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Today: Google’s Gemini push, NVIDIA’s infra cadence, fresh model-tooling updates, and security/platform shifts continue to dominate the cycle.
Top 10 — News
- Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.
- Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents A new book looks into the long history of people who have opposed vaccines.
- Backrooms is a certified blockbuster with a $38 million opening day The Kane Parsons' film Backrooms is expected to earn up to $90 million in its opening weekend after pulling down $38 million on Friday alon…
- OpenAI’s Codex can now operate your Windows PC autonomously, hunting bugs and testing apps on its own OpenAI's Codex app now runs on Windows 11 with "Computer Use": the AI can independently control programs, test apps, and hunt for bugs.
- Poetry for Engineers: Cyborg Laboratory This is the place where you face yourself, the you that could be you with a few different parts, a pump for your heart, eyes off color, and…
- Do You Actually Need to Pay for Transcription Software? I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services.
- The Website Specification Article URL: https://specification.website/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343683 Points: 53 # Comments: 14
- Telli (YC F24) is hiring in engineering, design, and GTM [Berlin, on-site] Article URL: https://hi.telli.com/join-us Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343635 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
- abakh/nbsdgames: The ~500kB NBSDGames 6 managed to be published ahead of GTA 6 Article URL: https://github.com/abakh/nbsdgames/releases Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343445 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
- SoftBank says it will invest up to €75 billion to build French data centers
The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.
AI tools & model updates
- Microsoft and Nvidia reportedly team up on AI PCs that run actual agents instead of Copilot Nvidia is pushing into the PC market with its own chips as the main processor.
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.84.4 Release update (see link for changelog).
- How we contain Claude across products How we contain Claude across products A complaint I often have about sandboxing products is that they are rarely thoroughly documented , an…
- [AINews] Founders and Forward Deployed Engineers a quiet day lets us highlight the new AIE WF focuses
- DynoSim: Simulating the Pareto Frontier Modern LLM serving is hard to tune because each deployment is a stack of interacting choices: model backend, tensor-parallel shape, prefill…
Full list — News (53)
Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.
The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.
The YouTube-to-prestige-horror pipeline is looking very strong.
TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.
A new book looks into the long history of people who have opposed vaccines.
Trump admin wants to rely on states for coal ash monitoring, enforcement, allow them to bypass national standards.
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
A group of 20 Snap alumni has come together to launch a fund called Ghost Angels to back the next generation of social media.
The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to be at an end.
Gemini Spark helps automate everyday tasks, from inbox summaries to local event planning, but it’s unclear why Google made it a separate pr…
"If you're 22 years old in San Francisco and building something in AI, there may be a seed term sheet in your inbox — but if you're 19, oh…
We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.
The Ninja Artisan Outdoor Pizza Oven is aimed at people who want delicious pizza nights without having to deal with things like propane or…
The ruling drew support from founders, while lawyers said it could force platforms to revisit how they handle trademarked keywords.
The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing drugs — may herald a ne…
SpaceX already generated one-fifth of its 2025 revenue from government contracts, the company revealed in its IPO filing.
The Kane Parsons' film Backrooms is expected to earn up to $90 million in its opening weekend after pulling down $38 million on Friday alon…
Cecil Baldwin's résumé includes appearances on Gravity Falls, narrating the documentary Scream, Queen!
Microsoft is facing criticism for its handling of zero-day exploits.
Art TVs aren’t exactly known for being affordable, which is why Woot’s latest sale is notable.
You may have heard that Valve's new Steam Controller can ring like a telephone or do the Wilhelm scream.
I live in a part of Los Angeles where I feel safer bringing pepper spray on walks.
As handheld consoles continue to grow and push the limits of what you can actually hold in your hands, the Arduboy FX-C comes in a refreshi…
Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website.
Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok.
Slots & Daggers, a low-key, fantasy-themed slot machine roguelike, was one of my favorite games last year.
OpenAI's Codex app now runs on Windows 11 with "Computer Use": the AI can independently control programs, test apps, and hunt for bugs.
Attackers are exploiting the chat-sharing features in ChatGPT and Claude to spread malware through shared conversations.
Meta has poured billions into AI with little commercial payoff so far.
This is the place where you face yourself, the you that could be you with a few different parts, a pump for your heart, eyes off color, and…
Mathematician Terence Tao describes how AI could reshape math research by enabling division of labor for the first time.
Salesforce says it moved its entire dev org to Anthropic's Claude Code with no token limits and reports massive productivity gains for Apri…
I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services.
Article URL: https://specification.website/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343683 Points: 53 # Comments: 14
Article URL: https://hi.telli.com/join-us Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343635 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://github.com/abakh/nbsdgames/releases Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343445 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://theodore.net/projects/AvianVisitors/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343424 Points: 19 # Comments…
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08492 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343287 Points: 20 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://github.com/kurikomi-labs/komi-learn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343216 Points: 10 # Comments:…
Article URL: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/05/ahoy-decmate-ii-little-pdp-8-that-could.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…
Article URL: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342705 Points: 101 # Com…
Article URL: https://mechanical-pencil.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341932 Points: 57 # Comments: 7
Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Microsoft_Office_2019_and_2021_for_Mac_view-only_conversion_(2026) Comments URL: https://news.yc…
Article URL: https://brie.gay/cheese-paper/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341407 Points: 99 # Comments: 23
Article URL: https://shantellsans.com/process Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341062 Points: 212 # Comments: 18
Article URL: https://av2.aomedia.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340910 Points: 163 # Comments: 57
Article URL: https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfCOSE Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340422 Points: 87 # Comments: 17
Article URL: https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/05/domain-expertise-has-always-been-the-real-moat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat…
I built a terminal app that paces slow breathing at 6 breaths per minute for vagal tone training.
Article URL: https://twilitrealm.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340262 Points: 95 # Comments: 11
Article URL: https://remyhax.xyz/posts/reproducing-lawful-tls-wiretapping/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339943 Poin…
Article URL: https://lowendmac.com/2013/jef-raskin-the-visionary-behind-the-mac/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4833989…
Article URL: https://ajin.im/is/building/omen.ops/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339753 Points: 115 # Comments: 19
Full list — AI tools & model updates (7)
Nvidia is pushing into the PC market with its own chips as the main processor.
Leading AI search agents like GPT-5.4 and Kimi K2.6 don't appear to do much actual research on established benchmarks.
Release update (see link for changelog).
How we contain Claude across products A complaint I often have about sandboxing products is that they are rarely thoroughly documented , an…
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A large-scale study covering 208,000 participants and 26 million responses shows that the very training that turns language models into hel…
a quiet day lets us highlight the new AIE WF focuses
Modern LLM serving is hard to tune because each deployment is a stack of interacting choices: model backend, tensor-parallel shape, prefill…