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To drive forward its Plan for Change, the Labour government is looking to hire 25 experts for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Fellowship programme

Hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer adds external Pure Storage arrays in a move that it touts as a way for customers to get off VMware, but which also helps them scale for AI

GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre warns that a growing ‘digital divide’ between organisations that can keep pace with AI-enabled threats and those that cannot is set to heighten the UK's overall cyber risk

The UK’s fintech sector attracted $3.6bn investment last year, which was only bettered by the US, but how will UK fintech continue to grow?

Article URL: https://flynndevine.substack.com/p/i-interviewed-100-writers-about-ai

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Article URL: https://www.boristhebrave.com/2025/05/07/fiddling-weights-with-temperature/

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There are many times I find some government data in shapefile (.shp) format but want to use the attributes inside for analysis in tabular format. It's always a pain to open this in QGIS, convert the CRS correctly, then save as CSV. So I built a tool that will handle this for you, all running within the browser so data doesn't need to be sent anywhere. Under the hood it's using DuckDB built for Wasm + the spatial extension (which links GEOS). And full disclaimer, I'm using this as lead generation for my Honeycomb Maps product, but if you'd prefer not to give your email that's completely fine, just put from@hn.com or something similar :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913992

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Article URL: https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Voight-Kampff_test

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913990

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The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned the IT helpdesks of retailers to be on their guard against bogus support calls they might receive from hackers pretending to be staff locked out of their accounts. Read more in my article on the Exponential-e blog.

I wanna be a software engineer, i just love coming across problems and then brainstorming on solutions, even better if i can discuss with others. Unfortunately, i have been quite slow with learning to code, to my enormous frustration.

Now with AI agents that can code real shit up, and even genius, experienced devs on hackernews using them a lot, do i even go down this path?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913974

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Article URL: https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22828

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913967

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Article URL: https://rewiring.bearblog.dev/big-tech-battles-report-from-the-trenches/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913954

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Article URL: https://floss.social/@alcinnz/114451583782470918

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913952

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Article URL: https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/05/07/migrating-a-javascript-project-from-prettier-and-eslint-to-biomejs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913950

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Hey HN,

I’m excited to share lwlnow, a web app designed to help language learners improve their listening, vocabulary, and writing skills through dictation-based practice — a method that’s simple, immersive, and surprisingly powerful.

Why we built it Most language learning apps focus on passive exposure or gamified memorization. But real fluency comes from training your brain to understand native speech and respond with precision.

Dictation is one of the most underrated yet effective ways to build that skill: • Listen to a native sentence • Type exactly what you hear • Get instant feedback on spelling, grammar, and word recognition

It’s like shadowing — but active, and it works incredibly well for learners at every level.

Who is it for? • Learners who want to internalize grammar naturally • People struggling with listening comprehension • Students looking for daily active practice

We’re still early and improving fast — your feedback would mean a lot: • What do you like? • What would you add or change? • Which languages should we support next?

Thanks for checking it out — and good luck with your language journey!

– Yigit https://lwlnow.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913945

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Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/uber-ceo-says-changing-employee-benefits-is-a-risk-we-decided-to-take.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913929

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Hey HN! I've built Digest to fix my own information overload. It provides custom daily briefings from the sources you care about.

Most of us check 10+ places a day — HN, reddit, X, RSS feeds, substack, youtube, newsletters, weather, calendar, etc.

Digest pulls content from all of them and compiles it into one clean email.

Choose your sources, set filters, and Digest does the rest. It’s for people who want less noise and want to stay informed without wasting too much time.

Some example use cases:

- A morning briefing that contains: weather for today, HN top posts, top posts from subreddits, and your meetings for the day

- An evening briefing to see top posts you missed for the day on HN, Reddit, as well as top news stories, and your meetings for tomorrow

- A daily overview of all the newsletters you've received, and you can easily read them in our newsletter reader.

- A daily briefing on specific topics, like AI, which pulls content from X, subreddits, RSS feeds, youtube and more.

I'd love feedback and ideas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913922

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Article URL: http://renaudr.com/posts/LEARN.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913912

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Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/06/arizona-road-rage-victim-ai-chris-pelkey

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913905

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Article URL: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4920-syd-youki-syd-oci-introduction-to-a-secure-container-runtime-for-linux/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43913900

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