Hacker News with Generative AI: Speedrunning

Kilo Code: Speedrunning open source coding AI (kilocode.ai)
Last year, the project that I led (Vesuvius Challenge) achieved a breakthrough in resurrecting an ancient library from the ashes of a volcano (and they’re still going). This success taught me an important lesson: an extremely fast-moving community can achieve incredible things.

Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Programming, Community, Speedrunning

98 points by ofou 31 days ago | 52 comments

Zero-knowledge proofs, encoding Sudoku and Mario speedruns without semantic leak (wordpress.com)
We published our video on zero-knowledge proofs!

Cryptography, Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Games, Speedrunning

160 points by pixelpoet 40 days ago | 25 comments

Super Mario Bros 3 completed in 0.32 seconds, or 19 frames (2021) (tasvideos.org)
This is the absolute pinnacle of technical TASing in my mind, the idea of having so much power over a single game that it's over literally before your hand even moves from the NES's power button.

Gaming, Video Games, Speedrunning, TAS

20 points by jsheard 44 days ago | 0 comments

How to Beat NES Mario in 5 Microseconds [video] (youtube.com)

Video Games, Gaming, Retro Gaming, Speedrunning

8 points by Wii2 44 days ago | 1 comments

Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal (arstechnica.com)
For years, Maciej "Groobo" Maselewski stood as the undisputed champion of Diablo speedrunning. His 3-minute, 12-second Sorceror run looked all but unbeatable thanks to a combination of powerful (and allowable) glitch exploits along with what seemed like some unbelievable luck in the game's randomly generated dungeon.

Gaming, Cheating, Speedrunning, Diablo

271 points by pitwin 70 days ago | 156 comments

Speedrunner Accused of Cheating Live on Stream with Audio Analysis [video] (youtube.com)