HN d-milliken 4/1/2026

Show HN: Signal Core - contracts, approvals, and receipts for OpenClaw agents

Governance layer for AI agents with approvals and receipts. Limited documentation; appears to be early-stage proprietary software.

HN almasar 4/1/2026

Anvil: One YAML definition for all AI tool formats (MCP, OpenAI, Anthropic etc.)

Unified YAML tool definition format supporting MCP, OpenAI, and Anthropic agent specifications. Developer tool.

HN Anon84 4/1/2026

OpenClaw: The complete guide to building, and living with your personal AI agent

Guide for building and maintaining personal AI agents. Limited details provided.

HN dinakernel 4/1/2026

Show HN: A personal AI kernel where other agents ask permission for your data

Personal AI system with encrypted persona vaults and permission layer for agent access to sensitive data. Open source implementation.

HN Shanmugaraj-1 4/1/2026

AI Agent Security: What SoC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA Mean in Production

Compliance frameworks (SoC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA) for AI agents in production environments.

HN seifbenayed1992 4/1/2026

Claude Code in Rust, Python, Go, Open source

Open-source multi-provider AI coding agent CLI supporting Claude, GPT, and local models with custom tool support.

HN wangzhijie 4/1/2026

Show HN: OpenHarness Open-source terminal coding agent for any LLM

Open-source terminal coding agent supporting multiple LLM backends (Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepseek). Includes 17 tools for file operations, bash, web search, and task management.

HN onurgokyildiz 4/1/2026

Tq-KV – Rust implementation of TurboQuant that works on GGUF models

Rust implementation of TurboQuant quantization for GGUF models. Addresses compound quantization errors from applying KV cache quantization to already-quantized weights, fixing issues like language mixing and hallucination.

HN piscator 4/1/2026

Ask HN: Client took over development by vibe coding. What to do?

HN discussion about client taking over development with Claude Code after developer introduced LLM tools.

HN StanAngeloff 4/1/2026

Show HN: I built a full LLM chat client as a Neovim filetype

Flemma: Full LLM chat client built as Neovim filetype plugin for in-editor AI workload management with prompt engineering.

HN twoelf 4/1/2026

Ask HN: Is it still worth making "Huge" Language Models for dev tools?

HN discussion questioning whether massive foundation models are cost-efficient versus specialized smaller models for developer tools.

HN novachen 4/1/2026

Show HN: Crossmind-CLI – CLI for X, Reddit, HN API with compact JSON output

Crossmind-CLI fetches data from X, Reddit, HN, GitHub and compresses output for LLM efficiency, reducing X responses from 3900 to 666 tokens.

HN abby-star 4/1/2026

Vector search is the wrong way to give LLMs context

Discussion of vector search limitations for LLM context retrieval. Title only; no content provided.

HN tekbog 4/1/2026

DevOps Agent: Clanker CLI

Clanker CLI tool for DevOps automation using AI agents.

HN nyku 4/1/2026

Show HN: Browserbeam – a browser API built for AI agents

Browserbeam is a browser API optimized for AI agents to interact with web pages more efficiently, reducing token waste and improving page understanding.

HN spenceships 4/1/2026

Show HN: Calx – track and compile corrections humans make with AI agents

Calx tracks and compiles corrections humans provide to AI agents to improve performance, analyzing patterns in agent mistakes across 82K LOC.

HN MerinJo 4/1/2026

We built a 60-page ERP knowledge base in 24 hours using AI

Case study: generated 60-page ERP knowledge base using AI in 24 hours.

HN doctaj 4/1/2026

Improve Coding Agents' Performance with Gemini API Docs MCP and Agent Skills

Using Gemini API documentation MCP and agent skills to improve coding agent performance.

Ax Rongtian Ye 4/1/2026

ChartDiff: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Comprehending Pairs of Charts

ChartDiff: 8,541 annotated chart-pair benchmark for evaluating cross-chart comparative reasoning in LLMs and vision systems.

Ax Pablo de los Riscos, Fernando J. Corbacho, Michael A. Arbib 4/1/2026

Working Paper: Towards a Category-theoretic Comparative Framework for Artificial General Intelligence

Theoretical framework using category theory to formally define, compare, and analyze artificial general intelligence approaches.

Ax S. O. Lidarity, U. N. Ionize, C. O. Llective, I. Halperin 4/1/2026

Towards Computational Social Dynamics of Semi-Autonomous AI Agents

Study documenting emergent social organization patterns in hierarchical multi-agent AI systems using thermodynamic and evolutionary frameworks.

Ax Yuci Han, Alper Yilmaz 4/1/2026

Enhancing Policy Learning with World-Action Model

World-Action Model: Action-regularized world model jointly predicting visual observations and actions for improved representation learning in RL.

Ax Martin Legrand, Tao Jiang, Matthieu Feraud, Benjamin Navet, Yousouf Taghzouti, Fabien Gandon, Elise Dumont, Louis-F\'elix Nothias 4/1/2026

Mimosa Framework: Toward Evolving Multi-Agent Systems for Scientific Research

Mimosa: Evolving multi-agent framework automatically synthesizing and refining task-specific LLM workflows for autonomous scientific research through experimental feedback.

Ax Victoria Dochkina 4/1/2026

Drop the Hierarchy and Roles: How Self-Organizing LLM Agents Outperform Designed Structures

Large-scale experiment: Self-organizing multi-agent LLM systems across 25,000 tasks spontaneously develop specialized roles outperforming designed hierarchies.

Ax Deepak Akkil, Mowafak Allaham, Amal Raj, Tamer Abuelsaad, Ravi Kokku 4/1/2026

Emergence WebVoyager: Toward Consistent and Transparent Evaluation of (Web) Agents in The Wild

WebVoyager evaluation audit identifying shortcomings in AI agent evaluation practices, proposing robust and transparent methodologies for web agents.

Ax Daniel J. Singer, Luca Garzino Demo 4/1/2026

The Future of AI is Many, Not One

Theoretical perspective arguing AI research should shift from individual models toward multi-agent systems for innovation and scientific discovery.

Ax Xingyu Li, Rongguang Wang, Yuying Wang, Mengqing Guo, Chenyang Li, Tao Sheng, Sujith Ravi, Dan Roth 4/1/2026

PAR$^2$-RAG: Planned Active Retrieval and Reasoning for Multi-Hop Question Answering

PAR²-RAG: LLM system combining planned retrieval with active reasoning for multi-hop question answering, adapting queries based on intermediate evidence.

Ax Iordanis Fostiropoulos, Muhammad Rafay Azhar, Abdalaziz Sawwan, Boyu Fang, Yuchen Liu, Jiayi Liu, Hanchao Yu, Qi Guo, Jianyu Wang, Fei Liu, Xiangjun Fan 4/1/2026

GISTBench: Evaluating LLM User Understanding via Evidence-Based Interest Verification

GISTBench: Benchmark evaluating LLM ability to understand user interests from interaction histories in recommendation systems via evidence-based verification.

Ax Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Kaiyuan Tang, Nathaniel Gorski, Jianxin Sun, Guoxi Liu, Helgi I. Ingolfsson, David Lenz, Hanqi Guo, Hongfeng Yu, Teja Leburu, Michael Molash, Bei Wang, Tom Peterka, Chaoli Wang, Shusen Liu 4/1/2026

SciVisAgentBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization Agents

SciVisAgentBench: Comprehensive benchmark for evaluating LLM-based scientific visualization agents on multi-step data analysis tasks.

Ax Fares Fawzi, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Marta Knezevic, Tanya Nazaretsky, Tanja K\"aser 4/1/2026

REFINE: Real-world Exploration of Interactive Feedback and Student Behaviour

REFINE: Locally deployable multi-turn LLM system providing interactive, personalized formative feedback at scale for learning environments.

Ax Hung N. Do, Jessica Z. Kubicek-Sutherland, S. Gnanakaran 4/1/2026

Knowledge database development by large language models for countermeasures against viruses and marine toxins

LLMs used to develop databases on viruses and marine toxins for medical countermeasure research using ChatGPT and Grok.

Ax Jaewoong Lee, Taeun Bae, Jihan Kim 4/1/2026

SimMOF: AI agent for Automated MOF Simulations

SimMOF: LLM-based AI agent automating metal-organic framework simulations by handling workflow construction, parameter selection, and tool interoperability for computational chemistry.

Ax Guan-Lun Huang, Yuh-Jzer Joung 4/1/2026

Webscraper: Leverage Multimodal Large Language Models for Index-Content Web Scraping

Webscraper: Framework using multimodal LLMs to autonomously navigate dynamic web applications and extract content via tool invocation.

Ax Harsh Mankodiya, Chase Gallik, Theodoros Galanos, Andriy Mulyar 4/1/2026

AEC-Bench: A Multimodal Benchmark for Agentic Systems in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

AEC-Bench: Multimodal benchmark evaluating AI agents on architecture, engineering, construction tasks requiring drawing understanding and cross-sheet reasoning.

Ax Dianxing Zhang, Gang Li, Sheng Li 4/1/2026

Route-Induced Density and Stability (RIDE): Controlled Intervention and Mechanism Analysis of Routing-Style Meta Prompts on LLM Internal States

Analysis of how routing-style meta prompts affect LLM internal states and activate sparse computation, testing sparsity-certainty hypothesis.

Ax Zhiqian Zhang, Xu Zhao, Xiaoqing Xu, Guangdong Liang, Weijia Wang, Xiaolei Lv, Bo Li, Jun Gao 4/1/2026

Xuanwu: Evolving General Multimodal Models into an Industrial-Grade Foundation for Content Ecosystems

Xuanwu VL-2B: Industrial multimodal foundation model addressing fine-grained visual perception and long-tail noise for content moderation.

Ax Aaditya Khanal, Yangyang Tao, Junxiu Zhou 4/1/2026

Beyond pass@1: A Reliability Science Framework for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

Reliability science framework for evaluating long-horizon LLM agents beyond pass@1, introducing metrics for consistent success across task duration.

Ax Junjie Zhang, Zhen Shen, Gang Xiong, Xisong Dong 4/1/2026

Grokking From Abstraction to Intelligence

Mechanistic study of grokking in modular arithmetic examining global structural evolution driving sudden generalization in neural networks.

Ax Hongyi Nie, Xunyuan Liu, Yudong Bai, Yaqing Wang, Yang Liu, Quanming Yao, Zhen Wang 4/1/2026

PSPA-Bench: A Personalized Benchmark for Smartphone GUI Agent

PSPA-Bench: Personalized benchmark for smartphone GUI agents capturing user-specific workflows and preferences in mobile task automation.

Ax Bokang Jia, Samta Kamboj, Satheesh Katipomu, Seung Hun Han, Neha Sengupta, Andrew Jackson 4/1/2026

Nomad: Autonomous Exploration and Discovery

Nomad: Autonomous system for exploring document/database corpora and discovering insights without human query constraints using agentic exploration.

Ax Tommy Sha, Stella Zhao 4/1/2026

BenchScope: How Many Independent Signals Does Your Benchmark Provide?

BenchScope tool measuring effective dimensionality of benchmark scores, revealing significant redundancy across 22 benchmarks and 8,400+ evaluations.

Ax Yacine Izza, Alexey Ignatiev, Xuanxiang Huang, Peter J. Stuckey, Joao Marques-Silva 4/1/2026

Rigorous Explanations for Tree Ensembles

Methods for generating human-interpretable explanations for tree ensemble model predictions to improve trustworthiness.

Ax Moiz Sadiq Awan, Maryam Raza 4/1/2026

AI-Generated Prior Authorization Letters: Strong Clinical Content, Weak Administrative Scaffolding

Study of LLM-generated prior authorization letters showing strong clinical content but weak administrative compliance and formatting.

Ax Christopher Zanoli, Andrea Giovannini, Tengjun Jin, Ana Klimovic, Yotam Perlitz 4/1/2026

ELT-Bench-Verified: Benchmark Quality Issues Underestimate AI Agent Capabilities

Analysis showing ELT-Bench underestimates agent capabilities; AI agents demonstrate higher success on data pipeline construction when benchmark quality issues are corrected.

Ax Mohammad Mahdi Mesgari, Jackie Ma, Wojciech Samek, Sebastian Lapuschkin, Leander Weber 4/1/2026

Structural Compactness as a Complementary Criterion for Explanation Quality

Metric for evaluating explanation quality in attribution methods using graph-based structural compactness analysis.

Ax Luoxin Chen, Yichi Zhou, Huishuai Zhang 4/1/2026

Learning to Generate Formally Verifiable Step-by-Step Logic Reasoning via Structured Formal Intermediaries

PRoSFI: Method using formal intermediaries to generate formally verifiable step-by-step logic reasoning in LLMs with structured validation.

Ax Qiyao Wang, Hongbo Wang, Longze Chen, Zhihao Yang, Guhong Chen, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Hui Li, Yuan Lin, Min Yang 4/1/2026

FlowPIE: Test-Time Scientific Idea Evolution with Flow-Guided Literature Exploration

FlowPIE: Framework for scientific idea generation coupling literature retrieval and generation as co-evolving process for autonomous research.

Ax Weixian Xu, Tiantian Mi, Yixiu Liu, Yang Nan, Zhimeng Zhou, Lyumanshan Ye, Lin Zhang, Yu Qiao, Pengfei Liu 4/1/2026

ASI-Evolve: AI Accelerates AI

ASI-Evolve: Agentic framework enabling AI systems to autonomously conduct AI research through learn-design-experiment-analyze cycles.

Ax Lvmin Zhang, Maneesh Agrawala 4/1/2026

View-oriented Conversation Compiler for Agent Trace Analysis

Framework for analyzing and compiling agent conversation traces with structured content like tool calls, reasoning blocks, and sub-agent invocations.

Ax Christopher Koch 4/1/2026

Beyond the Steeper Curve: AI-Mediated Metacognitive Decoupling and the Limits of the Dunning-Kruger Metaphor

Research on how LLM use affects metacognitive accuracy and task performance, challenging the Dunning-Kruger amplification narrative.