📚 HISTORICAL ARCHIVE - October 18, 2025

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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

🤖 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

⬆️ 167 ups ⚡ Score: 7.8

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

💬 Reddit Discussion: 28 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 Open data usage • Model performance gaps • Transparency in research

💬 "No gap will be closed with proprietary models using _fully open data_" • "very few people who fine-tune actually share their datasets"

⚡ 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

💰 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"

🛠️ SHOW HN

MCP integration with browsers/testing

2x SOURCES 🌐 📅 2025-10-17

⚡ Score: 7.4

+++ AI agents graduated from fake test scripts to actually piloting live Chromium instances, which means your QA workflows just got delightfully over-engineered in the best possible way. +++

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?"

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"

🔬 RESEARCH

Open-source self-learning agent framework

2x SOURCES 🌐 📅 2025-10-18

⚡ Score: 7.2

+++ Researchers open-sourced a self-improving agent framework that learns from execution feedback instead of requiring retraining, which is either revolutionary or just prompt engineering with extra steps depending on your cynicism level. +++

[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

⬆️ 18 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..."

🔒 SECURITY

ChatGPT led someone halfway across the world with misinformation

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

⬆️ 1494 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: 240 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 Misuse of AI | Lack of judgment | Divorce and custody battles

💬 "more money than sense" • "Respectfully, maybe somebody with that poor judgment shouldn't be responsible for kids"

🛠️ 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'..."

🔧 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"

🔬 RESEARCH

What Research Says About "AI Sycophancy"

via HackerNews 👤 jruohonen 📅 2025-10-18

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

🎯 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

🔬 RESEARCH

LLMs as Scalable, General-Purpose Simulators For Evolving Digital Agent Training

via Arxiv 👤 Yiming Wang, Da Yin, Yuedong Cui et al. 📅 2025-10-16

⚡ Score: 6.6

"Digital agents require diverse, large-scale UI trajectories to generalize across real-world tasks, yet collecting such data is prohibitively expensive in both human annotation, infra and engineering perspectives. To this end, we introduce $\textbf{UI-Simulator}$, a scalable paradigm that generates s..."

📈 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."

🔧 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

🔬 RESEARCH

TokDrift: When LLM Speaks in Subwords but Code Speaks in Grammar

via Arxiv 👤 Yinxi Li, Yuntian Deng, Pengyu Nie 📅 2025-10-16

⚡ Score: 6.5

"Large language models (LLMs) for code rely on subword tokenizers, such as byte-pair encoding (BPE), learned from mixed natural language text and programming language code but driven by statistics rather than grammar. As a result, semantically identical code snippets can be tokenized differently depe..."

🏢 BUSINESS

WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants of OpenAI, Perplexity, others

via Techmeme 👤 Techcrunch 📅 2025-10-18

⚡ Score: 6.4

🧠 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..."

Stories from October 18, 2025

MCP integration with browsers/testing

Open-source self-learning agent framework

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