Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found

733 dominicq 2026-04-11 16:51:44 UTC aisle.com Llama Share 198

Anthropic's Mythos AI model is not the only solution for AI cybersecurity as smaller, cheaper models can recover similar analysis and detect vulnerabilities. The capability of AI cybersecurity is jagged and doesn't scale smoothly with model size, with the system and security expertise being more important than the model itself.

Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)

102 krackers 2026-04-11 21:51:44 UTC khronokernel.com Llama Share 48

You worked as a Mac Admin Intern and researched Apple Silicon Virtual Machines limitations. You found the limitation is implemented in the closed-source XNU kernel, not userspace, and can be overridden by setting hv_apple_isa_vm_quota in the kernel.

447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane

107 iliatoli 2026-04-11 20:51:44 UTC zenodo.org Full Share 53

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How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next

169 Anon84 2026-04-11 19:51:44 UTC rdi.berkeley.edu Llama Share 44

An automated scanning agent discovered vulnerabilities in eight prominent AI benchmarks, allowing near-perfect scores without solving tasks. The Agent-Eval Checklist provides a minimum bar for robust evaluation, including isolating agents from evaluators and preventing tampering with evaluation data.

Dark Castle

86 evo_9 2026-04-11 20:51:44 UTC darkcastle.co.uk Llama Share 9

Return To Dark Castle is a 2008 Macintosh platform game with 63 levels, including 50 new ones. The game follows Bryant as he fights to defeat the Black Knight and rescue Duncan, the original hero.

Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system

47 kouosi 2026-04-11 20:51:44 UTC pijul.org Llama Share 6

Pijul is a free, open-source version control system based on a theory of patches, offering simplicity and scalability. It preserves order and guarantees strong merge properties, modeling conflicts as standard cases.

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS

176 zdw 2026-04-11 15:51:44 UTC v68k.org Llama Share 49

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS that runs 68K Mac applications in an emulator. It launches directly into an application without a startup phase on POSIX-like systems.

How to build a `Git diff` driver

63 zdw 2026-04-11 18:51:44 UTC jvt.me Llama Share 4

User plans to blog about creating external commands for git diff, specifically for OpenAPI specs with oasdiff. They will expose more information in output and handle 7 git diff arguments, including /dev/null for created/deleted files.

Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

222 seekdeep 2026-04-11 13:51:44 UTC cirruslabs.org Llama Share 111

Cirrus Labs joined OpenAI to build tooling for agentic engineers, extending its mission of making engineers more effective. Cirrus Labs will relicense its tools under a permissive license and stop charging licensing fees.

What Is a Property?

40 alpaylan 2026-04-11 19:51:44 UTC alperenkeles.com Llama Share 12

Property-Based Testing involves combining properties and generators to find bugs, but the traditional model of independent generators and properties is often inadequate due to complex system interactions. A better approach is to use dependent generators that can run computations related to the property, allowing for more accurate and efficient testing.

Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust

152 codetheweb 2026-04-11 14:51:44 UTC notes.brooklynzelenka.com Llama Share 50

The user created a library called surelock to prevent deadlocks in Rust by using a linear scope token called MutexKey that threads through every acquisition and provides a compile-time witness of the current lock state. The library uses a physical-world analogy where the MutexKey is like a key that is consumed and re-emitted at each lock acquisition, and it also supports incremental ...

The Life and Death of the Book Review

5 lermontov 2026-04-11 22:51:44 UTC libertiesjournal.com Prefix Share 0

You’ve read of free articles this month. For full access to Liberties Journal, click here to become a subscriber today. Book reviewing, it would seem, has been in crisis from the start. As early as 1757, a contributor to Britain’s Literary Magazine complained that “critic is no longer an appellation of dignity,” because book reviewers had turned into “Visigoths,” “critical torturers” who took ...

Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

349 vidluther 2026-04-11 06:51:44 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 182

User created pardonned.com to verify claims and easily access pardons data, using Playwright, SQLite, and Astro. They plan to extend the site with analysis and comparison tools to break down pardon composition by President and visualize changes in pardon numbers.

Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy

70 tanelpoder 2026-04-11 16:51:44 UTC planetscale.com Llama Share 20

A Postgres database can handle job queues, but maintaining a healthy queue table depends on the behavior of other transactions running on the same instance. The health of the queue table is affected by competing query traffic on the primary, which can prevent autovacuum from cleaning up dead tuples.

Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

546 iceberger2001 2026-04-11 03:51:44 UTC playstarfling.com Full Share 136

A one-tap space game. How far can you sling? Play free in your browser.

Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

199 coolwulf 2026-04-11 16:51:44 UTC flight-viz.com Full Share 44

Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove

337 geox 2026-04-11 04:51:44 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 65

Aadam Jacobs recorded over 10,000 concerts with increasingly sophisticated equipment over four decades, documenting early performances of bands like Nirvana, R.E.M., and The Pixies. His collection is now being cataloged, digitized, and uploaded to the Internet Archive for music lovers to stream and download.

Optimal Strategy for Connect 4

243 marvinborner 2026-04-11 07:51:44 UTC 2swap.github.io Llama Share 30

A weak solution to Connect 4 was developed using a language that describes perfect play for a small subset of nodes and a small opening tree. This solution uses no search during runtime and fits in about 150 kilobytes.

The Problem That Built an Industry

95 ShaggyHotDog 2026-04-11 14:51:44 UTC ajitem.com Llama Share 35

The 60-year-old infrastructure that handles 4.5 billion flights annually uses Transaction Processing Facility (TPF), an IBM mainframe operating system designed for high-volume transactions. This system, despite being outdated, still outperforms modern alternatives in terms of throughput and latency, making it a testament to the importance of choosing the right tool for the job.

The Soul of an Old Machine

3 mskalski 2026-04-11 22:51:44 UTC skalski.dev Prefix Share 1

I somehow get attached to the hardware I use. I think it started in high school when I spent ~3 months choosing an MP3 player, reading dedicated forums and comparing all available models I could afford. After a tedious process I used it for years, probably longer than I was supposed to, falling behind trends. That pattern stuck. In the process of choosing a new device I usually tried to find ...

The APL programming language source code (2012)

35 tosh 2026-04-11 17:51:44 UTC computerhistory.org Llama Share 8

Kenneth E Iverson invented APL in 1957 as a mathematical notation, which was later developed into a computer programming language with a unique syntax and array processing capabilities. APL became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for its interactive timesharing capabilities and was used in various applications including scientific, actuarial, statistical, and financial fields.

Metrics SQL: A SQL-based semantic layer for humans and agents

7 sebg 2026-04-11 21:51:44 UTC rilldata.com Prefix Share 0

SQL has been the lingua franca of data for over 40 years. We decided to make it the lingua franca of our metrics-based semantic layer too. When we built Rill, we made a bet that metrics – concepts like revenue, MAU, ROAS — are the core primitive for semantic layers. We also believed that querying a semantic layer (and its metrics) should not require learning a custom language or API. Instead, ...

The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances

198 aphyr 2026-04-11 14:51:44 UTC aphyr.com Llama Share 124

Companies are using large language models to divert customer service tickets and make it harder for people to reach humans. This will lead to wasted time arguing with models that lie and make promises they cannot keep.

Phone Trips

54 bookofjoe 2026-04-11 16:51:44 UTC wideweb.com Llama Share 5

Phone tripper Mark Bernay shares his 35-year-old phone trip experiences, recording various phone noises and switching systems in different towns. He used to drive around with a reel-to-reel tape recorder to capture unique phone sounds and narrate information for his friends.

South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access

293 saikatsg 2026-04-11 13:51:44 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 82

South Korea implemented a universal basic mobile data access scheme providing unlimited downloads at 400 kbps after data allowances expire. The scheme aims to improve telco security and contribute to public welfare by guaranteeing basic telecommunications rights for all citizens.

Installing every* Firefox extension

627 RohanAdwankar 2026-04-10 23:51:44 UTC jack.cab Llama Share 76

The user scraped all Firefox extensions using a public API, finding 84,194 extensions, and discovered various issues including phishing extensions, malicious code, and performance problems when installing all extensions at once. The user documented their process and findings, including the use of a script to download and install all extensions, and the performance issues that arose when ...

Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers

416 neversaydie 2026-04-10 23:51:44 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 252

Chimpanzees at Uganda's Kibale National Park have been locked in a civil war for 8 years with 24 killings, including 17 infants. Researchers say the conflict may inform how early human conflict developed and highlights the danger of group divisions.

Filing the corners off my MacBooks

1290 normanvalentine 2026-04-10 23:51:44 UTC kentwalters.com Llama Share 607

User filed off sharp corners of their MacBook for comfort, using a file and sandpaper in increments. They're happy with the result and encourage others to modify their machines for a better user experience.

New synthesis of astronomical measurements shows Hubble tension is real

19 anigbrowl 2026-04-11 19:51:44 UTC noirlab.edu Llama Share 3

Un equipo internacional de astrónomos ha logrado la medición más precisa hasta ahora de la velocidad a la que se expande el Universo local, con un valor de 73,50 kilómetros por segundo por megaparsec. Esta medición confirma una discrepancia que podría apuntar a una física que va más allá de los modelos actuales de la cosmología.

Artemis II safely splashes down

1229 areoform 2026-04-11 00:51:44 UTC cbsnews.com Full Share 394

NASA's Artemis II astronauts returned to Earth with a splashdown landing in the Pacific Ocean after making a high-speed reentry through the atmosphere.