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1.
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)
742 points by yakkomajuri 1 day ago | 566 comments
2.
I’ve joined Anthropic (twitter.com/karpathy)
1222 points by dmarcos 12 hours ago | 508 comments
3.
Apple unveils new accessibility features (apple.com)
625 points by interpol_p 15 hours ago | 322 comments
4.
Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
641 points by spectraldrift 10 hours ago | 474 comments
5.
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (virtualosmuseum.org)
641 points by andreww591 12 hours ago | 148 comments
6.
Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
486 points by danybittel 17 hours ago | 187 comments
7.
Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
366 points by theanonymousone 22 hours ago | 278 comments
8.
Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 (cursor.com)
279 points by asar 1 day ago | 208 comments
9.
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
420 points by LelouBil 20 hours ago | 170 comments
10.
I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert (medium.com/breid.at)
275 points by vi_sextus_vi 3 days ago | 113 comments
11.
Peter Neumann has died (tuhs.org)
307 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 24 comments
12.
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets (npr.org)
542 points by ortusdux 8 hours ago | 162 comments
13.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 (vaticannews.va)
288 points by cucho 1 day ago | 219 comments
14.
Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence (isabisabel.com)
238 points by babel16 6 days ago | 121 comments
15.
Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone (kv4p.com)
166 points by krupan 3 days ago | 69 comments
16.
Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation (sundaylongread.com)
133 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 39 comments
17.
Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day (autonocion.com)
445 points by atombender 8 hours ago | 212 comments
18.
OpenBSD 7.9 (openbsd.org)
380 points by bradley_taunt 14 hours ago | 272 comments
19.
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (natesilver.net)
360 points by 7777777phil 9 hours ago | 198 comments
20.
Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory (emptysqua.re)
121 points by zdw 2 days ago | 27 comments
21.
Polypad (amplify.com)
209 points by ivank 2 days ago | 23 comments
22.
Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (carlini.com)
174 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 48 comments
23.
Google changes its search box (blog.google)
416 points by berkeleyjunk 9 hours ago | 587 comments
24.
PyTorch Landscape (landscape2.io)
92 points by salamo 23 hours ago | 24 comments
25.
Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (gentoo.org)
115 points by akhuettel 12 hours ago | 42 comments
26.
Gemini Omni (deepmind.google)
287 points by meetpateltech 10 hours ago | 118 comments
27.
Peter Salus has died (tuhs.org)
169 points by speckx 1 day ago | 14 comments
28.
Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism (ox.ac.uk)
104 points by gmays 13 hours ago | 159 comments
29.
OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool (openai.com)
220 points by smooke 8 hours ago | 123 comments
30.
When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call? (quuxplusone.github.io)
74 points by lionkor 2 days ago | 62 comments

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