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Marformer: A Transformer for Predicting Missing Data Distributions
Real decisions are made under incomplete information. If we observe only some of the random variables we need, we can predict the others. The conditional marginals over the missing variables are the key ingredient for computing Ba...
Female AI agents 'paid' less than males, study finds
VR office experiment reveals AI agent pay gap A study from the University of Limerick shows that human participants in a virtual reality office setting paid male AI agents more than female counterparts for identical work. The find...
Build and Train a 25M Parameter LLM from Scratch on Your CPU
Running modern AI on everyday hardware Building large language models usually brings to mind expensive GPU clusters and cloud compute bills. A new tutorial demonstrates that training a working language model does not require speci...
3JSBench: A benchmark for LLM-generated 3D objects
Why 3D generation lags behind text Frontier large language models can solve complex reasoning problems yet consistently fail at producing usable three.js assets. General Context Labs identified this gap after building instaplay.ai...
Show HN: Awesomer – trending GitHub repos, organized by awesome-list
GitHub awesome-list trending data shows AI categories surging The patrickclery/awesomer repository aggregates star-velocity metrics across curated awesome-lists. The October 8 2026 snapshot reveals which developer-focused collecti...
Vosti: Specifying, Implementing, and Verifying Deterministic LLM Inference
Formal specification fills gap in deterministic LLM inference LLM inference systems make optimization choices that can change batch composition, prompt chunking, prefill and decode execution, and KV-cache reuse, eviction, or recom...
Ask HN: What is up with wrangler deploy
Intermittent Wrangler deployments produce corrupted URLs A Hacker News user reported difficulty deploying a site with Cloudflare Wrangler. Deployments succeeded on some attempts but failed on others, producing broken URLs. One dep...
The Goose Programming Language
Goose Drops the Heap for Compiler-Managed Data Stacks A new systems language called Goose claims memory safety without the overhead that typically accompanies it. The project, hosted at aardappel/goose on GitHub, removes the heap...
Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects
Anthropic rolls out free AI-driven vulnerability scanner for open-source maintainers Anthropic announced OSS Scanner, a no-cost service that runs periodic security scans on open-source repositories using its strongest models. Proj...
Show HN: Layer – One API for Polymarket and Kalshi
Layer Unifies Across Prediction Market Venues Layer is a platform that lets writing teams define one strategy and run it across multiple prediction market venues. The core problem it solves is that different venues express the sam...