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Research Open Source · MIT May 2026

Hyperion

An open-source reasoning system that solves four published AI benchmarks at or near 100% — without neural networks, training, or GPUs. About 1,000 lines of Python. Reproducible on a laptop in under a minute.

SCAN
100.00%
PCFG
99.98%
COGS gen
99.75%
1D-ARC
100.00%
Read the writeup → / github.com/NORTHTEKDevs/hyperion
Research Open Source · Apache-2.0 2026

RCK, the Resonant Cognitive Kernel

A reasoning engine that answers from stored facts instead of guessing, shows the chain of facts behind every answer, and says "I don't know" when it doesn't. It runs on a plain CPU, learns a new fact instantly without retraining, and holds 100,000 real-world facts in 535 MB with sub-millisecond lookups.

Facts
100,000
On disk
535 MB
Query
Sub-ms
Hardware
CPU only
Read the writeup → / github.com/NORTHTEKDevs/rck
Research Open Source · Apache-2.0 2026

SOFAR, so a transformer stops forgetting

A drop-in adapter for any HuggingFace transformer that helps it find facts buried deep in a long prompt instead of losing them. On the published GPT-2 tests it lifts needle-in-a-haystack recall by a third to double, while adding about three hundredths of one percent to the model's size.

Recall lift
up to +100%
Added size
~0.03%
Tests
365
Fits
Any HF model
Read the writeup → / github.com/NORTHTEKDevs/SOFAR
Language Open Source · Apache-2.0 2026

Kryos, a language that has to ask permission

A compiled programming language where code cannot touch the network, the disk, or your data unless it declared that intent up front, and the compiler refuses to build it otherwise. Built for the moment when AI agents run real actions, it is the difference between trusting a promise and enforcing a rule.

Stdlib
66 modules
Fuzzed
14,000+
Divergences
0
Compiles
itself
Read the writeup → / github.com/NORTHTEKDevs/kryos-lang
Tools Open Source · MIT 2026

Lemmas, reliability primitives for any LLM

Small, dependency-light modules that make any language model API more trustworthy: verifying its own answers, checking for consistency, and catching quality drift. No framework to adopt and no lock-in, they wrap whatever provider you already use.

Primitives
7
Dependencies
numpy
Works with
Any API
Size
<1k lines
Read the writeup → / github.com/NORTHTEKDevs/lemmas
Research Open Data · CC BY + MIT 2026

What 91,606 Sumerian tablets teach modern agents

Sumerian scribes ran a multi-agent bureaucracy four thousand years ago: sealed envelopes, named time periods, periodic audits, witness sets. This study mines the full clay-tablet corpus with statistics and p-values to test which of those coordination patterns are real, then maps them to the primitives modern AI agent systems are reinventing today.

Tablets
91,606
Glyphs
6.97M
Method
p-values
Cited
Tablet IDs
Read the writeup → / github.com/NORTHTEKDevs/sumerian-agent-patterns
Field Guide Free Download June 2026

The Alaska Lead Engine

A free 12-page field guide to the five-part build that turns a local business into the obvious choice in its market — getting found, converting, content, paid ads, and follow-up. Every part ends with a checklist you can run this week.

Views
Millions
Jobs booked
1,000s
Client revenue
$100K+
Read time
20 min
Get the free guide → / northtek.io/lead-engine

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