HN handfuloflight 3/25/2026

Using AI as a Design Engineer

Personal experience using AI as a design engineering tool for experimentation and iterative refinement in creative work.

Ax Yan Xie, Tiansheng Wen, Tangda Huang, Bo Chen, Chenyu You, Stefanie Jegelka, Yifei Wang 3/25/2026

Scaling Attention via Feature Sparsity

Sparse Feature Attention method reducing transformer self-attention cost via k-sparse feature representations instead of sequence-level sparsity.

Ax Shreyansh Padarha, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Tristan Naidoo, Lingyi Yang, {\L}ukasz Borchmann, Piotr B{\L}aszczyk, Christian Morgenstern, Ruth McCabe, Sangeeta Bhatia, Philip H. Torr, Jakob Foerster, Scott A. Hale, Thomas Rawson, Anne Cori, Elizaveta Semenova, Adam Mahdi 3/25/2026

AgentSLR: Automating Systematic Literature Reviews in Epidemiology with Agentic AI

AgentSLR uses agentic AI to automate systematic literature reviews in epidemiology from retrieval through synthesis.