Make a Robot Arm Feel Weightless with NVIDIA Holoscan 5
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Practice Makes Precise: At CoRL, NVIDIA and Partners Reveal How Robots Rehearse Delicate Work in Simulation
Simulation, which has long been the proving ground for robots learning to walk, roll and hop, is now helping researchers teach robots tasks that require a finer touch: aligning gears, connecting cables and assembling small components. The shift from locomotion to manipulation is taking center stage at this week’s Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) in […]
Show HN: Open-source customer-facing agents
Hi, Dmitri from Radioso here, an open-source platform to design AI agents for customers and visitors in any channel, in the style of Fin/Ada/Decagon. The repo is https://github.com/radioso-ai/radioso and our website is https://radioso.aiToday, your choices are:1. Buy a very expensive service for your vertical (usually starting with $$ five figures monthly) 2. Get a cheap off-the-shelf chatbot that mostly answers FAQs 3. Build your own, and then also build the inbox, human handoff, audit trail and integrations around itAt Radioso we wanted an open-source option that combines the best of all 3. You can integrate it with your own software via API/SDK or your CRM, or run it standalone, either self-hosted or in our cloud.The engine runs multi-step interactions and takes actions: calling your APIs, updating records, booking things. Maybe you’ve tried Parlant; Radioso is the alternative “with batteries included”: RAG, audit trail, customer service inbox, and integrations like Slack and email.Under the hood it’s plain TypeScript + PostgreSQL, works with OpenAI/Anthropic/other models, and is licensed under Apache 2.0 which includes all features (The only thing we keep under EE license is the multi-tenant layer we use to run our own cloud).We have existing customers running it for technical Q&A, course booking, online product recommendations and goods returns, among others, some reaching 92% of conversations automated. We’re currently working on voice support so we can offer a call center.Our ambition is to be “the WordPress of customer-facing AI” :), where people can contribute their favorite plugins and benefit from the ecosystem.Longer term, we think browsing the web will mostly mean talking to your own agent, and when you need a service or a purchase, your agent will talk to the vendor’s agent to get things done. For this, Radioso already publishes an A2A Agent Card and we’re working on the rest. Your Radioso services are also callable over MCP, for customers who already use it.Thanks for your attention. We’d especially love to hear which integrations you’d want, whether you’d self-host it, and what’s stopped you from deploying a customer-facing AI agent so far. Tell us what you think. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50423820 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Pgxio – a tiny PostgreSQL layer inside Nginx
I built the first version of this stuff a decade ago as ethanolus (c2h5oh). And I've used it for most of my projects as a backend layer since then.The main motive is to eliminate unnecessary complexity from backend layers.How it works: a rust nginx module calls postgresql functions via non-blocking libpq io. There is an optional patch for libpq. It provides zero-copy for nginx-chained memory buffers - to avoid request body copies between nginx and libpq.Pgxio supports http2 and websockets. Realtime listen/notify updates from postgres without polling.How to try - code on github. Tested on Debian - FreeBSD validation in progress.It's alpha - so any feedback is welcome. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50425203 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: SafeScript, a safe version of JavaScript for executing untrusted code
Article URL: https://github.com/SafeScript/safescript Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50417478 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Your Experts Have Partners. There's HOPE for Keeping Them Together
HOPE, a second-order expert pruning method for Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models, accounts for pairwise expert interactions by optimizing a quadratic program based on an interaction matrix derived from calibration data. Unlike first-order methods that prune experts independently, HOPE preserves cooperative expert groups, leading to better performance—especially at high pruning rates like 50%. On benchmarks such as SWE-Bench Pro, HOPE outperforms state-of-the-art first-order methods like REAP by up to +6.1%, maintaining model quality while significantly reducing memory footprint. The method requires only a single calibration pass and efficient quadratic programming, with negligible overhead. It has been validated on Qwen3.5 and GLM-4.5 models, showing consistent improvements across diverse tasks and calibration sets.
Show HN: An open-source IDE for software architecture
Now, with this open-source tool everyone can learn,build,share,and validate the system design.This is next step, drawing design on blank page to making it a workflow .Do explore and let me know how it is... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50412135 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Extend Claude Code to remote sessions on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with security controls
Run Claude Code as a remote agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Each coding task runs in its own isolated session in your AWS account, every model call goes through Amazon Bedrock, and the result comes back as a GitHub pull request you review and merge.
Show HN: GC2 (Geo Compute Cloud)
Article URL: https://gc2.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50404243 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Select – AI agents that earn autonomy through verified work
Article URL: https://github.com/Kirby54/Select Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50400882 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Taxonomy of agentic primitives in Amazon Quick
As we built Amazon Quick, its agents grew from answering questions to taking actions, and the same primitives kept getting rebuilt under different names. This post shares the taxonomy we converged on — triggers, agents, capabilities, and learned context — found by decomposing agentic work into four plain questions: When, What, Who, and How.
Show HN: Cerea – yet another self-hosted LLM chat front end
Here is Cerea, a self-hostable, open-source (Apache 2.0) chat+agent frontend for LLMs. It works alone with any OpenAI-compatible inference provider, but it's way better when coupled with the model gateway I'm also developing, Pystino (https://github.com/paoloviviani/Pystino).I came to this after struggling to find a hosted chat interface that was truly open source, that I really enjoyed to use, and that was simple enough to be shared and used by family. In particular, I was looking for something that could provide the smooth and integrated user experience of commercial products for the tasks needed by family (e.g., document editing, form filling, notes and knowledge management), but backed by open models hosted wherever I decide.Then it became richer, now supporting: remote coding agents (wrapping Opencode), delegation and coordination between agents, integration between chat/projects and code agents (this one to me is a pain point for Claude, which I use at work), projects, RAG, rich artifacts support, schedules, and more.You can try it yourself, either cloning the full repo and head to Cerea/kit, or just the deploy kit with a script (https://github.com/paoloviviani/Cerea#quick-start).It's just a docker compose with a ./configure script that helps to generate a sensible .env for the specific scenario. It works in the browser and as a PWA on mobile.I hope you'll enjoy, feel free to reach out for questions. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50384502 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Four layers of context engineering for production AI agents: How Deep Insight applies them in working code
In production AI agents, context management is the real bottleneck. This post presents a four-layer context engineering framework (architecture, prompts, file-based tools, and verification agents), implemented in working code from Deep Insight, an open source multi-agent data analysis solution on the Strands Agents SDK and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
Show HN: CXAgent – a multi-agent coding workbench for the terminal, in .NET
Article URL: https://nickprotop.github.io/cxagent/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50368887 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Mastodon desktop client, made with Claude, using Rust and GTK4
Inspired by Mastodon's new Web UI makeover, I used Claude to make a nice Linux desktop client, using Rust and GTK4. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50371490 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: ZeBridge – PostgreSQL replicas on devices, synchronized over NATS
Article URL: https://github.com/ndrean/ZeBridge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50376801 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: TubeHaus – Open-source YouTube app for Android, desktop and TV
Article URL: https://github.com/biolend83/tubehaus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50363507 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
China‑bound Apple Intelligence enters beta testing in 4 days! Alibaba officially announces full integration of Qwen.
Author: Li Shuiqing | Editor: Xin Yuan — According to Zhidongxi (WeChat official account: zhidxcom), on October 31, Alibaba announced a partnership with Apple to integrate Qwen into Apple Intelligence. Chinese users will be able to directly access Qwen’s capabilities for text and image understanding, content generation, and more, within Siri, writing tools, and visual intelligence features. These functions will begin beta testing starting November 4 alongside the latest iOS Developer Beta version, and...
Instagram modernized its user interface using a native AI architecture, reducing token costs by 33%.
Instagram Direct migrated its Android user interface from the legacy Android View system to Jetpack Compose, creating an AI-native UI codebase that makes it easier for AI coding agents to understand, modify, and maintain.