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Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer

Our users are building real automations with Tasklet — connecting dozens of services, writing complex workflows, and trusting an AI agent with critical work. When something breaks or gets confusing, the quality of help they get determines whether they go deeper or give up. But we don't want to solve this just by throwing people at support tickets. We want to solve it by making everything work better — through better product, better self-serve resources, smarter automation, and better internal tooling.

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Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

Babylonian Twins is an Amiga platformer I built in Baghdad in 1993, in 68000 assembly. This summer an LLM ported it to Godot, and this is what I found when I read back through what it did. The original disks are now free on itch.io.

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How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?

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Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

We watched almost 17k sessions across different types of personas, with 1,163 prompt variations, 75 repositories and 3 coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) actually implementing the solutions instead of just recommending one.

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Working to Make Python Lazy

Python 3.15a7, which is now just a uv python install 3.15 away on all major platforms, has lazy imports! This exciting feature, proposed in PEP 810, promises to make CLI applications faster (especially when using flags like --help), and could make a lot of large code with lots of imports that don’t always get used faster too. Unlike the earlier, failed attempt, this requires libraries to put in some work. I’ve developed a helper tool to make it easy; I’d like to cover what lazy imports are and how to use my tool. Since this is the first library that I used AI heavily in developing, the second half of the post will cover how my experience with AI for a task like this went. TL;DR: run uvx flake8-lazy --apply=list to make your code magically f

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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra reaches state-of-the-art results on ARC-AGI-3

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A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it

I made a circuit-board business card that opens my website and lights an LED with power harvested from the phone tapping it.

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K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

Explore K2 Horizon, IFM’s open-source fleet of six frontier AI models for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, edge devices, and enterprise deployment.

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.name Termination

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Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

Draw one random life from the more than 100 billion humans who have ever lived. Every detail sourced.

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Unusual Suspects

A courtroom sketch game. Witnesses describe a suspect in vague, unreliable fragments — draw what you think they saw, and see if the court can identify them.

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Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

Shin Jin-seo, the world's top-ranked Go player, on Tuesday completed a dramatic comeback against the world’s premier artificial intelligence Go engine, K

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Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

Browse all models available on Cerebras public endpoints.

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GLP-1s Are Being Linked to Fewer Serious Infections, Including TB

Two recent studies have suggested that GLP-1 drugs can reduce the occurrence or severity of certain infections.

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GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

In November 2025, Earth was buffeted by several massive eruptions of solar material that slammed into the magnetosphere.

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Protecting Engineers' Skills in the AI Era

As AI takes over coding work, “manual gates” could help engineers develop and maintain their skills.

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Xanadu was waiting for agents

From the Zed Blog: Ted Nelson specified the docuverse sixty years ago. The technology finally arrived, and so did its native users.

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Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

Following the construction of the dams, one river saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates soar from 8% to 60%.

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GPT-6 Astra

Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.

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The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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On this day

North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

Working to Make Python Lazy

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

.name Termination

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

Unusual Suspects

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

GLP-1s Are Being Linked to Fewer Serious Infections, Including TB

GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

Protecting Engineers' Skills in the AI Era

Xanadu was waiting for agents

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

GPT-6 Astra

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

On this day

North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.

The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally ratify the Paris global climate agreement.

After taking off from Dubai International Airport, UPS Airlines Flight 6 develops an in-flight fire in the cargo hold and crashes near Nad Al Sheba, killing both crew members on board.

Beslan school siege ends, resulting in over 330 fatalities, including 186 children.

In Belfast, Protestant loyalists begin a picket of Holy Cross, a Catholic primary school for girls.

Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.

Cubana de Aviación Flight 9046 crashes into a residential area of Havana shortly after takeoff from José Martí International Airport, killing 150.

Varig Flight 254 crashes in the Amazon rainforest near São José do Xingu in Brazil, killing 12.

In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international bill of rights for women, is instituted by the United Nations.

During the Rhodesian Bush War a group of ZIPRA guerrillas shot down civilian Vickers Viscount aircraft (Air Rhodesia Flight 825) with a Soviet-made SAM Strela-2; of 56 passengers and crew 38 people died in crash, 10 were massacred by the guerrillas at the site.

Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

Qatar becomes an independent state.

Dagen H in Sweden: Traffic changes from driving on the left to driving on the right overnight.

The People's Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China-controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis.

"Nino" Farina becomes the first Formula One Drivers' champion after winning the 1950 Italian Grand Prix.

A three-day celebration begins in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2.

Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.

World War II: British and Canadian troops land on the Italian mainland. On the same day, Walter Bedell Smith and Giuseppe Castellano sign the Armistice of Cassibile, although it is not announced for another five days.

World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva (present-day Belarus).

The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.

World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allied nations. The Viceroy of India also declares war, but without consulting the provincial legislatures.

World War II: The United Kingdom and France begin a naval blockade of Germany that lasts until the end of the war. This also marks the beginning of the Battle of the Atlantic.

Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph.

Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).

USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, is destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.

World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; this is the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.

Wilhelm, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.

French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.

World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.

A fire that started on Fraser's Million Dollar Pier destroys six to eight square blocks of Ocean Park, California.

John Brallier becomes the first openly paid professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12–0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.

Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire.

Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.

American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.

American Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.

King Otto of Greece is forced to grant a constitution following an uprising in Athens.

Future abolitionist Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery.

Twenty-four settlers are killed in the Pigeon Roost Massacre in Indiana.

The week long battle of St. George's Caye begins between Spain and Britain off the coast of Belize.

American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

American Revolutionary War: During the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time.

The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London.

The death of Oliver Cromwell; Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England.

The Battle of Worcester is the last significant action in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

Victory over the royalists in the Battle of Dunbar opens the way to Edinburgh for the New Model Army during the English invasion of Scotland.

The Treaty of Selymbria is concluded between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice.

At the congress of Visegrád Charles I of Hungary mediates a reconciliation between two neighboring monarchs, John of Bohemia and Casimir III of Poland.

The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire.

Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard "the Lionheart") is crowned at Westminster.

Major Byzantine victory under general Petronas at the Battle of Lalakaon against an Arab raid under emir Umar al-Aqta, who is killed in battle.

King Wamba of the Visigoths puts down a revolt by Hilderic, governor of Nîmes (France) and rival for the throne.

Consecration of Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great).

San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.

In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.

On this day

North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.