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Top 10 — News
- To buy this Bay Area home, you’ll need Anthropic equity Someone’s offering an unusual deal for a 13-acre property in Mill Valley, just north of South Francisco.
- Strange New Worlds S4 teaser strikes a more serious tone "I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate where wiser men would have left well enough alone."
- Google’s new gradient icon design is coming to more apps In late 2025, Google started rolling out new icons with a gradient design.
- OpenAI kills its dedicated coding model Codex again, folding it into GPT-5.5 OpenAI has once again retired its dedicated Codex coding model, folding its capabilities directly into the main model.
- Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a r…
- Our principles Our mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity.
- An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent’s confession is below Article URL: https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524 Points:…
- Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/2429f0f0-b685-4747-b425-bf8001a2e94c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916410 Po…
- Show HN: Startup Equity Adventure Game I put this together (with Claude) as a semi-gamified way for folks to learn about startup equity.
- Prime Video drops full trailer for Spider-Noir
It's "a detective story, but the detective happens to also have spider powers.”—EP Chris Miller
AI tools & model updates
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.2.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity support VPC egress Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity now provide secure and controlled egress traffic management for your applications, enabling s…
- open-webui/open-webui: v0.9.2 Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (47)
Someone’s offering an unusual deal for a 13-acre property in Mill Valley, just north of South Francisco.
"I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate where wiser men would have left well enough alone."
It's "a detective story, but the detective happens to also have spider powers.”—EP Chris Miller
Software lets robots learn from each other even if they have different hardware.
Can a book like this actually change anything?
Amazon's podcasting business seems to have transformed over the past six months.
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss how Apple has changed since Cook became CEO in 2011, and what challenges incoming CEO John Tern…
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This $129 device uses MagSafe to stick on the back of an iPhone to power transcription across apps
In late 2025, Google started rolling out new icons with a gradient design.
Within hours of an armed gunman's attempt to enter the White House Correspondents Dinner, attended by top administration officials and hund…
Before Coachella, Tomora wasn't on my radar at all.
When you’re juggling more than just your own calendar, staying organized can be overwhelming.
In January I finally made good on my threat/promise to install Linux on my desktop.
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OpenAI has once again retired its dedicated Codex coding model, folding its capabilities directly into the main model.
OpenAI says developers shouldn't carry over old prompts for GPT-5.5.
Programmers are among the professional groups whose everyday lives have changed the most as a result of generative AI.
Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a r…
Anthropic let 69 AI agents trade on behalf of employees in an internal marketplace for a week.
Our mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity.
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A survey shows Claude users earn significantly more than users of other AI services.
GPT-5.5 pushes OpenAI back to the top of the AI benchmarks.
Ace can read the trajectory of a ball, adjust the racket angle, and respond with strokes that keep the exchange alive with real players.
The United Arab Emirates plans to shift half of its government operations to autonomous AI systems within two years.
Isomorphic Labs president Max Jaderberg said at WIRED Health in London that the startup has built a “broad and exciting pipeline of new med…
Tim Cook was a great CEO, but he didn’t crack AI.
Article URL: https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524 Points:…
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/2429f0f0-b685-4747-b425-bf8001a2e94c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916410 Po…
I put this together (with Claude) as a semi-gamified way for folks to learn about startup equity.
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-america-a-close-look-at-the-wes…
Hi HN, I built this digital version of Tiao, a two-player turn based strategy board game.
Most RAG setups fail because they treat memory like a static filing cabinet.
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2026/04/15930-sabastian-sawe-sh...
Article URL: https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d Comments URL: https://news.y…
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Article URL: https://moq.dev/blog/moq-boy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914161 Points: 36 # Comments: 3
Article URL: https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-mystery-shadowbrokers-reference-reveals-high-precision-software-sabotage-5-years-befor…
Article URL: https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260424-chernobyl-wildlife-forty-years-on Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
Article URL: https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911644 Points: 106 # Comments: 18
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Article URL: https://www.alejandro.pe/writing/sail-muddy-lessons Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910877 Points: 6 # Co…
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4791…
Article URL: https://www.hmpcabral.com/2026/04/26/the-fastest-linux-timestamps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909979…
Article URL: https://statecharts.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908833 Points: 278 # Comments: 79
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Full list — AI tools & model updates (13)
Release update (see link for changelog).
DeepSeek just launched its fourth generation of flagship models with DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, both targeted at enabling highl…
Federated learning (FL) is no longer a research curiosity—it’s a practical response to a hard constraint: the most valuable data is often t…
The prodigal Tiger returns...
A new benchmark puts top models like GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 to work on the kinds of tasks junior investment bankers handle every day.
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The popular story goes that AI agents are swallowing up more programming work and developers are headed for obsolescence.
Alibaba's new open-source model Qwen3.6-27B beats its 15-times-larger predecessor across coding benchmarks with just 27 billion parameters.
GPT-5.5 prompting guide Now that GPT-5.5 is available in the API , OpenAI have released a wealth of useful tips on how best to prompt the n…
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Release: llm 0.31 New GPT-5.5 OpenAI model: llm -m gpt-5.5 .
Amazon Quick now integrates with Vee, the AI assistant from Visier's people analytics platform, through the model context protocol (MCP).
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity now provide secure and controlled egress traffic management for your applications, enabling s…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).