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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy
OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.
techcrunch.com
The offline desk gadget that actually got me to sit up straight
Deep Care's $350 device is pricy, but it runs offline and helps you improve your posture and movement habits
techcrunch.com
Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work
ArXiv is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.
techcrunch.com
Peter Jackson Sure Wants to Do More ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies
Warner Bros. and Jackson don't want to stop at just two more 'Lord of the Rings' movies, but will Tolkein's estate and fans let them continue?
gizmodo.com
Reddit Is Blocking Some Users From Accessing Its Website From Mobile Devices
Nate Anderson, writing at Ars Technica: But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off; Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile phone. Instead, a new overlay popped up, saying, “Get the app to keep using Reddit.” There was no way to skip, bypa…
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★ AI Is Technology, Not a Product
Steven Levy, writing for Wired last month after Apple’s CEO transition was announced, under the provocative headline “Apple’s Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product” (News+ link to get around Wired’s miserly paywall): Much more recently, I quizzed Ternus and global marketin…
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Asimov is an Open Source Humanoid Robot For the Rest of Us
Given that some of the more famous demos were by Honda and Tesla, you might be forgiven for thinking you need pockets as deep as a car company to get …read more
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Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)
Article URL: https://refractor.io/adhd-autism/fecal-transplants-for-autism-delivers-success-in-clinical-trials/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158494 Points: 292 # Comments: 205
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Fixing a Cotton Candy Vending Machine
Cotton candy is probably the best way to eat pure sugar, which makes having your very own cotton candy vending machine to automate making it a bit of a dream. …read more
hackaday.com
DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/steering-vectors/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160807 Points: 216 # Comments: 70
seangoedecke.com
A Guide To Event-Driven Architectural Patterns
Distributed systems are built out of services that need to communicate, and the simplest way to do that is for one service to call another directly and wait for a response.
bytebytego.com
After Stumbling From CVE to CVE Will Linux get a Kill Switch?
For the few people who have spent the past weeks living under a security rock, the Linux kernel has found itself the subject of multiple severe bugs in the form …read more
hackaday.com
Salvaged VFDs in Nixie-Like Clock
In between the Nixie tube era of the 50s and 60s and the advent of multi-digit vacuum fluorescent displays (VFDs) common in 80s and 90s consumer technology, there was a …read more
hackaday.com
HTML Lists
Article URL: https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/05/13/you-dont-know-html-lists/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161861 Points: 291 # Comments: 67
frankmtaylor.com
SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
Article URL: https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159445 Points: 310 # Comments: 128
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