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tosh
7 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....
7 HOURS AGO
PWG
The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction
12 HOURS AGO
_MICROFT
Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform
20 HOURS AGO
MAYSONL
How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
2 HOURS AGO
BOBBYCOLEMAN-DE
Show HN: OmniPTY – Opinionated terminal emulator for macOS and Linux
12 HOURS AGO
KEYLE
The Brain Sandwich
4 HOURS AGO
MATIERNST
Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it's on Steam
A DAY AGO
DOM96
I built a programming language that LLMs can't use
2 DAYS AGO
SPECKX
You could have invented transformers from memory
allinonai
2 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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memalign
5 hours ago
PalmOS Lemmings
PalmOS - clone - Lemmings (Lemmings). Contribute to ardiri/palmos-lemmings development by creating an account on GitHub....
zoobab
2 days ago
One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux
A vulnerability in Broadcom’s proprietary WPS implementation enables unauthenticated attackers within WiFi range to leak memory and achieve unauthenticated remote code execution on millions ...
rbanffy
3 days ago
They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went worse than you think
Solar geoengineering could buy humanity time against climate change—or trigger a dangerous new arms race. A first-of-its-kind simulation offered a glimpse of what happens when geopolitics ta...
gmays
a day ago
Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky
Picture a shape called 'Bouba'....
zoozla
2 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...
fagnerbrack
16 hours ago
DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
The Search API and the Fetch API give agents and RAG applications access to live web content:...
RobotToaster
9 hours ago
RepRapMicron
μRepRap - A 3D printer project designed to work at the micron scale - VikOlliver/RepRapMicron...
https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
jsomau
10 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....
lovewins
5 hours ago
Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse
10,296 foreclosure suits by Florida HOAs against their own members, 460,412 liens on homes, 48,999 court records, 6,661 associations out of standing: how…...
tosh
2 hours ago
Netflix vmaf: Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion
Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion. - Netflix/vmaf...
DeepLogin
13 hours ago
Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions
Allowing scraped content to be used for all "advertising and business products" is a substantial expansion of Meta's permissions....
smilelamp
8 hours ago
Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?
[This is a guest post by Francesco Maggi. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Large language models (LLMs) and the research systems ...
Thevet
2 days ago
Geographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries (1868)
Series of fantastic anthropomorphic maps of European countries, each footnoted by a witty quatrain, was produced by London publisher Hodder and Stoughton in the 1860s....
seizethecheese
2 days ago
Regex visualized as 3D marble run
Your regex as a 3D marble run. Watch catastrophic backtracking happen....