Claude Fable 5

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Claude Fable 5 is a state-of-the-art AI model with exceptional performance in various areas, but it comes with risks and requires safeguards to prevent misuse. The model is released with conservative safeguards that trigger in less than 5% of sessions, and a trusted access program will be expanded to allow more users to access its capabilities.

Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

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System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf]

Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 are two configurations of a new large language model from Anthropic. Mythos 5 is available to vetted partners, while Fable 5 is released for general access with additional safeguards to prevent misuse.

Making Graphics Like it's 1993

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The user is developing a side-project called Catlantean 3D, a traditional raycaster first-person shooter with a 256-color palette, aiming to recreate the feeling of early 90s games while using modern tools. The user has implemented various techniques to achieve this, including asset creation, lighting, and animation, and is planning to release the game on Steam in Q1 2027.

A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions

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Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

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Microsoft's Azure and AI development tools were hacked, allowing hackers to steal users' passwords and sensitive credentials. The company has temporarily removed some repositories, notified affected customers, and is continuing to investigate the breach.

Launch HN: Transload (YC P26) – Measuring freight items with CCTV

Julius, Jago, and Nils are building transload, a system that uses existing security cameras to automatically measure freight dimensions in LTL trucking terminals. Their system has two main steps: associating barcode scans with the correct objects in video footage and estimating the objects' dimensions in real-world units.

Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps

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The user has released the first library, biff.core, which provides system composition and interfaces for Biff projects. This library includes init functions that allow for clean extraction of logic and late binding, making it easier to manage project structure and dependencies.

Where is the AI jobs crisis?

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Researchers compared retrieval strategies in Large Language Model agents, finding grep generally yields higher accuracy than vector retrieval. However, accuracy still depends on agent architecture and tool-calling paradigm.

Can LLMs Beat Classical Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms?

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Researchers compared LLM-based and classical hyperparameter optimization methods on a small language model. A hybrid approach, Centaur, combining classical CMA-ES with an LLM achieved the best results, suggesting LLMs are most effective as a complement to classical optimizers.

The LD_DEBUG environment variable (2012)

Originally published 23 April 2012, updated 10 September 2019 (add link to troubleshooting tool), updated 18 October 2019 (moved to Jekyll), updated 3 April 2023 with links to other tools Development of large systems using many shared (dynamically) loaded libraries can sometimes lead to some frustrating bugs that are difficult to diagnose. These bugs often arise because there a few different ...

OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision

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OpenCV 5 is a major release that modernizes the library with a new DNN engine, improved ONNX support, and hardware acceleration. It brings significant performance improvements, better language support, and a redesigned Hardware Acceleration Layer for faster image processing.

'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack

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Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the company’s faulty AI coding product.

Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs

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GentleOS/32 is a retro OS for tinkering with old hardware, requiring i386 CPU, 4MB RAM, and VGA display. It supports standard PC devices and has a 16-bit spin-off, GentleOS/16, targeting 80186 devices.

Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]

You agree to use Let's Encrypt Certificates in compliance with applicable laws and this Agreement, and to immediately request revocation if your Certificate is compromised or inaccurate. ISRG disclaims all warranties and is not liable for any damages or losses related to the use of Let's Encrypt Certificates.

Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with LLMs

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Researchers propose PR-CAD, a framework that unifies text-to-CAD generation and editing for controllable and faithful modeling. PR-CAD achieves state-of-the-art results and improves CAD modeling efficiency through a reinforcement learning-enhanced reasoning framework.

Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer

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We are looking for a growth marketer to lead student acquisition at Emerge Career, a company that provides second chances to low-income adults through workforce development. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in growth marketing, expertise in at least one core channel, and experience building AI-powered marketing workflows.

Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein

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The iPhone's Last Stand?

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Microsoft's Project Solara showcases a thin client approach where AI agents live in the cloud and interact with devices as portals. Apple's Siri, despite being behind the state of the art, is sufficient for consumers who don't want to work or care about productivity.

FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

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The FCC plans to require telecoms to store personal info like ID numbers and addresses for all phone customers, alarming privacy advocates. This change aims to combat scammers but could impact low-income people, domestic abuse survivors, and those seeking anonymity.

Show HN: Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted

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Agora Cosmica is a Living Library with 30 historical figures, offering free wisdom teachings and live AI conversations. It's a nonprofit, open-source platform with no tracking cookies or profiling, built on learning science and self-hosted speech tooling.

Using Optical Aberrations to Distinguish Real Astronomical Transients

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Researchers found that transient images on Palomar sky surveys show coma aberration patterns, ruling out plate artifacts as an explanation. This supports hypotheses that transients have a physical origin rather than being instrumental effects.

Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)

Biologist Scott Poethig discovered a single molecule, miR156, that locks plants in a youthful state, a phenomenon called neoteny. This finding has big implications for conservation, horticulture, and more, as it could help scientists tailor plants to different needs and environments.

Painting the Internet: A Different Kind of Warhol Worm [pdf]

Only occasional, small-scale attempts have been made to create art using mal- ware. We present “art worms,” worms which allow an artist to use the entire In- ternet as a canvas. These worms could be interactive, allowing an artist to stage a global performance, or non-interactive and automatic. Examples are given of art- works that could result from these worms. Art worms raise a variety of ...

The Effective Sample Size

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Reweighting data to correct covariate shift reduces bias but increases variance, which is measured by the effective sample size (n_eff). n_eff represents the number of usable data points after reweighting, and it's a diagnostic control signal in off-policy reinforcement learning.

Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers

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Rockstar developers and AI tools can create messy codebases that are hard to understand and maintain. To avoid this, lead the engineering and guide AI tools to generate high-quality, understandable code.

Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art

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This site is a precursor to a semantic graph of projects, assets, and relationships, offering a tag cloud to explore 350 projects. The primary focus is on data-driven tooling for TypeScript and browser-based tech, with a broader aim at various programming approaches and languages.

SAT-Physical Thermodynamic Framework: treating constraints as a thermal system

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GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

An introduction to functional analysis for science and engineering

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This tutorial introduces functional analysis for physical problems, covering infinite sets of continuous functions and their approximations. It develops key concepts, including Hilbert spaces, operators, and eigenfunctions, with a focus on practical applications in physical science and engineering.