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Hacker News

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• Clay Mathematics Institute▲ 48

Clay Mathematics Institute on the Navier-Stokes Problem

The Millennium Prize Problems were unveiled by the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) at a meeting in Paris in 2000 to celebrate “The Universality of Mathematical Thought”. These problems encapsulate some of the most difficult challenges that mathematicians were grappling with at the turn of the millennium. CMI’s purpose in articulating these problems and attaching a […]

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• RubyHack AI▲ 542

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems by AI agents performing web-lookup tasks with significant overlap with the German Wiki Incident.

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• DayZ Legend▲ 420

I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

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• Google▲ 216

Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results

Google is rolling out google.com/goto redirect URLs on SERPs. Here is what changed, why it targets scrapers, and how Autom updated its Google Search API.

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• GrapheneOS▲ 235

GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released

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• Eddie Hally▲ 104

Pandas Should Go Extinct

Pandas has taken us a long way, but it

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• Gadget Review▲ 83

Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies

Starlink signal leakage is contaminating SKA-Low's critical frequencies, with emissions up to 10,000 times stronger than the cosmic signals astronomers need to detect.

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• Simon Willison▲ 4

OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems is a new bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx—three of the four authors of the report …

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HN — Best of the Week

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• Claude▲ 615

Claude is only available to people over 18 years

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• OpenAI▲ 546

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems by AI agents performing web-lookup tasks with significant overlap with the German Wiki Incident.

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• Math and AI▲ 799

A misalignment of AI in mathematics

Read the declaration and add your name.

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• Dayzlegame.com (author not found, assuming author is Dayzleg▲ 423

I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

Google reported 21 installs in a day. The admin panel said 1. What the other 20 were, how a bot farm gets paid, and what we changed.

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• Capital B News▲ 420

The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

Proposed rule changes would leave residents with less say over pollution in their communities.

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• BBC▲ 372

Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route

Perim Island sits in the Bab al- Mandeb Strait, a globally important maritime chokepoint at the mouth of the Red Sea.

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• Research Agenda▲ 322

The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative

How frictionless technologies teach us to prefer our own company – and why research leaders should worry.

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• Earendil▲ 255

Measuring the sloppiness of code

Exploring how to measure code sloppiness, why correct code can still erode a codebase, and why human intuition and taste still matter.

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• Y Combinator37d ago

Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

Over past couple months I noticed that HN feed is almost exclusively AI or AI-adjacent news. Meanwhile the legitimately, broadly-hacker stuff gets left out for the most part.I noticed that…

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