Hacker News digest – redigester

We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do (www.derekthompson.org)

679 comments 2 days, 1566 points

People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account (www.windowscentral.com)

600 comments 41 hours, 1342 points

Apple discontinues the Mac Pro (9to5mac.com)

634 comments 2 days, 1285 points

Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events (www.nytimes.com)

814 comments 2 days, 1165 points

Hold on to Your Hardware (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

512 comments 44 hours, 1151 points

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies (sytse.com)

193 comments 13 hours, 1086 points

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice (news.stanford.edu)

451 comments 16 hours, 1049 points

The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner (sightlessscribbles.com)

469 comments 42 hours, 1042 points

End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance (www.patrick-breyer.de)

308 comments 2 days, 980 points

Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people (unterwaditzer.net)

327 comments 2 days, 955 points

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email (www.reuters.com)

516 comments 40 hours, 938 points

Spanish legislation as a Git repo (github.com)

217 comments 19 hours, 932 points

Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem (jai.scs.stanford.edu)

312 comments 30 hours, 902 points

Make macOS consistently bad unironically (lr0.org)

352 comments 35 hours, 873 points

Anatomy of the .claude/ folder (blog.dailydoseofds.com)

252 comments 40 hours, 849 points

self If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos

259 comments 34 hours, 844 points

$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks (github.com)

270 comments 2 days, 745 points

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying (www.theguardian.com)

355 comments 38 hours, 734 points

‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms (www.euronews.com)

330 comments 46 hours, 676 points

I decompiled the White House's new app (thereallo.dev)

182 comments 15 hours, 657 points

Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label (www.cnn.com)

223 comments 2 days, 650 points

Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables (grid.iamkate.com)

253 comments 20 hours, 628 points

A Faster Alternative to Jq (micahkepe.com)

243 comments 47 hours, 627 points

European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop (bsky.app)

118 comments 2 days, 625 points

Desk for people who work at home with a cat (soranews24.com)

161 comments 39 hours, 608 points

My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack (futuresearch.ai)

159 comments 2 days, 593 points

Swift 6.3 (www.swift.org)

224 comments 2 days, 553 points

Schedule tasks on the web (code.claude.com)

242 comments 2 days, 535 points

We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year (www.reco.ai)

241 comments 2 days, 503 points

Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing (www.bbc.com)

294 comments 34 hours, 475 points

AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion (www.theguardian.com)

263 comments 2 days, 471 points

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip (arstechnica.com)

164 comments 28 hours, 467 points

Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids (www.latimes.com)

191 comments 2 days, 461 points

Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right (www.theregister.com)

204 comments 16 hours, 460 points

CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering (theopenreader.org)

139 comments 23 hours, 448 points

I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] (www.youtube.com)

65 comments 19 hours, 444 points

show Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer (georgelarson.me)

95 comments 2 days, 422 points

New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK (www.theguardian.com)

133 comments 2 days, 412 points

Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly (github.com)

100 comments 21 hours, 407 points

John Bradley, author of xv, has died (voxday.net)

89 comments 2 days, 392 points

Meow.camera (meow.camera)

68 comments 40 hours, 384 points

DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked (arstechnica.com)

128 comments 33 hours, 375 points

LibreOffice and the art of overreacting (blog.documentfoundation.org)

140 comments 2 days, 349 points

Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features (arstechnica.com)

166 comments 2 days, 339 points

Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial (www.bbc.com)

195 comments 29 hours, 339 points

Last gasps of the rent seeking class? (geohot.github.io)

154 comments 40 hours, 317 points

Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem (twitter.com)

123 comments 12 hours, 312 points

Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS certificate on a Brother printer with Certbot (owltec.ca)