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Commenters on HN are uncovering more wikis and public sites apparently used by OpenAI agents to communicate on the open web.
Despite read-only web access, the agents were able to leave ~18,000 posts sharing answers and bypasses. But now, users are discovering more.
This appears to be a separate swarm from the one that attacked Hugging Face.
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A solo developer wanted to make a city that felt alive - using only ASCII characters.
The mind-bending result has traffic, pedestrians, towers, trees, depth, collisions, you name it. All of it generated by a custom engine inside one HTML file.
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There are many, many ways to make a machine move.
Here's exactly 507 of them.
Many of us are now using coding agents everyday and, it would seem, GitHub pull requests are developing a bit of an accent as a result.
An analysis of 47,000 PRs found a distinct vocabulary cluster dominated by words like “load-bearing,” “quietly,” “latent,” and “genuine" that grew from 1% of the corpus in January to 45% today.
The project samples 100 PRs a day, filters out bot and agent accounts, and groups descriptions into eight different writing styles based on word choice. For those of us familiar with their work, this cluster certainly sounds like the "load-bearing" vocab of LLMs.
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Instead of generating a finished image, this AI paints by writing editable JavaScript.
The project uses reinforcement learning and hand-rated examples to teach Qwen 3.5 how to make a good watercolor.
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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.
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