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        "Follow me on X: https://x.com/jiayuan_jy A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.",
        "English | \u7b80\u4f53\u4e2d\u6587 From Andrej's post: \"The models make wrong assumptions on your behalf and just run along with them without checking.",
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        "Existing automated approaches stop at the entity layer, ignore the defender's operational environment, and analyze each report in isolation.",
        "To address these gaps, we introduce AHLERT, a system that automatically extracts relevant, environment-aware, and hunt leads from threat reports through (i) a hybrid retriever that combines dense vector search with multi-hop traversal over a knowledge graph...",
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        "arXiv:2609.08790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Threat hunting increasingly depends on converting unstructured knowledge (e.g., Cyber Threat Intelligence reports) into actionable hunt leads: concise, investigable hypotheses grounded in observable artifact...",
        "Hybrid evidence retrieval with ontology grounding raises mean F1 by ~2x (0.44 to 0.85) over a single-route flat-RAG baseline, and AHLERT attains the highest effectiveness score (~86.95%) compared with off-the-shelf LLM models.",
        "Computer Science > Cryptography and Security [Submitted on 8 Sep 2026] Title:Evidence-Grounded Retrieval for Investigation Hunt Lead Generation from CTI Reports View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Threat hunting increasingly depends on converting unstruct..."
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