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  1. Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day (autonocion.com)
    ×4.65 | 149 points by atombender 31 minutes ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
    ×2.56 2 | 236 points by spectraldrift 2 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (virtualosmuseum.org)
    ×2.38 2 | 404 points by andreww591 4 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Google changes its search box (blog.google)
    ×2.84 3 | 114 points by berkeleyjunk 1 hour ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool (openai.com)
    ×1.98 11 | 23 points by smooke 49 minutes ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack (emmi.ai)
    ×1.96 6 | 43 points by doener 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die (nesbitt.io)
    ×1.38 13 | 19 points by chmaynard 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Apple unveils new accessibility features (apple.com)
    ×2.51 6 | 512 points by interpol_p 8 hours ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (natesilver.net)
    ×4.46 6 | 126 points by 7777777phil 1 hour ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. I’ve joined Anthropic (twitter.com/karpathy)
    ×6.62 8 | 938 points by dmarcos 5 hours ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
    ×2.29 8 | 425 points by danybittel 9 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (gentoo.org)
    ×0.79 10 | 82 points by akhuettel 4 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets (npr.org)
    ×4.45 5 | 61 points by ortusdux 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)
    ×1.64 7 | 31 points by zambelli 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Era: From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery (research.google)
    ×0.52 10 | 9 points by praccu 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Gemini Omni (deepmind.google)
    ×3.55 7 | 127 points by meetpateltech 2 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The Silver Swan (thebowesmuseum.org.uk)
    ×0.48 27 | 12 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
    ×3.22 8 | 325 points by LelouBil 12 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Show HN: Haystack – Review the PRs that need human attention (haystackeditor.com)
    ×0.37 24 | 21 points by akshaysg 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert (medium.com)
    ×1.54 11 | 240 points by vi_sextus_vi 12 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Show HN: Superlog (YC P26) – Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs (superlog.sh)
    ×0.40 16 | 36 points by Magnanten 4 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Growing Neural Cellular Automata (distill.pub)
    ×0.80 61 | 5 points by pulkitsh1234 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism (ox.ac.uk)
    ×0.96 19 | 44 points by gmays 5 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory (emptysqua.re)
    ×0.89 10 | 83 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation (sundaylongread.com)
    ×0.85 7 | 96 points by NaOH 7 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf] (sri.com)
    ×0.67 83 | 104 points by rurban 19 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)
    ×3.59 | 696 points by yakkomajuri 18 hours ago | 535 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. KV Sharing, MHC, and Compressed Attention (sebastianraschka.com)
    ×0.56 17 | 22 points by gmays 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
    ×2.65 7 | 326 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. OpenBSD 7.9 (openbsd.org)
    ×2.36 15 | 320 points by bradley_taunt 7 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Crossview 4.4.0 is now available (github.com/crossplane-contrib)
    ×0.52 27 | 4 points by moeidheidari 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Peter Neumann has died (tuhs.org)
    ×1.92 15 | 296 points by pabs3 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome: A Communications Intervention (personfamiliar.com)
    ×1.43 20 | 14 points by stalfosknight 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists (setpose.com)
    ×0.65 4 | 62 points by augustvdv 6 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf] (gwern.net)
    ×0.67 64 | 4 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. An Apple (II) for Teacher (technicshistory.com)
    ×0.51 24 | 47 points by cfmcdonald 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Polypad (amplify.com)
    ×1.50 13 | 199 points by ivank 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Deciphering the Hashihara Castle Town Map (obayashi.co.jp)
    ×0.58 19 | 9 points by 1970-01-01 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. 'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech (theguardian.com)
    ×3.47 21 | 53 points by xyzal 2 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. The TTY Demystified (2008) (linusakesson.net)
    ×0.79 48 | 4 points by 20after4 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. US transportation bill would add a $130 annual fee for EV drivers (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.88 17 | 7 points by logickkk1 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Pg_deltax, Apache-licensed alternative to TimescaleDB (github.com/xataio)
    ×3.36 22 | 6 points by tee-es-gee 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone (kv4p.com)
    ×1.07 30 | 158 points by krupan 17 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Click (2016) (clickclickclick.click)
    ×1.68 12 | 360 points by andrewzeno 21 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. 'Comically bad' datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes (retractionwatch.com)
    ×2.15 22 | 37 points by leephillips 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language (2024) (github.com/status-im)
    ×0.60 23 | 56 points by TheWiggles 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Google I/O (io.google)
    ×3.13 37 | 169 points by thanhhaimai 3 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. PyTorch Landscape (landscape2.io)
    ×0.73 46 | 90 points by salamo 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents (github.com/vostride)
    ×1.06 48 | 31 points by pranshuchittora 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Colonization of Venus (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.59 20 | 107 points by simonebrunozzi 7 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (carlini.com)
    ×1.29 33 | 166 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. The lasting influence of Netscape Time (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
    ×0.93 35 | 88 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users (github.com/Diolinux)
    ×1.76 25 | 186 points by SockThief 10 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence (isabisabel.com)
    ×1.81 26 | 225 points by babel16 21 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
    ×0.96 52 | 184 points by veqq 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare (gwu.edu)
    ×1.56 60 | 72 points by KnuthIsGod 17 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements (boston25news.com)
    ×1.87 16 | 13 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Stop 'tokenmaxxing' and deploy AI sensibly instead (nature.com)
    ×1.32 12 | 9 points by mikelgan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. The Programming Language for Agents (zerolang.ai)
    ×1.18 59 | 10 points by Marius77 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf] (squarespace.com)
    ×2.29 29 | 287 points by topherjaynes 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. We used Quint to find over 10 bugs in SQLite while hardening Turso (turso.tech)
    ×1.78 70 | 11 points by 0xedb 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell (abgeo.dev)
    ×1.26 34 | 115 points by jrdres 18 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
    ×5.83 30 | 1055 points by nycdatasci 1 day ago | 552 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust (github.com/harmont-dev)
    ×0.63 57 | 52 points by suis_siva 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. AI-written story published in Granta, wins major literary prize (twitter.com/ATabarrok)
    ×0.65 16 | 3 points by paulpauper 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5 (cursor.com)
    ×1.92 19 | 275 points by asar 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Cursor Cloud Agents Down (cursor.com)
    ×1.06 27 | 18 points by mopatches 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Anthropic acquires Stainless (anthropic.com)
    ×2.06 6 | 521 points by tomeraberbach 1 day ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian (github.com/zakirullin)
    ×2.92 8 | 684 points by zakirullin 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment (arxiv.org)
    ×0.78 65 | 74 points by anigbrowl 22 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25 (vaticannews.va)
    ×1.93 5 | 283 points by cucho 21 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention (fil-c.org)
    ×1.15 52 | 152 points by pizlonator 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic (twitter.com/i)
    ×1.79 8 | 16 points by kpw94 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model (odyssey.ml)
    ×0.90 49 | 125 points by olivercameron 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Tagging Blog Posts with BERTopic and LLMs (vickiboykis.com)
    ×0.55 68 | 10 points by mpbart 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. The quiet renovation at Bitwarden (ppb1701.com)
    ×3.43 13 | 673 points by DaSHacka 1 day ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag (archestra.ai)
    ×2.10 7 | 486 points by ildari 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. StanChart CEO: AI to Replace "Lower-Value Human Capital" (bloomberg.com)
    ×0.98 3 | 9 points by ilreb 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries (github.com/2b2tplace)
    ×1.00 34 | 174 points by exploraz 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Growing tribe of jobless techies is stuck in Silicon Valley's new reality (latimes.com)
    ×2.14 29 | 19 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Peter Salus has died (tuhs.org)
    ×1.46 9 | 167 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. We let AIs run radio stations (andonlabs.com)
    ×1.99 5 | 350 points by lukaspetersson 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness (noemamag.com)
    ×1.76 45 | 300 points by ahalbert4 1 day ago | 748 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Google pushes update to Antigravity instead it reinstalls and locks everyone out (twitter.com/antigravity)
    ×1.18 13 | 5 points by thekevan 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE (loopmaster.xyz)
    ×1.42 37 | 125 points by stagas 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. What Is Date:Italy? (aesthetikx.info)
    ×1.14 40 | 154 points by jollyjerry 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks (ieee.org)
    ×1.01 52 | 135 points by SVI 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Type Out the Code (haskellforall.com)
    ×3.16 26 | 11 points by theanonymousone 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Why is it called Kent House? (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
    ×0.71 47 | 41 points by susam 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (404media.co)
    ×2.99 14 | 317 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???