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Top 10 — News
- CBP facility codes sure seem to have leaked via online flashcards Quizlet flashcards seem to include sensitive information about gate security at CBP locations.
- Can orbital data centers help justify a massive valuation for SpaceX? On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we debated Elon Musk's vision for data centers in space.
- I let Gemini in Google Maps plan my day and it went surprisingly well You may be familiar with Gemini as the thing that's in every Google service you use - whether you want it or not.
- Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor.
- Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face.
- Anthropic discovers “functional emotions” in Claude that influence its behavior Anthropic's research team has discovered emotion-like representations in Claude Sonnet 4.5 that can drive the model to blackmail and code f…
- OpenAI’s fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-04-01/openais-shocking-fall-from-grace-as-investors-race-to-anthropic Comments URL…
- Apex Protocol – An open MCP-based standard for AI agent trading Article URL: https://apexstandard.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655618 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
- Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you’ll accept Article URL: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb…
- Polymarket took down wagers tied to rescue of downed Air Force officer
A Democratic congressman had harsh criticism for Polymarket for allowing users to bet on the date the U.S.
AI tools & model updates
- Cleanup Claude Code Paste Tool: Cleanup Claude Code Paste Super-niche tool this.
- OpenAI Acquires Tech Talk Show ‘TBPN’—and Buys Itself Some Positive News OpenAI is acquiring TBPN, a business talk show that’s popular among Silicon Valley elites, as it continues to battle its negative public im…
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.89.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: vertex-sdk: v0.15.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Netflix open-sources VOID, an AI framework that erases video objects and rewrites the physics they left behind Netflix has open-sourced an AI framework that can remove objects from videos and automatically adjusts the physical effects those objects h…
- Amazon SageMaker Data Agent introduces charting capabilities and support for materialized views Amazon SageMaker Data Agent now supports interactive charting, SQL analytics on Snowflake data sources, and materialized view management in…
- ollama/ollama: v0.20.2 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-core==1.2.26 Release update (see link for changelog).
- run-llama/llama_index: v0.14.20 Release update (see link for changelog).
- vllm-project/vllm: v0.19.0
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Quizlet flashcards seem to include sensitive information about gate security at CBP locations.
On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we debated Elon Musk's vision for data centers in space.
You may be familiar with Gemini as the thing that's in every Google service you use - whether you want it or not.
A Democratic congressman had harsh criticism for Polymarket for allowing users to bet on the date the U.S.
We've compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.
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Los Thuthanaka basically came out of nowhere last year to capture Pitchfork's album of the year with their self-titled debut.
AI music platform Suno's policy is that it does not permit the use of copyrighted material.
The first thing you notice about the Slate Truck is its size.
Jeff Bezos badly wanted a voice computer.
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world.
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor.
An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face.
Plus: The FBI says a recent hack of its wiretap tools poses a national security risk, attackers stole Cisco source code as part of an ongoi…
Anthropic's research team has discovered emotion-like representations in Claude Sonnet 4.5 that can drive the model to blackmail and code f…
Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.
Three executives are stepping back at OpenAI, two for health reasons.
The company is undergoing major leadership restructuring as its CEO of AGI deployment goes on leave for “several weeks.”
Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each…
Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-04-01/openais-shocking-fall-from-grace-as-investors-race-to-anthropic Comments URL…
Article URL: https://apexstandard.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655618 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
A qualitative study looks at how developers perceive and push back against low-quality AI content, or "slop," in software development.
A Google study finds that the standard three to five human raters per test example often aren't enough for reliable AI benchmarks, and that…
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AI chatbot traffic is growing seven times faster than social media, but still has four times less total traffic, a Similarweb analysis show…
A research team taps into the world knowledge of large language models to control what appears on the back side of 3D objects using simple…
The new crop of portable jump starters means you'll never be stuck waiting on a tow.
In this episode, we discuss Iran’s threats to target US tech firms, gear up for the midterm elections, and get a scene report from the Poly…
Article URL: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb…
Article URL: https://playlists.at/youtube/search/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655392 Points: 90 # Comments: 62
Article URL: https://github.com/HudsonGri/mdarena Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655078 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://ai.georgeliu.com/p/running-google-gemma-4-locally-with Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651540 Poi…
Article URL: https://wheat.grainulation.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655721 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work.
Gemma Gem is a Chrome extension that loads Google's Gemma 4 (2B) through WebGPU in an offscreen document and gives it tools to interact wit…
Article URL: https://github.com/aayu22809/Recall Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655335 Points: 11 # Comments: 7
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-according-to-microsofts-terms-of-service/ Comment…
Article URL: https://github.com/mohshomis/modo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655268 Points: 15 # Comments: 2
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/japan-is-proving-experimental-physical-ai-is-ready-for-the-real-world/ Comments URL: https:/…
Article URL: https://github.com/duo121/termhub Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654495 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://github.com/Votuko/steins-gate-mechanics/blob/main/The%20Mechanics%20of%20Steins%20Gate%20v1.0.3.pdf Comments URL: http…
Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/google-ai-edge-gallery/id6749645337 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652561…
Article URL: https://openjdk.org/projects/panama/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652442 Points: 42 # Comments: 12
Article URL: https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652400 Points: 27…
Article URL: https://musicforprogramming.net Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652322 Points: 118 # Comments: 51
See also https://x.com/stevesi/status/2036921223150440542 ( https://xcancel.com/stevesi/status/2036921223150440542 ) Comments URL: https://…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (35)
Tool: Cleanup Claude Code Paste Super-niche tool this.
OpenAI is acquiring TBPN, a business talk show that’s popular among Silicon Valley elites, as it continues to battle its negative public im…
Release: llm-gemini 0.30 New models gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview , gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and gemma-4-31b-it .
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
In vision AI systems, model throughput continues to improve.
As Cursor launches the next generation of its product, the AI coding startup has to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic more directly than ev…
Netflix has open-sourced an AI framework that can remove objects from videos and automatically adjusts the physical effects those objects h…
Amazon SageMaker Data Agent now supports interactive charting, SQL analytics on Snowflake data sources, and materialized view management in…
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a6 The same model ID no longer needs to be repeated in both the default model and allowed models lists - setting…
Release: datasette-enrichments-llm 0.2a1 The actor who triggers an enrichment is now passed to the llm.mode(...
AI tools can speed up journalism until they backfire.
AI models are rapidly improving at exploiting security vulnerabilities.
Reinforcement learning hits a wall with reasoning models because every token gets the same reward.
Release: research-llm-apis 2026-04-04 I'm working on a major change to my LLM Python library and CLI tool.
Release update (see link for changelog).
A fun thing about recording a podcast with a professional like Lenny Rachitsky is that his team know how to slice the resulting video up in…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now enables centralized enforcement of safety controls across all AWS accounts within an organization through cro…
Today, AWS announces the launch of Partner Revenue Measurement integration with AWS Marketplace Metering for Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
I was a guest on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast, in a new episode titled An AI state of the union: We've passed the inflection point, dark facto…
Amazon Lightsail now offers compute-optimized instance bundles with up to 72 vCPUs.
Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models Four new vision-capable Apache 2.0 licensed reasoning LLMs from Google DeepMind, sized…
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Amazon CloudWatch now supports automatic enablement of Amazon CloudFront Standard access logs, AWS Security Hub CSPM finding logs, and Amaz…
Release update (see link for changelog).
The Gemmaverse expands with the launch of the latest Gemma 4 multimodal and multilingual models, designed to scale across the full spectrum…
Release update (see link for changelog).
In algorithmic trading, reducing response times to market events is crucial.
Codex now includes pay-as-you-go pricing for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise, providing teams a more flexible option to start and scale ado…