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OpenAI's Genius Plan [to Cure Cancer] Can't Possibly Fail [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijTxAfFUHkY
2•mentalgear•1h ago

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mentalgear•1h ago
Even though normally people on here do not prefer videos, this one is based on a scientific essay and comes with the added benefit of being really on point while also being funny - give it a try! Original Essay: https://curecancer.ai/
adinhitlore•1h ago
well i mean if they use all those zillions of gigawattz for agi there will be no energy left for cancer so they'll starve it
kamaquanty•1h ago
cancer is treatable and cures are specific to each persons genotype so there isn’t a ubiquitous solution that ai can produce.

Framework Computer to Announce Their Next-Gen Hardware Later This Month

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-2026-Hardware
2•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in vicious 'civil war', say researchers

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr71lkzv49po
2•neversaydie•3m ago•0 comments

Charges filed after fire destroys Kimberly-Clark toilet paper warehouse

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c7vqmvg0e0zo
1•achierius•9m ago•0 comments

Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/watgo-a-webassembly-toolkit-for-go/
4•ibobev•10m ago•0 comments

The Biological Basis of Imagination

https://nautil.us/the-biological-basis-of-imagination-1279716
1•rbanffy•11m ago•0 comments

A brief history of C/C++ programming languages

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/09/a-brief-history-of-c-c-programming-languages/
1•ibobev•11m ago•0 comments

The uncomfortable truth about vibe coding

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/17/uncomfortable-truth-about-vibe-coding
2•macote•11m ago•0 comments

Fast CASPaxos

https://reubenbond.github.io/posts/fast-caspaxos/
1•tanelpoder•11m ago•0 comments

Claude for Word in Now in Beta

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2042670341915295865
1•armcat•12m ago•0 comments

US Government trying to unmask ICE critical redditor

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/trump-admin-hounds-reddit-to-reveal-identity-of-user-...
5•golf_mike•14m ago•0 comments

Real Maps for Imaginary Places: the cartography of literature

https://lcm.loc.gov/issue/march-april-2026/real-maps-for-imaginary-places/
2•ohjeez•14m ago•0 comments

Claude is powerful but the memory issue makes it painful for real projects

https://nubira3.gumroad.com/l/claude-code-manual
2•ovexro•14m ago•0 comments

AIs can now do easy-to-verify SWE tasks, I've shortened timelines

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dKpC6wHFqDrGZwnah/ais-can-now-often-do-massive-easy-to-verify-swe...
1•gmays•15m ago•0 comments

Rational Social Animals and Addiction

http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2026/04/rational-social-animals-and-addiction.html
1•danielam•16m ago•0 comments

Mapping my reading log by author birthplace

https://wip.tf/posts/map-your-read-books-list-by-author-birthplace/
2•nbr23•16m ago•0 comments

We're Open-Sourcing Our Investor Updates [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWYoielyDuY
1•JoiDegn•18m ago•0 comments

Survival of the Wittiest

https://nautil.us/survival-of-the-wittiest-1279720
1•rbanffy•19m ago•0 comments

Microsoft starts removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps

https://www.theverge.com/news/909640/microsoft-removing-copilot-windows-11-buttons
2•Brajeshwar•21m ago•0 comments

We May No Longer Need Kafka Compatibility

https://medium.com/@yingjunwu/we-may-no-longer-need-kafka-compatibility-f197ef91abaa
2•yingjunwu•22m ago•0 comments

Spnndr – Subscription tracking and spend management for solo founders

https://www.spnndr.com
2•dmnlaali•24m ago•2 comments

Cognitive Debt: How AI-Generated Code Introduces a More Dangerous Kind of Debt

https://substack.com/home/post/p-193808795
1•ixeption•25m ago•0 comments

Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/open-ai-sam-altman-molotov-cocktail.html
35•enraged_camel•25m ago•20 comments

Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?

4•nitramm•26m ago•1 comments

IU Bio Researcher Guilty of Smuggling Ecoli DNA from China Concealed in Clothing

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/pr/iu-biology-researcher-pleads-guilty-smuggling-e-coli-dna-chi...
2•737min•26m ago•1 comments

Aadam Jacobs Collection at the Live Music Archive

https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs
1•cdrnsf•26m ago•0 comments

Amazon Luna Shuts Down without refunds?

1•abtinf•28m ago•0 comments

Ray-tracing–guided myopic LASIK

https://lww.com/_layouts/1033/OAKS.Journals/Error/JavaScript.html
1•MrBuddyCasino•30m ago•0 comments

Carol's Causal Conundrum: a zine intro to causally ordered message delivery

https://decomposition.al/zines/
1•evakhoury•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gravity Garden, an Interactive Simulator

https://tortured-metaphor.github.io/Gravity-Garden/
2•DavidCanHelp•32m ago•0 comments

Chinese Calligraphy Is a Frontier Task

https://twitter.com/leonardtang_/status/2042671198471901494
1•leonardtang•32m ago•0 comments