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Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP

Hey HN! We're Dudu and Topaz from Vespper ( https://vespper.com ). Vespper is an MCP that lets AI agents efficiently edit Word documents, powered by our fine-tuned model. It's currently 3× faster, 2× cheaper and more accurate than the closest alternative. Check out an overview of how the product works here: https://youtu.be/odKxsgPjzzw We came to work on…

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2026 in LLMs (so far)

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube ; here are my annotated slides and notes to accompany the talk. And as an annotated presentation : # I'm going…

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It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs

Article URL: https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883471 Points: 158 # Comments: 49

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Sonnet 5.5

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881850 Points: 504 # Comments: 341

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World Labs Is Joining AMD

Article URL: https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883760 Points: 130 # Comments: 45

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Show HN: Assay – a QA CLI that finds bugs with no LLM and no tests written

I've always found it odd there was no deterministic QA tools with zero baseline needed, especially after so long. It's always been either (1) playwright or cypress that require written tests, dependant on the tests YOU write, or (2), asking the LLM to find and test bugs in your code, which has 2 cons, its costly (sometimes), and its non-deterministic. Tha…

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Show HN: Omnesis – A private knowledge layer for ChatGPT and other agents

Imagine giving ChatGPT or any other agent access to your Whatsapp/iMessage, bank transactions, health data, web pages you see, metadata about all the photos you took, places you visited, all your emails/documents, call logs, meeting notes, your voice mails, and more…. I built a context layer for that purpose. You can connect your Openclaw, Hermes, Claude,…

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DeepEdu-v1: Efficient and Scalable Agentic LLMs for Vietnamese Education

AI tutoring could markedly improve learning outcomes for students in developing regions such as Vietnam, yet the two obvious paths both fall short. Cloud assistants such as ChatGPT route sensitive student data to foreign servers---violating data-sovereignty laws such as Vietnam's Decree 53---and, pre-trained on Western-centric corpora, are not organized around the national textbook curriculum, so their knowledge o…