Epic Games announces Lore version control system

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Lore is a centralized, content-addressed version control system that represents repository state as Merkle trees and an immutable revision chain, optimized for binary-first storage, deduplication, and sparse/on-demand data hydration at scale.

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society

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Most Americans have neutral to negative views about AI, with 40% expecting a negative impact and 67% doubting government regulation.

Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

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Open Ribbie marketing siteNYM at CINKC at WSHMIA at PHIDET at HOU, 6:10 PMSD at STL, 6:15 PMTB at LAD, 7:10 PMLAA at AZ, 7:40 PMTOR at BOS, 10:45 PM

Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

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Adam New's CADAM generates CAD models in seconds from plain language descriptions. It exports models as OpenSCAD, STL, SCAD, or DXF, showcasing parametric designs for various parts and machines.

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

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GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model with a score of 51 on the Intelligence Index v4.1, surpassing MiniMax-M3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro. It uses 43k output tokens per task, but is less token-efficient compared to peers.

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

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Brands struggle to achieve AI visibility, with consumers unable to name a single company doing it well. The website is key to balancing AI data extraction and human experience.

Trellis AI (YC W24) hiring a product lead to build agents for healthcare access

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Trellis builds AI agents to automate healthcare workflows, helping patients access life-saving therapies. As Product Lead, you'll drive product development, work with customers, and shape company strategy to accelerate access to treatment.

French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation

French science communicator Étienne Klein had his doctor's title revoked after a 20-month investigation found plagiarism in his 1999 Ph.D. thesis. Klein, a physicist and popular science writer, had faced accusations of plagiarism since 2016 but continued to work with prestigious publishing houses and media outlets.

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

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The QUERY method is a safe and idempotent HTTP request that allows a client to ask a server to perform a query operation without changing the target resource's state. It is used to initiate a server-side query and can be cached like GET requests.

Want your images back? That'll be $5

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User had to pay $5 to download childhood images from Photobucket. They felt tricked into a monthly subscription and regret paying the fee.

How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s

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Browser Use Cloud rebuilt its system using Firecracker, a lightweight VM system, to create isolated and cheap cloud browsers. They optimized the system to reduce latency and cost, achieving a VM cold start under 400ms and end-to-end browser create latency of 825ms.

TREX: An AI code reviewer that runs your code

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Shlok from Greptile describes TREX, a code review tool that runs code and shows what went wrong, addressing limitations of static code review. TREX uses a model-agnostic harness, sandboxed environments, and artifact verification to provide trustworthy results and move towards a world with no bugs.

MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

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The library is a lightweight UI framework that generates drawing commands for custom controls and UI elements. It's free and open-source under the MIT license, accepting bug reports and pull requests.

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

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Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

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The user created an interactive watercolor painting app called Inkwash using Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model, which simulates water and ink behavior. The app uses WebGL2 and allows users to draw and paint with a stylus or finger.

AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry

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With Molecule.one’s Maria, GPT‑5.4 found a surprising additive boosting Chan-Lam Coupling yields for over 80% of tested substrates. OpenAI’s work in science is motivated by a simple belief: advanced AI can become a powerful partner for scientists, helping them explore more ideas, connect distant concepts, design better experiments, and accelerate discoveries that benefit humanity. We have ...

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

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Conversations with others produce better thinking by forcing precision and correcting thought direction. This is because human reasoning evolved as a social tool for constructing arguments, not for solo thinking.

Hacker News but for independent blogs

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5032 independent, personal blogs. One front page. Ranked by votes and freshness, shaped by you.

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

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The author discusses the rapid advancements in AI-generated code and its implications on software engineering, arguing that discipline and understanding of the system are more important than code itself. They believe that AI will augment human capabilities, not replace them, and that the future of software engineering will be shaped by the ability to encode knowledge and understanding into the system.

U.S. science is in chaos

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Scientists face unprecedented disruptions to their funding due to government cuts and changes in priorities, threatening the future of research and innovation in the US. The shift in government support for science has led to a loss of trust between researchers and the federal government, potentially dismantling the compact that made the US a successful and prosperous nation.

Kirkland Roundabouts

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The game is a satirical model of the 85th St & I-405 interchange, inspired by Kirkland roundabouts, and not intended for driving instruction. It's designed for computers with a keyboard and laptop-sized screen, with suboptimal mobile controls.

Seventeen Camels and Where They Can Take You

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“Oh, it’s just a trick thing.” – Ben Ames Williams, Coconuts Here are six puzzles, some of them classics, that don’t look much alike on the surface. After stating them, I’ll give a hint about what they have in common. Then I’ll present solutions that all make use of the same slick trick in one form or another. Puzzle 1: A wealthy merchant died, leaving seventeen camels to be distributed among ...

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Show HN: Deconvolution – a Rust image deconvolution and restoration crate

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Image deconvolution uses a point-spread function and regularization for restoration. Deconvolution provides known-PSF and blind workflows for image recovery.

Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields

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The website Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields documents vanished or abandoned airfields with their unusual histories. It was created in 1999 and celebrated its 25th anniversary in April 2024.

The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Founders are using AI to build startups, shifting from individual contributors to orchestrators, and focusing on high-value tasks. A practical playbook remaps the startup lifecycle for AI-native startups, providing goals, exit criteria, and AI-powered exercises for each stage.

Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code

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Polypore is a language and OS agnostic IDE with dockable panels and a sandboxed architecture. It updates automatically and supports plugins through a shared contract and MCP server.

Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)

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Landlords in high-priced metros keep commercial spaces empty due to financial pressure from banks, not social pressure. The "extend and pretend" strategy allows them to avoid losses by sticking to original financial models, even if they're no longer viable.

Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata

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Researchers improved Neural Cellular Automata by combining it with a lightweight decoder to produce high-resolution outputs in real-time. This hybrid model preserves NCAs' self-organizing behavior while reducing training time and memory requirements.