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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22672

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Article URL: https://atomsfrontier.substack.com/p/three-ways-to-see-distance

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Article URL: https://github.com/ExtendDB/extenddb

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Article URL: https://github.com/h2oai/autoviz

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Article URL: https://blog.siggraph.org/2026/05/beyond-deterministic-surfaces-uncertainty-aware-geometry-processing.html/

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Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/99c1c1e7-1a1c-479c-9fc8-e21aea5c3f0e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235323

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/DeptofWar/status/2057799788003737844

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235318

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Hi HN, We're building Ota.

Ota is open repo readiness infrastructure. It makes software repositories runnable and trustworthy for human, CI, and AI agents.

The problem we kept seeing is that the real truth of how a repo gets set up and run is usually scattered across READMEs, scripts, CI config, env files, and maintainer memory. That slows onboarding, causes local and CI drift, and makes automation brittle.

Ota gives each repo one explicit operational contract for what it needs, how it becomes ready, and how tasks should run.

The core flow is:

- `ota doctor` to diagnose what is missing - `ota up` to prepare the repo - `ota run` to execute named tasks from the contract

The product idea is "doctor first, contract second." We want it to be useful even before a repo is perfectly modeled.

What we're trying to build is not just another task runner or dev environment wrapper. We think repo readiness is its own layer: something between the repo, the developer, CI, and now agents.

We'd especially love feedback on:

- whether this problem feels real in your repos - whether the contract model feels like the right abstraction - what existing tools you think are the closest substitutes

If this sounds relevant to your repos, you can check it out here: https://github.com/ota-run/ota

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234838

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Article URL: https://www.kapa.ai/blog/knowledge-base-search-in-ai-agents

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Article URL: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2026/research/200-year-old-puzzle-tobacco-plants-nicotine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234831

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Article URL: https://vqc.dsgnl.site/

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Call me a snowflake, but I propose that those of us who don't believe that AI is actually intelligence look for a term to refer to its "thinking" that isn't "intelligence", because this helps our weak minds keep things straight.

subligence /sʌbˈlɪdʒəns/ n.

A lesser or rudimentary form of intelligence; the capacity to respond, select, or adapt without full understanding. The semblance of mind in animals, machines, systems, or inanimate things. Discernment beneath reason; inferior intelligence.

Example: "Since December, the coding models have gotten noticeably more subligent, so much so that the undiscerning eye has trouble distinguishing their output from human intelligence."

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Article URL: https://www.salmonfinder.com/2026/05/13/bristol-bay-kodiak-predictions-2026

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Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/tech-leaders-job-market-22259786.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234791

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Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/trump-tariff-refunds-walmart-home-depot-target-apply.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234790

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Article URL: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a1047b9-1cf0-83ea-82ff-13249b331ad1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234780

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Article URL: https://easycyberprotection.com/about/how-we-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234777

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cc @dang

Reddit has been filling up with AI generated content. Either bots engaging with naïf audiences who don't realize they're bots, or supposed humans who defend their giant copy/pastes as somehow justifiable as a spellchecked/proofread version.

I don't believe AI generated slop posts deserve consideration, either on HN or Reddit. If people rather not take the time to write something as long as these AI outputs, they're free to write a prompt-length post instead of forcing us to read the AI equivalent of a zipbomb. We can't control what people post on Reddit but I think we should have higher standards here and that Reddit has gone to the point that only very very selective submissions from there should be accepted.

On a tangent, does anyone know of a browser extension I can use to easily hide or at least highlight in red likely AI generated text?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234774

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Article URL: https://medium.com/@stockphotojim/the-case-for-a-puritan-spotify-why-its-time-to-strip-away-the-bloat-2df4578e3129

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234758

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Article URL: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/05/21/governor-newsom-signs-first-of-its-kind-executive-order-to-prepare-workers-and-businesses-for-potential-ai-disruption/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234757

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