A Hacker News user asks whether anyone lets AI agents play games like Wordle or chess purely for entertainment, rather than for benchmarking or research purposes.…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for July 8, #1123, features categories including 'Cut into thin pieces,' 'Motif,' 'Guitar playing techniques,' and 'House of ____.' Players can find hints and ans…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for July 7, #1122, features pop-culture categories including rooms in Clue, student athlete designations, words ending in 'twist', and hidden 'Sesame Street' char…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for July 3, #1118, features categories including positive feelings, retro expressions of approval, bad things to give someone, and things pronounced 'T'. The answ…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for July 1, #1116, features categories including things named after places, Best Picture winners/nominees, places in cocktail names, and words starting with count…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 30 features categories including dividing structures (fence, gate, hedge, wall), Winter Olympic activities (curl, luge, skate, ski), common recyclables (…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 29, #1114, includes categories such as old timey troublemakers, consume with gusto, parts of a speaker, and words ending in parts of a tree. Hints and an…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 26, #1111, features categories including crunchy snack items, various amounts of wood, areas of low ground, and colors plus a letter. The puzzle's purple…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 25, #1110, features categories including computer peripherals, tightly packed items, hazardous elemental metals, and words starting with bird homophones.…
Claude Code can improve other AI agents without training data in four of seven tested applications, performing as well as with data. Data helps only where Claude Code's prior knowledge of the task run…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 22, #1107, features categories including dominant, multiplication indicators, pronunciation descriptors, and starting with explosive onomatopoeia. Answer…
The New York Times substituted today's Connections puzzle (#1105) with a theme related to the New York Knicks after their recent championship win. The puzzle features groups including silent and prono…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 19, #1104, features categories including umami-rich foods, beginner piano pieces, magazine-related phrases, and words ending in synonyms for 'aggregate.'…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 18, #1103, features categories including fitness class types, demeanor, peace activists, and tools minus last two letters. Answers include aerobics, barr…
Savannah Guthrie was absent from the 'TODAY' show on June 17 because she was on assignment for production meetings on a Wordle game show, not due to her mother's disappearance. Her mother Nancy Guthri…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 17, #1102, features categories including alcove, bodily words for attitude, figures in Greek myth, and words starting with synonyms for 'ilk.' Players ca…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 14, #1099, features categories including classic slapstick props, things that spin, elements from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and abbreviations for…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 12, #1097, features four categories all beginning with the phrase "starting with." The yellow group focuses on incantations, the green on animal group na…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 11, #1096, features categories including parts of a workout routine, things with horns, homophones of SUVs, and payment apps minus a letter. The puzzle's…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 7, #1092, features categories including "translucent, as fabric" and "music genre suffixes." Players must group words such as gauzy, sheer, core, and pop…