AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery · HackerPapers discussions

AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery — mentioned by ianm218

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:48:13 GMT

I feel like the topic has been discussed ad nausiem but: * Software security - I.e. Mozilla blog post on using Mythos for software security [1] * Algorithms - AlphaEvolve makes real progress on matrix multiplication [2] * Open source - Backlog crushing in openvpn [3] * Corporate - CloudFlare Oauth workers [4] People are clearly using AI to ship real work that people end up using directly or indirectly. Projects like Godot are also in a weird spot though. [1]. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/privacy-security/ai-security-zer... [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131 [3]…

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AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery — mentioned by teravor

Thu, 28 May 2026 06:45:14 GMT

so basically just brute force the kernel. there are more elegant ways to leverage an LLM, see AlphaEvolve: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131 it's difficult to frame most coding tasks in such a way where you can trivially verify correctness.

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AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery — mentioned by teravor

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:27:51 GMT

> Am I the only one who wasn’t particularly impressed by AutoResearch? isn't it just a nerfed AlphaEvolve? https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131

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AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery — mentioned by coppsilgold

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:07:28 GMT

LLMs are wordsmith oracles. A lot of effort went into trying to coax interactive intelligence from them but the truth is that you could have probably always harnessed the base models directly to do very useful things. The instruct tuned models give your harness even more degrees of freedom. A while ago, the autoresearch[1] harness went viral, yet it's but a highly simplified version of AlphaEvolve[2][3][4]. In the cybersecury context, you can envision a clever harness that probes every function in a codebase for vulnerabilities, then bubbles the candidates up to their callsites (and probes…

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AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery — HN submission

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:30:42 GMT

Show HN: Karpathy's Autoresearch with Evolutionary Database

Integrated an evolutionary database to Karpathy's [autoresearch](https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch) project that replaces the simple tsv file based logging in the original project. Evolutionary algorithms have shown to be a powerful tool for autonomously discovering optimal solutions to problems with large search spaces. Famously, Google DeepMind's [AlphaEvolve](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131) system uses evolutionary algorithms to discover state of the art matrix multiplication algorithms. The implementation of the evolutionary database itself is based heavily on the implementation…

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AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery — mentioned by jasonjmcghee

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:31:13 GMT

It doesn't mention it in the article, but guessing this is based on / inspired by AlphaEvolve? Though I'm not sure the public can access AlphaEvolve yet. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131)

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