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Teaching a Neural Net to Fight

In this project, I wanted to set up what I thought was a simple experiment: if we let a neural network play a fighting game, will it learn any interesting emergent behaviors? I would say the answer is a resounding “kind of”. The players will find “optimal” strategies, but whether we see those optima...

Added August 28, 2026 · Last analysed August 28, 2026 · via Hacker News

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Teaching a Neural Net to Fight is early-stage. Worth fixing first: missing several security headers, incomplete legal pages, and no robots.txt.

Launched on Hacker News on August 28, 2026. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages and served through Cloudflare, with a domain registered in 2015. We've detected 8 technologies on this site, covering CDN, javascript library, analytics, and hosting. The stack includes cdnjs, Cloudflare, and Fastly.

It's running the same core stack as 2,531 other launches.

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3.9
StackScope Score
Poor
100/100 Launch Readiness
Launch ready
0/6 Security Headers
Poor
0/3 Legal
Missing
1/2 Crawl files
Partial
70/100 Performance
Fast
Vibe Score 0 · No AI signals
How much the site looks AI-generated. Informational pattern-match signal, not a verdict. Does not feed the StackScope Score. See which fingerprints fired →

Tech Stack (8)

Infrastructure
CDN Cloudflare
Fastly
Hosting GitHub Pages
Build & Framework
JavaScript library MathJax
PrismJS
Package CDN cdnjs (2)
Analytics & Marketing
Analytics GoatCounter
SEO Google Search Console

Infrastructure

Network
FASTLY - Fastly, Inc., US
AS54113 · US
DNSSEC
Enabled
DNSKEY records published. DNS responses signed.
Green hosting
Not green hosted
No green-energy record. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt
Valid 13 Jul 2026 to 11 Oct 2026
Certificate as captured in this snapshot, not a live check.
Domain Age
10.7 years
Registered Dec 2015 · Amazon Registrar, Inc.

Email Security

✗
SPF Not published. Your domain can be spoofed in phishing emails.
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DKIM Not detected at common selectors. Your provider may use a custom one.
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DMARC Not published. Receivers fall back to permissive defaults.
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MTA-STS Not deployed. Mail to your domain can be downgraded to plaintext en route.
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TLS-RPT Not configured. You won't hear about silent SMTP TLS handshake failures.

Storage (0)

This site uses no client-side storage we could detect on page load.

Readiness Breakdown How?

✓ Custom title and meta description
✓ Open Graph tags (title, image, description)
✓ Twitter card meta tags
✓ Canonical URL declared
✓ Responsive viewport meta tag
✓ Favicon present
✓ Semantic HTML (nav, main, article)

Performance How?

149 ms Server response
81% Faster than peers
1468 ms Largest contentful paint
0.00 Cumulative layout shift
5.3 MB Page weight
2.7 MB Image weight
2 Third-party domains
0 Console errors
0 Failed requests

⚠ 5 images: 3 oversized, 5 without width/height

Indicative grade from a single automated render, not a substitute for Lighthouse or field data, and not part of the StackScope score.

AI Stance

No AI stance declared
✗ llms.txt published
✓ No AI bots blocked in robots.txt
Content-Signal
? No directive declared
Link headers
? None advertised

Well-Known Files

✗ robots.txt
✓ sitemap.xml (134 URLs)
✗ security.txt
✗ llms.txt
✗ ads.txt
✗ humans.txt

Legal

? Privacy Policy not detected
? Terms of Service not detected
? Analytics present, but it set no tracking cookies on our visit (it may be opt-in-gated).
Detection works best on English language sites.

Security Headers (0/6)

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Referrer-Policy
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X-Frame-Options
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Permissions-Policy experimental (check browser support)
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X-Content-Type-Options
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Content-Security-Policy
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Strict-Transport-Security
–
X-XSS-Protection deprecated (use Content-Security-Policy)

Build

3 JS files
2 CSS files
2 Third-party domains
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