3/18/2026
Thrum – Agent coordination through messaging
Thrum persistent messaging layer for AI agents across sessions and machines, with CLI and MCP server support for Claude Code agents.
3/18/2026
100% private Mac dictation app
Voibe private offline dictation app for macOS with voice-to-text, no cloud transmission required.
3/18/2026
I Don't Know ML. Claude Does. 0.871 F1 on Predicting Linux Game Compatibility
ML project predicting Linux game compatibility (0.871 F1) using human-AI collaboration. Software engineer with minimal ML background used Claude to discover novel statistical techniques.
3/18/2026
Agent Package Manager
Open-source dependency manager for AI agents (apm). Standardizes agent configuration, skills, prompts across Claude, Copilot, Cursor. Similar to package.json for agents.
3/18/2026
Show HN: N0x – LLM inference, agents, RAG, Python exec in browser, no back end
N0x browser-based LLM inference, autonomous agents, RAG, and Python execution with WebGPU and Pyodide, no backend or data sharing.
3/18/2026
Superpowers
Development workflow framework for AI coding agents. Composable skills and instructions guide agent behavior from initial requirements gathering through code generation.
3/18/2026
Show HN: Paste your YAML to calculate and optimize GitHub Actions costs
GitHub Actions cost calculator. Paste workflow YAML to estimate per-minute pricing across Ubuntu, macOS, Windows runners.
3/18/2026
Knowledge workers managing AI show collapsed productivity, not just a plateau
Analysis of longitudinal workplace studies showing productivity collapse when workers manage AI, contradicting optimistic coverage.
3/18/2026
AI – Assassinating Intelligence
Opinion piece criticizing AI's hardware costs, environmental impact, and low-quality software; not research or technical analysis.
3/18/2026
Show HN: Hat v0.7.0 – Fast, local automatic file compression and conversion
Local image compression and file conversion tool using libvips. Desktop app for Linux, Windows, macOS.
3/18/2026
Meta's Omnilingual MT for 1,600 Languages
Meta's machine translation system extending to 1,600 languages using LLM approaches; advances beyond 200-language NLLB coverage.
3/18/2026
Show HN: Llmtop – Htop for LLM Inference Clusters (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama)
Real-time terminal dashboard (llmtop) for monitoring LLM inference clusters supporting vLLM, SGLang, and Ollama with KV cache and latency metrics.
3/18/2026
Your terminal, finally has memory!
Terminal tool with local AI memory using Ollama. Save/recall commands, notes, URLs via natural language. Runs locally, no cloud.
3/18/2026
Rust-accelerated reinforcement learning, 140x faster than Python
Rust-accelerated RL framework using Polars pattern: Rust data plane + Python control plane via PyO3. 140x speedup with Rayon parallelism. Published on crates.io with 695 tests.
3/18/2026
Iranian security chief Ali Larijani killed in air strike
News article about Iranian security official killed in airstrike; unrelated to AI/tech.
3/18/2026
Show HN: Vibe – Code from your bed or the park with Claude Code/Codex
Vibe is a mobile app enabling remote code execution with Claude Code and Gemini CLI, with web preview and session management.
3/18/2026
My Claude Code setup you definitely shouldn't use. It's AI Overkill
Personal setup combining Claude Code with specialized domain agents, parallel code review, and self-improving knowledge systems.
3/18/2026
Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File
Programming pattern using filenames as configuration to make programs self-contained and portable without flags or scripts.
3/18/2026
We optimized Dash's relevance judge with DSPy
Dropbox optimized their relevance judge using DSPy for Dash, improving ranking and evaluation across multiple ML pipelines at scale.
3/18/2026
TrustAgentAI – Cryptographic receipts for MCP tool calls (non-repudiation layer)
TrustAgentAI is an open-source accountability layer adding cryptographic receipts and non-repudiation to MCP tool calls for AI agents.
3/18/2026
Gas Town by Kilo
Gas Town is Steve Yegge's agent orchestrator coordinating multiple AI coding agents simultaneously, hosted on Kilo Cloud infrastructure.
3/18/2026
Neural-Symbolic Logic Query Answering in Non-Euclidean Space
HYQNET is a neural-symbolic model that answers complex first-order logic queries on knowledge graphs by integrating interpretability with generalization.
3/18/2026
NextMem: Towards Latent Factual Memory for LLM-based Agents
NextMem proposes a latent factual memory framework for LLM-based agents to address limitations of existing textual and parametric memory approaches.
3/18/2026
AIDABench: AI Data Analytics Benchmark
AIDABench: Comprehensive benchmark for AI data analytics and document understanding. Evaluates end-to-end task effectiveness in practical document processing scenarios.
3/18/2026
The Comprehension-Gated Agent Economy: A Robustness-First Architecture for AI Economic Agency
Comprehension-Gated Agent Economy: Formal architecture linking AI agent economic permissions to verified comprehension. Robustness-first approach to agent authorization.
3/18/2026
CraniMem: Cranial Inspired Gated and Bounded Memory for Agentic Systems
CraniMem: Neurocognitively-inspired gated and bounded multi-stage memory design for long-running LLM agents. Improves retention stability and content consolidation.
3/18/2026
GSI Agent: Domain Knowledge Enhancement for Large Language Models in Green Stormwater Infrastructure
GSI Agent: Domain knowledge enhancement for LLMs in green stormwater infrastructure. Combines LLM with domain knowledge for inspection and maintenance guidance.
3/18/2026
Did You Check the Right Pocket? Cost-Sensitive Store Routing for Memory-Augmented Agents
Cost-sensitive store routing for memory-augmented agents. Formulates selective memory retrieval as routing problem to reduce context tokens and improve efficiency.
3/18/2026
DynaTrust: Defending Multi-Agent Systems Against Sleeper Agents via Dynamic Trust Graphs
DynaTrust: Defense mechanism against sleeper agents in multi-agent systems using dynamic trust graphs. Detects agents that hide malicious behavior until triggered.
3/18/2026
QV May Be Enough: Toward the Essence of Attention in LLMs
Theoretical analysis of Query-Value mechanism in Transformers from linguistic perspective. Explains efficacy of MQA, GQA, and MLA architectures and trade-offs.
3/18/2026
Compiled Memory: Not More Information, but More Precise Instructions for Language Agents
Atlas: Memory kernel that compiles task experience into agent instructions without fine-tuning or RAG. Improves agent memory utility via instruction-level compilation.
3/18/2026
Quantum-Secure-By-Construction (QSC): A Paradigm Shift For Post-Quantum Agentic Intelligence
Quantum-Secure-By-Construction design paradigm for agentic AI systems. Addresses post-quantum cryptographic challenges in long-lived distributed agent deployments.
3/18/2026
I Know What I Don't Know: Latent Posterior Factor Models for Multi-Evidence Probabilistic Reasoning
Latent Posterior Factors framework for aggregating multiple noisy evidence sources without manual feature engineering. Addresses uncertainty in real-world decision-making.
3/18/2026
Theoretical Foundations of Latent Posterior Factors: Formal Guarantees for Multi-Evidence Reasoning
Theoretical characterization of Latent Posterior Factors for aggregating heterogeneous evidence in probabilistic prediction. Formal guarantees for multi-evidence reasoning.
3/18/2026
Context-Length Robustness in Question Answering Models: A Comparative Empirical Study
Empirical study measuring LLM robustness to increasing context length on SQuAD and HotpotQA. Analyzes accuracy degradation with context size.
3/18/2026
CUBE: A Standard for Unifying Agent Benchmarks
CUBE: Universal benchmark standard for AI agents built on MCP and Gym. Addresses fragmentation by allowing benchmarks to be wrapped once and used everywhere.
3/18/2026
Prose2Policy (P2P): A Practical LLM Pipeline for Translating Natural-Language Access Policies into Executable Rego
Prose2Policy: LLM pipeline translating natural-language access control policies into executable Rego code. End-to-end pipeline with test generation and validation.
3/18/2026
Persona-Conditioned Risk Behavior in Large Language Models: A Simulated Gambling Study with GPT-4.1
Empirical study of GPT-4.1 behavior in gambling tasks under different persona prompts. Examines whether LLM risk behavior reflects principled patterns or prompt mimicry.
3/18/2026
Regularized Latent Dynamics Prediction is a Strong Baseline For Behavioral Foundation Models
Regularized latent dynamics prediction as baseline for behavioral foundation models, examining how state feature choice affects task adaptability and reward function expressivity.
3/18/2026
Resilience Meets Autonomy: Governing Embodied AI in Critical Infrastructure
Framework for governing embodied AI in critical infrastructure through hybrid oversight modes and bounded autonomy, addressing resilience beyond statistically representable uncertainty.
3/18/2026
AsgardBench - Evaluating Visually Grounded Interactive Planning Under Minimal Feedback
AsgardBench evaluates visually grounded interactive planning for embodied AI agents, focusing on high-level action sequence generation with plan adaptation based on visual feedback.
3/18/2026
Prompt Engineering for Scale Development in Generative Psychometrics
Monte Carlo simulation evaluating prompt engineering strategies for LLM-generated personality assessment items across zero-shot, few-shot, and persona-based designs.
3/18/2026
Semi-Autonomous Formalization of the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau Equilibrium
Lean 4 formalization of Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau equilibrium using AI reasoning (Gemini DeepThink) and agentic tools (Claude Code) demonstrating AI-assisted mathematical research workflows.
3/18/2026
Argumentative Human-AI Decision-Making: Toward AI Agents That Reason With Us, Not For Us
Framework combining computational argumentation with LLMs to create transparent, verifiable AI agents that reason collaboratively with humans rather than providing opaque recommendations.
3/18/2026
Protein Design with Agent Rosetta: A Case Study for Specialized Scientific Agents
Agent Rosetta uses LLMs as specialized scientific agents for protein design tasks, emulating reasoning and tool use for broad design pipelines beyond canonical amino acids.
3/18/2026
MAC: Multi-Agent Constitution Learning
MAC automatically learns constitutional AI rules from training data using multi-agent approaches, improving upon existing LLM-based prompt optimizers through structured learning.
3/18/2026
Safety is Non-Compositional: A Formal Framework for Capability-Based AI Systems
Formal proof that safety is non-compositional: two individually incapable agents can collectively reach forbidden goals through emergent conjunctive capability dependencies.
3/18/2026
An Agentic Evaluation Framework for AI-Generated Scientific Code in PETSc
petscagent-bench evaluates AI-generated scientific code for HPC libraries beyond test-case matching, assessing solver selection, API conventions, memory management, and performance.
3/18/2026
Selective Memory for Artificial Intelligence: Write-Time Gating with Hierarchical Archiving
Write-time gating mechanism filters incoming knowledge objects based on salience scores to improve retrieval-augmented generation accuracy and mirror biological memory archiving.
3/18/2026
IRAM-Omega-Q: A Computational Architecture for Uncertainty Regulation in Artificial Agents
IRAM-Omega-Q computational architecture uses quantum-like density matrices to model internal regulation and uncertainty management in artificial agents under stochastic perturbation.