AI research, hackathons, projects, and art.https://arnavkakani.com/https://arnavkakani.com/posts/math-ai-residual-stream-monitor/https://arnavkakani.com/posts/math-ai-residual-stream-monitor/My MATH-AI workshop paper at NeurIPS 2026 tests whether drift in a language model's hidden state can flag and fix math errors mid-solution. It does neither, and getting to that answer taught me more than a positive result would have.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:30:00 GMThttps://arnavkakani.com/posts/dear-future-me-voiceos-hackathon/https://arnavkakani.com/posts/dear-future-me-voiceos-hackathon/At the VoiceOS hackathon we turned Dear Future Me from a website with forms into an iPhone app you just talk to. VoiceOS has changed how I work since.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:00:00 GMThttps://arnavkakani.com/posts/haven-milpitas-hacks-2026/https://arnavkakani.com/posts/haven-milpitas-hacks-2026/At Milpitas Hacks 2026 I built HAVEN, a cheap mesh-networked watch that shows nearby shelter information with no internet, detects falls, and calls for help.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:00:00 GMThttps://arnavkakani.com/posts/trajectory-bisv-hacks-2026/https://arnavkakani.com/posts/trajectory-bisv-hacks-2026/We built Trajectory, a personalized learning platform, at BISV Hacks 2026. We did not win, and it was still one of the most fun builds I have done.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:00:00 GMThttps://arnavkakani.com/posts/organizing-aerohacks/https://arnavkakani.com/posts/organizing-aerohacks/I co-founded AeroHacks at Emerald High School and have led it two years in a row, once in 10th grade and once in 11th. We have offered $14k in prizes to 140+ student participants, and it was really fun both times.Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:00:00 GMThttps://arnavkakani.com/posts/life-and-death/https://arnavkakani.com/posts/life-and-death/An essay on life and death as two forces that undo one another, and why neither means anything without the other.Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:15:00 GMThttps://arnavkakani.com/posts/fading/https://arnavkakani.com/posts/fading/What is it to fade? An essay on how feelings and past selves soften without disappearing.Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:46:00 GMThttps://arnavkakani.com/posts/india-debate-seminar/https://arnavkakani.com/posts/india-debate-seminar/On October 17, 2025, I gave a keynote on debate skills to more than 250 students at Agarwal Siksha Samiti High School in Hyderabad, India. I enjoyed it more than I expected.Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:00:00 GMThttps://arnavkakani.com/posts/debatesim-svcaf-ai4legislation-2025/https://arnavkakani.com/posts/debatesim-svcaf-ai4legislation-2025/How DebateSim, our AI debate and legislative analysis platform, won second place and $2,000 at the SVCAF AI4Legislation 2025 competition.Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:00:00 GMThttps://arnavkakani.com/posts/bisv-hacks-2025/https://arnavkakani.com/posts/bisv-hacks-2025/How we built a political bias detection browser extension and won second place at Bisv Hacks 2025.Fri, 07 Mar 2025 05:59:02 GMT