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Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs [25d] [hn]
Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? [25d] [hn]
Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously? [25d] [hn]
ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model [25d] [hn]
Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor [25d] [hn]
Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny [25d] [hn]
Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline [25d] [hn]
Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A) [25d] [hn]
Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden [25d] [hn]
Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs [25d] [hn]
I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records [25d] [hn]
Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet [25d] [hn]
Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms [25d] [hn]
Best of British Design [25d] [hn]
World Labs Is Joining AMD [25d] [hn]
Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It [25d] [hn]
California Farmers Are Struggling to Sell Grapes as Demand for Wine Drops [25d] [hn]
Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery [25d] [hn]
It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs [25d] [hn]
California expanded the right to delete today [25d] [hn]
Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020) [25d] [hn]
First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials [25d] [hn]
Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004) [25d] [hn]
MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser [25d] [hn]
Burning Man Death Rates – A Short Lesson in Statistics [25d] [hn]
I Turned a DirecTV HR54-700 into a Standalone Jellyfin Box [25d] [hn]
GrapheneOS – When an App Is Slow [25d] [hn]
So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes [25d] [hn]
Claude Sonnet 5.5 [25d] [hn]
Claude Sonnet 5.5 [25d] [hn]
I made a visual workspace for AI Automations [25d] [hn]
Definitely not Windows (Win 11 parody) [25d] [hn]
Who Wrote Elizabeth I's Most Scathing Letters? [25d] [hn]
The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola [25d] [hn]
Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP [25d] [hn]
OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity [25d] [hn]
How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work [25d] [hn]
Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't [25d] [hn]
Synthetic Sagas [25d] [hn]
Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman [25d] [hn]
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display [25d] [hn]
The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore [25d] [hn]
13 Months Sober (2025) [25d] [hn]
Pirating the Pirates [25d] [hn]
Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent [25d] [hn]
Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent [25d] [hn]
Wavelets in 3D Graphics [25d] [hn]
Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream [25d] [hn]
Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat [25d] [hn]
Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah [25d] [hn]
Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API [25d] [hn]
Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts [25d] [hn]
Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course [25d] [hn]
What makes Lisp difficult to read? [25d] [hn]
Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.' [25d] [hn]
MongoDB CEO resigns "effective immediately" to join Meta, stock drops 20% [25d] [hn]
What Heraldry and Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-Identity Generators [25d] [hn]
A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work [25d] [hn]
I Switched to Brave Browser [25d] [hn]
Israel Keeps Expanding into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show [25d] [hn]
Walking Men [25d] [hn]
Coding Is Not Solved – Alex Ewerlöf Notes [25d] [hn]
Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? [25d] [hn]
Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests [25d] [hn]
What Sentry's 16GB selfhosted taught me [25d] [hn]
Una watch review: A modular, repairable GPS watch is a good first step [25d] [hn]
Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News [25d] [hn]
Georeferencing Chernarus and visiting in real life (2021) [25d] [hn]
The smart home graveyard is getting crowded [25d] [hn]
What Would a Serious AI Product Look Like? [25d] [hn]
The systems that no one will test [25d] [hn]
Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC [25d] [hn]
Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots [25d] [hn]
Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page [25d] [hn]
Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK [25d] [hn]
SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today [25d] [hn]
Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network [25d] [hn]
Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants [25d] [hn]
AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity [25d] [hn]
37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it [25d] [hn]
Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account [25d] [hn]
Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 [25d] [hn]
An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk [25d] [hn]
Made by Mechanical Means [25d] [hn]
Thinking Fast and Slow in AI: The Role of Metacognition [25d] [hn]
Microsoft drops Copilot+ branding from its new laptops [25d] [hn]
Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain [25d] [hn]
TabPFN and TabICL vs. tuned XGBoost: the model that doesn't train won 14/14 [25d] [hn]
Musk, the Movie [25d] [hn]
Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock [26d] [hn]
Goodbye to the Hard Parts That Never Mattered [26d] [hn]
Behold the pawpaw, the tropical 'alien banana' that grows right here in Canada [26d] [hn]
Show HN: Panda, the world's first personal AI computer [26d] [hn]
Packing Binary Is Fun [26d] [hn]
As A.I. Makes Law Firms More Efficient, Clients Ask: 'Where's My Discount?' [26d] [hn]
Research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer [26d] [hn]
Was Silent Reading Unusual During Augustine's Time? [26d] [hn]
Self-parking car using generic algorithm (2021) [26d] [hn]
Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10k If a Data Center Gets Built [26d] [hn]