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tosh
5 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....
9 HOURS AGO
JSOMAU
Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake
3 HOURS AGO
LOVEWINS
Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse
AN HOUR AGO
TOSH
Netflix vmaf: Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion
11 HOURS AGO
KEYLE
The Brain Sandwich
7 HOURS AGO
SMILELAMP
Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?
2 DAYS AGO
SEIZETHECHEESE
Regex visualized as 3D marble run
9 HOURS AGO
TORUTOFU
Hyper Optimizing Kimi K3 in vLLM
allinonai
an hour 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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gmays
20 hours ago
Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky
Picture a shape called 'Bouba'....
fagnerbrack
15 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:...
hnisjafx40
7 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...
memalign
4 hours ago
PalmOS Lemmings
PalmOS - clone - Lemmings (Lemmings). Contribute to ardiri/palmos-lemmings development by creating an account on GitHub....
dom96
a day ago
I built a programming language that LLMs can't use
I built KillSwitch, an esoteric language designed to confound LLMs and coding agents, and benchmarked the major models against it....
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 ...
RobotToaster
8 hours ago
RepRapMicron
μRepRap - A 3D printer project designed to work at the micron scale - VikOlliver/RepRapMicron...
https://github.com/VikOlliver/RepRapMicron/wiki
_Microft
11 hours ago
Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform
A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform. Contribute to 0x23/MicroManipulatorStepper development by creating an account on GitHub....
MaysonL
19 hours ago
How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
Did you realize the film was actually manipulating you?...
DeepLogin
12 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....
MatiErnst
3 hours ago
Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it's on Steam
Tiny Brutalism is a relaxing diorama building game based on brutalist architecture. Create strange monuments, impossible structures, concrete towers, or just a really big wall. Then explore ...
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....
speckx
2 days ago
You could have invented transformers from memory
Every layer is a memory store...