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1.
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)
751 points by yakkomajuri 1 day ago | 570 comments
2.
I’ve joined Anthropic (twitter.com/karpathy)
1280 points by dmarcos 16 hours ago | 528 comments
3.
Apple unveils new accessibility features (apple.com)
658 points by interpol_p 19 hours ago | 338 comments
4.
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (virtualosmuseum.org)
727 points by andreww591 15 hours ago | 164 comments
5.
Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
732 points by spectraldrift 13 hours ago | 517 comments
6.
Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
494 points by danybittel 20 hours ago | 190 comments
7.
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
443 points by LelouBil 23 hours ago | 173 comments
8.
Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 (cursor.com)
279 points by asar 1 day ago | 213 comments
9.
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets (npr.org)
621 points by ortusdux 12 hours ago | 190 comments
10.
Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
374 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 285 comments
11.
I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert (medium.com/breid.at)
278 points by vi_sextus_vi 3 days ago | 115 comments
12.
Peter Neumann has died (tuhs.org)
307 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 24 comments
13.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 (vaticannews.va)
288 points by cucho 1 day ago | 222 comments
14.
Google changes its search box (blog.google)
492 points by berkeleyjunk 12 hours ago | 676 comments
15.
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (natesilver.net)
403 points by 7777777phil 12 hours ago | 213 comments
16.
Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence (isabisabel.com)
242 points by babel16 6 days ago | 122 comments
17.
Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone (kv4p.com)
172 points by krupan 3 days ago | 69 comments
18.
Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory (emptysqua.re)
127 points by zdw 2 days ago | 29 comments
19.
Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (gentoo.org)
123 points by akhuettel 15 hours ago | 48 comments
20.
Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation (sundaylongread.com)
135 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 39 comments
21.
Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day (autonocion.com)
461 points by atombender 11 hours ago | 221 comments
22.
Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism (ox.ac.uk)
119 points by gmays 16 hours ago | 189 comments
23.
OpenBSD 7.9 (openbsd.org)
387 points by bradley_taunt 18 hours ago | 281 comments
24.
OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool (openai.com)
261 points by smooke 11 hours ago | 134 comments
25.
Polypad (amplify.com)
210 points by ivank 2 days ago | 23 comments
26.
Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (carlini.com)
176 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 48 comments
27.
Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI (emmi.ai)
238 points by doener 12 hours ago | 65 comments
28.
PyTorch Landscape (landscape2.io)
92 points by salamo 1 day ago | 24 comments
29.
Gemini Omni (deepmind.google)
303 points by meetpateltech 13 hours ago | 128 comments
30.
Peter Salus has died (tuhs.org)
169 points by speckx 1 day ago | 14 comments

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