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Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/14/kioxia-and-dell-cram-10-pb-into-slim-2ru-server/5...
84•rbanffy•4h ago•57 comments

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x
169•ibobev•3d ago•72 comments

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/
272•mjgil•9h ago•109 comments

A molecule with half-Möbius topology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea3321
27•bryanrasmussen•4d ago•0 comments

Accelerando (2005)

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html
215•eamag•10h ago•121 comments

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/
352•mpweiher•12h ago•234 comments

Halt and Catch Fire

https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire
16•ScottWRobinson•3h ago•1 comments

Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12357
177•44za12•12h ago•46 comments

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead
310•frays•14h ago•278 comments

Fame! A Misunderstanding: A new translation of Albert Camus's complete notebooks

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/albert-camus-complete-notebooks-ryan-bloom-existentialism-abs...
27•Caiero•2d ago•4 comments

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

https://www.gutenberg.org/
1124•JSeiko•1d ago•266 comments

Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol

https://tangled.org/rocksky.app/rocksky
35•tsiry•4h ago•13 comments

Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/japan-robot-wolf-bear-attacks-ohta-seiki-b2975670.html
47•bookofjoe•2h ago•23 comments

We've made the world too complicated

https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/
114•James72689•13h ago•116 comments

Recreation of the 1956 IPL-I version of the Logic Theorist theorem prover

https://github.com/dmoews/logic-theorist
10•abrax3141•3d ago•1 comments

HTML Lists

https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/05/13/you-dont-know-html-lists/
258•speckx•4h ago•52 comments

Greek Alphabet Cards

https://labs.randomquark.com/alphabet_cards/
85•ricochet11•9h ago•35 comments

Clusters become personal (like PCs did)

https://aranya.tech/blog/arrival-of-the-personal-cluster
44•druid•3d ago•39 comments

3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend

https://bfeldman.me/3dgs-weekend/
13•b__feldman•3d ago•0 comments

DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

https://www.seangoedecke.com/steering-vectors/
172•Brajeshwar•6h ago•63 comments

Futhark by example

https://futhark-lang.org/examples.html
103•tosh•12h ago•26 comments

Accelerate – Embedded language for high-performance array computations

https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate
67•tosh•8h ago•16 comments

Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/nearly-50-years-later-wkrp-in-cincinnati-becomes-a-real-radio...
88•bookofjoe•4d ago•53 comments

After 8 years, I rewrote my open-source PyTorch curvature library

https://github.com/noahgolmant/pytorch-hessian-eigenthings
54•noahgolmant•2d ago•1 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Marketer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/1rLQAro-founding-marketer-content-community
1•asontha•9h ago

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
1802•reasonableklout•1d ago•1009 comments

Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)

https://refractor.io/adhd-autism/fecal-transplants-for-autism-delivers-success-in-clinical-trials/
271•breve•12h ago•190 comments

PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools

https://parttelescopes.web.app/
99•openrockets•6h ago•27 comments

Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/points-are-a-weird-and-inconsistent-unit-of/
64•danborn26•2d ago•56 comments

The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/
202•sohkamyung•2d ago•67 comments
Open in hackernews

OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/
41•bookofjoe•1h ago

Comments

mock-possum•1h ago
Smart move, just wish a more ethical outfit was making it.
rendx•1h ago
> "Malta’s AI for All initiative will offer people of all backgrounds the opportunity to learn how AI can be used responsibly through a course developed by the University of Malta. The course is designed to help people understand what AI is, what it can and can’t do, and how to use it responsibly at home and work. After the course is completed, citizens can access ChatGPT Plus for one year at no cost to them."*
julianlam•1h ago
> for one year

snort

dawnerd•45m ago
Gotta get them hooked and reliant on it. It’s why they subsidized the entire software industry to adopt it.
sauercrowd•1h ago
TL;DR: they made a course for citizens
zitterbewegung•1h ago
Would be interesting long term if this sways public opinion about data centers in Malta. I do support though AI literacy in general and this is a good step. Would wonder about the deal in how much this is actually costing Malta if at all.
purrcat259•53m ago
Unlikely. Other than the telcos there's only one proper commercial datacentre here. Space is very constrained and the electricity supply stability + summer heat aren't a fun combination
preisschild•38m ago
OpenAI is inherently incentivized to sell as much LLM compute as possible, that is not neutral "AI literacy". You don't let tobacco companies make anti smoking education either.
blfr•1h ago
The subsidies deployed by the industry are so massive I don't even know if consumers need public assistance here. It's kinda like the gov was subsidizing web hosting or basic banking. The price for a regular consumer already barely hovers above zero.

Just look at this list of services included in Google's AI Pro subscription[1]. Google took everything it could think any consumer might need and bundled for $20/mo. There's even $10 GCP credit (that you can use for AI API calls).

[1] https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/14534406?hl=en

dwa3592•1h ago
Thank you for this comment and holy cow, I have the pro subscription and didn't know it came with that many bells.
ecommerceguy•37m ago
I had a free 3 month trial I just terminated. I deemed it too expensive.
gwerbin•35m ago
It's a ploy to drive adoption. Once it's considered essential they can turn the screws in massive contracts with governments, big enterprises, universities, and public school systems. Probably some genuine competition on price, but the equilibrium price is probably below cost and not sustainable.
vovavili•34m ago
I wish Google had something like Codex app. To me, Gemini's output feel much more well-written, humane and mature than ChatGPT, and the bundling effects that you get with it are unreal. That said, I am way too used to tabs in Codex and SKILL.md-based workflow to go back.
alfiedotwtf•1h ago
To be honest, PR pieces don’t all need to go on HN, especially when this is probably not news worthy to anyone here except Maltese living in Malta
GaggiX•1h ago
I'm not Maltese and I did find it interesting.
varispeed•1h ago
Can't imagine the size of brown envelope. Handing over your entire nation's thoughts to a foreign company operating under US Cloud Act in normal circumstances would be considered a risk to national security. Why not invest in home grown talent and companies?
morkalork•1h ago
Worse than that, it's bi-directional. The model's responses and tuning now influences a whole nation of people.
applfanboysbgon•1h ago
Malta is the size of a small city, I don't think national security or investing into home grown companies comes into play here.
phillc73•52m ago
Malta is part of the EU. I am personally very surprised about this partnership, just in the context of data security, privacy and the GDPR. How is the privacy of these EU citizens protected when all their prompts and data is sent to OpenAI? How do these EU citizens submit a request for all their personal data to be deleted from OpenAI records, a right they have under the GDPR with a compliant data processor?
applfanboysbgon•37m ago
ChatGPT is already available to users in the EU. It already has an EU-aligned terms of service. Not that I'd trust them, because the GDPR has been borderline useless in reality, but there's nothing particularly legally interesting about this offering.

> How do these EU citizens submit a request for all their personal data to be deleted from OpenAI records

Probably by sending an e-mail to a designated address, like most services that operate in the EU, but you can read their TOS if you'd like to be sure.

varispeed•34m ago
> but there's nothing particularly legally interesting about this offering.

Care to elaborate or we have become completely apathetic to any display of sleaze?

applfanboysbgon•30m ago
I mean, it's just a literal non-event legally. I'm repeating myself here, but OpenAI already operates in the EU. EU users can already use ChatGPT, with some assurances about adhering to GDPR. Offering the ad-free tier to a subset of EU users for free, who could already use the tier with ads for free, doesn't change anything legally in regards to data processing.

If you want my commentary on the political context, obviously I think it's not very intelligent for nations to be trusting a US corporation with all of their citizens' data. I think the most impactful use of LLMs is going to be their usage as surveillance and propaganda tools, so this is probably not a prudent decision. But legally, as pertains to GDPR, this is not different from the status quo in any way.

ninjahawk1•1h ago
I’m personally not a fan of OpenAI always referring to their model as “providing intelligence as a utility.” Sounds very condescending, are you saying this isn’t something we already have? If that’s the opinion, may be good to reflect on how the models were trained. On millions upon millions of books which no authors were compensated for.

But that’s besides the point, the whole initiative is self-defeating by design. This isn’t like power, it’s something humans do inherently possess, this is simply a way to amplify what already exists. Intelligent people using AI generally seem to be more productive than when they don’t use it, and lazy or unintelligent people generally see cognitive decline, at least based on what I’ve heard online but I could be wrong on that.

So saying “this is where you get intelligence” is both false marketing and destructive to OpenAI as a company, since by all definitions, it isn’t true.

arcanemachiner•47m ago
> I’m personally not a fan of OpenAI always referring to their model as “providing intelligence as a utility.” Sounds very condescending, are you saying this isn’t something we already have?

Your body also generates electricity and natural gas. Do you also get upset when energy companies claim to provide these services as a utility?

malfist•43m ago
Is the electricity or natural gas that your body produces a defining feature of humanity?

Does AI actually provide intelligence?

raq98•40m ago
"Humans also produce farts" is a new low. Can the AI people be interned or moved to some seasteading libertarian hellhole so the rest of us can live a normal life?
Muromec•46m ago
>I’m personally not a fan of OpenAI always referring to their model as “providing intelligence as a utility.” Sounds very condescending, are you saying this isn’t something we already have?

We do and we don't. If you would go out there and talk to a random person about elliptic curves and matrix multiplications and whether you hit a performance ceiling in a specific 2x2 multiplication thingy with Karatsuba and wnaf, they would not know half the words, but the lying and flattering machine will be able to hold the conversation.

The thing will not get all things right and bullshit me about DSTU4145 using normal basis, will lie about A being set to 1 for all standard curves, but it's definitely more intelligence that you can get from a taxi driver.

If it's not general superintelligence right there for five bucks a piece, I don't know what is

malfist•42m ago
Is a dictionary intelligent?
hilariously•40m ago
These philosophical questions are decades if not older https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room And the answer is "depends on who you ask and how many capabilities it has"
Muromec•32m ago
Does the prayer by a kafir not knowing the language in which the prayer is recited get forgiveness?

I mean, what's the point of this question even. The thing is either useful or fun or it's not. I personally think the whole AI is the work of devil tempting us, but some people would say that about pork sausages and Paulaner and I like my pork sausages with Paulaner.

preisschild•42m ago
> We do and we don't. If you would go out there and talk to a random person about elliptic curves and matrix multiplications and whether you hit a performance ceiling in a specific 2x2 multiplication thingy with Karatsuba and wnaf, they would not know half the words, but the lying and flattering machine will be able to hold the conversation.

Wikipedia has existed for decades...

Muromec•37m ago
You can't talk to wikipedia either, but it exists and is helpful, yes.
pizza•46m ago
you can say the same thing of the watts in a person too
delusional•39m ago
> providing intelligence as a utility

Lol, they are literally just promising to make people fungible. Tale as old as time.

martin-t•11m ago
Then perhaps their signalling isn't meant for you but for people who have to pay those pesky expensive intelligent people like translators, programmers, designers and writers. Those people would benefit greatly if they could rent intelligence much cheaper from companies like OpenAI.
neon_me•1h ago
... rather than that, they should prepay everyone a few hours of therapy and aroma sticks. A waaay more profit in the long game.
MagicMoonlight•1h ago
It’s a shame ChatGPT is total trash now.
Muromec•40m ago
Thanks CCP for having providing one that is as lying and flattering but cheaper.
syngrog66•59m ago
Facts for context:

Malta has a population of only 550k.

Everyone in Malta could already, before this deal/plan, and even without it now, use ChatGPT (or any other LLM model/service, whether free or premium.)

purrcat259•52m ago
Citation needed. I haven't heard of this.

I'm Maltese so feel free to be as detailed as needed.

collingreen•40m ago
They are saying that the product is already available then implying a government deal on behalf of all citizens doesn't matter because the product is already available.
purrcat259•33m ago
Maltese population are historically price sensitive. €20 a month isn't something you easily justify especially with recent cost of living increases.

So the fact that you get it free after doing some basic due diligence is actually a big deal in the local context.

rtlambh•58m ago
A gambling, money laundering and Mafia paradise where journalists are killed for investigating the Mafia partners with OpenAI. A match made in heaven!

Next, force an eyeball scan on the peasant population.

purrcat259•55m ago
Unfortunate thats the reputation we have :(
eska•49m ago
I used to work for a hosting company, and all the shady business like exploitation of children and sex workers came from there unfortunately. But that’s because people move their business there for legal reasons, not because of their residents I assume.
Muromec•42m ago
Eyball scans are already there on the border for other people. So are AI turrets shooting people on sight, just a different border
musicale•58m ago
What could possibly go wrong?
decimalenough•45m ago
It's a one year free trial, after that it costs money.
1295817•27m ago
The comments here were not sufficiently obsequious towards AI companies, so the submission dropped from the front page to page three in minutes.

That is how AI boosterism works here.

martin-t•7m ago
Surely the deal is beneficial for both sides.

For OpenAI because they get a lot of money and and for the government because they can keep tabs on how people use LLMs to make sure they're not doing anything naughty.