Other Hacker News

How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner

A personal account detailing the experience of living as a foreigner in North Korea for three years.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space

Former OpenAI executive Kevin Weil has joined the board of Stoke Space, signaling a trend of AI leadership moving into the reusable rocket industry.

Hardware/Chips The Verge

The Steam Machine fits my TV, my desk, and my life

A review of the Steam Machine, highlighting its ability to integrate a Steam library across different devices despite some drawbacks.

AI/ML VentureBeat

Slack’s Slackbot can now pull your CRM data, generate charts, and send DocuSigns — all from a chat message.

Slack integrates Salesforce CRM data and Tableau analytics into Slackbot using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling 'multiplayer AI' orchestration.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Learning 4D Geometric Priors for Inference-Efficient World Action Models

MECo-WAM is introduced to improve robotic manipulation by injecting 4D geometric priors into video-action representations without increasing inference cost.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Breaking Structural Isolation: Scalable Graph Clustering via Community-Aware Sampling and Structural Entropy

The SCISE framework is proposed for scalable unsupervised graph clustering, using community-aware sampling and structural entropy to maintain topological integrity.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

KAT-Coder-V2.5 Technical Report

KAT-Coder-V2.5 is an agentic coding model trained in executable repositories using an end-to-end post-training framework for autonomous software engineering.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Binocular Gaze Estimation with Single Camera and Single Light Source

A new gaze estimation method is proposed using only one camera and one light source by introducing a 'virtual light source' and virtual glints.

Hardware/Chips arXiv cs.AI

Is Your NPU Ready for LLMs? Dissecting the Hidden Efficiency Bottlenecks in Mobile LLM Inference

A cross-layer study of mobile LLM inference reveals significant efficiency bottlenecks in NPUs and introduces PowerBench for fine-grained energy profiling.

Other Hacker News

We Got This Wrong. and We Are Fixing It

A Hacker News thread discussing a correction or a pivot in a project or approach.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

List of European organizations that have banned personal messaging apps at work

A list of European organizations that have banned the use of personal messaging apps in professional settings.

Software Engineering Hacker News

NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta

Introduction to NoiseLang, a language where N=5 is a Dirac delta, likely focusing on esoteric mathematical or programming concepts.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

The robotaxi law that could ban Tesla

New Jersey lawmakers are considering a bill that could require sensors like lidar and radar for autonomous vehicles, potentially impacting Tesla's camera-only approach.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Learning to Control LLM Agent Harnesses with Offline Reinforcement Learning

Researchers propose using offline reinforcement learning to optimize the execution harness of LLM agents, treating the harness as a learnable control layer.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

AdaStop: Cost-Aware Early Stopping for DNN Test Selection

AdaStop introduces a cost-aware early stopping framework for deep neural network test selection to optimize labeling budgets.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Evaluating calibrated refusal and safe usefulness in dual-use biology settings

BioSecBench-Refusal is a new benchmark for evaluating the risk identification and refusal behavior of AI agents in dual-use biology settings.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Learnable Weighting of Intra-Attribute Distances for Categorical Data Clustering with Nominal and Ordinal Attributes

A new clustering algorithm is proposed that learnably weights intra-attribute distances for categorical data containing both nominal and ordinal attributes.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

CanvasAgent: Enabling Complex Image Creation and Editing via Visual Tool Orchestration

CanvasAgent is a tool-augmented multimodal agent for complex image creation and editing, trained on the new CanvasCraft dataset.

AI/ML Hacker News

Geosql: A Claude/Codex skill for geospatial data

Introduction of Geosql, a tool designed as a skill for Claude/Codex to handle geospatial data queries more effectively.

Open Source Hacker News

EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why

The Carbon engine used in EVE Online has been made open source by Fenris Creations.