Other Hacker News

New way of making espresso with ultrasound

Exploration of using ultrasound technology to create espresso, potentially changing the extraction process.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields

A technical look at using Perlin Noise Fields for creative generative art and programming.

Open Source Hacker News

Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org

The community saved the Trinket.io platform by hosting a mirror at trinket.strivemath.org after its shutdown.

Hardware/Chips Hacker News

Commodore Releases Flip Phone

Commodore has released a new flip phone, attempting to revive the brand in the mobile hardware market.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Looking Is Not Picking: An Attention-Segment Account of Tool-Selection Failures in LLM Agents

Research showing that LLM tool-selection failures happen at the decision readout stage rather than due to 'lost-in-the-middle' context issues.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Posterior Twins: Distributional Behavioral Simulation for Enterprise Decisions

Introduction of 'Posterior Twins,' a digital-twin approach for distributional behavioral simulation to improve enterprise decision-making.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

When Agent Automation Becomes Profitable: Quantifying and Insuring Autonomous AI Risk through Trace-Economic Underwriting

A framework for quantifying and insuring autonomous AI risk using 'trace-economic underwriting' based on tool-use traces.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Tensor-Coord: Algebraic Decomposition of Joint Plan Tensors for Conflict-Free Multi-Agent LLM Planning

Tensor-Coord uses multilinear algebra (CP and Tucker decompositions) to prevent conflicts in multi-agent LLM planning.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Steering Emotional Dynamics for Art Therapy: Controllable Narrative Script Generation through Hierarchically Guided LLM Agents

EC-Script is a framework for generating narratives with controlled emotional trajectories to assist in AI-driven art therapy.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Post-Hoc Merging is Not Enough: Many-Shot Model Merging with Loss-Gap Balancing

METIS introduces a loss-aware many-shot model merging protocol to reduce task interference and information erasure in multi-task LLMs.

Other The Verge

After resurrecting an iconic PC brand, Commodore is getting into flip phones

Commodore is being revived by a retro gaming YouTuber, starting with a modern version of the Commodore 64 and expanding into flip phones.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Latent Thought Flow: Efficient Latent Reasoning in Large Language Models

Researchers propose Latent Thought Flow (LTF), a method that moves LLM reasoning into continuous space to reduce inference overhead compared to traditional Chain-of-Thought.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

SpecAlign: Efficient Specification-Grounded Alignment of Large Language Models via Synthetic Data

SpecAlign is introduced as a framework to align LLMs using synthetic data generated directly from structured provider specifications rather than abstract principles.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

State-Grounded Multi-Agent Synthetic Data Generation for Tool-Augmented LLMs

StateGen is a synthetic data generation platform for tool-augmented LLMs that uses an authoritative state manager to eliminate tool-call hallucinations.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Architectural Wisdom: A Framework for Governing Optimization in AI Systems

The authors propose 'architectural wisdom,' a governance layer for AI systems designed to interrogate objectives rather than just optimizing them to prevent structural failures.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

AdaSTORM: Scaling LLM Reasoning on Dynamic Graphs via Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Multi-Agent Collaboration

AdaSTORM is a new framework that enables LLMs to reason on thousand-node dynamic graphs by using adaptive partitioning and multi-agent collaboration.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Exploiting Search in Symbolic Numeric Planning with Patterns

This paper presents a numeric planning procedure based on Symbolic Pattern Planning (SPP) that uses symbolic search to refine patterns for better goal reachability.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Phase-Aware Guidance Injection for Recurrent MAPPO in Assembly-Line Disruption Recovery

A phase-aware guidance injection framework for recurrent MAPPO is proposed to improve disruption recovery in industrial assembly lines using external knowledge.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Medical Heuristic Learning: An LLM-Driven Framework for Interpretable and Auditable Clinical Decision Rules

Medical Heuristic Learning (MHL) is an LLM-driven framework that produces interpretable, versioned Python decision rules for clinical tabular prediction instead of black-box models.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Whose hotel does the AI recommend? An algorithm audit of reputation signals in LLM-assisted hotel selection

An audit of LLM hotel recommendations reveals that guest ratings and price dominate selections, while list position also significantly influences outcomes.