Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

303 Ryan5453 2026-04-07 18:50:04 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 120

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.

GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks

260 zixuanlimit 2026-04-07 16:50:04 UTC z.ai Llama Share 79

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.

Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities

108 sweis 2026-04-07 18:50:04 UTC red.anthropic.com Llama Share 10

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.

Cambodia unveils a statue of famous landmine-sniffing rat Magawa

136 speckx 2026-04-07 17:50:04 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 29

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: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)

612 sam-bee 2026-04-07 11:50:04 UTC sam-burns.com Llama Share 194

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.

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

73 1659447091 2026-04-07 17:50:04 UTC smithsonianmag.com Llama Share 7

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.

System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]

206 be7a 2026-04-07 18:50:04 UTC www-cdn.anthropic.com Llama Share 126

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.

Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security

196 ilreb 2026-04-07 14:50:04 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 63

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.

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

84 gmac 2026-04-07 16:50:04 UTC printervention.app Llama Share 26

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.

US Labor Force Participation Continues to Slide

19 toomuchtodo 2026-04-07 19:14:04 UTC restaurant.org Llama Share 1

Labor force participation rates have declined over the past year, with the rate falling to 61.9% in March 2026, the lowest level since November 2021. The steepest declines have been among young people, particularly men under 25, and those 55 or older, with the most educated workers also experiencing a record low participation rate.

Why IPv6 is the only way forward

11 quaintdev 2026-04-07 19:25:04 UTC ankshilp.in Llama Share 8

India and China have limited IPv4 addresses, forcing them to use NAT, while the US has excess. Switching to IPv6 is necessary for India to overcome this issue.

Google open-sources experimental agent orchestration testbed Scion

99 timbilt 2026-04-07 15:50:04 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.

AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC

67 evakhoury 2026-04-07 16:50:04 UTC danvk.org Llama Share 18

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.

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

4 MediaSquirrel 2026-04-07 19:39:04 UTC github.com/mattmireles Prefix Share 0

Fine-tune Gemma on text, images, and audio — on your Mac, on data that doesn't fit on your Mac. ☁️ Stream from GCS / BigQuery — train on terabytes without filling your SSD. If you want to fine-tune Gemma on text, images, or audio without renting an H100 or copying a terabyte of data to your laptop, this is the only toolkit that does all three modalities on Apple Silicon. Text-only ...

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

340 henrygarner 2026-04-07 10:50:04 UTC juxt.pro Llama Share 172

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.

The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki

12 vinhnx 2026-04-07 18:50:04 UTC animationobsessive.substack.com Llama Share 3

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.

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

8 steveharing1 2026-04-07 18:50:04 UTC github.com/0xgf Prefix Share 0

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> ) } ...

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

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A new Postcrossing stamp from the USA

53 Tomte 2026-04-07 15:50:04 UTC postcrossing.com Llama Share 16

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.

S3 Files and the changing face of S3

3 werner 2026-04-07 19:46:04 UTC allthingsdistributed.com Prefix Share 0

Photo credit: Ossewa Almost everyone at some point in their career has dealt with the deeply frustrating process of moving large amounts of data from one place to another, and if you haven’t, you probably just haven’t worked with large enough datasets yet. For Andy Warfield, one of those formative experiences was at UBC, working alongside genomics researchers who were producing extraordinary ...

John Coltrane Illustrates the Mathematics of Jazz

56 luu 2026-04-07 16:50:04 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.

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

77 rryan 2026-04-07 15:50:04 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.

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

196 pulisse 2026-04-07 15:50:04 UTC sciencealert.com Llama Share 70

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.

Emotion Concepts and Their Function in a Large Language Model

39 Anon84 2026-04-07 16:50:04 UTC transformer-circuits.pub Llama Share 0

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.

Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net

329 shintoist 2026-04-07 13:50:04 UTC jola.dev Llama Share 172

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

285 jonbaer 2026-04-07 08:50:04 UTC sheets.works Full Share 163

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

133 intofarlands 2026-04-07 12:50:04 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.

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

152 thunderbong 2026-04-07 10:50:04 UTC ultrathink.art Llama Share 97

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.

My Experience as a Rice Farmer

329 surprisetalk 2026-04-07 05:50:04 UTC xd009642.github.io Llama Share 167

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.

Haunting Photos Show the Aftermath of the Kursk Submarine Disaster in 2000

148 mooreds 2026-04-07 09:50:04 UTC rarehistoricalphotos.com Llama Share 43

The Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sank on August 12, 2000, in the Barents Sea, killing 118 sailors. A delayed rescue effort and inadequate equipment led to the tragic loss of life, with an investigation later citing negligence, incompetence, and mismanagement.