New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved
Details
- External ID
- 48023602
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved
- Website domain
- programbench.com
- Launched
- May 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 24
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7649434571890146
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- security exploits and system hacking tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- benchmark for software engineering tasks
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building ProgramBench requires creating an extensive, curated suite of 200 compiled binary programs, full specifications, and rigorous isolated test sandboxes designed to evaluate decompilation and de novo architecture generation.
What it would actually take: A benchmark like ProgramBench requires an enterprise evaluation pipeline: hundreds of diverse, non-leaked codebases compiled across multiple architectures/optimization flags, paired with rigorous end-to-end unit and behavioral test suites that run inside hardened, isolated microVM sandboxes (e.g., Firecracker or gVisor). Building it requires deep reverse engineering domain knowledge, binary analysis tooling (Ghidra/IDA integrations), compiler expertise, and large-scale parallel evaluation harness infrastructure to run untrusted AI agent execution safely.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Decompilation restriction artificially increases difficulty vs. real-world scenarios, Unclear whether this measures useful programming ability or just curve-fitting
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 55 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 56 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 181 days after the earliest competitor.
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- RepoGauntlet · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Swift-Qwen3.8-27B-evals · github · 2026-09-13 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a observability & eval tool for Media & entertainment yet.