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An LLM Beat NetHack

kenforthewin — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:47:12 +0000

Article URL: https://kenforthewin.github.io/blog/posts/llm-nethack-ascension/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49897392

Points: 2

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First NetHack Ascension by an LLM

kenforthewin — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:38:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hardfought.org/userdata/C/CodexDelver/nethack/dumplog/1788964024.nh.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49795393

Points: 4

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An LLM Beat NetHack

kenforthewin — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:40:00 +0000

Article URL: https://kenforthewin.github.io/blog/posts/llm-nethack-ascension/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794412

Points: 5

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New comment by kenforthewin in "OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof"

kenforthewin — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:16:52 +0000

Why was the title of this submission changed after the fact?

Watch GPT 6 play NetHack

kenforthewin — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:32:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.twitch.tv/vaguely_aligned

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590604

Points: 2

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New comment by kenforthewin in "METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack"

kenforthewin — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:44:28 +0000

For all the esotericism and downright weirdness of the rationalist community, you have to give it to them: they predicted all of this years or decades before anyone else was even thinking about it.

(Let's not dwell too long on the self-fulfilling overlap between LessWrongers and the AI research community).

New comment by kenforthewin in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

kenforthewin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:29:17 +0000

I'm working on my AI-augmented knowledge graph app, Atomic: https://github.com/kenforthewin/atomic

New comment by kenforthewin in "Superlogical"

kenforthewin — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:03:48 +0000

HN discussions are filled with negative-sentiment AI comments that quickly get upvoted regardless of their connection to reality.

New comment by kenforthewin in "It's not empowering to hand off the details"

kenforthewin — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:19:10 +0000

Is this not literally just Claude Code? I don't understand the hysteria.

New comment by kenforthewin in "My falling-out with the rationalist community"

kenforthewin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:55:00 +0000

It's a shame because I think there a lot of valid, thoughtful critiques one could level at the Rat/EA community; but this was not that.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Everybody's Weirded Out by AI–Except the People Who Foist It on Us"

kenforthewin — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:52:30 +0000

> A study by MIT found that students who use AI to write show far less brain activity than those who used classic Google searching (with AI off) or those who used neither. Other studies find that students who use AI retain far less of the information that ends up in their writing, possibly as a result of “cognitive offloading” and “cognitive surrender.”

I'm unconvinced that AI will make us all dumber. In the public perception, at least among students, AI is viewed as a cheating tool. What kinds of students gravitate towards cheating tools to complete their coursework?

On the other hand, the opportunity for AI to act as a personal tutor, meeting you at your own skill and knowledge level, is limitless.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite"

kenforthewin — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:42:18 +0000

The site is performing poorly for me. For example, the login page took 9 seconds to load, same with the home page.

New comment by kenforthewin in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

kenforthewin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:12:53 +0000

I have no idea what happens next if we create and horizontally scale superintelligence; one thing I do know for sure is it won't be "business as usual".

New comment by kenforthewin in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

kenforthewin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:06:52 +0000

I'm working on Atomic Cloud, the hosted version of my open source knowledge graph project. https://atomicapp.ai/cloud/

New comment by kenforthewin in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

kenforthewin — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:52:14 +0000

That's a much less generous interpretation of his writing. "Yes we will birth superintelligence, but everything will just sort of work out for us humans". This seems like a silly take to me.

New comment by kenforthewin in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

kenforthewin — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:40:19 +0000

I felt the same way in 2024-2025. Then Sonnet 4 was released, and things started feeling different. Opus 4.5 was another step change for me. Everything feels like it's accelerating, and timelines are getting crunched. I guess in some ways I envy OP, who would "bet everything" against ASI - the truth is I don't know, and I don't think anyone knows, where this ends.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6"

kenforthewin — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:51:44 +0000

I was able to repro one issue that could have been contributing to your broken experience - there's a slight delay between, for example, clicking text in a heading and having the "#" markdown decoration appear. This is to prevent the mouse location from shifting mid-click and causing text to be selected unintentionally (obsidian does this too). But there was a bug that was causing a cascading set of failures if edits happened during that delay window, which is likely what folks who are clicking around at random points in the editor and adding text are doing. I fixed it in 0.4.2, which should be live now.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6"

kenforthewin — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:51:45 +0000

Thanks for trying it out! would you mind giving some steps that allow me to repro the issue? It's early days so i'm sure there are some rough edges, hopefully I can fix them quickly.

New comment by kenforthewin in "Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6"

kenforthewin — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:39:10 +0000

Thanks for the heads up - I pushed up a fix to the hightlighting issue.

I originally went with Milkdown (Prosemirror-based) for Atomic, the knowledge base project that I built Atomic Editor for. ProseMirror doesn't provide virtualization out of the box. For shorter notes and even moderately long content it's fine - but atomic supports syncing content from a diverse set of sources and I noticed that long documents were causing delays on initial page load and some lag during edits. I didn't find anything like it with native virtualization that felt right to me so I built Atomic Editor.

Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6

kenforthewin — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:32:54 +0000

Article URL: https://kenforthewin.github.io/atomic-editor/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345201

Points: 67

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