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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in Large Language Models via Esoteric Programming Languages · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2603.09678/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2603.09678/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in Large Language Models via Esoteric Programming Languages — mentioned by dom96</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150468</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2603.09678:50150468</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:04:15 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;There have been benchmarks already done on esolangs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09678.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2603.09678/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.AI</category></item><item><title>EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in Large Language Models via Esoteric Programming Languages — mentioned by qsera</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704636</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2603.09678:47704636</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:59:06 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09678&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2603.09678/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.AI</category></item><item><title>EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in Large Language Models via Esoteric Programming Languages — mentioned by maximge</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47458524</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:2603.09678:47458524</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:18:15 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Cool test, tried to solve problems from B.3 Complete Problem Examples. https://arxiv.org/html/2603.09678v1#A1 Opus 4.6 Extended, solved all of them. https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/aeb98066-f7a9-455b-9550-6... https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/b0fcd13f-d222-4b65-bdcf-f... https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/304650fb-afbf-4a08-9f6b-5... https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/d00b898c-2265-4a34-a910-9... Only once there was an incorrect answer, on Hard: H01: Balanced Parentheses. On the second attempt, it was solved. The Josephus Problem turned out to be really easy (meaning solved in short…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2603.09678/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.AI</category></item><item><title>EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in Large Language Models via Esoteric Programming Languages — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451726</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:2603.09678:47451726</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:55:08 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Programming Languages&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 1 discussion reply on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2603.09678/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.AI</category></item></channel></rss>
