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🧠 NEURAL NETWORKS

Reap: One-Shot Pruning for Trillion-Parameter Mixture-of-Experts Models

via HackerNews 👤 todsacerdoti 📅 2025-10-18

🔺 3 pts ⚡ Score: 7.9

🔮 FUTURE

Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more

via Techmeme 👤 Dwarkesh 📅 2025-10-17

⚡ Score: 7.8

🧠 NEURAL NETWORKS

Stanford's Agentic Context Engineering Implementation

2x SOURCES 🌐 📅 2025-10-18

⚡ Score: 7.7

+++ Stanford's "Agentic Context Engineering" gets open-sourced: three-agent system learns from its own mistakes instead of requiring fine-tuning, because apparently self-improvement through reflection scales better than just throwing more parameters at it. +++

[P] Open-Source Implementation of "Agentic Context Engineering" Paper - Agents that improve by learning from their own execution feedback

via r/MachineLearning 👤 u/cheetguy 📅 2025-10-18

⬆️ 31 ups ⚡ Score: 7.3

"We implemented Stanford's recent "Agentic Context Engineering" paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04618) and open-sourced it. Instead of fine-tuning, agents curate their own context by learning from execution feedback. Three-agent system (Generator, Reflector, Curator) builds a "playbook" of strate..."

⚡ BREAKTHROUGH

Compiler optimizations for 5.8ms GPT-OSS-120B inference (not on GPUs)

via HackerNews 👤 olibaw 📅 2025-10-17

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.7

⚡ BREAKTHROUGH

We Asked AI to Design Systems Algorithms. It Beat Us in 12 Hours for <$20

via HackerNews 👤 accheng 📅 2025-10-17

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 7.6

🛠️ SHOW HN

Show HN: We packaged an MCP server inside Chromium

via HackerNews 👤 felarof 📅 2025-10-17

🔺 16 pts ⚡ Score: 7.5

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 8 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 Session handling • Anti-bot detection • Comparison to existing tools

💬 "how do you manage auth state conflicts when multiple agents interact with the same logged-in session simultaneously?" • "Are you modifying specific Chromium fingerprinting APIs or taking a different approach?"

💰 FUNDING

OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months

via HackerNews 👤 chilipepperhott 📅 2025-10-17

🔺 210 pts ⚡ Score: 7.5

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 190 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 US Exceptionalism • Circular Financing • Sustainability of Growth

💬 "I'm beginning to wonder if America is actually a giant Ponzi scheme" • "A lot of recent US growth is a bit of smoke and mirrors"

🔒 SECURITY

ChatGPT led someone halfway across the world with misinformation

via r/ChatGPT 👤 u/Boingo_Zoingo 📅 2025-10-18

⬆️ 1815 ups ⚡ Score: 7.2

"I run a wedding chapel in Las Vegas. Last week a couple flew in from Spain on the advice from chatGPT. They wanted to get married. They were already married in Russia. The state would not issue them a marriage license because they were already married. They wanted to do this because they could not..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 285 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED

🎯 Misuse of AI Technology • Lack of Legal Judgment • Blind Faith in AI

💬 "I have a friend who's been exclusively using chat gpt to handle his divorce" • "Respectfully, maybe somebody with that poor judgment shouldn't be responsible for kids anyway"

🔬 RESEARCH

What Research Says About "AI Sycophancy"

via HackerNews 👤 jruohonen 📅 2025-10-18

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

🛠️ TOOLS

Claude Skills lets you teach AI your process once and stop rewriting prompts - here's the practical playbook

via r/claudeai 👤 u/ollie_la 📅 2025-10-18

⬆️ 73 ups ⚡ Score: 7.0

"If you're paying $25 per user per month for AI and people are still copying prompts from Slack, you have a systems problem. Claude's just-launched Skills solves it by turning your tribal knowledge into reusable playbooks. Here's how to pilot this with your team in three days. [https://www.smithstep..."

🛠️ TOOLS

An MCP to improve your coding agent with better memory using code indexing and accurate semantic search

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/lemon07r 📅 2025-10-18

⬆️ 10 ups ⚡ Score: 7.0

"A while back, I stumbled upon a comment from u/abdul_1998_17 about a tool called PAMPA (link to comment). It's an "augmented memory" MCP server that indexes your codebase with embeddings and a reranker for accurate semantic search. I'..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 3 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY

🎯 Code chunking strategies • Leveraging language server protocol • Integrating advanced embedding models

💬 "Looks like you've done that. How do you deal with chunks that could exceed the context of the embedding model?" • "Are you augmenting the verbatim chunk with additional context?"

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

Making Every Windows 11 PC an AI PC

via HackerNews 👤 JamesAdir 📅 2025-10-17

🔺 18 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 22 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 Microsoft Copilot Integrations • Windows 11 Bloatware • Windows 11 LTSC Alternative

💬 "I feel like Microsoft has no idea what they're doing with Copilot" • "It's totally inconsistent and missing integrations"

🛠️ TOOLS

Claude Code + Playwright MCP = real browser testing inside Claude

via r/claudeai 👤 u/Orange_This 📅 2025-10-17

⬆️ 6 ups ⚡ Score: 6.9

"I’ve been messing around with the new Playwright MCP inside Claude Code and it’s honestly wild. It doesn’t just simulate tests or spit out scripts — it actually opens a live Chromium browser that you can watch while it runs your flow. I set it up to test my full onboarding process: signup → ver..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 9 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 Browser automation tools • Playwright vs Chrome DevTools MCP • Debugging and testing

💬 "Playwright is powerful and I was excited to try" • "Playwright MCP feels smoother for full test runs"

🎯 PRODUCT

Developer Mode with full MCP connectors now in ChatGPT Beta

via r/cursor 👤 u/anonomotorious 📅 2025-10-17

⬆️ 1 ups ⚡ Score: 6.8

"Official OpenAI announcement or research publication."

🎭 MULTIMODAL

Multilingual Document Parsing via a 0.9B Vision-Language Model

via HackerNews 👤 meander_water 📅 2025-10-18

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 6.7

📈 BENCHMARKS

Using llamacpp and RCP, managed to improve promt processing by 4x times (160 t/s to 680 t/s) and text generation by 2x times (12.67 t/s to 22.52 t/s) by changing the device order including RPC. GLM 4.

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/panchovix 📅 2025-10-17

⬆️ 101 ups ⚡ Score: 6.6

"Hello guys, hoping you're having a good day. As you know, llamacpp has RPC since time ago. I have 2 PCs in my home: My "Server": * AM5 MSI X670E Carbon * AMD Ryzen 9 9900X * 192GB DDR5 6000Mhz CL32 * 7 GPUs * 5090x2 * 4090x2 * A6000 * 3090x2 * MCX314A-BCCT 40Gbps NIC (totally overkil..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 28 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY

🎯 Hardware configurations • Network performance optimization • Trade-offs in remote procedure calls

💬 "X16 split into X8/X4/X4 5.0 from CPU" • "RPC is not without loss. Even if the RPC device is set inside the same machine, you will be losing performance compared to no RPC."

🤖 AI MODELS

Bee-8B, "fully open 8B Multimodal LLM designed to close the performance gap with proprietary models"

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/beneath_steel_sky 📅 2025-10-18

⬆️ 190 ups ⚡ Score: 6.5

"Hugging Face model, dataset, or community resource."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 35 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 Proprietary models • Open data sharing • Pseudonymous research

💬 "No gap will be closed with proprietary models using fully open data" • "It just cannot be done by groups and researchers with a career and reputation to defend"

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

Nvidia and TSMC unveil the first Blackwell chip wafer made in the US, which will eventually become Blackwell chips

via Techmeme 👤 Axios 📅 2025-10-17

⚡ Score: 6.5

🧠 NEURAL NETWORKS

Diagnosing layer sensitivity during post training quantization

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/elinaembedl 📅 2025-10-17

⬆️ 26 ups ⚡ Score: 6.4

"I have written a blog post on using layerwise PSNR to diagnose where models break during post-training quantization. Instead of only checking output accuracy, layerwise metrics let you spot exactly which layers are sensitive (e.g. softmax, SE blocks), making it easier to debug and decide what to ke..."

⚡ BREAKTHROUGH

From shaky phone footage to 3D worlds (discussion of a research paper)

via r/computervision 👤 u/PiotrAntonik 📅 2025-10-18

⬆️ 7 ups ⚡ Score: 6.2

"A team from Google DeepMind used videos taken with their phones for 3D reconstruction — a breakthrough that won the Best Paper Honorable Mention at CVPR 2025. Full reference : Li, Zhengqi, et al. “[MegaSaM: Accurate, fast and robust structure and motion from casual dynamic videos.](https://openacce..."

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Stanford's Agentic Context Engineering Implementation

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