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This week saw massive moves in both directions for software stocks, as investors try to figure out which names are best insulated from artificial intelligence.

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New Mexico judge orders $567M fund to help address youth mental health crisis.

Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) On Wednesday I wrote about One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5, where I had Claude Fable 5 build a full working game from a premise I generated with GPT-3 and DALL-E four years ago. I decided to pose the exact same prompt to Codex Desktop running GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra - the mode where Sol makes aggressive use of sub-agents - to see how it would do. It produced a much better game! Here's Moonlight & Mayhem - GitHub repository here, including the textures and prompts it generated using gpt-image-2. Your browser does not support HTML5 video. The original GPT-3 generated game description included: In “Raccoon Heist”, you and your team of thieving raccoons are tasked with pulling off a series of daring heists. From robbing banks to stealing priceless art, no job is too big or too small for your furry crew. Fable's version had you as a single raccoon running around a back yard collecting coins and fish. GPT-5.6 Sol has you in a museum, rescuing your two other raccoon crewmates in order to stack on top of each other and bust the golden sardine out of its case. Much more heisty! There was one catch though: the version produced from the one-shot prompt had a bug where each raccoon had an eyeball that was enlarged to the size of a giant sphere floating over their head! You can play that version here. Despite reviewing screenshots during development Codex failed to spot and correct this bug. I fixed it by prompting: Why do the raccoons have huge black spheres on them? And then: Fix it Which resulted in this fix. I shared the full Codex transcript in the repository - I wish Claude Code had the same "copy as Markdown" feature. Codex spent 52 minutes on the project. Here's the AgentsView cost estimate for that session if I had been paying full API prices as opposed to using my monthly Codex subscription: Tags: game-design, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, coding-agents, codex, gpt

Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun's corona.

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/app_store_rejection_of_the_week_dark_hours Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863 Points: 346 # Comments: 228

Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms

The hedge fund's forced selling was a clearing event, but earnings are sustaining the AI trade

Article URL: https://ancientlibrary.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214770 Points: 254 # Comments: 81

A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. "These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly generated typo-squatting package names, but all of them deliver a powerful RAT and infostealer payload," OpenSourceMalware researcher Paul

ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency assets, as well as browser-stored passwords, Apple iCloud Keychain data, and cached credentials. The macOS-focused infection chain is designed to deliver a shell script that profiles the host and then fetches a macOS malware payload that's compatible with the computer's CPU architecture. "

Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214468 Points: 307 # Comments: 263

A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services has been attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671. "UNC6671 continues to rely on voice phishing (vishing) to target enterprise employees, posing as IT help desk staff facilitating mandatory, urgent security migrations. Significantly, the threat actor often contacts employees via

Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214098 Points: 419 # Comments: 110

19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions.

Article URL: https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214008 Points: 778 # Comments: 464

DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.

Article URL: https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-claim-oracle-isn-t-writing-its-own-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213754 Points: 531 # Comments: 375

Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.

Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus.

There's no evidence the truck will be a cheap EV truck, but what if it were?

The per GB price of memory modules have gone back to 2007 levels because of AI demand. This is the first time that prices have shot up in the realm of tech, Lemire says.

Crypto companies are trying to build a second growth engine by turning agents into the next wave of users.

What, you didn't think the top gangs were busy watching agents escape their sandboxes too, did you?