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May 12, 2026 04:00
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🌐 Web Findings

🤗 HuggingFace Papers 62

Test-time scaling has become an effective paradigm for improving the reasoning ability of large language models by allocating additional computation during inference. Recent…
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Speculative decoding speeds up autoregressive generation in Large Language Models (LLMs) through a two-step procedure, where a lightweight draft model proposes tokens which the…
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This paper proposes a novel approach to address the challenge that pretrained VLA models often fail to effectively improve performance and reduce adaptation costs during standard…
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Memory is a critical component of robotic intelligence, as robots must rely on past observations and actions to accomplish long-horizon tasks in partially observable environments.…
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While Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) scales model capacity without proportionally increasing computation, its massive total parameter footprint creates significant storage and…
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Recent deepfake detection methods demonstrate improved cross-dataset generalization, yet the underlying mechanisms remain underexplored. We introduce the Alpha Blending…
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A LaTeX manuscript that compiles without error is not necessarily publication-ready. The resulting PDFs frequently suffer from misplaced floats, overflowing equations,…
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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) struggle with numerical regression under long-tailed target distributions. Token-level supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and point-wise…
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We present Qwen-Image-2.0, an omni-capable image generation foundation model that unifies high-fidelity generation and precise image editing within a single framework. Despite…
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Large language model agents increasingly rely on external skills to solve complex tasks, where skills act as modular units that extend their capabilities beyond what parametric…
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LLM-powered multi-agent systems can now automate the full research pipeline from ideation to paper writing, but a fundamental question remains: automation for whom? Researchers…
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Commercial video generation systems such as Seedance2.0 and Veo3.1 have rapidly improved, strengthening the view that video generators may be evolving into "world simulators." Yet…
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We introduce Shepherd, a functional programming model that formalizes meta-agent operations on target agents as functions, with core operations mechanized in Lean. Shepherd…
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Memory consolidation, the process by which transient experiences are transformed into stable, structured representations, is a foundational organizing principle in the human…
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Recent advances in 3D generative models have rapidly improved image-to-3D synthesis quality, enabling higher-resolution geometry and more realistic appearance. Yet fidelity, which…
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Self-distillation has emerged as a powerful framework for post-training LLMs, where a teacher conditioned on extra information guides a student without it, both from the same…
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We study empirical scaling laws for language model merging measured by cross-entropy. Despite its wide practical use, merging lacks a quantitative rule that predicts returns as we…
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Self-evolving LLMs excel in verifiable domains but struggle in open-ended tasks, where reliance on proxy LLM judges introduces capability bottlenecks and reward hacking. To…
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While multimodal large language models have advanced across text, image, and audio, personalization research has remained primarily vision-language, with unified omnimodal…
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Although natural language is the default medium for Large Language Models (LLMs), its limited expressive capacity creates a profound bottleneck for complex problem-solving. While…
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We present Metal-Sci, a 10-task benchmark of scientific Apple Silicon Metal compute kernels spanning six optimization regimes (stencils, all-pairs in n-body problems, multi-field…
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Tokenizer-free language models eliminate the tokenizer step of the language modeling pipeline by operating directly on bytes; patch-based variants further aggregate contiguous…
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Diffusion language models (DLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models, primarily due to their ability to enable parallel decoding. Despite…
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LLM/VLM-based digital agents have advanced rapidly thanks to scalable sandboxes for coding, web navigation, and computer use, which provide rich interactive training grounds. In…
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Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) provide a simpleframework for learning world models by predicting future latent representations.However, JEPA training is subject…
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Protein function is often controlled by ligands that bias the direction of state transitions, such as agonists and antagonists, rather than stabilizing a single conformation. This…
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Reinforcement Learning has significantly advanced the reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), yet the resulting policies remain brittle against…
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Aligning Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) requires reliable reward models, yet existing single-step evaluators can suffer from lazy judging, exploiting language priors…
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The key-value (KV) cache is a major bottleneck in long-context inference, where memory and computation grow with sequence length. Existing KV eviction methods reduce this cost but…
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Continual post-training aims to extend large language models (LLMs) with new knowledge, skills, and behaviors, yet it remains unclear when sequential updates enable capability…
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Large language model agents increasingly operate through an intermediate skill layer that mediates between user intent and concrete task execution. This layer is widely treated as…
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Sardinian, a Romance language with roughly one million speakers, has minimal presence in modern NLP. Commercial services do not support it, and current language models do not…
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Visual encoding constitutes a major computational bottleneck in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), especially for high-resolution image inputs. The prevailing practice…
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Structured pruning and knowledge distillation (KD) are typical techniques for compressing large language models, but it remains unclear how they should be applied at pretraining…
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LLM-based multi-agent systems are increasingly deployed on long-horizon tasks, but a single decisive error is often accepted by downstream agents and cascades into…
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Recent "Thinking with Video" approaches use Video Generation Models (VGMs) for visual reasoning by producing temporally coherent Chain-of-Frames as reasoning artifacts. Even…
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While video foundation models excel at single-shot generation, real-world cinematic storytelling inherently relies on complex multi-shot sequencing. Further progress is…
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Biomolecular generators are often adapted with reward feedback to improve task-specific utility, but pushing utility alone can concentrate generation on a narrow family of…
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Learning-based simulation of multi-object rigid-body dynamics remains difficult because contact is discontinuous and errors compound over long horizons. Most existing methods…
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We present a new publicly available corpus of 100,502 movie reviews from Kazakhstan collected from kino.kz, spanning 2001-2025 and covering 4,943 unique titles. The dataset is…
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Following the recent achievement of gold-medal performance on the IMO by frontier LLMs, the community is searching for the next meaningful and challenging target for measuring LLM…
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Modern AI progress has been driven by ML methods that are generalizable across settings and scalable to larger regimes. As large language models demonstrate advanced capabilities…
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Image captioning is one of the most fundamental tasks in computer vision. Owing to its open-ended nature, it has received significant attention in the era of multimodal large…
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On-policy distillation (OPD) is a powerful paradigm for model alignment, yet its reliance on teacher logits restricts its application to white-box scenarios. We contend that…
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The open-source model ecosystem now contains hundreds of thousands of pretrained models, yet picking the best model for a new dataset is increasingly infeasible: new models and…
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World models predict future transitions from observations and actions. Existing works predominantly focus on image generation only. Visual feature-based world models, on the other…
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Discrete flow matching generates text by iteratively transforming noise tokens into coherent language, but may require hundreds of forward passes. Distillation uses the multi-step…
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With the rise in scale for deep learning models to billions of parameters, the computational cost of fine-tuning remains a significant barrier to deployment. While Low-Rank…
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Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly and are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, especially with the rise of agent-based systems. However, their…
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While text-to-image models have made strong progress in visual fidelity, faithfully realizing complex visual intents remains challenging because many requirements must be tracked…
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Tokenizers are a crucial component of latent diffusion models, as they define the latent space in which diffusion models operate. However, existing tokenizers are primarily…
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Generalizable novel view synthesis aims to render unseen views from uncalibrated input images without requiring per-scene optimization. Recent feed-forward approaches based on 3D…
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Recurrent LLM architectures have emerged as a promising approach for improving reasoning, as they enable multi-step computation in the embedding space without generating…
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LLM-based evolution has emerged as a promising way to improve agents by refining non-parametric artifacts, but its wall-clock cost remains a major bottleneck. We identify that…
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Instruction following is a fundamental capability of large language models (LLMs), yet continuously improving this capability remains challenging. Existing methods typically rely…
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Aligning multimodal generative models with human preferences demands reward signals that respect the compositional, multi-dimensional structure of human judgment. Prevailing RLHF…
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Large language models have become drivers of evolutionary search, but most systems rely on a fixed, prompt-elicited policy to sample next candidates. This limits adaptation in…
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Dense hand contact estimation requires both high-level semantic understanding and fine-grained geometric reasoning of human interaction to accurately localize contact regions.…
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Inspired by the development of OpenClaw, there is a growing demand for mobile-based personal agents capable of handling complex and intuitive interactions. In this technical…
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Multimodal knowledge editing (MKE) aims to correct the internal knowledge of large vision-language models after deployment, yet the behavioral patterns of post-edit models remain…
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AI agents are increasingly deployed across diverse domains to automate complex workflows through long-horizon and high-stakes action executions. Due to their high capability and…
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods enhance LLM performance by efficiently filtering relevant context for LLMs, reducing hallucinations and inference cost. However, most…
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🦞 Lobste.rs 8

A dataset-driven analysis of transformer architecture choices and their convergence over eight years.
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Rinha de Backend - Quarta Edição: Detecção de Fraude com Busca Vetorial - zanfranceschi/rinha-de-backend-2026
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libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is one of the most widely used software libre XML parsers written in C, specifically C99. It is cross-platform…
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Part I ended with a sentence that kept bugging me: "Page-cache bugs were (are?) one of the best primitives..
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A dispute over fsnotify maintainer access set off supply chain alarms around one of Go’s most widely used filesystem libraries.
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On 2026-05-11, an attacker chained a pull_request_target Pwn Request, GitHub Actions cache poisoning across the fork↔base trust boundary, and OIDC token extraction from runner…
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Edit April 2, 2026: I've been getting inbound interest from researchers wanting to run their own queries. The MCP integration I use for my own research lets you analyze live…
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📚 Google Scholar 6

Cluster Computing - With the emergence of quantum computers, traditional cryptographic methods are vulnerable to attacks, emphasizing the need for post-quantum cryptography to…
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👤 Hacker News 7

Agentic AI is helping organizations completely reimagine core banking processes and operations from the customer perspective, rather than simply making incremental improvements.
HN:AI breakthroughHACKERNEWS
A terminal manager that keeps terminals, agents, and commands together as saved project workspaces.
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🔗 All Sources

  1. [1] The Crystallization of Transformer Architectures (2017-2025)
  2. [2] Rinha de Backend 2026 – Fraud Detection
  3. [3] Expat 2.8.1 released, CVE-2026-45186 and CVSS unreliability
  4. [4] Load-Bearing Assumptions: the rxrpc case (CVE-2026-43500) and the constraint that was never there
  5. [5] Popular Go library fsnotify raises supply chain alarms after maintainer access changes
  6. [6] Kettle: Attested builds for verifiable software provenance
  7. [7] Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise
  8. [8] TMAS: Scaling Test-Time Compute via Multi-Agent Synergy
  9. [9] SlimSpec: Low-Rank Draft LM-Head for Accelerated Speculative Decoding
  10. [10] CapVector: Learning Transferable Capability Vectors in Parametric Space for Vision-Language-Action Models
  11. [11] RoboMemArena: A Comprehensive and Challenging Robotic Memory Benchmark
  12. [12] DECO: Sparse Mixture-of-Experts with Dense-Comparable Performance on End-Side Devices
  13. [13] The Alpha Blending Hypothesis: Compositing Shortcut in Deepfake Detection
  14. [14] PaperFit: Vision-in-the-Loop Typesetting Optimization for Scientific Documents
  15. [15] Injecting Distributional Awareness into MLLMs via Reinforcement Learning for Deep Imbalanced Regression
  16. [16] Qwen-Image-2.0 Technical Report
  17. [17] Dynamic Skill Lifecycle Management for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
  18. [18] NanoResearch: Co-Evolving Skills, Memory, and Policy for Personalized Research Automation
  19. [19] WorldReasonBench: Human-Aligned Stress Testing of Video Generators as Future World-State Predictors
  20. [20] Shepherd: A Runtime Substrate Empowering Meta-Agents with a Formalized Execution Trace
  21. [21] Mela: Test-Time Memory Consolidation based on Transformation Hypothesis
  22. [22] Pixal3D: Pixel-Aligned 3D Generation from Images
  23. [23] Rebellious Student: Reversing Teacher Signals for Reasoning Exploration with Self-Distilled RLVR
  24. [24] Model Merging Scaling Laws in Large Language Models
  25. [25] G-Zero: Self-Play for Open-Ended Generation from Zero Data
  26. [26] Omni-Persona: Systematic Benchmarking and Improving Omnimodal Personalization
  27. [27] Shaping Schema via Language Representation as the Next Frontier for LLM Intelligence Expanding
  28. [28] Metal-Sci: A Scientific Compute Benchmark for Evolutionary LLM Kernel Search on Apple Silicon
  29. [29] Scratchpad Patching: Decoupling Compute from Patch Size in Byte-Level Language Models
  30. [30] Dystruct: Dynamically Structured Diffusion Language Model Decoding via Bayesian Inference
  31. [31] SimWorld Studio: Automatic Environment Generation with Evolving Coding Agent for Embodied Agent Learning
  32. [32] Sub-JEPA: Subspace Gaussian Regularization for Stable End-to-End World Models
  33. [33] TD3B: Transition-Directed Discrete Diffusion for Allosteric Binder Generation
  34. [34] Reinforcing Multimodal Reasoning Against Visual Degradation
  35. [35] DeltaRubric: Generative Multimodal Reward Modeling via Joint Planning and Verification
  36. [36] Make Each Token Count: Towards Improving Long-Context Performance with KV Cache Eviction
  37. [37] Geometry Conflict: Explaining and Controlling Forgetting in LLM Continual Post-Training
  38. [38] FORTIS: Benchmarking Over-Privilege in Agent Skills
  39. [39] LLiMba: Sardinian on a Single GPU -- Adapting a 3B Language Model to a Vanishing Romance Language
  40. [40] LLaVA-UHD v4: What Makes Efficient Visual Encoding in MLLMs?
  41. [41] SlimQwen: Exploring the Pruning and Distillation in Large MoE Model Pre-training
  1. [42] AgentForesight: Online Auditing for Early Failure Prediction in Multi-Agent Systems
  2. [43] CollabVR: Collaborative Video Reasoning with Vision-Language and Video Generation Models
  3. [44] MuSS: A Large-Scale Dataset and Cinematic Narrative Benchmark for Multi-Shot Subject-to-Video Generation
  4. [45] Pushing Biomolecular Utility-Diversity Frontiers with Supergroup Relative Policy Optimization
  5. [46] RigidFormer: Learning Rigid Dynamics using Transformers
  6. [47] 100,000+ Movie Reviews from Kazakhstan: Russian, Kazakh, and Code-Switched Texts
  7. [48] Soohak: A Mathematician-Curated Benchmark for Evaluating Research-level Math Capabilities of LLMs
  8. [49] MLS-Bench: A Holistic and Rigorous Assessment of AI Systems on Building Better AI
  9. [50] BalCapRL: A Balanced Framework for RL-Based MLLM Image Captioning
  10. [51] Rubric-based On-policy Distillation
  11. [52] ModelLens: Finding the Best for Your Task from Myriads of Models
  12. [53] Learning Visual Feature-Based World Models via Residual Latent Action
  13. [54] Trajectory as the Teacher: Few-Step Discrete Flow Matching via Energy-Navigated Distillation
  14. [55] MatryoshkaLoRA: Learning Accurate Hierarchical Low-Rank Representations for LLM Fine-Tuning
  15. [56] Sparse Autoencoders as Plug-and-Play Firewalls for Adversarial Attack Detection in VLMs
  16. [57] SCOPE: Structured Decomposition and Conditional Skill Orchestration for Complex Image Generation
  17. [58] What Matters for Diffusion-Friendly Latent Manifold? Prior-Aligned Autoencoders for Latent Diffusion
  18. [59] SplatWeaver: Learning to Allocate Gaussian Primitives for Generalizable Novel View Synthesis
  19. [60] Memory-Efficient Looped Transformer: Decoupling Compute from Memory in Looped Language Models
  20. [61] FlashEvolve: Accelerating Agent Self-Evolution with Asynchronous Stage Orchestration
  21. [62] SEIF: Self-Evolving Reinforcement Learning for Instruction Following
  22. [63] Auto-Rubric as Reward: From Implicit Preferences to Explicit Multimodal Generative Criteria
  23. [64] PACEvolve++: Improving Test-time Learning for Evolutionary Search Agents
  24. [65] Training-Free Dense Hand Contact Estimation with Multi-Modal Large Language Models
  25. [66] X-OmniClaw Technical Report: A Unified Mobile Agent for Multimodal Understanding and Interaction
  26. [67] Uncovering Entity Identity Confusion in Multimodal Knowledge Editing
  27. [68] DecodingTrust-Agent Platform (DTap): A Controllable and Interactive Red-Teaming Platform for AI Agents
  28. [69] Q-RAG: Long Context Multi-step Retrieval via Value-based Embedder Training
  29. [70] ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It
  30. [71] Early identification of breakthrough technologies: Insights from science-driven innovations
  31. [72] Catalyst breakthroughs in methane dry reforming: Employing machine learning for future advancements
  32. [73] Large language models (LLM) in computational social science: prospects, current state, and challenges
  33. [74] Artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity: a deep dive into state-of-the-art techniques and future paradigms
  34. [75] Securing the future: exploring post-quantum cryptography for authentication and user privacy in IoT devices
  35. [76] Quantum machine learning: A comprehensive review of integrating AI with quantum computing for computational advancements
  36. [77] Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering
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  38. [79] Show HN: Origami – A simple workspace-oriented terminal manager
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  40. [81] Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw
  41. [82] (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hackers-attack-ai.html)
  42. [83] Can you help reconcile my first/second-hand LLM Experience with HN's Experience?