Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

In plain words

Goalposts is a tool that tracks which challenges Hacker News has posed to AI over the years and allows users to vote on whether those challenges have been met. It serves the AI community and tech enthusiasts interested in monitoring AI progress against specific benchmarks. The tool aggregates Hacker News challenges in one place, making it easy to see what the community initially set as goals and assess current AI capabilities against those historical expectations.

written from the facts on this page · October 2026

From the sources

Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has itfrom stoppels.ch

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