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Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11717 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986136 Points: 24 # Comments: 5
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Beyond Lovable and Mistral: 21 European startups to watch
It is not that European startups never get attention — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of that. But there are many more that insiders are tracking.
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Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?
Acoustic fire suppression goes commercial.
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Russia Poisons Wikipedia
Article URL: https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/russia-poisons-wikipedia Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986083 Points: 52 # Comments: 17
An unknown Sega Saturn project has come to light after 29 years
Article URL: https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-pyramid-unreleased Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985901 Points: 27 # Comments: 0
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Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine
Article URL: https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985750 Points: 57 # Comments: 17
Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/obituary/2026/05/01/craig-venter-raced-to-decode-the-human-genome Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985704 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/10/21/becoming-a-father-shrinks-your-cerebrum Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985553 Points: 25 # Comments: 10
GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/gamestop-preparing-offer-for-ebay-1678e6de Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985271 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend
I searched for a simple, self-hosted journal app for my girlfriend and everything I found was either too complex, too feature-heavy, too feature-less for what I needed or required trusting a cloud service. So I built Piruetas (it means pirouettes in
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Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks
Hi HN, I’ve been working on mljar-supervised (open-source AutoML for tabular data) for a few years. Recently I built a desktop app around it called MLJAR Studio. The idea is simple: you talk to your data in natural language, the AI generates Python c
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How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984852 Points: 55 # Comments: 14
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Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s
Hello HN, over the past 7 months I've spent nearly 3,000 hours on building SNEWPAPERS, the first historical newpaper archive with full-text extractions, nearly perfect OCR, a vast categorization taxonomy and of course with semantic and agentic search
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Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150417-00/?p=44213 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984522 Points: 62 # Comments: 26
A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]
Article URL: https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981669 Points: 85 # Comments: 31