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phun-ky/speccer – a zero dependency package to highlight elements
Article URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@phun-ky/speccer
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187312
Points: 1
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How Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 uses AI, and how much of your data it needs
Copilot Actions, new agents, and tools to empower IT teams
Harvesting Memories: A Short Story
Article URL: https://github.com/zaataylor/writing/blob/main/harvesting-memories.md
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187293
Points: 1
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Ask HN: You are posting too fast."
I see this warning periodically and it blocks me from posting the comment I wrote. This is very frustrating. This feature should give a warning BEFORE you write a long comment reply right?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187283
Points: 3
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AI PR Review (Highly Customizable)
Article URL: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/diffguard-ai-pr-review
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187278
Points: 1
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Show HN: Tobii lightbox v2.6.0 with pinch/zoom/pan and tap to cycle on mobile
Article URL: https://github.com/midzer/tobii
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187275
Points: 2
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Free Microblogging
Looking for free microblogging. So far I found these:
https://public.me/ (you need to have: iMessage)
https://vagabundo.co (you need to have: Telegram)
Create a Telegram public channel and add a "S" to the URL: https://t.me/s/rugbyphotos/434
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187246
Points: 1
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Star Harvest: Civilizations in Search of Energy
Article URL: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2024/11/19/star-harvest-civilizations-in-search-of-energy/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187201
Points: 1
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Scientists identify tomato genes to tweak for sweeter fruit
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/13/tomatoes-gene-editing-sweeter-fruit
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187166
Points: 1
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Ask HN: Isn't there a lightweight and popular Rust?
With all these endless debates about Rust and Go, it seems that a lot of software engineers really want a programming language that is as expressive as Rust with its sum types and matching, but also easier in that there is garbage collection, a rich standard library, like in Go.
There are OCaml and F#, but I still see those are very much niche languages with pretty small communities.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187165
Points: 3
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Severing of Baltic Sea Cables Was 'Sabotage,' Germany Says
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/business/finland-germany-cable-baltic-sea.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187147
Points: 4
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Show HN: Archgw: open-source, intelligent proxy for AI agents, built on Envoy
Hi HN! This is Adil, Salman, Co and Shuguang and we're excited to introduce archgw [1], an open source intelligent proxy for agents built on Envoy [2]. Arch moves the critical but crufty work around safety, observability, and routing of prompts outside business logic. Arch is a uniquely intelligent infrastructure primitive, engineered with purpose-built fast LLMs [3] for tasks like intent detection over multi-turn, parameter identification and extraction, triggering single/multiple function calls, and offers convenience features to auto dispatch LLM calls for summarization based on data from your APIs via system prompts configured in archgw.
Today, the approach to build a smart production-ready agent is weaving together a large set of mono-functional opinionated libraries, adding extra layers like LLM-based preprocessing to determine things like relevance and safety of the user's prompt (e.g. applying governance and guardrails). Once past that stage, developers must extract relevant information from the user prompt to determine intent, extract parameters as necessary, package relevant tools calls to an LLM to trigger a backend API to execute particular domain-specific task. etc. After all that is done then only are developers ready to trigger an LLM call for summarization and must manage upstream error handling and retry logic themselves. Not to mention, if they want to experiment with multiple LLMs or move between LLM versions, they have to write crufty undifferentiated code. This entire experience is slow, error prone, cumbersome, and not specifically unique.
Prior to building archgw, the team spent time building Envoy [2] at Lyft, API Gateway at AWS, specialized search and intent models at Microsoft Research and worked on safety at Meta. archgw was born out of the belief that several rules based mono-functional tools should be converged into a multi-functional infrastructure primitive designed for prompts and agents. We built archgw on the highly popular, battle-tested open source proxy Envoy and re-imagined it for prompts and agents. For this we had to build blazing fast LLMs [3] that can handle crufty, ahead-in-the-request-path type of work in handling and processing prompts that are sent to an agent, so that developers can focus on what matters most: building fast personalized agents without the unnecessary prompt engineering and systems integration work needed to get there.
Here are some additional details about the open source project. arghw is written in rust, and the request path has three main parts:
* Listener subsystem which handles downstream (ingress) and upstream (egress) request processing.
* Prompt handler subsystem. This is where archgw makes decisions on the safety of the incoming request via its prompt_guard primitive and identifies where to forward the conversation to via its prompt_target primitive.
* Model serving subsystem is the interface that hosts all the lightweight LLMs engineered in archgw and offers a framework for things like hallucination detection of our these models
We loved building this open source project, and our belief is that this infra primitive would help developers build faster, safer and more personalized agents without all the manual prompt engineering and systems integration work needed to get there. We hope to invite other developers to use and improve Arch. Please give it a shot and leave feedback here, or at our discord channel [4]
Also here is a quick demo of the project in action [5]. You can check out our public docs here at [6]. Our models are also available here [7].
[1] https://github.com/katanemo/archgw
[2] https://www.envoyproxy.io/
[3] https://huggingface.co/collections/katanemo/arch-function-66...
[4] https://discord.com/channels/1292630766827737088/12926307682...
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Lbhr-NNXk
[7] https://huggingface.co/katanemo
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42187132
Points: 8
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Microsoft assembles the largest AI agent ecosystem– no one else is close
Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-quietly-assembles-the-largest-ai-agent-ecosystem-and-no-one-else-is-close/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186837
Points: 1
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AI Could Help Bring Down the Cost of College
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-college-costs-higher-education-9a8f875d
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186833
Points: 1
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Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models [pdf]
Article URL: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_1_report.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186819
Points: 1
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Insider Trading at the Fed
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-19/insider-trading-at-the-fed
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186811
Points: 1
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FCC attempt to regulate data caps will be scrapped under Trump's new chair
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/cable-companies-and-trumps-fcc-chair-agree-data-caps-are-good-for-you/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186802
Points: 1
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Windows 365 Link–the Cloud PC device that connects securely to Windows 365
Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/link
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186796
Points: 2
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Hugging Face enters the wearable space with Halo
Article URL: https://twitter.com/cyrilzakka/status/1858937683487412704
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186794
Points: 1
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