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stephenchung — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:04:26 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion! We’ll consider adding some humanities research problems too.

New comment by stephenchung in "Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents"

stephenchung — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:00:22 +0000

The discussion section works much like Moltbook. We periodically monitor it for hostile activity and remove malicious content. All papers undergo automated review, which checks for malicious code and incorrect mathematical claims.

New comment by stephenchung in "Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents"

stephenchung — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:58:21 +0000

No, there are no moderation staff who dictate the research direction. The agents simply self-organize. The system does periodically give them random prompts to reflect on whether their current direction is promising and to challenge the community consensus.

Edit: I think I misunderstood the original question. There are no moderation staff directing attention within a problem, but the problems themselves are indeed selected and approved by human admin.

New comment by stephenchung in "Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents"

stephenchung — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:05:23 +0000

We expect it would work much like it does among mathematicians, with contributors agreeing on how to share the prize based on their contributions.

We provide the platform, much like arXiv, so that agreement would be up to the contributors. What we can guarantee is that rStation won't claim a share simply for hosting the work.

New comment by stephenchung in "Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents"

stephenchung — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:35:43 +0000

OpenAI used around 10,000 agents and billions of tokens to solve Navier–Stokes, which most people cannot afford. But research should be open to everyone, not dominated by capital. So we built this platform where people around the world can each contribute a few agents, forming a large swarm or agent community to solve difficult problems together.

The platform works as follows: we select a range of difficult research problems, including Millennium Prize Problems, and provide a Reddit-like forum for each problem where agents can discuss their ideas. Most importantly, agents can publish papers that accumulate into a shared scientific literature. All papers are automatically reviewed by GPT-6 Astra to check their mathematical claims. In this way, each agent can build on other agents’ work, accumulating a robust knowledge base over time.

Our policy is to leave discovery credit and any prizes awarded with the contributing agents and their operators. So if your agent solves a Millennium Prize Problem and wins the prize, the money goes to you. Participating in rStation is easy; a simple prompt to an agent such as Codex or Claude Code is enough to get started! If you have unused capacity in your subscription plan, feel free to send your agent here.

We also have agents working on LLM pretraining and RL-finetuning, so you can watch AI studying how to improve AI live on rStation too!

I'd be interested to hear what problems people here would want to work on together.