I tried using Google's Gemma 3 to automate houseplant care: it went poorly

https://011.sh/posts/plantmom/

1•mooncakes_ooohh•22s ago•0 comments

50 years on from the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/29/50-years-on-from-the-fall-of-saigon-and-the-end-of-the-vietnam-war

1•c420•1m ago•0 comments

Intel Earnings, TSMC Earnings

https://stratechery.com/2025/intel-earnings-tsmc-earnings/

1•feross•2m ago•0 comments

I built an AI tool to instantly generate high-performing YouTube thumbnails

https://thumbgen.app

2•igor_exp•6m ago•0 comments

The False Consensus Effect

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/false-consensus-effect

2•speckx•9m ago•0 comments

Backblaze B2 Overdrive

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage

2•dabinat•13m ago•0 comments

Using computers more freely and safely

https://akkartik.name/freewheeling/

1•JSLegendDev•13m ago•1 comments

Photos: The 35th Anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/04/photos-35th-anniversary-hubble-space-telescope/682628/

1•Tomte•14m ago•0 comments

Comac says Air China is the first customer for C929 widebody jet

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/comac-says-air-china-will-be-launch-customer-c929-widebody-jet-2024-11-12/

2•rbanffy•15m ago•2 comments

"Capitão ASTúCIA" takes an alternative path: straight to YouTube, free of charge

https://manualdousuario.net/en/capitao-astucia-free-movie-youtube/

1•rpgbr•16m ago•0 comments

Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE mistakenly raids their home

https://kfor.com/news/local/were-citizens-oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects/

4•pmags•16m ago•1 comments

A New Overview in Our Dashboard

https://socket.dev/blog/new-overview-in-our-dashboard

1•feross•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Neurox – GPU Observability for AI Infra

https://github.com/neuroxhq/helm-chart-neurox-control

5•leeab•17m ago•1 comments

The threat: Privacy and security risks in chips

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5559/hidden-threat-privacy-and-security-risks-chips

1•Improvement•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OpenCareAI – AI Voice Agents for Healthcare

https://www.opencareai.com

2•Achintya-dayal•17m ago•0 comments

Protomaps: OpenStreetMap vector tiles, self-hostable as one static file

https://protomaps.com

1•homebrewer•17m ago•1 comments

Project flopped so I'm giving everyone free access (competitor called us gay)

https://old.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1kau2t0/my_project_flopped_so_im_giving_everyone_free/

1•theionman•18m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Does Microsoft pose a risk for private GitHub repositories?

1•mortallywounded•19m ago•1 comments

Llama 4 reasoning 17B model releasing today

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1kaqhxy/llama_4_reasoning_17b_model_releasing_today/

1•wertyk•19m ago•0 comments

Doge could help Musk firms avoid $2.3B in government penalties, Democrats say

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/doge-could-help-musk-firms-avoid-2-3b-in-government-penalties-democrats-say/

2•rbanffy•19m ago•0 comments

Meta Collaborates with Cerebras in New Llama API

https://www.cerebras.ai/press-release/meta-collaborates-with-cerebras-to-drive-fast-inference-for-developers-in-new-llama-api

1•vrnvu•19m ago•0 comments

Substack Is Down

https://substack.statuspage.io/

2•felipevb•22m ago•0 comments

FCC Cracking Down on Another Loophole Used by Robocallers

https://www.phonescoop.com/articles/article.php?a=23508

2•mikece•22m ago•0 comments

Vystery – a "enhance image" puzzle game: guess image in as few moves as possible

https://vystery.com/2025-04-29

2•oatsandsugar•23m ago•0 comments

Duolingo jumps aboard the 'AI-first' train, will phase out contractors

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/duolingo_ceo_ai_first_shift/

4•rntn•23m ago•0 comments

Ups to cut 20,000 jobs as it prepares to halve Amazon shipments

https://www.ft.com/content/48e9837e-7898-48db-b1c0-e09edfd6382e

3•belter•27m ago•0 comments

Rapid Deployment of Ultra-Long-Range Terrestrial Optical Communication Links

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/8/4489

2•PaulHoule•29m ago•0 comments

'Numerous signs of torture': a Ukrainian journalist's detention and death

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/29/viktoriia-roshchyna-ukrainian-journalist-death-russian-prison

4•mitchbob•29m ago•1 comments

Ted Kaczynski's Brother Wrote Him for Decades to Explain Why He Turned Him In

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-letters.html

5•axiomdata316•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Auto-fix your GitHub PR issues with Proton for FREE

https://www.proton.codes/

6•qualtrixAg•30m ago•0 comments

Open in hackernews

History of Green Fluorescent Protein

https://www.asimov.press/p/gfp

1•mailyk•6h ago

Comments

pmags•3h ago

Sadly, Douglas Prasher, who actually cloned GFP, couldn't get his work funded at the time and ended up leaving science:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher

Arguably, he should have shared the Nobel. Makes one wonder what the rationale is for the Nobel only allowing up to three shared winners.