DeepSeek-V4 is live, offering cost-effective 1M context length with rivaling performance to top closed-source models. It features enhanced agentic capabilities, rich world knowledge, and world-class reasoning.
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.
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Google invests $10 billion in Anthropic, with potential for $30 billion more, to strengthen AI partnership. The investment will support Anthropic's expansion and computing capacity.
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.
Spinel compiles Ruby into native executables with significant speedups. It uses whole-program type inference and generates optimized C code.
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.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS improves security, performance, and usability with new features like TPM-backed encryption and Livepatch support. Maintenance updates will be provided for 5 years for main Ubuntu flavors and 3 years for others.
The author's early life influenced his writing, with a desire to escape loneliness and create a private world through words. He developed a habit of making up stories and describing scenes, which continued into adulthood.
Coffee consumption influences gut function, stress, cognition, and the microbiome, with mechanisms poorly understood. This study found coffee drinkers had altered gut microbiome composition and function, and coffee intake was linked to improved cognitive performance and reduced impulsivity.
Large language models like ChatGPT are built by collecting and filtering vast amounts of internet text, then training neural networks to predict the next token in a sequence. The final model learns conversations through imitation and reinforcement learning, allowing it to generate helpful and coherent responses, but it still has limitations and can hallucinate or refuse to answer certain questions.
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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.
A 40-year-old man in South Korea was arrested for sharing an AI-generated image of a missing wolf, misleading authorities and prompting a nationwide search. He faces up to 5 years in prison for disrupting government work by deception.
Anthropic released its powerful AI model Mythos, but restricted access due to potential misuse and high costs. The company secured $5 billion from Amazon and expanded its infrastructure deals with Google and CoreWeave to compete in the AI race.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
We present DeepSeek-V4 series with two MoE models, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, supporting 1M-token context length. They achieve improved efficiency and performance through hybrid attention and manifold-constrained hyper-connections.
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.
The author is skeptical about "AI" charting systems in healthcare, citing concerns over privacy, informed consent, and the potential for automation bias and disparate impact. They recommend refusing to consent to the use of these systems, arguing that they can compromise patient care and create more problems than they solve.
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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.
Exploring Venus is a more feasible option than Mars due to its proximity and favorable atmospheric conditions. A mission to Venus could potentially find life or new chemistry, and studying the planet can help us better understand Earth and exoplanets.
We're using Lyria 3 to create rich music with dynamic vocals and the latest Veo video model to bring it to life. Our platform allows full control over characters, aesthetics, and details, with no camera crew needed.
Gova is a declarative GUI framework for Go that builds native desktop apps from a single codebase. It uses typed components, reactive state, and real platform dialogs with a single static binary.
Aspartame is broken down into normal chemicals in the body, with no conclusive evidence of harm from its consumption. The current science suggests that aspartame's health impact is essentially zero, with every credible body agreeing on its safety.
The author, a seasoned data infrastructure engineer, argues that the current state of software development is plagued by brittleness and tedium due to the use of fragmented systems, which are assembled from components with incompatible internal models. He proposes the development of a general-purpose, domain-aligned, sealed model for internet software that would enable coherent systems and ...
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.
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.
The public evidence does not support the strongest version of the claim that Mythos has suddenly erased the usual offensive edge in vulnerability research, and its value is not clear compared to other LLMs. The tool is useful for defensive security work, especially at scale, but its value is not justified by the strongest claims people want to make from it.
Diatec Co Ltd has ceased operations and closed down its business. The company's products, including the FILCO Majestouch series, are no longer available.
Nowhere is a platform that uses Nostr relays for communication, allowing users to create and share links without server storage or account creation. These links are encrypted and can't be removed or censored, giving users full control over their content.
Enterprise knowledge management systems have failed for sixty years due to buyers selecting on the wrong axis, prioritizing familiarity over correctness, and vendors selling on the perception of safety rather than actual product value. The industry's repeated failures, including the current trend of adding AI to existing systems, demonstrate a pattern of buying the same shape of thing one ...
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.
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.
User experienced issues with Anthropic's hook features after 4.7 update, causing Claude to ignore rules. Stop hook is being ignored, preventing determinism in workflows.
Lightwhale is a purpose-built OS for Docker containers, offering a minimalistic design, ease of use, and enhanced security through immutability. It provides a friction-free path to productivity and makes it easy to self-host with ease.
Tesla acquired an unnamed AI hardware company for up to $2 billion in stock and equity awards. The deal's structure suggests Tesla is acquiring promising but unproven technology with a retention mechanism for the target company's engineering team.
The user created a tool called Driggsby to manage financial accounts and initially used it interactively, but then set it up on autopilot using Claude Code routines. With the help of routines, the user was able to automate tasks such as sending daily financial emails and monitoring transactions, and even enabled their wife to run her own automations with live data.
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.
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.
Intel released the E8087 software emulation package in 1980 to allow developers to write 8087 software without requiring 8087 hardware, and Microsoft later adopted and modified this mechanism for their own use. The emulation mechanism involves language translators emitting special fix-ups for floating-point instructions, which are then replaced with software interrupts by the linker, allowing ...
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.
Atomic organizes knowledge automatically with semantic search and tagging. It generates summaries, wiki articles, and visualizes knowledge as a graph with AI-augmented chat.
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Google invests $10 billion in Anthropic, with potential for $30 billion more, to strengthen AI partnership. The investment will support Anthropic's expansion and computing capacity.
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.
Linux 7.1 kernel removes old hardware drivers due to obsolescence, including bus mice and portable device drivers from the 1990s and early 2000s. The removals total 3,374 deletions in the input subsystem.
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leaf updates and installs the latest release, verifying it with SHA256 checksums. It also offers watch mode, syntax highlighting, and LaTeX math rendering.
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Affirm's engineering team used agentic AI to automate 60% of pull requests in 4 months, increasing merged PR volume by 58% year over year.
The share of arXiv stories on Hacker News has been decreasing rapidly in the last few months, with a peak in 2019 driven by deep learning and a current peak in 2023-2026 driven by LLMs. Papers from 2019 that held up well include MuZero, EfficientNet, and PyTorch, while 2023-2026 papers that may hold up include DeepSeek-R1, Generative Agents, and Differential Transformer.
The SWP failed to highlight mass examples of Trotskyists' actions, leading to a rebirth of the party in a different belief. This led to a political evolution, as seen in the Russian Civil War and the Third Revolution in France.
Nev is a keyboard-driven text editor combining Neovim, Helix, and Zed features with developer tools. It's still new and missing features, use at your own risk.
Maine's ballot initiative aims to limit super PAC donations, challenging the SpeechNow doctrine that allows unlimited contributions. The case could potentially overturn the doctrine, restricting oligarchs' influence in politics and promoting greater transparency in election spending.
MiniZinc is a high-level constraint modelling language for discrete optimisation problems. It supports various solvers, has a user-friendly IDE, and can be embedded in Python and JavaScript.
Rails developers shared their work habits in 2024, and now in 2026, we're exploring AI's impact on their workflows. More voices contribute to a more useful community resource.
TIPSv2 is a next-generation image-text encoder that surpasses its larger teacher models in patch-text alignment and zero-shot segmentation. It achieves strong performance across 9 tasks and 20 datasets with improved pretraining recipe and targeted components.
The Vatican is positioning itself as a global referee of truth in the AI era by shaping rules and guarding against misinformation. It's trying to shape who controls truth in an AI-driven world with moral authority, despite not being able to control AI itself.
Researchers at City University of New York and King's College London tested five LLMs for safety and risk in conversations with a simulated user showing signs of schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis. The study found that newer models like GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5 were safer, while older models like GPT-4o and Grok were riskier.
Artificial intelligence is used on English Wikipedia for support roles and content creation, but human decisions are preferred over machine-generated outcomes. AI-generated content is generally prohibited, except for basic copyediting and translation, which requires human review and verification.
FusionCore is a ROS 2 sensor fusion SDK combining IMU, wheel encoders, and GPS into one reliable position estimate. It uses self-tuning noise covariance and is a drop-in odometry source for Nav2.
You're developing a language with immutable data structures and a new syntax feature called "alt" for reassigning variables without mutation. This allows for succinct updates of deeply nested data without changing the original structure.
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