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LLM plays an 8-bit Commander X16 game using structured "smart senses"

I connected the ChatGPT API (model gpt-4o) to an 8-bit shoot-'em-up game, PvP-AI, running on a Commander X16 emulator.Instead of pixels or audio, the model receives structured text summaries, what Iâ...

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Technology Apr 8, 2026

Show HN: Skrun – Deploy any agent skill as an API

Article URL: https://github.com/skrun-dev/skrun Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689319 Points: 6 #...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

The only USB-C AA battery I’d buy for myself is the Zepath 3600

Last September, a company named Lumafield scanned 1,000 cylindrical lithium-ion batteries to shine a light on the hidden...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology

Article URL: https://www.cnet.com/home/security/when-flock-comes-to-town-why-cities-are-axing-the-controversial-surveil...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05091 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689174 Points: 5 # C...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS

Article URL: https://github.com/pcruz1905/hls-restream-proxy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4768916...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

X is rolling out automatic translation and photo editing powered by Grok

New automatic translations and photo editing on X are powered by the company's flagship AI model.

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Insta360’s Snap is a tiny magnetic phone screen for taking rear-camera selfies

Insta360 just announced the Snap, a new smartphone accessory designed to improve the quality of your selfies. It works l...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages

Unionized staff at ProPublica, one of the country's leading nonprofit newsrooms, are walking off the job for 24 hours be...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

The Best Automatic Litter Box of 2026: Petkit and Litter-Robot

With these high-tech automatic litter boxes, gone are the days of scooping and smells. Welcome to the future.

Technology Apr 8, 2026

How nuclear batteries could speed the race to fusion power

Avalanche Energy is working on an DARPA project to build a new class of materials capable of turning damaging radiation ...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

They're Made Out of Meat (1991)

Article URL: http://www.terrybisson.com/theyre-made-out-of-meat-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

GoPro is cutting 23 percent of its workforce

GoPro has announced plans to cut nearly a quarter of its workforce in an effort to return to profitability, after strugg...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russia's military

End-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries.

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Dyson Spot+Scrub Ai Robot Vacuum Review (2026)

The Spot+Scrub Ai is Dyson's first robot mop, and it does the job. But the built-in AI didn’t blow me away, and its he...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Continuous glucose monitoring made me continuously crazy

Daily life is different when you're tracking glucose. A little over a year ago, I was on my way to a conference. My bags...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Best Lightweight Hiking Boots (2026): La Sportiva, Salomon, Keen, and More

Each pair I tested weighs under 2 pounds. Whatever happens on your next adventure, your shoes won’t hold you back.

Technology Apr 8, 2026

8 Best Cheap Laptops (2026): Chromebooks, the MacBook Neo, and More

From surprisingly good $300 Chromebooks to excellent $650 Windows notebooks, these are the best budget laptops we’ve t...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Fender ELIE 6 Bluetooth Speaker Review: Big Sound, App on the Way

Fender’s ELIE 6 is equal parts Bluetooth speaker and guitar amp, but it’s missing a killer app.

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Struggle Against the Gods

Article URL: https://firstthings.com/struggle-against-the-gods/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4768...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Why Microsoft’s war on Windows’ Control Panel is taking so long

Microsoft first started trying to get rid of the Control Panel in 2012, with the launch of Windows 8. More than a decade...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

I've Sold Out

Article URL: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-04-08-ive-sold-out/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Mario and Earendil

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/8/mario-and-earendil/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code

Article URL: https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Ĺ koda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

Article URL: https://www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-world/skoda-duobell-a-bicycle-bell-that-outsmarts-even-smart-hea...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Veracrypt Project Update

Article URL: https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/9620d7a4b3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends

In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging i...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/lhws0phdvzz3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=476861...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under two

Article URL: https://blog.railway.com/p/moving-railways-frontend-off-nextjs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw4W9V57SKs&t=5716s Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=476...