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K7PJP
13 hours ago
iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com, will be issued on private.icloud.com. Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.co...
18 HOURS AGO
HERBERTL
Where did all the public bathrooms go?
20 HOURS AGO
BRANDONB
Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study
20 HOURS AGO
MATALLO
Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store
9 HOURS AGO
NEOM
Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
6 HOURS AGO
DRAMATIZE
Show HN: Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown
17 HOURS AGO
BOOKOFJOE
Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
20 HOURS AGO
AT1AS
Could we dredge the Netherlands without fossil fuels? (2018)
18 HOURS AGO
OVENPASTA
Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3
16 HOURS AGO
STAGAS
Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog
17 HOURS AGO
TOSH
Fences, Not Sandboxes
A DAY AGO
PANTELISK
I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
19 HOURS AGO
IAND
IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
17 HOURS AGO
TOSH
Fences, Not Sandboxes
9 HOURS AGO
GIULIOMAGNIFICO
Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
A DAY AGO
PANTELISK
I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
3 HOURS AGO
YEGOBLYNQUEENNE
Japan enlists 1,800 people to drag 360-tonne castle keep using ropes and rollers
rock_artist
43 minutes ago
Why some US restaurants are banning tips
Tips are central to US dining culture but some eateries think that they are unfair.
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geerlingguy
8 hours ago
SiFive's First Server Platform
Hello you fine Internet folks,...
l-one-lone
a day ago
How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
European Union's new packaging rules threaten to kill the world of makers and micro-entrepreneurs, putting jobs, livelihoods and an entire ecosystem of innovation at risk....
lbw1215
7 hours ago
Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents
Self-guided agents that think continuously...
ComputerGuru
19 hours ago
MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
Reverse engineering reveals how Paint and Photos embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images....
simonebrunozzi
13 hours ago
Moon (2024)
Interactive article about the Moon...
geospeck
a day ago
What's new in Emacs 31.1
Emacs 31.1 adds a slew of quality-of-life features. It retires its quirky unexec dumper; there are general improvements to tree-sitter, including a much-wanted auto-installer for grammars; a...
tosh
20 hours ago
Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
Xiaomi is the Chinese tech giant. Their phones compete with iPhones. Their new CPU roughly matches Apple cores on single threaded tasks, and is much faster in multithreaded execution. Of co...
https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926
Markoff
2 hours ago
Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance
Background Screen viewing time is associated with children’s academic and cognitive outcomes, but longitudinal studies are scarce, hindering identification of the most sensitive age periods....
Tiberium
2 days ago
Training AI to Paint with Code
I'm a designer and creative technologist based in Brooklyn, NY....
zdw
16 hours ago
LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
| Read on LessWrong | Comment on HN | Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to p...
bilsbie
2 days ago
I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
Someone asked what I'd do if I were 17. I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch, and then train ones as powerful as I could with whatever hardware I could get access to....
tcp_handshaker
16 hours ago
Oceans hit highest temperature on record
The record "is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress", according to Dr Samantha Burgess from the European Copernicus climate change service....
rbanffy
18 hours ago
Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam
CUDA is the most important software framework in the GPU compute world, and Nvidia is looking at supporting CUDA on RISC-V. Terms and conditions may apply....
lensecat
18 hours ago
Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services
AI agents are making it easier for the public to interact with government, such as by helping them apply for benefits, understand complex policies, and make their opinions heard. Although im...
schlarpc
2 days ago
Everything I own, owned
Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over t...