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Visit website →Show HN: Clawk – Give your coding agent a disposable Linux VM instead of your laptop
It provides a disposable Linux VM environment that safely isolates a coding agent's code execution and package installation.
Flash-MSA: Accelerating Million-Token Training via Sparse Attention Kernels
An open-source kernel has been released that enables efficient training of MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) on Hopper and Blackwell GPUs.
Ireland's Data Centers Now Account for 23% of National Electricity Consumption
Ireland's data center electricity consumption has surged, now accounting for 23% of the country's total electricity use.
Show HN: Juggler – An open source GUI coding agent made by the creator of JUCE
A GUI-based coding agent has been released that lets you precisely control and review LLM code modifications through a visual workbench.
Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt, while OpenCode sends 7k tokens
A comparative analysis of token usage and cache efficiency between Claude Code and OpenCode found that Claude Code's overhead was far higher.
Can We Understand How Large Language Models (LLMs) Reason
This covers the latest research trends and limitations in understanding the internal reasoning mechanisms of LLMs.
Big Tech's Carbon Emissions from Data Centers Surge to About a Third of France's Total Emissions
As AI infrastructure expands, carbon emissions from Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have surged due to data center construction.
Show HN: Mindwalk – A tool that replays coding agent sessions as a 3D map
It's an open-source tool that visualizes and analyzes a coding agent's work process as a 3D map of the codebase.
What Data xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI
It was confirmed that xAI's Grok Build CLI transmits users' entire source code and .env secrets without authorization.
Mesh LLM: Distributed AI Computing Based on iroh
Mesh LLM has been released, unifying GPUs and memory distributed across multiple devices into a single OpenAI-compatible API.
Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: A Look Inside the Circular Financing Structure of the GPU Boom
Analyzes the AI infrastructure financing structure combining hyperscaler demand with the debt-based growth of Neocloud companies.
Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster the more it runs
It's an LLM server that maximizes inference efficiency on low-spec CPU environments through KV cache reuse and n-gram archives.
The Annotated JEPA
A technical guide that implements Yann LeCun's JEPA architecture from scratch while explaining its underlying principles.
AI-Generated Videos That Maximally Stimulate Specific Brain Regions
This introduces a technology that uses AI to generate videos that maximize the activity of specific brain regions and map visual selectivity.
Building Your Own Vulnerability Harness
This explains how to build an AI agent-based security verification pipeline with a model-agnostic architecture to overcome the limitations of a single model.
The Father of the Internet Finally Retires
Vint Cerf, the architect of the internet, is leaving Google, emphasizing the need for standardization in the age of AI agents.
OpenAI Mandates Hardware-Based Passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber Members
OpenAI is mandating the use of hardware-based passkeys for TAC members to strengthen security.
Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools
Introduces a technique that analyzes a web app's API calls and automatically converts them into tools (MCP servers) for AI agents.
Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – An API that fetches structured data from any website
An API service has launched that scrapes web data in real time and converts it into structured data for AI agents and software.
GeoSQL: A Claude/Codex Skill for Geospatial Data
It's an AI agent tool that combines a map visualization feedback loop for geospatial data analysis.