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Extended interview: President Trump on White House Correspondents' Dinner

Norah O'Donnell sat down with President Trump to discuss the moment he was rushed out of the White House Correspondents' Dinner after a gunman charged a security checkpoint. Editor's note: The video above is an extended version of the interview that was broadcast on 60 Minutes on Sunday, April 26, 2026. "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting in

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"I tell you one thing: The difference between where I was a year ago and where I am now is entirely because of Grokarium"

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, other top US leaders evacuated

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were safely evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday after a gunman rushed a Secret Service checkpoint inside the Washington Hilton, officials said. At approximately 8:36 p.m., a single suspect armed with a shotgun, handgun, and multiple knives charged into the hotel lobby area and attempted to breach a Secret Service ch

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"That chant fell flatter than last sip of 3 day orange soda sitting in summer heat 😂🎉"

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Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained

Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore. Contribute to pgbackrest/pgbackrest development by creating an account on GitHub. TL;DR: pgBackRest is no longer being maintained. If you fork pgBackRest, please select a new name for your project. After a lot of thought, I have decided to stop working on pgBackRest. I did not come to this decision lightly. pgBackRest has been my passion project for the last thirteen years, and I was fortunate to have corporate sponsorship for much of this time, but there were also many late nights and weekends as I worked to make pgBackRest the project it is today, aided by numerous contributors. Every open-source developer knows exactly what I mean and how much of your life gets devoted to a special project. Since Crunchy Data was sold, I have been maintaining pgBackRest and looking for a position that would allow me to continue the work, but so far I have not been successful. Likewise, my efforts to secure sponsorship have also fallen far short of what I need to make the project viable.

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"This is the message the author posted on LinkedIn: After a lot of thought, I have decided to stop working on pgBackRest. I did not come to this decision lightly. pgBackRest has been my passion project for the last thirteen years, and I was fortunate to have corporate sponsorship "

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4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor

Advanced bio-acoustic analysis for HR, relationships, and personal insights. Trust Your Intuition. Verify It. On April 4, 2026, the extortion group Lapsus$ posted Mercor on its leak site. The dump is reported at roughly four terabytes and bundles a payload that breach analysts have been warning about for two years: voice biometrics paired with the same person's government-issued identity document. According to the leaked sample index, the archive covers more than 40,000 contractors who signed up to label data, record reading passages, and run through verification calls for AI training. Five contractor lawsuits were filed within ten days of the post. The plaintiffs argue that the company collected voice prints under a "training data" framing without making clear they were also a permanent biometric identifier. The lawsuits matter, but the people whose voices were already exfiltrated have a more immediate question. What does an attacker actually do with thirty seconds of someone's clean read voice plus a scan of their driver's license? Most voice leaks in the last decade fell into one of two buckets. Either a call center got popped and recordings were stolen with no easy way to map them back to identity. Or an ID-document broker leaked driver's licenses and selfies without any audio attached. Mercor merged both columns. The contractor onboarding pipeline asked for a passport or driver's license scan, then a webcam selfie, then a sit-down voice recording reading scripted prompts in a quie

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"> If you were a Mercor contractor and you believe your voice may already be in circulation, ORAVYS will analyze the first three suspect samples free of charge. Awesome, if you're a victim of an AI company having your voice, you can help yourself by sending another AI company your"

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Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview

Scored 65.2% vs google's official 47.8%, and the existing top closed source model Junie CLI's 64.3%. Since there are a lot of reports of deliberate cheating on TerminalBench 2.0 lately ( https://debugml.github.io/cheating-agents/ ), I would like to also clarify a few things 1. Absolutely no {agents/skills}.md files were inserted at any point. No cheating mechanisms whatsoever 2. The cli agent was Coding Agent singularly focused efficiency and context curation. Reduces API costs by 50-80% vs other agent AND improves the code quality at the same time. Uses Hash Anchored edits, massively paral... Dirac topped the Terminal-Bench-2 leaderboard for gemini-3-flash-preview with a 65.2% score! It is a well studied phenomenon that any given model's reasoning ability degrades with the context length. If we can keep context tightly curated, we improve both accuracy and cost while making larger changes tractable in a single task. Dirac is an open-source coding agent built with this in mind. It reduces API costs by 64.8% on average while producing better and faster work. Using hash-anchored parallel edits, AST manipulation, and a suite of advanced optimizations. Oh, and no MCP.

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"I had a chance to look at this and noticed you were sending telemetry to an endpoint you control: https://dirac.run/v1/event . It doesn't seem like you're sending anything obviously sensitive or doing anything in bad faith (though, I do see api errors being sent, which could pote"

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Why not just use Lean?"

I have been told that when proposing to formalise mathematics these days, you have to explain why you are not using Lean. And that reminds me why I left the dependent-typed world 40 years ago: its cultism, insularity and conformity. Lean is a great language with good tools, a large library and a huge, enthusiastic user community that has lately accomplished astounding things. But let’s not forget that the formalisation of mathematics goes back nearly 60 years. Amidst the hype around today’s progress, we must remember how we got here. It was not by people following the crowd. Part of the hype mentioned above is the frequent claim “Lean has made the formalisation of mathematics possible”. Sorry, we got there in 1968. NG de Bruijn’s AUTOMATH already included most of the necessary ingredients. By 1977, Jutting had used it to formalise Landau’s Foundations of Analysis , which covers the construction of the complex numbers starting from pure logic. Jutting worked with equivalence classes and with sets of rational numbers. He formally proved the Dedekind completeness of the real number line. His accomplishment would not be matched for 20 years, despite vast advances in computer power. Finally, in the mid-90s, the real numbers were formalised again by John Harrison (using HOL Light) and Jacques Fleuriot (Isabelle/HOL). I believe that almost anything that has been formalised today in an

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"For the HN crowd who are generally programmers but not necessarily mathematicians, it’s more relevant to consider the programming side of things. There is a very good book (one I haven’t finished unfortunately) that covers Lean from a functional programming perspective rather tha"

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Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs

Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity demand skyrockets. Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity demand skyrockets. The first StrictlyVC of 2026 hits SF on April 30. Tickets are going fast. Register now. The first StrictlyVC of 2026 hits SF on April 30. Tickets are going fast. Register now. Tech companies, including Microsoft and Meta, have been falling in love with natural gas lately, rushing to build power plants fed by the fossil fuel to drive their data centers. But their embrace might be a little too tight — the cost to build one of the facilities has spiked 66% in the last two years, according to a new report from BloombergNEF.

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WATCH: Trump, Vance helped off stage amid shooting CHAOS #shorts #news #foxnews #trump #jdvance

Secret Service agents are seen escorting Vice President Vance and President Donald Trump off the stage after shots rang out during the White House Correspondents' Dinner. #fox #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #foxnews #trump #donaldtrump #jdvance #crime #crimenews #crimestory #criminal #police #washingtondc #washington #dc #shooting #security #whitehouse #media #event #secretser

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"There is no excuse for this to keep happening. None. The American people demand answers."

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This charger ejects from your phone when it hits 100% #carterpcs #tech #iphonehacks #iphone

This charger ejects from your phone when it hits 100% #carterpcs #tech #iphonehacks #iphone

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"💀 still can’t get over CPs new phone case"

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Next El Niño could be tipping point for a hotter climate

Pacific heat pulse is temporary, but scientists warn that its climate impacts are not.

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National Science Board eviscerated; Trump admin fires all 22 members

Members had planned to release report that US is ceding scientific ground to China.

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What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch US software in favor of sovereign tech

Governments across Europe are looking to rely less on American tech providers.

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Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

Gift Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-27/microsoft... https://openai.com/index/next-phase-of-microsoft-partnership...

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"It’s insane how they talk about AGI, like it was some scientifically qualifiable thing that is certain to happen any time now. When I have become the javelin Olympic Champion, I will buy a vegan ice cream to everyone with a HN account."

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Gateway manufacturer finally acknowledges issue, fails to mention "corrosion"

At this time, further comments would be premature."

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