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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I am trying to learn concepts like On Policy Distillation (OPD), On Policy Self Distillation (OPSD) and how do they compare to RL algorithms like GRPO.</p> <p>There are a lot of papers on this, but because of limited compute I cannot try these papers out and learn them by implementing them myself.</p> <p>If someone here has worked with these algorithms and their implementation on SLMs (something that can fit a consumer grade GPU like Nvidia RTX 4090 or 5090), ca

Article URL: https://freeaipromptgen.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133672 Points: 10 # Comments: 4

<p>New AI models, advanced robots and specialty computer chips are unsettling markets and the US tech industry</p><p>Over the past month, a series of advancements in China’s artificial intelligence, chip manufacturing and robotics technologies have rattled financial markets, caused divisions among US tech moguls and left the Trump administration scrambling to respond.</p><p>Silicon Valley has long pointed to China’s tech industry as a competitive threat and used its growth as rationale for why U

Agent Platform's evaluation service is now generally available, providing developers with a unified engine to measure agent quality consistently across local development experiments and live production traffic. You can evaluate agents using over 20 pre-built metrics, DeepMind-backed adaptive rubrics, or custom code-based and LLM-as-a-judge metrics stored in a centralized, versioned registry. The service integrates directly into existing workflows via the Agent Platform SDK, agents-cli, and ADK,

To prevent context window bloat and reduce token consumption, Genkit Go introduces Agent Skills based on a progressive disclosure architecture. Developers can package specialized instructions, scripts, and references into modular SKILL.md bundles where only the frontmatter metadata is initially exposed to the agent's system prompt. When a task matches the skill's description, Genkit's middleware dynamically loads the full instruction body and associated assets, ensuring the model accesses precis

In July, large funding rounds, new approaches to robot training, and new robot models drew our readers attention. The post Top 10 robotics stories of July 2026 appeared first on The Robot Report .

<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>fix(tui): cancel buffered submissions on shutdown [AI-assisted] (#117331) * fix(tui): cancel buffered submissions on shutdown * refactor(tui): preserve callable submit coalescer * test(tui): run local PTY smoke against built CLI</pre>

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Autonomous vehicle giant disturbs residents' sleep.

<p>A New York school district has paused plans to bring an android into the classroom. Is this our educational future?</p><p>What’s more harrowing than sending your child to school? Maybe <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_(1994_film)">getting stuck on a city bus</a> that can’t drop below 55 miles per hour or it will explode, but that’s about it. Once your kid hits school age, you have to decide (if you’re lucky) between public and private education, vet the teachers, and neurotically

Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges Telegram’s founder, xAI sues to stop a state’s “nudification” ban, and the Democrats learn a lesson about getting scammed.

Article URL: https://polymyth.quest Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133025 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

A removable chip lets hackers inspect their badge—and keep using it after Defcon.

GitHub's algorithms shadowbanned a popular SVG optimizer with over 37 million weekly npm downloads and thousands of downstream dependents. https://github.com/svg/svgo https://x.com/IAmTrySound/status/2083310470111334439 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132894 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

Professional handcraft is the key to unlocking value from emerging technology and data, suggest Aston Martin Aramco F1 executives and partners.

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If you’re building an on-device web-based AI app, you’ve probably built this 50 times already: Something that tells your users which models are available to download or already cached, then shows progress as they’re being downloaded. While building Rescript (see https://github.com/wassgha/rescript ), I had to build this exact same pattern. So I built it into a tiny library that streamlines that across transformers.js, onnx, prakeet and pretty much any model provider. Give it a try :) Comments UR

Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?

Article URL: https://github.com/temple-compute/pantheon/tree/main/workflows/ai/w02-tiny-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132705 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

I've been checking current frameworks for Node.js, and it seems, for example, that Hono is quite popular and gets supported by different solutions (e.g. AI agent libraries) much easier than Fastify, despite being relatively young. I've been thinking why Fastify never got more popular despite being seemingly good, battle-tested, and Matteo Collina's authority. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132701 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip

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Article URL: https://sendpageapp.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132412 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

Geological machine learning global research past 10 years. Research on natural hazards and disaster risk is comfortably the largest category, followed by academic/methodological topics and petroleum geology, geological mapping and spatial modelling, engineering geology, followed by economic mining geology and hydrogeology, environmental and climate science, then structural geology & tectonics and planetary geology. A significant... Continue Reading →

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I am trying to understand whether the rise of AI affects managers and the work dynamics positively or negatively Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132161 Points: 5 # Comments: 3

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We built an eval for our Row Level Security guide, found agents were granted risky default database access, and fixed the docs until the eval passed.

https://jerrysniffs.online/ No subscriptions. Recharge when you need. $10 gives you 15K online searches, 3K twitter, 2K reddit, and 15K url-to-markdown fetches. Included MCP/API/Dashboard and node SDK. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131426 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Just checked my grafana dashboard and was surprised to see 4th OpenAI usage reset this week. It's a $200/mo account and all 4 happened ahead of my scheduled reset: - 7/31 around 8:45pm - 7/28 around 9:15pm - 7/27 around 8:30pm - 7/25 around 12:30pm Athropic needs to keep up. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131376 Points: 2 # Comments: 2

Reforged Labs had a team split across Vietnam and the US during its three years of operation.

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True IDC recently launched Thailand's first AI-focused hyperscale data center with over 20 MW capacity.

MediaTek plans to produce its first custom AI chip in Q4, with a second in 2028.

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We've updated melly, our AI agent on sleek to help you on every task. Melly has now became intensely powerful. We even ran some coding and a few more tests, add the results are impressive. If you want to use it out, use it by signing up on sleek.silisleek.com. It really handles very complex tasks with even small models. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130415 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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