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1.
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)
754 points by yakkomajuri 1 day ago | 571 comments
2.
I’ve joined Anthropic (twitter.com/karpathy)
1297 points by dmarcos 17 hours ago | 537 comments
3.
Apple unveils new accessibility features (apple.com)
667 points by interpol_p 20 hours ago | 341 comments
4.
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (virtualosmuseum.org)
749 points by andreww591 16 hours ago | 167 comments
5.
Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
756 points by spectraldrift 14 hours ago | 529 comments
6.
Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
497 points by danybittel 21 hours ago | 190 comments
7.
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
443 points by LelouBil 1 day 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)
636 points by ortusdux 13 hours ago | 196 comments
10.
Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
376 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.
Google changes its search box (blog.google)
508 points by berkeleyjunk 13 hours ago | 693 comments
14.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 (vaticannews.va)
288 points by cucho 1 day ago | 223 comments
15.
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (natesilver.net)
407 points by 7777777phil 13 hours ago | 215 comments
16.
Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence (isabisabel.com)
243 points by babel16 6 days ago | 123 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.
OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool (openai.com)
272 points by smooke 12 hours ago | 140 comments
19.
Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory (emptysqua.re)
128 points by zdw 2 days ago | 29 comments
20.
Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (gentoo.org)
123 points by akhuettel 16 hours ago | 50 comments
21.
Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation (sundaylongread.com)
136 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 39 comments
22.
Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism (ox.ac.uk)
121 points by gmays 17 hours ago | 192 comments
23.
Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI (emmi.ai)
250 points by doener 13 hours ago | 70 comments
24.
Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day (autonocion.com)
463 points by atombender 12 hours ago | 222 comments
25.
OpenBSD 7.9 (openbsd.org)
392 points by bradley_taunt 19 hours ago | 282 comments
26.
Polypad (amplify.com)
212 points by ivank 3 days ago | 23 comments
27.
Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (carlini.com)
177 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 48 comments
28.
PyTorch Landscape (landscape2.io)
93 points by salamo 1 day ago | 24 comments
29.
Gemini Omni (deepmind.google)
306 points by meetpateltech 14 hours ago | 128 comments
30.
Growing Neural Cellular Automata (distill.pub)
105 points by pulkitsh1234 2 days ago | 11 comments

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