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1.
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (virtualosmuseum.org)
946 points by andreww591 2 days ago | 219 comments
2.
I’ve joined Anthropic (twitter.com/karpathy)
1417 points by dmarcos 2 days ago | 610 comments
3.
Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
949 points by spectraldrift 2 days ago | 652 comments
4.
Apple unveils new accessibility features (apple.com)
722 points by interpol_p 2 days ago | 380 comments
5.
Google changes its search box (blog.google)
687 points by berkeleyjunk 2 days ago | 922 comments
6.
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)
780 points by yakkomajuri 2 days ago | 585 comments
7.
Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI (emmi.ai)
336 points by doener 2 days ago | 97 comments
8.
OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool (openai.com)
331 points by smooke 2 days ago | 180 comments
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Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets (npr.org)
783 points by ortusdux 2 days ago | 243 comments
10.
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
473 points by LelouBil 2 days ago | 182 comments
11.
Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images (github.com/wiltodelta)
383 points by janalsncm 2 days ago | 253 comments
12.
Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
524 points by danybittel 2 days ago | 196 comments
13.
Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 (cursor.com)
284 points by asar 3 days ago | 224 comments
14.
Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
387 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 308 comments
15.
I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert (medium.com/breid.at)
286 points by vi_sextus_vi 4 days ago | 119 comments
16.
Peter Neumann has died (tuhs.org)
312 points by pabs3 2 days ago | 25 comments
17.
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 (vaticannews.va)
291 points by cucho 3 days ago | 239 comments
18.
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (natesilver.net)
451 points by 7777777phil 2 days ago | 258 comments
19.
Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism (ox.ac.uk)
155 points by gmays 2 days ago | 248 comments
20.
Growing Neural Cellular Automata (distill.pub)
132 points by pulkitsh1234 4 days ago | 13 comments
21.
Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence (isabisabel.com)
260 points by babel16 8 days ago | 142 comments
22.
Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory (emptysqua.re)
145 points by zdw 4 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 5 days ago | 81 comments
24.
Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation (sundaylongread.com)
147 points by NaOH 3 days ago | 44 comments
25.
Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (gentoo.org)
133 points by akhuettel 2 days ago | 54 comments
26.
Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day (autonocion.com)
496 points by atombender 2 days ago | 244 comments
27.
Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001) (turbifycdn.com)
101 points by bschne 3 days ago | 18 comments
28.
OpenBSD 7.9 (openbsd.org)
414 points by bradley_taunt 2 days ago | 306 comments
29.
Polypad (amplify.com)
222 points by ivank 4 days ago | 24 comments
30.
Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (carlini.com)
182 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago | 51 comments

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