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New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-...
81•interpol_p•53m ago•19 comments

Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry

https://superspl.at/scene/84df8849
170•danybittel•2h ago•63 comments

Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents

https://github.com/vostride/id-agent
22•pranshuchittora•1h ago•37 comments

I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert

https://medium.com/@breid.at/ultra-pure-quantum-crystals-from-an-abandoned-mine-in-a-mysterious-d...
122•vi_sextus_vi•2d ago•31 comments

Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users

https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
81•SockThief•2d ago•45 comments

Peter Neumann has died

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033748.html
190•pabs3•9h ago•17 comments

Polypad

https://polypad.amplify.com/
113•ivank•2d ago•9 comments

Click (2016)

https://clickclickclick.click/
326•andrewzeno•13h ago•82 comments

Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone

https://www.kv4p.com/
113•krupan•2d ago•40 comments

Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language

https://github.com/status-im/nim-presto
10•TheWiggles•1d ago•1 comments

Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5

https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2-5
180•asar•19h ago•141 comments

Anthropic acquires Stainless

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless
477•tomeraberbach•19h ago•337 comments

Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised

https://safedep.io/mini-shai-hulud-strikes-again-314-npm-packages-compromised/
152•theanonymousone•7h ago•82 comments

The lasting influence of Netscape Time

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-lasting-influence-of-netscape-time/
55•zdw•2d ago•12 comments

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/
524•yakkomajuri•11h ago•420 comments

Colonization of Venus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus
8•simonebrunozzi•30m ago•0 comments

PyTorch Landscape

https://pytorch.landscape2.io
54•salamo•8h ago•14 comments

1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries

https://github.com/2b2tplace/1m_release
154•exploraz•22h ago•93 comments

Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/regex-chess.html
147•surprisetalk•4d ago•36 comments

We let AIs run radio stations

https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm
292•lukaspetersson•18h ago•223 comments

Energy return in running shoes explained (2025)

https://runrepeat.com/guides/energy-return-in-running-shoes
23•jstrieb•1d ago•20 comments

Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker

https://evanhahn.com/make-zip-files-smaller-with-zip-shrinker/
42•zdw•2d ago•26 comments

Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

https://isabisabel.com/gacha/
183•babel16•5d ago•76 comments

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas...
249•cucho•13h ago•165 comments

Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust

https://github.com/harmont-dev/hsrs
40•suis_siva•8h ago•3 comments

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp
168•veqq•17h ago•41 comments

AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/t/6a0af5d0484fbf5fe9a7743e/177910...
260•topherjaynes•1d ago•141 comments

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/
1002•nycdatasci•19h ago•504 comments

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)

https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/
239•ankitg12•3d ago•137 comments

Peter Salus has died

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033750.html
151•speckx•10h ago•12 comments
Open in hackernews

New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-apple-intelligence/
80•interpol_p•53m ago

Comments

runeks•27m ago
> The total amount due on the bill is $83.89. Please verify this amount with your utility provider or by using Text Detection before making a payment.

1. Use AI to determine how much a bill is for

2. Call up the people who billed you and ask them how much they billed you

3. Pay billed amount

tramc•18m ago
It’s still useful to get the information instantly and verify it later. Arguably asking someone you trust to read the number for you might be a better idea than calling the company. Not everybody has that option though.
Someone•5m ago
[delayed]
nechuchelo•24m ago
This looks like a genuinely useful application of LLMs.

I wish more companies focused on how they can help humans instead of replacing us or squeezing us as hard as possible in the name of productivity.

koolala•23m ago
Its with their servers right? Do they trust a iPhone with their life? Or they are trusting their data center?
nechuchelo•12m ago
Looks like some of the features might use on-device models. They mention subtitle generation works on-device.
bsanders343•8m ago
I agree. There seems to be a lot of potential in this space (from my outsider view). I really hope that this issue from an earlier article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178378) doesn't become common enough to make useful functionality like this a danger. Seems unlikely in the short term but as use cases grow, so might the bad actors.
c0wb0yc0d3r•7m ago
I think we should reserve judgment until this lands in the hands of the people it helps.

My experience is limited to my elderly parents who have trouble seeing. With the text size Apple allows them to set it to, their phones are unreadable. Text runs off the screen in every app, 1st and 3rd party.

In their bill example, the user is told to confirm with the provider. Why not offer to call the number on the bill? Instead of telling them to use text detection, do it for them? Presumably Apple Intelligence would already have that capability. I’m afraid this will be a gimmick at best.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, the grip is good to see. Hopefully they don’t charge the apple tax on it.

mohsen1•20m ago
Fun fact: This video was made accessible to sighted people because no blind person would ever listen to voice at that speed. Honestly if you ever observe a blind person using computers you'd impressed how they can listen to audio at unimaginable speeds.
Sweepi•9m ago
dont you worry, as a sighted person I am also infuriated by apples slooow reading speed, e.g. for "Announce Notifications".
embedding-shape•8m ago
> Honestly if you ever observe a blind person using computers you'd impressed how they can listen to audio at unimaginable speeds.

Even better, fire up Orca (or whatever screenreader application your OS comes with) yourself and try to use your computer while shutting your eyes, kind of eye-opening (no pun intended) what kind of experience these sort of users typically get. And also, you quickly start to understand why they set the speech rate for their voice synthesizer to be so fast, it's almost unbearable navigating applications (and particularly lists) otherwise.

asimovDev•3m ago
https://youtu.be/wKISPePFrIs?si=ahGfFp0U7-pTU9w6&t=43

my go to example of this is this talk by Saqib Shaikh (a blind software engineer at Microsoft) giving a talk about Visual Studio. Link is timestamped

ShinyLeftPad•2m ago
Blind people can't change video speed? The control is available right there.
jansan•17m ago
Since Apple uses Gemini to power its AI, are those features actually powered by Google Gemini?
jjice•13m ago
They don't get, but they will be using Gemini derived models with iOS 27. For now it's all their own models.
exitb•14m ago
As Apple shifts towards services and fancy software features, I wonder how do they expect to stay competitive by only releasing them for a subset of languages.
tekacs•10m ago
I'm super glad that they're doing this, but once again unexcited for another decade of Apple self-privileging on this stuff so they're the only ones allowed to touch or improve any of this surface, or UX outside an app's tiny box.

People talk a lot about how MacOS has gone downhill but I feel like it would have been a good start if developers could continue to patch over Apple's shortcomings like they used to be able to.

Totally aware that plenty of HN commenters are very glad that Apple keeps this locked down. I'm just the other opinion, that's all.

abhikul0•10m ago
On-device video subtitles generation is exciting, should help with watching videos on mute. This seems like a low hanging fruit that should've already been grabbed by an app but I can't find any.
randusername•8m ago
Accessibility features are such a great way to keep technology focused on real-world problems and real-world experiences.

I think the trap in creating anything is doing it for a crowd. Art, software, anything... it turns out better when it is made with a specific, named individual in-mind.

Accessibility features are almost always championed and field-tested with one specific loved one in mind and I think that's what keeps the technical solutions personable and grounded.