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Artificial Intelligence|Feb 16, 2026

How to improve your RAG: Move Beyond Flat Vector Stores

Most of the time, the knowledge base we want to chat and reason about with an LLM has strong inter-relations. Even the famous PageRank algorithm, which gave Google a competitive advantage and made it ahead of others, is based on the quantity and quality of links between websites. The relations within a knowledge base are crucial to fully understand it. The problem with classical RAG is that it chunks the text, discarding all internal relations. So can we do better?

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Artificial Intelligence|Feb 11, 2026

GitHub All-Stars #13: Matchlock - Your Agent's Bulletproof Cage (With Room Service)

Today's project dropped on Hacker News frontpage just days ago and instantly sparked one of the most interesting security discussions I've seen in a while. We're looking at Matchlock by Jingkai He - a CLI tool for running AI agents in ephemeral microVMs with network allowlisting and secret injection via MITM proxy. Built to answer a question that every developer running claude --dangerously-skip-permissions should be asking: "What's the worst that could happen?"

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Artificial Intelligence|Feb 6, 2026

NeurIPS 2025 Best Papers TL;DR part 2: 1000 Layer Networks

In the second part, Adam will focus on reinforcement learning networks by summarizing the "1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL: Scaling Depth Can Enable New Goal-Reaching Capabilities", an article featured in NeurIPS 2025.

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Artificial Intelligence|Jan 27, 2026

Best generative AI models at the beginning of 2026

With the rapid growth of generative AI, we have a new great model coming out every month. It makes it hard to keep track of all the different kinds of models and choose the right one for your task. In this article, I will cover the best generative AI models at the doors of 2026. I hope to make your selection of a model at least a bit easier.

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Artificial Intelligence|Jan 21, 2026

GitHub All-Stars #12: Beads, or: How to Give an AI Goldfish a Memory

In this series, every other Wednesday, I pick one trending repo and take it apart piece by piece. This week, I pulled out one key component of the entire GasTown engine, the thing without which the agents are basically useless. That component is Beads.

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Artificial Intelligence|Jan 20, 2026

NeurIPS 2025 Best Papers TL;DR part 1: Gated Attention

Adam Kaczmarek will break down an article, "Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free," featured in NeurIPS 2025. He will also explain the background for this paper: different types of attention and gating mechanisms.

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Artificial Intelligence|Jan 7, 2026

GitHub All-Stars #11: vibe-kanban – a Kanban board for AI agents

Every other Wednesday we pick one trending project and break it down into its core pieces. Not another React framework or even an agent framework - but something fresh, something that helps us understand where our industry is heading. Today’s pick: BloopAI/vibe-kanban. A tool written in Rust that tries to bring order to the chaos of working with coding agents.

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Artificial Intelligence|Dec 3, 2025

GitHub All-Stars #10: llm-council – AI Consensus mechanism

I've always claimed there's no better way to learn anything than to build something with your own hands... and the second best way is to do a Code Review of someone else's code. Today, we are taking on a project that made waves on Twitter (or X) and GitHub, not so much because of the complexity of the code, but because of the philosophy behind it, and above all, because of its author, Andrej Karpathy. And in this article, we'll discuss his AI consensus mechanism called llm-council.

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Artificial Intelligence|Nov 19, 2025

GitHub All-Stars #9: git-rewrite-commits – Artificial Intelligence to the Rescue of a Chaotic Git History

Every other Wednesday, we’ll pick one trending repository from the previous week and give it some focused attention by preparing a tutorial, article, or code review – learning from its creators in the process. Today, we’re taking a look at a project that tackles one of the most embarrassing yet universal problems in our industry: f/git-rewrite-commits.

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Artificial Intelligence|Nov 17, 2025

This Month We AIed #4

Welcome to the fourth article in the This Month We AIed series. In this edition, we will demonstrate how a simple CLAUDE.md file can transform chaos into clarity, reveal how to use ChatGPT to transform a lightning talk into presentation-as-code, and take you on a journey from chaotic vibe coding to disciplined specification-driven development.

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Artificial Intelligence|Nov 12, 2025

Understanding How Claude Code Works: A Deep Dive into LLM-Powered Developer Tools

If you're a developer exploring AI coding assistants, you might have encountered Claude Code and wondered how it actually works under the hood. What's the relationship between the command-line tool you install and the large language model that powers it? How does the AI decide when to read your files or run commands? And how do those CLAUDE.md instruction files actually get interpreted? This article will walk you through these questions by clarifying a fundamental distinction that often gets overlooked when people first encounter Claude Code.

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Artificial Intelligence|Oct 29, 2025

GitHub All-Stars #8: toon - Cutting LLM costs in the protocol layer

In our “GitHub All-Stars” series, we take “new or little-known” open-source gems that solve real engineering problems and put them under the microscope. Today, we’re looking at toon —a tool that directly tackles the financial and performance overhead of data serialization in the age of AI.

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