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GitLost: How Researchers Tricked GitHub's AI Agent Into Leaking Private Repos
Security researchers discovered a prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub's Agentic Workflows that allows attackers to extract private repository contents through public issues.
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Kokoro: Local, CPU-Friendly TTS That Actually Sounds Good
An 82M parameter text-to-speech model that runs on CPU and produces high-quality speech across multiple languages - no cloud APIs or GPU required.
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Astro 7.0: Rust Compiler, Vite 8, and Up to 61% Faster Builds
Astro 7.0 rewrites core components in Rust, upgrades to Vite 8 with Rolldown, and delivers significant performance gains for content-heavy sites.
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Better Auth Joins Vercel: What It Means for the Auth Ecosystem
Vercel acquires the open-source authentication framework that became the go-to Next.js auth solution. HN weighs in on open source sustainability and vendor lock-in concerns.
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GLM 5.2 and the AI Margin Collapse Thesis
Martin Alderson's argument for why open-weights models like GLM 5.2 will compress frontier lab margins is sparking debate on HN. Here is what the thesis actually says, where HN agrees and disagrees, and why it matters for developers choosing models.
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Harness Engineering and the Path to Self-Improving AI
Lilian Weng argues self-improving AI won't start with models rewriting their weights - it starts with the harness. Here's 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
A CS student built 30papers.com to make Ilya's legendary ML reading list more accessible. HN has thoughts on the source, the format, and why compression equals intelligence.
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Small AI Models Are Finding Real Users Where Networks Fail
IEEE Spectrum reports on pharmaceutical AI running on handheld devices. HN debates emergency kits, domain-specific models, and whether AGI will emerge from scaling or specialization.
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Ternlight: A 7 MB Embedding Model That Runs Entirely in the Browser
Ternlight ships a ternary-quantized sentence encoder at 7 MB that runs semantic search at 5ms per embedding - entirely client-side via WASM, no API calls required. Here is how it works, what HN thinks, and where browser-side embeddings make sense.
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ZCode Developer Guide 2026: Z.ai's Agentic IDE for GLM-5.2
ZCode is Z.ai's free desktop agentic development environment built around GLM-5.2. Here is the developer setup, pricing breakdown, and how it compares to Claude Code and Cursor.
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AI Tutor Shows 0.71-1.30 SD Effect Size in Dartmouth Statistics Course
A new study from Dartmouth measures the impact of an AI tutoring platform on introductory statistics performance. Full engagement with the system correlated with significant exam score improvements, though selection bias remains a key limitation.
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Anthropic Discovers J-Space: A Global Workspace Inside Language Models
Anthropic's new research reveals LLMs have an internal 'workspace' for silent reasoning - and it could change how we build safer AI.
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Clean Code Makes AI Agents 34% More Efficient - New Research
A controlled study of 660 Claude Code trials shows clean codebases reduce token usage by 7-8% and file revisitations by 34%, while pass rates stay the same. Traditional maintainability principles still matter in the age of AI coding.
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