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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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20267,786 stories
I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago↗ laya.convaiinnovations.com · HN · 318 comments · 1360 points · Sep 19, 2026
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board↗ collusion.wiki · HN · 1603 comments · 2301 points · Sep 04, 2026
Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows↗ research.meta.ai · HN · 638 comments · 1209 points · Aug 10, 2026
AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice↗ news.stanford.edu · HN · 617 comments · 792 points · Mar 28, 2026
Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far↗ burkeholland.github.io · HN · 1353 comments · 879 points · Jan 06, 2026
20254,231 stories
Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots↗ blog.cloudflare.com · HN · 302 comments · 569 points · Jul 01, 2025
How I program with agents↗ crawshaw.io · HN · 295 comments · 615 points · Jun 09, 2025
A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs↗ geoffreylitt.com · HN · 174 comments · 800 points · Apr 14, 2025
OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK↗ openai.github.io · HN · 267 comments · 807 points · Mar 26, 2025
Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories↗ jackhopkins.github.io · HN · 209 comments · 749 points · Mar 11, 2025
20242,361 stories
Building Effective "Agents"↗ anthropic.com · HN · 121 comments · 763 points · Dec 20, 2024
Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time↗ news.virginmediao2.co.uk · HN · 263 comments · 718 points · Nov 14, 2024
Show HN: I built a free in-browser Llama 3 chatbot powered by WebGPU↗ github.com · HN · 139 comments · 547 points · May 03, 2024
A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments↗ deepmind.google · HN · 310 comments · 559 points · Mar 13, 2024
Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database↗ github.com · HN · 233 comments · 547 points · Jan 14, 2024
20232,550 stories
Evolving Reservoirs for Meta Reinforcement Learning↗ arxiv.org · HN · 4 comments · 56 points · Dec 25, 2023
Meet 'Coscientist,' your AI lab partner↗ new.nsf.gov · HN · 10 comments · 45 points · Dec 20, 2023
OpenAI Message to Board↗ gist.github.com · HN · 25 comments · 57 points · Nov 21, 2023
Vicuna: An open-source chatbot impressing GPT-4 with 90% ChatGPT quality↗ vicuna.lmsys.org · HN · 16 comments · 47 points · Mar 30, 2023
Google Releases Bard, Its Competitor in the Race to Create A.I. Chatbots↗ nytimes.com · HN · 28 comments · 41 points · Mar 21, 2023
2022595 stories
CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, and cooperates with people↗ ai.facebook.com · HN · 277 comments · 503 points · Nov 22, 2022
Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI↗ talk.quazel.com · HN · 335 comments · 787 points · Sep 27, 2022
Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant↗ github.com · HN · 123 comments · 402 points · Sep 04, 2022
DeepMind: A Generalist Agent↗ deepmind.com · HN · 337 comments · 502 points · May 12, 2022
Chatbots: Still dumb after all these years↗ mindmatters.ai · HN · 409 comments · 663 points · Jan 06, 2022
2021512 stories
Launch HN: Abbot (YC S21) – ChatOps as a Service, inspired by GitHub's Hubot↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 36 comments · 143 points · Jul 27, 2021
Generally capable agents emerge from open-ended play↗ deepmind.com · HN · 51 comments · 277 points · Jul 27, 2021
AI bot trolls politicians with how much time they're looking at phones↗ mashable.com · HN · 113 comments · 230 points · Jul 07, 2021
ALiEn – a GPU-accelerated artificial life simulation program↗ alien-project.org · HN · 210 comments · 825 points · Jun 11, 2021
Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves↗ artificialintelligence-news.com · HN · 112 comments · 181 points · Feb 26, 2021
2020737 stories
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (2015)↗ deepmind.com · HN · 44 comments · 243 points · Dec 27, 2020
Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition↗ gresearch.co.uk · HN · 241 comments · 401 points · Oct 24, 2020
Spinning Up in Deep RL↗ spinningup.openai.com · HN · 50 comments · 205 points · Aug 17, 2020
Using Reinforcement Learning in the Algorithmic Trading Problem↗ arxiv.org · HN · 135 comments · 288 points · Apr 29, 2020
Enemy AI: chasing a player without Navigation2D or A* pathfinding↗ abitawake.com · HN · 118 comments · 428 points · Apr 12, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago↗ laya.convaiinnovations.com · HN · 318 comments · 1360 points · Sep 19, 2026
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board↗ collusion.wiki · HN · 1603 comments · 2301 points · Sep 04, 2026
Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]↗ blog.szypowi.cz · HN · 284 comments · 485 points · Sep 23, 2026
Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously↗ andonlabs.com · HN · 618 comments · 497 points · Sep 14, 2026
Unreal Agent↗ unreallabs.ai · HN · 125 comments · 247 points · Sep 22, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board↗ collusion.wiki · HN · 1603 comments · 2301 points · Sep 04, 2026
I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago↗ laya.convaiinnovations.com · HN · 318 comments · 1360 points · Sep 19, 2026
Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent↗ ai.meta.com · HN · 742 comments · 666 points · Sep 08, 2026
Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously↗ andonlabs.com · HN · 618 comments · 497 points · Sep 14, 2026
Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]↗ blog.szypowi.cz · HN · 284 comments · 485 points · Sep 23, 2026
OpenAI Agents API↗ developers.openai.com · HN · 187 comments · 350 points · Sep 10, 2026
Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou↗ bsky.app · HN · 15 comments · 263 points · Sep 10, 2026
Unreal Agent↗ unreallabs.ai · HN · 125 comments · 247 points · Sep 22, 2026
HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?↗ harnesstax.github.io · HN · 99 comments · 233 points · Sep 16, 2026
Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows↗ macrumors.com · HN · 162 comments · 228 points · Sep 14, 2026

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