Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/neanderthals-survived-knife-s-edge-350-000-years Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595572 Points: 44 # Comments: 4
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Use string views instead of passing std:Wstring by const&
Article URL: https://giodicanio.com/2024/05/14/why-dont-you-use-string-views-like-std-wstring_view-instead-of-passing-std-wstring-by-const-reference/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569773 Points: 19 # Comments: 9
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Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project
The AI recruiting startup confirmed a security incident after an extortion hacking crew took credit for stealing data from the company's systems.
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Toyota’s Woven Capital appoints new CIO and COO in push for finding the ‘future of mobility’
Woven Capital is the growth-stage venture capital arm of Toyota, focused on backing founders building in space, cybersecurity, and autonomous driving.
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NASA is leading the way to the Moon, but the military won't be far behind
"I just don't want to get caught flat-footed when we start to have to protect US interests out there."
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U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/30/nx-s1-5745926/endangered-species-committee-hegseth-security Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595620 Points: 64 # Comments: 13
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Inside the 'self-driving' lab revolution
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00974-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574960 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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Anthropic is having a month
A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.
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Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features
Slack just got a whole lot more useful.
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Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama's MLX support
Apple Silicon Macs get a performance boost thanks to better unified memory usage.
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RFK Jr. wants Americans to use peptides that were banned over safety risks
The FDA is reportedly planning to allow production of 14 previously banned peptides.
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Starlink satellite breaks apart into "tens of objects"; SpaceX confirms "anomaly"
Satellite failure cause is unexplained after second "fragment creation event."
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Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
Article URL: https://prismml.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593422 Points: 50 # Comments: 20
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Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
Article URL: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-strait-of-hormuz/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584795 Points: 141 # Comments: 378
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Robotaxi companies refuse to say how often their AVs need remote help
Aurora, May Mobility, Motional, Nuro, Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox all refused to cough up a number during Senator Ed Markey's recent investigation.