Hacker News: gritzko

New comment by gritzko in "Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany"

gritzko — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:03:20 +0000

Regulation should not be a problem, there are several past precedents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipknip

New comment by gritzko in "Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft"

gritzko — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:57:33 +0000

StarCraft probably has hundreds of bot implementations lying on GitHub. Which makes this bench a recall-from-the-training-set competition, essentially. I tried that method on old games that certainly do not have a ton of bot implementations on GitHub. It revealed some interesting aspects about LLM reasoning and ways to use it. https://replicated.live/blog/games

Overall, this is a useful benchmarking approach. May take some newer papers and evaluate them this way.

New comment by gritzko in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

gritzko — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:21:54 +0000

These productivity gains must go somewhere.

New comment by gritzko in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

gritzko — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:53:26 +0000

E = mc²

E energy necessary to integrate changes

m mass of the monorepo

c rate of commits

New comment by gritzko in "Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack"

gritzko — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:40:21 +0000

This graph shows that Yandex Web crawler farm was hit. The other option, it was shut down to accommodate more critical services that got hit. (I worked for Yandex 20 years ago, one crawler guy was in the same room.) Not sure if troll farms got affected in any way, that is a different business entirely, no overlap.

The interesting aspect is this: Yandex was taken from its owners semi-consensually. Similarly, the original owner of the troll farms was blown up in a business jet. He staged a mutiny cause his dirty bloody business was about to be taken from him non-consensually. Some other large non-consensual takeovers unfold for 5 years, soon 6.

What an appetite!

New comment by gritzko in "Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers"

gritzko — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:16:58 +0000

I made AIs (the new kind) create AIs (the classic kind) to battle in old games. That was a serious experiment! http://replicated.live/blog/games

New comment by gritzko in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

gritzko — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:15:20 +0000

Do these runtimes have some value today? Sort of. But the cost of reimplementing them goes down, down, down. I made two bespoke JS runtimes within a year. Next year it will be even easier.

Deno/Bun see the picture better than I do, and they decided it was the right time for an acquihire.

New comment by gritzko in "Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser"

gritzko — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:28:49 +0000

OK, I guess we will see Turing's Bombe in a browser before Christmas?

New comment by gritzko in "Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser"

gritzko — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:20:53 +0000

> the joy and creativity of writing code, of solving seemingly-impossible puzzles with ones mind

Find tougher puzzles then

New comment by gritzko in "Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser"

gritzko — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:27:44 +0000

Exactly. I switched to Linux in the 90s.

New comment by gritzko in "Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser"

gritzko — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:22:02 +0000

Ah, yes, sorry. At this point, XP and DOS are almost synonymous for me.

The entire point of the port was to add headless play for AI training. But porting the old interface and playing it in the browser was lots of fun. Can not upload that to GitHub, obviously.

New comment by gritzko in "Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser"

gritzko — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:19:59 +0000

Opus 5.5.

New comment by gritzko in "Classic PC demoscene productions running natively in the browser"

gritzko — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:42:25 +0000

So much fun. I recently ported some old strategy games. Claude does it almost on its own http://replicated.live/blog/games

New comment by gritzko in "Mistral Large 4"

gritzko — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:21:42 +0000

opus 5.5 medium web "Lantern"

gpt-5.6 web "Serendipity"

opus 5.5 medium code "Lighthouse"

opus 5.5 high code "Lantern"

fable 5.1 medium code "Lantern"

fable 5.1 high code "Lantern"

flash 3.6 web "Serendipity"

gemini 3.1 pro web "Ephemeral" (this one was thinking real hard)

Claude playing old strategy games in 2026

gritzko — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:20:29 +0000

Article URL: http://replicated.live/blog/games

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965258

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gritzko in "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare"

gritzko — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:57:12 +0000

A hero hacking for free food and a chance to swap Cloudflare credits for stolen goods on the black market. That is W.Gibson's original cyberpunk spirit.

New comment by gritzko in "With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now"

gritzko — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:16:21 +0000

I recall playing this game as a preschooler. It was mostly psychology and bluff. Very interesting.

New comment by gritzko in "GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow"

gritzko — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:19:40 +0000

Last weekend, I made Claude play Panzer General II. I am pretty sure it will be in the weights soon, so it was valuable as an environment the LLM is not trained for. It accumulated experience in Markdown, made some tools to parse the game data and it got to a decent level of skill. It reached the last battle.

I tried to make it win the last battle, but that was beyond its ability. Further accumulation of "hard earned lessons" in Markdown only made its behavior more chaotic.

Still, a very decent result, comparable to what I achieved back in the day (late 90s).

New comment by gritzko in "GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow"

gritzko — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:12:10 +0000

> This is not surprising in hindsight and is probably the optimal strategy. The agent extracted quest requirements, quest givers, turn-in NPCs, and spawn coordinates from AzerothCore SQL files to provide the concrete checklist and locations for planning.

> Using this data, it's also able to create an optimal strategy for quest order and preparation.

Bwahaha

New comment by gritzko in "Pi.dev: You Said No MCP"

gritzko — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:36:13 +0000

"Now we talked so much about Codemode, it might be worth explaining what that even is."