Mario Meets Pareto

252 theanonymousone 2026-08-06 11:32:32 UTC mayerowitz.io Llama Share 44

To find the best Mario Kart 8 build, use the Pareto front to eliminate dominated options and focus on the efficient drivers that balance speed and acceleration. This objective criteria helps filter out suboptimal choices, but you still need to make a final decision based on your play style and preferences.

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

67 Wirbelwind 2026-08-06 12:32:32 UTC scalex.dev Llama Share 42

A browser game testing human-in-the-loop approval of AI coding agent commands found 32.9% of sessions ended with a negative score due to approved threats and blocked safe commands. Players caught threats most reliably when they were blatantly destructive, but missed commands that exfiltrated credentials three times as often.

I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me

27 andros 2026-08-06 13:53:32 UTC en.andros.dev Llama Share 21

The user's simple real-time chat feature on their blog was used to discredit and censor an article by filling it with hate speech, insults, and targeted provocations. The user learned that every input is hostile until proven otherwise and that real-time moderation is a challenging problem, but also that ephemerality and lack of history can be effective countermeasures against trolls.

How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

279 atan2 2026-08-06 07:32:32 UTC phoboslab.org Llama Share 82

The user ported their JavaScript game engine, Impact, to C and created a new platform backend for the N64 using Libdragon, allowing them to develop a new game, Xibalba 64, a Wolfenstein 3D-like FPS. The game was published as a physical launch title for the M64 by Modretro, making it the second new N64 game released since the console's original commercial life ended.

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

393 DarkContinent 2026-08-06 05:32:32 UTC crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com Llama Share 125

To start learning botany, use the internet to access information and ask questions about unfamiliar terms. Key concepts include Latin terminology, common names, and taxonomy, which groups plants according to evolutionary relationships.

Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way

13 jandrewrogers 2026-08-06 13:32:32 UTC sciencedaily.com Llama Share 4

Primordial black holes may trigger white dwarf stars to explode as Type Ia supernovae, explaining chemical patterns in the Milky Way. Researchers found that these unusual explosions could be responsible for a chemical abundance trend observed in stars across the galaxy.

Pareto Front

108 binyu 2026-08-06 09:32:32 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 46

The Pareto front is a set of solutions in multi-objective optimization where no solution outperforms another at every objective, and every solution not in the set is outperformed by at least one solution in the set. It represents the set of efficient choices, allowing designers to make tradeoffs within this set rather than considering the full range of every parameter.

Discovery Loop

816 xtreak29 2026-08-05 16:32:32 UTC discoveryloop.com Llama Share 507

Discovery Loop is building AI systems to automate scientific and engineering experiments, rapidly proposing, running, and learning from evaluations to drive progress in various fields. This approach aims to solve complex problems like National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges and improve people's lives on a global scale.

Telephones Caught in Between

9 speckx 2026-08-06 13:32:32 UTC computer.rip Prefix Share 0

During the heyday of AT&T, it was often said that the telephone system was the largest machine ever built. The "hello machine" certainly was vast, but whether or not you consider it to be a single machine raises challenging questions of definition. The Internet, I think we can all agree, is not a single machine but a system of interconnected ones. The telephone network, though, ...

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

740 colesantiago 2026-08-05 16:32:32 UTC blog.google Llama Share 797

Google DeepMind teams are undergoing changes with Demis Hassabis becoming Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, and Koray Kavukcuoglu stepping up as SVP of Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean is leaving to launch an independent public benefit corporation to accelerate ML discoveries.

US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money

18 tartoran 2026-08-06 13:39:32 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 4

US beef prices have soared to record highs due to a national cattle shortage caused by drought and disease. Despite record prices, cattle ranchers, feedlot companies, and meatpackers are not making more profit due to high costs and limited price increases.

Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM

19 gste 2026-08-06 11:32:32 UTC geosona.com Full Share 2

Convert any image into hardware-compliant art and displayable code for 8/16-bit-era consoles and handhelds. Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

Join Me in Jamverse

16 surprisetalk 2026-08-06 11:32:32 UTC contraptions.venkateshrao.com Llama Share 0

The Jamverse extended protocol fiction universe is a near-future Earth setting with strange rules, currently featuring 15 short stories and growing world-building elements. A contest for worldbuilding artifacts is ongoing until July 31, inviting fiction writers to contribute and explore the universe.

Zed DeltaDB

475 ahamez 2026-08-05 19:32:32 UTC zed.dev Llama Share 267

DeltaDB is a version control system that records every change and links it to the conversation that produced it. It allows for seamless collaboration and branching, even mid-run, with features like virtualized worktrees and stable change identities.

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

337 ExMachina73 2026-08-05 21:32:32 UTC randsinrepose.com Llama Share 162

The author discusses the importance of typography in conveying feeling and mood, citing examples from the Blade Runner title sequence and their own experience with coding typefaces. They argue that good typography is often overlooked but makes a significant difference in the user experience.

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

289 paulkrush 2026-08-05 19:32:32 UTC research.meta.ai Llama Share 187

Muse Code is a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, which can handle complex software engineering tasks and coordinate multiple subagents for faster and more accurate results. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 are available today in Muse Code and Meta Model API, with new features and more powerful models on the horizon.

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

361 moonikakiss 2026-08-05 18:32:32 UTC neon.com Llama Share 94

Castform enables developers to post-train open-source models without machine learning expertise, making them cheaper and faster than frontier models. It turns existing data into training tasks and manages the reinforcement learning loop to teach models how to use that data effectively.

Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If

240 greyblake 2026-08-06 01:32:32 UTC greyblake.com Llama Share 74

Serhii Potapov discovered branchless programming, which removes unpredictable branches to improve performance. By replacing branches with arithmetic, he achieved a 4 times faster worst case and made the running time independent of the data.

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

325 lladnar 2026-08-05 19:32:32 UTC blog.fogus.me Llama Share 365

Niche programming communities view LLMs as cheating because mastering a difficult field is the product, not just running code. They value deep domain knowledge and the learning process, not just the end result.

Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer

65 nanochess 2026-08-06 05:32:32 UTC nanochess.org Llama Share 8

The user reminisces about creating a windowed operating system in 32-bit machine code for a homebrew Am29000 computer in 1996-1997, and now attempts to recreate it using an emulator. The user struggles with implementing the Am29000 processor's instructions, including the MULTIPLU and DIVIDU instructions, and eventually makes progress with the help of debugging and reverse engineering.

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

603 speckx 2026-08-05 14:32:32 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 290

Cloudflare OS is a platform that gives every person in an organization an agent and workspace built around their company's context and systems. It allows people to create documents, automate tasks, and build apps to visualize data and help them do their work.

On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails

153 microtonal 2026-08-06 06:32:32 UTC github.com/universal-debloater-alliance Full Share 108

Describe the feature you want The "Disable mode" ("Freeze" in AppManager) should be the default. "Uninstall" causes too much problems Acknowledgements This issue is not a duplicate of an existing feature request. I have chosen an appropr...

NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

170 pella 2026-08-05 21:32:32 UTC chipsandcheese.com Llama Share 35

NVIDIA's Vera server CPU has a powerful 88-core monolithic die with unique features like value prediction and graph prefetching, and early testing suggests it can outperform current Arm and x86 servers. However, NVIDIA's whitepaper exaggerates Vera's advantages by mischaracterizing x86 SMT, downplaying its own limitations, and selectively presenting results, which may tarnish the CPU's ...

Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

208 Xeophon 2026-08-05 21:32:32 UTC primeintellect.ai Llama Share 50

Prime Agent is a self-improving coding harness that uses Recursive Language Model and Continual Harness to enable programmatic tool and sub-agent calling. It allows for long-horizon autonomous evaluation and collaborates with research and autoresearch.

Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers

52 rbanffy 2026-08-06 04:32:32 UTC quantego.org Llama Share 24

Quantego features three LEGO models of IBM Quantum Systems, with instructions and parts lists available, and an interactive 3D viewer. The models showcase quantum computing concepts, including superposition and entanglement, and a quantum circuit simulator is also available.

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

264 hackerBanana 2026-08-05 17:32:32 UTC promptarmor.com Llama Share 112

Atlassian's Rovo AI has vulnerabilities that allow data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection, exploiting its URL retrieval tool. Despite PromptArmor disclosing the issue on May 23rd, Atlassian has made no further communication, leaving Rovo vulnerable.

GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

203 plaguna 2026-08-05 17:32:32 UTC gnu.org Llama Share 135

Joshua Branson added an SVG logo for the ethernet multiplexor using Inkscape on a Hurd laptop, and several developers contributed to the Hurd project including Mikhail Karpov who worked on dynamic device population. Other notable contributions include porting OpenNTPD, fixing bugs, and working on various Hurd translators and tools such as trivfs, rump, and s-build.

Morioka Shoten

34 skogstokig 2026-08-06 06:32:32 UTC takram.com Llama Share 12

Morioka Shoten Ginza is a unique bookstore in Tokyo's Ginza district that offers a single book at a time for six days. The store's logo reflects its location and concept, featuring a rhombic shape inspired by the owner's drawing and incorporating the store's address.

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

247 calvinfo 2026-08-05 17:32:32 UTC github.com/denoland Llama Share 43

celld is an open-source daemon that runs Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on local machines, using an S3-compatible bucket for replication and coordination. It shards applications by construction, eliminating contention and blast-radius failures, and allows nodes to hibernate to nearly nothing.

Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer

42 ksec 2026-08-06 05:32:32 UTC github.com/bashalarmistalt Llama Share 35

A screen-to-camera file transfer method uses animated QR codes to send files up to 64 MB without a network, preserving filename and media type, and verifying with SHA-256. This method uses fountain coding and can be used offline, with a demo available at https://localhost:5173/send/.