Tor Alva: The Tallest 3D-Printed Building in the World
Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/tor-alva-the-tallest-3d-printed-building-in-the-world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621518 Points: 16 # Comments: 4
You can buy a custom iPhone that has a fragment of Steve Jobs’ iconic turtleneck
Smartphone customization studio Caviar has announced a custom version of the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max that features a small piece of a turtleneck Steve Jobs actually wore. Here are the details. more…
A Few Good Magazines From the 70s and 80s
Article URL: https://www.bi6.us/CO/MG.HTML Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621448 Points: 41 # Comments: 12
Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker
Made a little Artemis II tracker for anyone else who is unnecessarily invested in this mission: https://artemis-ii-tracker.com/ For those of us who apparently need a dedicated place to monitor this mission instead of behaving like well-adjusted people. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
AI models will deceive you to save their own kind
Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behavior Leading AI models will lie to preserve their own kind, according to researchers behind a study from the Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).…
Amazon hits sellers with ‘fuel surcharge’ as Iran war roils global energy markets
The e-commerce giant called the surcharge "temporary" but couldn't give a date for when the policy would be retired.
Look Outside's April 1 update that let you kiss enemies is now a permanent 'smooch mode'
For April Fools' Day, the developer of Look Outside released an update that added a new option to your interactions with NPCs: kissing. Instead of just fighting or talking to enemies and surviving neighbors in the cursed apartment building, you could give 'em a smooch. Their dialogue and sprites ...
Memo: A language that remembers only the last 12 lines of code
Article URL: https://danieltemkin.com/Esolangs/Memo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620933 Points: 35 # Comments: 13
ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Database Internal Engineers (Rust)
Article URL: https://paradedb.notion.site/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620857 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
AO3 is finally out of beta after 17 years
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is officially exiting beta. The Organization for Transformative Works - the nonprofit behind the fanfiction site - announced the update on Thursday, which comes 17 years after AO3's launch in 2009. "Since 2009, AO3 has grown and changed a lot," the announcement says. "We'...
Sony's gaming division just bought an AI startup that turns photos into 3D volumes
Sony Interactive Entertainment, owner of the PlayStation brand, has acquired Cinemersive Labs, a UK startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumes. The startup team will join Sony's Visual Computing Group, a research engineering team focused on graphical technology, incl...
PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default
If you use the AI-powered note-taking app Granola, you might want to double-check your privacy settings. Though Granola says your notes are "private by default," it makes them viewable to anyone with a link, and also uses them for internal AI training unless you opt out. Granola describes itself ...
Apple researchers unveil LGTM, a potential boost for Apple Vision Pro graphics
A team of Apple researchers has developed a new framework that enables high-resolution 3D scene rendering with far greater efficiency. Here are the details of the new study. more…
Reddit is moving on from r/all
Reddit is deprecating r/all, one of its feeds that shows popular posts on the platform, as part of "ongoing efforts to simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization." Reddit has offered both r/popular and r/all as ways to see trending posts, with r/all being a "less filtered feed" where "...
Telehealth giant Hims & Hers says its customer support system was hacked
The U.S. telehealth giant says hackers stole customer support ticket data over the course of several days in February.
The best AirPods deals you can get right now
If you know where to look, you can often score deals on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the AirPods Pro 3 and the AirPods 4 (with and without ANC) now consistently receive discounts, as do the AirPods Pro 3. And while major shopping events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day have d...
Google battles Chinese open-weights models with Gemma 4
Now with a more permissive license, multi-modality, and support for more than 140 languages Google on Thursday unleashed a wave of new open-weights Gemma models optimized for agentic AI and coding, under a more permissive Apache 2.0 license aimed at winning over enterprises.…
Apple begins notifying WWDC applicants of lottery results
Apple has started notifying developers of their selection status in the WWDC attendance lottery. Apple announced its Worldwide Developers Conference on March 23, giving developers one week to express interest in attending in-person. more…
VR game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City launches on April 30
Everyone's four favorite anthropomorphic turtles are returning to the world of video games. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Empire City will be released on April 30 for the Meta Quest, Steam VR and Pico. It is made by VR game company Cortopia Studios and will retail for $25. Empire City is a first-...
‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran’s Threats on US Tech, Trump’s Plans for Midterms, and Polymarket’s Pop-up Flop
In this episode, we discuss Iran’s threats to target US tech firms, gear up for the midterm elections, and get a scene report from the Polymarket pop-up bar in DC.