DatBench: Toward Discriminative, Faithful and Efficient VLM Evaluation
TL;DR Researchers propose DatBench, a curated evaluation approach for vision-language models (VLMs) guided by three desiderata: faithfulness, discriminability, and compute…
Hierarchical Autoregressive Modeling Boosts Memory Efficiency in Language Generation
TL;DR Researchers propose PHOTON, a hierarchical autoregressive architecture that replaces flat token-by-token scanning with multi-resolution, top-down context access to reduce…
Show HN: Jax-JS — JavaScript ML and array library compiling to WebGPU
TL;DR Developer Eric released jax-js, a reimplementation of JAX written in pure JavaScript that compiles numerical programs to WebGPU and…
Nvidia to speed Siemens chip-design tools by running them on its GPUs
TL;DR At CES 2026, Nvidia said it will work to enable Siemens’ electronic design automation (EDA) software to run on…
Claude Opus 4.5 Delivers an Unusually Capable AI Coding Agent
TL;DR An author who had been skeptical says Claude Opus 4.5 changed their view: the model completed multiple end-to-end developer…
Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) — AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery
TL;DR Tamarind Bio offers an inference platform that runs open-source molecular AI models (including AlphaFold) and packages them for non-technical…
Locating Vehicle Photos in Seconds: GeoSpy’s SuperBolt Reaches 1-Meter Accuracy
TL;DR GeoSpy, developed by Graylark, has added an AI model called SuperBolt that the company says can match photos to…
Study: 65% of Hacker News Posts Skew Negative and Draw More Attention
TL;DR An empirical analysis of Hacker News content found roughly 65% of posts carry negative sentiment and those posts average…
The crucial skill ahead: engineers must cultivate focus, not just AI
TL;DR Writer Antonin argues that while large language models (LLMs) are useful tools, overreliance on them risks eroding engineers' problem-solving…
Commonwealth Fusion Systems installs SPARC magnet, inks Nvidia digital-twin deal
TL;DR Commonwealth Fusion Systems has installed the first of 18 magnets for its SPARC demonstration reactor and expects to fit…