Ax Mao-Lin Luo, Zhe-Xu Wang, Zi-Hao Zhou, Bo Ye, Jian Zhao, Min-Ling Zhang, Tong Wei 7/14/2026

RL Forgets! Towards Continual Policy Optimization

Study showing reinforcement learning for vision-language model adaptation exhibits catastrophic forgetting, challenging assumptions about RL continual learning.

Ax Xiaolong Huang, Benjamin Th\'erien, James Harrison, Eugene Belilovsky 7/14/2026

Efficient Long-Horizon Learning for Learned Optimization

Meta-learning approach to train neural network optimizers that outperform hand-designed optimizers like Adam, improving long-horizon training efficiency.

Ax Thomas Kwa, Ben West, Joel Becker, Amy Deng, Katharyn Garcia, Max Hasin, Sami Jawhar, Megan Kinniment, Nate Rush, Sydney Von Arx, Ryan Bloom, Thomas Broadley, Haoxing Du, Brian Goodrich, Nikola Jurkovic, Luke Harold Miles, Seraphina Nix, Tao Lin, Chris Painter, Neev Parikh, David Rein, Lucas Jun Koba Sato, Hjalmar Wijk, Daniel M. Ziegler, Elizabeth Barnes, Lawrence Chan 7/14/2026

Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Software Tasks

Metric and benchmark for measuring AI ability to complete long software tasks by correlating model performance to human completion time.

Ax Eugen Barbulescu, Antonio Alexoaie, Lucian Busoniu 7/14/2026

Hyperflux: Pruning Reveals Importance

Network pruning method modeling pruning as flux-driven system with theoretical analysis of weight removal importance.

HN modinfo 7/14/2026

Agents.md – Dumb Human

MCP tool enabling AI agents to reverse engineer binary code and understand feature implementations without source code.

HN randomwalker 7/14/2026

What will be left for us to work on?

ICML keynote slides on adapting work as AI capabilities increase. Discussion of future implications without technical research.

HN Aperswal 7/14/2026

Show HN: Made a Free LLM Router

Open source LLM router that finds cheaper inference across multiple providers within specified time/cost budgets across 62,852 requests.

HN georgekats 7/14/2026

Customer auth for AI voice agents

Developer tool providing authentication and verification for AI voice agents, with decorators for protecting sensitive operations.

HN orakulus 7/13/2026

Tachyon: An AI Screen-Aware Tutor

Screen-aware AI tutor (HeyBraza) that provides real-time guidance on desktop applications via natural language interaction.

HN Matrixik 7/13/2026

Fight Fire with Pedantry

Essay on designing programming languages optimized for LLM interaction by prioritizing human-readable syntax and training distribution alignment.

HN ai_critic 7/13/2026

The AI Whale Fall and Open Source

Opinion piece on leveraging current AI subsidies from frontier labs to improve open source infrastructure and sustainability.

HN patrickwiseman 7/13/2026

Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks

Claude Code plugin adding Mr. Meeseeks sound notifications when Claude awaits user input, with filtering for autonomous vs. interactive work.

HN sackfield 7/13/2026

How does an LLM feel about you?

Speculates on LLM internal representations across layers, proposing middle layers might represent 'subconsciousness'. Article appears incomplete.