Tech Business/VC Hacker News

Dexter (YC F24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in Berlin

Dexter (YC F24) is seeking a founding engineer to join their team in Berlin.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Hacker News

Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers

Pine64 has released a $50 smart speaker designed specifically for Home Assistant tinkerers.

Other Hacker News

Register Korea's First PC 'SE-8001' as a National Important Material

South Korea is designating its first PC, the SE-8001, as a National Important Material.

Other The Verge

Fujifilm launches two new QuickSnap cameras because Gen Z can’t get enough

Fujifilm is launching new disposable QuickSnap cameras, including a monochrome version, targeting Gen Z interest in retro film.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Creating Intelligence: A Computational Foundation for AGI

A new computational theory of mind uses set theory and hyperdimensional computing to model biological neural codes with sparse binary data, potentially enabling energy-efficient in-memory hardware.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Adaptive Cluster-First Route-Second Decomposition for Industrial-Scale Vehicle Routing

A new adaptive system uses LLMs as high-level decision makers to optimize large-scale vehicle routing problems (CVRP) for industrial logistics.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

An Agentic AI Framework to Accelerate Scientific Discovery in Plant Phenotyping

An agentic AI framework is introduced to automate plant phenotyping and trait extraction, utilizing Vision Transformers and exascale computing.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Harnessing Textual Refusal Directions for Multimodal Safety

The MARS framework introduces a training-free approach to multimodal safety by leveraging textual refusal directions from LLM backbones to prevent unsafe outputs across images and video.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

TreeAgent: A Generalizable Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Bias Labeling in Forestry via Compiled Expert Rules and Vision-Language Models

TreeAgent is a multi-agent framework that combines expert decision trees with VLMs to automate bias labeling in forestry remote sensing.

Open Source Hacker News

Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

The Godot game engine has announced a policy to reject code contributions authored by AI.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

Google's updated reCAPTCHA mechanism is being criticized for requiring excessive biometric data, including camera access and hand scanning.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Single header Parser Combinators for C

A new single-header parser combinator library for the C programming language is being introduced.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

Cleared by the US, derailed by the UK: Getty’s Shutterstock merger falls apart

The proposed $3.7 billion merger between Getty Images and Shutterstock has collapsed due to regulatory hurdles in the UK.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

FARS: A Fully Automated Research System Deployed at Scale

FARS is an automated AI-driven research system that autonomously generates, executes, and writes research papers across various AI/ML topics.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Arena-T2I Hard: Benchmarking and Improving Faithfulness with Dependency-Aware Checklist

Arena-T2I Hard is a new benchmark designed to evaluate the faithfulness of text-to-image models using a dependency-aware checklist.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

A Self-Evolving Agentic System for Automated Generation and Execution of Biological Protocols

ProtoPilot is a multi-agent system designed to autonomously generate, execute, and revise biological research protocols using wet-lab automation.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Evo-PI: Aligning Medical Reasoning via Evolving Principle-Guided Supervision

Evo-PI is a framework that uses principle-guided supervision to iteratively evolve reasoning capabilities in large multimodal models.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

RAISE: LLM-based Automated Heuristic Design with Robust Adversary Instance Search

RAISE is a framework that uses LLM-based evolutionary search to design robust heuristics that are resistant to distribution shifts.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Large Databases Need Small, Open-Weight Language Models

Researchers demonstrate that small, open-weight language models can significantly reduce costs and latency when integrated with large databases.

Hardware/Chips Hacker News

Homemade Transistor from Cadmium Sulfide Photocell (2009)

A project showcasing the creation of a homemade transistor using a cadmium sulfide photocell.