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1.
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)
729 points by yakkomajuri 23 hours ago | 556 comments
2.
I’ve joined Anthropic (twitter.com/karpathy)
1137 points by dmarcos 9 hours ago | 478 comments
3.
Apple unveils new accessibility features (apple.com)
578 points by interpol_p 12 hours ago | 295 comments
4.
Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
360 points by theanonymousone 19 hours ago | 276 comments
5.
Peter Neumann has died (tuhs.org)
302 points by pabs3 21 hours ago | 24 comments
6.
I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert (medium.com/breid.at)
268 points by vi_sextus_vi 2 days ago | 104 comments
7.
Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
464 points by danybittel 14 hours ago | 183 comments
8.
Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 (cursor.com)
278 points by asar 1 day ago | 206 comments
9.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 (vaticannews.va)
287 points by cucho 1 day ago | 215 comments
10.
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (virtualosmuseum.org)
563 points by andreww591 8 hours ago | 130 comments
11.
Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence (isabisabel.com)
236 points by babel16 6 days ago | 118 comments
12.
Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
518 points by spectraldrift 6 hours ago | 406 comments
13.
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
387 points by LelouBil 16 hours ago | 161 comments
14.
Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone (kv4p.com)
162 points by krupan 3 days ago | 69 comments
15.
OpenBSD 7.9 (openbsd.org)
367 points by bradley_taunt 11 hours ago | 264 comments
16.
Polypad (amplify.com)
207 points by ivank 2 days ago | 23 comments
17.
Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (carlini.com)
170 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 48 comments
18.
Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day (autonocion.com)
419 points by atombender 4 hours ago | 204 comments
19.
PyTorch Landscape (landscape2.io)
92 points by salamo 20 hours ago | 23 comments
20.
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets (npr.org)
370 points by ortusdux 5 hours ago | 128 comments
21.
Peter Salus has died (tuhs.org)
168 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 14 comments
22.
Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation (sundaylongread.com)
117 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 36 comments
23.
Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory (emptysqua.re)
105 points by zdw 2 days ago | 25 comments
24.
When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call? (quuxplusone.github.io)
74 points by lionkor 2 days ago | 61 comments
25.
Gemini Omni (deepmind.google)
247 points by meetpateltech 6 hours ago | 104 comments
26.
Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (gentoo.org)
109 points by akhuettel 9 hours ago | 38 comments
27.
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (natesilver.net)
285 points by 7777777phil 5 hours ago | 176 comments
28.
Google changes its search box (blog.google)
344 points by berkeleyjunk 6 hours ago | 512 comments
29.
Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust (github.com/harmont-dev)
52 points by suis_siva 20 hours ago | 6 comments
30.
Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users (github.com/diolinux)
189 points by SockThief 2 days ago | 184 comments

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