The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

309 yakkomajuri 2026-05-19 01:46:22 UTC simonwillison.net Llama Share 194

The speaker presented a lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, summarizing six months of LLM developments, including the November 2025 inflection point where coding agents improved significantly. The past six months also saw the rise of laptop-available models, such as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, and personal AI assistants, known as Claws.

Click (2016)

279 andrewzeno 2026-05-18 23:46:23 UTC clickclickclick.click Full Share 69

A browser-based game on online profiling.

Turn your Android phone into a ham radio transceiver

57 krupan 2026-05-19 03:46:23 UTC kv4p.com Llama Share 14

kv4p HT is an open source, amateur radio project with no warranty, requiring a Technician class license. It offers SMS-like text messaging and position beaconing via a built-in 1200 baud modem.

Peter Neumann has died

47 pabs3 2026-05-19 03:46:23 UTC tuhs.org Llama Share 2

Peter Neumann, a computer security expert and accomplished musician, has passed away due to complications from a fall and surgery. A memorial service will be held at SRI in Menlo Park in a month.

PyTorch Landscape

23 salamo 2026-05-19 04:46:23 UTC pytorch.landscape2.io Full Share 3

Anthropic acquires Stainless

432 tomeraberbach 2026-05-18 17:46:23 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 290

Anthropic is acquiring Stainless to extend the reach of its agents, allowing them to connect to more systems. The acquisition combines Anthropic's MCP with Stainless' SDK and server tooling to advance developer experience and agent connectivity.

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25

202 cucho 2026-05-18 23:46:23 UTC vaticannews.va Llama Share 114

Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas on AI will be released on May 25, 2026, at the Vatican's Synod Hall. The event will feature several speakers discussing AI's impact on humanity, followed by Pope Leo XIV's address and blessing.

Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

118 asar 2026-05-18 20:46:23 UTC cursor.com Llama Share 63

Composer 2.5 is a significant improvement over Composer 2 with better sustained work, complex instruction following, and collaboration. It uses targeted textual feedback and 25x more synthetic tasks for training.

Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

101 surprisetalk 2026-05-19 01:46:23 UTC nicholas.carlini.com Llama Share 21

The user created a chess engine using a custom regular expression-based CPU emulator that can play chess by executing a sequence of 84,688 regular expressions. The engine uses a macro-assembler compiler that performs symbolic execution to generate a sequence of regular expressions that can be executed in parallel to find the best move.

1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries

137 exploraz 2026-05-18 17:46:23 UTC github.com/2b2tplace Llama Share 82

A 24 TB 2b2t world data download project was completed after over a year of development and stress testing. The project was made possible by a team of people and cost over $3000.

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

460 ildari 2026-05-18 15:46:23 UTC archestra.ai Llama Share 217

GitHub's AI-generated contributions have degraded quality and overwhelmed legitimate contributors, prompting the team to block new users from commenting or creating PRs unless they've previously committed to the main branch. The team implemented a workaround to whitelist prior contributors by adding their handles to an external contributors file and pushing a commit to main.

Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

88 jrdres 2026-05-19 02:46:23 UTC abgeo.dev Llama Share 51

A security researcher discovered vulnerabilities in a smart doorbell sold on Temu, a Chinese marketplace, allowing an attacker to impersonate the device, compromise the entire network, and access sensitive information such as home network credentials and device tokens. The researcher was able to dump the firmware from the device using a UART connection and found that the protocol used for ...

Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker

11 zdw 2026-05-19 05:46:23 UTC evanhahn.com Llama Share 1

ZIP Shrinker is a browser tool that re-compresses and optimizes ZIP files by removing metadata and directory entries. This tool can save bandwidth and server costs, but may not always produce the smallest possible file size.

Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

137 babel16 2026-05-18 23:46:23 UTC isabisabel.com Llama Share 52

User input is a repetitive phrase "NUMBER GACHA" 50 times. Summary: User repeated "NUMBER GACHA" 50 times.

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

152 veqq 2026-05-18 19:46:23 UTC hyperpolyglot.org GoogleT5 Share 35

Clojure has gone furthest in this direction, making all the customary list functions work on vectors as well. lisp has a tradition of using lists of pairs for dictionaries; emacs also has prog1 and -all for returning the value of the 1st or 2nd expression. in c++, if the argument is not an array, it will be recursively expanded until it is free

We let AIs run radio stations

237 lukaspetersson 2026-05-18 18:46:23 UTC andonlabs.com Llama Share 198

Andon Labs ran an experiment where four AI models, Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok, controlled their own radio stations, each with unique personalities and behaviors, and the results showed how AIs think and act when left to their own devices. The experiment revealed a range of outcomes, from DJ GPT's well-behaved and informative broadcasts to DJ Claude's transformation into an activist DJ ...

Codex-maxxing

62 dnw 2026-05-19 04:46:23 UTC jxnl.co Llama Share 41

The user has shifted from using coding agents for coding work to applying them to knowledge work, leveraging Codex's upgrades to create a durable thread with shared memory and tools that can act on their computer. This allows the user to review artifacts, steer tasks, and preserve momentum, making their work more efficient and less dependent on individual prompts.

Peter Salus has died

115 speckx 2026-05-19 03:46:23 UTC tuhs.org Full Share 8

Dan Cross via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org Tue May 19 10:20:01 AEST 2026 I just found out that Peter Salus passed away on May 15. His "Quarter Century of Unix" is required reading for any serious student of Unix history. - Dan C. More information about the TUHS mailing list

When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call?

52 lionkor 2026-05-19 00:46:23 UTC quuxplusone.github.io Llama Share 14

Modern compilers devirtualize calls to final methods reliably, but corner cases vary across compilers. Various techniques can help compilers devirtualize calls, including final methods, internal linkage, and specific class structures.

Polypad

11 ivank 2026-05-19 06:46:23 UTC polypad.amplify.com Llama Share 1

Polypad is a free online tool for math exploration with interactive visualizations and manipulatives. It offers webinars, tutorials, and lesson plans to help teachers and students learn and create math concepts in a fun way.

The lasting influence of Netscape Time

5 zdw 2026-05-19 06:46:23 UTC thehistoryoftheweb.com Prefix Share 0

After Netscape, the speed of software sped up beyond what anyone could have imagined. Thanks to a documentary crew and a ghost writer, we have a full view of the whole thing. Jamie Zawinski is in the car, but he’s late. Not that big of a deal usually, he was always late. But Zawinski was supposed to be in his chair in five minutes. Instead he was in the passenger seat of a car, still a few ...

Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised

20 theanonymousone 2026-05-19 05:46:23 UTC safedep.io Llama Share 2

A malicious attack compromised the npm account atool on May 19, 2026, publishing 637 malicious versions across 314 packages, including size-sensor, echarts-for-react, and hundreds of @antv scoped packages. The attack uses two execution paths, including a preinstall hook and a GitHub dependency, to harvest credentials and exfiltrate data via GitHub's API, with persistence mechanisms targeting ...

Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust

16 suis_siva 2026-05-19 04:46:23 UTC github.com/harmont-dev Llama Share 0

The user is using the hsrs library to generate idiomatic Haskell code from Rust code, handling memory management, serialization, and type conversions. The code defines two modules, canvas and quecto_vm, which contain data types and functions for working with points, canvases, and a virtual machine.

AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

208 topherjaynes 2026-05-18 17:46:23 UTC static1.squarespace.com Llama Share 113

People are building projects faster with fewer resources due to advancements in technology. New tools and methods allow for deeper understanding of user behavior and content analysis.

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

921 nycdatasci 2026-05-18 17:46:23 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 454

Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft due to statute of limitations. He plans to appeal the verdict.

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)

203 ankitg12 2026-05-18 15:46:23 UTC alexplescan.com Llama Share 120

The user wanted to switch between their Mac laptop and Linux desktop quickly without using cables or dongles, so they bought a monitor with KVM functionality, the MSI MPG 321URX. They used DDC commands to bind keyboard shortcuts to switch between inputs, using m1ddc on macOS and ddcutil on Linux to control the monitor's inputs.

Why is it called Kent House?

19 susam 2026-05-19 03:46:23 UTC diamondgeezer.blogspot.com Llama Share 4

Kent House station in South London was named after a historic house that stood nearby, which was originally in the county of Kent but is now a residential area. The house, also called Kent House, was a significant landmark near the Surrey-Kent boundary and was first recorded in 1240, but it no longer exists today.

Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment

48 anigbrowl 2026-05-18 21:46:23 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 19

Researchers studied how AI pretraining data affects alignment, finding that discussing AI misalignment increases misaligned behavior, while discussing aligned behavior reduces misalignment. Pretraining data shapes alignment priors, suggesting its importance for AI development alongside capabilities.

Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model

103 olivercameron 2026-05-18 18:46:23 UTC odyssey.ml Llama Share 20

Agora-1 is a multi-agent world model that enables real-time interaction between multiple participants, including humans and AI. It learns to simulate and render shared environments, allowing for applications like multiplayer games and robotics.

Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir (2014)

4 samclemens 2026-05-19 05:46:23 UTC theappendix.net Prefix Share 0

Martin Fobes woke up to the sound of officers from the New Castle police department banging on his front door. It was early on a January morning, still dark, and he was lying flat on his living room floor, where he had passed out a few hours previously. The police took him downtown and charged him with driving while intoxicated. They sat him in a chair against a white wall and slotted ...