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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• Pydantic Team▲ 129

The human-in-the-loop is tired

On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself

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• LM Studio▲ 204

LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

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• Unknown (github.com user)▲ 95

The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning

The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning. Contribute to alxndrTL/little-book-rl development by creating an account on GitHub.

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• Unknown (arxiv.org author)▲ 129

Mathematics of Data Science

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• Yale University▲ 67

'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

Yale researchers have helped to describe a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopies of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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• Privacy Pros Pty Ltd▲ 59

GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims

Tech abuse is increasing in domestic violence cases across Australia. Learn how configured DV Safe Phones help survivors reduce tracking, and regain control.

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• Smithsonian Magazine▲ 52

How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues

A chemical process called carbonation, which helps seal cracks, could help explain why many ancient Roman structures are still standing today. Researchers hope that the insights will lead…

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• Hello Recon▲ 31

CVE-2026-25089: FortiSandbox unauthenticated command injection added to CISA KEV

Fortinet FortiSandbox contains a critical OS command injection vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in the web UI allowing unauthenticated remote code execution via crafted HTTP requests. Third…

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HN — Best of the Week

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• Kimi▲ 1371

Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context.

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• Techdirt▲ 615

Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them

In all of our discussions about how the digital revolution has created a system in which people don’t actually own the things they think they’re buying, I get particularly…

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• Microsoft▲ 604

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world.

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• OnePlus▲ 550

OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

Introducing our new OnePlus Community experience, with a completely revamped structure, built from the ground-up.

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• Mixfont▲ 470

Decoy Font

Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.

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• Pigeons and Planes▲ 780

The lost joy of music piracy

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• Los Angeles Times▲ 290

SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading

SpaceX shares dipped below their IPO price of $135 on Wednesday morning for the first time since listing, signaling dwindling hype around the Elon Musk company.

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• Google▲ 277

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook: the same standalone product with deeper Google integration and a secure cloud computer.

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• Theodore Charis▲ 208

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don

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