Yesterday · 2 papers
Here be monsters: What do you still need to know when agents do the work?
Owning agent-written code depends on fundamentals, breadth, and diving deep just in time.
AI promised less work. I've never worked more
Running agents in parallel brought my GitHub activity back to full-time engineer levels, and I'm exhausted.
Mon, Oct 26 · 3 papers
Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)
A KV pool smaller than the context window leaked other customers' data into 155 long-prompt responses.
Anthropic S-1
Anthropic filed an S-1 to list Class A shares on Nasdaq as 'ANT'.
Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained
Microsoft's 9B Qwen-based model returns only per-option probabilities for routing and classification.
Sun, Oct 25 · 2 papers
A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
A fine-tuned Inception v3 beat GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 on 200 skin lesions
Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Cerebras fits Kimi K3 (3T) across 59 wafers in a pipeline, serving 1000-2000+ tokens per second
Sat, Oct 24 · 2 papers
America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
US creative-industry jobs fell by over 200k in four years, but AI's share of the blame is hard to prove
No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
Revenue per worker and margins rise at the Mag 7 but stay flat across the S&P 493
Fri, Oct 23 · 1 papers
Thu, Oct 22 · 3 papers
LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale
Claude proved no-crash properties for 123 open-source libraries and found bugs along the way.
Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
HN answers: code is easy, knowing what to build isn't, so they sell tokens instead
OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents
OpenShell uses policy files to control agent file, network, and credential access at kernel level.
Wed, Oct 21 · 7 papers
Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents
Open-source managed agent platform runs agents on any model and machine, self-hostable
Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era
Sixty Markdown files tell coding agents how to build a Rust web app, with no framework code.
PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
Wiz used AI to turn a decade-old PHP core flaw into a working RCE exploit
LayerFS: The filesystem for AI coding agents
Mount an ephemeral workspace per agent, commit only the changes
Launch HN: Alter (YC S25) – Access control for multi-user agents
Alter gives each agent its own identity, policy, and audit trail instead of shared API keys.
Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea
An LLM's self-reported confidence is plausible text, not a measurement; build scores from outside rules.
Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code
Claude scanned 25 open-source projects and found 493 needlessly reachable code issues.