Hacker News
Apr 27 – May 3, 2026
The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness (deepmind.google)
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Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns (cowboystatedaily.com)
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Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories (theguardian.com)
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Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing (blog.jeffschomay.com)
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He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice (diabettech.com)
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Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles (arstechnica.com)
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200 Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive's Role in Preserving Public Record (savethearchive.com)
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Ex-Mossad chief: Settler violence an existential threat, could spark civil war (timesofisrael.com)
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Xiaomi releases MiMo-v2.5 Family weights with strong coding and agent benchmarks (firethering.com)
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LingBot-Map: Streaming 3D reconstruction with geometric context transformer (technology.robbyant.com)
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U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back (restofworld.org)
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Apr 20 – Apr 26, 2026
Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch (smithsonianmag.com)
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In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries (atlasobscura.com)
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Show HN: A free ESG stock screener that publishes its losses and methodology (jumpstartsignal.com)
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IPv7: Identity-Centric Network Protocol – IETF Draft and Rust Implementation (datatracker.ietf.org)
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It's OK to Use Agentic to Revive the Projects You Never Were Going to Finish (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)
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A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (allbrainsbelong.org)
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Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do (alash3al.github.io)
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TIPSv2: Advancing Vision-Language Pretraining with Enhanced Patch-Text Alignment (gdm-tipsv2.github.io)
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How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences (nate.leaflet.pub)
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Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture (ynarwal.github.io)
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Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years (felixbarbalet.com)
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Anthropic's Claude Desktop App Installs Undisclosed Native Messaging Bridge (letsdatascience.com)
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MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code (blog.meshcore.io)
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Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game (tempest.homemade.systems)
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New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It's no contest (anthropocenemagazine.org)
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Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (nationsreportcard.gov)
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Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their (businessinsider.com)
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XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables (trendmicro.com)
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A mad undertaking: An undefinitive guide to the Aadam Jacobs collection (aadamjacobscollection.org)
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MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany (mnt.stanleylieber.com)
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Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake (blog.andymasley.com)
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Apr 13 – Apr 19, 2026
The Bromine Chokepoint: How Strife Could Halt Production of World’s Memory Chips (warontherocks.com)
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Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List (therepository.email)
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Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
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Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Young sons of legendary U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (texascooppower.com)
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Respect to the Man Chasing AI Immortality, While Freeloading Off Our Platform (blog.mulerun.com)
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Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
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How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll (investigate-europe.eu)
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New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims (theguardian.com)
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Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants (japantimes.co.jp)
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Show HN: Agent-cache – Multi-tier LLM/tool/session caching for Valkey and Redis (news.ycombinator.com)
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€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs (discuss.ai.google.dev)
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Study: EVs with V2H cut household electricity costs and need for home batteries (adelaide.edu.au)
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Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf] (reich.hms.harvard.edu)
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US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf] (fingfx.thomsonreuters.com)
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Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis (manchester.ac.uk)
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'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking (theguardian.com)
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Viral victory: Iran is beating the land of tech bros in the social media wars (theguardian.com)
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Ask HN: My ISP is telling my neighbors their slow internet is because of me (news.ycombinator.com)
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Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran (warontherocks.com)
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40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal (iopscience.iop.org)
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