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New agents.txt file found on DreamHost (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-14 | get DreamHost File Management Tool → | tags: dreamhost, agents.txt, robots.txt

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Obesity rise plateaus in developed nations and accelerates in developing nations (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-13 | by Author Notes | get Smart Digital Body Scale → | tags: countries, country, model

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Gemini API File Search is now multimodal (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-10 | by Ivan Solovyev | get OpenAI GPT-4 Multimodal Model → | tags: gemini, gemini embedding 2, retrieval-augmented generation

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Gode Cookery – Authentic Medieval Recipes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | by James L. Matterer | get Medieval Cookbook Collection → | tags: gode cookery, medieval recipes, james matterer

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Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get AI Skill Assessment Kit → | tags: agent skills, anthropic, gpt-4

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The RAG era is ending for agentic AI — a new compilation-stage knowledge layer is what comes next (venturebeat.com)

2026-05-04 | get AI Knowledge Management Book → | tags: vector databases, pinecone, nexus

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Archaeologists Unearth ‘Advanced’ Gold Dental Bridge in Medieval Scottish Grave (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-04 | get Medieval Gold Dental Bridge → | tags: gold dental bridge, medieval scottish grave, dental ligature

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The AI scaffolding layer is collapsing. LlamaIndex's CEO explains what survives. (venturebeat.com)

2026-05-01 | get LlamaIndex AI Toolkit → | tags: llamaindex, retrieval-augmented generation, context protocol

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The retrieval rebuild: Why hybrid retrieval intent tripled as enterprise RAG programs hit the scale wall (venturebeat.com)

2026-04-29 | get Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Toolkit → | tags: rag, hybrid retrieval, weaviate

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Is fun at work overrated? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-29 | get Ergonomic Office Chair → | tags: roman galley, medieval serf, textile mill

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I Won a Championship That Doesn't Exist (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-28 | get Custom Championship Trophy → | tags: llm, poisoning, anthropic

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RAG precision tuning can quietly cut retrieval accuracy by 40%, putting agentic pipelines at risk (venturebeat.com)

2026-04-27 | get AI Retrieval Optimization Toolkit → | tags: rag, redis, embedding models

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Monitoring LLM behavior: Drift, retries, and refusal patterns (venturebeat.com)

2026-04-25 | get AI Behavior Monitoring Toolkit → | tags: ai evaluation stack, generative ai, hallucination

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Closure of China’s influential journal ranking leaves academics reeling — what will take its place? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-24 | by Basu | get Academic Journal Impact Kit → | tags: cas journal ranking, chinese academy of sciences, xinrui scholar

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Evaluating large language models for accuracy incentivizes hallucinations (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-22 | by Kalai | get AI Language Model Debugger → | tags: large language models, hallucinations, open-rubric evaluations

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Watch the Lego ‘Project Hail Mary’ Set (Almost) Go to Space (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-21 | get LEGO NASA Apollo Saturn V → | tags: lego, project hail mary, guinness world record

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Duolingo was evaluating its workers’ AI use. Workers pushed back. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-15 | get Duolingo Language Learning Kit → | tags: duolingo, luis von ahn, performance reviews

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Show HN: Continual Learning with .md (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-13 | get Deep Learning Notebook Kit → | tags: show hn, memory filesystem, ai agents

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Scientists Used Medieval Poems and Trees to Uncover a 13th-Century Solar Surge (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-10 | get Solar Power Bank → | tags: medieval poems, solar surge, northern lights

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Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-09 | tags: wit, medieval pronouns, english language

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A Digital Compute-in-Memory Architecture for NFA Evaluation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-07 | tags: compute-in-memory, nfa, architecture

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Smart people recognize each other – science proves it (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-06 | by Comuniq Team | get IQ Testing Kit → | tags: intelligence, christoph heine, mozzapp

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How to deal with a passive-aggressive colleague (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-01 | get Dealing with Passive-Aggressive Behavior Book → | tags: passive-aggressive, interpersonal interactions, medieval societies

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General scales unlock AI evaluation with explanatory and predictive power (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-01 | by Zhou | get AI Evaluation Toolkit → | tags: ai evaluation, general scales, cognitive abilities

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The story of Britain's oldest sweet, the Pontefract Cake (2019) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-31 | get Pontefract Cake Candy → | tags: pontefract castle, liquorice, pontefract cakes

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Red Rooms makes online poker as thrilling as its serial killer (theverge.com)

2026-03-29 | by Terrence O'Brien | get Poker Night Set → | tags: red rooms, dark web, pascal plante

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Duolingo’s CEO Uses a Secret Test to Evaluate Job Candidates — Before They Even Step into the Interview (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-27 | by Sherin Shibu | get Duolingo Language Learning App → | tags: duolingo, luis von ahn, taxi evaluation

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Chroma Context-1: Training a Self-Editing Search Agent (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-26 | get AI Self-Editing Tool → | tags: chroma, retrieval-augmented-generation, large language model

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Show HN: Claude skill that evaluates B2B vendors by talking to their AI agents (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-26 | get AI Vendor Evaluation Toolkit → | tags: claude, buyer eval, salespeak api

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Gerard of Cremona (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-26 | get Gerard of Cremona Translation Kit → | tags: gerard of cremona, toledo school of translators, ptolemy almagest