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Isomorphic Labs▲ 59

The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold

Today, we are excited to share an update on our progress towards a new frontier of drug design. We have unlocked a new paradigm of predictive accuracy in understanding our biomolecular world, allowing us to rationally design new medicines on a computer with unprecedented understanding and precision.

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Local News Matters▲ 428

Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse

KAISER PERMANENTE NURSES who answer advice and triage calls say their duty of care for patients is being increasingly threatened by workplace

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CNBC▲ 160

FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 MAX, 787 airworthiness certificates again

The move is a vote of confidence in Boeing from the U.S. government.

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Goliath32▲ 195

The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

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GitHub▲ 71

TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years

Independent IoT security research, vulnerability disclosures, and PoCs focusing on firmware analysis, hardware interfaces, and cryptographic flaws. -…

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Crowdsupply▲ 85

Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader

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Curious Coding▲ 80

Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

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Pinewind▲ 37

I Started a "Dirt Notebook"

I love taking notes, but one problem that I have is that that I start cherishing every notebook that I start. I can't seem to keep my notes messy. Eventually...

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Stenchill▲ 28

Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator

Free DIY tool to generate 3D-printable solder paste stencils from Gerber files. Convert Gerber to STL/3MF for FDM printing. Compatible with KiCad, Eagle, Altium.

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Y Combinator33d ago

DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring

We’re expanding our team and hiring a product engineer: - Experience of understanding user / product requirements and building it right. - Understands distributed systems and why production…

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HN — Best of the Week

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PLOS▲ 248

EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

How the brain rapidly switches attention between competing speech streams in complex listening environments is not fully understood. This study shows that neural tracking of a new speaker emerges before disengagement, with transient dual encoding and reduced alpha power supporting flexible auditory attention.

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Paul Graham▲ 1107

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

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Kaggle▲ 452

Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners

Design high-quality benchmarks that go beyond recall to evaluate how frontier models truly reason, act, and judge.

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BBC▲ 406

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

Researchers have found an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star with an atmosphere.

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Kaiser Permanente▲ 404

Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse

KAISER PERMANENTE NURSES who answer advice and triage calls say their duty of care for patients is being increasingly threatened by workplace

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Simon Willison▲ 299

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 this morning, describing it as their “most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters”. It’s currently available via their website and …

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state of open source AI (no canonical publisher found)▲ 401

The state of open source AI

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Paul Graham34d ago

Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work

Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the first day of the Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/)My cofounders and I did YC all the way back in the Summer of 2010, with the initial idea of…

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