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Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)

https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers
142 points
48 comments

Zig → Rust porting guide

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270...
708 points
539 comments

Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal

https://unsung.aresluna.org/mouse-pointer-as-a-mer...
95 points
47 comments

Pentagon CTO demonstrates Palantir's Maven system, used for military operations [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5uVckUvGcQ
12 points
0 comments

RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both

https://gizmodo.com/shrinkflation-is-quietly-makin...
143 points
111 comments

Mealy Machines, Moore Machines, and Why Event Sourcing Works

https://kevinwebber.ca/blog/mealy-machines-and-eve...
24 points
2 comments

Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

https://sierra.ai/blog/better-customer-experiences...
110 points
154 comments

2-D Mathematical Curves

https://www.2dcurves.com/
95 points
14 comments

The first photo published in a newspaper, in 1848 (2023)

https://phsne.org/the-first-photograph-published-i...
63 points
26 comments

Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

https://www.science.org/content/article/newton-s-l...
159 points
152 comments

Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2

https://unsung.aresluna.org/photoshops-challenges-...
103 points
66 comments

Campaign staffers tell NPR they make 'thousands' betting on their own candidates

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5795891/predi...
23 points
1 comments

Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web

https://github.com/bring-shrubbery/ml-sharp-web
182 points
46 comments

Redis array: short story of a long development process

https://antirez.com/news/164
317 points
110 comments

The extended predicative Mahlo universe in Martin-Löf type theory (2023)

https://academic.oup.com/logcom/article/34/6/1032/...
30 points
0 comments

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attribut...
570 points
554 comments

Firefox integrates an ad-blocker, but not to block ads

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/06/fi...
14 points
6 comments

The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions

https://jdgr.net/the-hidden-costs-of-great-abstrac...
225 points
134 comments

Claude Flags Hantavirus Vaccine Questions as Security Risk

item?id=48060572
9 points
8 comments

GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752
161 points
31 comments

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers

https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/
376 points
131 comments

Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability

https://www.strix.ai/blog/how-strix-found-zero-aut...
221 points
101 comments

US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/us-healthcare-ma...
521 points
167 comments

Visualize Any Hugging Face Model

https://hfviewer.com/
41 points
6 comments

Grok Imagine Quality Mode API

https://x.ai/news/grok-imagine-quality-mode
11 points
1 comments

Collaborative Editing in CodeMirror (2020)

https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/collaborative-edit...
60 points
10 comments

The Visible Zorker: Zork 3

https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork3/
75 points
10 comments

Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to

https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/04/29/sto...
306 points
182 comments

Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/uk_online_s...
245 points
187 comments

The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls

https://sethmlarson.dev/the-frog-for-whom-the-bell...
42 points
17 comments