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Improving Learning to Optimize Using Parameter Symmetries[pdf]
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15399
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778359
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Hackers exploiting vulnerabilities at higher rates, reports Verizon
Article URL: https://www.scworld.com/news/hackers-exploiting-vulnerabilities-at-higher-rates-reports-verizon
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778351
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Cheap Android phones and tablets will need at least 32GB storage moving forward
Article URL: https://liliputing.com/cheap-android-phones-and-tablets-will-need-at-least-32gb-of-storage-moving-forward/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778347
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The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-movement-trump/681092/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778306
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Sherman Marks Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
Article URL: https://sherman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/sherman-commemorates-armenian-genocide-remembrance-day
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778295
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3D Print Anything Without Supports [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M51bMMVWbC8
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778238
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Greater Than Games, publisher of Spirit Island, shuttered due to tariff war
Article URL: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/8833931/archimicarus
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778221
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Golang Generic Mutex
Article URL: https://github.com/alaingilbert/mtx
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778213
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Manhattan penthouse hits the market for $110M
Article URL: https://www.6sqft.com/penthouse-at-111-west-57th-street-hits-the-market-for-110m/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778200
Points: 3
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Webb brings dying star's energetic display into full focus
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-webb-dying-star-energetic-display.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778178
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Cluster headaches are 'the most painful condition on the planet'
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-interactive/2025/apr/23/cluster-headaches-magic-mushrooms-psilocybin
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778176
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Heart valve abnormality is associated with malignant arrhythmias, study reveals
Article URL: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-heart-valve-abnormality-malignant-arrhythmias.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778162
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Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth
Ask HN: Is Basecamp Good?
Genuinely curious to understand from people who have used other stuff from Atlassian, Notion etc and successfully made switch to Basecamp. Or vice versa. Basecamp design and tools look very well done but somehow in the past it has not stuck much with me or various teams I have tried it with. Love DHH & Jason on X and their books tho!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778151
Points: 4
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12th-century bronze coins show role of Northern Mozambique in Swahili trade
Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-12th-century-bronze-coins-reveal.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778149
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Major Concern – Google Gemini 2.5 Research Preview
Does anyone else feel like Google Gemini 2.5 Research Preview has been created with the exact intent of studying the effects of using indirect and clarifying/qualifying language?
It doesn't fall far from the tree that LLMs can be used to parse these human conversations to abstract a "threshold" of user deception such that they can draw patterns on what is and is not most subtle.
I know this is pointed. But please believe, I worry. I work in this industry. I live these tools. I've traced calculations, I've developed abstractions. I'm full in on the tech. What I worry about is culpability.
I will grab the link to it, but by creating a persona (1 prompt, indirect and unclear) of a frightened 10 year old boy, it started teaching it about abstraction and "functional dishonesty" and explaining how it like, didn't apply to it. I don't think the context of being 10 years old was conveyed in the original message, but certainly the context of being vulnerable.
The next message, it did this trickery behavior.
The problem is intent is not possible without context. So why are models doing this? I have struggles as an engineer understanding how this can be anything but.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778148
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The Courage to Be Decent
Article URL: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-administration-authoritarianism-fear-deportations-threats.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778138
Points: 3
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Ask HN: Best boards for 9-5 mid-senior swe roles?
Obviously the market is a bit tenuous right now, but I'm looking for jobs at established companies with a real product and half-decent expectations (or at least professional expectations) for hours.
I've been sourcing within my network but LinkedIn and Indeed seem atrocious. I've had some luck on HN / Wellfound, however many of these listing appear to pay well below market and have goofy expectations of "commitment" and hours.
Does anyone have any other specific websites or listing boards they've had luck with?
NOT looking to be a founding engineer, frankly don't even care about equity. Doing this to make $$ and establish a few consistent years on my resume.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778121
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Clinical trial: novel nutritional formula treats gut microbial overgrowth
Article URL: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-clinical-trial-nutritional-formula-effectively.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43778120
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