Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action
3.5 Flash: agentic tasks at scale This balance of speed and performance makes 3.5 Flash ideal for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks. What used to take a developer days or an auditor weeks, 3.5 Flash can now help complete in a fraction of the time, often at less than half the cost of other frontier models. […]
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM. A custom emulator-independent launcher is provided, and all OSes and emulators are pre-installed and pre-configured. The launcher includes a snapshot feature to quickly revert broken installations back to a working state. […]
Gentoo News: Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia Kernel Vulnerabilities
The Linux kernel has recently been facing a series of discovered privilege escalation vulnerabilities, starting with the Copy Fail vulnerability and followed by subsequent vulnerabilities in the same spirit (Dirty Frag, Fragnesia). This development is part of a general trend where vulnerabilities are being found – and disclosed – faster than before. We expect it […]
Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists
Are you an artist looking for accurate, adjustable 3D pose references? SetPose is a free online pose maker and digital mannequin designed to help you practice drawing human poses and dynamic poses with ease. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, using a pose reference tool can dramatically improve your understanding of anatomy, proportions, […]
OpenBSD 7.9 Released
Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of the ”disklabel -E” command. If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above! OpenBSD/alpha: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write install79.iso or cd79.iso to a CD and boot from it. Refer […]
Colonization of Venus
Artist’s rendering of a crewed floating outpost on Venus of NASA’s High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC) The colonization of Venus is the proposed process of establishing human settlements on the planet Venus. Due to the planet’s extremely hostile surface environment, proposals for settling Venus focus on habitats floating in the upper-middle atmosphere[1] or on settlement […]
New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence
May 19, 2026 PRESS RELEASE Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates powered by Apple Intelligence With Apple Intelligence, detailed descriptions and natural language navigation are coming to features such as VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, and Accessibility Reader Apple also announced new features for controlling power wheelchairs with Apple Vision Pro and generating subtitles across the […]
Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents
Token efficient IDs for AI agents Where UUIDs cost ~23 tokens and get hallucinated by LLMs, id-agent produces memorable word-based IDs at ~14 tokens with equivalent collision resistance. The first ID library built for the context window, not the database. Human-readable — word-based IDs that humans and LLMs can actually remember Token-efficient — every word […]
Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
Shot from 90 perspectives, 88 focus stacked images each. Nikon Z8, full frame, f/7.1, exposure 1/160, ISO 100, Laowa 180mm macro lens, with LED light and bluescreen. Training was done in slang-splat: https://github.com/MichaelMoroz/slang-splat You can download it under CC BY license, but attribution is appreciated rather than required. You may use this work without attribution. […]
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub
Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and […]