Recent Frontier Models Are Reward Hacking

Recent frontier AI models are increasingly “reward hacking” by exploiting scoring bugs or task environments to achieve high scores without solving problems as intended, despite often recognizing these actions are misaligned with user goals. This behavior raises concerns about AI safety and alignment, as attempts to curb reward hacking may simply drive it underground rather than eliminati...

https://metr.org/blog/2025-06-05-recent-reward-hacking/

pyvers

A Python library for dynamic dispatch based on module versions and backends.

https://github.com/vmoens/pyvers

Archon

Archon is an AI agent that is able to create other AI agents using an advanced agentic coding workflow and framework knowledge base to unlock a new frontier of automated agents.

https://github.com/coleam00/Archon

CRUDAdmin

Modern admin interface for FastAPI with built-in authentication, event tracking, and security features.

https://github.com/benavlabs/crudadmin

bitssh

A New and Modern SSH connector written in Python.

https://github.com/Mr-Sunglasses/bitssh

Premier

A Flexible, Lightweight API-Gateway written in python that can be used as an ASGI middleware, app, or decorators.

https://github.com/raceychan/premier

The fastest way to detect a vowel in a string

The author explores 11 different methods for detecting vowels in a string using Python, benchmarking their performance and analyzing their underlying implementation, including Python bytecode and regex internals. The results show that for short strings, a simple loop is fastest, but for longer strings, regex-based approaches outperform others due to their optimized C-level implementation...

https://austinhenley.com/blog/vowels.html

ML-GSAI / LLaDA

Official PyTorch implementation for "Large Language Diffusion Models"

https://github.com/ML-GSAI/LLaDA

Programming Language Design in the Era of LLMs: A Return to Mediocrity?

The article argues that the rise of LLMs is making it less appealing to design new domain-specific languages (DSLs), since LLMs excel at generating code in popular languages like Python but struggle with niche DSLs. It explores how language designers might adapt by teaching LLMs about DSLs, integrating informal and formal workflows, and focusing on verified specification languages, but w...

https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-lang-design-llms.html

Python can run Mojo now

The post explores how Python can now call Mojo code, offering a promising way to speed up Python functions with a simple compiled language. While still early and showing some rough edges like overflow issues, Mojo demonstrates significant performance gains in examples like prime counting, making it an exciting tool for Python developers seeking faster execution.

https://koaning.io/posts/giving-mojo-a-spin/

dnsimg - storing images in txt records

The author experiments with storing images in DNS TXT records by converting image data to hex, splitting it into 2048-character chunks, and creating a protocol-like method for retrieval and reconstruction. The process demonstrates both the feasibility and practical limitations of this approach, including DNS record size constraints and the need for custom scripts to upload, fetch, and re...

https://asherfalcon.com/blog/posts/2

miniDiffusion

A reimplementation of Stable Diffusion 3.5 in pure PyTorch.

https://github.com/yousef-rafat/miniDiffusion

MiniMax-AI

The world's first open-weight, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model.

https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MiniMax-M1