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๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

Your Open Source Model Could Have a Hidden Time-Release Backdoor

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 55 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ Model supply chain trust โ€ข Backdoor detection difficulty โ€ข Open vs proprietary security
๐Ÿ’ฌ "One person's instruct training is another's adversarial training" โ€ข "Running any agent locally and giving it unrestricted access is the security equivalent of posting your credit card on twitter"
โšก BREAKTHROUGH

Etched Sohu vs. Nvidia: Transformer ASIC vs. GPU (2026)

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 2 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ Hardware attention acceleration โ€ข Memory bandwidth limitations โ€ข Unverified claims skepticism
๐Ÿ’ฌ "you still spend most of your time in the matrix multiplications" โ€ข "token generation requires you to read the entire KV cache once per token"
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

OpenOx โ€“ A Protocol for Self-Evolving Agents

๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

Never put an API key in a place your coding agent can read

๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

A real-time LLM stream guard that catches LLM hallucinations mid generation

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Utility Under Attack: Agent Memory Poisoning and the Limits of Content Screening and Provenance Ranking

"Persistent memory makes false information durable: once a false statement is stored, it can be retrieved into future sessions that match it. We measure the cost of this failure mode using plainly worded false assertions generated in a single pass, with no instruction, trigger, or retriever optimizat..."
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: Module for LLM Homeostasis (PoC)

๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

Cryptographic provenance for AI agents from action capture to audit reports

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Growth Without Us: Machine Consumers, Corporate Circularity, and the Decoupling of GDP from Humanity after AGI

"The standard objection to full automation is demand-side: if humans earn nothing, who buys the output? This confuses an accounting role with a biological species. We model a post-AGI economy in which corporations own populations of AI and robotic agents that are both producers and consumers of energ..."
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: Mnemosyne Local hierarchical memory engine for AI agents (MCP Native)

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: ClaudeGate โ€“ Run Claude Code CLI with Any AI Model (DeepSeek, Gemini)

๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

A credential is not authorisation: the missing security boundary for AI agents

๐ŸŽฎ GAMING

I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 28 comments ๐Ÿ GOATED ENERGY
๐ŸŽฏ AI game integration โ€ข Low-latency voice interaction โ€ข Character personality design
๐Ÿ’ฌ "LLMisms fold neatly into dumb but lovable sidekick" โ€ข "World would feel incredibly alive" with NPC context"
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Daedalus-150M: A Convolution-Attention Hybrid Designed for CPU Inference

"Small language models are usually built like large ones and then squeezed onto a CPU afterwards. We did the opposite: we fixed the target first, one user, one token at a time, 4-bit weights, ordinary CPU, and chose the architecture to suit it. The result keeps full attention in only 6 of its 18 bloc..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Personalized Privacy Control in LLMs via Attention Head Intervention

"The rise of agentic AI enables LLMs to access diverse user data, raising critical privacy concerns. Prior work on contextual privacy studies whether LLMs regulate information disclosure according to context-dependent norms. However, acceptable disclosure boundaries may vary across users even within..."
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 132 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ LLM prompt optimization โ€ข Code style pragmatism โ€ข Instruction effectiveness
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Do not confuse activity with progress." โ€ข "Positive phrasing as a default, prefer to tell the model what they should do, and why."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

AI4AI-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents in Algorithmic Design for Recursive Self-Improvement

"Recursive self-improvement (RSI) asks whether an AI system can improve the process that produces AI systems, so that the next system inherits the improvement. That process is the training algorithm: a better objective or update rule improves the compute\mbox{-}capability exchange rate for every subs..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Inducing Task Models from Computer-Use Traces

"Naturalistic computer-use traces, passively recorded screenshots and mouse or keyboard actions, are a valuable resource for deriving symbolic, auditable, and reusable models of how everyday work is done. Such models matter as computer-use agents enter real work, where agents need to learn how tasks..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

MidTool: Mid-training Data Synthesis for Agentic Tool Use

"Mid-training is increasingly recognized as a critical stage for shaping the capabilities of large language models. Recent work has shown that targeted mid-training can strengthen reasoning-intensive abilities such as math and science, and can also improve agentic capabilities in software-engineering..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Pandora's AI Model Routing Box: Efficient Allocation with Costly Value Estimation

"Heterogeneous AI systems composed of multiple models, architectures, harnesses, or inference-time settings can improve quality and efficiency by routing queries to the specialist who can answer most effectively at the lowest cost. Routing requires estimating each specialist's expected return, but th..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

ContractScrub: A benchmark for final review of legal contracts

"Legal work, with its heavy reliance on processing large amounts of text, is often considered one of the domains most exposed to the use of LLMs. Contract ``scrubbing,'' the final review of transactional agreements for errors and inconsistencies, is a particularly suitable task for automation, becaus..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Break It Down, Pass It On: Cross-Task Skill Transfer in LLM Agents

"Large language model (LLM) agents can induce skills from completed tasks and reuse them later to grow more capable with experience. In practice, induced skills may transfer unreliably and can even harm the agent that retrieves them. When agent-induced skills transfer reliably across tasks remains an..."
๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Trustworthy RAG: An Evaluation Agent for Detecting Misinformation and Knowledge Poisoning in Generative AI Systems

"Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) grounds Large Language Model (LLM) outputs in external knowledge, but RAG systems usually trust whatever they retrieve, creating a Security-Reliability Gap: high semantic relevance does not guarantee factual truth. Adversaries exploit this through knowledge poiso..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

CLEAR: Continuous Latent Adapter Routing for Utility-Preserving LLM Safety Alignment

"Improving the safety of large language models (LLMs) often comes at the expense of utility, as globally applied safety tuning may affect model responses to both harmful and benign inputs. We propose \textbf{C}ontinuous \textbf{L}at\textbf{E}nt \textbf{A}dapter \textbf{R}outing (CLEAR), a conditional..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

ConceptGuard: Benchmarking Context-Sensitive Unlearning in Large Language Models

"Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly require selective removal of harmful or sensitive knowledge, called unlearning, yet existing methods and benchmarks fail to evaluate this capability completely. Current approaches rely on disjoint forget and retain sets composed of independent facts, and mea..."
๐Ÿ”„ OPEN SOURCE

I built 270 AI agents in an Obsidian vault โ€“ zero API costs, all open source

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: A way to let agents reliably pay for things

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Task-CoEvolve: Efficient Harness Optimization via Adaptive Validation Task Selection

"We present a novel approach to efficient LLM agent harness optimization through adaptive validation task selection. Harness optimization iteratively rewrites the harness code based on validation performance, enabling substantial performance gains without updating the underlying model weights. Existi..."
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๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ THE WEEK, EDITED

Safety Costs Compute, but Nvidia Will Finance That Too

OpenAI paused training and added 20% safety overhead while Nvidia committed $105B to finance the infrastructure that absorbs it. The arms dealer now underwrites the arms control.

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