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PAIChecker: 13.6% of SWE-bench Verified Instances Have Misaligned PR-Issue Pairs
PAIChecker finds 13.6% of SWE-bench Verified instances pair a PR with an issue it does not resolve, penalizing agents that solve the stated problem.
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SIGIL Compiles Agent Skills into Harnesses: Prose Runs Skip 44% of Mandated Steps
SIGIL compiles prose SKILL.md files into typed agent harnesses. Prose runs execute 56% of mandated steps; compiled harnesses reach 86% with 0.58x the tokens.
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SWE-NFI: The Benchmark That Catches What Coding Agents Miss
SWE-NFI benchmarks coding agents on 188 behavior-preserving improvement tasks. The best hits 70% correctness, but all lag humans on structural refactors.
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What If AI Was Free Tomorrow, at Exactly Today's Capabilities?
What if AI was free tomorrow at today's capabilities? A thought experiment on what changes for developers when price hits zero, and what stays scarce.
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$500 RL Fine-Tune of a 9B Open Model Beat GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus 4.8 on Catalog Review
A $500 GRPO fine-tune of Qwen 3.5 9B beat GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus 4.8 on catalog review, hitting 97% accuracy at a fraction of the cost per listing.
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FLUX 3: Black Forest Labs Ships a Unified Multimodal Foundation Model for Image, Video, Audio, and Robotics
FLUX 3 from Black Forest Labs is one multimodal model for image, video, audio, and robot actions. What it does, how it works, and how to try it.
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Terence Tao Digests the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample: How Claude Fable 5 Broke an 87-Year-Old Math Problem
Claude Fable 5 found a counterexample to the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture, and Terence Tao worked through the math. How it works and what HN is saying.
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Dockerless Verification Is The Next Coding Agent Bottleneck
Dockerless, ByteDance's environment-free verifier for coding-agent patches, explained - why it complements CI as a cheaper evidence stage before full test runs.
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Ghost Font: Text That Humans Can Read But AI Cannot
Ghost Font hides text in video using motion, so humans can read it but frame-by-frame AI models cannot. How it works and how HN commenters broke it.
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Harness Engineering and the Path to Self-Improving AI
Harness engineering is where self-improving AI starts, Lilian Weng argues, not models rewriting their weights. What that means for developers building agents.
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Ilya Sutskever's 30 Papers: The Reading List That Covers 90% of What Matters
Ilya Sutskever's rumored 30-paper ML reading list, now on 30papers.com. What the papers cover, the compression thesis behind them, and what HN thinks.
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AI Tutor Shows 0.71-1.30 SD Effect Size in Dartmouth Statistics Course
A Dartmouth study of an AI tutor in intro statistics links full engagement to a 0.71-1.30 SD exam gain. What it measured, and why selection bias still matters.
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