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1.
Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
962 points by spectraldrift 18 days ago | 658 comments
2.
I’ve joined Anthropic (twitter.com/karpathy)
1431 points by dmarcos 18 days ago | 618 comments
3.
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (virtualosmuseum.org)
974 points by andreww591 18 days ago | 224 comments
4.
Apple unveils new accessibility features (apple.com)
726 points by interpol_p 19 days ago | 381 comments
5.
Google changes its search box (blog.google)
701 points by berkeleyjunk 18 days ago | 930 comments
6.
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)
804 points by yakkomajuri 19 days ago | 587 comments
7.
Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI (emmi.ai)
339 points by doener 18 days ago | 98 comments
8.
OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool (openai.com)
332 points by smooke 18 days ago | 180 comments
9.
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets (npr.org)
785 points by ortusdux 18 days ago | 245 comments
10.
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
478 points by LelouBil 19 days ago | 182 comments
11.
Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images (github.com/wiltodelta)
387 points by janalsncm 18 days ago | 258 comments
12.
Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
530 points by danybittel 19 days ago | 200 comments
13.
Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 (cursor.com)
290 points by asar 19 days ago | 225 comments
14.
Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
391 points by theanonymousone 19 days ago | 313 comments
15.
I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert (medium.com/breid.at)
287 points by vi_sextus_vi 21 days ago | 119 comments
16.
Peter Neumann has died (tuhs.org)
316 points by pabs3 19 days ago | 25 comments
17.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 (vaticannews.va)
294 points by cucho 19 days ago | 235 comments
18.
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (natesilver.net)
457 points by 7777777phil 18 days ago | 260 comments
19.
Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism (ox.ac.uk)
158 points by gmays 18 days ago | 249 comments
20.
Growing Neural Cellular Automata (distill.pub)
133 points by pulkitsh1234 20 days ago | 13 comments
21.
Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence (isabisabel.com)
268 points by babel16 24 days ago | 143 comments
22.
Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory (emptysqua.re)
147 points by zdw 20 days ago | 35 comments
23.
Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone (kv4p.com)
181 points by krupan 21 days ago | 82 comments
24.
Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation (sundaylongread.com)
148 points by NaOH 19 days ago | 44 comments
25.
Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (gentoo.org)
133 points by akhuettel 18 days ago | 54 comments
26.
Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day (autonocion.com)
498 points by atombender 18 days ago | 244 comments
27.
Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001) (turbifycdn.com)
124 points by bschne 20 days ago | 20 comments
28.
OpenBSD 7.9 (openbsd.org)
418 points by bradley_taunt 19 days ago | 308 comments
29.
Polypad (amplify.com)
226 points by ivank 21 days ago | 24 comments
30.
Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (carlini.com)
184 points by surprisetalk 23 days ago | 51 comments

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