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Australia Kangaroo Coin, the World's Largest Gold Coin

https://www.perthmint.com/visit/attractions/one-tonne-gold-coin/
1•nephihaha•1h ago

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nephihaha•1h ago
The Australian Gold Nugget Kangaroo coin is the world's largest coin. In October 2011, the Perth Mint created a one metric tonne gold coin, breaking the record for the biggest and most valuable gold coin, previously held by the Royal Canadian Mint, the Big Maple Leaf. The coin is approximately 80 cm (31 in) in diameter and 12 cm (4.7 in) thick. It features a red kangaroo on the front of the coin and a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the reverse. The face value of the coin is A$1 million, but at the time of minting it was valued at over A$53 million. It is made of 99.99% pure gold.
ksaj•1h ago
Here is a link with info about the Canadian coin. It was pretty big in the news when the mint first presented it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Maple_Leaf

This isn't an area of competition I thought I'd ever see.

seff•39m ago
About 60 litres if liquid gold. That's 30 2 litre soda bottles for scale. Who needs a banana

PostgreSQL Is Not Slow. Your Queries Are

https://stormatics.tech/blogs/postgresql-is-not-slow-your-queries-are
3•dbaxame11•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mnheme Evolves – Personality and Free Will Enter the System

https://medium.com/@aatel.license/mnheme-evolves-personality-and-free-will-enter-the-system-66258...
1•aatel-license•6m ago•0 comments

Rise of the Blood Populist

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/blood-populists-political-violence-ideology/686995/
1•JumpCrisscross•7m ago•0 comments

TypeScript framework for building non-blocking AI agents

https://github.com/jigjoy-ai/mozaik
1•mijura•7m ago•0 comments

Stop letting AI generate broken SVG spaghetti

https://github.com/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins
1•stellars•7m ago•0 comments

No action taken against PimEyes: noyb lawsuit against Hamburg DPA

https://noyb.eu/en/no-action-taken-against-pimeyes-noyb-lawsuit-against-hamburg-dpa
2•hacka22•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a zero-tracking news hub to escape doomscrolling at (AGE 17y)

3•blazeeofsun•13m ago•0 comments

How Much LLMs is too much LLMs?

https://www.sammystraus.com/#how-much-llms-is-too-much-llms
2•sammy0910•20m ago•0 comments

Response: Sandboxes Won't Save You from OpenClaw

https://endojs.org/review-sandboxes-wont-save-you-from-openclaw/
1•bobdcf•21m ago•0 comments

Oil markets are still in La-La land

https://economist.com/leaders/2026/04/30/oil-markets-are-still-in-la-la-land
1•burntcaramel•23m ago•0 comments

Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game

https://www.basicfantasy.org/
2•debo_•25m ago•1 comments

How much "Brain Damage" can an LLM Tolerate? (2024)

https://hawaii.ziti.uni-heidelberg.de/blog/llm-brain-damage/
1•Andr2Andr•26m ago•0 comments

Using LLMs to find Python C-extension bugs

https://lwn.net/Articles/1067234/
1•lumpa•27m ago•0 comments

You can beat the binary search

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/
2•signa11•27m ago•0 comments

White House Opposes Anthropic's Plan to Expand Access to Mythos Model

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/white-house-opposes-anthropics-plan-to-expand-access-to-mythos-model-...
1•JumpCrisscross•28m ago•0 comments

Schooling Has a Meaning Crisis. Paradoxically, AI Can Help

https://blog.comini.in/p/schooling-has-a-meaning-crisis-paradoxically
1•ChaitanyaSai•29m ago•0 comments

Met Police's Palantir deployment has its own officers watching their backs

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/met_police_palantir_deployment_cop_probe/
2•jjgreen•31m ago•0 comments

Scale invariance and the beauty of computer simulations [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWleJeep0U
1•demute•32m ago•0 comments

Copy-fail-destroyer: K8s remediation for CVE-2026-31431

https://github.com/NorskHelsenett/copy-fail-destroyer
1•evenh•33m ago•0 comments

J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/science/j-craig-venter-dead.html
2•Anon84•35m ago•0 comments

Approaching Zero Bugs?

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/30/approaching-zero-bugs/
2•sohkamyung•36m ago•0 comments

Amazon Q1 revenue tops estimates as AWS hits 15-quarter growth high

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/article/amazon-q1-revenue-tops-estimates-as-aws-hits...
4•01-_-•38m ago•0 comments

Reddit Is the Most Dangerous Social Media Platform for Human Creativity-Opinion

https://mirz.ai/post/reddit-is-the-most-dangerous-social-media-platform-for-human-creativity-opinion
1•zahirbmirza•39m ago•0 comments

GM Adds Google Gemini for Drivers to Rev Up with AI Assistant

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/gm-brings-google-gemini-to-millions-of-vehicles-o...
1•01-_-•39m ago•0 comments

Estimating Black-Box LLM Parameter Counts via Factual Capacity

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24827
1•RockstarSprain•44m ago•0 comments

Paperclip Maximizer Bench

https://d.erenrich.net/paperclip-bench/index.html
1•themaxdavitt•50m ago•0 comments

Table Oriented Programming (2002)

https://www.oocities.org/tablizer/top.htm
1•downbad_•51m ago•1 comments

The Agentic Software Development Life Cycle Framework

https://asdlc.io/
1•futurecat•52m ago•0 comments

Remembering the Computer Literacy Project (1992) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZjNHnYFqOA
3•peterkelly•53m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Bin collection calendars for the entire UK

https://ukbinday.co.uk/
3•chartreuseai•54m ago•0 comments