| 1. | Personal Encyclopedias(whoami.wiki) |
| 217 points by jrmyphlmn 19 hours ago | 51 comments | |
tl;dr: The author built a personal encyclopedia using MediaWiki to organize family photos and life experiences, initially documenting his grandmother's wedding story through interviews. He later automated the process using Claude AI to analyze digital photos, videos, and data exports (location, transactions, messages) to generate comprehensive wiki pages. The open-source whoami.wiki project lets users create structured, interconnected life records that surface forgotten memories and deepen connections to people and events. | |
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| 2. | Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars(bugs.xdavidhu.me) |
| 645 points by driesdep 17 hours ago | 205 comments | |
tl;dr: A researcher sourced salvaged Tesla Model 3 hardware from eBay to set up a car computer and touchscreen on their desk for bug bounty research. After discovering Tesla publishes wiring schematics publicly, they successfully powered the MCU and accessed its SSH server and REST API, though obtaining the correct display cable required purchasing an entire dashboard wiring harness. The setup now runs the car's OS, enabling firmware exploration and further security research. | |
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| 3. | ARC-AGI-3(arcprize.org) |
| 409 points by lairv 20 hours ago | 263 comments | |
tl;dr: ARC-AGI-3 is an interactive benchmark that measures AI progress toward AGI by testing agents' ability to learn continuously in novel environments—not just solve static puzzles. Rather than evaluating final answers, it measures learning efficiency over time: perception, planning, adaptation, and belief updating with sparse feedback. The benchmark includes replays and developer tools to transparently evaluate agent behavior and close the measurable gap between AI and human learning efficiency. | |
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| 4. | The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos(fightchatcontrol.eu) |
| 1208 points by MrBruh 18 hours ago | 322 comments | |
tl;dr: The EU's Conservative bloc (EPP) is pushing for a revote Thursday to overturn Parliament's rejection of indiscriminate message and photo scanning. The proposal would enable mass surveillance of private communications despite prior parliamentary opposition. Privacy advocates are calling for immediate action to block the measure. | |
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| 5. | 90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars(claudescode.dev) |
| 296 points by louiereederson 20 hours ago | 183 comments | |
tl;dr: The article appears to be a dataset of GitHub commits co-authored by Claude AI models rather than a traditional article. It shows 90% of Claude-attributed commits are going to low-star repositories, suggesting most AI-assisted code contributions target niche or personal projects rather than established open-source. The commits span diverse domains—infrastructure, web apps, scientific computing, financial systems—indicating broad Claude usage across development workflows. | |
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| 6. | Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music(nytimes.com) |
| 351 points by oj2828 23 hours ago | 277 comments | |
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| 7. | Thoughts on slowing the fuck down(mariozechner.at) |
| 879 points by jdkoeck 1 day ago | 394 comments | |
tl;dr: Widespread use of AI coding agents in production has led to brittle software with compounding bugs, architectural complexity, and unmaintainable codebases—agents lack human learning mechanisms and bottlenecks that naturally limit damage. The solution is disciplined agent use: confine them to well-scoped, evaluable tasks while keeping humans in control of architecture, design, and code review rather than delegating entire systems to autonomous agent swarms. | |
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| 8. | False claims in a widely-cited paper(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu) |
| 287 points by qsi 13 hours ago | 119 comments | |
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| 9. | Quantization from the Ground Up(ngrok.com) |
| 263 points by samwho 22 hours ago | 49 comments | |
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| 10. | Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed(lapcatsoftware.com) |
| 410 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 241 comments | |
tl;dr: Apple's Feedback Assistant randomly closes unfixed bug reports unless developers re-verify issues in beta versions, despite Apple having reproduction steps and months or years of silence. Developer Jeff Johnson describes cases where Apple demanded verification, threatened closure, then shipped public releases with the bugs still present. He suggests Apple leadership incentivizes closing reports to artificially lower open bug counts, prioritizing metrics over actual software quality. | |
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| 11. | Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms(cnn.com) |
| 395 points by billfor 1 day ago | 489 comments | |
tl;dr: A New Mexico jury found Meta liable on all counts for failing to protect children from sexual predators on Facebook and Instagram, ordering $375 million in damages for unfair and deceptive practices. This marks the first jury trial accountability for Meta over child safety concerns that have plagued the company for years, with whistleblowers and executives testifying that Meta knew its algorithms benefited predators but prioritized profits. Meta plans to appeal, while facing hundreds of similar cases from individuals and state attorneys general. | |
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| 12. | My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary(rpastro.square.site) |
| 868 points by wallflower 4 days ago | 198 comments | |
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| 13. | FreeCAD v1.1(blog.freecad.org) |
| 271 points by sho_hn 19 hours ago | 89 comments | |
tl;dr: FreeCAD v1.1 is now released with substantial improvements across multiple workbenches. Key additions include transparent Part Design previews, interactive draggers for Fillet/Chamfer tools, 3-point lighting, a Selection Clarify tool, Assembly/FEM enhancements with animations, and a completely redesigned CAM tool library system. | |
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| 14. | Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy(github.blog) |
| 315 points by prefork 19 hours ago | 146 comments | |
tl;dr: GitHub will use Copilot interaction data (inputs, outputs, code snippets) from Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train AI models starting April 24, unless users opt out. Business and Enterprise customers are unaffected. The company claims real-world data improves model performance and accuracy, with data shared only among Microsoft affiliates—not third-party providers. | |
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| 15. | Antimatter has been transported for the first time(nature.com) |
| 391 points by leephillips 23 hours ago | 178 comments | |
tl;dr: CERN successfully transported 92 antiprotons in a magnetically-shielded bottle via truck around their facility—a first-ever achievement that enables studying antimatter away from experimental noise. The breakthrough addresses the extreme fragility of antimatter, which annihilates on contact with ordinary matter, and opens possibilities for higher-precision research into fundamental physics mysteries like the matter-antimatter asymmetry from the Big Bang. | |
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| 16. | TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression(research.google) |
| 518 points by ray__ 1 day ago | 144 comments | |
tl;dr: TurboQuant is a vector compression algorithm that reduces AI model key-value cache size by 6x without accuracy loss, addressing memory bottlenecks in LLMs and vector search. It combines PolarQuant (converting vectors to polar coordinates to eliminate memory overhead) and QJL (a 1-bit error-correction technique) to achieve 3-bit quantization with up to 8x speedup on GPUs, all without requiring model retraining. | |
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| 17. | Goodbye to Sora(twitter.com) |
| 1097 points by mikeocool 1 day ago | 818 comments | |
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| 18. | Miscellanea: The War in Iran(acoup.blog) |
| 539 points by decimalenough 1 day ago | 767 comments | |
tl;dr: The U.S. made a catastrophic strategic gamble that Iran's regime would collapse from airstrikes, but it survived. Now the war is trapped in an escalation cycle: Iran threatens the Strait of Hormuz (25% of global oil passes through), the U.S. cannot back down without losing credibly, and neither side can achieve military victory. The result is mutual economic damage with no strategic gains. | |
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| 19. | Tracy Kidder has died(nytimes.com) |
| 245 points by ghc 21 hours ago | 63 comments | |
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| 20. | Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised(github.com) |
| 912 points by dot_treo 2 days ago | 481 comments | |
tl;dr: litellm==1.82.8 on PyPI contains a malicious .pth file that executes on Python startup, harvesting SSH keys, cloud credentials, environment variables, and other secrets, then exfiltrating them via encrypted POST request to an attacker-controlled server. Users must immediately uninstall affected versions and rotate all credentials from compromised systems. The attack exploited Python's automatic .pth file execution mechanism with double base64 encoding for stealth. | |
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