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Hacker News

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• Qwen-AgentWorld▲ 34

Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents

A world model predicts environment dynamics based on current observations and actions, serving as a core cognitive mechanism for reasoning and planning. In this work, we investigate how world modeling based on language models can further push the boundaries of general agents. (i) We first focus on building foundation models for agentic environment simulation. We introduce Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B and Qwen-AgentWorld-397B-A17B, the first language world models capable of simulating agentic environments covering 7 domains via long chain-of-thought reasoning. Leveraging more than 10M environment interaction…

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• lse.ac.uk is University College London▲ 294

Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning

We regret that this event has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office.

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• Jerry's Map▲ 403

Jerry's Map

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• Google▲ 400

Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI

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• Filippo Valsorda▲ 183

Vulnerability reports are not special anymore

We needed the insight and confidentiality to protect our users, but now that anyone can get the same results from LLM?

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• Meta▲ 167

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak

The move comes after the company left potentially sensitive data from the initiative exposed internally.

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• devblogs.microsoft.com is Microsoft▲ 280

In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

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HN — Best of the Week

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• F3▲ 623

F3

[SIGMOD 2026] F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future - future-file-format/F3

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• Mistral AI▲ 446

Mistral OCR 4

Mistral OCR 4 delivers enterprise document AI with 170-language support, bounding boxes, and self-hosted deployment.

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• Cory Doctorow▲ 798

What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance

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• Unknown▲ 384

Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI

Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just…

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• 404 Media▲ 297

Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists against facial recognition

The document, titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx,” includes specific activists’ comments about MSG's facial recognition program and tweets criticizing it.

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• London School of Economics and Political Science▲ 282

Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning

We regret that this event has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office.

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• Daniel Shiffman▲ 271

AI's Affordability Crisis

A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first one's fr...

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• Unknown58d ago

Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

Hi all! TikZ is a widely-used LaTeX package for drawing figures in papers. It uses commands like \draw[->] (0,0) -- (1,2); to draw lines, shapes, text, etc. Academics usually code up their…

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