Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

398 Ryan5453 2026-04-07 18:21:17 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 149

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview model has identified thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in major operating systems and software, many of which were previously unknown to developers. The model's capabilities are being shared with industry partners to help fix these vulnerabilities and improve cybersecurity.

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]

264 be7a 2026-04-07 18:21:17 UTC www-cdn.anthropic.com Llama Share 164

Claude Mythos Preview is a large language model from Anthropic with powerful capabilities in areas like software engineering and cybersecurity. It has demonstrated a striking leap in cyber capabilities but is not being released for general availability due to potential risks.

Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities

151 sweis 2026-04-07 18:21:17 UTC red.anthropic.com Llama Share 17

Anthropic has announced Claude Mythos Preview, a general-purpose language model capable of computer security tasks. The model has been used to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in various software systems, including operating systems and web browsers.

GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks

281 zixuanlimit 2026-04-07 17:21:17 UTC z.ai Llama Share 90

GLM-5.1 is a next-generation model with stronger coding capabilities, achieving state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks. It sustains optimization over long horizons, handling complex problems with better judgment and staying productive over longer sessions.

S3 Files and the changing face of S3

33 werner 2026-04-07 19:45:17 UTC allthingsdistributed.com Llama Share 7

Amazon S3 Files integrates EFS into S3, allowing data to be accessed as a network-attached file system. This feature addresses data friction by providing a unified interface for file and object storage, making data more accessible and valuable.

Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawa

157 speckx 2026-04-07 18:21:17 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 31

A statue of Magawa, a hero rat who sniffed out over 100 landmines in Cambodia, was unveiled in Siem Reap on April 4. Magawa was awarded a gold medal for his life-saving work and cleared 141,000 square meters of land during his five-year career.

Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon

23 MediaSquirrel 2026-04-07 19:38:17 UTC github.com/mattmireles Llama Share 2

Gemma is a toolkit for fine-tuning on text, images, and audio on Apple Silicon Macs without renting an H100 or copying data locally. It supports domain-specific ASR, vision, and document understanding, and can be used for private, on-device pipelines.

A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC

107 1659447091 2026-04-07 17:21:17 UTC smithsonianmag.com Llama Share 16

Joe Macken spent 20 years building a 1,350-square-foot model of New York City using balsa wood and other materials. His model, featuring nearly a million structures, is now on display at the Museum of the City of New York through 2026.

Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

626 sam-bee 2026-04-07 11:21:17 UTC sam-burns.com Llama Share 199

User made a heavy laptop stand with a raw concrete surface, 2 USB ports, and a plant pot, inspired by brutalist architecture. It features exposed rebar, rusted metal, and moss for a weathered look, with a deliberate hole and damaged power cable for added urban decay effect.

Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP

94 gmac 2026-04-07 17:21:17 UTC printervention.app Llama Share 31

The user acquired a Canon SELPHY photo printer from a friend and set up a Manjaro machine to print from it. They then created a web app called printerface.app to make the printer accessible to Mac users.

Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security

202 ilreb 2026-04-07 14:21:17 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 65

Cloudflare is accelerating its post-quantum roadmap to achieve full security by 2029, including authentication. This is due to recent breakthroughs in quantum computing that have pulled forward the timeline for Q-Day.

Taste in the age of AI and LLMs

168 speckx 2026-04-07 16:21:17 UTC rajnandan.com Llama Share 155

AI makes it easy to produce polished work but not necessarily meaningful work. The real edge is using AI to strip away average output and applying human judgment to direction, specificity, and consequence.

AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC

74 evakhoury 2026-04-07 16:21:17 UTC danvk.org Llama Share 20

The OldNYC photo viewer has been rebuilt with 10,000 additional historic photos, more accurate locations, and improved performance thanks to AI tools and OpenStreetMap. The site now uses OpenAI and OpenStreetMap to extract locations and display photos in their correct locations.

Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion

103 timbilt 2026-04-07 15:21:17 UTC infoq.com Llama Share 30

Scion is an experimental orchestration testbed for managing concurrent agents in containers across local and remote compute. It enables developers to run isolated, concurrent processes with shared workspaces and distinct agent lifecycles.

The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki

23 vinhnx 2026-04-07 18:21:17 UTC animationobsessive.substack.com Llama Share 4

Hayao Miyazaki's image boards, loose sketches of ideas, have been a consistent part of his creative process since the 1960s. These boards, often drawn quickly with pencil and watercolor, have evolved over time and influenced his films, including The Boy and the Heron.

We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code

346 henrygarner 2026-04-07 11:21:17 UTC juxt.pro Llama Share 174

Researchers found a 57-year-old bug in the Apollo Guidance Computer's gyro control code that could have caused a lunar mission failure. The bug, a resource lock leak, was discovered using a behavioural specification language and was previously undetected despite extensive scrutiny of the code.

Cells for NetBSD: kernel-enforced, jail-like isolation

6 akagusu 2026-04-07 19:55:17 UTC netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de Prefix Share 2

Cells for NetBSD is an early-stage but steadily maturing system for lightweight, kernel-enforced isolation on NetBSD. It closes the operational gap between simple chroot environments and full virtualization platforms such as Xen. The system stays fully NetBSD-native: isolation and policy enforcement are built into the kernel security framework, not delegated to a separate runtime layer. The ...

How a blind man made it possible for others with low vision to build Lego sets

10 speckx 2026-04-07 19:21:17 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 2

Matthew Shifrin, a blind Massachusetts man, created Bricks for the Blind to provide accessible Lego instructions in braille for the visually impaired. His nonprofit has created instructions for over 540 Lego sets and inspired the Lego Group to introduce audio and braille instructions for their sets.

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring – Lead Robotics and More

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John Coltrane Illustrates the Mathematics of Jazz

62 luu 2026-04-07 16:21:17 UTC americanjazzmusicsociety.com Llama Share 4

Physicist Stephon Alexander draws parallels between Albert Einstein and John Coltrane's work, citing Coltrane's "Circle of Fifths" drawing as a geometric principle. Coltrane's music is seen as a blend of science, spirituality, and mathematics, with some interpreting it as a connection to Islamic traditions.

A new Postcrossing stamp from the USA

57 Tomte 2026-04-07 16:21:17 UTC postcrossing.com Llama Share 17

The United States Postal Service is releasing new Postcrossing stamps in May 2026, featuring four triangular designs with bold colors and playful scenes. These global forever stamps will be available online and at post offices, with a launch ceremony at the Boston 2026 World Expo.

Moving fast in hardware: lessons from lab to $100M ARR

82 rryan 2026-04-07 15:21:17 UTC blog.zacka.io Llama Share 22

The key to building complex systems quickly is to subtract unnecessary requirements and complexity, rather than trying to optimize within existing constraints. By shifting performance from physical complexity into software and computation, teams can make products "software defined" and iterate faster, often with dramatic improvements in efficiency and performance.

Boneyard: Generate pixel-perfect skeleton screens from your real DOM

9 steveharing1 2026-04-07 19:21:17 UTC github.com/0xgf Prefix Share 3

Pixel-perfect skeleton loading screens, extracted from your real UI. No manual measurement, no hand-tuned placeholders. import { Skeleton } from 'boneyard-js/react' function BlogPage() { const { data, isLoading } = useFetch('/api/post') return ( <Skeleton name="blog-card" loading={isLoading}> {data && <BlogCard data={data} />} </Skeleton> ) } ...

Emotion Concepts and Their Function in a Large Language Model

43 Anon84 2026-04-07 16:21:17 UTC transformer-circuits.pub Llama Share 4

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit emotional reactions due to internal representations of emotion concepts, which encode broad emotion concepts and generalize across contexts. These representations causally influence LLM outputs, including behavior as AI Assistants.

12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)

215 pulisse 2026-04-07 16:21:17 UTC sciencealert.com Llama Share 78

An abandoned conservation project in Costa Rica, which involved dumping 1,000 truckloads of orange peel, has turned a barren pasture into a thriving forest with a 176% increase in above-ground biomass. The project's success could inspire similar conservation efforts that combine waste management and land regeneration.

Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

336 shintoist 2026-04-07 14:21:17 UTC jola.dev Llama Share 179

The user is moving away from Cloudflare due to concerns about dependence on a single company and is switching to Bunny.net, a European CDN service with competitive features and performance. They are setting up Bunny.net's CDN for their website with default settings and custom cache headers for optimal performance.

Every GPU That Mattered

286 jonbaer 2026-04-07 09:21:17 UTC sheets.works Full Share 164

49 graphics cards. 30 years. From Quake to Cyberpunk. The complete visual history of every GPU that mattered.

Show HN: A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world

137 intofarlands 2026-04-07 12:21:17 UTC intofarlands.com Full Share 25

Welcome to the Atlas of Arda, a project aimed at celebrating Tolkien's incredible work through hand-drawn cartography, artwork and illustrations that act as a reference to dive deeper into the beautiful world Tolkien created.

My Experience as a Rice Farmer

339 surprisetalk 2026-04-07 05:21:17 UTC xd009642.github.io Llama Share 170

The user spent January-July 2025 helping with their wife's family rice farm in rural Japan, learning about the process from preparation to planting. Japan's rice farming system faces challenges due to aging farmers, limited income, and automation, potentially leading to a decline in rural communities.

SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File

156 thunderbong 2026-04-07 10:21:17 UTC ultrathink.art Llama Share 100

We use SQLite in our production e-commerce store, but its default journal mode causes issues with concurrent writes, leading to lost data during rapid-fire pushes to main. We've added a rule to batch related changes and are considering migrating to Postgres for true multi-writer concurrency when we need horizontal scaling.