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samizdis
2 days ago
Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death
The European rabbit is a common sight in the British countryside today. Yet it was not always so. They are not native to the British Isles and are one of the most devastating invasive specie...
3 DAYS AGO
ZOOBAB
One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux
4 HOURS AGO
ANIGBROWL
Footage of the Flock search that a judge ruled was uncosntitutional
19 HOURS AGO
_MICROFT
Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform
3 DAYS AGO
SWARANGA
Lombok Is Still Relevant in the Age of Java Records
3 DAYS AGO
THEVET
The First Candid
A DAY AGO
FAGNERBRACK
DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
5 HOURS AGO
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Starcraft: Ashfall
4 HOURS AGO
ALEKSANDR_NFA
The Annotated VT100 Firmware
allinonai
9 hours ago
Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
How can we build an agent that thinks beyond human language, yet still acts through it in the external environment? Modern LLM agents still reason and interact through text, while latent reasoning offers an efficient internal medium but lacks native tool access and reasoning transparency. We bridge these two directions with Hybrid Reasoning Agents (HybridAgents), which dynamically navigate between latent reasoning and text-based interaction throughout a unified generation process. Architecturally, a lightweight HybridLink enables seamless transitions between text and latent modes, while the agent's continuous working memory preserves lossless hybrid context across multiple turns. These designs preserve tool-integrated agentic capabilities while making latent thoughts directly inspectable. Building on this architecture, we further develop dedicated post-training algorithms for hybrid reasoning: HybridSFT stabilizes tool-integrated hybrid generation by teaching the backbone to coordinate with HybridLink, then HybridRL scales reasoning by learning when to think in latent space and when to act through text. We evaluate HybridAgent at 3 model scales across 11 benchmarks covering mathematics, science, medicine, search, and agentic reasoning. Compared with frontier LLM Agents and agentic frameworks spanning both text-based and latent methods, HybridAgent consistently improves performance by 10.4%, while delivering 35.5%-54.7% token reduction, 1.8x-2.6x faster inference, and 2.7x-3.7x cost savings. Code and data are available at https://github.com/togethercomputer/HybridAgent.
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RobotToaster
16 hours ago
RepRapMicron
μRepRap - A 3D printer project designed to work at the micron scale - VikOlliver/RepRapMicron...
theanonymousone
an hour ago
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max)
Analysis of DeepSeek's DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), co...
memalign
12 hours ago
PalmOS Lemmings
PalmOS - clone - Lemmings (Lemmings). Contribute to ardiri/palmos-lemmings development by creating an account on GitHub....
tosh
14 hours ago
Someone behind the software
I think good products carry something of the people who make them. Their experience, what they care about, and how they think things should work....
gmays
a day ago
Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky
Picture a shape called 'Bouba'....
zoozla
9 hours ago
Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
A read-only MCP server that lets your AI agent search and read your own WhatsApp messages. Runs on Cloudflare Workers. - finereli/whatsapp-mcp...
iheatuchriswogu
4 hours ago
Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers
Why I built superlite, an autonomous build workflow for Claude Code that doesn't ask permission every four minutes: how it works, how to use it, and the benchmarks....
https://contextfirst.blog/superlite-hand-an-agent-a-spec/
hnisjafx40
15 hours ago
Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching
Java 17 introduced sealed classes, which allow you to explicitly list the allowed sub-types of an interface or base class. For example, here’s a toy example using a sealed interface and reco...
gmays
7 hours ago
How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?
The U.S. munitions industrial base should be rebuilt and recast for modern wars of precision and attrition. What is a realistic timeline for this goal? By analyzing DOD budget documents and ...
colinprince
2 days ago
"Traditional, but Puzzling"
A blog about software craft and quality...
pwg
14 hours ago
The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction
In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087, a chip that made floating-point operations much faster in the IBM PC and other systems. Although the 808......
blacktechnology
2 hours ago
Show HN: Yila – A Codex for Scientific Research
The Codex for research: real papers from OpenAlex, PubMed, arXiv, and Wanfang, across scoping, search, reading, and drafting. Cited reviews, annotated PDFs, and posters....
thegreatpeter
11 hours ago
Personal software factories are a waste of time
Why the last thing you should spend time on is your own software factory....
jsomau
17 hours ago
Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake
The Zelda timeline and Hyrule's history from Creation to the Upheaval. After Ocarina of Time the timeline branches into the child, adult and fallen-hero eras....
keyle
19 hours ago
The Brain Sandwich
The brain sandwich is a practical AI coding workflow: understand the problem, let an agent help, then verify and explain its work before sharing it....