OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

111 arabicalories 2026-04-24 19:16:26 UTC developers.openai.com Llama Share 56

OpenAI released several new models and features including GPT-5.5, GPT Image 2, GPT-5.4 mini and nano, and Sora API updates. The company also added support for new tools, features, and APIs such as reusable character references, longer generations, and video extensions.

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

284 alcazar 2026-04-24 15:16:26 UTC kevinlynagh.com Llama Share 67

You're attending Babashka Conf on May 8 and Dutch Clojure Days on May 9. You're considering building a tool for semantic diffing in Emacs, after being dissatisfied with difftastic.

SFO Quiet Airport (2025)

59 CaliforniaKarl 2026-04-24 19:16:26 UTC viewfromthewing.com Llama Share 35

San Francisco International Airport has implemented a "quiet airport" initiative since 2018, reducing background noise and announcements. This approach has been successful in reducing stress and improving the travel experience for passengers.

SDL Now Supports DOS

162 Jayschwa 2026-04-24 17:16:26 UTC github.com/libsdl-org Full Share 56

This is the combined work of @icculus @madebr @glebm @jayschwa @ccawley2011 and me rounding it off with stability fixes and missing features, thanks to everyone for pitching in. This is a fairly c...

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

14 hhh 2026-04-24 19:31:26 UTC hhh.hn Llama Share 2

The user successfully reverse-engineered the firmware update process for their Rodecaster Duo, finding it to be a simple process involving HID commands and a gzipped tarball. They were able to create a custom firmware and enable SSH access, but are unsure why SSH was enabled by default.

I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support

574 y42 2026-04-24 16:16:26 UTC nickyreinert.de Llama Share 340

The user had a good experience with Claude Code initially but encountered issues with poor quality responses and unhelpful customer support. They eventually cancelled their account due to scaling problems and poor handling of new customers.

The Classic American Diner

34 NaOH 2026-04-24 19:16:26 UTC blogs.loc.gov Llama Share 10

Diners are a distinctive part of American food culture, often featuring a silvery surface and welcoming entrance. They have been a staple for truck drivers and others working long hours, serving classic breakfast and lunch staples.

DeepSeek v4

1709 impact_sy 2026-04-24 03:16:26 UTC api-docs.deepseek.com Llama Share 1323

The DeepSeek API uses OpenAI/Anthropic compatible format and can be accessed with an API key. Model names will be deprecated on July 24, 2026.

Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute

8 elpakal 2026-04-24 20:01:26 UTC techcrunch.com Prefix Share 0

The promise of investment comes after Anthropic released its latest model, Mythos, to a limited group of partners this month. Anthropic says that Mythos is the company’s most powerful model to date and has significant cybersecurity applications. Due to potential misuse, Anthropic has restricted broader access while it works with select organizations to evaluate and address those risks — ...

Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations

44 gslin 2026-04-24 17:16:26 UTC gigazine.net Llama Share 15

Diatec Co Ltd has ceased operations and closed down its business. The company's products, including the FILCO Majestouch series, are no longer available.

How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences

236 calcifer 2026-04-24 11:16:26 UTC nate.leaflet.pub Llama Share 242

Assume others' intentions are malicious or ignorant, trust intuition, and pivot conversations to avoid weakness. Exploit your network, present curated details, and dismiss detractors' credentials unless agreeing with them.

CC-Canary: Detect early signs of regressions in Claude Code

16 tejpalv 2026-04-24 18:16:26 UTC github.com/delta-hq Llama Share 4

cc-canary detects drift in Claude Code sessions by analyzing JSONL logs on disk. It produces a forensic report with metrics like read:edit ratio, reasoning loops, and cost, with a composite health score per day.

I'm done making desktop applications (2009)

112 claxo 2026-04-24 16:16:26 UTC kalzumeus.com Llama Share 116

The author, a software developer, has decided to abandon desktop app development in favor of web apps due to their superior sales, ease of development, and customer support. The author's experience with Bingo Card Creator, a desktop app turned web app, has shown that web apps offer better conversion rates, lower customer support costs, and more opportunities for experimentation and improvement.

CSS as a Query Language

29 evnc 2026-04-24 18:16:26 UTC evdc.me Llama Share 12

The author discusses how CSS can be used as a query language to do things other than layout web pages, and proposes a new language called CSSLog that combines CSS with Datalog to allow for recursive queries and transitive closure. CSSLog would allow for more complex queries and styles, but it's unlikely to be implemented in browsers due to its potential for infinite loops and fixpoint semantics.

Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler

271 dluan 2026-04-24 09:16:26 UTC github.com/matz Llama Share 78

Spinel compiles Ruby into native executables with significant speedups. It uses whole-program type inference and generates optimized C code.

Different Language Models Learn Similar Number Representations

73 Anon84 2026-04-24 15:16:26 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 33

Language models learn periodic features with dominant periods at T=2, 5, 10. Models acquire geometrically separable features from complementary co-occurrence signals or multi-token addition problems.

Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock

41 wglb 2026-04-24 16:16:26 UTC phys.org Full Share 5

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Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task

47 gregpr07 2026-04-24 16:16:26 UTC github.com/browser-use Llama Share 24

A self-healing browser harness gives LLM complete freedom to complete tasks directly on Chrome with no framework or rails. It's free, supports 3 concurrent browsers, and can be contributed to with new domain skills.

US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

613 nkrisc 2026-04-23 22:16:26 UTC cnn.com Llama Share 659

US soldier Master Sgt Gannon Ken Van Dyke was arrested and charged with stealing and misusing classified information after allegedly betting $32,000 on Venezuelan President Maduro's capture and winning $400,000. He faces five criminal charges and a related civil complaint from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers

40 nicholasjbs 2026-04-24 17:16:26 UTC recurse.com Llama Share 8

The author of RC is rewriting their application to better inspire and filter applicants. They added new questions to give a sense of what RC is like and to help identify successful Recursers.

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

18 jamie-simon 2026-04-24 18:16:26 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 1

Researchers are developing a theory called learning mechanics to describe deep learning properties and statistics. This theory combines ongoing research to provide a mechanics perspective on the learning process.

The operating cost of adult and gambling startups

90 theorchid 2026-04-24 13:16:26 UTC orchidfiles.com Llama Share 132

Building an online casino or 18+ project is often driven by short-term goals and can be stigmatized, making it hard to find investment, employees, and reliable payment providers. Success in such a niche can be difficult to translate into a positive reputation outside of it.

TIPSv2: Advancing Vision-Language Pretraining with Enhanced Patch-Text Alignment

3 gmays 2026-04-24 19:29:26 UTC gdm-tipsv2.github.io Prefix Share 0

TIPSv2 is the next generation of the TIPS family of foundational image-text encoders empowering strong performance across numerous multimodal and vision tasks. Our work starts by revealing a surprising finding, where distillation unlocks superior patch-text alignment over standard pretraining, leading to distilled student models significantly surpassing their much larger teachers in this ...

Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances?

3 mbm 2026-04-24 19:26:26 UTC driggsby.com Prefix Share 0

A few months ago, I stood up a fiddly daily cron-job to log into my bank, credit card, and brokerage/retirement accounts. It was powered by Codex CLI running non-interactively, and had a fairly simple job: using the Chrome DevTools MCP, log into each website, extract balances and recent transactions, then send my wife and me a sort of “daily financial overview” email. It actually worked ...

Hear your agent suffer through your code

160 AndrewVos 2026-04-24 11:16:26 UTC github.com/andrewvos Llama Share 77

To use Endless Toil, install it from the marketplace, restart Codex if needed, and invoke the plugin in a new thread. It plays escalating human groans as it scans code, printing results if an audio player is unavailable.

Machine Learning Reveals Unknown Transient Phenomena in Historic Images

43 solarist 2026-04-24 14:16:26 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 34

Researchers used machine learning to identify transient objects in historical astronomical plates and found a significant increase in transients near nuclear testing dates and a decrease in Earth's shadow. Results support the existence of an unrecognized population of transient objects.

Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly

101 datajeroen 2026-04-24 10:16:26 UTC jeroen.github.io Llama Share 33

We can mount a tarball directly in memory without copying by generating a metadata file that lists file sizes and offsets, then using Emscripten's WORKERFS. This approach avoids unnecessary copying and improves performance, especially in memory-constrained environments.

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports

901 mfiguiere 2026-04-23 20:16:26 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 673

Claude's responses worsened for some users due to three separate changes affecting Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, and Claude Cowork. We've fixed the issues and will implement changes to prevent similar problems in the future.

Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign

844 tosh 2026-04-23 20:16:26 UTC socket.dev Llama Share 412

Bitwarden CLI 2026.4.0 was compromised through a GitHub Action in its CI/CD pipeline as part of the Checkmarx supply chain campaign. Users are advised to review CI logs and rotate exposed secrets.

Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s

323 1vuio0pswjnm7 2026-04-24 15:16:26 UTC bloomberg.com Full Share 326

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