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LLM Inevitabilism (tomrenner.com)

1564 points by SwoopsFromAbove | 1470 comments

Reflections on OpenAI (calv.info)

516 points by calvinfo | 290 comments

Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL (www.matthieulc.com)

455 points by cataPhil | 89 comments

Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?" (news.ycombinator.com)

445 points by bookofjoe | 344 comments

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head (the-nerve-blog.ghost.io)

322 points by mprast | 129 comments

Blender 4.5 LTS (www.blender.org)

302 points by obdev | 87 comments

Helix Editor 25.07 (helix-editor.com)

294 points by matrixhelix | 128 comments

NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock (www.nist.gov)

292 points by voxadam | 104 comments

Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users (torrentfreak.com)

218 points by gloxkiqcza | 226 comments

The new literalism plaguing today’s movies (www.newyorker.com)

215 points by frogulis | 402 comments

The Collapse of the FDA (www.nytimes.com)

213 points by littlexsparkee | 194 comments

OpenAI – vulnerability responsible disclosure (requilence.any.org)

201 points by requilence | 61 comments

Where's Firefox going next? (connect.mozilla.org)

175 points by ReadCarlBarks | 247 comments

Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival (www.amirsharif.com)

175 points by overload119 | 128 comments

Code highlighting extension for Cursor AI used for $500k theft (securelist.com)

172 points by Daviey | 150 comments

My Family and the Flood (www.texasmonthly.com)

156 points by herbertl | 52 comments

Show HN: We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon (github.com)

154 points by darkolorin | 44 comments

Designing for the Eye: Optical corrections in architecture and typography (www.nubero.ch)

150 points by ArmageddonIt | 22 comments

Plasma Bigscreen rises from the dead with a better UI (www.neowin.net)

146 points by bundie | 52 comments

The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module (go.dev)

138 points by FiloSottile | 46 comments

DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI (krebsonsecurity.com)

137 points by todsacerdoti | 42 comments

Claude for Financial Services (www.anthropic.com)

136 points by mildlyhostileux | 79 comments

Encrypting files with passkeys and age (words.filippo.io)

129 points by Bogdanp | 2 comments

AWS Lambda Silent Crash – A Platform Failure, Not an Application Bug [pdf] (lyons-den.com)

111 points by nonfamous | 95 comments

The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data with ICE (www.propublica.org)

110 points by srameshc | 118 comments

When Sigterm Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery (clickhouse.com)

108 points by saisrirampur | 31 comments

Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor (www.liberalcurrents.com)

108 points by colinprince | 29 comments

Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding (www.reuters.com)

105 points by spenvo | 119 comments

A little-known Microsoft program could expose the Defense Department to hackers (www.propublica.org)

104 points by danso | 46 comments

What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another? (www.derekthompson.org)

88 points by mmcclure | 572 comments