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Reading a small model's confidence instead of its prose

Most model write-ups show you the answer. Very few show you how the thing decided, which is the part I actually need when a script makes a call I disagree with. I have been collecting notes on two runtimes that put the decision in the output: Jev (TypeSafe System One) and Laya , an open decision model you can run on your own machine. The short version of both lives at jev001.org , and the parts I keep coming back to are below. The output is a decision, not a paragraph A ty...
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MCP was always a bad idea?

Article URL: https://maharship.com/blog/why-mcp-was-always-a-bad-idea/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779329 Points: 136 # Comments: 111
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Amiga Unix, Again

Article URL: https://amigaux.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781436 Points: 79 # Comments: 26
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Why Backprop Goes Backward (2018)

Article URL: https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2018/04/15/backprop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781693 Points: 34 # Comments: 5
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Winning the visa lottery

Article URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/research/immigration-restrictions-firms-workers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49782775 Points: 74 # Comments: 50
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Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM

Sorry for the pretentious name, I know, I know.. It just contains all the pieces I would like to see a AGI model to have, and I can't stand the temptation. Before throwing rocks at me, please take a glance at the Readme, and I hope it will cover your mood a little bit. So, first of all it does work and you can see the sample from the whole training run here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/volotat/mini-AGI/refs/head... Here is the scaling law graph I have so far, and it looks very promising:...
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Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

Article URL: http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2008/11/13/GrimPuzzleDoc_small.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783495 Points: 114 # Comments: 20
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Suffix Matching Is Not Authorization: Lessons from CVE-2026-49869 in Kestra

Suffix Matching Is Not Authorization: Lessons from CVE-2026-49869 in Kestra A single string comparison decided whether an HTTP request to a workflow orchestration platform needed credentials. The comparison was endsWith("/configs") . Because the platform allowed caller-controlled resource identifiers in the same URL position, any path that happened to end with those characters skipped authentication. The result, tracked as CVE-2026-49869, was rated CVSS 10.0 and added to CISA's Known Exploi...
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I flew helicopters for a living. If I had to break into Azure again, I'd start with the Cloud Resume Challenge

Quick bit of background so you know who's talking. I didn't do computer science. I flew helicopters for a living for a few years, and at some point I realised the thing I actually wanted to do was build systems, not fly them. So I taught myself, got a foot in the door in enterprise IT, and kept going. That was about nine years ago. The last six have been all Azure, and these days I do cloud and DevSecOps work for a living and run a free bootcamp on the side. I still fly, just for fun now. Peo...
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Your AI Agent Can Call APIs Now

Your AI Agent Can Call APIs Now. Who Is Checking What It Does? The real problem with agentic AI isn't giving an LLM tools. It's controlling what happens after you give it access. Imagine you give an AI agent access to: your GitHub your database Slack Jira AWS email internal company APIs And then you tell it: "Fix the production issue." The agent doesn't just generate text anymore. It can * read data, call APIs, create files, modify code, open pull requests...
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When AI Agents Hammer tools/list: Building a Caching-Aware MCP Server (SEP-2549)

Part 2 of 2. Part 1 covered statelessness; here I tackle caching. Part 1 was about statelessness, now shipped in the 2026-07-28 spec. This time it's another feature from that same spec: caching (SEP-2549, "TTL for List Results") . It adds two tiny fields — ttlMs and cacheScope — to cacheable results, giving clients a way to avoid re-fetching the same discovery data. So I built a server that emits them, pointed real AI clients at it, and watched what actually happened. The result surpr...
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React Native Environment Setup: Managing Dev, Prod, and Staging Builds with Android Flavors and iOS Schemes

If you've worked on a React Native app that has both development and production environments , you probably know how quickly environment management becomes annoying. At the beginning, it usually looks simple: Development → API A Production → API B Then the app grows. Suddenly, you have different: API endpoints Firebase projects Branch environments Payment environments Analytics configuration Push notification configuration Android package names iOS bu...
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Aspera Eureka: The Bengaluru Cargo Plane That Lands on Water and Targets Under $1 per Tonne-Km

Verdict: Aspera Industries, a Bengaluru startup founded in June 2025, has unveiled Eureka, an autonomous amphibious cargo aircraft that takes off and lands on water, carries 1,000 kg over a stated 2,000 km, and targets an operating cost below $1 per tonne-kilometre. If the numbers hold, it sits exactly in the gap between slow, cheap shipping and fast, expensive air freight. The engineering bet (retractable hydrofoils instead of a draggy seaplane hull) is genuinely clever. The proof, certificati...
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GLM-5.3-Flash Explained: The 320B Open-Weight Model With an 18B Brain and a 1M-Token Memory (2026)

Verdict: GLM-5.3-Flash is the most interesting open-weight release of August 2026 not because it wins every benchmark — it doesn't — but because it reaches a near-frontier level of coding and agentic capability while activating only 18 billion of its 320 billion parameters per token, holding a one-million-token context, and shipping under the MIT license. If you build products, agents, or automations on LLMs, this is now the default model to benchmark against before paying frontier prices. ...
What people are building with Jev: a look through nine awesome lists
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What people are building with Jev: a look through nine awesome lists

I went looking for what people had built with Jev. Browser demos were easy to find. So were lists of lists. Getting a sense of the rest took more work. I collected the repository links from nine Jev directory READMEs. After removing repeated URLs and other directory listings, I had 1,186 different repository addresses . That isn't a count of finished apps. It includes experiments, libraries, integrations, and alternative implementations. A renamed repository can also appear under more than o...
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IISc Bengaluru BHEEM Habitat: A Moon Base Bigger Than the ISS That Ships as Panels

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru have published a modular habitat concept called BHEEM (Bhartiya Extraterrestrial Expandable Modular Habitat) that assembles 2,130 cubic metres of living space from just 422 flat panels, more than double the pressurized volume of the International Space Station, which NASA lists at 1,005 cubic metres ( NASA, ISS Facts and Figures ; BHEEM paper, ResearchGate ). The design treats off-world housing as a logistics problem: launch light,...
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A Working CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md Template You Can Copy Today

If you've added a CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md file to your repo and felt like your coding agent still ignores half of it, you're not alone. Most of these files are just vague prose — "write clean code," "follow best practices," "use good error handling" — and vague prose doesn't change agent behavior any more than it changes a new hire's behavior on day one. The fix isn't a longer file. It's a differently structured one. Below is a template you can copy straight into your repo today, plus th...
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You Probably Don’t Need a Backend for That — Modern Browsers Can Do More Than You Think

Developers love building backends. APIs. Databases. Authentication. Servers. Queues. Cloud functions. But sometimes we add a backend simply because that is how we are used to building apps. The truth is: Modern browsers can do much more than many developers realize. For a surprising number of useful tools, you can build the entire product in the browser. No server. No database. No API. No backend bill. And in some cases, the result is actually faster, simpler...
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Building an MCP Server for Your Django App: What We Learned Doing It for Real

MCP — the Model Context Protocol — has gone from a niche Anthropic spec to something every AI-forward team is talking about. The pitch is simple: instead of writing custom tool integrations for every agent you build, you expose your application's capabilities as an MCP server, and any MCP-compatible client (Claude, Cursor, your own agent) can use them. We have been building MCP servers for client Django applications for a few months now. This post is what we learned — not a hello-world walkth...
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Show HN: AI Adoption Survey (Census)

Article URL: https://www.crawlspider.com/pages/ai-adoption-rate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780915 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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My AI Kept Pushing Me to Ship, So I Asked It Why

Article URL: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/my-ai-kept-pushing-me-to-ship-so-i-asked-it-why/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781131 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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AI Netscape – 1997 Chrome, 2026 AI

Article URL: https://ainetscape.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781212 Points: 2 # Comments: 2