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More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639408
Points: 330
# Comments: 439
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NASA Color Trick Was Meant for Mars. Now It's Unveiling Rock Art on Earth
Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/this-nasa-color-trick-was-meant-for-mars-now-its-unveiling-rock-art-on-earth-2000809844
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645437
Points: 150
# Comments: 29
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Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
Article URL: https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645443
Points: 208
# Comments: 98
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Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex
Article URL: https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/how-big-tech-and-silicon-valley-are-transforming-military-industrial-complex
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645754
Points: 91
# Comments: 132
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Neki is sharded Postgres by PlanetScale
Article URL: https://neki.dev/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645763
Points: 96
# Comments: 20
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Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model
Hey HN, I'm Shreyash from Feyn. We help companies build custom models from their data. Today we're releasing MultiMatte, a background removal model you can aim with words. Name an object in your image. MultiMatte keeps just that thing, and removes everything else. Try it out on your images: https://usefeyn.com/multimatte/ . Demo video: https://youtu.be/XZ5BJWAkOjs MultiMatte is open source. Build with it using our NoBg library https://github.com/feyninc/nobg . Model card here: https://hf.co...
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Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/16.0.4.md
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645907
Points: 82
# Comments: 34
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I have a theory that software drives people insane
Article URL: https://graybeard.ing/software-drives-people-insane/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646181
Points: 233
# Comments: 90
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Cognition's SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1
Article URL: https://tokenstead.ai/models/swe-2
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49646778
Points: 29
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Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom
Article URL: https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647134
Points: 48
# Comments: 20
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JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation
Article URL: https://openjdk.org/jeps/544
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647404
Points: 30
# Comments: 15
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Genuine Creativity Is Your New Moat (2026)
Article URL: https://www.inventbuild.studio/blog/genuine-creativity-is-your-new-moat
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648732
Points: 22
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