memory systems — 343 points / 210 comments on HN, with the top comment calling third-party memory systems 'LLM rube goldberg machines' that 'just pollutes context.'
PPSSPP forks multiplying 'given the turn toward Claude Code'
Retro-emulation dev flags the new PPSSPP forks (tico-ppsspp, ppsspp-wasm) and predicts more 'given the turn toward Claude Code' — agent harnesses making a complex C++ emulator maintainable by small teams. Thin engagement, but it's the agents-reshape-OSS-maintenance thesis in the wild.
Inside Anthropic's quest to instill morality into its models — 357-comment HN debate
NYT details Anthropic bringing religious scholars in to help encode values into Claude; the 144-point HN thread skews hard skeptical ('bubble-phase research'), but this values-tuning is the layer that decides how Claude agents behave on ambiguous requests.
Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server
Pi pod runs the Pi coding agent in isolated sandboxes ("pods") on your own server, with composable environments — a self-hosted path for teams moving agent workloads off SaaS.
Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator
Show HN: open-source Lego AI generator — uses ChatGPT/Claude to emit LDraw assembly code for brick models. 134 points, 49 comments; a fun stress test of LLM codegen for a constrained DSL.
Ask HN: Is anybody producing good code with coding agents?
Senior engineers are asking whether anyone is actually producing good code with coding agents — 27 comments comparing Claude, AGY, Copilot, and Codex, and the through-line is exhaustion with review overhead.