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Show HN: I recreated Contra in a custom NES game engine (NOT an emulator)
A developer has recreated Contra using a custom NES game engine built from scratch, and the engine itself is the real story. The project, posted to Hacker News by user normalocity, demonstrates a tiny engine called `neo8` that com...
I built a programming language that LLMs can't use
Killing the LLM instinct Writing code is probably something large language models have excelled at more than any other task. But how much of their ability to write code stems from genuine understanding versus simply recalling snip...
AVC-Reward: Event-Centric Audio-Video Consistency Evaluation
Joint audio-video generation models can produce scenes with multi-event composition, multi-layer audio mixture, and asymmetric cross-modal relations. However, existing evaluation protocols largely reuse metrics from earlier simple...
Steam can now show game achievements in separate ‘sets’
Valve is rolling out a major Steam overhaul called achievement sets, letting developers organize base-game and DLC achievements into distinct groups with individual progress bars. The feature moves beyond the traditional single ac...
What are the most important commands of a programming language?
CRVJA translates AMOS BASIC programs to browser-executable JavaScript. The language contains more than 700 commands in AMOS Professional, requiring selective implementation. Researchers have long used usage analysis to prioritize...
Janus (reversible computing programming language)
Janus: a reversible programming language born at Caltech Janus appeared in 1982 as a programming language designed to run computations in both forward and backward directions. The language was created at Caltech by Christopher Lut...
Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript
Oxlint has acquired a new set of opinionated rules designed to reject low-evidence, low-signal code patterns increasingly produced by AI coding assistants. The project, deslop, ships as the npm package ai-deslop and provides a cur...
BT-Agent: Deploying Onboard Robot Agents with Behavior Trees and Multi-Fidelity Evaluation
Deploying language-model agents onboard mobile robots requires task reasoning and responsive execution within limited compute and memory. Standard ReAct loops can stall when a proposed action encounters an unexpected state, becaus...
Show HN: BSOS – Business communication intelligence API for SaaS developers
BSOS production outage halts order processing for 200-plus employees The BSOS developer platform went dark for 45 minutes this week, leaving more than 200 staff unable to process customer orders. The incident triggered the system'...
Faster Python startup with lazy imports
Python 3.15 introduces a feature that changes how modules load at program start: lazy imports. The syntax requires a single-word prefix on each import line, transforming module names into placeholder objects until first use. If a...