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Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11717
117 points
45 comments

Did I photograph the Aurora or was it something else? (2016)

https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/aurorawatchuk/2016/03/16/di...
22 points
8 comments

Ti-84 Evo

https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/g...
600 points
482 comments

Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-fu...
145 points
26 comments

SubQ: a sub-quadratic LLM with 12M-token context

https://subq.ai/introducing-subq
71 points
24 comments

Alert-driven monitoring

https://simpleobservability.com/docs/alert-driven-...
126 points
43 comments

Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/each-bla...
75 points
30 comments

School Cellphone Ban Study Finds Mixed Results

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/did-school-c...
6 points
0 comments

Judge Halts Colorado AI Law After xAI First Amendment Challenge

https://reclaimthenet.org/judge-halts-colorado-ai-...
12 points
0 comments

Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/05/psa-instagram...
100 points
51 comments

Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit

https://knhash.in/built-an-exhibit/
38 points
4 comments

LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Enhances LLMs for Text Reasoning

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/ladir
9 points
0 comments

From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/from-cvs-to-git-thi...
72 points
64 comments

The Upper Middle Class Trap

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-upper-middle-clas...
52 points
73 comments

Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person

https://www.popularwoodworking.com/editors-blog/to...
16 points
1 comments

Show HN: New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved

https://programbench.com/
23 points
3 comments

Show HN: A Mutating Webhook to automatically strip PII from K8s logs

https://github.com/aragossa/pii-shield
25 points
4 comments

Google Chrome silently installs 4 GB Gemini Nano AI model without consent

https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/5/google-chrom...
20 points
3 comments

Why Only Rich Kids Make It in Music Today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJrR1OdAIg
49 points
9 comments

Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors

https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-t...
210 points
24 comments

Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11651802262136...
88 points
34 comments

PCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released for 1TB/S Bi-Directional X16 Bandwidth

https://www.phoronix.com/news/PCIe-8.0-Draft-0.5
10 points
1 comments

Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/314311
99 points
66 comments

Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak

https://wordtrak.com/blog/2026-05-05-I-built-a-new...
76 points
47 comments

Make your own microforest (2025)

https://ambrook.com/offrange/environment/a-forest-...
113 points
20 comments

Why is southern Italy poorer than northern Italy?

https://statsandsociety.substack.com/p/fully-expla...
34 points
24 comments

'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/ne...
172 points
215 comments

They Called It LISP For A Reason (2005)

https://gigamonkeys.com/book/they-called-it-lisp-f...
42 points
6 comments

Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/startup-sa...
60 points
38 comments

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/...
295 points
165 comments