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Male Fruit Fly Brain Trained to Play Doom (slashdot.org)

2026-09-12 | get Doom Guy Life in First Person John Romero book → | tags: doom, fruit fly brain, google

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Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-10 | get Keychron K2 wireless mechanical keyboard → | tags: swe-2, cognition, kimi k3

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A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-10 | get Human Compatible Stuart Russell book → | tags: specification gaming, ai alignment, reinforcement learning

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This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-08 | by Mat Honan | get Reinforcement Learning An Introduction Sutton Barto → | tags: danijar hafner, reinforcement learning, world models

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Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-03 | by Tim Fernholz | tags: meta, muse spark, ai models

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This duck-shaped robot is almost cute enough to make you forget its AI (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-27 | get 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth Controller → | tags: hugging face, microduck, robotics

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Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-27 | by Rebecca Bellan | get Raspberry Pi 5 8GB → | tags: hugging face, microduck, pollen robotics

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Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-27 | by Rebecca Bellan | get Raspberry Pi 5 8GB → | tags: hugging face, microduck, pollen robotics

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Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-20 | by Russell Brandom | tags: grok, xai, reinforcement learning

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OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what? (theverge.com)

2026-08-19 | by Robert Hart | tags: openai, reinforcement learning, ai safety

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OpenAI is slowing down AI development after rogue agents incidents and Bernie Sanders threatens Senate action (techspot.com)

2026-08-19 | by Rob Thubron | tags: openai, rogue agents, astramodel

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OpenAI slows AI development after rogue agents raise alarms and Bernie Sanders threatens Senate action (techspot.com)

2026-08-19 | by Rob Thubron | tags: openai, rogue agents, astramodel

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OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-18 | by Russell Brandom | tags: openai, hugging face, astral model

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OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face (theverge.com)

2026-08-18 | by Jay Peters | tags: openai, hugging face, reinforcement learning

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A recipe for drone racing with reinforcement learning (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-16 | tags: quadcopter, reinforcement learning, mujojo

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Google reportedly taps AMD to design next-generation TPU — hybrid AI ASIC could integrate on-package CPU cores for reinforcement learning (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-16 | by Anton Shilov | tags: google, amd, tpu

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A Tale of Dynamic Programming (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Iago Leal De Freitas | tags: dynamic programming, richard bellman, stochastic dual

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

2026-07-02 | get Transformer Model Starter Kit → | 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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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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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