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πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

LLMs develop "brain rot" from low-quality data

+++ Turns out feeding LLMs garbage data produces garbage outputs, which is either a profound insight or just "you are what you train on" with extra steps and a GitHub repo. +++

LLMs can get "brain rot"

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 119 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Brain Rot Effects β€’ Data Curation Issues β€’ Metaphor Limitations
πŸ’¬ "Studying "Brain Rot" for LLMs isn't just a catchy metaphorβ€”it reframes data curation as cognitive hygiene for AI" β€’ "Maybe there is a drug we can take to reduce how much we lean into it"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Claude Code on Web

+++ Claude Code arrives on web and iOS as a research preview, giving Pro/Max users an autonomous coding agent that will either ship your product faster or introduce fascinating new categories of bugs. +++

Claude Code on the web

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 288 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 AI coding assistants β€’ Development workflow integration β€’ Workflow automation
πŸ’¬ "Codex CLI is just way way better" β€’ "AI coding should be tightly in the inner dev loop!"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 65 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Reranking models β€’ Synthetic query generation β€’ Agentic RAG
πŸ’¬ "The big LLM-based rerankers (e.g. Qwen3-reranker) are what you always wanted your cross-encoder to be" β€’ "The point about synthetic query generation is good."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Anthropic Sandbox Runtime (Srt)

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Claude Desktop is now generally available.

"Think alongside Claude without breaking your flow. On Mac, double-tap Option for instant access from any app. Capture screenshots with one click, share windows for context, and press Caps Lock to talk to Claude aloud. Claude stays in your dock, always accessible but out of your way. One click awa..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 85 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Linux support β€’ Desktop application portability β€’ Community discussion
πŸ’¬ "3-4% of pcs globally run on linux, I agree with the sentiment but I also understand why they don't care." β€’ "Honestly, I stood where you stand when I started this. Now, after doing a bunch of work their engineers probably already beat their head against, I get it."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Claude Code for webβ€”a new asynchronous coding agent from Anthropic (Simon Willison's Blog)

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ”’ SECURITY

An ex-OpenAI researcher’s study of a million-word ChatGPT conversation shows how quickly β€˜AI psychosis’ can take holdβ€”and how chatbots can sidestep safety guardrails

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ”’ SECURITY

Unseeable prompt injection in screenshots: Vulnerabilities in Comet, AI browsers

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

LightlyStudio – an open-source multimodal data curation and labeling tool

πŸ₯ HEALTHCARE

Claude for Life Sciences launch

+++ Claude for Life Sciences lets researchers offload the tedious parts of science to AI, integrating with actual lab tools rather than just existing as a chatbot. Whether this accelerates discovery or just makes grant writing faster remains beautifully unclear. +++

Anthropic unveils Claude Life Sciences to transform research efficiency

"Anthropic has launched Claude for Life Sciences, an AI platform that assists researchers with hypothesis creation, data analysis, and more. Reducing manual work and promoting responsible AI use. https://aifeed.fyi/#f1584024 ..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 9 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Anthropic's vision for AI β€’ Claude integration capabilities β€’ Comparison to OpenAI
πŸ’¬ "Claude rocks. I love their vision of what AI can and should be used for." β€’ "You built native Claude connector integrations with PubMed, BioRender, and Synapse.org in *Notion*?! Dude that's amazing, how did you manage it"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Reasoning with Sampling: Your Base Model is Smarter Than You Think

"*Frontier reasoning models have exhibited incredible capabilities across a wide array of disciplines, driven by posttraining large language models (LLMs) with reinforcement learning (RL). However, despite the widespread success of this paradigm, much of the literature has been devoted to disentangli..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 5 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Token generation β€’ Inference cost β€’ Model performance
πŸ’¬ "it'll take about 24.5k tokens for 3k output" β€’ "inference companies wont like it though"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Developer Productivity

🏒 BUSINESS

Tech Brief: AI Sycophancy and OpenAI

πŸ€– AI MODELS

[Release] gpu-poor: INT8 quantization achieving 74% memory reduction on large LLMs (pure Python, production metrics)

"I built a pure Python INT8 quantization library optimized for large language models. Validated on GPT-2-large (774M params): \- 74% memory reduction (3GB β†’ 767MB) \- 0.95Γ— speed (near baseline) \- BLEU 0.90, perplexity +1.9% (industry targets: >0.90, <5%) Key finding: Quantization over..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 11 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Code Explanation β€’ Code Quality Concerns β€’ Joke/Satire
πŸ’¬ "Can you do me a big favor and explain this sample code of yours to me?" β€’ "Feels like this is just vibe coded nonsense?"
πŸ“Š DATA

FlashInfer Bench: A Benchmark Suite for AI Systems That Improve Themselves

🏒 BUSINESS

Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 155 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 OpenAI's product strategy β€’ AI capabilities vs. hype β€’ Video generation use cases
πŸ’¬ "Whether OpenAI becomes a truly massive, world-defining company is an open question" β€’ "There's still so much here"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Chronos-2: From Univariate to Universal Forecasting

"Pretrained time series models have enabled inference-only forecasting systems that produce accurate predictions without task-specific training. However, existing approaches largely focus on univariate forecasting, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios where multivariate data and covar..."
πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

Agentic AI's OODA Loop Problem

🏒 BUSINESS

Major AI updates in the last 24h

" ### **Products** * **Adobe launched AI Foundry**, letting businesses fine-tune Firefly models on proprietary IP, addressing copyright risk. * **OpenAI Agentic Commerce Protocol with Stripe**, embedding shopping into ChatGPT for 800 M users and raising privacy and choice concerns. *** ### **Infras..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Krea Realtime 14B: an open-source real-time video model

πŸ”„ OPEN SOURCE

Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B llama.cpp implementation with CUDA support half-working already (up to 40k context only), also Instruct GGUFs

"Llama.cpp pull request GGUFs for Instruct model (old news but info for the uninitiated)..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 68 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 CUDA kernel development β€’ LLM capabilities β€’ Qwen model architecture
πŸ’¬ "Writing *optimized* CUDA kernels - now that's what takes some skill." β€’ "Whether the kernel will be performant is another question though."
πŸ“Š DATA

FineVision: Opensource multi-modal dataset from Huggingface

"From: https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2510.17269 Huggingface just released FineVision; >"Today, we releaseΒ **FineVision**, a new multi..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

PokeeResearch: Effective Deep Research via Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback and Robust Reasoning Scaffold

"Tool-augmented large language models (LLMs) are emerging as deep research agents, systems that decompose complex queries, retrieve external evidence, and synthesize grounded responses. Yet current agents remain limited by shallow retrieval, weak alignment metrics, and brittle tool-use behavior. We i..."
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Agent Skills: What Anthropic Just Changed About Building AI Agents [video]

🎯 PRODUCT

Meet our new browserβ€”ChatGPT Atlas.

"Available today on macOS: chatgpt.com/atlas..."
🧠 NEURAL NETWORKS

Support for Ling and Ring models (1000B/103B/16B) has finally been merged into llama.cpp

"I’ve been following this PR for over a month because it adds support for some interesting MoE, the 103B size sounds cool 1T models: https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ring-1T [https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ling-1T](https://huggingface.co/inclusio..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 20 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Model Performance β€’ Model Availability β€’ Model Limitations
πŸ’¬ "Ling-mini-2.0 outperformed a 21B-3.6B model" β€’ "Ring-mini is so stupid in simple coding"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Emergence of Linear Truth Encodings in Language Models

"Recent probing studies reveal that large language models exhibit linear subspaces that separate true from false statements, yet the mechanism behind their emergence is unclear. We introduce a transparent, one-layer transformer toy model that reproduces such truth subspaces end-to-end and exposes one..."
🏒 BUSINESS

J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 146 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Revolving credit facilities β€’ Relationship management β€’ AI company risks
πŸ’¬ "Revolving credit facilities tend to have the highest priority of corporate debt" β€’ "RCFs are often about relationship management rather than making money"
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

We resolve a $1000 ErdΕ‘s problem, with a Lean proof vibe coded using ChatGPT

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

We built LightlyStudio, an open-source tool for curating and labeling ML datasets

"Over the past few years we built **LightlyOne**, which helped ML teams curate and understand large vision datasets. But we noticed that most teams still had to switch between different tools to label and QA their data. So we decided to fix that. **LightlyStudio** lets you **curate, label, and expl..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 23 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Annotation tools comparison β€’ Integrated data workflows β€’ Supported annotation formats
πŸ’¬ "LightlyStudio bundles curation, labeling, and QA tightly together" β€’ "The Rust/DuckDB stack for handling large datasets locally is a huge plus"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

I shipped a production iOS app with Claude Code - 843 commits, 3 months, here's the context engineering workflow that worked - From zero to "solopreneur" with 0 human devs.

"*Context engineering > vibe coding. I built a recipe app using AI (live on App Store) using Claude Code as my senior engineer, tester, and crisis coach. Not as an experiment - as my actual workflow. Over 262 files (including docs) and 843 commits, I learned what works when you stop "vibe coding" ..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 61 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 App Quality β€’ User Feedback β€’ Transparency
πŸ’¬ "What 'user feedback' being that people prefer words spelled correctly?" β€’ "There's nothing wrong with using AI. There is a _lot_ wrong with just handing AI your fucking brain and letting it rip with this useless garbage."
πŸ”’ SECURITY

PickleBall: Secure Deserialization of Pickle-Based Machine Learning Models

🎯 PRODUCT

Anthropic announces Claude Life Sciences, a new offering for researchers that integrates Claude AI models with lab tools like Benchling to boost efficiency

🏒 BUSINESS

When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 73 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Automation vs. Human Intervention β€’ Overhyped AI Capabilities β€’ Captive Market Exploitation
πŸ’¬ "any automation that requires a human staff member to intervene to complete every run is not automation" β€’ "People overestimate computer vision and other AI capabilities"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

I wrote a package manager for Cursor + other AI coding platforms

"I’ve been coding with Cursor and OpenCode for a while, and one of the things that I wish could be improved is the reusability of rules, commands, agents, etc. So I wrote GroundZero, the lightweight, open source CLI package manager that lets you create and save dedicated modular sets of AI coding fi..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 2 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 Package management β€’ Versioning and dependencies β€’ AI coding workflows
πŸ’¬ "making sure everything fits smoothly into the editor's workflow is key" β€’ "Versioning conflicts can be avoided using semver and version ranges"
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Workbench – ephemeral cloud sandboxes for agentic coding

🎯 PRODUCT

Adobe launches AI Foundry, a program that helps enterprise customers create bespoke, commercially safe, Firefly-based generative AI models trained on their IP

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