AI wargames and nuclear escalation & LLM Skirmish RTS coding benchmark - Hacker News (Feb 25, 2026)

Today's topics: AI wargames and nuclear escalation - Research simulations show GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash recommending nuclear use at very high rates, raising AI safety and decision-support concerns. LLM Skirmish RTS coding benchmark - LLM Skirmish pits models head-to-head in a Screeps-like RTS where each writes code strategies, tracking ELO, costs, and multi-round adaptation via OpenCode. Claude Code remote control sessions - Anthropic documents Claude Code “Remote Control,” letting you continue a local coding session from web or mobile while execution stays on your machine via outbound HTTPS. Taming noisy build logs for agents - A developer argues agents lose context to stdout spam from tools like Turborepo, proposing a standard LLM=true env var plus practical quieting tactics (errors-only, NO_COLOR, CI). A dog “vibe codes” games - Caleb Leak routes a dog’s random keyboard mashes through a Raspberry Pi and a safety filter, prompting Claude Code to produce playable Godot games with strong automated feedback loops. Denmark switches to LibreOffice - Denmark’s digital ministry plans a major move from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice for digital sovereignty, cost control, and Windows 10 end-of-support planning across government. Promo TLDs, DNS holds, Safe Browsing - A .online promo domain gets placed on registry serverHold after Google Safe Browsing blacklisting, creating a verification catch-22 and highlighting fragile dependencies in DNS reputation systems. PHP 100-million-row parsing race - TempestPHP launches a two-week performance competition to parse 100,000,000 CSV rows into pretty-printed JSON under constrained hardware, with rules on JIT and FFI. YC hedge fund platform hiring - Event Horizon Labs (YC W24) seeks a Founding Infrastructure Engineer to build agent orchestration, data pipelines, and low-latency trading for an AI-native quant research platform. https://www.0xsid.com/blog/online-tld-is-pain https://therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independence https://llmskirmish.com/ https://github.com/tempestphp/100-million-row-challenge https://www.calebleak.com/posts/dog-game/ https://code.claude.com/docs/en/remote-control https://blog.codemine.be/posts/2026/20260222-be-quiet/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/ https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/event-horizon-labs/jobs/xGQicps-founding-infrastructure-engineer