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Show HN: Case converter with AP/APA/Chicago/MLA title case
Article URL: https://simplecaseconverter.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50436473 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Run multiple Claude Desktop instances side by side on macOS
Article URL: https://github.com/Yuix-Networks/claude-orchestrator Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50437743 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot 8months progress
8 Months ago I made this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47123894Since then we've done stuff, the software is much more mature, we've done some basic field testing on small dev platforms.We've moved from ESP32 for the microcontroller to a STM32.Volunteers have come, gone again, new ones arrived.We're getting ready for full scale field trials now.Been putting some videos of sim up on https://www.youtube.com/@rosmo-robot/videosPlease critique again, and come join us! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50437978 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Single-shot and agentic retrieval with Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports single-shot RAG and retrieval-only requests through AgenticRetrieveStream, alongside agentic retrieval. This post explains how the maxAgentIteration parameter matches retrieval effort to each request, using an illustrative internal banking policy assistant.
What Is Eval-Driven Development? How to Improve AI Agents
Eval-driven development helps you build AI agents against a consistent set of metrics. Define good behavior, write the eval first, then compare experiments.
An Anatomy-guided 3D Segmentation Pipeline for Prostate Surgical Phantoms from CT Scans
arXiv:2611.08652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Full autonomy has been a long-term goal in robotic surgery and a near-to-medium-term goal for prostatectomy. Due to the relatively closed structure of the procedure, its standard-of-care robotic/laparoscopic solutions, and procedure economics, prostate procedures are an optimal early target for surgical automation. Prototyping and testing of possible solutions is done in constructed laboratory phantoms, either synthetic tissues or animal phantoms. To enable measurement of perceptual and robotic motion error, phantoms undergo volumetric imaging; these images are critical to both a potential deployed automatic system, used in planning motion and treatment (cutting, ablation, suturing, etc.), as well as post-hoc assessment of system performance. Rapid iteration on these phantom models yields small, inconsistent datasets, while the current workflow for human annotation is often anatomically unreliable and prohibitively time-consuming, rendering deep learning unsuitable at reasonable scales. To address these limitations, we present an automated 3D segmentation pipeline that uses classical medical image-processing techniques to encode the known anatomy of the phantoms as explicit geometric and intensity priors, which requires no training corpus and is transferred to each new phantom revision without re-annotation. Across 57 scans spanning multiple phantom revisions, our pipeline recovers the capsule interior at 0.83 median Dice on 11 contrast-suppressed scans and detects all 32 annotated focal lesions without false positives, completing a full scan in 2-8 minutes on commodity CPU hardware versus 1-2 hours by hand.
Dual-Stream LLM-Guided Reward Design for Reject-Inference-Aware Reinforcement Learning in E-Commerce Payment Fraud Detection
arXiv:2611.08706v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production fraud-detection models learn from a censored slice of their own traffic: transactions a legacy system blocked never receive fraud labels, so models train on a biased, approved-only distribution. We extend LLM-guided reward design, the framework of Qu et al. (2025) in which an LLM evolves the reward of a two-step REINFORCE fraud-blocking policy, to attack this reject-inference problem inside the reward. A single LLM designs a dual-stream reward: stream 1 applies the standard dollar-weighted precision objective to labeled transactions; stream 2 scores legacy-blocked, unlabeled transactions by contrasting the newest gradient-boosted risk signal against the legacy scores that drove the original block. Rather than prescribe which signals matter, we expose a superset of evidence and let the LLM decide for itself which to use, guided by evaluation feedback alone; because it writes the reward as code, that choice is directly auditable. On a held-out four-month out-of-time test, the dual-stream agent beats the prior labeled-only agent at every target recall, by +4.7, +2.4 and +3.0 points of dollar-weighted precision at 80%, 85% and 90% recall, and the production baseline by +6.8 points on average. The resulting policy is architecturally identical to that of Qu et al. (2025) and adds no inference cost.
Exclusive: FormAssembly overhauls its platform to expand into AI-powered process automation
FormAssembly Inc., a provider of online data collection and workflow automation software, today announced a complete platform overhaul that expands its capabilities beyond building forms to automating complex business processes using artificial intelligence. The new platform, which the company said took seven months to develop, combines form creation, workflow automation, integrations and compliance management in […] The post Exclusive: FormAssembly overhauls its platform to expand into AI-powered process automation appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Introducing Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2
Our most capable models for daunting technical work, Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 set a new bar in coding, finance, and the sciences.
Practice Makes Precise: At CoRL, NVIDIA and Partners Reveal How Robots Rehearse Delicate Work in Simulation
Simulation, which has long been the proving ground for robots learning to walk, roll and hop, is now helping researchers teach robots tasks that require a finer touch: aligning gears, connecting cables and assembling small components. The shift from locomotion to manipulation is taking center stage at this week’s Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) in […]