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Uncovering repurposed medicines to fight liver fibrosis
Stanford geneticist uses Co-Scientist to help find new treatments for chronic liver disease and liver fibrosis.
Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
137 points, 114 comments on Hacker News
A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007)
22 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Schanuel's Conjecture and the Semantics of Triton's FPSan
14 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
How WeatherNext helped the National Hurricane Center better predict Hurricane Melissa’s historic landfall in Jamaica
Learn how our WeatherNext AI model help forecasters give communities unprecedented time to prepare ahead of the historic Hurricane Melissa.
Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
125 points, 76 comments on Hacker News
Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)
35 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
'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: 233 # Comments: 91
New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic
21 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI
24 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
NYT and Vaping: How to Lie by Saying Only True Things
21 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
OpenAI and Malta partner to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
OpenAI and Malta partner to expand AI access, offering ChatGPT Plus and training to help citizens build practical AI skills and use AI responsibly.
Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test
76 points, 23 comments on Hacker News
The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)
71 points, 65 comments on Hacker News
SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
25 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
How Diamonds Are Made
49 points, 25 comments on Hacker News
Spectre Programming Language
Article URL: https://spectre-docs.pages.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155159 Points: 29 # Comments: 3
Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action
Gemini 3.5 is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows.
Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution
92 points, 15 comments on Hacker News
Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'
72 points, 39 comments on Hacker News
How to Write to SSDs [pdf]
62 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/london-police-deploy-facial-recognition-at-protest-for-first-time Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153400 Points: 48 # Comments: 23
Mitchellh – I strongly believe there are entire companies now under AI psychosis
Article URL: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153379 Points: 305 # Comments: 107
The 30-Hour Shift That Turned a San Jose Robot Lab into a Global Spectacle
4 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials
Article URL: https://www.thenational.scot/news/26055524.palantir-hired-30-senior-uk-government-officials/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153183 Points: 123 # Comments: 9
Microscale Thermite Reaction
Article URL: https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/microscale-thermite-reaction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153142 Points: 32 # Comments: 12
California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152994 Points: 142 # Comments: 74
LLM generated submissions should be disallowed
There's a lot of talk about what to do if an LLM generated article gets posted. I don't believe that there's a clear policy about whether they should be allowed. I think users posting them regularly should be banned from the site. A notification on the submission page reminding people that LLM generated articles are not allowed here would also be a good idea. This should reduce the amount of debate on whether the article should be flagged or commented on.
Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/14/meta-data-center-tax-break-hyperion-louisiana/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152825 Points: 117 # Comments: 98
Judge Bars Kars4Kids from Broadcasting 'Misleading' Ads in California
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/kars4kids-advertising-banned-california.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152777 Points: 75 # Comments: 39
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