Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Watching o3 guess a photo’s location is surreal, dystopian and wildly entertaining
Watching OpenAI’s new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. It’s a cross between the …
Show HN: My self-written hobby OS is finally running on my vintage IBM ThinkPad https://github.com/joexbayer/RetrOS-32
GitHub
GitHub - joexbayer/RetrOS-32: A x86 32bit Hobby Operatingsystem with graphics, multitasking, networking and 32bit C-Compiler for…
A x86 32bit Hobby Operatingsystem with graphics, multitasking, networking and 32bit C-Compiler for i386 architecture. - joexbayer/RetrOS-32
Reverse geocoding is hard https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/reverse-geocoding-is-hard/
Terence Eden’s Blog
Reverse Geocoding is Hard
My wife and I run OpenBenches - a crowd-sourced database of nearly 40,000 memorial benches. Every bench is geo-tagged with a latitude and longitude. But how do you go from a string of digits to something human readable? How do I turn -33.755780,150.603769…
Read the Obits https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-creativity-hack-no-one-told-you-about-read-the-obits/
The MIT Press Reader
The Creativity Hack No One Told You About: Read the Obits
Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.
Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python https://www.runpyxl.com/gpio
Runpyxl
Python GPIO at sub-micro – PyXL Benchmark
PyXL runs Python directly in hardware. GPIO toggle in sub-micro. See how it works.
Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t
BBC News
Spain will take 'all necessary measures' to prevent another blackout, says PM - live updates
Power has now been fully restored in Spain and Portugal, as officials continue to investigate what caused the outage.
LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo https://librelingo.app
librelingo.app
an experiment to create a community-owned language-learning
platform
platform
Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies https://blog.bymitch.com/posts/reject-cookies/
Bymitch
Reject Cookies
Add the extension
A Chrome Extension Everyone can agree that cookie consent banners are frustrating. It might be one of the few unifying factors on the internet today. Even though it’s a couple clicks, the couple clicks are a pain, and the couple clicks can…
A Chrome Extension Everyone can agree that cookie consent banners are frustrating. It might be one of the few unifying factors on the internet today. Even though it’s a couple clicks, the couple clicks are a pain, and the couple clicks can…
What Is "Induced Atmospheric Vibration"? https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/848666/what-is-induced-atmospheric-vibration
Physics Stack Exchange
What is "Induced Atmospheric Vibration"?
The blackout seen today on the Iberian Peninsula has been attributed to a "rare" phenomenon known as "induced atmospheric vibration"
It says that "due to extreme temperature
It says that "due to extreme temperature
Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4 https://jepsen.io/analyses/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-17.4
Sycophancy in GPT-4o https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/
Openai
Sycophancy in GPT-4o: What happened and what we’re doing about it
We have rolled back last week’s GPT‑4o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior. The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic.
You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News https://www.jasonthorsness.com/25
Jasonthorsness
You Wouldn't Download a Hacker News
I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors https://habr.com/en/articles/905812/
Habr
How I Created Perfect Wiki and Reached $250K in Annual Revenue Without Investors
Hi, my name is Ilia. I founded Perfect Wiki — a SaaS product for creating internal company knowledge bases that works directly within Microsoft Teams. We created a simple and convenient...
An interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/north_korea_worker_interview_questions/
The Register
The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
RSAC: FBI and others list how to spot NK infiltrators, but AI will make it harder
Claude Integrations https://www.anthropic.com/news/integrations
Anthropic
Claude can now connect to your world
Today we're announcing Integrations, a new way to connect your apps and tools to Claude. We're also expanding Claude's Research capabilities with an advanced mode that searches the web, your Google Workspace, and now your Integrations too.