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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• Nieman Lab▲ 367

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

OpenAI

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• Global Solar Atlas▲ 40

Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally

The Global Solar Atlas provides a summary of solar power potential and solar resources globally. It is provided by the World Bank Group as a free service to governments, developers and the…

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• Reflection▲ 385

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

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• Ars Technica▲ 161

Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage

Prices of public records tracking cops' use of Flock go up as backlash swells.

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• Debugbear▲ 154

Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades

A look at the history of visual changes to example.com.

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• Vals AI▲ 280

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

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• Dave Bushell▲ 114

Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend

The one where I go crawling back.

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• Gwern▲ 37

Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle

A Zen-garden raking puzzle: a novice monk walks into the sand and must rake his way back out to the gate in one stroke. The full design, solver experiments, 148 gardens and a year of daily…

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HN — Best of the Week

hnrss.org25 items
• Mistral▲ 1677

Mistral Large 4

The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.

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• JetBrains▲ 576

JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025

JetBrains (Media & Entertainment, Czechia): total revenue CZK 16,008 mil, net profit CZK -315 mil in 2025, ROE -11.1%. 721 indicators from filings, financials, KPIs and Excel download.

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• Nobel Prize Committee▲ 546

Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 was awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical…

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• Mistral▲ 518

Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.

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• Polars▲ 430

Polars 2.0

DataFrames for the new era

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• Open AI▲ 701

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

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• Tech Dirt▲ 372

Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire

Meta’s agentic AI product Muse has had a rocky few weeks since launch. The product, which features an animated avatar named Jolly (one presumes to make mass hyper surveillance seem…

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• Phys Org▲ 327

Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study

The idea that ecosystems carry plenty of backup, so if a small number of species become extinct there is little harm, has been greatly overestimated, according to the largest global study…

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• Gleam▲ 302

Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

News post: Gleam v1.19.0 released!

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• Google▲ 285

EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model optimized for privacy-first use cases

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• Vivien Henz▲ 283

Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language

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• Open TPU Developers▲ 267

OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

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• Open AI▲ 220

Decisions API is in public beta

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