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OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)

Article URL: https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/openai-gpt2-text-generating-algorithm-ai-dangerous.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684326 Points: 20 # Comments: 1

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Technology Apr 8, 2026

JSIR: A High-Level IR for JavaScript

Article URL: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-jsir-a-high-level-ir-for-javascript/90456 Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Apr 8, 2026

US, Iran say they have agreed to a two-week ceasefire

Article URL: https://apnews.com/live/iran-war-israel-trump-04-07-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework

Article URL: https://github.com/linebender/xilem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682719 Points: 8 ...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

USCIS.gov sends user/visitor data to Meta and Google

Article URL: https://varlog.in/inspect/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682500 Points: 9 # Comment...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Trump announces two-week ceasefire as Iran says talks to begin

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-war-live-tehran-rejects-ceasefire-deal-trumps-deadline-reopen-strait-ho...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Valve brings native Steam Link app to Apple's Vision Pro

New app can replace third-party options that were jankier to use.

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30k private Facebook photos

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg049xz1ygo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682098...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Nothing’s noise-canceling CMF Buds 2A are down to $19.99 for the rest of today

It’s not every day you find a decent pair of wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation, a transparency mode, and...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Apple and Lenovo have the least repairable laptops, analysis finds

The MacBook Neo is a step in the right direction, though.

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Amazon is ending support for older Kindles and Kindle Fires

Amazon has announced that starting on May 20th, 2026, Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earl...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

RSoC 2026: A new CPU scheduler for Redox OS

Article URL: https://www.redox-os.org/news/rsoc-dwrr/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681701 Point...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee

Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, open source LLM. And it's gaining populari...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000

Article URL: https://onedollar.today/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681566 Points: 11 # Comments...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

VC Eclipse has a new $1.3B to back — and build — ‘physical AI’ startups

Eclipse will put some of that money towards incubating, or building startups.

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Move Detroit

Article URL: https://www.movedetroit.com/program Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681361 Points: 7 ...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

The iPhone Gets a D- for Repairability

It’s a better rating than the company has gotten from repairability experts before, at least. Samsung is second worst ...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Bitcoin and Quantum Computing

Article URL: https://nehanarula.org/2026/04/03/bitcoin-and-quantum-computing.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Anthropic's Project Glasswing sounds necessary to me

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/7/project-glasswing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Show HN: An interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth

An interactive map of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, with events from across the legendarium plotted as markers.I have been ...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Iran-Linked Hackers Are Sabotaging US Energy and Water Infrastructure

As Trump threatens Iranian infrastructure, the US government warns that Iran has carried out its own digital attacks aga...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Spotify’s Prompted Playlists can help you find new podcasts to listen to

On Tuesday, Spotify expanded its Prompted Playlists feature to include podcasts, an update that could make it easier for...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?

New profile of Sam Altman shines a light on a whole industry.

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Iranian hackers are targeting American critical infrastructure, U.S. agencies warn

A joint FBI, NSA and CISA advisory warns that Iranian hackers have 'escalated' their tactics in response to the ongoing ...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Cells for NetBSD: kernel-enforced, jail-like isolation

Article URL: https://netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680532 Poi...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

S3 Files and the changing face of S3

Article URL: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-files-and-the-changing-face-of-s3.html Comments URL: https...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon

About six months ago, I started working on a project to fine-tune Whisper locally on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio with a limi...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Why IPv6 is the only way forward

Article URL: https://ankshilp.in/posts/for-the-love-of-internet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=476...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

Tailslayer: Library for reducing tail latency in RAM reads

Article URL: https://github.com/LaurieWired/tailslayer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680023 Poin...

Technology Apr 7, 2026

US Labor Force Participation Continues to Slide

Article URL: https://restaurant.org/research-and-media/research/restaurant-economic-insights/analysis-commentary/potent...