Sudo for Windows
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/sudo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828853 Points: 35 # Comments: 15
Just like phishing for gullible humans, prompt injecting AIs is here to stay
Aren't we all just prompting tokens of linguistic meaning and hoping the other person isn't bullshitting us? kettle It's a week of the year, which means there's been the discovery of yet another prompt injection attack that will force supposedly well-guarded AI bots to spill secrets by asking th...
Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
Article URL: https://www.swiss-ai.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828444 Points: 35 # Comments: 13
2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
Related ongoing thread: Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827383 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828420 Points: 101 # Comments: 31
OpenAI’s existential questions
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss OpenAI's latest acquisitions and whether they address "two big existential problems" for the company.
The NSA is reportedly using Anthropic's new model Mythos
Despite the months-long feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon, the National Security Agency is using the AI company's new Mythos Preview, according to Axios, which spoke to two sources with knowledge of the matter. Anthropic announced Mythos Preview at the beginning of April, describing it as a...
Blue Origin successfully reused its New Glenn rocket
Liftoff. | Anadolu via Getty Images Today's launch of AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite aboard Blue Origin's reusable New Glenn rocket was a partial success. The New Glenn touched down on its landing pad without incident, making it the second launch and landing for the first stage booster,...
Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
Article URL: https://ashley.rolfmore.com/stop-trying-to-engineer-your-way-out-of-listening-to-people/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827259 Points: 94 # Comments: 23
Cloud development platform Vercel was hacked
Vercel, a major development platform that hosts and deploys web apps, was compromised, and the hackers are attempting to sell stolen data. A person claiming to be a member of ShinyHunters, which was behind the recent hack of Rockstar Games, posted some data online, including employee names, email...
The demand for local AI could shape a new business model for Apple
To put it simply: Apple Silicon is Mac minis are impossible to find. There’s a variety of reasons for this – like OpenClaw and other computer-use agents. But there’s also a group of people buying up high-end Macs with swaths of unified memory, which are incredible for running local LLMs. While I...
The 12-month window
A lot of AI startups exist partly because the foundation models haven't expanded into their category yet. As many jokingly acknowledge, that won't last forever.
I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language
Article URL: https://github.com/navid-m/chip8emu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826852 Points: 58 # Comments: 13
Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
Article URL: https://www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-datasets-are-riddled-with-copy-paste-errors/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826834 Points: 60 # Comments: 9
Beijing's robot half-marathon is back for its second year with far less embarassing results
To make up for an incredibly laughable inaugural event, Beijing is running back its humanoid robot half-marathon. Fortunately, the event that pits humanoid robots made by Chinese companies against each other across 13 miles went a lot smoother this year. This year's half-marathon hosted more than...
Blue Origin’s New Glenn put a customer satellite in the wrong orbit during its third launch
The first major failure of Blue Origin's new heavy-launch system could create delays to its ambition to help NASA and the Trump administration return to the Moon.
Robots beat human records at Beijing half-marathon
The winning time is a massive improvement over last year’s race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40 minutes.
Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)
Article URL: https://cssence.com/2024/six-levels-of-dark-mode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826502 Points: 62 # Comments: 27
Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain
In case you haven't gotten around to reading Palantir CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, (because why would you do that to yourself?), the company best known for supplying AI-driven defense and surveillance software to the likes of the US Army, ICE and ...
Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure
Blue Origin's reused first stage hit its targets, but New Glenn's upper stage did not.
Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games
Faceoff is a TUI app written in Python to follow live NHL games and browse standings and stats. I got the inspiration from Playball, a similar TUI app for MLB games that was featured on HN. The app was mostly vibe-coded with Claude Code, but not one-shot. I added features and fixed bugs by using ...