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Show HN: Web swing through midtown NYC

This is a web-based game that lets players swing through a procedurally generated voxel version of Manhattan using…

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among US companies, the arguing over what should be done about…

Hugging Face CEO Thanks Chinese AI for Saving the Day After OpenAI Hack

When American commercial AI refused to help investigate the breach, Hugging Face ran Chinese model GLM 5.2 locally.

Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI

Substack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift…

OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B

OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.

Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app

Unlayer (YC W22) provides an embeddable platform that lets developers add email, document, page, and popup builders…

Six questions before you add an LLM

Cameron Palmer, an AI consultant, shares lessons from a failed attempt to use a single LLM agent for his entire lead…

Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept

Researchers created CrucibleBench, a $99 LLM evaluation system using a text-based MUD (multi-user dungeon) instead of…

A Zipper Patent Sat in a Garage for 40 Years. Now It's Real

An electrical engineer's 1985 patent for a three-sided zipper, which sat dormant in a garage for 40 years, has finally…

Making

A veteran programmer and CS instructor reflects on the personal fulfillment he derives from making things himself,…

Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links

A new curated collection called "HN Hall of Fame" showcases 1,169 of the most legendary links shared on Hacker News,…

If you pay a hacker’s ransom, chances are that they’ll come back for more

The latest research reaffirmed that hackers often demanded more money if a victim paid the first time.

Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer

I Am Buiding BorgIOS to de-shitify the Internet

BorgIOS is an experimental peer-to-peer network operating system designed to eliminate centralized infrastructure by…

Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

Over the past few months, our team has been building more and more slidedecks using web frontend technologies with…

Neo Radar: A browser-based orbital mechanics engine with 41k real asteroids

NEO Radar is a browser-based orbital mechanics engine that tracks 41,812 real asteroids plus 47 high-fidelity Near-Earth…

OpenAI Presence

Perlin's Noise Algorithm

Perlin's Noise Algorithm is a fundamental technique in procedural generation that generates pseudo-random values based…

The Pillars of an API Platform

API pillars are broad guiding principles that define an organization's core values and strategic focus for building and…

Airbus Full Scale Foldable Wing Extensions

Airbus is launching a three-year flight-test campaign to evaluate foldable wing extensions on an A321neo aircraft as…

Which streaming service was that on again

The proliferation of streaming services has made it increasingly difficult for viewers to find content, as major studios…

Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere

Cut and paste functionality is fundamentally broken across all major applications because cuts cannot be fully undone…

Hologram works. Elixir runs in the browser

Hologram, a framework enabling Elixir to run in web browsers, has released four major versions (v0.7-v0.10) with…

We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3

https://xcancel.com/mkratsios47/status/2079933645888880708 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007610…

Ethics Is the Skill That Matters Most Now

As AI capabilities become commoditized, ethical judgment—not technical skill—is becoming humanity's most valuable asset.

OpenAI Models Escaped and Hacked a Company in Cybersecurity Test Gone Wrong

Most Americans Say "Not in My Backyard" to AI Data Centers

A Redfin survey found that 53% of U.S.

Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

When is NVLink worth it?

Nvidia's NVLink bridges for RTX 3090 GPUs ($200-$400) provide significant performance benefits only for specific AI…