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Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28058
266•embedding-shape•2h ago•161 comments

Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list

https://phemex.com/news/article/2026-fields-medal-winners-list-leaked-includes-two-peking-univers...
101•zaikunzhang•2h ago•71 comments

Proof of Care in the Age of A.I

https://jacobfilipp.com/care/
54•jfil•1h ago•26 comments

Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection

https://ryanjk5.github.io/posts/rjk-duck/
34•RyanJK5•1h ago•11 comments

Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for –$1.3k)

https://github.com/Danau5tin/ai-trains-ai
37•Danau5tin•1h ago•13 comments

Coding agents think ahead of time

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05188
40•andre15silva•1h ago•29 comments

Kids (With Phones) Are Alright

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/07/08/the-kids-with-phones-are-alright/
31•JumpCrisscross•3d ago•24 comments

Tensor Is the Might

https://zserge.com/posts/tensor/
18•eatonphil•1h ago•6 comments

Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries

https://tech.supercarblondie.com/japan-recovers-up-to-90-of-lithium-from-used-ev-batteries/
646•donohoe•11h ago•172 comments

Punch Yourself in the Face with Reality

https://adi.bio/reality
66•AdityaAnand1•2h ago•28 comments

Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware

https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/07/09/spectral-compute-aims-to-set-cuda-free-will-it-succeed/
94•alok-g•5h ago•43 comments

Actegories

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2026/06/30/actegories/
30•ibobev•3h ago•4 comments

Differentiable Fortran with LFortran and Enzyme

https://docs.pasteurlabs.ai/projects/tesseract-core/latest/blog/2026-07-09-enzyme-lfortran-autodi...
19•dionhaefner•1h ago•2 comments

Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-freedom-of-information-act/a-77939695
123•robtherobber•2h ago•68 comments

Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity

https://lenergy.com.au/free-daytime-electricity-is-coming-heres-how-it-actually-works/
172•i2oc•9h ago•264 comments

Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg53l737v1qo
121•BaudouinVH•7h ago•15 comments

A framework for frontier AI and the dawning of a new age

https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/2076957440109625718
5•asiergoni•5h ago•0 comments

The git history command

https://lalitm.com/post/git-history/
372•turbocon•13h ago•249 comments

The Future Worth Building Is Human

https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/the-future-worth-building-is-human/
74•bilsbie•3h ago•44 comments

Just Let Me Write Digits

https://gendx.dev/blog/2026/07/13/input-digits.html
111•brandon_bot•8h ago•41 comments

YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database

https://github.com/JetBrains/youtrackdb
151•gjvc•10h ago•48 comments

Paxos Made Simple (2001)[pdf]

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf
3•grep_it•4d ago•0 comments

Notable Knot Index (2016)

https://knots.neocities.org/knotindex
45•surprisetalk•5d ago•6 comments

Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)

https://danq.me/2026/07/09/your-app-could-have-been-a-webpage/
171•MrVandemar•3d ago•142 comments

Show HN: Rejourney – Open-source revenue leak prediction for web and mobile apps

https://github.com/rejourneyco/rejourney
20•mrr7337•3h ago•1 comments

Fundamentals of Wireless Communication (2005)

https://web.stanford.edu/~dntse/wireless_book.html
158•teleforce•12h ago•10 comments

How to build a circular LCD clock

https://blinry.org/lcd-clock/
115•birdculture•2d ago•53 comments

An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6q54o
196•1659447091•15h ago•60 comments

Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites

https://satellitemap.space/
128•rolph•12h ago•64 comments

The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use

https://blog.incogni.com/digital-fatigue-and-burnout/
66•derbOac•3h ago•61 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for –$1.3k)

https://github.com/Danau5tin/ai-trains-ai
35•Danau5tin•1h ago

Comments

bitbasher•59m ago
Lots of emoji in that readme. Was it mainly codex?
netvarun•54m ago
“The Anthropic team for their incredible coding models (Fable-5 wrote every line of code in this project), and the Claude Code harness.” Source: the repo
Danau5tin•49m ago
Mainly Fable, but It was me who wanted to emojis added hah. I also of course edited the README by hand (crazy I know), but the code is entirely fable
callamdelaney•43m ago
AI trains AI already, agents are happy to spin up real training pipelines for deep learning or regression models or whatever you want right? I guess the advantage to your project is that it provides a framework to allow the agent to access extra compute?
Danau5tin•24m ago
Yes I'd heard the labs (Anthropic mostly) speaking about LLMs training LLMs, so I wanted to make things a little more concrete and test it out myself! Essentially you are correct though, my framework allows the agent access to compute, but also the agent itself is being trained to become better at training models with that compute.
RamblingCTO•28m ago
No idea why you got downvoted into oblivion with the context post. Cool idea!
Danau5tin•26m ago
Thank you!
saberience•27m ago
Can you explain how it works?

What problems would it do well on and why?

Where would it start to fail/break?

What are the limitations of a system like this?

When you vibe code a system in a complex area like RL, you basically have zero understanding of what its actually doing, whether its actually any good or not, what you're actually benchmarking, and when the system would fail.

It's the blind leading the blind.

lumost•24m ago
I think the counter point for these projects is that you may not need a deep understanding if you can measure the outcome. While this may not be true every time today, it plausibly will be in the future - making the activity worthwhile.
saberience•22m ago
Well, you say that, but when "measuring" anything in RL, that measurement itself is not always obvious.

That is, creating the scoring system/judge models etc for RL is not easy at all. You can easily create an RL loop which is getting better and improving its scores, but actually the result is totally garbage, because you're measuring the wrong thing.

babelfish•20m ago
Did you read the README?
saberience•17m ago
The AI generated README?
Danau5tin•
17m ago
I chose the key technical decision and direction (such as the system architecture, the tasks to train on, the stack of Tinker, Prime-RL & Runpod - all of which I know well) etc.

The problems it would do well on are training small agentic (multi-turn, tool use) task based models using the prime-rl stack, which are close to the distribution trained upon. It would likely not transfer to other training frameworks such as SLIME, ART or ROLL, it would also likely not transfer well to RL for complex agents such as coding agents etc.

It is limited due to its scale. As a single person, the resources required to train this on a more diverse dataset, with more complex tasks on a larger variety of models, is outside my abilities! I believe there are many avenues to explore to improve performance for this to be genuinely valuable. For now, this just a proof of concept to show the possible.

I would like to think I have a good understanding of RL, evaluations, and agentic systems after a few years of working on these areas. However, I will always have gaps. I use Fable to help accelerate me, and fill those gaps at the same time, from which I can learn from too.