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Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques

Article URL: https://petapixel.com/2026/05/14/someone-shared-a-real-monet-painting-as-ai-and-asked-for-critiques/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158110 Points: 23 # Comments: 20

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Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

Article URL: https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157559 Points: 53 # Comments: 24

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California's Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants

Article URL: https://zolairenergy.com/californias-battery-array-is-as-powerful-as-12-nuclear-power-plants-heres-whats-on-the-horizon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156628 Points: 25 # Comments: 20

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NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022)

Article URL: https://gwern.net/vaping Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155555 Points: 87 # Comments: 39

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NYT and Vaping: How to Lie by Saying Only True Things (2022)

Article URL: https://gwern.net/vaping Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155555 Points: 70 # Comments: 23

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Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution

Article URL: https://github.com/chiennv2000/orthrus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154865 Points: 40 # Comments: 3

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'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens

Article URL: https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155690 Points: 241 # Comments: 97

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NYT and Vaping: How to Lie by Saying Only True Things

Article URL: https://gwern.net/vaping Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155555 Points: 27 # Comments: 6

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The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)

Article URL: https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155324 Points: 72 # Comments: 65

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SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud

Article URL: https://analytics.fixelsmith.com/posts/sql-fraud-patterns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155212 Points: 31 # Comments: 0

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'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens

Article URL: https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155690 Points: 136 # Comments: 40

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I broke AppLovin's mediation cipher protocol

Article URL: https://www.buchodi.com/i-broke-applovins-mediation-cipher-protocol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155678 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI

Issue trackers typically live outside of your workflow, with poor ergonomics. Epiq aims to solve that, bringing issue tracking into your terminal. Multi-user collaboration is achieved via git using user-scoped immutable event logs that converge in me

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Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64

Article URL: https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/05/n64-additive-blending Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149259 Points: 25 # Comments: 1

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Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots

Universities promise no frontline duty and perks if students enlist in military.