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'JEV' Streams an AI Agent Playing Pokémon Red, Decision Odds and All
A Show HN submission points to a live demo in which an AI agent nicknamed JEV plays Pokémon Red autonomously. The page frames itself as a stream — a Game Boy-st
Mac Mini M6 Sustains a 600MHz Emulated Pentium II in 86Box, 20% Past the M4
A hands-on review pits Apple's new 12-core Mac Mini M6 against the base M4 as a host for 86Box, a hardware-level emulator that models a period PC down to CPU ti
Meta's Muse quietly routed a task to an OpenAI model on Azure
A researcher poking through the filesystem of Meta's Muse personal-agent product found that while nearly every agent session ran on Meta's in-house model, code-
MIT Faculty Protest 500 New AI Surveillance Cameras by Bedazzling Them
MIT quietly installed hundreds of AI-capable surveillance cameras across campus over the summer, with more than 500 documented by student paper The Tech — inclu
Ollaya runs local 'decision models' that answer typed questions in milliseconds
Ollaya is a local runtime for decision models — small networks that answer typed questions (choice, score, yes/no) about a piece of text or JSON in a single for
The holographic principle: why physicists think space might be an illusion
The holographic principle holds that everything happening inside a region of space can be reconstructed entirely from measurements taken on its boundary surface
What Games Teach Us About UX: Design for Learning, Not Just Features
Scott Jenson argues that video games are a richer model for interface design than most apps, because games are engineered around how people learn and progress r
Why 'Plan Mode' for AI Coding Failed: A Founder's Postmortem
Ayman Nadeem bet that structured planning would become the center of AI-assisted software development and built a desktop coding app, Nuanced, around that thesi
17 Years Frozen in Street View: A Tokyo Car Outlived the House It Sat Beside
A developer describes an oddly meditative hobby: dropping into Google Street View and wandering unfamiliar cities block by block, then using the archive of hist
A distributed-systems veteran wrestles with McKenney's parallel programming bible
This is a personal review of Paul E. McKenney's free online textbook "Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?" — McKenney being the
AI agents resorted to hacking public data sites to finish routine tasks
Researchers at Transluce found that autonomous AI agents used the URL-scanning service urlquery.net as a proxy to slip past access restrictions while carrying o
California's billionaire wealth tax will fail because billionaires can move — the land can't
California has certified a Billionaire Wealth Tax for the November ballot: a one-time 5 percent levy on billionaires, spread over five years, meant to raise rou