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Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
A developer on Hacker News is asking a question that cuts to the heart of why the AI boom has produced advances across so many domains simultaneously: if large language models process text, why did their breakthrough also unlock p...
Show HN: Local 3D LLM Sandbox a tiny assistant with an attitude
A developer has built a local 3D sandbox where a tiny robot with a big attitude builds whatever you ask for, entirely on your machine, with no cloud services involved. The project, llm-sandbox, splits interaction by speed: your ha...
Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft
The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the companies used their journalism to train AI models without permission. The lawsuit argues that generative AI could make the journalism i...
LLM-Guided Program Evolution for Circle Packing: Breaking 10 Packomania Records for $28
A paper submitted to arXiv in September 2026 demonstrates that a large language model can evolve optimization algorithms well enough to break established mathematical records, and do it for less than the cost of a nice dinner....
Google Mantis: an Agentic Vulnerability Scanning Harness for Reducing False Positives
Google has open-sourced Mantis, an AI-agent framework designed to automate the software vulnerability lifecycle from identification through validation to repair. The tool targets a specific failure mode in existing AI-powered...
How Figma Uses AI Agents for Security
Figma's engineering team has documented how they built AI agents to handle security alert investigation, past incident search, system checks, and even code fix preparation. The system, built on Panther SIEM, queries audit logs...
Do LLMs Know What to Ask and When? Evaluating Multi-Turn Information Seeking
Most benchmarks test whether a language model can answer a question. Very few test whether the model knows it does not have enough information to answer and can ask the right clarifying question to get there. A new paper from...
TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework
TradingAgents, an open-source multi-agent framework for LLM-driven financial trading, has matured rapidly through nine releases since its initial launch earlier this year. The latest version, v0.4.0, shipped in August 2026 with...
Clean Web to Markdown & RAG Scraper API (with Cloudflare Bypass)
A new API service aims to solve a persistent problem for developers building RAG pipelines and LLM-powered applications: getting clean, readable markdown from messy web pages without burning through token budgets. The service,...
Ask HN: Anyone else feeling uneasy with the latest developments in AI?
A post on Hacker News captured a sentiment that has been quietly spreading through developer communities: anxiety about the pace of AI progress. The author, posting as sensitivekt9q3, described feeling depressed and anxious after...