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A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2025/20251022en?brid=vscAjql9kZ...
123•nvahalik•1h ago•81 comments

Pico-Banana-400k

https://github.com/apple/pico-banana-400k
30•dvrp•46m ago•2 comments

The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel

https://www.0xkato.xyz/linux-boot/
95•0xkato•3h ago•33 comments

California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-17/california-made-it-through-another-summer-wi...
191•JumpCrisscross•6h ago•154 comments

The Journey Before main()

https://amit.prasad.me/blog/before-main
155•amitprasad•7h ago•56 comments

I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it

https://www.makeuseof.com/ai-features-being-rammed-down-our-throats/
133•gnabgib•2h ago•65 comments

Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations

https://github.com/RohanAdwankar/oxdraw
122•RohanAdwankar•6h ago•23 comments

D2: Diagram Scripting Language

https://d2lang.com/tour/intro/
47•benzguo•4h ago•7 comments

How programs get run: ELF binaries (2015)

https://lwn.net/Articles/631631/
62•st_goliath•5h ago•1 comments

Agent Lightning: Train agents with RL (no code changes needed)

https://github.com/microsoft/agent-lightning
56•bakigul•6h ago•7 comments

An Update on TinyKVM

https://fwsgonzo.medium.com/an-update-on-tinykvm-7a38518e57e9
76•ingve•5h ago•17 comments

Doctor Who archive expert shares positive update on missing episode

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-missing-episodes-update-teases-announcement-newsu...
49•gnabgib•6d ago•25 comments

Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes

https://shadcnthemer.com
84•miketromba•6h ago•22 comments

ARM Memory Tagging: how it improves C/C++ memory safety (2018) [pdf]

https://llvm.org/devmtg/2018-10/slides/Serebryany-Stepanov-Tsyrklevich-Memory-Tagging-Slides-LLVM...
47•fanf2•6h ago•16 comments

Rock Tumbler Instructions

https://rocktumbler.com/tips/rock-tumbler-instructions/
152•debo_•10h ago•75 comments

An Efficient Implementation of SELF (1989) [pdf]

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse501/15sp/papers/chambers.pdf
36•todsacerdoti•5h ago•18 comments

AI, Wikipedia, and uncorrected machine translations of vulnerable languages

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral/
63•kawera•6h ago•31 comments

We do not have sufficient links to the UK for Online Safety Act to be applicable

https://libera.chat/news/advised
202•todsacerdoti•9h ago•61 comments

WebDAV isn't dead yet

https://blog.feld.me/posts/2025/09/webdav-isnt-dead-yet/
104•toomuchtodo•1d ago•55 comments

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-memory-of-the-christmas-island-shrew/
52•hexhowells•6h ago•16 comments

Belittled Magazine: Thirty years after the Sokal affair

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/belittled-magazine-robbins
36•Hooke•5h ago•24 comments

Ubios: China's Alternative to UEFI

https://pbxscience.com/ubios-chinas-alternative-to-uefi-and-the-new-era-of-firmware-standards/
12•1970-01-01•2d ago•5 comments

Testing out BLE beacons with BeaconDB

https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/testing-out-ble-beacons-with-beacondb/
41•zdw•6h ago•12 comments

Passwords and Power Drills

https://google.github.io/building-secure-and-reliable-systems/raw/ch01.html#on_passwords_and_powe...
53•harporoeder•4d ago•15 comments

Show HN: LLM Rescuer – Fixing the billion dollar mistake in Ruby

https://github.com/barodeur/llm_rescuer
65•barodeur•1d ago•10 comments

Making a micro Linux distro (2023)

https://popovicu.com/posts/making-a-micro-linux-distro/
156•turrini•13h ago•27 comments

Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking

https://about.nike.com/en/newsroom/releases/nike-project-amplify-official-images
49•justinmayer•6h ago•35 comments

Tarmageddon: RCE vulnerability highlights challenges of open source abandonware

https://edera.dev/stories/tarmageddon
65•vsgherzi•3d ago•30 comments

The future of Python web services looks GIL-free

https://blog.baro.dev/p/the-future-of-python-web-services-looks-gil-free
180•gi0baro-dev•6d ago•75 comments

Honda's ASIMO (2021)

https://www.robotsgottalents.com/post/asimo
34•nothrowaways•6h ago•10 comments
Open in hackernews

Agent Lightning: Train agents with RL (no code changes needed)

https://github.com/microsoft/agent-lightning
56•bakigul•6h ago
https://microsoft.github.io/agent-lightning/stable/

Comments

throwaway314155•5h ago
> Turn your agent into an optimizable beast with ZERO CODE CHANGE (*almost*)!

OP didn’t think to include this very important fine print. Thanks OP!

ripped_britches•4h ago
What actually is this?
ramesh31•3h ago
>What actually is this?

Based on the number of emojis, I doubt the author even knows.

cpard•3h ago
A framework for optimizing LLM agents, including but not limited to RL. You can even do fine tuning, they have an example with unsloth in there.

The design of this is pretty nice, it's based on a very simple to add instrumentation to your agent and the rest happens in parallel while your workload runs which is awesome.

You can probably do also what DSPy does for optimizing prompts but without having to rewrite using the DSPy API which can be a big win.

bgwalter•4h ago
All these agent documentations seem to compete for the most complex set of flow charts imaginable without ever mentioning what the Rube Goldberg machine is supposed to accomplish. Given that the real output in open source of these contraptions is zero, it seems that the flow charts are the goal. Some kind of modern art.
ramanvarma•2h ago
do you have benchmarks on tasks with sparse rewards or partial observability? i feel like thats where most "train any agent" claims tend to break down
vodkastingerxf8•1h ago
Parsing entireties of the I/O agent release version, which is the precommit as text prior to evaluation.