5/11/2026
Show HN: Studis – Turn product photos into social media ads with AI
Studis tool uses Gemini Flash and Claude to generate social media ad copy and visuals from product photos. Built with Laravel, Vue, and Pusher.
5/11/2026
What AI harnesses should learn from OAuth
Conceptual framework applying OAuth security principles to AI agent harnesses, treating agents as principals requiring proper authorization models.
5/11/2026
Where V-JEPA 2.1's Dense Features Hold Up (and Where They Don't)
Pre-registered robustness study of Meta's V-JEPA 2.1 vision model across four sizes, with production robotics deployment findings and failure mode analysis.
5/11/2026
I built an open-source visual AI agent builder – PandaFlow
PandaFlow: open-source visual builder for constructing multi-agent AI systems with graphical interface.
5/11/2026
Show HN: LLM Steganography to hide text inside another plausible text
Discussion on personalized LLMs tailored to individual users being more useful than general-purpose models.
5/11/2026
OMLX: Local LLM Server for Apple Silicon Macs
Local LLM inference server for Apple Silicon Macs with continuous batching, KV cache management, and menu bar control.
5/11/2026
Endy – orchestrate multiple coding-agent CLIs to cut LLM spend
Local control plane orchestrating multiple coding-agent CLIs (Codex, OpenCode, etc.) via tmux with task logging and unified command interface.
5/11/2026
Open Agent Memory Protocol 1.2 ships; 1.3 (draft) adds governed memory
Open Agent Memory Protocol 1.2 release with 1.3 draft adding governed memory with scope, sensitivity controls, and audit trails.
5/11/2026
DoneSpec – deterministic completion checks for AI coding agents
Deterministic completion verification layer for AI coding agents ensuring tasks meet explicit criteria via local, repeatable checks.
5/11/2026
Show HN: AI Agents in 30 Lines of YAML: Lowdefy v5.3
Lowdefy v5.3 enables AI agents in YAML config that call existing API endpoints as tools with streaming chat.
5/11/2026
Cotypist – AI Autocomplete for Mac
Cotypist: AI autocomplete tool for macOS with word prediction across all applications.
5/11/2026
How enterprises are scaling AI
Enterprise adoption insights from Philips, BBVA, Jetbrains, Scania. Focus on building trust and organizational conditions for AI scaling.
5/11/2026
AI: Apologies, I was only doing as instructed. (What Hollow is and isn't)
Hollow-agentOS: multi-agent system with three local LLMs running autonomously on consumer GPU, self-deploying tools without human input.
5/11/2026
Using AGENTS.md / Claude.md to discourage AI-generated code contributions
Discussion on using AGENTS.md and Claude.md files to discourage AI-generated code contributions.
5/11/2026
Timebook – Time tracking and invoicing your AI agent can use
Timebook: time tracking and invoicing tool designed to be used by AI agents.
5/11/2026
Open-Source Models for Text Rendering and Image Editing
Open-source models for accurate text rendering and image editing in AI-generated images, addressing longstanding text generation quality issues.
5/11/2026
Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI
Profile of academics who refuse to use generative AI, citing concerns beyond job displacement.
5/11/2026
ProgramBench (Meta) Repro: variance across runs and findings
Meta/Stanford/Harvard released ProgramBench: benchmark for evaluating LLMs on code repository tasks using synthetic test generation and agent evaluation.
5/11/2026
GitHub Copilot is deprecating Grok Code Fast 1
GitHub Copilot deprecating Grok Code Fast 1 model on May 15th. Users must migrate to supported models.
5/11/2026
ASTro: AST-Based Reusable Optimization Framework
AST-based optimization framework for generating specialized code through partial evaluation.
5/11/2026
Silo: Isolated workspace manager for parallel agentic development
Workspace manager enabling parallel development with multiple AI agents in isolated Git worktrees.
5/11/2026
Show HN: AI agents who prevent context drift through gossip
Open-source multi-agent system using shared markdown wiki to maintain context and prevent agent drift.
5/11/2026
Semantic Phonons: Lattice Vibrations in AI Internals
Research exploring how language models represent semantic meaning through internal lattice vibrations analogy.
5/11/2026
Constrained Decoding: Forcing LLMs to Respect Your Taxonomy
Technique for constraining LLM outputs to valid categories in taxonomy-based classification tasks.
5/11/2026
Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s
MIT-licensed OpenTelemetry observability platform combining logs, traces, metrics, and AI tracing.
5/11/2026
Nanonumpy: Build a tiny NumPy to understand vectorization
Educational Rust/Python package implementing NumPy-like operations to teach vectorization and SIMD concepts.
5/11/2026
Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture
Discussion of evolved antennas created via evolutionary algorithms and parallels to LLM-generated code and potential risks.
5/11/2026
Make Claude Code Sing
Claude Code skill that generates a song from session transcripts using Gemini and Google Lyria, then plays it to speakers.
5/11/2026
Agent Patterns for AI Agent Development
Reference guide covering patterns and techniques for developers using AI coding assistants like Copilot and Claude Code.
5/11/2026
AI Agents Have Two Souls. You Only Control One
Definitional analysis of AI agents addressing vagueness in what constitutes an agent and resulting security implications.
5/11/2026
Predictions about AI and software development
Predictions on agentic coding future: multiplayer collaboration, better UX for AI artifacts, integrated human-AI tools for task tracking.
5/11/2026
State aware AI agent shitfest – with rules – that helps move code
THE_ROOM: Local-first Electron app for multi-model AI agent collaboration with code editing capabilities. Windows alpha.
5/11/2026
OpenAI launches DeployCo to help businesses build around intelligence
OpenAI launches OpenAI Deployment Company to help enterprises build and deploy AI systems, acquiring Tomoro for Forward Deployed Engineers.
5/11/2026
Reimplement GitHub for Agents
Self-hosted GitHub-compatible API server (agent-git-service) for agents and automation, supporting REST v3, GraphQL v4, and Git Smart HTTP.
5/11/2026
Does structured prompting change how LLMs reason, or just what they say?
Empirical study investigating structured prompting effects on LLM reasoning using Knowledge Innovation System protocol across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
5/11/2026
Show HN: ChatbotX, an open-source alternative to ManyChat
Open-source omnichannel chatbot platform for agentic workflows supporting APIs, CLI, and MCP protocols. Alternative to ManyChat and similar commercial platforms.
5/11/2026
When GPT 5.5 flags your chat for possible cybersecurity risk–ask it to help you
Anecdote about GPT flagging a fine-tuning session during a hackathon and using prompts to bypass restrictions. Lacks technical depth and verification.
5/11/2026
Beyond State-Wise Mirror Descent: Offline Policy Optimization with Parametric Policies
Theoretical research on offline reinforcement learning with general function approximation and parametric policies for large action spaces.
5/11/2026
Contextual Invertible World Models: A Neuro-Symbolic Agentic Framework for Colorectal Cancer Drug Response
Neuro-symbolic framework combining invertible world models with agents for drug response prediction in precision oncology.
5/11/2026
Decoding the Pulse of Reasoning VLMs in Multi-Image Understanding Tasks
Analysis of attention patterns in vision-language models during multi-image reasoning, revealing unfocused attention pulses and positional bias.
5/11/2026
Optimizing Language Models for Crosslingual Knowledge Consistency
Method using reinforcement learning with structured rewards to improve consistency of LLM knowledge across multiple languages.
5/11/2026
VDCook:DIY video data cook your MLLMs
VDCook platform for automated video dataset construction using natural language queries, retrieval, and synthesis for multimodal LLM training.
5/11/2026
Exact Is Easier: Credit Assignment for Cooperative LLM Agents
Research on credit assignment in cooperative multi-agent LLM systems, showing standard evaluation methods are flawed and proposing exact counterfactual approaches.
5/11/2026
How Log-Barrier Helps Exploration in Policy Optimization
Theoretical analysis of log-barrier regularization enabling exploration in stochastic gradient bandit optimization with convergence guarantees.
5/11/2026
Multi-Modal Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Radiology Report Generation
MARL-Rad uses multi-modal multi-agent RL for radiology report generation, training agentic workflows end-to-end within deployed clinical workflow.
5/11/2026
SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks
SlopCodeBench evaluates coding agents on iterative 36-problem benchmark with 196 checkpoints where agents extend own solutions over time.
5/11/2026
Valence-Arousal Subspace in LLMs: Circular Emotion Geometry and Multi-Behavioral Control
Analysis of emotion vector organization in LLMs via valence-arousal subspace with circular geometry for emotion steering control.
5/11/2026
Zero-Shot Quantization via Weight-Space Arithmetic
Zero-shot quantization via weight-space arithmetic extracts quantization vectors from donor tasks to improve post-training quantization without receiver training data.
5/11/2026
Muon Dynamics as a Spectral Wasserstein Flow
Analysis of Muon optimizer dynamics as spectral Wasserstein flow in mean-field regime, studying gradient normalization for deep learning.
5/11/2026
Android Coach: Improve Online Agentic Training Efficiency with Single State Multiple Actions
Android Coach improves online RL agent training efficiency by processing multiple actions per state, addressing sample inefficiency in emulator-based learning.