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Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: edotenv, yc s26, quant trading

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The studio behind Pokémon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation (theverge.com)

2026-08-03 | by Andrew Webster | tags: action, beast, beast reincarnation

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Better to Beg Forgiveness (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: creative commons, copyright law, fair use

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Why Chili’s Isn’t Going ‘All In’ on AI (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-28 | tags: chilis, cio, restaurant tech

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The $1,200 Galaxy Z Flip 8 has a plastic back (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: galaxy z flip 8, samsung, glass fiber-reinforced polymer

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Measuring reward-seeking by instilling contrastive beliefs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | by Axel Højmark | tags: reinforcement learning, reward-seeking, langosco

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Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-20 | by Sebastian Raschka | tags: openai, gpt-5.6, reasoning models

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The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: reinforcement learning, pytorch, github

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Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: modal, sandboxes, reinforcement learning

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AI Labels Could Be Coming to Music Streaming Platforms Soon (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: battle, battle rein, continues

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Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-02 | tags: transformer, reinforcement learning, one layer

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The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-30 | by Anna Heim | get DeepMind Poker AI Book → | tags: deepmind, equilibre technologies, tower research capital

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Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-28 | get Drone Building Kit → | tags: octocopter, quadcopter, mueller

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AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-24 | by Kaushik Sengupta | get RFIC Design Book → | tags: rfic design, reinforcement learning, diffusion models

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AI Is Designing Radio Chips That Humans Couldn’t Even Imagine (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-06-24 | by Kaushik Sengupta | get AI Chip Design Kit → | tags: rfic, princeton, reinforcement learning

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Wolves are reconquering Europe. Can people learn to live with them? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-22 | get Wildlife Conservation Guidebook → | tags: wolves, europe, conservation

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Meet Nikolai Evreinov, the 19th century Nathan Fielder (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-16 | by .Wp-Block-Comment-Author-Name Box-Sizing Border-Box | tags: nikolai evreinov, winter palace, re-enactment

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Gliderboy Reinvents Humble Weather Balloon with Flight Home (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-15 | get Weather Balloon Kit → | tags: gliderboy, weather balloon, flight home

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TycoonLE: A Jax reinforcement learning environment for long-horizon planning (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-13 | get Reinforcement Learning Environment Kit → | tags: jax, reinforcement learning, tycoonle

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‘Backrooms’ Is a Total Vibe and We Are Here for It (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-27 | get Backrooms Puzzle Game → | tags: backrooms, chiwetel ejiofor, youtube

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It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-26 | get Neuroscience Brain Model Kit → | tags: neural networks, reinforcement learning, bicycle control

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PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | get AI Reasoning Enhancement Toolkit → | tags: populora, vmax, reinforcement learning

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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-19 | by Simon Willison | get GPT-4 Model Overview → | tags: openai, anthropic, codex

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The enterprise risk nobody is modeling: AI is replacing the very experts it needs to learn from (venturebeat.com)

2026-05-16 | get AI Expert Learning Kit → | tags: alphazero, reinforcement learning, human evaluators

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Claude Code's product lead talks usage limits, transparency, and the "lean harness" (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-15 | get OpenAI GPT-4 Official Hoodie → | tags: claude, reinforcement learning, ars technica

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Nvidia's Jensen Huang bets on this British startup to build 'next frontier' of AI (cnbc.com)

2026-05-13 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get Nvidia Jetson Nano → | tags: ineffable, learn, nvidia

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Following the Text Gradient at Scale (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | by A Href | get Gradient Text Effect Kit → | tags: reinforcement learning, scalar supervision, feedback

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Sony's AI Robot Can Probably Beat You at Table Tennis (cnet.com)

2026-05-03 | by See Full Bio | get Table Tennis Robot → | tags: sony ai, project ace, reinforcement learning

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ChatGPT Is Weirdly Obsessed With Goblins. Here's How OpenAI Fixed It (cnet.com)

2026-04-30 | by See Full Bio | get OpenAI GPT Goblin Sticker → | tags: openai, chatgpt, goblins

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OpenAI talks about not talking about goblins (theverge.com)

2026-04-30 | by Emma Roth | get OpenAI ChatGPT Mug → | tags: openai, gpt-5.1, nerdy personality