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AI & Agents5 min read

The Wildly Simple Architecture Running Our AI Moment

A ground-up walkthrough of how transformer-based LLMs actually work - tokens, embeddings, attention, and the next-token loop - and why HN engineers can't…

#machine-learning#llm#transformers
System Design7 min read

Microsoft open sources pg_durable: Durable workflows inside PostgreSQL

Microsoft open sourced pg_durable, an extension that runs durable execution inside Postgres. HN argues about putting control flow back in the database.

#postgresql#rust#durable-execution
AI & Agents6 min read

FP4: the 16-value float powering billion-parameter models

FP4, a 4-bit float with just 16 representable numbers, is now the default inference format for billion-parameter models on NVIDIA Blackwell hardware.

#machine-learning#floating-point#nvidia
AI & Agents8 min read

Anthropic Cybersecurity Skills: The Binder Behind a Senior Analyst

754 Markdown playbooks an AI agent can load: Volatility3 runs, Kerberoasting hunts, cloud breach scoping. Mapped to ATT&CK, NIST, ATLAS, D3FEND.

#security#ai-agents#claude-code
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AI & Agents9 min read

Understand Anything: What It Is, Architecture & Codebase Graph Guide

What is Understand Anything? Complete guide to the AI plugin for Claude Code & Cursor that turns 200k+ line codebases into interactive knowledge graphs.

#knowledge-graph#claude-code#codebase-analysis
AI & Agents5 min read

Anthropic Is Now Training on Elon's Supercluster

Anthropic is expanding into xAI's Colossus2, using GB200 GPUs - after already taking the entire Colossus1. HN asks what this means for the AI race.

#ai#anthropic#xai
Developer Tools5 min read

What if every git commit was just a folder you could browse?

Julia Evans built git-commit-folders: mount your git repo over NFS and suddenly every commit becomes a directory you can grep, vim, or pipe into anything.

#git#filesystem#nfs
AI & Agents5 min read

When Google's Update Deletes Your IDE and Leaves a Chatbot in Its Place

Google's Antigravity 2.0 update silently replaced a working developer IDE with a chatbot at I/O 2026 - and the only fix was a full system purge.

#ai-tools#google#developer-tools
AI & Agents5 min read

The AI answer is an ad

Google embedded Gemini-generated ads directly into AI Mode search results. Here's what shipped, why HN is furious, and why the adblocker crowd finally has a…

#google#advertising#ai-search