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Ex-DeepMind David Silver Raises $1.1B for AI Startup Ineffable

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/27/deepmind-ineffable-intelligence-record-seed-funding-nvidia-google...
1•gmays•3m ago•0 comments

Coffee appears to rewire the gut-brain connection

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260502233911.htm
3•loh•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Interactive Marimo Moss Ball

https://github.com/ledhieu/imoss
1•ldhieu•13m ago•0 comments

Nerves in Skin Can Slow Melanoma Growth

https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2026/04/nerves-in-skin-can-slow-melanoma-growth
1•gmays•13m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do you feel reading AI generated readme tiring?

3•maytc•14m ago•0 comments

Verleer – Learn a language from any content

https://verleer.com
1•CallMePapi-_-•16m ago•0 comments

Pilots Shut Off Both Engines Before China Eastern 737 Crash

https://viewfromthewing.com/pilots-shut-off-both-engines-before-china-eastern-737-crash-china-cit...
1•qsi•24m ago•0 comments

Letters from Steve

https://davidgelphman.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/2-letters-from-steve/
2•prawn•33m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT Wrestles with Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack?

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/chatgpt-mass-shooting-openai-78a436d1
1•Brajeshwar•34m ago•1 comments

OpenAI Codex system includes explicit directive to "never talk about goblins"

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4•randycupertino•36m ago•3 comments

Checkpoint/Restore in Userspace (CRIU)

https://criu.org/Main_Page
1•htfy96•36m ago•0 comments

OpenJDK 25 Security Update Released

https://tux.re/forum/viewtopic.php?t=222
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Enabling Monoglot Programming

https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/research/enabling-monoglot-programming.html
1•htfy96•46m ago•0 comments

The Shape of a Guitar Pick

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/05/03/guitar-pick/
2•malshe•49m ago•0 comments

Quantum teleportation between two quantum dots demonstrated over 270M

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260429102030.htm
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Ask HN: Does Claude Code succeed after being asked "should we give up?" for you?

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Show HN VibeAI FoldSpace by HugonomySystems

https://hugonomy.com/
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Scientists discover 27 potential new planets that orbit two stars

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/04/scientists-discover-27-potential-new-planets
3•nhatcher•56m ago•0 comments

Make some art with your phone sensors

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1•adm4•1h ago•0 comments

Why Almost Everyone Loses on Prediction Markets

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/polymarket-kalshi-betting-profits-prediction-markets-eb23ac11
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Don't fly if you can help it

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1•cxr•1h ago•2 comments

The Rise of Emotional Surveillance

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/05/worker-surveillance-emotion-ai/687029/
2•eloisius•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: ReflowPDF – wrote a layout engine because every PDF library failed

https://reflowpdf.com
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Think pop music is basic? Even classical and jazz are getting less complex

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2•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system

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2•kayfox•1h ago•0 comments

GameStop Proposes to Acquire eBay at $125.00 per Share

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5•tech234a•1h ago•3 comments

PicoServer: A glue library embedding web server for .NET, no IIS, no Kestrel

https://www.nuget.org/packages/PicoServer
1•myhackernew•1h ago•0 comments

PostgreSQL databases are boring on purpose

https://stormatics.tech/blogs/the-best-postgresql-databases-are-boring-on-purpose
2•pgdatabase•1h ago•0 comments

Unauthorized macOS port claiming Don Ho as an author?

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/17982
7•jethronethro•1h ago•0 comments

Bluchan.org – Anonymous Free Speech Forum

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1•jjhbhjbj•1h ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Why is big O often used in CS when omega or theta should be used?

2•amichail•1y ago
Do most people not know about omega and theta or perhaps they intentionally misuse asymptotic notation?

Comments

adrianN•1y ago
Finding lower bounds is generally more difficult.
amichail•1y ago
People often use big O notation in all cases including for lower bounds.
adrianN•1y ago
BigO for lower bounds is plain wrong
numpad0•1y ago
Those aren't in the ASCII table.
compressedgas•1y ago
I've found some people on a well known QA site to be so strict with big-O notation that I don't use it anymore and instead only refer to constant, linear, quadratic time and so on. Even when O(1), O(n), O(n^2) would be actually easier to write even if they are technically wrong.