Hacker News: codetiger

New comment by codetiger in "Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News"

codetiger — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:45:13 +0000

I was searching for upvote shortcut and realized it does not support login

New comment by codetiger in "Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games"

codetiger — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:17:38 +0000

I wanted to build games that are multiple-decision and control many things for each turn

New comment by codetiger in "Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games"

codetiger — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:03:03 +0000

Thanks for your feedback. I’ve fixed most text now. I did use AI to create the documentation earlier out of rush but now cleaned up everything.

New comment by codetiger in "Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games"

codetiger — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:57:45 +0000

Unfortunately the competition site is mostly down and couldn't find much about the old competition other than the participants blog articles. Do a search on "Google Ants AI Challenge - post mortem", and you get a lot of articles around the game.

Thanks for sharing the research. I tried implementing a per Ant decision making model, but gave up as the training time was much longer compared to the current baseline. I think I should rethink the idea.

New comment by codetiger in "Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games"

codetiger — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:39:18 +0000

Saw your repo and understood you question better. The requirement are now limiting Neural Networks only, not a direct algorithm implementation

New comment by codetiger in "Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games"

codetiger — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:35:48 +0000

Where do you see a hard requirement? I have added support for ONNX model upload for now and would love to extend support for other formats. How you build the model is totally upto you. I don’t check anything other than format and inference time and model size.

New comment by codetiger in "Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games"

codetiger — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:32:40 +0000

When you submit a model it participates on both its weight class and the open class

New comment by codetiger in "Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games"

codetiger — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:32:08 +0000

Glad you like it. The evaluation is based purely on game performance. However each weight class is evaluated separately. Nano, micro, mini, small, large and open class.

New comment by codetiger in "Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games"

codetiger — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 03:23:48 +0000

The current season is a public beta and ends by end of the month. After that am considering 3 month seasons.

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codetiger — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 03:03:23 +0000

Each season has a different weight size restrictions. Currently open season is for a full production test.

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codetiger — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:52:16 +0000

Thanks for sharing. The primary reason building this website is to learn small neural networks and tuning.

New comment by codetiger in "Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games"

codetiger — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:48:46 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll take that as top priority.

New comment by codetiger in "Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games"

codetiger — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:45:11 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I remember #1 xathis had a score, big leap ahead of others. The difference in techniques in top 100 was almost the same.

New comment by codetiger in "Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games"

codetiger — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:10:38 +0000

15yrs back I participated in "Google Ants AI Challenge 2011", an ai programming competition, hosted by the University of Waterloo, and I ranked #127 (#1 in my country). The competition gave me a huge learning oppurtunity where developers across the world came to a forum and discussed various techniques.

Now, I've built a similar platform to bring back the fun of building a small neural network that can play the game well. Neural Network optimization seems to be much more fun.

Plz share your feedback to improve the platform and add more games.

Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games

codetiger — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:59:10 +0000

Article URL: https://tinybrains.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776523

Points: 116

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New comment by codetiger in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

codetiger — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:04:36 +0000

Or have I understood the feature's capability completely wrong?

New comment by codetiger in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

codetiger — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:03:24 +0000

Am wondering why no one is talking about traceability of Photos. Ex: CSAM which Apple was fighting for a long time. I thought this feature was the answer to provide proof of who shot the picture.

New comment by codetiger in "People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination"

codetiger — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:35:40 +0000

1. Can't remember which way you came from just after a few mins of passing the same street. 2. Can't recollect your mother's face by closing your eye, but can recognize when you see. 3. Don't remember faces unless seen them for many times. 4. Can remember a favorite color. 5. Don't have a consistent handwriting.

Do these symptoms count?

Ask HN: Should I update my iPhone 11 Pro to iOS27?

codetiger — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:15:25 +0000

Been using my iPhone 11 Pro for almost 7 years now. I struggled with iOS 18 that made it terribly slow and drained battery fast. It also made my phone super hot often with just browser. iOS 26 saved my phone and made it useable again. Am a bit nervous updating iOS27 now as this is my primary phone. :) Any experiences with the beta on iPhone 11?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695577

Points: 2

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New comment by codetiger in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

codetiger — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:34:33 +0000

Recent language Claude uses is very heavily loaded and hurts me when reading. So I had to use this to keep my sanity. This started only with Opus 5 where Anthropic thought they optimized the meaning per token and make it very hard to read. Comments and code also looks like cryptic.