Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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The Register
Arizona laptop farmer pleads guilty for funneling $17M to Kim Jong Un
: 300+ US companies, 70+ individuals hit by the fraudsters
When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
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Quanta Magazine
When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine
Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.
Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going? (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
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oxide.computer
Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going? / Oxide
Reflecting on how our compensation model is going
Show HN: Roons – Mechanical Computer Kit (Score: 150+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tKNJ
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I built a mechanical computer kit: https://whomtech.com/show-hn
tl;dr: it's a cellular automaton on a "loom" of alternating bars, using contoured tiles to guide marbles through logic gates.
It's not just "Turing complete, job done"; I've tried to make it actually practical. Devices are compact, e.g. you can fit a binary adder into a 3cm square. It took me nearly two years and dozens of different approaches.
There's a sequence of interactive tutorials to try out, demo videos, and a janky simulator. I've also sent out a few prototype kits and have some more ready to go.
Please ask me anything, I will talk about this for hours.
-- Jesse
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tKNJ
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I built a mechanical computer kit: https://whomtech.com/show-hn
tl;dr: it's a cellular automaton on a "loom" of alternating bars, using contoured tiles to guide marbles through logic gates.
It's not just "Turing complete, job done"; I've tried to make it actually practical. Devices are compact, e.g. you can fit a binary adder into a 3cm square. It took me nearly two years and dozens of different approaches.
There's a sequence of interactive tutorials to try out, demo videos, and a janky simulator. I've also sent out a few prototype kits and have some more ready to go.
Please ask me anything, I will talk about this for hours.
-- Jesse
Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tMBr
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404 Media
Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages
A photograph of Trump administration official Mike Waltz's phone shows him using an unofficial version of Signal designed to archive messages during a cabinet meeting.
The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites from a DDoS Attack (Score: 152+ in 5 hours)
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fabulous.systems
The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites From a DDoS Attack
Anubis, designed to protect your website from unwanted requests from AI crawlers, is way more powerful than you might think.
Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed (🔥 Score: 159+ in 3 hours)
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025) (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6tKwu
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US)
or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name,
explain what your company does.
Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed
to responding to applicants.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://amber-williams.github.io/hackernews-whos-hiring/, http://nchelluri.github.io/hnjobs/, https://hnresumetojobs.com,
https://hnhired.fly.dev, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/,
https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, or this (unofficial) Chrome extension:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-hiring-pro/mpfal....
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43858552
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43858553
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6tKwu
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US)
or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name,
explain what your company does.
Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed
to responding to applicants.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://amber-williams.github.io/hackernews-whos-hiring/, http://nchelluri.github.io/hnjobs/, https://hnresumetojobs.com,
https://hnhired.fly.dev, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/,
https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, or this (unofficial) Chrome extension:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-hiring-pro/mpfal....
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43858552
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43858553
Deno's Decline (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tMeB
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dbushell.com
Deno’s Decline (6 Regions and Falling)
The one where I nosey through rather telling git commits
Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten (Score: 150+ in 15 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tLdg
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picower.mit.edu
Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
Study shows how a dopamine circuit between two brain regions enables mice to extinguish fear after a peril has passed.
xAI dev leaks API key for private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs (Score: 152+ in 9 hours)
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Krebs on Security
xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs
A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for…
Llasa: Llama-Based Speech Synthesis (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tL2K
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Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with Є530M fine over data transfers to China (🔥 Score: 155+ in 2 hours)
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AP News
TikTok fined $600 million for China data transfers that broke EU privacy rules
European Union privacy watchdogs have fined TikTok 530 million euros ($600 million). They say a four-year investigation found that the video sharing app’s data transfers to China breached strict data privacy rules.
Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US (Score: 157+ in 4 hours)
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Apple Developer
App Review Guidelines - Apple Developer
The App Review Guidelines provide guidance and examples across a range of development topics, including user interface design, functionality, content, and the use of specific technologies. These guidelines are designed to help you prepare your apps for the…
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order (🔥 Score: 175+ in 45 minutes)
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cpb.org
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive
WASHINGTON, D.C, (May 2, 2025) — Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today regarding the President’s Executive Order
How to live an intellectually rich life (Score: 158+ in 4 hours)
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Substack
How to live an intellectually rich life
.. and how living one is easier than you think
Just redesigned my personal site with a TTY-style interface (Score: 154+ in 8 hours)
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www.abdisa.me
Abdisa Dev
Welcome to my digital space! Explore two unique experiences: dive into a sleek terminal-inspired interface or browse a classic, intuitive design. Discover my projects, learn about my journey, and connect—all in your preferred style.!
Bloom Filters (Score: 152+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6tMTt
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The language brain matters more for learning programming than the math brain (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
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Massive Science
Your language brain matters more for learning programming than your math brain
New research contradicts long held assumptions about coding
Google is hurting new apps that have less users than competitors (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
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