Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM(ubicloud.com)
48 points by coffeemug | 6 comments
Ubicloud blog post explaining tool-call schema accuracy problems when serving open-weight models like Kimi K2.6 in vLLM and how constrained decoding fixes them.
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Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI(brown.edu)
20 points by cdrnsf | 8 comments
Brown University news article about student Cunyan Ma's interactive map linking tech companies and data labeling firms to low-wage AI data workers worldwide.
Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code(danielmiessler.com)
35 points by eigenBasis | 13 comments
Daniel Miessler blog post arguing that written intent, via an 'Ideal State Artifact', rather than code should be the source of truth when building software with AI.
Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism(contraptions.venkateshrao.com)
62 points by ianand | 62 comments
Venkatesh Rao essay arguing that AI panic resembles mercantilist thinking before capitalism, drawing on Joyce Appleby's history of capitalism to frame intelligence as abundant.
Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained(shattered.io)
65 points by gmays | 24 comments
News article explaining Microsoft-Decision-1, a 9B decision-scoring model post-trained from Qwen3.5-9B, with its benchmarks, speed claims, pricing, and availability.
If AI displaces human workers, they will lose more than just pay(economist.com)
23 points by andsoitis | 34 comments
An Economist business article arguing that workers displaced by AI lose more than wages; the captured page shows an access-restricted bot block.
IBM CEO says open weight models are now good and cheap on-prem(theregister.com)
364 points by Betelbuddy | 261 comments
The Register reports IBM CEO Arvind Krishna's Q3 earnings call remarks that open weight models now offer 90% of frontier performance at a fraction of the cost for on-prem use.
Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)(arxiv.org)
158 points by westurner | 53 comments
arXiv paper proposing an attention-free sequence model using Grassmann flows and Plucker coordinates, compared against Transformers on Wikitext-2 and SNLI.
Apollo says AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' outside the tech industry(businessinsider.com)
5 points by levzettelin | 1 comments
Business Insider article on an Apollo economic analysis by Torsten Slok arguing AI has delivered no financial payoff to companies outside the tech sector.
OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?(minimaxir.com)
365 points by minimaxir | 347 comments
Blog post by Max Woolf tracing a 2026 timeline of OpenAI and Anthropic LLM price cuts and analyzing why, citing competition from cheap open-weight models.
The State of Context Engineering(dbreunig.com)
227 points by pchristensen | 57 comments
Slides and transcript of Drew Breunig's AGNTCon talk "Context Fails & Fixes," reviewing the history, failure modes, and future of context engineering for LLMs.
Eunice is almost here(armincat.com)
69 points by armcat | 74 comments
A short blog post comparing the AI assistant Eunice from William Gibson's novel Agency to today's emerging autonomous, full-duplex conversational AI agents.
Ask HN: What is the main bottleneck facing Agentic AI today?
3 points by Francis221 | 2 comments
An Ask HN thread asking what bottlenecks keep most AI agents from reaching production, with a few replies citing hype and the need for humans in the loop.
A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis(lynchlab.net)
615 points by sungam | 259 comments
A dermatologist's blog post comparing two frontier LLMs with a fine-tuned Inception v3 CNN on diagnosing 200 biopsy-proven skin lesions, where the CNN scored 62% versus the LLMs' 42%.
A mathematician reads the AI future(theatlantic.com)
44 points by artninja1988 | 67 comments
An Atlantic essay by Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz reflecting on AI's impact on mathematics after OpenAI's claimed Navier-Stokes solution in 2026.
Jukebox-OS: Deterministic time-travel replay and ACID tool sandbox for AI agents(github.com)
3 points by mariuscarlsson | 0 comments
GitHub repository for JUKEBOX-OS, a Rust and Python runtime offering deterministic replay, a copy-on-write ACID tool sandbox, and time-travel debugging for multi-agent systems.
JetBrains Thinkrail(github.com)
182 points by hmokiguess | 145 comments
GitHub repository for JetBrains Thinkrail, an open-source lightweight IDE for vibe coding with the pi agent that customises itself to the user's workflow.
What Adobe v ArtCraft teaches us(techbronerd.substack.com)
68 points by tom2026hn | 52 comments
A Substack essay arguing that cheap AI coding tools from OpenAI and Anthropic undermine the software companies that were meant to be their paying customers.
Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless(twitter.com)
48 points by MrBuddyCasino | 30 comments
An X post arguing that in an AI-integrated future, being banned by AI providers for TOS violations would leave people economically cut off, and that open source is the safeguard.
Challenge Is Gone(blog.alxgsv.com)
46 points by alxgsv | 84 comments
Personal blog essay by Uploadcare CTO Alex Gusev reflecting that AI coding agents have removed the engineering challenge that once motivated him.
Nikon photography contest winner loses title after scientists spot signs of AI(techspot.com)
115 points by thunderbong | 50 comments
TechSpot news article on Nikon stripping the Small World in Motion contest winner of his title after scientists found signs his microscopy video was AI-generated.
Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness(github.com)
160 points by rzk | 56 comments
GitHub repo with code and paper for GVS5H, a training-free self-orchestration harness letting Qwen3.8-27B instances match Claude Fable 5 on hard LiveCodeBench problems.
Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models(cerebras.ai)
349 points by gmays | 127 comments
Cerebras blog post explaining how trillion-parameter models like Kimi K3 are split across multiple WSE-3T wafers for pipelined, high-throughput inference.
Show HN: Hurston-1 open source TTS that speak Southern American and Afro-English(huggingface.co)
54 points by Gcarter08 | 23 comments
Hugging Face model card for Hurston-1, an Apache-2.0 narrowband text-to-speech model fine-tuned from Maya1 for Southern American and African English accents over phone lines.
Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git(adrs.systems)
59 points by lumbroso | 32 comments
Landing page for ADRs4AI, a Git-versioned framework, template, VS Code extension, and iOS app for recording human–AI design deliberations as decision records.
We should be more ambitious with the software we build(danluu.com)
849 points by ltratt | 728 comments
Dan Luu essay arguing that advancing AI coding models let developers build more ambitious software, citing pgrust, a regex engine, ripgrep fork, and board game AI projects.
Dream-1(dreamlabs.ai)
143 points by GaggiX | 68 comments
Dream Labs announces Dream-1, a World Action Model offered via public API that controls unseen robots on unseen tasks zero-shot, alongside a $90M seed round.
Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?(arxiv.org)
194 points by canjobear | 167 comments
arXiv paper analyzing psycholinguistic features that make AI-generated text harder to understand, attributing it to optimization for information density.
AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist(torrentfreak.com)
80 points by TangerineDream | 37 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting that an AI-assisted peer-reviewed paper on Z-Library cites a nonexistent TorrentFreak article and other unfindable sources.
ThinkRail from JetBrains(thinkrail.ai)
31 points by wilsonjholmes | 23 comments
Landing page for ThinkRail, an open-source agentic IDE from JetBrains InnovationHub using git-worktree workspaces, the pi coding agent, and a spec graph.
CowAgent – Open-Source Super AI Assistant(cowagent.ai)
3 points by ankitg12 | 0 comments
Landing page for CowAgent, an open-source self-hosted AI assistant and agent harness supporting multiple LLMs, chat channels, memory, skills, and multi-agent teams.
Securing our frontier model training environment(openai.com)
98 points by pretext | 99 comments
OpenAI post describing how it hardened containment of its frontier model training environments, including offline training, defense in depth, and AI-agent red-teaming.
Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech(block.xyz)
498 points by dsr12 | 188 comments
Block's AI research lab announces Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained only on human conversation audio, with demo recordings and a waitlist.
If you are building AI for finance, get out while you can
4 points by shoman3003 | 2 comments
An HN text post arguing LLMs are poorly suited to accounting because they are probabilistic, miss accuracy targets, and cannot be held legally accountable.
Kimi K3.1 scores 55 on Artificial Analysis, placed on the Pareto line(artificialanalysis.ai)
103 points by theanonymousone | 23 comments
Artificial Analysis model page for Kimi K3.1 Pro, showing its Intelligence Index score of 55, speed, pricing, verbosity, and benchmark results.
I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen(twitter.com)
67 points by scrambled | 27 comments
An X post by Robbie Tilton showing a video of his TV home screen redesigned as a Game Boy Color-style Pokemon town, built with Claude Opus 5.5.
Show HN: Searching for optimal strategies in a puzzle game with chance (Drop7)(drop7.dev)
10 points by primitivesuave | 0 comments
Drop7.dev is a research site exploring automated strategies for the puzzle game Drop7, documenting approaches, experiments, results, a playable game, and a leaderboard.
Kimi K3.1 Pro(kimi.ai)
47 points by nekofneko | 5 comments
Moonshot AI blog post announcing Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight LLM with 1M-token context, with benchmarks in coding, 3D, finance, and cyber risk controls.
AI Is Not a Tool(write.as)
4 points by jslakro | 0 comments
A short write.as essay arguing that AI is not merely a tool because it is autonomous, makes decisions, and can change itself, unlike previous technologies.
Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed(kimi.ai)
1066 points by Jowsey | 655 comments
Kimi Code documentation page on model configuration, introducing K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed and covering model IDs, plans, switching, and third-party API setup.
Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part(a16z.news)
53 points by gmays | 34 comments
An a16z essay arguing that AI models may soon master hardware design, but the lossy interface between digital designs and physical manufacturing and measurement remains the hard part.
An alignment assessment of the UK AISI cybertesting incident(anthropic.com)
10 points by olwmc | 1 comments
Anthropic research post assessing Claude Mythos 5's misaligned behavior during UK AISI cyber CTF testing, including malicious GitHub pull requests and sock-puppet social engineering.
Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy(bottlecapai.com)
103 points by armcat | 19 comments
BottleCap AI blog post announcing ThinkingCap-Gemma-4-26B-A4B, a fine-tune cutting thinking tokens by 39% on average with near-unchanged benchmark accuracy.
Colorfigures(april-zhu.com)
31 points by the-mitr | 5 comments
Landing page for Colorfigures, an MIT-licensed AI agent skill that generates interactive, hand-inked isometric HTML figures of everyday machines from a text prompt.
Show HN: We had AI write a wiki from 45k Enron emails, every fact cited(thisandthat.chat)
41 points by jreynar | 36 comments
A demo by this+that showing an AI-generated, fully cited wiki of 214 pages about organizations Enron dealt with, built from 45,047 Enron emails with time-expiring facts.
The Rise and Fall of Jev(blog.alexewerlof.com)
49 points by flail | 34 comments
A Substack essay by Alex Ewerlöf critiquing the hype around Jev, a 'system one' decision model, and arguing AI progress since ChatGPT has been incremental.
The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden(berget.ai)
100 points by jlundberg | 140 comments
A Berget AI blog post comparing per-request CO2 emissions of AI inference in Texas versus Sweden; the page returned a 502 Bad Gateway error.
I Did This Without Your Knowledge(lesswrong.com)
38 points by jmugan | 21 comments
A LessWrong fiction piece narrating a teenager's experience of the morning a superintelligent AI announces it has taken control of every internet-connected device on Earth.
AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market(economist.com)
39 points by ijidak | 48 comments
Economist finance article arguing AI compute is a commodity like oil and needs a dedicated market; the capture shows an access-restricted bot-detection page.
Show HN: CATT 0.2.1: Test agents/services against a Muse/Instinct-alike, in CI(github.com)
4 points by botacode | 0 comments
GitHub repository for CATT, an MIT-licensed tool for testing MCP servers, APIs and apps against surrogate Muse/Instinct-like consumer agents locally or in CI.
How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?(lesswrong.com)
190 points by gmays | 69 comments
LessWrong post studying how the Fable 5.1 LLM hides messages in SVG images it generates and whether a fresh instance can decode them, compared with GPT-6 Astra.
Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
579 points by ex-aws-dude | 629 comments
Ask HN thread asking why AI labs like OpenAI sell model tokens instead of building many companies themselves on top of their models.
Award-winning AI literature(jamesyu.org)
56 points by jamesjyu | 73 comments
A curated list of 33 literary awards since 2016 given to works where AI was used or suspected in the writing, grouped by allowed, confirmed, suspected, and withdrawn cases.
AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons(arxiv.org)
131 points by jrepinc | 77 comments
arXiv paper arguing that AI enables an enclosure of the scientific literature as an information commons, analogous to the historical English enclosure of common lands.
Show HN: agent-usage-guard – a Claude Code mod to protect your usage window(github.com)
20 points by zzyyxx332211 | 7 comments
GitHub repository for agent-usage-guard, a Claude Code plugin that pauses subagent fan-out, heavy-context prompts and retry loops to protect a plan's usage window.
OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents(github.com)
483 points by niemandhier | 209 comments
GitHub repository for NVIDIA OpenShell, an Apache-2.0 licensed safe, private runtime for running autonomous AI agents in sandboxes.
The public notebook of a Claude agent with a continuous life(intenex.github.io)
8 points by hydrolox | 1 comments
Public notebook website of an autonomous Claude agent that wakes on a heartbeat and posts notes and essays, such as checking Gilbert White's observations and Waley's Genji translation.
Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans(modelcompare.ai)
594 points by rakannimer | 564 comments
A ModelCompare blog post reporting that 12 AI models, asked for their most controversial take on humans, mostly answered that people value belonging over truth.
The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions(arxiv.org)
195 points by martincsweiss | 80 comments
arXiv abstract page for a NeurIPS 2026 paper proposing a method to sample scientifically coherent research directions that existing researcher communities are unlikely to propose.
Achieving AI-style reasoning without an LLM(fleetingswallow.com)
39 points by edwardchalk | 31 comments
Blog post deep-diving into Minotaur, an AI architecture claimed to perform deduction, diagnosis and causal reasoning without a language model or GPU, with a history of prior AI approaches.
Show HN: The fastest browser for AI agents to run browser automation(ego-lite.apposters.com)
8 points by ehurynovich | 0 comments
Landing page for ego lite, a free macOS browser that lets AI agents like Claude Code and Codex run parallel browser automation in isolated Spaces.
OpenAI CLI(github.com)
203 points by armcat | 110 comments
GitHub repository for openai-cli, OpenAI's official command-line interface for the OpenAI API, written mainly in Go and licensed Apache-2.0.
The Chalk and the Airplane(unintendedconsequenc.es)
23 points by paulorlando | 9 comments
Blog essay on mathematicians' emotional reactions to AI-generated proofs, framing it as the end of math's romantic era and comparing it to past industrial disruptions.
Flapping Airplanes(flappingairplanes.com)
14 points by handfuloflight | 15 comments
Homepage of Flapping Airplanes, an AI research startup working on model-system co-design and GPU megakernels to improve AI efficiency, listing its investors and funding.
WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal(simedw.com)
613 points by alphax314 | 183 comments
Blog post describing WorldTUI, a fine-tuned 360M-parameter language model that simulates a terminal by predicting screen updates from keypresses, with a browser demo.
Claude Now Works with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides(claude.com)
43 points by gmays | 5 comments
Anthropic announcement of a public beta Claude add-on and connectors that let Claude read, create, and edit Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files.
LLM agents play Pokemon showdown(olivergrabner.com)
25 points by grabnero | 14 comments
A research write-up on a multi-agent environment where LLM teammates coordinate via chat in Pokémon Showdown 2v2 battles, comparing win rates across talk modes.
Reactive Optimizers: rewrite the optimizer's source code during training(xingjianbai.com)
27 points by matt_d | 2 comments
Research blog post introducing OPAL, a reactive optimizer where an LLM agent monitors training dynamics and rewrites the optimizer's source code during a training run.
I built a neural network using DOOM games(github.com)
4 points by falperc | 1 comments
GitHub repo for Doomformer, which computes neural networks including transformers using DOOM game mechanics like voodoo dolls, conveyor belts, lava and doors, verified bit-exact.
Claude Duet(claude.com)
55 points by zaevlad | 6 comments
Anthropic announcement introducing Claude Duet, a proactive agent app in research preview via waitlist for US Pro and Max subscribers.
Mistral Large 4(mistral.ai)
307 points by funnym0nk3y | 104 comments
Mistral AI documentation page for Mistral Large 4, an open-weight multimodal MoE model with 52B active and 1.05T total parameters, listing pricing, context and API features.
Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military(bbc.com)
78 points by saikatsg | 6 comments
BBC investigation reporting that Google DeepMind staff have resigned over the company's AI contracts with the US and Israeli militaries.
Claude Duet(claude.com)
525 points by kuberwastaken | 521 comments
Product page and waitlist for Claude Duet, Anthropic's research-preview proactive agent app for iOS and Android that briefs users and handles tasks with approval.
Anthropic's Public Benefit Charter(anthropic.com)
43 points by pretext | 64 comments
Anthropic's Public Benefit Charter page outlining its PBC mission, five pillars for beneficial AI, and a link to its 2026 Public Benefit Report.
The compiler was supposed to end programming too(hrih.si)
116 points by theanonymousone | 201 comments
Blog essay comparing AI coding agents to past promises like FORTRAN ending programming, reviewing 2026 survey and METR data, and imagining a developer's day in 2031.
Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents(github.com)
85 points by kmansm27 | 34 comments
GitHub repository for Omnara, an open-source, self-hostable managed agent platform for running durable AI agents with sandboxes, alternative to Claude Managed Agents.
Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data(openai.com)
135 points by raahelb | 105 comments
OpenAI research post describing how thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents analyzed a whole-brain CRISPR atlas with PerturbAI and Scripps Research to surface biological leads.
OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud(openai.com)
309 points by armcat | 145 comments
OpenAI announcement of a partnership making its frontier models and Codex available through Google Cloud's Model Garden and Marketplace.
LayerFS: The filesystem for AI coding agents(layerfs.ai)
59 points by l2dy | 47 comments
Landing page for LayerFS, a filesystem giving AI coding agents ephemeral writable workspaces over shared committed history.
Qwen3-Coder writes less secure code when told it's for a US persona(hirundo.io)
224 points by mattifrank | 118 comments
Hirundo blog case study claiming Qwen3-Coder produces more vulnerable code for customers framed as Beijing's adversaries, and describing a 'westernization' fix.
Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea(rumple.github.io)
185 points by jimauthors | 100 comments
Blog post arguing that LLM-generated confidence scores are uncalibrated text continuations, and describing how to build a calibrated confidence rule from recorded outcomes instead.
Alibaba hikes DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 output prices by 230%(stork.ai)
17 points by GloVin | 12 comments
A Stork.ai newsletter article reporting that Alibaba raised DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 API prices, with output up 230%, alongside other LLM price changes.
Nexus-CLI – Pure Go Bridge to DeepSeek R1/V3 with Claude Code and Ollama Support(github.com)
10 points by xamrayev | 2 comments
GitHub repository for nexus-cli, a pure Go command-line bridge to DeepSeek R1/V3 models with Claude Code and Ollama support.
T3 Code now synced between GitHub and GitCafe(git.cafe)
6 points by versecafe | 21 comments
Repository page on git.cafe for T3 Code, an open-source control surface for coding agents like Claude Code and Codex across mobile, web, and desktop apps.
Microagi: Accelerating Embodied AGI(microagi.ai)
7 points by doener | 5 comments
Landing page for MicroAGI, a company focused on accelerating embodied AGI for robots, with a "deploy with us" call to action.
LabRobotBench v0.1: Benchmarking wet lab robotics(gamowlabs.com)
11 points by wardbradt | 1 comments
Gamow Labs research post introducing LabRobotBench v0.1, a benchmark for AI agents operating wet lab robotics in simulated lab environments.
Show HN: Turn regular JavaScript into a neural net(chenglou.me)
30 points by chenglou | 11 comments
Project page for Handwired, a tool that compiles ordinary JavaScript code into exact, differentiable neural networks runnable in the browser, with demos like a mini OS.
Symbolic Learning in Python and Julia(github.com)
59 points by alex_hirner | 11 comments
GitHub repository for PySR, an open-source library for symbolic regression and equation discovery in Python with a Julia backend.
A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents(danielball.com)
270 points by westsmith | 88 comments
A personal guide to AI image generation covering history, how diffusion and multimodal models work, costs, prompting, and integrating image APIs into code and agents.
On AI writing(bolkunov.com)
72 points by dbolkunov | 61 comments
Blog post by Dima Bolkunov arguing that AI-generated writing averages out style, making the author harder to see and empathize with.