How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2025/05/23/street-smarts-hawk-use-traffic-signals-hunting
Frontiers Science News
Street smarts: how a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully
Dr Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist who studies animal behavior, ecology, and conservation, is the author of a recently published Frontiers in Ethology article that
BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-attr-40-junos-arista-session-reset-incident
blog.benjojo.co.uk
BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
Square Theory https://aaronson.org/blog/square-theory
Adam Aaronson
Square Theory | Adam Aaronson
The story starts in Crosscord, the crossword Discord server. Over 5,000 users strong, the server has emerged as a central hub for the online crossword community, a buzzing, sometimes overwhelming, sometimes delightful town square where total noobs, veteran…
Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/27/llm-tools/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Large Language Models can run tools in your terminal with LLM 0.26
LLM 0.26 is out with the biggest new feature since I started the project: support for tools. You can now use the LLM CLI tool—and Python library—to grant LLMs from …
Japan Post launches 'digital address' system https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/27/companies/japan-post-digital-address/
The Japan Times
Japan Post launches 'digital address' system
Under the system, users can input seven-digit codes on online shopping websites, and their addresses will automatically appear on the sites.
Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook https://commandline.stribny.name/
commandline.stribny.name
Command Line Handbook
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services https://cacm.acm.org/practice/systems-correctness-practices-at-amazon-web-services/
The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/business/anthropic-amodei-ai-jobs-nightcap
CNN
The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality.
Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers https://github.com/microsandbox/microsandbox
GitHub
GitHub - microsandbox/microsandbox: Self-Hosted Plaform for Secure Execution of Untrusted User/AI Code
Self-Hosted Plaform for Secure Execution of Untrusted User/AI Code - microsandbox/microsandbox
Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512 https://anemato.de/blog/kctf-vdf
anemato.de
Beating the kCTF PoW with AVX512IFMA for $51k
PoW is gone 🦀🦀
Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet https://crfm.stanford.edu/2025/05/28/fast-kernels.html
Photos taken inside musical instruments https://www.dpreview.com/photography/5400934096/probe-lenses-and-focus-stacking-the-secrets-to-incredible-photos-taken-inside-instruments
DPReview
Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instruments
Photographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings.
A Lean companion to Analysis I https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/a-lean-companion-to-analysis-i/
What's new
A Lean companion to “Analysis I”
Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a textbook in real analysis called “Analysis I”. It was intended to complement the many good available analysis textbooks out there by focusing more on foun…
Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste https://patio.so
Patio
Patio | DIY News, Quizzes, Tool Rentals, & More
Join Patio to discover the latest in DIY news, take fun quizzes, and rent tools for any project. Connect with the DIY community!
RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with global illumination https://microsoft.github.io/renderformer/
microsoft.github.io
RenderFormer: Transformer-based Neural Rendering of Triangle Meshes with Global Illumination
We present RenderFormer, a neural rendering pipeline that directly renders an image from a triangle-based representation of scene with full global illumination effects, and that does not require per-scene training or finetuning.
Cinematography of “Andor” https://www.pushing-pixels.org/2025/05/20/cinematography-of-andor-interview-with-christophe-nuyens.html