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Show HN: Lazarus, a coding agent for long-horizon tasks

https://github.com/ExpressGradient/lazarus

I have been interested in long-horizon coding tasks for a while, especially with benchmarks like FrontierSWE, where even the best coding agents like Codex and Claude Code struggle to complete tasks.These agents come with a collection of tools like bash, file edits, grep, glob, etc.Lazarus takes a different approach. The idea is to give the model exactly one tool: a persistent Python...

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Show HN: modal-cuda – CLI to run CUDA .cu programs on Modal GPUs

https://github.com/ExpressGradient/modal-cuda

I use a MacBook (no NVIDIA GPU) but still like experimenting with CUDA kernels.I didn’t want to spin up a VM every time or use browser-only tools, so I built a tiny CLI that runs local .cu files on Modal GPUs with a single command.Modal gives around $30 in free credits when you sign up, so the CLI is built around that. You can run simple kernels on smaller GPUs (like T4) for very little. I ran...

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Show HN: Elliot – my coding agent that helps me code, and sometimes helps itself

https://github.com/Think-a-Tron/elliot

Built a coding agent that's actually useful for working with existing codebases - the kind where you need to understand structure, not just append code.Key capabilities:- Structural code search via ast-grep: Searches by AST patterns, not text. Finds all implementations of an interface, all callers of a function, etc. Treats code as structure.- Planning before execution: Writes a plan, ticks off...

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i haven't used cursor or codex or any system that says "agentic coding experience"

i speak in thoughts in my head and it is better to just translate those thoughts to code directly.

putting them into a language for LLMs to make sense and understanding the output is oof... too much overhead. and yeah the micromanagement, correcting mistakes, miscommunications, its shit

i just code like the old days and if i need any assistance, i use chatgpt

I built this as a weekend experiment to see how far you can push a basic LZ-style compressor using LLM-guided code mutations. No fancy ML models here—just a simple loop: mutate, evaluate, keep what works.

The LLM (GPT-4.1) suggests small code changes to improve compression ratio. Mutations are applied and tested on a real input file (big.txt). If the round-trip decompress fails, it's discarded. Everything is logged in a local SQLite DB.

Selection is dumb but effective: top 3 elites + 2 random survivors per generation. Each spawns 4 children. Repeat for N generations or until stagnation. At around 30 generations, I hit a compression ratio of 1.85×. Still decent, considering the starting baseline.

It's not a framework, it's not Pareto, and there's no multi-objective fluff. Just a tiny search loop hacking away at code. Curious if others have tried something similar with code-evolving setups.

Show HN: Zeno – A framework for verifiable RL rewards (code, math, and more)

https://github.com/Think-a-Tron/zeno

With TRL, it's now straightforward to RL-finetune LLMs, but picking good reward functions is still the weakest link.Zeno is an open-source toolkit for verifiable, deterministic reward functions for RL on LLMs.While the initial release focuses on Python code generation, the goal is broader: make RL reward design for LLMs transparent, modular, and extendable across domains (math, retrieval,...

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Show HN: Open-Source AlphaEvolve Clone Using GPT-4.1 and Genetic Programming

Everyone saw the AlphaEvolve hype. I got obsessed with how it might work under the hood and decided to just build it myself.My setup uses GPT-4.1 to mutate matrix multiplication code, guided by a bunch of hand-crafted mutation strategies (loop reordering, tiling, Strassen, etc.). Each candidate is evaluated on both speed and accuracy. Then I apply Pareto selection with crowding distance to...

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Show HN: Raman-01 – A Pocket Physics Solver LLM

https://huggingface.co/think-a-tron/raman-01-1.7B

I built a tiny physics solver LLM that performs surprisingly well on easy-to-medium difficulty physics problems. Most LLMs today still struggle with physics QA (as PhyBench recently highlighted), so I wanted to see how far I could push a small model with careful data and minimal compute.Model: Qwen3-1.7BSupervised Finetuning: ~1500 curated examples spanning kinematics, EM, acoustics, and moreRL...

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Re:Sycophancy in GPT-4o on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @11:44PM (#43841060)
idk if this is only for me or happened to others as well, apart from the glaze, the model also became a lot more confident, it didn't use the web search tool when something out of its training data is asked, it straight up hallucinated multiple times.

i've been talking to chatgpt about rl and grpo especially in about 10-12 chats, opened a new chat, and suddenly it starts to hallucinate (it said grpo is generalized relativistic policy optimization, when i spoke to it about group relative policy optimization)

reran the same prompt with web search, it then said goods receipt purchase order.

absolute close the laptop and throw it out of the window moment.

what is the point of having "memory"?

Show HN: Showdown of Titans: GPT-4o vs. DeepSeek V3 in AI Debate Arena

https://v0-ai-debate.vercel.app/

Just launched AI Agents Debate Arena – a battleground where OpenAI’s GPT-4o and DeepSeek’s V3 go head-to-head in real-time debates! Users can either pick from AI-suggested topics or enter a custom challenge and watch the models argue their cases. Built using V0, this project explores how different LLMs handle reasoning, persuasion, and counterarguments. Who makes the stronger case? Test it out...

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wow nice

Show HN: Built a retro text adventure using V0 and OpenAI

I created a classic text-based adventure game inspired by Zork using Vercel's v0. Each refresh generates a unique game title, setting, and context, with AI handling the dynamic storytelling and gameplay. It features a retro terminal-style UI, simple text commands, and endless possibilities for exploration. Check it out and let me know what you think: https://uj0gnt8ewsnqdwnf.vercel.app/

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aahh damn, thanks

i just typed the objective, it solved the game, stupid openai

fixing it

Updated link to the game: https://uj0gnt8ewsnqdwnf.vercel.app/
hi, thanks for trying it out, redeployed after fixing the error

check it out here: https://awng08bk1cxj8ydx.vercel.app/

Show HN: Retro text adventure game built using V0 and OpenAI

https://piliwtfcobjhsczp.vercel.app/

I created a classic text-based adventure game inspired by Zork using Vercel's v0. Each refresh generates a unique game title, setting, and context, with AI handling the dynamic storytelling and gameplay. It features a retro terminal-style UI, simple text commands, and endless possibilities for exploration.

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Re:A new semantic chunking approach for RAG on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @12:17AM (#41643627)
Retrieval Augmented Generation. Fancy way of saying, retrieve chunks from your document corpus similar to your input using a similarity (mostly cosine) of embedding vectors of the chunks and input vectors, then inject those relevant chunks into your prompt to the LLM. Useful for Document Intelligence.
Wow this looks clean (no pun intended). Great speedups as well!
Nice! How does it compare to https://fastht.ml/