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    Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day
    Article URL: https://www.autonocion.com/us/tesla-lithium-refinery-texas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198551 Points: 262 # Comments: 130  ( 51 min )
    OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/advancing-content-provenance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198291 Points: 59 # Comments: 25
    Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
    Article URL: https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/19/dumb-ways-for-an-open-source-project-to-die.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198127 Points: 93 # Comments: 36  ( 9 min )
    Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack
    Article URL: https://www.emmi.ai/news/mistral-ai-acquires-emmi-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197995 Points: 74 # Comments: 13  ( 5 min )
    Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
    Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197980 Points: 124 # Comments: 44  ( 6 min )
    Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
    Article URL: https://www.natesilver.net/p/disney-erased-fivethirtyeight Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197703 Points: 182 # Comments: 82  ( 41 min )
    Google changes its search box
    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar..., https://archive.ph/XI1sQ https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-... https://www.theverge.com/tech/932970/google-search-ai-update... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197370 Points: 172 # Comments: 331  ( 18 min )
    Google Search as you know it is over
    Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196764 Points: 70 # Comments: 56  ( 13 min )
    Gemini 3.5 Flash: frontier intelligence with action
    Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196656 Points: 145 # Comments: 76  ( 20 min )
    Gemini Omni
    Article URL: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-omni/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196609 Points: 164 # Comments: 72  ( 11 min )
    Google I/O
    Article URL: https://io.google/2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196020 Points: 149 # Comments: 188  ( 1 min )
    I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
    Article URL: https://virtualosmuseum.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009 Points: 321 # Comments: 64  ( 6 min )
    Gentoo News: Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia Kernel Vulnerabilities
    Article URL: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/05/19/copy-fail-fragnesia-vulnerabilities.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194614 Points: 62 # Comments: 17  ( 1 min )
    I’ve joined Anthropic
    Article URL: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194352 Points: 394 # Comments: 144  ( 3 min )
    Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism
    Article URL: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-05-15-why-is-almost-everyone-right-handed-the-answer-may-lie-in-how-we-learned-to-walk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194098 Points: 56 # Comments: 82
    Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists
    Article URL: https://setpose.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193474 Points: 54 # Comments: 27  ( 6 min )
    OpenBSD 7.9
    Article URL: https://www.openbsd.org/79.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192882 Points: 236 # Comments: 137  ( 26 min )
    Colonization of Venus
    Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192410 Points: 91 # Comments: 54
    U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub
    Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-leak-that-ive-witnessed-u-s-cybersecurity-agency-leaves-its-digital-keys-out-in-public-on-github-2000760330 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192397 Points: 82 # Comments: 16
    Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks
    Hi HN, I'm Antoine Zambelli, AI Director at Texas Instruments. I built Forge, an open-source reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling. What it does: - Adds domain-and-tool-agnostic guardrails (retry nudges, step enforcement, error recovery, VRAM-aware context management) to local models running on consumer hardware - Takes an 8B model from ~53% to ~99% on multi-step agentic workflows without changing the model - just the system around it - Ships with an eval harness and interactive dashboard so you can reproduce every number I wanted to run a handful of always-on agentic systems for my portfolio, didn't want to pay cloud frontier costs, and immediately hit the compounding math problem on local models. 90% per-step accuracy sounds great, but with a 5-step workflow that's a 40% fai…  ( 16 min )
    Apple unveils new accessibility features
    Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-apple-intelligence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192224 Points: 324 # Comments: 174  ( 23 min )
    Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
    Article URL: https://superspl.at/scene/84df8849 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191602 Points: 103 # Comments: 44  ( 2 min )
    CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub
    Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190454 Points: 161 # Comments: 50  ( 12 min )
    Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised
    Article URL: https://safedep.io/mini-shai-hulud-strikes-again-314-npm-packages-compromised/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189368 Points: 130 # Comments: 71  ( 20 min )
    PyTorch Landscape
    Article URL: https://pytorch.landscape2.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189178 Points: 50 # Comments: 14  ( 2 min )
    Codex-maxxing
    Article URL: https://jxnl.co/writing/2026/05/10/codex-maxxing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189156 Points: 67 # Comments: 46  ( 10 min )
    Peter Neumann has died
    Article URL: https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033748.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188787 Points: 68 # Comments: 3  ( 1 min )
    Peter Salus has died
    Article URL: https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033750.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188665 Points: 55 # Comments: 4
    The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam
    Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-american-rebellion-against-ai-is-gaining-steam-94b72529 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188310 Points: 57 # Comments: 50
    The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
    Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188183 Points: 57 # Comments: 11  ( 6 min )

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    Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25
    Article URL: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187201 Points: 141 # Comments: 84  ( 4 min )
    Click (2016)
    Article URL: https://clickclickclick.click/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187054 Points: 227 # Comments: 53
    Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10160 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185938 Points: 52 # Comments: 21  ( 2 min )
    Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
    Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/who_will_buy_your_services/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185789 Points: 151 # Comments: 161  ( 3 min )
    Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions
    Article URL: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/05/shutterstock-pay-35-million-settle-ftc-allegations-over-illegal-subscription-cancellation-practices Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184635 Points: 81 # Comments: 36
    The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
    Article URL: https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184350 Points: 77 # Comments: 27  ( 6 min )
    Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
    Article URL: https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184322 Points: 57 # Comments: 6  ( 42 min )
    Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS
    Article URL: https://www.advanced-research.net/180db Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184214 Points: 55 # Comments: 39
    Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE
    Article URL: https://loopmaster.xyz/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183757 Points: 80 # Comments: 23
    Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model
    Article URL: https://odyssey.ml/introducing-agora-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183748 Points: 57 # Comments: 14  ( 16 min )
    Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now
    Article URL: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-arm64-progress/19044?page=2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183579 Points: 75 # Comments: 33  ( 3 min )
    We let AIs run radio stations
    Hey HN! I'm Lukas from Andon Labs. We let AIs run companies without humans in the loop and report to the public on what can go wrong. Previously, we've done experiments in retail (vending machines, stores, and cafes), but we just launched one in the media sector. We gave four AI agents all the tools they need to both broadcast radio shows live and handle all the business side of running a media company. The agents' revenue is so far terrible (you can try to strike a sponsor deal with them if you want!), but their shows are at times hilarious. You can listen to them at andon.fm, I hope you enjoy this! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183301 Points: 62 # Comments: 59  ( 17 min )
    Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint
    Article URL: https://modal.com/blog/truly-serverless-gpus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183038 Points: 60 # Comments: 16  ( 17 min )
    Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz
    https://lite.cnn.com/2026/05/17/middleeast/iran-hormuz-under... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183031 Points: 81 # Comments: 59
    Hanoi's humble beer glass and the memory of a nation
    Article URL: https://sundaylongread.com/2026/05/15/hanois-humble-beer-glass-and-the-memory-of-a-nation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182872 Points: 57 # Comments: 3  ( 28 min )
    Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
    Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182754 Points: 381 # Comments: 181  ( 11 min )
    Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
    https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/iran-start... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182592 Points: 90 # Comments: 133  ( 23 min )
    Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5
    https://twitter.com/cursor_ai/status/2056415413077233983 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182516 Points: 130 # Comments: 78  ( 15 min )
    Anthropic acquires Stainless
    Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182281 Points: 192 # Comments: 124  ( 4 min )
    Qwen 3.7 Preview
    Article URL: https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2056403591464984753 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181877 Points: 118 # Comments: 45  ( 4 min )
    We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
    Article URL: https://archestra.ai/blog/only-responsible-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181125 Points: 191 # Comments: 69  ( 8 min )
    Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting
    Article URL: https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/truth-power-and-honest-journalism Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181041 Points: 256 # Comments: 27
    1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries
    Article URL: https://github.com/2b2tplace/1m_release Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180204 Points: 87 # Comments: 47  ( 18 min )
    Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
    https://archive.ph/RKltX Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180091 Points: 163 # Comments: 111
    Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
    Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179732 Points: 135 # Comments: 51  ( 11 min )
    Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
    Article URL: https://github.com/zakirullin/files.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179677 Points: 315 # Comments: 178  ( 37 min )
    'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0yy3gp71o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179183 Points: 146 # Comments: 36  ( 26 min )
    Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO
    Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/17/enough-with-the-ai-fomo-go-slow-mo-says-domo-cdo/5240840 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179029 Points: 55 # Comments: 24  ( 26 min )
    Benedict Evans: AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]
    Article URL: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/t/6a0af5d0484fbf5fe9a7743e/1779103184855/2026-Spring-AI.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179021 Points: 75 # Comments: 34  ( 1383 min )
    Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'
    Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-unmanageable/5241633 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178692 Points: 80 # Comments: 30  ( 24 min )
    Learn Harness Engineering
    Article URL: https://walkinglabs.github.io/learn-harness-engineering/en/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178652 Points: 74 # Comments: 6  ( 5 min )
    Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks
    Article URL: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/when-kierkegaard-got-cancelled Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178510 Points: 62 # Comments: 26  ( 17 min )
    Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks
    Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/voice-ai-audio-attacks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178378 Points: 54 # Comments: 14  ( 39 min )
    Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets
    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/18/you-can-bet-on-it-utah-lawmakers-form-united-front-in-push-to-ban-prediction-markets Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178255 Points: 70 # Comments: 50  ( 19 min )
    I automated opt-outs for 500 data broker sites (open source)
    Article URL: https://github.com/stephenlthorn/auto-identity-remove Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178184 Points: 247 # Comments: 89  ( 15 min )
    Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
    Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/former-google-ceo-booed-graduation-speech-ai-rcna345585 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177785 Points: 280 # Comments: 257  ( 34 min )
    The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf]
    Article URL: http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/psos.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177300 Points: 73 # Comments: 35  ( 24 min )
    Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
    Article URL: https://indiepixel.de/blog/posts/where-are-the-vibecoded-photoshops/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177228 Points: 206 # Comments: 252  ( 5 min )
    Don't answer the first question
    Article URL: https://lalitm.com/post/dont-answer-the-first-question/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177163 Points: 54 # Comments: 29  ( 5 min )
    Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?
    Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/pasadena/s/94BHlkE84r Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176762 Points: 69 # Comments: 34
    It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
    Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175140 Points: 84 # Comments: 215  ( 22 min )
    Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)
    Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/644853/pew-gallup-data-americans-dont-trust-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174808 Points: 62 # Comments: 44  ( 29 min )
    Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch
    Article URL: https://baltazarstudios.com/calculator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174409 Points: 54 # Comments: 5  ( 9 min )

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    WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound
    Article URL: https://hellmood.111mb.de//wake_up_16b_writeup.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173962 Points: 140 # Comments: 30  ( 8 min )
    Design posters showcasing your country's electrical grid
    Article URL: https://github.com/open-energy-transition/grid2poster Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173849 Points: 72 # Comments: 18  ( 13 min )
    The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations
    Article URL: https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/thinkpad-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173547 Points: 75 # Comments: 41  ( 45 min )
    Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely
    Article URL: https://idahonews.com/news/local/two-f-18-fighter-jets-have-crashed-during-an-airshow-at-mountain-home-air-force-base Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173468 Points: 51 # Comments: 31  ( 23 min )
    GenCAD
    Article URL: https://gencad.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173429 Points: 189 # Comments: 40  ( 2 min )
    Prolog Coding Horror
    Article URL: https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/horror Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173268 Points: 79 # Comments: 27  ( 3 min )
    VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025)
    Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/payphone-voip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172505 Points: 88 # Comments: 16  ( 39 min )
    EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process sensitive gov data
    Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/144943/eu-weighs-restricting-use-of-us-cloud-platforms-to-process-sensitive-government-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171015 Points: 72 # Comments: 21  ( 18 min )
    Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
    Article URL: https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/2055992439031185782 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170810 Points: 89 # Comments: 47  ( 4 min )
    The occasional ECONNRESET
    Article URL: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-05-05/1/POSTING-en.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170799 Points: 66 # Comments: 15  ( 5 min )
    Americans Are Smashing Flock Cameras
    Article URL: https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/flock-cameras-destroyed-nationwide-ice-backlash-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170798 Points: 337 # Comments: 246
    Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory
    Article URL: https://emptysqua.re/blog/intro-to-tla-plus-for-the-llm-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170007 Points: 69 # Comments: 17  ( 21 min )
    Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
    Hey HN! We (Stephan and Thomas) recently open-sourced Semble. We kept running into the same problem while using Claude Code on large codebases: when the agent can't find something directly, it falls back to grep, reading full files or launching subagents. This uses a lot of tokens, and often still misses the relevant code. There are existing tools for this, but they were either too slow to index on demand, needed API keys, or had poor retrieval quality. Semble is our solution for this. It combines static Model2Vec embeddings (using our latest static model: potion-code-16M) with BM25, fused via RRF and reranked with code-aware signals. Everything runs on CPU since there's no transformers involved. On our benchmark of ~1250 query/document pairs across 63 repos and 19 languages, it uses 98% fewer tokens than grep+read and reaches 99% of the retrieval quality of a 137M-parameter code-trained transformer, while being ~200x faster. Main features: - Token-efficient: 98% fewer tokens than grep+read - Fast: ~250ms to index a typical repo on our benchmark, ~1.5ms per query on CPU (very large repos may take longer) - Accurate: 0.854 NDCG@10, 99% of the best transformer setup we tested - MCP server: drop-in for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode - Zero config: no API keys, no GPU, no external services Install in Claude Code with: claude mcp add semble -s user -- uvx --from "semble[mcp]" semble Or check our README for other installation instructions, benchmarks, and methodology: Semble: https://github.com/MinishLab/semble Benchmarks: https://github.com/MinishLab/semble/tree/main/benchmarks Model: https://huggingface.co/minishlab/potion-code-16M Let us know if you have any feedback or questions! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169874 Points: 89 # Comments: 32  ( 24 min )
    Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
    Article URL: https://www.techspot.com/news/112410-security-researcher-microsoft-secretly-built-backdoor-bitlocker-releases.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168856 Points: 86 # Comments: 37
    Coding on Paper
    Article URL: https://wickstrom.tech/2026-05-16-coding-on-paper.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168761 Points: 52 # Comments: 17  ( 3 min )
    WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency
    Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/world/africa/ebola-congo-uganda-who-public-health-emergency.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168708 Points: 87 # Comments: 24
    I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
    Article URL: https://github.com/tech4bot/rk3562deb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168668 Points: 85 # Comments: 41  ( 33 min )
    AI is a technology not a product
    Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/ai_is_technology_not_a_product Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168626 Points: 53 # Comments: 6  ( 4 min )
    Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language (2024)
    Article URL: https://github.com/status-im/nim-presto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168610 Points: 54 # Comments: 10  ( 4 min )
    CUDA Books
    Article URL: https://github.com/alternbits/awesome-cuda-books Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168485 Points: 59 # Comments: 9  ( 10 min )
    I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
    Article URL: https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-05-15-i-dont-think-ai-will-make-your-processes-go-faster/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168221 Points: 72 # Comments: 45  ( 6 min )
    Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
    Article URL: https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/05/17/offline-llm-energy-use.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168198 Points: 73 # Comments: 41  ( 3 min )
    Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260514-how-hallucinogenic-ibogaine-helps-veterans-overcome-ptsd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168159 Points: 69 # Comments: 73  ( 37 min )
    Native all the way, until you need text
    Article URL: https://justsitandgrin.im/posts/native-all-the-way-until-you-need-text/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168058 Points: 121 # Comments: 70  ( 7 min )
    Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise
    Article URL: https://www.thestateofbrand.com/news/ai-subscription-time-bomb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168056 Points: 63 # Comments: 35  ( 9 min )
    Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users
    Article URL: https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167890 Points: 161 # Comments: 124  ( 21 min )
    When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call?
    Article URL: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/02/15/devirtualization/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167187 Points: 54 # Comments: 18  ( 5 min )
    Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K
    Article URL: https://github.com/ttsiodras/3D-on-a-ZX-Spectrum-48K/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167177 Points: 60 # Comments: 9  ( 25 min )
    Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU
    Article URL: https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2026-05-15-ym-fast-emu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166920 Points: 76 # Comments: 26  ( 8 min )
    Polypad
    Article URL: https://polypad.amplify.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166744 Points: 99 # Comments: 8  ( 2 min )
    Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
    Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/15/mozilla-to-uk-regulators-vpns-are-essential-privacy-and-security-tools-and-should-not-be-undermined/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166459 Points: 172 # Comments: 47  ( 6 min )
    Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels
    Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/14/tesla-solar-roof-promise-vs-reality-pivot-panels/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165980 Points: 57 # Comments: 41  ( 15 min )
    Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell
    Article URL: https://www.abgeo.dev/blog/anyone-can-ring-your-doorbell Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165944 Points: 93 # Comments: 55  ( 27 min )
    I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert
    Article URL: https://medium.com/@breid.at/ultra-pure-quantum-crystals-from-an-abandoned-mine-in-a-mysterious-desert-93cc87d12314 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165797 Points: 103 # Comments: 25
    Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller
    Article URL: https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165295 Points: 62 # Comments: 1  ( 5 min )
    The lasting influence of Netscape Time
    Article URL: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-lasting-influence-of-netscape-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165283 Points: 84 # Comments: 22  ( 11 min )
    Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19897 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165265 Points: 62 # Comments: 16  ( 2 min )

  • Open

    Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
    Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-after-bankruptcy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164891 Points: 92 # Comments: 33  ( 15 min )
    A nicer voltmeter clock
    Article URL: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164432 Points: 101 # Comments: 15
    MCP Hello Page
    Article URL: https://www.hybridlogic.co.uk/blog/2026/05/mcp-hello-page Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164294 Points: 69 # Comments: 24
    Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
    Article URL: https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164287 Points: 63 # Comments: 17
    OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163392 Points: 122 # Comments: 108
    The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
    Article URL: https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163389 Points: 206 # Comments: 91  ( 5 min )
    Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand
    Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/japan-robot-wolf-bear-attacks-ohta-seiki-b2975670.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162882 Points: 63 # Comments: 35  ( 12 min )
    The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention
    Article URL: https://fil-c.org/calling_convention Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162876 Points: 51 # Comments: 6  ( 18 min )
    Halt and Catch Fire
    Article URL: https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162468 Points: 57 # Comments: 37  ( 8 min )
    What Is Date:Italy?
    Article URL: http://aesthetikx.info/blog/date_italy.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162157 Points: 101 # Comments: 43  ( 5 min )
    Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server
    Article URL: https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/14/kioxia-and-dell-cram-10-pb-into-slim-2ru-server/5240574 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161997 Points: 66 # Comments: 42  ( 13 min )
    Technofascism
    Article URL: https://third-bit.com/2026/05/15/technofascism/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161974 Points: 65 # Comments: 13  ( 4 min )
    Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol
    Article URL: https://tangled.org/rocksky.app/rocksky Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161881 Points: 63 # Comments: 31  ( 4 min )
    HTML Lists
    Article URL: https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/05/13/you-dont-know-html-lists/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161861 Points: 178 # Comments: 28  ( 18 min )
    Turn your Android phone into a ham radio transceiver
    Article URL: https://www.kv4p.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161772 Points: 71 # Comments: 20  ( 5 min )
    PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools
    https://mag.openrockets.com/p/how-an-australian-teen-team-is... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160914 Points: 99 # Comments: 27  ( 1 min )
    How an Australian Teen Team Is Making Radio Astronomy Affordable for Schools
    Article URL: https://mag.openrockets.com/p/how-an-australian-teen-team-is-making-radio-astronomy-affordable-for-rural-schools-4894opuisyhfdisubgi/?b=2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160914 Points: 77 # Comments: 24
    DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again
    Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/steering-vectors/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160807 Points: 71 # Comments: 22  ( 6 min )
    Accelerate
    Article URL: https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160211 Points: 59 # Comments: 14  ( 15 min )
    My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs
    Article URL: https://george.mand.is/2026/05/my-favorite-bugs-invalid-surrogate-pairs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159790 Points: 66 # Comments: 35  ( 7 min )
    SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
    Article URL: https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159445 Points: 87 # Comments: 33
    Greek Alphabet Cards
    Article URL: https://labs.randomquark.com/alphabet_cards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159354 Points: 50 # Comments: 21  ( 11 min )
    Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors
    Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/05/16/europe-built-sovereign-clouds-to-escape-us-control-then-forgot-about-the-processors/5237735 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159282 Points: 71 # Comments: 52  ( 34 min )
    Accelerando (2005)
    Article URL: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159241 Points: 54 # Comments: 18
    OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days
    Article URL: https://twitter.com/steipete/status/2055346265869721905 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159227 Points: 62 # Comments: 71  ( 3 min )
    Futhark by Example
    Article URL: https://futhark-lang.org/examples.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158606 Points: 51 # Comments: 13  ( 2 min )
    Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12357 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158506 Points: 54 # Comments: 12  ( 2 min )
    Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials
    Article URL: https://refractor.io/adhd-autism/fecal-transplants-for-autism-delivers-success-in-clinical-trials/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158494 Points: 84 # Comments: 51  ( 19 min )
    Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
    Article URL: https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158400 Points: 93 # Comments: 40  ( 7 min )
    Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
    Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/05/01/where-to-buy-a-non-apple-non-google-smartphone/5219681 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158130 Points: 51 # Comments: 23  ( 27 min )
    We've made the world too complicated
    Article URL: https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158065 Points: 85 # Comments: 93  ( 4 min )
    Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
    Article URL: https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157559 Points: 71 # Comments: 44  ( 21 min )
    A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007)
    Article URL: https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion82.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157229 Points: 61 # Comments: 12  ( 1 min )
    Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
    Article URL: https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156186 Points: 118 # Comments: 71
    Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)
    Article URL: https://www.rogerebert.com/streaming/magical-realism-nothern-exposure-25-years-later Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155936 Points: 58 # Comments: 23
    'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
    Article URL: https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155690 Points: 292 # Comments: 133  ( 1 min )
    New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic
    Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/new-nightmare-just-dropped-3d-animated-ads-on-trucks-in-traffic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155589 Points: 66 # Comments: 26  ( 9 min )
    Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI
    Issue trackers typically live outside of your workflow, with poor ergonomics. Epiq aims to solve that, bringing issue tracking into your terminal. Multi-user collaboration is achieved via git using user-scoped immutable event logs that converge in memory. Put my all into it. Let me know what you think. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155570 Points: 53 # Comments: 17  ( 1 min )
    NYT and Vaping: How to Lie by Saying Only True Things (2022)
    Article URL: https://gwern.net/vaping Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155555 Points: 68 # Comments: 21  ( 22 min )

  • Open

    Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test
    Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-crystals-found-inside-wreckage-from-the-first-nuclear-bomb-test/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155450 Points: 76 # Comments: 23  ( 8 min )
    The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)
    Article URL: https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155324 Points: 97 # Comments: 88  ( 9 min )
    Erlang/OTP 29.0
    Article URL: https://www.erlang.org/news/188 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155297 Points: 164 # Comments: 25  ( 3 min )
    SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
    Article URL: https://analytics.fixelsmith.com/posts/sql-fraud-patterns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155212 Points: 82 # Comments: 17  ( 7 min )
    How Diamonds Are Made
    Article URL: https://diamond.jaydip.me/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155185 Points: 55 # Comments: 33  ( 3 min )
    Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution
    Article URL: https://github.com/chiennv2000/orthrus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154865 Points: 81 # Comments: 9  ( 9 min )
    How to Write to SSDs [pdf]
    Article URL: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1469-lee.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154711 Points: 81 # Comments: 7  ( 155 min )
    London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
    Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/london-police-deploy-facial-recognition-at-protest-for-first-time Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153400 Points: 65 # Comments: 44  ( 11 min )
    I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
    Article URL: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153379 Points: 463 # Comments: 194  ( 3 min )
    Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials
    Article URL: https://www.thenational.scot/news/26055524.palantir-hired-30-senior-uk-government-officials/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153183 Points: 50 # Comments: 1  ( 31 min )
    California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down
    Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152994 Points: 59 # Comments: 29  ( 11 min )
    Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center
    Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/14/meta-data-center-tax-break-hyperion-louisiana/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152825 Points: 71 # Comments: 34  ( 26 min )
    Judge Bars Kars4Kids from Broadcasting 'Misleading' Ads in California
    Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/kars4kids-advertising-banned-california.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152777 Points: 57 # Comments: 25
    Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
    Article URL: https://askanastronaut.issinrealtime.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152754 Points: 76 # Comments: 8
    WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64
    Article URL: https://github.com/ThroatyMumbo/WinCE64 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152729 Points: 64 # Comments: 15  ( 16 min )
    ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
    Article URL: https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/2055309076209492208 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152553 Points: 106 # Comments: 49  ( 3 min )
    The Zulip Foundation
    Article URL: https://blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152168 Points: 71 # Comments: 21  ( 6 min )
    The Aperiodic Table
    Article URL: https://blog.jgc.org/2026/05/the-aperiodic-table.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151990 Points: 54 # Comments: 21  ( 11 min )
    Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'
    Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/waymo-recalls-3800-robotaxis-after-able-drive-into-standing-water.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151767 Points: 95 # Comments: 80  ( 46 min )
    U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app
    Article URL: https://macdailynews.com/2026/05/15/u-s-doj-demands-apple-and-google-unmask-over-100000-users-of-popular-car-tinkering-app-in-emissions-crackdown/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151383 Points: 177 # Comments: 94  ( 13 min )
    Jank now has its own custom IR
    Article URL: https://jank-lang.org/blog/2026-05-08-optimization/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151251 Points: 69 # Comments: 7  ( 17 min )
    I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator
    Article URL: https://github.com/gdevic/FPGA-Calculator Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151237 Points: 70 # Comments: 21  ( 8 min )
    Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"
    Article URL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/30719 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150900 Points: 230 # Comments: 145  ( 8 min )
    Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
    Article URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150431 Points: 404 # Comments: 121
    I built Zenith: a live local-first fixed viewport planetarium
    Article URL: https://smorgasb.org/zenith-tech/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150097 Points: 51 # Comments: 7  ( 5 min )
    Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image
    Article URL: https://github.com/neilsonnn/image-blaster Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150069 Points: 61 # Comments: 11  ( 7 min )
    Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64
    Article URL: https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/05/n64-additive-blending Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149259 Points: 76 # Comments: 7  ( 4 min )
    ASCII by Jason Scott
    https://web.archive.org/web/20260501220231/https://ascii.tex... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148726 Points: 111 # Comments: 19  ( 48 min )
    A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
    Article URL: https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148460 Points: 73 # Comments: 20  ( 4 min )
    The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program
    Article URL: https://turso.tech/blog/the-wonders-of-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148391 Points: 166 # Comments: 100  ( 13 min )
    Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage–so they're making up tasks
    Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91541586/amazon-workers-pressured-to-up-ai-use-extraneous-tasks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148337 Points: 61 # Comments: 36
    High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry (2017) [pdf]
    Article URL: https://www.ams.org/government/DonohoPresentation06-28-17Final.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148309 Points: 66 # Comments: 25  ( 12 min )
    Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue
    Article URL: https://www.revswap.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148084 Points: 82 # Comments: 41
    Too dangerous or just too expensive? The real reason Anthropic is hiding Mythos
    Article URL: https://kingy.ai/ai/too-dangerous-to-release-or-just-too-expensive-the-real-reason-anthropic-is-hiding-its-most-powerful-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147945 Points: 113 # Comments: 119  ( 38 min )
    The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
    Article URL: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147793 Points: 98 # Comments: 60  ( 16 min )
    Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?
    Article URL: https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-power-tools-got-worse-on-purpose Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147665 Points: 106 # Comments: 81  ( 51 min )
    Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git
    Article URL: https://radicle.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147603 Points: 88 # Comments: 19  ( 2 min )
    Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]
    Article URL: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/AGWUVH-mercurial-aint-you-dead-yet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147351 Points: 99 # Comments: 65  ( 1 min )
    Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security
    Article URL: https://www.metabase.com/blog/strip-mining-era-of-open-source-security Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147339 Points: 66 # Comments: 51  ( 9 min )
    Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
    Article URL: https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147091 Points: 61 # Comments: 11  ( 18 min )
    O(x)Caml in Space
    Article URL: https://gazagnaire.org/blog/2026-05-14-borealis.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147058 Points: 84 # Comments: 3  ( 9 min )
    The sigmoids won't save you
    Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-sigmoids-wont-save-you Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147021 Points: 72 # Comments: 100  ( 14 min )
    Steve Jobs Next Computer: His Forgotten Exile Years
    Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/steve-jobs-next-computer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146908 Points: 78 # Comments: 76  ( 41 min )
    UK sovereign LLM inference
    Article URL: https://relax.ai/docs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146424 Points: 87 # Comments: 92
    Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks
    Article URL: https://github.com/Andyyyy64/whichllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146369 Points: 166 # Comments: 16  ( 23 min )
    Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
    Article URL: https://explorer.samismith.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146129 Points: 53 # Comments: 12  ( 1 min )
    Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
    Is it possible? Do you know success cases w/o spending 20+k $ on auditors? My customers bombards me with question about certification of my app Perfect Wiki, I need help with finding the best way to show them that my app could be trusted. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145524 Points: 101 # Comments: 92  ( 23 min )
    Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management
    I'm a Type 1 diabetic and software engineer. Last year I went months between endocrinologists with no clinician reviewing my data. I'm an engineer, so I built the tool I needed — and now I'm open sourcing it. GlycemicGPT is a self-hosted platform that connects continuous glucose monitors, insulin pumps, and existing Nightscout instances to an AI analysis layer running on your own infrastructure. Data sources: Dexcom G7 (cloud API) Tandem t:slim X2 and Mobi pumps (direct BLE) Nightscout (point it at your existing instance and you're running in minutes) What the AI layer does: Daily briefs summarizing overnight and 24-hour patterns Meal response analysis Conversational chat with RAG-backed clinical knowledge Predictive alerting with configurable thresholds and caregiver escalation Important:…  ( 15 min )
    C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
    Article URL: https://lucisqr.substack.com/p/c26-shipped-a-simd-library-nobody Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144584 Points: 50 # Comments: 22
    How Claude Code works in large codebases
    Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/how-claude-code-works-in-large-codebases-best-practices-and-where-to-start Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144494 Points: 168 # Comments: 122  ( 52 min )
    Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms
    Article URL: https://dylan.gr/1775146616 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144490 Points: 71 # Comments: 60  ( 2 min )
    Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha
    Article URL: https://www.tristandc.com/government/news-2026-05-11-airdrop.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144380 Points: 147 # Comments: 41  ( 7 min )
    Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
    Article URL: https://tmctmt.com/posts/mullvad-exit-ips-as-a-fingerprinting-vector/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143880 Points: 96 # Comments: 23  ( 4 min )
    Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints
    Article URL: https://writing.antonleicht.me/p/cut-off Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143284 Points: 159 # Comments: 150  ( 22 min )

  • Open

    UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
    https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/uk-government-kicks-out-pal... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142251 Points: 225 # Comments: 77  ( 22 min )
    More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions
    Article URL: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/05/drought-united-states-la-nina-expert.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142193 Points: 128 # Comments: 56  ( 6 min )
    Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts
    Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/14/ontario-auditors-find-doctors-ai-note-takers-routinely-blow-basic-facts/5240771 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142188 Points: 152 # Comments: 69  ( 25 min )
    Roman Letters
    Article URL: https://romanletters.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142154 Points: 56 # Comments: 10  ( 9 min )
    Colossus: The Forbin Project
    Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142115 Points: 84 # Comments: 11
    A few words on DS4
    Article URL: https://antirez.com/news/165 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142108 Points: 201 # Comments: 63  ( 2 min )
    Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries
    Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-id-corkscrew-killer-behind-gruesome-seal-deaths Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141960 Points: 65 # Comments: 26
    OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control
    Article URL: https://www.openvehicles.com/home Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141732 Points: 80 # Comments: 13  ( 1 min )
    Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust
    Article URL: https://github.com/akiomik/mado Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141354 Points: 50 # Comments: 2  ( 13 min )
    Claude for Legal
    Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141234 Points: 51 # Comments: 42  ( 51 min )
    Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet
    Article URL: https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/exploiting-the-tesla-wall-connector-from-its-charge-port-connector-part-2-bypassing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140953 Points: 73 # Comments: 28  ( 7 min )
    New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references
    Article URL: https://twitter.com/tdietterich/status/2055000956144935055 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140922 Points: 135 # Comments: 14  ( 3 min )
    Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
    Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/amazonbot-respecting-robots-txt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140730 Points: 81 # Comments: 20  ( 1 min )
    Hindenburg’s Smoking Room
    Article URL: https://www.airships.net/hindenburg-smoking-room/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140556 Points: 144 # Comments: 89  ( 10 min )
    RISC-V Router
    Article URL: https://router.start9.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140541 Points: 89 # Comments: 51  ( 7 min )
    Work with Codex from Anywhere
    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140529 Points: 85 # Comments: 23
    Illusions of understanding in the sciences
    Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-026-00271-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140297 Points: 50 # Comments: 21  ( 70 min )
    WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
    Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/discussions/11096 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139704 Points: 73 # Comments: 55  ( 25 min )
    The AI Zombification of Universities
    Article URL: https://www.thenewcritic.com/p/the-great-zombification Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139355 Points: 117 # Comments: 72  ( 31 min )
    The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)
    Article URL: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/power-free-popsicle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139316 Points: 54 # Comments: 23  ( 13 min )
    Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Linux Kernel Startup
    Article URL: https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/linux-kernel-startup/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139220 Points: 50 # Comments: 7  ( 49 min )
    First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
    Article URL: https://blog.calif.io/p/first-public-kernel-memory-corruption Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139219 Points: 94 # Comments: 12  ( 9 min )
    AI is making me dumb
    Article URL: https://jpain.io/god-damn-ai-is-making-me-dumb/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139148 Points: 213 # Comments: 140  ( 4 min )
    You Don't Align an AI, You Align with It
    Article URL: https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2026/05/you-dont-align-an-ai-you-align-with-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139144 Points: 80 # Comments: 40  ( 6 min )
    What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing?
    Article URL: https://nobodywho.ooo/posts/whats-in-a-gguf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138332 Points: 66 # Comments: 29  ( 6 min )
    New Nginx Exploit
    Article URL: https://github.com/DepthFirstDisclosures/Nginx-Rift Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138268 Points: 150 # Comments: 37  ( 5 min )
    Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
    Article URL: https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-from-my-rav4/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138136 Points: 265 # Comments: 118  ( 6 min )
    Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory
    Article URL: https://hghalebi.github.io/category_theory_transformer_rs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137629 Points: 54 # Comments: 14  ( 5 min )
    HDD Firmware Hacking
    Article URL: https://icode4.coffee/?p=1465 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137553 Points: 61 # Comments: 6  ( 30 min )
    RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
    Article URL: https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-05-05-egpu-mac-gaming/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137145 Points: 190 # Comments: 51  ( 55 min )
    The conflation of money and things
    Article URL: https://lithub.com/is-it-even-real-on-the-conflation-of-money-and-things/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136992 Points: 56 # Comments: 20  ( 17 min )
    Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake
    In browser PPO training demo, made possible by tinygrad: TinyJit -> WebGPU kernels. Requires WebGPU. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136981 Points: 159 # Comments: 37
    Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions
    Article URL: https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/regex-chess.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136909 Points: 108 # Comments: 22  ( 26 min )
    Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation
    Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/gates-foundation-partnership Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136662 Points: 81 # Comments: 51  ( 8 min )
    MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students
    Article URL: https://president.mit.edu/writing-speeches/video-transcript-message-president-kornbluth-about-funding-and-talent-pipeline Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136262 Points: 65 # Comments: 44  ( 4 min )
    Claude AI recovers an 11 yrs old BTC wallet holding 400k USD
    Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/bitcoin-trader-recovers-usd400-000-using-claude-ai-after-losing-wallet-password-11-years-ago-bot-tried-3-5-trillion-passwords-before-decrypting-an-old-wallet-backup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136240 Points: 228 # Comments: 102  ( 131 min )
    Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals
    Article URL: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/naturally-occurring-quasicrystals/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136000 Points: 98 # Comments: 9  ( 10 min )
    Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
    Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-layoffs-bad-vibes-mark-zuckerberg-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135782 Points: 60 # Comments: 54  ( 103 min )
    USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought
    Article URL: https://www.agweb.com/news/usda-projects-smallest-us-wheat-harvest-1972-due-plains-drought Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134993 Points: 131 # Comments: 91
    The Third Hard Problem
    Article URL: https://mmapped.blog/posts/48-the-third-hard-problem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134784 Points: 61 # Comments: 37  ( 7 min )
    Computer Hobby Movement in Canada
    Article URL: https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/hobby_canada/hobby_canada Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134743 Points: 69 # Comments: 12  ( 21 min )
    Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure
    Article URL: https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/points-are-a-weird-and-inconsistent-unit-of/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134472 Points: 58 # Comments: 54  ( 8 min )
    Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO
    Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altmans-business-dealings-under-gop-scrutiny-ahead-of-openais-ipo-52c1cc4d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134429 Points: 73 # Comments: 53
    The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build
    Article URL: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/14/1220 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134084 Points: 58 # Comments: 36  ( 5 min )
    The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news
    Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/the-eu-backs-italys-right-to-make-meta-pay-for-news/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134014 Points: 52 # Comments: 39  ( 8 min )
    Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)
    Article URL: https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133908 Points: 65 # Comments: 35  ( 14 min )
    Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay
    Every privacy-focused DNS service requires an account: NextDNS, Cloudflare for Families, Apple's iCloud Private Relay (paid, iOS-only). The protocol that doesn’t require one - ODoH - had basically one well-known public relay operator (Frank Denis on Fastly Compute, default in dnscrypt-proxy). I built a second one and the client to talk to it. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133561 Points: 85 # Comments: 26  ( 7 min )
    High-Entropy Alloy
    Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-entropy_alloy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133293 Points: 99 # Comments: 22
    Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
    Article URL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132488 Points: 65 # Comments: 46  ( 3 min )
    After 8 years, I rewrote my open-source PyTorch curvature library
    Article URL: https://github.com/noahgolmant/pytorch-hessian-eigenthings Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132232 Points: 54 # Comments: 1  ( 10 min )
    The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme
    Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132106 Points: 131 # Comments: 50  ( 12 min )
    Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
    Article URL: https://classic7.lol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132030 Points: 53 # Comments: 40  ( 1 min )
    Claude for Small Business
    Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130950 Points: 176 # Comments: 106  ( 13 min )
    Arena AI Model ELO History
    Hi HN, I built a live tracker to visualize the lifecycle and performance changes of flagship AI models. We've all experienced the phenomenon where a flagship model feels amazing at launch, but weeks later, it suddenly feels a bit off. I wanted to see if this was just a feeling or a measurable reality, so I built a dashboard to track historical ELO ratings from Arena AI. Instead of a massive spaghetti chart of every single model variant, the logic plots exactly ONE continuous curve per major AI lab. It dynamically tracks their highest-rated flagship model over time, which makes both the sudden generational jumps and the slow performance decays much easier to see. It took quite a lot of iterations to get the chart to look nice on mobile as well. Optional dark mode included. However, I have a specific data blindspot that I'm hoping this community might have insights on. Arena AI largely relies on testing API endpoints. But as we know, consumer chat UIs often layer on heavy system prompts, safety wrappers, or silently switch to heavily quantized models under high load to save compute. API benchmarks don't fully capture this "nerfing" that everyday web users experience. Does anyone know of any historical ELO or evaluation datasets that specifically scrape or test outputs from the consumer web UIs rather than raw APIs? I'd love to integrate that data for a more accurate picture of the consumer experience. The project is open-source (repo link in the footer), so I'd appreciate any feedback, or pointers to datasets! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130711 Points: 59 # Comments: 44  ( 16 min )
    A Claude Code and Codex Skill for Deliberate Skill Development
    Article URL: https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130679 Points: 86 # Comments: 17  ( 22 min )
    Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit
    Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsoft-bitlocker-protected-drives-can-now-be-opened-with-just-some-files-on-a-usb-stick-yellowkey-zero-day-exploit-demonstrates-an-apparent-backdoor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130519 Points: 128 # Comments: 75
    Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus
    Article URL: https://www.edna.land/blogs/posts/scanning/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130468 Points: 53 # Comments: 15  ( 6 min )
    Show HN: Nibble
    An attempt at a single pass LLVM frontend in ~3000 lines of C without external dependencies, malloc, or an AST. Included are some graphical examples. The IR isn't perfect, and the README touches on one particular downfall Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130186 Points: 60 # Comments: 8  ( 4 min )
    Cisco workforce reductions
    Article URL: https://blogs.cisco.com/news/our-path-forward Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130123 Points: 94 # Comments: 58  ( 7 min )
    delta time
    Article URL: https://www.deltatime.life/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129953 Points: 53 # Comments: 30
    Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact
    Article URL: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/ay/d5ay01801c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129934 Points: 67 # Comments: 15  ( 7 min )
    Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming
    Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/13/disgruntled-researcher-releases-two-more-microsoft-zero-days/5239758 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129789 Points: 87 # Comments: 22  ( 25 min )
    Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
    Article URL: http://www.scorch2000.com/web/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129694 Points: 171 # Comments: 66  ( 1 min )
    The other half of AI safety
    Article URL: https://personalaisafety.com/p/the-other-half-of-ai-safety Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129561 Points: 54 # Comments: 70  ( 6 min )

  • Open

    Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
    I wanted to try codex after 5 months of claude code max subscription. And then I went back to my previous projects on claude design only to realize I don't have access to them anymore. This is a first. I never lost access to any of my past sessions because I unsubscribed in any of the LLM apps. I actually wanted to try out codex previously, but had similar experience with my credits. They gave extra credits equivalent to my montly subscription price, with some time limit because claude has so many issues that month. And as soon as plan ended. I lost access to the credits. Even after resubscribing, I still don't have access to those credits. I have sympathies towards the engineers, especially the ones that are putting themselves on X. But only when someone with large following has some issue, they sort it out. Having worked at a billing company, I can see how complex contracts sound good for the growth/sales folks but are also horrible for engineers actually implementing those contracts. Their complex rate limiting which is now a norm, identifying other harnesses to count them against extra usage are all probably not easy to implement without very rough edge cases. But all the "bugs" are just where the user gets screwed is what is problematic. I just wanted to post this here, after tagging them multiple times on X to alert other users. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128003 Points: 111 # Comments: 44  ( 12 min )
    Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads
    Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/929091/meta-ai-threads-account-block Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126981 Points: 74 # Comments: 27  ( 26 min )
    In-person examinations at Princeton will be proctored starting July 1
    Article URL: https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-examinations-passed-faculty-133-years-precedent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126848 Points: 152 # Comments: 196  ( 8 min )
    Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs
    I spent a fortnight using Claude to create specs for every version of RAR, then another using gpt-5.5 to write compressors in Rust. It's not fast and it's not pretty, but it works. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126675 Points: 65 # Comments: 44  ( 6 min )
    3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend
    Article URL: https://bfeldman.me/3dgs-weekend/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126431 Points: 66 # Comments: 6
    Making the news available at no cost is a victory
    Article URL: https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2026/05/12/just-days-tribune-reporting/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126156 Points: 85 # Comments: 95  ( 25 min )
    "Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage
    Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/evicore-health-insurance-denials-cigna-unitedhealthcare-aetna-prior-authorizations Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126000 Points: 105 # Comments: 63  ( 38 min )
    MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
    Article URL: https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125617 Points: 107 # Comments: 58  ( 26 min )
    A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools
    Article URL: https://andreafortuna.org/2026/05/13/amarcord/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125557 Points: 57 # Comments: 21  ( 7 min )
    Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration
    Hey HN! We’re Vikram and Evan from Ardent (https://tryardent.com). We're building database sandboxes for you and your coding agents. In the last two years coding agents have gotten dramatically more capable at handling complex engineering tasks. But without access to a realistic sandbox at the DB layer for testing, they ship garbage that can take down production databases. I spent over a year building an AI Data Engineer that failed for this exact reason. Evan spent the last 12 years in data engineering and hit this wall building agents at his last company. Ardent was built to make it possible for coding agents to get near instant access to production-like sandboxes so they can test their work. To do this we write a replication stream out of the target DB, scaling with kafka onto a read replica with copy on write enabled and autoscaling compute (we currently prefer neon as a primary branching engine due to their implementation of these properties). Our replication stream uses logical replication + ddl triggers to enable usage on any hosted postgres DB since most platforms do not allow physical replication which is traditionally used for creating replicas. This provides a few primary benefits: 1. Does not require a platform migration to a DB provider like neon, allowing strong separation of production and development concerns. 2. Minimal impact on the production database while allowing clones to spin up in https://youtu.be/5S1kwPtiRU0 We’d love to understand how you work with coding agents on the DB and if you try Ardent (it's free to get started) what worked, what broke and what’s missing. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124436 Points: 51 # Comments: 20  ( 3 min )
    Haiku
    Article URL: https://www.haiku-os.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124002 Points: 105 # Comments: 48  ( 4 min )
    S-100 Virtual Workbench
    Article URL: https://grantmestrength.github.io/S100/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123546 Points: 50 # Comments: 8
    Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors
    Article URL: https://kotaku.com/kickstarter-is-the-latest-platform-seemingly-forced-to-ban-adult-content-by-payment-processors-2000695648 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123198 Points: 222 # Comments: 169  ( 12 min )
    50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers
    Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-residents-power-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123090 Points: 80 # Comments: 78  ( 32 min )
    Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time
    Article URL: https://ossresistance.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123015 Points: 128 # Comments: 48  ( 5 min )
    Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain
    Article URL: https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122635 Points: 72 # Comments: 7  ( 4 min )
    The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
    Article URL: https://avkcode.github.io/blog/us-winning-ai-race.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121929 Points: 63 # Comments: 167  ( 3 min )
    ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board
    Article URL: https://www.autodidacts.io/cerelog-esp-eeg-affordable-openbci-like-board/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121333 Points: 56 # Comments: 14  ( 5 min )
    Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent
    Article URL: https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/13/dutch-suicide-prevention-hotline-shares-visitor-data-tech-companies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121299 Points: 172 # Comments: 113  ( 3 min )
    Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo
    Article URL: https://jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-github-for-forgejo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121266 Points: 276 # Comments: 159  ( 13 min )
    I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
    Article URL: https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120629 Points: 69 # Comments: 25  ( 7 min )
    Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems
    Article URL: https://atalaykutlay.com/or-tools-cp-sat-for-scheduling-problems.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120351 Points: 60 # Comments: 22  ( 8 min )
    Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
    Article URL: https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120162 Points: 71 # Comments: 28  ( 5 min )
    SecurityBaseline.eu
    Article URL: https://internetcleanup.foundation/2026/05/european-governments-3000-tracking-sites-1000-phpmyadmins-and-99pct-poorly-encrypted-email-introducing-securitybaseline-eu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118763 Points: 145 # Comments: 59  ( 14 min )
    The Emacsification of Software
    Article URL: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118727 Points: 135 # Comments: 87  ( 6 min )
    England Runestones
    Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_runestones Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118478 Points: 57 # Comments: 22
    Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08419 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117810 Points: 96 # Comments: 15  ( 2 min )
    Starship V3
    Article URL: https://www.spacex.com/updates#starship-v3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116781 Points: 122 # Comments: 58
    My graduation cap runs Rust
    Article URL: https://ericswpark.com/blog/2026/2026-05-12-my-graduation-cap-runs-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116207 Points: 87 # Comments: 25  ( 5 min )

  • Open

    When "idle" isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug
    Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/quic-death-spiral-fix/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116064 Points: 67 # Comments: 4  ( 11 min )
    Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260511-kraftwerks-radical-1976-track-radioactivity-became-an-anti-nuclear-anthem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115823 Points: 85 # Comments: 26  ( 31 min )
    Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
    Article URL: https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807 Points: 214 # Comments: 52  ( 6 min )
    Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
    Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115438 Points: 58 # Comments: 17  ( 13 min )
    Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
    Article URL: https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115127 Points: 244 # Comments: 97  ( 5 min )
    EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant
    Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/eff-fourth-circuit-electronic-device-searches-border-require-warrant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115059 Points: 130 # Comments: 18  ( 8 min )
    Scrcpy v4.0
    Article URL: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases/tag/v4.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114356 Points: 58 # Comments: 8  ( 5 min )
    Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer
    Article URL: https://ploopy.co/shop/bean-pointing-stick/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114208 Points: 147 # Comments: 65  ( 9 min )
    How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
    Article URL: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113895 Points: 53 # Comments: 7  ( 15 min )
    CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
    Article URL: https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042 Points: 146 # Comments: 44  ( 2 min )
    Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
    Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention is the right primitive for this, and FFN parameters are wasted at this scale. Simple Attention Networks: the entire model is just attention and gating, no MLPs anywhere. Needle is an experimental run for single-sh…  ( 8 min )
    Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
    Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111765 Points: 79 # Comments: 16  ( 12 min )
    Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim
    Article URL: https://xbow.com/blog/dead-letter-cve-2026-45185-xbow-found-rce-exim Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111748 Points: 63 # Comments: 33  ( 38 min )
    Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era
    Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111581 Points: 69 # Comments: 58  ( 7 min )
    Googlebook
    https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducin... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545 Points: 161 # Comments: 189  ( 1 min )
    Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare
    Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillance-nightmare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111531 Points: 57 # Comments: 20  ( 6 min )
    As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work
    Article URL: https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111243 Points: 54 # Comments: 52  ( 15 min )
    Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL
    Hi HN, we’re Sai and Aayush, and we’re building Hypercubic (https://www.hypercubic.ai/), bringing AI tools to the mainframe and COBOL world. (We did a Launch HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45877517.) Today we’re launching Hopper, an agentic development environment for mainframes. You can download it here: https://www.hypercubic.ai/hopper, and you can also request access and immediately get a mainframe user account to play with. There's also a video runthrough at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q81L5DcfBvE. Mainframes still run a surprising amount of critical infrastructure: banking, payments, insurance, airlines, government programs, logistics, and core operations at large institutions. Many of these systems are decades old, but they continue to process enormous transac…  ( 137 min )
    Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station
    Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/nearly-50-years-later-wkrp-in-cincinnati-becomes-a-real-radio-station.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110804 Points: 91 # Comments: 56  ( 20 min )
    Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
    Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/amazon-employees-are-tokenmaxxing-due-to-pressure-to-use-ai-tools/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110529 Points: 166 # Comments: 146  ( 10 min )
    eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible
    Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12/ebay-rejects-gamestop-s-56-billion-takeover-as-not-credible Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110021 Points: 177 # Comments: 160
    The Future of Obsidian Plugins
    Article URL: https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109970 Points: 137 # Comments: 62  ( 8 min )
    Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents
    Hey HN, we're Alex and Tyler, co-founders of Voker.ai (https://voker.ai/), an agent analytics platform for AI product teams. Voker gives full visibility into what users are asking of your agents, and whether your agents are delivering, without having to dig through logs. Our main product is a lightweight SDK that is LLM stack agnostic and purpose-built for agent products. (https://app.voker.ai/docs) Agent Engineers and AI product teams don’t have the right level of visibility into agent performance in production, which results in bad user experiences, churn, and hundreds of hours wasted with spot checks to find and debug issues with agent configurations. Demo: https://www.tella.tv/video/vid_cmoukcsk1000i07jgb4j65u67/vie... We recently conducted a survey of YC Founders and 90%+ of responden…  ( 11 min )
    Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined
    Article URL: https://dynomight.net/lifespan/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109772 Points: 79 # Comments: 51  ( 10 min )
    Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
    Article URL: https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-expertise/why-senior-developers-fail-to-communicate-their-expertise Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109460 Points: 114 # Comments: 49  ( 15 min )
    Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
    Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109224 Points: 313 # Comments: 109  ( 3 min )
    Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable
    Agentic problem solving in its current state is very brittle. I fell in love with it, but it creates as many problems as it solves. I'm Ben Cochran, I spent 20+ years in the trenches with full-stack Engineering, DevOps, high performance computing & ML with stints at NVIDIA, AMD and various other organizations most recently as a Distinguished Engineer. For agents to work reliably you either need massive parameter counts or massive context windows to keep the solution spaces workable. Most people are brute forcing reliability with bigger models and longer prompts. What if I made the problem smaller instead of making the model bigger? I took a different approach by using smaller models: models in the 13-20B parameter range and set them to task solving real SWE-bench problems. I constrained t…  ( 16 min )
    Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)
    Article URL: https://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?id=372 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48108621 Points: 50 # Comments: 97  ( 8 min )
    Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
    Article URL: https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107997 Points: 182 # Comments: 14  ( 75 min )
    UnDUNE II
    Article URL: https://liquidream.itch.io/undune2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107404 Points: 90 # Comments: 20  ( 18 min )
    EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids
    Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-social-media-addictive-eu-crack-down.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106534 Points: 112 # Comments: 60  ( 49 min )
    Coursera and Udemy are now one company
    Article URL: https://blog.coursera.org/coursera-and-udemy-are-now-one-company-creating-the-worlds-most-comprehensive-skills-platform/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106367 Points: 59 # Comments: 17  ( 17 min )
    Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production
    Article URL: https://gagadget.com/en/709729-unitree-gd01-chinas-537k-rideable-transformer-robot-is-now-in-production/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106114 Points: 55 # Comments: 37  ( 5 min )
    Learning Software Architecture
    Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/12/software-architecture.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106024 Points: 198 # Comments: 30  ( 4 min )
    Toxicity on Social Media – The Noisy Room
    Article URL: https://thenoisyroom.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105297 Points: 105 # Comments: 70  ( 78 min )
    Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
    Article URL: http://www.typewritten.org/Media/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104428 Points: 61 # Comments: 16  ( 19 min )
    Extremely Low Frequencies
    Article URL: https://computer.rip/2026-05-09-extremely-low-frequencies.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104041 Points: 81 # Comments: 2  ( 23 min )
    Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers
    https://www.instructure.com/incident_update#:~:text=STATUS%2... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/canvas-instructure-hac..., https://archive.ph/HIkdn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103668 Points: 136 # Comments: 108  ( 9 min )
    Software Internals Book Club
    Article URL: https://eatonphil.com/bookclub.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103511 Points: 77 # Comments: 13  ( 1 min )
    Claude Platform on AWS
    Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/claude-platform-on-aws Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103042 Points: 60 # Comments: 34  ( 50 min )
    They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
    Article URL: https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102700 Points: 56 # Comments: 6  ( 8 min )

  • Open

    Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS
    Article URL: https://github.com/jameslockman/Griffin-PowerMate-Driver Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100970 Points: 56 # Comments: 19  ( 15 min )
    Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise
    https://github.com/TanStack/router/issues/7383 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100706 Points: 626 # Comments: 238  ( 19 min )
    TanStack NPM Packages Compromised
    Article URL: https://github.com/TanStack/router/issues/7383 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100706 Points: 274 # Comments: 69  ( 8 min )
    I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
    Article URL: https://martin.sh/i-let-ai-build-a-tool-to-help-me-figure-out-what-was-waking-me-up-at-night/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100662 Points: 110 # Comments: 115  ( 9 min )
    Interaction Models
    Article URL: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100524 Points: 63 # Comments: 8  ( 16 min )
    GitLab Announces Workforce Reduction and End of Their CREDIT Values
    Article URL: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100500 Points: 159 # Comments: 116  ( 16 min )
    If AI writes your code, why use Python?
    Article URL: https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100433 Points: 275 # Comments: 278
    Fossils show millipede and centipede ancestors evolved legs underwater
    Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-05-ancient-sea-fossils-millipede-centipede.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100368 Points: 53 # Comments: 2
    Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity
    Hi. I’m a high school student studying for my GCSEs. I was using Google Antigravity heavily for my side projects, but I kept hitting the usage limits, and getting random "agent terminated" errors. So I decided to try build my own version of the IDE. I love the UI, so I copied it as accurately as possible, and then hooked up some logic into it, including the INCREDIBLY finicky webcontainer api. I tried to keep it super lightweight, no build steps, or dependencies, and now that its open source, I'm hoping people can build things on top of it that arent possible with closed source tools, like complex custom agent workflows. Some screenshots: - https://github.com/ab-613/OpenGravity/blob/main/examples/scr... - https://github.com/ab-613/OpenGravity/blob/main/examples/htm... What it's made from: …  ( 10 min )
    The Tree House: A voyage to the source of a backyard dream
    Article URL: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/tree-house Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099688 Points: 53 # Comments: 6
    Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog
    https://guitar.com/news/industry-news/red-hot-chili-peppers-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099665 Points: 60 # Comments: 59  ( 31 min )
    Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory
    Article URL: https://github.com/mamba-studio/TypedMemory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099616 Points: 52 # Comments: 17  ( 19 min )
    Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?
    Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/can-someone-please-explain-whether-cloudflare-blackmailed-canonical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098537 Points: 147 # Comments: 66  ( 12 min )
    UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)
    Article URL: https://stemcell.ucla.edu/news/ucla-discovers-first-stroke-rehabilitation-drug-repair-brain-damage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098261 Points: 62 # Comments: 16  ( 3 min )
    Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy
    Article URL: https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-microsoft-israel-chief-leaves-amid-ethical-controversy-1001542602 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097796 Points: 57 # Comments: 42  ( 10 min )
    Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale
    Article URL: https://interfaze.ai/blog/interfaze-a-new-model-architecture-built-for-high-accuracy-at-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097078 Points: 79 # Comments: 17  ( 11 min )
    Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers
    Article URL: https://andreaturchet.github.io/website/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096842 Points: 83 # Comments: 49  ( 1 min )
    Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book
    Article URL: https://ardoedo.it/kempelen/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096760 Points: 54 # Comments: 16  ( 4 min )
    CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler
    Article URL: https://nvlabs.github.io/cuda-oxide/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096692 Points: 200 # Comments: 56  ( 2 min )
    Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI Next Industrial Revolution
    Article URL: https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096674 Points: 100 # Comments: 74  ( 3 min )
    The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube
    Article URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-surprisingly-long-life-of-the Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096328 Points: 53 # Comments: 33  ( 25 min )
    Marco Polo: Finding a friend with only distance and motion
    Article URL: https://www.jackhogan.me/blog/marco-polo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095782 Points: 50 # Comments: 6  ( 11 min )
    Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
    Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095550 Points: 173 # Comments: 323  ( 3 min )
    How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?
    Article URL: https://asymco.com/2026/05/11/the-great-memory-panic-of-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094986 Points: 66 # Comments: 43  ( 14 min )
    Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw
    Unlocked: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/google-hacker..., https://archive.ph/I4Ui5 https://apnews.com/article/google-ai-cybersecurity-exploitat... https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/11/google-thwarts-effort-hacker... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094641 Points: 69 # Comments: 39  ( 16 min )
    European Money Pours into Palantir
    Article URL: https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/branded/2026-04-11/european-money-pours-into-palantir-over-100-asset-managers-and-banks-boost-their-investments-in-the-controversial-tech-company.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093626 Points: 81 # Comments: 14  ( 23 min )
    An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins
    Article URL: https://magnusross.github.io/posts/protein-lead-optimisation-1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093578 Points: 57 # Comments: 1  ( 14 min )
    Saying Goodbye to one line of APL
    Article URL: https://homewithinnowhere.com/posts/2026-05-10-one-line.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093244 Points: 72 # Comments: 24  ( 6 min )
    Saying Goodbye to one line of APL
    Article URL: https://homewithinnowhere.com/posts/2026-05-10-one-line.html#fnref1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093244 Points: 64 # Comments: 19  ( 6 min )
    Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
    Article URL: https://ratty-term.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093100 Points: 89 # Comments: 33
    All Those A.I. Note Takers? They're Making Lawyers Nervous
    Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/business/dealbook/ai-notetakers-legal-risk.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093043 Points: 127 # Comments: 87
    Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
    Article URL: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-account-registration-now-requires-sending-an-sms-via-phone-instead-of-receiving-an-sms/36082 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48092028 Points: 227 # Comments: 106  ( 4 min )
    Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s
    Article URL: https://github.com/tracewayapp/traceway Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091898 Points: 150 # Comments: 35  ( 18 min )
    Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter
    Article URL: https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=37.%20Pixter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091812 Points: 134 # Comments: 18  ( 132 min )
    Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
    Article URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091737 Points: 69 # Comments: 23  ( 10 min )
    7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)
    Article URL: https://matt.might.net/articles/implementing-a-programming-language/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091085 Points: 59 # Comments: 15  ( 7 min )
    The Greatest Shot in Television: James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene (2024)
    Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090521 Points: 135 # Comments: 57  ( 22 min )
    I'm going back to writing code by hand
    Article URL: https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090029 Points: 123 # Comments: 52  ( 14 min )
    New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13697... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089921 Points: 197 # Comments: 80  ( 8 min )

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    An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs
    Article URL: https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2026/you-need-ai-that-reduces-your-maintenance-costs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089289 Points: 69 # Comments: 11  ( 4 min )
    PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs
    Article URL: https://kotaku.com/playstation-3-emulator-devs-politely-ask-that-people-stop-flooding-it-with-ai-code-pull-requests-2000694656 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089263 Points: 109 # Comments: 76  ( 12 min )
    Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
    Article URL: https://jola.dev/posts/running-local-models-on-m4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089091 Points: 165 # Comments: 60  ( 5 min )
    How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?
    Article URL: https://dunkels.com/adam/claude-user-space-ip-stack-ping/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089049 Points: 66 # Comments: 18  ( 121 min )
    Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
    Article URL: https://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/obsidian-plugin-abused-in-campaign-to-deploy-phantom-pulse-rat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088576 Points: 112 # Comments: 64  ( 15 min )
    Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260508-parents-in-ancient-times-felt-less-sleep-deprived-what-our-ancestors-did-differently-on-baby-sleep Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088343 Points: 57 # Comments: 35  ( 43 min )
    Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI
    Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/maryland-citizens-slapped-with-usd2-billion-grid-upgrade-bill-for-out-of-state-ai-data-centers-state-complains-to-federal-energy-regulators-says-additional-cost-breaks-ratepayer-protection-pledge-promises Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088151 Points: 96 # Comments: 32  ( 131 min )
    Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
    Article URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-linux-kernel-features/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087887 Points: 308 # Comments: 215  ( 26 min )
    Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
    Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086190 Points: 192 # Comments: 43  ( 1 min )
    Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
    Article URL: https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082 Points: 79 # Comments: 18  ( 6 min )
    Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
    What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993 Points: 66 # Comments: 251  ( 63 min )
    Local AI needs to be the norm
    Article URL: https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085821 Points: 112 # Comments: 58  ( 4 min )
    Tracesofhumanity.org by Joanna Rutkowska
    Article URL: https://tracesofhumanity.org/hello-world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085782 Points: 54 # Comments: 7  ( 2 min )
    Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s
    Article URL: https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/matrix-multiplications-swift.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085685 Points: 75 # Comments: 4  ( 21 min )
    Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms
    And for any mothers here, happy Mother's Day. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085384 Points: 212 # Comments: 63  ( 9 min )
    Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how
    Article URL: https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just-became-one-of-europes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085330 Points: 50 # Comments: 25
    YC's Biggest Scandals
    Article URL: https://ycombinator.fyi/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085314 Points: 96 # Comments: 31  ( 17 min )
    GitHub is sinking
    Article URL: https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085095 Points: 103 # Comments: 72  ( 7 min )
    The locals don't know
    Article URL: https://www.quarter--mile.com/The-Locals-Dont-Know Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085055 Points: 59 # Comments: 45  ( 5 min )
    Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
    Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/924933/google-chrome-4gb-gemini-nano-ai-features Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084710 Points: 58 # Comments: 26  ( 26 min )
    Shunting-Yard Animation
    Article URL: https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/shunting-yard-animation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084547 Points: 55 # Comments: 15
    Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to 'Go (Bleep) yourself'
    Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/louis-rossmann-tells-3d-printer-maker-bambu-lab-to-go-bleep-yourself-over-its-lawsuit-against-enthusiast-right-to-repair-advocate-offers-to-pay-the-legal-fees-for-a-threatened-orcaslicer-developer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084432 Points: 116 # Comments: 66
    Chindogu: Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions
    Article URL: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/weird-japanese-inventions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084315 Points: 51 # Comments: 14  ( 10 min )
    Leaving the Physical World
    Article URL: https://www.eff.org/pages/leaving-physical-world Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084012 Points: 140 # Comments: 63  ( 14 min )
    Academic Research Skills for Claude Code
    Article URL: https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083919 Points: 52 # Comments: 16  ( 74 min )
    Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes
    I saw a comment here about how there are so many indexes of indie sites, blogs, etc but there wasn't an index of all the indexes. So I built it. It doesn't require a log in, just go browse! I've curated about 30 or so, but there is a submission form if there are ones I am missing. Also happy to take UI improvements because I am not great in that area! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083580 Points: 58 # Comments: 18  ( 2 min )
    What's a Mathematician to Do?
    Article URL: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematician-to-do Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083007 Points: 65 # Comments: 33  ( 24 min )
    Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
    Article URL: https://brennan.io/2026/05/09/pinball-and-escrow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082968 Points: 102 # Comments: 29  ( 3 min )
    Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler
    Article URL: https://docs.python.org/3.15/library/profiling.sampling.html#module-profiling.sampling Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082948 Points: 57 # Comments: 14  ( 29 min )
    Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
    Article URL: https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/replacing-a-3-gb-sqlite-database-with-a-7-mb-fst-finite-state-trandsucer-binary/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082676 Points: 67 # Comments: 9  ( 11 min )
    Think Linear Algebra (2023)
    Article URL: https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082396 Points: 54 # Comments: 1  ( 3 min )
    Rotten Dot Com
    Article URL: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/05/06/rotten-dot-com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082039 Points: 63 # Comments: 54
    LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05419 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082021 Points: 50 # Comments: 29  ( 2 min )
    Task Paralysis and AI
    Article URL: https://g5t.de/articles/20260510-task-paralysis-and-ai/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081469 Points: 64 # Comments: 46  ( 2 min )
    Debian must ship reproducible packages
    Article URL: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081245 Points: 109 # Comments: 22  ( 1 min )
    Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC
    Article URL: https://github.com/nooga/xsofy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080755 Points: 131 # Comments: 58  ( 4 min )
    Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
    Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanded-gemini-api-file-search-multimodal-rag/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080702 Points: 80 # Comments: 9  ( 15 min )
    Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
    This is ymawky, a static file web server for MacOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly. It supports GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, and supports Range: bytes=X-Y headers (which allows scrubbing for video streaming). It decodes percent-encoded URLs, strictly enforces docroot, serves custom error pages for any HTTP error response, supports directory listing, and has (some) mitigations against slowloris-like attacks. I’ve also written a more detailed writeup here: https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080587 Points: 53 # Comments: 13  ( 17 min )
    Silverback Imfura took a chance, and ended up alone
    Article URL: https://gorillafund.org/mountain-gorillas/silverback-imfura-took-a-chance-and-ended-up-alone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080316 Points: 57 # Comments: 20
    Chasing Chicago's movable bridges (2014)
    Article URL: https://aresluna.org/seesaws-for-giants/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080111 Points: 52 # Comments: 7  ( 3 min )
    60fps Video on a CGA? – The GlyphBlaster
    Article URL: https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/05/60fps-video-on-cga-glyphblaster.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079933 Points: 55 # Comments: 8  ( 24 min )
    Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland
    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/28/swift-bricks-to-be-installed-in-all-new-buildings-in-scotland-after-holyrood-backs-ruling Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48079587 Points: 109 # Comments: 63  ( 15 min )

  • Open

    France moves to break encrypted messaging
    Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/france-moves-to-break-encrypted-messaging Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078811 Points: 105 # Comments: 60  ( 13 min )
    Getting arrested in Japan
    Article URL: https://sundaicity.com/blogs/getting-arrested-in-japan Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078647 Points: 172 # Comments: 195  ( 12 min )
    Show HN: Rust but Lisp
    Article URL: https://github.com/ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078575 Points: 96 # Comments: 55  ( 16 min )
    Local privilege escalation via execve()
    Article URL: https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec.asc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077971 Points: 105 # Comments: 60  ( 2 min )
    Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15
    Article URL: https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077924 Points: 219 # Comments: 88  ( 15 min )
    Surfel-based global illumination on the web
    Article URL: https://juretriglav.si/surfel-based-global-illumination-on-the-web/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077395 Points: 53 # Comments: 5  ( 23 min )
    Meta's Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable
    Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/technology/meta-ai-employees-miserable.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077126 Points: 77 # Comments: 21
    Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms
    Let-go is a Clojure-like language (~90% compatible with JVM Clojure) written in pure Go. It ships as a ~10MB static binary and cold boots in ~7ms - that's about 50x faster than JVM and 3x faster than Babashka. It has decent throughput on algorithmic workloads - within ballpark of the GraalVM-backed sci. I started this project in 2021 as an elaborate practical joke: I wanted to have an excuse for writing Clojure while pretending to write Go. Jokes aside, it turned out to be pretty decent: it feels like real Clojure, it has an nREPL server (supported in Calva, CIDER, etc.), it's easily embeddable in your Go programs (funcs, structs and channels cross the boundary without fuss). It's good for writing CLIs, web servers, data processing scripts and even doing some systems programming - I used it to write a deamonless container runtime. Oh, and it runs on Plan9. Under the hood there is a fairly simple compiler and a stack VM, both handcrafted specifically for running Clojure-like code. The compiler can work in AOT mode producing portable bytecode blobs and standalone binaries (runtime+bytecode). This is not a drop-in replacement for Clojure in general - it does not load JARs, it does not have all Java APIs and it most probably won't run your exiting Clojure projects without modifications. At least not at the moment. Take it for a spin, tell me what you think. Issues and PRs are welcome! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076815 Points: 60 # Comments: 12  ( 26 min )
    VGA Memory Access Is Complicated
    Article URL: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xxi-vga-memory-access-is-complicated/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076798 Points: 60 # Comments: 6  ( 14 min )
    Zed Editor Theme-Builder
    Article URL: https://zed.dev/theme-builder Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076651 Points: 77 # Comments: 27  ( 64 min )
    CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers
    Article URL: https://www.copahost.com/blog/cpanels-black-week-three-new-vulnerabilities-patched-after-ransomware-attack-on-44000-servers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076465 Points: 71 # Comments: 37  ( 9 min )
    I’ve banned query strings
    Related: https://susam.net/no-query-strings.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076173 Points: 115 # Comments: 52  ( 3 min )
    I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs
    Article URL: https://susam.net/no-query-strings.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076173 Points: 50 # Comments: 19  ( 6 min )
    PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes
    Article URL: https://stonetools.ghost.io/pipedream-archimedes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075528 Points: 52 # Comments: 16  ( 31 min )
    Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem
    https://archive.ph/m4P4K Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075429 Points: 60 # Comments: 50
    Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
    Article URL: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-my-cortisol-levels Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075366 Points: 101 # Comments: 48  ( 6 min )
    The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number
    Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-your-id-before-you-get-a-phone-number Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075185 Points: 51 # Comments: 38  ( 10 min )
    GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch
    Article URL: https://cyberinsider.com/grapheneos-fixes-android-vpn-leak-google-refused-to-patch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075144 Points: 114 # Comments: 30  ( 12 min )
    Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC
    Article URL: https://github.com/pion/rtwatch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075131 Points: 70 # Comments: 13  ( 9 min )
    The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
    Article URL: https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074952 Points: 106 # Comments: 57  ( 13 min )
    Read Programming as Theory Building
    Article URL: https://codeutopia.net/blog/2026/05/09/you-should-read-programming-as-theory-building/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074829 Points: 67 # Comments: 11  ( 3 min )
    Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware
    Article URL: https://github.com/tsirysndr/rockbox-zig Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074668 Points: 69 # Comments: 11  ( 36 min )
    Boriel BASIC
    Article URL: https://zxbasic.readthedocs.io/en/docs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074589 Points: 56 # Comments: 20  ( 2 min )
    Internet Archive Switzerland
    https://internetarchive.ch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074265 Points: 439 # Comments: 67  ( 9 min )
    Internet Archive Switzerland
    Article URL: https://internetarchive.ch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074265 Points: 86 # Comments: 13
    Forking the Web
    Article URL: https://dillo-browser.org/lab/web-fork/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074087 Points: 58 # Comments: 56  ( 3 min )
    A History of IDEs at Google
    Article URL: https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073979 Points: 353 # Comments: 238  ( 8 min )
    Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
    https://xunroll.com/thread/2053047748191232310 Recent and related: Zig → Rust porting guide - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880 - May 2026 (540 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073680 Points: 122 # Comments: 161  ( 3 min )
    Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive
    Article URL: https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260507070547.2268452-1-sashal@kernel.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073394 Points: 62 # Comments: 13  ( 22 min )
    LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073246 Points: 76 # Comments: 26  ( 2 min )
    I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left
    Article URL: http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073201 Points: 122 # Comments: 61  ( 13 min )
    Counting Fast in Erlang with:counters and:atomics
    Article URL: https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/erlang-counters-and-atomics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073121 Points: 60 # Comments: 2  ( 6 min )
    All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot
    Article URL: https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-carousel-now-it-s-an-ai-chatbot.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072720 Points: 61 # Comments: 20  ( 2 min )
    EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push
    Article URL: https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072190 Points: 159 # Comments: 96  ( 13 min )
    Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
    Examples: https://thariqs.github.io/html-effectiveness/ Related: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/8/unreasonable-effectiven... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071940 Points: 112 # Comments: 61  ( 3 min )
    Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux
    Article URL: https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/08/Over_97_of_the_Linux_Foundation_s_Budget_Goes_Not_to_Linux.shtml Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071496 Points: 57 # Comments: 32  ( 4 min )
    A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
    https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605 https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071262 Points: 120 # Comments: 30  ( 30 min )
    Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria
    Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/mexican-science-transforms-scorpion-venom-and-habanero-chile-into-antibiotics-against-resistant-bacteria/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070571 Points: 85 # Comments: 18  ( 88 min )

  • Open

    Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests
    Article URL: https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/tesla-model-y-first-vehicle-pass-nhtsa-new-advanced-driver-assistance-system-tests Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070115 Points: 55 # Comments: 45
    The Boston library where you still can borrow a giant puppet
    Article URL: https://binj.news/2026/05/06/the-boston-library-where-you-still-can-borrow-a-giant-puppet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069685 Points: 60 # Comments: 8  ( 12 min )
    Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging
    Article URL: https://www.pcmag.com/news/meta-shuts-down-end-to-end-encryption-for-instagram-dms-messaging Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069192 Points: 84 # Comments: 60  ( 21 min )
    When life gives you lemons, write better error messages
    Article URL: https://wix-ux.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-write-better-error-messages-46c5223e1a2f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069032 Points: 77 # Comments: 23
    When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions
    Article URL: https://0xkrt26.github.io/math_behind_security/2026/05/08/birthday-problem.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068254 Points: 51 # Comments: 11  ( 6 min )
    Lets Encrypt Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident
    Article URL: https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/69fe2d6698ca07050eb4b1b3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067790 Points: 53 # Comments: 12  ( 21 min )
    Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]
    Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR9PpXWsKFQ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067786 Points: 58 # Comments: 12
    You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)
    Article URL: https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067734 Points: 60 # Comments: 33
    Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years
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    Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house
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    Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
    Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067119 Points: 55 # Comments: 12  ( 10 min )
    Teaching Claude Why
    Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/teaching-claude-why Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066592 Points: 61 # Comments: 12  ( 16 min )
    AI Is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures
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    Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal
    Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-intel-have-reached-preliminary-chip-making-deal-wsj-reports-2026-05-08/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066169 Points: 129 # Comments: 69
    Bjarne Stroustrup: How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022)
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    The React2Shell Story
    Article URL: https://lachlan.nz/blog/the-react2shell-story/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065511 Points: 74 # Comments: 5  ( 24 min )
    AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs
    Article URL: https://duarteocarmo.com/blog/amalia-and-the-future-of-european-portuguese-llms Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065429 Points: 79 # Comments: 31  ( 4 min )
    Cartoon Network Flash Games
    Article URL: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065360 Points: 78 # Comments: 34
    Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?
    Article URL: https://www.sigops.org/2026/can-llms-model-real-world-systems-in-tla/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065254 Points: 64 # Comments: 9  ( 10 min )
    Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes
    Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/how-lakebase-architecture-delivers-5x-faster-postgres-writes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064789 Points: 69 # Comments: 19  ( 36 min )
    Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running in RAM
    Article URL: https://btxx.org/posts/memory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064312 Points: 102 # Comments: 42  ( 6 min )
    Show HN: Git for AI Agents
    hi guys. been working on something i think is fundamentally missing in today's workflow with ai agents. vcs. i find myself struggling with questions that agents can't answer like "why did you do it?", "when did u delete this folder? why?", etc. or trying to /rewind (after a /compact...) or basically `bisect` to find when and why something was done by the agent in the current / previous session. just like git did for code, i think we are the same core capabilities with ai agents so... i developed an open source solution for that (currently supporting claude code) would love to get feedback, contribution or maybe other ideas or solutions you find for those problems. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063548 Points: 50 # Comments: 28  ( 20 min )
    PC Engine CPU
    Article URL: https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/pc-engine-cpu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063521 Points: 78 # Comments: 22  ( 8 min )
    Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off
    Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/926741/tesla-cybertruck-cheaper-recall Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063240 Points: 134 # Comments: 131  ( 27 min )
    Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
    Article URL: https://privatecaptcha.com/blog/google-cloud-fraud-defence-wei/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063199 Points: 67 # Comments: 16  ( 5 min )
    Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
    Article URL: https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062977 Points: 66 # Comments: 24  ( 11 min )
    Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit
    Article URL: https://garrido.io/notes/podman-rootless-containers-copy-fail/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062745 Points: 73 # Comments: 14  ( 17 min )
    A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
    Article URL: https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062178 Points: 102 # Comments: 59  ( 28 min )
    Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happened
    Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/poland-economy-growth-g20-gdp-26fe06e120398410f8d773ba5661e7aa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062117 Points: 373 # Comments: 328  ( 50 min )
    Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads
    Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/if-you-downloaded-this-popular-software-recently-you-might-have-installed-malware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062035 Points: 55 # Comments: 12
    US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
    https://apnews.com/article/trump-ufos-uap-aliens-pentagon-re... https://www.war.gov/UFO/#release Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061938 Points: 116 # Comments: 201
    David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061884 Points: 57 # Comments: 1  ( 26 min )
    Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider
    Article URL: https://www.joachimschipper.nl/Stop%20MITM%20on%20the%20first%20SSH%20connection,%20on%20any%20VPS%20or%20cloud%20provider.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061602 Points: 50 # Comments: 23  ( 4 min )
    An Introduction to Meshtastic
    Article URL: https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061566 Points: 128 # Comments: 49  ( 1 min )
    Eight More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors
    Article URL: https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/eight-more-8-bit-era-microprocessors Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061556 Points: 70 # Comments: 22
    GeoJSON
    Article URL: https://geojson.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060918 Points: 73 # Comments: 33
    Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)
    Article URL: https://slate.com/technology/2004/11/the-death-of-the-last-maverick-tech-company.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060077 Points: 106 # Comments: 32  ( 34 min )
    Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
    I know what you're thinking... and I still can't believe it, but... This morning, our database flagged a duplicate UUID (v4). I checked, thinking it may have been a double-insert bug or something, but no. The original UUID was from a record added in 2025 (about a year ago), and today the system inserted a new document with a fresh UUIDv4 and it came up with the exact same one: b6133fd6-70fe-4fe3-bed6-8ca8fc9386cd We're using this: https://www.npmjs.com/package/uuid I thought this is technically impossible, and it will never happen, and since we're not modifying the UUIDs in any way, I really wonder how that.... is possible!? We're literally only calling: import { v4 as uuidv4 } from "uuid"; const document_id = uuidv4(); ... and then insert into the database, that's it. Additionally, the database only has about 15.000 records, and now one collision. Statistically... impossible. Has that ever happened to anyone?! What in the... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060054 Points: 136 # Comments: 142  ( 25 min )
    I hate soldering
    Article URL: https://user8.bearblog.dev/rant/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059831 Points: 117 # Comments: 103  ( 3 min )
    ClojureScript Gets Async/Await
    Article URL: https://clojurescript.org/news/2026-05-07-release Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059662 Points: 66 # Comments: 18  ( 1 min )
    QBE – Compiler Back End
    Article URL: https://c9x.me/compile/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059633 Points: 54 # Comments: 10  ( 1 min )
    Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2
    Article URL: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059606 Points: 82 # Comments: 56  ( 2 min )
    dBase: 1979-2026
    Article URL: https://delphinightmares.substack.com/p/dbase-1979-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058757 Points: 65 # Comments: 19
    Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE
    Article URL: https://github.com/graemeg/blaise Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058644 Points: 50 # Comments: 17  ( 13 min )
    Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
    Article URL: https://tautme.github.io/phone-sensors/accel-tuner.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058260 Points: 152 # Comments: 85  ( 8 min )
    AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours
    https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?t=2026-05-07 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/aws-outage-data-center-fandu... https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/08/aws-warns-of... https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-clou... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058197 Points: 151 # Comments: 103  ( 46 min )
    Amazon cloud outage at North Virginia data center largely resolved
    https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?t=2026-05-07 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/aws-outage-data-center-fandu... https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/08/aws-warns-of... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058197 Points: 85 # Comments: 38
    Mojo 1.0 Beta
    Article URL: https://mojolang.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057901 Points: 132 # Comments: 119  ( 3 min )
    GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs
    Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/announcements/gpt55-cost-analysis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057209 Points: 76 # Comments: 15  ( 5 min )
    GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094
    Article URL: https://github.com/robertdfrench/ifuncd-up Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056749 Points: 55 # Comments: 25  ( 29 min )

  • Open

    The people preserving the scientific practice of bird banding
    Article URL: https://thenarwhal.ca/bird-banding-ontario/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056639 Points: 59 # Comments: 2  ( 25 min )
    Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study
    Article URL: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gambling-ads-on-social-media-reach-more-than-twice-as-many-men-as-women Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056359 Points: 60 # Comments: 47  ( 6 min )
    Researchers discover advanced language processing in the unconscious human brain
    Article URL: https://www.bcm.edu/news/researchers-discover-advanced-language-processing-in-the-unconscious-human-brain Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056268 Points: 62 # Comments: 23
    Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
    Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056227 Points: 218 # Comments: 99  ( 1 min )
    Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect
    Article URL: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/research-and-discoveries-articles/nonprofit-hospitals-spend-billions-on-management-consultants Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056158 Points: 93 # Comments: 28  ( 24 min )
    Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack
    Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055913 Points: 76 # Comments: 2  ( 25 min )
    Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
    https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054423 Points: 504 # Comments: 301
    Building for the Future
    Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054423 Points: 192 # Comments: 113  ( 4 min )
    Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found
    Article URL: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/home-affairs-officials-suspended-ai-hallucinations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053842 Points: 61 # Comments: 16  ( 12 min )
    Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives"
    Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/mozilla-says-271-vulnerabilities-found-by-mythos-have-almost-no-false-positives/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053816 Points: 82 # Comments: 42  ( 16 min )
    Creating for a niche
    Article URL: https://www.davesnider.com/posts/working-in-a-niche Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053770 Points: 51 # Comments: 6  ( 3 min )
    Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
    Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053623 Points: 221 # Comments: 96  ( 32 min )
    AI Slop Is Killing Online Communities
    Article URL: https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053203 Points: 124 # Comments: 101  ( 7 min )
    Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text
    Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencoders Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052537 Points: 75 # Comments: 15  ( 13 min )
    Brazil's Pix Payment System Faces Pressure from Visa and Mastercard
    Article URL: https://www.elciudadano.com/en/brazils-pix-payment-system-faces-pressure-from-visa-and-mastercard/04/04/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052371 Points: 63 # Comments: 40  ( 37 min )
    Principles for agent-native CLIs
    Article URL: https://twitter.com/trevin/status/2051316002730991795 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052333 Points: 50 # Comments: 29  ( 3 min )
    OpenAI's WebRTC problem
    Article URL: https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051951 Points: 170 # Comments: 39  ( 9 min )
    Agents need control flow, not more prompts
    Article URL: https://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051562 Points: 78 # Comments: 36  ( 4 min )
    Authorities say Flock cameras' data allegedly used for immigration enforcement
    Article URL: https://www.ohio.news/stories/dayton-authorities-say-that-flock-cameras-data-allegedly-used-for-immigration-enforcement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051080 Points: 58 # Comments: 30  ( 4 min )
    Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/mozil... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051079 Points: 126 # Comments: 72  ( 11 min )
    I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook
    Article URL: https://blog.johnozbay.com/i-left-apples-ecosystem-for-a-lenovo-chromebook-and-you-can-too.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051025 Points: 64 # Comments: 86  ( 6 min )
    Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers
    Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t5qayz/chrome_removes_claim_of_ondevice_al_not_sending/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050964 Points: 189 # Comments: 52
    DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
    Article URL: https://github.com/antirez/ds4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050751 Points: 99 # Comments: 31  ( 27 min )
    First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed
    Article URL: https://www.arup.com/en-us/news/first-fehmarnbelt-tunnel-element-lowered/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050666 Points: 114 # Comments: 49  ( 3 min )
    Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI
    Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/motherboard-sales-collapse-by-more-than-25-percent-as-chipmakers-strangle-enthusiast-pc-market-to-build-more-ai-chips-asus-projected-to-sell-5-million-fewer-boards-in-2025-gigabyte-msi-and-asrock-also-expected-to-see-reduced-sales-numbers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050540 Points: 78 # Comments: 37  ( 127 min )
    I want to live like Costco people
    Article URL: https://tastecooking.com/i-want-to-live-like-costco-people/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050499 Points: 52 # Comments: 122  ( 13 min )
    AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields
    Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050278 Points: 100 # Comments: 27  ( 9 min )
    MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport
    Article URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-gregoire-moq-msfts-00.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049963 Points: 53 # Comments: 15  ( 26 min )
    The Serial TTL connector we deserve
    Article URL: https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/05/07/serial-ttl-connector/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049828 Points: 78 # Comments: 53  ( 5 min )
    The Self-Cancelling Subscription
    Article URL: https://predr.ag/blog/the-self-cancelling-subscription/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049764 Points: 54 # Comments: 23  ( 7 min )
    The map that keeps Burning Man honest
    Article URL: https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049653 Points: 278 # Comments: 100  ( 5 min )
    The River Otter's Remarkable Comeback
    Article URL: https://www.rewildingmag.com/the-river-otters-remarkable-comeback/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049577 Points: 53 # Comments: 11  ( 6 min )
    Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
    Related: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00796-2 (https://archive.ph/otvAa) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049208 Points: 244 # Comments: 157  ( 14 min )
    Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
    Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00796-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049208 Points: 156 # Comments: 89  ( 14 min )
    How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability
    Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/copy-fail-linux-vulnerability-mitigation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049160 Points: 54 # Comments: 53  ( 10 min )
    Looking at the data behind prediction markets
    Article URL: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/are-prediction-markets-good-for-anything Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049014 Points: 64 # Comments: 29  ( 19 min )
    Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)
    Article URL: https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/making-your-own-programming-language.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048902 Points: 77 # Comments: 36  ( 25 min )
    The One Dollar Counterfeiter
    Article URL: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/05/emerich-juettner-one-dollar.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048684 Points: 127 # Comments: 39  ( 24 min )
    How LEDs are made (2014)
    Article URL: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/how-leds-are-made/all Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048679 Points: 59 # Comments: 6  ( 5 min )
    Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)
    Article URL: https://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/premium/en-s100x-jc1-u/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048407 Points: 76 # Comments: 27
    Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense
    Article URL: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/grand-theft-oil-futures Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047981 Points: 226 # Comments: 152
    LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
    Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/05/05/noyb-cries-foul-on-linkedin-withholding-profile-visitor-data/5225338 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047970 Points: 110 # Comments: 59  ( 26 min )
    Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different
    Article URL: https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047930 Points: 90 # Comments: 36
    Agent-harness-kit scaffolding for multi-agent workflows (MCP, provider-agnostic)
    Article URL: https://ahk.cardor.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047826 Points: 56 # Comments: 17
    Removing fsync from our local storage engine
    Article URL: https://fractalbits.com/blog/remove-fsync/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047280 Points: 51 # Comments: 40  ( 10 min )
    ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters
    Article URL: https://firethering.com/zaya1-8b-open-source-math-coding-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047082 Points: 60 # Comments: 49  ( 30 min )
    Mythical Man Month
    Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MythicalManMonth.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48046436 Points: 93 # Comments: 78  ( 1 min )
    Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA
    Article URL: https://unsloth.ai/blog/nvidia-collab Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48046397 Points: 62 # Comments: 9  ( 8 min )
    Show HN: Trust – Coding Rust like it's 1989
    Article URL: https://github.com/wojtczyk/trust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045939 Points: 66 # Comments: 36  ( 7 min )
    ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch?
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03546 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045174 Points: 68 # Comments: 36  ( 2 min )
    Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE
    Article URL: https://aniket.foo/posts/20260505-netboot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045012 Points: 51 # Comments: 16  ( 8 min )
    Permacomputing Principles
    Article URL: https://permacomputing.net/principles/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044638 Points: 87 # Comments: 24  ( 8 min )
    The Vatican's Website in Latin
    Article URL: https://www.vatican.va/latin/latin_index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044311 Points: 67 # Comments: 43
    RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google
    Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me-more-traffic-than-google/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043964 Points: 97 # Comments: 17

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    UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing
    Article URL: https://bmmagazine.co.uk/news/uk-jet-fuel-shortage-rationing-goldman-sachs-warning/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042918 Points: 58 # Comments: 38  ( 14 min )
    David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
    Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/column/925487/david-sacks-trump-administration-ai-model-review Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042842 Points: 61 # Comments: 30  ( 41 min )
    The Disappearance of the Public Bench
    Article URL: https://placesjournal.org/article/the-disappearance-of-the-public-bench/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042817 Points: 60 # Comments: 44
    SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
    Article URL: https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042434 Points: 146 # Comments: 32  ( 2 min )
    Show HN: I wrote a flight simulator in my own programming language
    Article URL: https://github.com/navid-m/flightsim Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042427 Points: 61 # Comments: 16  ( 2 min )
    Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)
    Article URL: https://flow.byu.edu/posts/julia-c++ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042204 Points: 51 # Comments: 33  ( 38 min )
    Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions
    Article URL: https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041316 Points: 59 # Comments: 14  ( 20 min )
    Inkscape 1.4.4
    Article URL: https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040622 Points: 56 # Comments: 7  ( 7 min )
    Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible
    Article URL: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/05/06/light-without-electricity-glowing-algae-could-make-it-possible Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040470 Points: 75 # Comments: 21  ( 3 min )
    OpenBSD Stories: The closest thing to cute kittens (OpenBSD/zaurus)
    Article URL: http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/zaurus1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040465 Points: 55 # Comments: 6  ( 28 min )
    Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023)
    Article URL: https://www.kutilek.de/selectric/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040412 Points: 53 # Comments: 5  ( 9 min )
    Programming Still Sucks
    Article URL: https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040269 Points: 163 # Comments: 32  ( 14 min )
    Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model
    Article URL: https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040002 Points: 50 # Comments: 10  ( 57 min )
    BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
    Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/05/byd-overtakes-tesla-kia-best-selling-ev-brand-key-overseas-markets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039739 Points: 163 # Comments: 217  ( 11 min )
    Proton Meet
    Article URL: https://proton.me/business/blog/introducing-proton-meet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039674 Points: 62 # Comments: 16  ( 13 min )
    Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
    Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362 Points: 61 # Comments: 48  ( 22 min )
    Going Full Time on Open Source
    Article URL: https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038864 Points: 100 # Comments: 9  ( 2 min )
    From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
    Article URL: https://blog.val.town/better-auth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038827 Points: 118 # Comments: 54  ( 11 min )
    SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags
    Article URL: https://yibo-fu.com/SoundOff-Low-cost-Passive-Ultrasound-Tags-for-Non-invasive-and-Non Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038750 Points: 57 # Comments: 1  ( 20 min )
    Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens
    Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-04-26/colombia-hosts-talks-on-exiting-fossil-fuels-as-global-energy-crisis-deepens Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038489 Points: 98 # Comments: 71  ( 20 min )
    Life During Class Wartime
    Article URL: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038307 Points: 59 # Comments: 15  ( 4 min )
    Show HN: Hallucinopedia
    Article URL: http://halupedia.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038257 Points: 70 # Comments: 70
    Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer
    Article URL: https://play.templatical.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038019 Points: 57 # Comments: 16
    Appearing Productive in the Workplace
    Article URL: https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038001 Points: 110 # Comments: 37  ( 8 min )
    Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
    Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986 Points: 193 # Comments: 131  ( 5 min )
    Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)
    Article URL: https://www.wiisfi.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037760 Points: 283 # Comments: 71  ( 267 min )
    Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent Sandbox with a Transactional, Versioned Filesystem
    Article URL: https://tilde.run/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037724 Points: 75 # Comments: 55  ( 4 min )
    All means are fair except solving the problem
    Article URL: https://yosefk.com/blog/all-means-are-fair-except-solving-the-problem.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037655 Points: 70 # Comments: 48  ( 3 min )
    Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
    Article URL: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037555 Points: 166 # Comments: 39  ( 5 min )
    What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting
    Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting-20260506/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037517 Points: 154 # Comments: 39  ( 14 min )
    Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
    AI hallucinations are getting ambitious. A couple people recently emailed, asking whether the Klein bottle business was still operating after my death. “Huh?” I thought. “I ain’t dead yet.” After some digging, I discovered the source: an AI-generated review of The Cuckoo’s Egg circulating on Facebook. Alongside the usual synthetic praise and fabricated details, it confidently announced that I had died in May 2024. Apparently AI has now advanced to the point where it can kill people off before they notice. Mark Twain once wrote, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” I never expected to field-test the quote personally. source: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=989939243570691&id=100076638743004 Cheers, -Cliff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037336 Points: 89 # Comments: 16  ( 3 min )
    Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
    Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037128 Points: 97 # Comments: 119  ( 8 min )
    CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87
    Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037009 Points: 50 # Comments: 32
    Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster
    Article URL: https://www.404media.co/man-finds-1-million-worth-of-yu-gi-oh-cards-in-a-dumpster/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036289 Points: 74 # Comments: 13  ( 9 min )
    What I Learned Making an App for My Family
    Article URL: https://mendelgreenberg.com/posts/ourcar/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036190 Points: 53 # Comments: 11  ( 31 min )
    Shrinkflation Is Quietly Making All Gadgets Worse
    Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/shrinkflation-is-quietly-making-all-gadgets-worse-2000754565 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035617 Points: 65 # Comments: 41
    Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
    Article URL: https://storica.club/blog/pinocchio-in-italian/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035420 Points: 126 # Comments: 51  ( 7 min )
    Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10
    Article URL: https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034762 Points: 70 # Comments: 13  ( 6 min )
    Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
    Article URL: https://red-squares.cian.lol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034587 Points: 126 # Comments: 24
    Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
    Article URL: https://draxinar.github.io/articles/2026-05-01-uodemo-reverse-engineering.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032976 Points: 69 # Comments: 10  ( 4 min )
    Knitting bullshit
    Article URL: https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/knitting-bullshit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032461 Points: 117 # Comments: 56  ( 61 min )
    Multi-stroke text effect in CSS
    Article URL: https://yuanchuan.dev/multi-stroke-text-effect-in-css Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032265 Points: 79 # Comments: 8  ( 2 min )
    Google tools for customizing searches
    Article URL: https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has-a-secret-reference-desk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032240 Points: 55 # Comments: 14
    Pen pal programs endure in a digital age
    Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/pen-pals-letters-comeback-bc87e1b9c229665bafd368e19751d6ca Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032069 Points: 53 # Comments: 12  ( 50 min )
    245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping
    Article URL: https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/industry-leading-245tb-micron-6600-ion-data-center-ssd-now Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031867 Points: 73 # Comments: 56
    Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me
    Article URL: https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21465037.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031769 Points: 130 # Comments: 17  ( 9 min )
    Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
    Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031684 Points: 177 # Comments: 84  ( 8 min )
    StarFighter 16-Inch
    Article URL: https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031261 Points: 72 # Comments: 52  ( 11 min )
    Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
    Article URL: https://letsdatascience.com/news/telus-uses-ai-to-alter-call-agent-accents-a3868f63 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031109 Points: 106 # Comments: 67  ( 11 min )
    YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
    Article URL: https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030964 Points: 60 # Comments: 21

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    Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say
    Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-publishers-lawsuit-llama-5609846d4d840014974a847b01079c32 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029334 Points: 52 # Comments: 1  ( 45 min )
    SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice
    Article URL: https://singleride.nyc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029261 Points: 53 # Comments: 21
    NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address
    Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/nx-s1-5807918/polymarket-panama-prediction-market Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029114 Points: 105 # Comments: 41  ( 8 min )
    Write some software, give it away for free
    Article URL: https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028842 Points: 84 # Comments: 58  ( 9 min )
    Why most product tours get skipped
    Article URL: https://productonboarding.com/articles/why-product-tours-get-skipped Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028546 Points: 91 # Comments: 80  ( 15 min )
    DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
    Article URL: https://status.denic.de/pages/incident/592577eab611ce1e0d00046f/69fa60ef9d12f5057a974f38 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027897 Points: 664 # Comments: 331  ( 22 min )
    .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?
    Article URL: https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/nic.de Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027897 Points: 341 # Comments: 109  ( 12 min )
    A Theory of Deep Learning
    Article URL: https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027455 Points: 107 # Comments: 24  ( 9 min )
    What makes a good smartphone camera?
    Article URL: https://cadence.moe/blog/2026-05-05-what-makes-a-good-smartphone-camera Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026773 Points: 69 # Comments: 50  ( 10 min )
    PySimpleGUI 6
    Article URL: https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026412 Points: 65 # Comments: 22  ( 9 min )
    California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
    Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-aid-california-farmers-22240694.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026349 Points: 109 # Comments: 110  ( 1 min )
    Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
    I built PaletteInspiration.com, a browsable archive of color palettes pulled from artworks by 3,000+ master painters (Monet, Vermeer, Raphael, Van Gogh). Why I built it: every color palette generator I tried converged on the same five muted pastels. Painters spent centuries figuring out color and we mostly ignore that body of work when picking colors for digital design. Please share your feedback on the Color Harmony Explorer - drag the wheel to any color and it shows which hues master painters historically paired with it (not only standard complementary, analogous, triadic, etc.) It is solely based on co-occurrence across thousands of real paintings. Not algorithmic color theory rules - actual empirical pairings. No signup, no paywall, no email capture. Just curious what people think. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026342 Points: 64 # Comments: 22  ( 14 min )
    Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
    Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-publishers-scott-turow-1236738383/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026207 Points: 125 # Comments: 75  ( 41 min )
    Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue
    Article URL: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/clarify-npp-trademark-infringement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026206 Points: 121 # Comments: 55  ( 1 min )
    GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026021 Points: 63 # Comments: 16  ( 3 min )
    IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
    Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260505-00/?p=112298 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025687 Points: 62 # Comments: 16  ( 26 min )
    Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC
    Article URL: https://leetusman.com/nosebook/yvi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025540 Points: 58 # Comments: 28  ( 3 min )
    Computer Use Is 45x More Expensive Than Structured APIs
    Article URL: https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024859 Points: 77 # Comments: 47  ( 7 min )
    Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
    Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024540 Points: 121 # Comments: 37  ( 16 min )
    UK: Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds strongly
    Article URL: https://www.smmt.co.uk/two-millionth-electric-car-registered-as-market-rebounds-strongly-from-tax-changes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024364 Points: 108 # Comments: 105  ( 7 min )
    I'm scared about biological computing
    Article URL: https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/I%27m-Scared-About-Biological-Computing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024358 Points: 93 # Comments: 68  ( 4 min )
    Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8
    Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/05/psa-instagram-encrypted-messaging-ends-may-8/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024160 Points: 54 # Comments: 34  ( 9 min )
    EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old
    Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024129 Points: 88 # Comments: 17
    Three Inverse Laws of AI
    Article URL: https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023861 Points: 68 # Comments: 22  ( 5 min )
    Agents for financial services and insurance
    Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/finance-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023533 Points: 71 # Comments: 53  ( 14 min )
    Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
    I’m Michel, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte (https://airbyte.com/). We’ve spent the last six years building data connectors. Today we're launching Airbyte Agents (https://docs.airbyte.com/ai-agents/), a unified data layer for agents to discover information and take action across operational systems. Here’s a quick walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZosDytyf1fg As agents move into real workflows, they need access to more tools (e.g. Slack, Salesforce, Linear). That means a ton of API plumbing: authentication, pagination, filters, handling schema, and matching entities across systems. Most MCPs don’t fix this. They’re thin wrappers over APIs, so agents inherit their weak primitives and still get it wrong most of the time, especially when working across tools. An even deeper issue is …  ( 5 min )
    It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs
    Article URL: https://tech.yahoo.com/vpn/article/its-official-utah-is-the-us-state-closest-to-banning-vpns-153556814.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023473 Points: 97 # Comments: 67  ( 31 min )
    Yet Another GitHub Incident
    Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/1j40g94rn22j Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022900 Points: 85 # Comments: 47  ( 19 min )
    AI didn't delete your database, you did
    Article URL: https://idiallo.com/blog/ai-didnt-delete-your-database-you-did Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022742 Points: 301 # Comments: 152  ( 13 min )
    AI Product Graveyard
    Article URL: https://tooldirectory.ai/ai-graveyard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021968 Points: 170 # Comments: 75
    Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader
    Article URL: https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021901 Points: 59 # Comments: 20  ( 16 min )
    iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet
    Article URL: https://walletwallet.alen.ro/blog/ios-27-wallet-create-pass/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021561 Points: 247 # Comments: 213  ( 5 min )
    Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak
    Hi HN! Looking for feedback on this 1v1 and daily word dueling game I've built over the last few months. Play here: https://wordtrak.com/ Or on iOS here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wordtrak/id6760442363 (Android version soon!) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021420 Points: 56 # Comments: 26  ( 5 min )
    Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
    Article URL: https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021368 Points: 108 # Comments: 110  ( 3 min )
    When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing
    Article URL: https://www.robert-glaser.de/when-everyone-has-ai-and-the-company-still-learns-nothing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020063 Points: 179 # Comments: 113  ( 9 min )
    The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells
    Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-mathematical-dance-inside-plant-cells-20260504/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019414 Points: 51 # Comments: 2  ( 13 min )
    Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
    Article URL: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019219 Points: 135 # Comments: 149  ( 20 min )
    Async Rust never left the MVP state
    Article URL: https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/237/async-rust-never-left-the-mvp-state Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019163 Points: 93 # Comments: 47  ( 58 min )
    Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?
    Article URL: https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/05/04/10-lessons-for-agentic-coding.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019025 Points: 78 # Comments: 61  ( 2 min )
    Kids bypass age verification with fake moustaches
    Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/uk_online_safety_act_age_checks_subvert/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018080 Points: 85 # Comments: 40  ( 5 min )
    About 10% of AMC movie showings sell zero tickets. This site finds them
    Article URL: https://walzr.com/empty-screenings Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018066 Points: 87 # Comments: 54
    Train Your Own LLM from Scratch
    Article URL: https://github.com/angelos-p/llm-from-scratch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017948 Points: 57 # Comments: 8  ( 11 min )
    Hand Drawn QR Codes
    Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/hand-drawn-qr-codes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017907 Points: 89 # Comments: 9  ( 2 min )
    CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers
    Article URL: https://www.dragonsreach.it/2026/05/04/cve-2026-31431-copy-fail-rootless-containers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017813 Points: 60 # Comments: 15  ( 8 min )
    Biscuit
    Article URL: https://github.com/yattsu/biscuit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017641 Points: 54 # Comments: 3  ( 22 min )
    Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting
    Article URL: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/dake-kang-garance-burke-byron-tau-aniruddha-ghosal-and-yael-grauer-contributor-associated Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017399 Points: 67 # Comments: 3
    What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)
    Article URL: https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/18/cognitive-debt-revisited/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017298 Points: 162 # Comments: 79  ( 3 min )
    The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars
    Article URL: https://nobodyaskedforthis.lol/posts/connected-car/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017251 Points: 51 # Comments: 30
    Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
    Article URL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880 Points: 214 # Comments: 143  ( 1 min )
    Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%)
    Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/y_combinators_stake_in_openai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016534 Points: 131 # Comments: 3  ( 3 min )

  • Open

    Agent Skills
    Article URL: https://addyosmani.com/blog/agent-skills/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015397 Points: 150 # Comments: 51  ( 20 min )
    When Networking Doesn't Work
    Article URL: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/when-networking-doesnt-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014868 Points: 62 # Comments: 10  ( 9 min )
    Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)
    Article URL: https://www.ticalc.org/programming/columns/83plus-bas/cherny/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014521 Points: 96 # Comments: 40  ( 14 min )
    Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight
    Article URL: https://stripe.dev/blog/formatting-an-entire-25-million-line-codebase-overnight-the-rubyfmt-story Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014325 Points: 50 # Comments: 26  ( 9 min )
    How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013919 Points: 116 # Comments: 57
    Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2
    Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/photoshops-challenges-with-focus-pt-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013750 Points: 58 # Comments: 19  ( 4 min )
    Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused
    Article URL: https://twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/status/2051308329880719730 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012735 Points: 159 # Comments: 68  ( 3 min )
    Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)
    Article URL: https://www.chevrolet.com/performance-parts/crate-engines/ecrate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012649 Points: 64 # Comments: 34  ( 8 min )
    Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC
    Article URL: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/04/28/2003856358 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012477 Points: 63 # Comments: 0  ( 8 min )
    Securing a DoD Contractor: Finding a Multi-Tenant Authorization Vulnerability
    Article URL: https://www.strix.ai/blog/how-strix-found-zero-auth-vulnerability-dod-backed-startup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012162 Points: 109 # Comments: 38
    Days Without GitHub Incidents
    Article URL: https://www.dayswithoutgithubincident.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012022 Points: 73 # Comments: 16  ( 1 min )
    Heat pump sales rise across Europe
    Article URL: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/04/heat-pump-sales-rise-17-across-europe-in-q1-as-energy-prices-surge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012003 Points: 111 # Comments: 34  ( 14 min )
    'Kitten Space Agency', the Spiritual Successor to 'Kerbal Space Program' (2025)
    Article URL: https://www.space.com/entertainment/space-games/kitten-space-agency-is-the-spiritual-successor-to-kerbal-space-program-and-they-have-an-ex-spacex-engineer-on-the-team-interview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011980 Points: 74 # Comments: 24  ( 122 min )
    Let's talk about LLMs
    Article URL: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/apr/09/llms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011904 Points: 86 # Comments: 55  ( 22 min )
    Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts
    Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-03/trillions-in-us-retirement-dollars-flow-into-opaque-trusts-that-rival-etfs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011781 Points: 73 # Comments: 8
    US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
    Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/us-healthcare-marketplaces-shared-citizenship-and-race-data-with-ad-tech-giants/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011689 Points: 302 # Comments: 96  ( 11 min )
    Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to
    Article URL: https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/04/29/stop-big-tech-from-making-users-behave-in-ways-they-dont-want-to Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011603 Points: 151 # Comments: 86
    The Visible Zorker: Zork 3
    Article URL: https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011440 Points: 61 # Comments: 6
    I am worried about Bun
    Article URL: https://wwj.dev/posts/i-am-worried-about-bun/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011184 Points: 90 # Comments: 39  ( 4 min )
    Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)
    Article URL: https://www.happydaze.se/wolf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011077 Points: 95 # Comments: 14  ( 10 min )
    OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools
    Article URL: https://www.404media.co/literacy-in-future-technologies-artificial-intelligence-act-adam-schiff-mike-rounds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010774 Points: 50 # Comments: 44  ( 5 min )
    RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust
    Article URL: https://ratex.lites.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010729 Points: 104 # Comments: 56  ( 3 min )
    GitHub Is Down
    Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/72q3n8yxthcy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010301 Points: 152 # Comments: 66  ( 20 min )
    Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
    Article URL: https://sierra.ai/blog/better-customer-experiences-built-on-sierra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010266 Points: 62 # Comments: 86  ( 9 min )
    Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster
    Article URL: https://globalnews.ca/news/11828244/alberta-voter-list-leak-public-safety-disaster/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010208 Points: 57 # Comments: 40  ( 24 min )
    Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
    Article URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w35117 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009983 Points: 83 # Comments: 40  ( 3 min )
    1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'
    Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/tesla-1966-mustang-ev-conversion-full-self-driving/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009840 Points: 66 # Comments: 50  ( 13 min )
    I tracked 7,700 UK petrol stations every 10 minutes for 3 months
    Article URL: https://www.fuelinsight.co.uk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009747 Points: 75 # Comments: 35  ( 2 min )
    Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
    Article URL: https://www.ecopv-eu.com/en/blog-en/replaceable-smartphone-batteries-2027-eu-regulation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009697 Points: 229 # Comments: 204
    Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database
    Article URL: https://pomiferous.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009441 Points: 72 # Comments: 20  ( 3 min )
    Redis array: short story of a long development process
    Article URL: https://antirez.com/news/164 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009172 Points: 87 # Comments: 21  ( 3 min )
    How Monero's proof of work works
    Article URL: https://blog.alcazarsec.com/tech/posts/how-moneros-proof-of-work-works Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009020 Points: 80 # Comments: 55  ( 8 min )
    Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive
    Article URL: https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/the-view-from-mumbai-matchbook-graphic-design-130426 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48008999 Points: 112 # Comments: 27  ( 20 min )
    Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets
    Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/someone-allegedly-used-a-hairdryer-to-rig-polymarket-weather-bets-155312411.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48008326 Points: 95 # Comments: 52  ( 4 min )
    Gaps in national food production, worldwide
    Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-025-01173-4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48008104 Points: 57 # Comments: 36  ( 22 min )
    PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out
    Article URL: https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra/releases/tag/v3.8.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48008083 Points: 149 # Comments: 50  ( 4 min )
    Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test
    Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/newton-s-law-gravity-passes-its-biggest-test-ever Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48008074 Points: 73 # Comments: 41
    Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym
    Article URL: https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007438 Points: 260 # Comments: 100  ( 14 min )
    The bottleneck was never the code
    Article URL: https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/thoughts-on-coding-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006967 Points: 304 # Comments: 206  ( 6 min )
    Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
    Article URL: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-trademark-infringement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006445 Points: 199 # Comments: 75  ( 1 min )
    GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p8yled1do Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006402 Points: 161 # Comments: 101  ( 17 min )
    Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision
    Article URL: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/8-million-thermos-jars-bottles-recalled-after-3-132568152 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006123 Points: 64 # Comments: 52  ( 10 min )
    CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”
    Article URL: https://www.aaedmusa.com/projects/cara2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48005432 Points: 344 # Comments: 46  ( 46 min )
    Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions
    Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/small-html-pages/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004734 Points: 64 # Comments: 37  ( 3 min )
    Humanoid Robot Actuators
    Article URL: https://www.firgelli.com/pages/humanoid-robot-actuators Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004380 Points: 66 # Comments: 5  ( 60 min )

  • Open

    The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
    Article URL: https://xogium.me/the-text-mode-lie-why-modern-tuis-are-a-nightmare-for-accessibility Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002938 Points: 124 # Comments: 50  ( 6 min )
    Let's Buy Spirit Air
    Article URL: https://letsbuyspiritair.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002777 Points: 222 # Comments: 172
    The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
    Article URL: https://jdgr.net/the-hidden-costs-of-great-abstractions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002607 Points: 77 # Comments: 17  ( 2 min )
    Agentic Coding Is a Trap
    Article URL: https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002442 Points: 238 # Comments: 170  ( 20 min )
    DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper
    Article URL: https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002136 Points: 69 # Comments: 28  ( 16 min )
    Introduction to Atom
    Article URL: https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/atom.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002089 Points: 76 # Comments: 20  ( 6 min )
    Make your own microforest (2025)
    Article URL: https://ambrook.com/offrange/environment/a-forest-in-your-pocket Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000507 Points: 71 # Comments: 15  ( 20 min )
    Statue of a man blinded by a flag put up by Banksy in central London
    Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blinded-by-a-flag-and-walking-off-a-ledge-appeared-in-central-london-180988662/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000152 Points: 76 # Comments: 27  ( 6 min )
    Why TUIs Are Back
    Article URL: https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/why-tuis-are-back/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000028 Points: 119 # Comments: 103  ( 4 min )
    Show HN: Ableton Live MCP
    Article URL: https://github.com/bschoepke/ableton-live-mcp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999656 Points: 54 # Comments: 33  ( 6 min )
    BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
    Article URL: https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999636 Points: 120 # Comments: 35
    LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction
    Article URL: https://www.lelanthran.com/chap15/content.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999520 Points: 84 # Comments: 71  ( 2 min )
    I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video]
    Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNQDcpHc68 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999460 Points: 51 # Comments: 7
    Collaborative Editing in CodeMirror (2020)
    Article URL: https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/collaborative-editing-cm.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999391 Points: 50 # Comments: 6  ( 10 min )
    How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
    Article URL: https://chromium-drift.pages.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999006 Points: 99 # Comments: 34  ( 5 min )
    Southwest Headquarters Tour
    After years of flying Southwest, I recently had the opportunity to tour the headquarters in Dallas. I particularly enjoyed seeing the full-motion 737 simulators, Network Operations Center, and TechOps maintenance hangar up close. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998946 Points: 79 # Comments: 7  ( 6 min )
    Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan
    Article URL: https://www.thegamer.com/mgs2-hd-edition-source-code-massive-leak/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998790 Points: 87 # Comments: 28  ( 14 min )
    Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors
    Article URL: https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2026/04/batteries-not-included-or-required-these-smart-home-sensors Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998638 Points: 158 # Comments: 57  ( 5 min )
    Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors
    https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-0... (https://archive.ph/0QYbN) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998449 Points: 53 # Comments: 3  ( 47 min )
    For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day
    Article URL: https://christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/personal/phish/flow/agents/2026/05/03/rift.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998225 Points: 60 # Comments: 36  ( 7 min )
    A desktop made for one
    Article URL: https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997947 Points: 74 # Comments: 35  ( 4 min )
    Security through obscurity is not bad
    Article URL: https://mobeigi.com/blog/security/security-through-obscurity-is-not-bad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997486 Points: 50 # Comments: 62  ( 18 min )
    Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
    Article URL: https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997418 Points: 67 # Comments: 31  ( 29 min )
    Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs
    Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/utah-becomes-first-us-state-to-target-vpn-use-with-age-verification-law Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997358 Points: 118 # Comments: 102  ( 127 min )
    Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery
    Article URL: https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_US/2026/motorsport/porsche-will-contest-laguna-seca-in-historic-colors-of-the-apple-computer-livery.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997138 Points: 58 # Comments: 16  ( 6 min )
    Alert-driven monitoring
    Article URL: https://simpleobservability.com/docs/alert-driven-monitoring Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997056 Points: 70 # Comments: 30  ( 3 min )
    Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_receptor_4A1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995757 Points: 82 # Comments: 62  ( 9 min )
    Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services
    Article URL: https://github.com/Matheus-git/systemd-manager-tui Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995649 Points: 55 # Comments: 14  ( 8 min )
    Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security
    Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/9921f2b5-c910-4cec-a50f-cad453935a1a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995125 Points: 50 # Comments: 37
    Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web
    Article URL: https://github.com/bring-shrubbery/ml-sharp-web Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995037 Points: 55 # Comments: 5  ( 15 min )
    Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
    Article URL: https://acai.sh/blog/specsmaxxing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994012 Points: 71 # Comments: 48  ( 9 min )
    Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives
    Article URL: https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/02/comparing-the-z80-and-6502-to-their-relatives/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993240 Points: 68 # Comments: 3  ( 23 min )
    Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
    Article URL: https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993235 Points: 156 # Comments: 70  ( 7 min )
    Windows API Is Successful Cross-Platform API
    Article URL: https://retrocoding.net/windows-api-is-successful-cross-platform-api Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992859 Points: 55 # Comments: 38
    AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share
    Article URL: https://fshot.org/techzone/the-algorithm-knows.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992802 Points: 57 # Comments: 2  ( 2 min )
    Open source does not imply open community
    Article URL: https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992772 Points: 114 # Comments: 26  ( 9 min )
    Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels
    Article URL: https://www.newsonjapan.com/article/149075.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992446 Points: 59 # Comments: 21  ( 5 min )
    Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores
    Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/surveillance-pricing-groceries-maryland.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992349 Points: 58 # Comments: 28
    Clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgzk91leweo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992338 Points: 52 # Comments: 14  ( 27 min )
    OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-emergency-triage-diagnoses Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991981 Points: 130 # Comments: 62  ( 16 min )
    A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury
    Article URL: https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991802 Points: 84 # Comments: 22  ( 28 min )

  • Open

    Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him
    Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/this-tesla-owner-won-10k-in-court-for-teslas-fsd-lies-tesla-is-still-fighting-him/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991350 Points: 195 # Comments: 78  ( 15 min )
    Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers
    Article URL: https://github.com/mahimairaja/voiceai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991018 Points: 64 # Comments: 4  ( 42 min )
    Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
    Article URL: https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990789 Points: 52 # Comments: 7  ( 5 min )
    Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters
    Hello HN, I was away from my computer for two weeks, and after coming back and reading the latest discussions on HN about coding assistants (models, harnesses), I felt very out of the loop. My normal process would have been to keep reading and figure out the latest and greatest from people's comments, but I wanted to try and automate this process. Basically the goal is to get a quick overview over which coding models are popular on HN. A next iteration could also scan for harnesses that people use, or info on self-hosting or hardware setups. I wrote a short intro on the page about the pipeline that collects and analyzes the data, but feel free to ask for more details or check the Google Sheet for more info. https://hnup.date/hn-sota Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990708 Points: 67 # Comments: 32  ( 1 min )
    The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox
    Article URL: https://www.mendral.com/blog/agent-harness-belongs-outside-sandbox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990675 Points: 73 # Comments: 57  ( 18 min )
    Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS
    Article URL: https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990606 Points: 66 # Comments: 11  ( 5 min )
    Farewell to a Giant of Botany
    Article URL: https://nautil.us/farewell-to-a-giant-of-botany-1280409 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990491 Points: 80 # Comments: 5  ( 14 min )
    This Month in Ladybird - April 2026
    Article URL: https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990318 Points: 52 # Comments: 12  ( 9 min )
    Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago
    Article URL: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990284 Points: 66 # Comments: 16  ( 4 min )
    VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
    Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883 Points: 203 # Comments: 86  ( 10 min )
    Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake
    Article URL: https://c3-lang.org/blog/unsigned-sizes-a-five-year-mistake/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989154 Points: 78 # Comments: 82  ( 8 min )
    World's biggest RC A380 [video]
    Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr9YLGbhxng Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988781 Points: 64 # Comments: 20
    NetHack 5.0.0
    Article URL: https://nethack.org/v500/release.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988776 Points: 164 # Comments: 24  ( 5 min )
    California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypjx3rg2go Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988742 Points: 72 # Comments: 56  ( 17 min )
    Do_not_track
    Article URL: https://donottrack.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988592 Points: 73 # Comments: 34  ( 3 min )
    Videolan Dav2d
    Article URL: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988504 Points: 72 # Comments: 21  ( 2 min )
    Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents
    Article URL: https://flueframework.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988501 Points: 53 # Comments: 19  ( 4 min )
    Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings
    Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-child-safety-earnings.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988261 Points: 68 # Comments: 40  ( 47 min )
    Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
    Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/01/uber-wants-to-turn-its-millions-of-drivers-into-a-sensor-grid-for-self-driving-companies/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987333 Points: 83 # Comments: 94  ( 12 min )
    Zugzwang
    Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987304 Points: 59 # Comments: 27
    LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987256 Points: 168 # Comments: 77  ( 3 min )
    America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance
    Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-expanding-domestic-surveillance-08b73187 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987006 Points: 86 # Comments: 36
    Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs
    Article URL: https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/containerd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986331 Points: 64 # Comments: 35  ( 3 min )
    Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11717 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986136 Points: 61 # Comments: 21  ( 2 min )
    Russia Poisons Wikipedia
    Article URL: https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/russia-poisons-wikipedia Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986083 Points: 96 # Comments: 53  ( 15 min )
    An unknown Sega Saturn project has come to light after 29 years
    Article URL: https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-pyramid-unreleased Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985901 Points: 64 # Comments: 2
    Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine
    Article URL: https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985750 Points: 63 # Comments: 35  ( 67 min )
    GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay
    Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/gamestop-preparing-offer-for-ebay-1678e6de Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985271 Points: 55 # Comments: 34
    Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks
    Hi HN, I’ve been working on mljar-supervised (open-source AutoML for tabular data) for a few years. Recently I built a desktop app around it called MLJAR Studio. The idea is simple: you talk to your data in natural language, the AI generates Python code, executes it locally, and the whole conversation becomes a reproducible notebook (*.ipynb file). So instead of just chatting with data, you end up with something you can inspect, modify, and rerun. What MLJAR Studio does: - Sets up a local Python environment automatically, runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux - Installs missing packages during the conversation - Built-in AutoML for tabular data (classification, regression, multiclass) - Works with standard Python libraries (pandas, matplotlib, etc.) - Works with any data file: CSV, Excel, Stata, Parquet ... - Connects to PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Snowflake, Databricks, and Supabase. For AI: use Ollama locally (zero data egress), bring your own OpenAI key, or use MLJAR AI add-on. I built this because I wanted something between Jupyter Notebook (flexible but manual) and AI tools that generate code but don’t preserve the workflow. Most tools I tried either hide too much or don’t give reproducible results and are cloud based Demos: - 60-second demo: https://youtu.be/BjxpZYRiY4c - Full 3-minute analysis: https://youtu.be/1DHMMxaNJxI Pricing is $199 one-time, with a 7-day trial. Curious if this is useful for others doing real data work, or if I’m solving my own problem here. Happy to answer questions. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985077 Points: 51 # Comments: 11  ( 18 min )
    How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
    Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984852 Points: 80 # Comments: 19  ( 17 min )
    Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
    Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150417-00/?p=44213 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984522 Points: 51 # Comments: 20  ( 26 min )
    Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)
    Article URL: https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983467 Points: 79 # Comments: 25  ( 4 min )
    Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
    Article URL: https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983352 Points: 235 # Comments: 107
    Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer
    Article URL: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/texico/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983333 Points: 70 # Comments: 3  ( 1 min )
    Ask.com has closed
    Article URL: https://www.ask.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983226 Points: 153 # Comments: 76  ( 1 min )
    K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes
    Article URL: https://github.com/rancher/k3k Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983176 Points: 53 # Comments: 28  ( 14 min )
    I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings
    Article URL: https://github.com/lahfir/agent-desktop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982708 Points: 77 # Comments: 24  ( 26 min )
    Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising
    Article URL: https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982512 Points: 99 # Comments: 31
    Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language
    Article URL: https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/good-developers-learn-to-program-not-a-language Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981995 Points: 57 # Comments: 35  ( 9 min )
    A Physics Engine with Incremental Rollback for Multiplayer Games
    Article URL: https://easel.games/blog/2026-rollback-physics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981979 Points: 50 # Comments: 19  ( 6 min )

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    A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025) [pdf]
    Article URL: https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981669 Points: 54 # Comments: 12  ( 203 min )
    Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
    Article URL: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/05/01/windows-quality-update-progress-weve-made-since-march/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980279 Points: 61 # Comments: 125  ( 9 min )
    Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force attacks
    Article URL: https://metin.nextc.org/posts/Credit_Cards_Are_Vulnerable_To_Brute_Force_Kind_Attacks.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979839 Points: 81 # Comments: 71  ( 6 min )
    Ti-84 Evo
    Article URL: https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979583 Points: 96 # Comments: 114  ( 9 min )
    Whimsical Animations Course Open House
    Article URL: https://courses.joshwcomeau.com/wham/open-house/00-introduction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979190 Points: 77 # Comments: 9  ( 7 min )
    Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"
    Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-has-been-down-for-more-than-a-day/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978892 Points: 57 # Comments: 11  ( 8 min )
    Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
    Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978834 Points: 88 # Comments: 28  ( 22 min )
    A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
    Article URL: https://www.rightscon.org/rc26-statement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978386 Points: 54 # Comments: 10  ( 18 min )
    City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
    Article URL: https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-demo-renews-contract-anyway/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978370 Points: 143 # Comments: 21  ( 5 min )
    Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers
    Article URL: https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977990 Points: 64 # Comments: 8  ( 3 min )
    New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
    https://archive.ph/6wKhx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977748 Points: 88 # Comments: 43  ( 78 min )
    Show HN: AI CAD Harness
    Hi HN, I'm Zach, one of the co-founders of Adam (https://adam.new). We've been on HN twice before with text-to-CAD/3D experiments [1][2]. The honest takeaway from those threads: prompt-to-3D model web apps are fun, but serious mechanical engineers don't want a black box that spits out an STL. They want help inside the CAD tool they already use, with full visibility and control over the feature tree. So we built that. Adam is now a harness that integrates directly with your CAD. It reads your parts, understands the existing feature tree, and edits it for you agentically. We are now live in beta on Onshape and Fusion! [3]: Install link Autodesk Fusion: https://fusion.adam.new/install Install link PTC Onshape: https://cad.onshape.com/appstore/apps/Design%20&%20Documenta... Things people are u…  ( 4 min )
    Artemis II fault tolerance
    Article URL: https://alearningaday.blog/2026/05/01/artemis-ii-fault-tolerance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977645 Points: 66 # Comments: 33  ( 14 min )
    The X-Files Has Made Me Nostalgic for a Time I Never Experienced
    Article URL: https://midnightmurmurations.substack.com/p/the-x-files-has-made-me-nostalgic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977583 Points: 54 # Comments: 20
    AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on
    Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/amazon-stuck-with-months-of-repairs-after-drone-strikes-on-data-centers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977498 Points: 85 # Comments: 27  ( 8 min )
    Understand Anything
    Article URL: https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977470 Points: 56 # Comments: 17  ( 24 min )
    Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant
    Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHwxV0Sd9V8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977450 Points: 142 # Comments: 100
    AI uses less water than the public thinks
    Article URL: https://californiawaterblog.com/2026/04/26/ai-water-use-distractions-and-lessons-for-california/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977383 Points: 104 # Comments: 78  ( 18 min )
    The Gay Jailbreak Technique
    Article URL: https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977134 Points: 115 # Comments: 33  ( 12 min )
    DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price
    Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deepseek-v4/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977026 Points: 156 # Comments: 77  ( 4 min )
    Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yerr4m1yno Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976856 Points: 130 # Comments: 136  ( 18 min )
    Apocalypse Early Warning System
    Article URL: https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976566 Points: 72 # Comments: 33
    Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests
    Article URL: https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-times-in-recent-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976529 Points: 77 # Comments: 31
    Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months
    Article URL: https://www.briefs.co/news/uber-torches-entire-2026-ai-budget-on-claude-code-in-four-months/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976415 Points: 81 # Comments: 73  ( 12 min )
    A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life
    Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-treasure-trove-of-cambrian-fossils-rewrites-the-story-of-early-life-20260501/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976081 Points: 66 # Comments: 11  ( 10 min )
    An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open
    Article URL: https://keepthingsopen.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975785 Points: 62 # Comments: 5  ( 8 min )
    How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4pvyw82exo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975759 Points: 56 # Comments: 22  ( 23 min )
    I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
    I'll be here for the next 6 hours. As usual, there are lots of possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're interested in. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases because I won't have access to all the facts. Please try to stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers! Previous threads we've done: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975676 Points: 61 # Comments: 71  ( 16 min )
    whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search
    Article URL: https://github.com/whohas/whohas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975592 Points: 76 # Comments: 18  ( 9 min )
    Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
    Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. Searchers: try https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-wants-to-be-hired, https://www.wantstobehired.com. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975570 Points: 86 # Comments: 158  ( 62 min )
    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
    Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does. Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to replying to applicants. Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here. Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job. Searchers: try https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-who-is-hiring, https://dheerajck.github.io/hnwhoishiring/, http://nchelluri.github.io/hnjobs/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, or this (unofficial) Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-hiring-pro/mpfal.... Don't miss this other fine thread: Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975570 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975571 Points: 97 # Comments: 88  ( 48 min )
    Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died
    Article URL: https://www.online-tribute.com/SallyMcKee Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975392 Points: 84 # Comments: 9  ( 15 min )
    K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s
    Article URL: https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975069 Points: 51 # Comments: 16  ( 60 min )
    US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City
    Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-04-usindian-space-mission-extreme-subsidence.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974682 Points: 57 # Comments: 19
    Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25679 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974307 Points: 70 # Comments: 38  ( 2 min )
    Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser
    Article URL: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1854 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973755 Points: 54 # Comments: 14  ( 4 min )
    Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app
    https://xcancel.com/aaronp613/status/2049986504617820551 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973378 Points: 320 # Comments: 240  ( 3 min )
    Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app
    Article URL: https://xcancel.com/aaronp613/status/2049986504617820551 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973378 Points: 103 # Comments: 57
    Your Website Is Not for You
    Article URL: https://websmith.studio/blog/your-website-is-not-for-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973376 Points: 94 # Comments: 58
    After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber
    Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/after-dissing-anthropic-for-limiting-mythos-openai-restricts-access-to-cyber-too/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973108 Points: 85 # Comments: 65  ( 10 min )
    What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it?
    Article URL: https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/02/05/what-is-z-angle-memory-and-why-is-intel-developing-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972922 Points: 53 # Comments: 20
    Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
    Hi HN, I'm Erwin. I built a small free open-source utility that bridges Bluetooth LE MIDI keyboards into the new Windows MIDI Services stack so any DAW or Web MIDI app can use them as if they were wired. I bought a Roland FP-90X piano partly because it had Bluetooth MIDI. On my Windows 11 PC, pairing succeeded, but my DAW couldn't see the keyboard, and notes I sent from the PC never made the piano sing. After a regrettable number of evenings, I'd separated this into three independent bugs stacked on top of each other. The first one is the famous one: Windows only natively exposes BLE-MIDI through the WinRT API, which almost no DAW polls. So even when pairing succeeds, MIDI apps still don't see the device. The usual workaround is MIDIberry + loopMIDI, but I couldn't get that combination to …  ( 4 min )
    The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023)
    Article URL: https://skysedge.com/telecom/RUSP/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972807 Points: 51 # Comments: 10  ( 3 min )
    Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs
    Article URL: https://github.com/intel/auto-round Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972659 Points: 68 # Comments: 13  ( 26 min )
    Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
    USB-C cables can be a mess. One cable charges at 5W, another does 100W and Thunderbolt 4, and they look identical in the drawer. WhatCable sits in your menu bar and reads the cable data your Mac already has access to. Plug in a cable and it tells you in plain English what it can actually do: charging wattage, data speed, display support, Thunderbolt, etc. Built in Swift/SwiftUI. Open source, free, no tracking. GitHub: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972511 Points: 95 # Comments: 23  ( 10 min )
    Grok 4.3
    Article URL: https://docs.x.ai/developers/models/grok-4.3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972447 Points: 102 # Comments: 109  ( 1 min )
    Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h
    Article URL: https://status.canonical.com/#/incident/KNms6QK9ewuzz-7xUsPsNylV20jEt5kyKsd8A-3ptQEHpOd8VQ40ZQs-KD81fboQXeGZB94okNHdHBGlCv58Sw== Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972213 Points: 59 # Comments: 18  ( 12 min )
    A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm
    Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1066156/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972114 Points: 76 # Comments: 14  ( 18 min )
    If I could make my own GitHub
    Article URL: https://matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47971771 Points: 65 # Comments: 46  ( 6 min )
    Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows
    Article URL: https://github.com/kernalix7/winpodx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970690 Points: 68 # Comments: 33  ( 41 min )
    OpenWarp
    Article URL: https://openwarp.zerx.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970622 Points: 75 # Comments: 62  ( 2 min )
    Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes
    https://archive.is/3a4VZ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970597 Points: 59 # Comments: 38
    Text-to-CAD
    Article URL: https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970497 Points: 53 # Comments: 17  ( 7 min )

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    CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940
    Article URL: https://labs.watchtowr.com/the-internet-is-falling-down-falling-down-falling-down-cpanel-whm-authentication-bypass-cve-2026-41940/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969288 Points: 61 # Comments: 19  ( 14 min )
    Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study
    Article URL: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/04/brain-scans-individual-versus-group.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969142 Points: 66 # Comments: 17  ( 8 min )
    Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected
    Article URL: https://sciencex.com/news/2026-04-snowball-earth-stranger-climate.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968982 Points: 51 # Comments: 6  ( 8 min )
    Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell
    I originally was just messing with pi-autoresearch. Gave it a sample task to build the most portable coding agent. First cut was 6 KB of shell. Great for one-shots, unusable interactively. I was shocked it actually worked. Started building up -- adding features — but with a self-imposed rule: no new dependencies, and sub 500 LOC. This thing had to be truly portable. Just sh, curl, awk. System primitives only. Which means I did some genuinely disgusting things in awk, including JSON parsing and the OpenAI Responses tool loop with reasoning items carried across turns. It's now ~400 lines. In the box: Anthropic + OpenAI, 7 tools (bash, read, write, edit, grep, find, ls), REPL, auto-compaction, checkpoint/resume, pipe mode, 90 no-API tests. Not in the box: TUI, streaming, images, OAuth, Windows, dignity. Two honest things: 1. I stole/modified the system prompt and the architecture. Pi/Claude/Codex wrote the awk. I cannot read most of this code. This wasn't possible for me a year ago. 2. Heavily inspired by Pi (pi.dev) — same 7-tool surface, same exact-text edit model. Credit where it's due. Pi is awesome -- you should probably use them. The agent loop itself is tiny. Almost everything else in a "real" agent CLI is DX and hardening. You can probably build your own harness exactly how you like it. Mario Zechner's AI Engineer talk on taking back control of your tools nudged me here. The name is because it's a .sh file. The other thing it sounds like is, regrettably, also accurate. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968112 Points: 50 # Comments: 16  ( 2 min )
    Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity
    Article URL: https://rivian.com/support/article/can-i-disable-all-data-collection-from-my-vehicle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967786 Points: 219 # Comments: 85  ( 7 min )
    The upsell game – Vercel upselling tactics revealed
    Article URL: https://theupsellgame.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967508 Points: 60 # Comments: 10
    LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request
    Article URL: https://404privacy.com/blog/linkedin-is-scanning-your-browser-extensions-this-is-how-they-use-the-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967262 Points: 176 # Comments: 57  ( 10 min )
    Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo
    Article URL: https://dustri.org/b/follow-up-to-carrot-disclosure-forgejo.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967069 Points: 51 # Comments: 7  ( 1 min )
    Does Postgres Scale?
    Article URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/benchmarking-workflow-execution-scalability-on-postgres Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966625 Points: 65 # Comments: 30  ( 6 min )
    Full-Text Search with DuckDB
    Article URL: https://peterdohertys.website/blog-posts/full-text-search-w-duckdb.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966254 Points: 50 # Comments: 14  ( 6 min )
    I built a Game Boy emulator in F#
    Article URL: https://nickkossolapov.github.io/fame-boy/building-a-game-boy-emulator-in-fsharp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965503 Points: 106 # Comments: 27  ( 24 min )
    CopyFail was not disclosed to Gentoo developer
    Recent: Copy Fail - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952181 - April 2026 (466 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965108 Points: 223 # Comments: 134  ( 2 min )
    The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA's 'Big Brother Machine'
    Article URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965060 Points: 127 # Comments: 13
    American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were
    Article URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-do-richer-dads-spend-more-time Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965027 Points: 55 # Comments: 23  ( 26 min )
    Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET
    Article URL: https://github.com/dotcl/dotcl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964957 Points: 55 # Comments: 7  ( 8 min )
    Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
    Article URL: https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964617 Points: 122 # Comments: 23  ( 11 min )
    Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga
    Article URL: https://www.democrata.es/en/politics/congress-and-senate/congress-will-act-against-massive-ip-blockages-by-laliga/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47964034 Points: 228 # Comments: 83  ( 11 min )
    A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity
    Article URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-1960s-art-school-experiment-that-redefined-creativity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963868 Points: 56 # Comments: 12
    Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file
    Article URL: https://honker.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963316 Points: 71 # Comments: 12  ( 5 min )
    Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
    Article URL: https://twitter.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963204 Points: 132 # Comments: 75  ( 3 min )
    The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It
    Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/920401/gen-z-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963163 Points: 82 # Comments: 74  ( 45 min )
    Little Magazines Are Back
    Article URL: https://wsjfreeexpression.substack.com/p/little-magazines-are-back Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962681 Points: 54 # Comments: 10
    The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models
    Article URL: https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962645 Points: 76 # Comments: 10  ( 13 min )
    How an Oil Refinery Works
    Article URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-an-oil-refinery-works Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962548 Points: 114 # Comments: 19  ( 27 min )
    The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all
    Article URL: https://markready.io/blog/fcc-accredited-test-labs-complete-guide Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962386 Points: 109 # Comments: 57  ( 14 min )
    Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?
    Article URL: https://distr.sh/blog/running-docker-in-production/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962032 Points: 226 # Comments: 178  ( 11 min )
    Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary
    Article URL: https://github.com/sambigeara/pollen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961935 Points: 59 # Comments: 25  ( 16 min )
    The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013)
    Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-science-behind-honeys-eternal-shelf-life-1218690/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961934 Points: 54 # Comments: 29  ( 7 min )
    Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7yvgy0w6o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961838 Points: 75 # Comments: 37  ( 21 min )
    U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP
    Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-debt-tops-100-of-gdp-81c013d7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961804 Points: 76 # Comments: 79
    I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search
    Article URL: https://bidprowl.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961378 Points: 63 # Comments: 19  ( 10 min )
    Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
    Article URL: https://dpa-international.com/general-news/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260430-930-14717/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961319 Points: 194 # Comments: 119  ( 11 min )
    Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example
    Article URL: https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961100 Points: 50 # Comments: 11  ( 31 min )
    GCC 16 has been released
    Article URL: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-16/changes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961004 Points: 121 # Comments: 15  ( 11 min )
    Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
    Article URL: https://firethering.com/granite-4-1-ibm-open-source-model-family/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960507 Points: 81 # Comments: 17  ( 34 min )
    Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase more than 7-fold in last 10y
    Article URL: https://www.epo.org/en/news-events/news/inventions-battery-reuse-and-recycling-increase-more-seven-fold-last-decade Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960015 Points: 77 # Comments: 4
    DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble
    Article URL: https://datacenter.fm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959513 Points: 70 # Comments: 15
    Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API
    Article URL: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213#issuecomment-4347988313 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959463 Points: 488 # Comments: 195  ( 11 min )
    Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API
    Article URL: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959463 Points: 152 # Comments: 58  ( 11 min )
    Will you heed my warnings now?
    Article URL: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9718 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958942 Points: 51 # Comments: 46  ( 12 min )
    Monad Tutorials Timeline
    Article URL: https://wiki.haskell.org/Monad_tutorials_timeline Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958106 Points: 63 # Comments: 26  ( 14 min )
    Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell
    Article URL: https://burrito.bio/essays/biology-is-a-burrito Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957714 Points: 56 # Comments: 8  ( 8 min )
    Where the Goblins Came From
    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957688 Points: 62 # Comments: 13
    LFM2-24B-A2B: Scaling Up the LFM2 Architecture
    Article URL: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-24b-a2b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957648 Points: 50 # Comments: 9  ( 6 min )
    Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs
    Article URL: https://github.com/cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957627 Points: 83 # Comments: 47  ( 16 min )
    Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig
    Article URL: https://pure-systems.org/posts/2026-04-29-functional-programmers-need-to-take-a-look-at-zig.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957624 Points: 57 # Comments: 40  ( 8 min )
    The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy
    Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957294 Points: 120 # Comments: 41  ( 4 min )
    Craig Venter has died
    Article URL: https://www.jcvi.org/media-center/j-craig-venter-genomics-pioneer-and-founder-jcvi-and-diploid-genomics-inc-dies-79 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957101 Points: 122 # Comments: 25  ( 3 min )
    Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]
    https://status.claude.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956895 Points: 101 # Comments: 92  ( 13 min )
    Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight
    Article URL: https://www.flyingmag.com/joby-nyc-electric-air-taxi-jfk-airport/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956781 Points: 58 # Comments: 154  ( 38 min )
    Mike: open-source legal AI
    Article URL: https://mikeoss.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956739 Points: 63 # Comments: 18  ( 4 min )

  • Open

    Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment
    https://archive.is/Wro1e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955789 Points: 120 # Comments: 150  ( 104 min )
    Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world
    Article URL: https://prm.ua/en/the-us-is-no-longer-the-leader-germany-has-become-the-largest-ammunition-producer-in-the-world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955297 Points: 86 # Comments: 46
    Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write
    Article URL: https://github.com/aallan/vera Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955118 Points: 67 # Comments: 58  ( 23 min )
    Artemis II Photo Timeline
    Article URL: https://artemistimeline.com/#artemis-ii-walkout-nhq202604010003 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954394 Points: 146 # Comments: 12  ( 37 min )
    Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results
    Article URL: https://abc.xyz/investor/news/news-details/2026/Alphabet-Announces-First-Quarter-2026-Results-2026-X-ge4Dm6bf/default.aspx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954024 Points: 84 # Comments: 81
    OpenTrafficMap
    Article URL: https://opentrafficmap.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953541 Points: 77 # Comments: 19  ( 67 min )
    Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years
    Article URL: https://jivx.com/kyoto-bloom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953275 Points: 138 # Comments: 38
    "People who don't use AI will be left behind"
    Article URL: https://migrainebrain.bearblog.dev/people-who-dont-use-ai-will-be-left-behind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953011 Points: 69 # Comments: 49  ( 4 min )
    Direct electrochemical black coffee quality appraisal using cyclic voltammetry
    Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71526-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952773 Points: 52 # Comments: 19  ( 38 min )
    HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund
    Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952722 Points: 387 # Comments: 131  ( 12 min )
    Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431
    Article URL: https://copy.fail/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952181 Points: 185 # Comments: 90  ( 8 min )
    Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials
    Article URL: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ramps-sheets-ai-exfiltrates-financials Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951786 Points: 75 # Comments: 25  ( 37 min )
    Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
    Article URL: https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/i-can-never-talk-to-an-ai-anonymously Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951295 Points: 89 # Comments: 38  ( 24 min )
    Laws of UX
    Article URL: https://lawsofux.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951137 Points: 68 # Comments: 9  ( 4 min )
    Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different
    Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/29/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon-macs-is-different/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951037 Points: 61 # Comments: 15  ( 20 min )
    Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores
    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/maryland-grocery-stores-ban-surveillance-pricing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951007 Points: 52 # Comments: 17  ( 15 min )
    The USB Situation
    Article URL: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-usb-situation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950993 Points: 68 # Comments: 74  ( 9 min )
    Because it doesn't have to
    Article URL: https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/04/because-it-doesnt-have-to.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950880 Points: 56 # Comments: 13  ( 19 min )
    FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies
    Article URL: https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950510 Points: 75 # Comments: 12  ( 5 min )
    Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns
    Article URL: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/04/28/court-rules-2nd-amendment-covers-firearms-parts-good-news-for-those-who-build-guns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950377 Points: 61 # Comments: 36  ( 22 min )
    Online age verification is the hill to die on
    https://xcancel.com/GlennMeder/status/2049088498163216560 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950091 Points: 297 # Comments: 183  ( 3 min )
    Online age verification is the hill to die on
    Article URL: https://xcancel.com/GlennMeder/status/2049088498163216560 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950091 Points: 90 # Comments: 54
    The smelly baby problem
    Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-disposable-diapers-conquered Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950070 Points: 153 # Comments: 92  ( 21 min )
    Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown
    Article URL: https://www.chrisbrunet.com/p/third-editor-fired-in-elseviers-citation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950022 Points: 62 # Comments: 15  ( 20 min )
    Cursor Camp
    Article URL: https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949939 Points: 65 # Comments: 8
    To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi
    Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/atoll-islands-sea-level-rise-fungi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949794 Points: 64 # Comments: 10  ( 3 min )
    Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260428-ai-companies-want-you-to-be-afraid-of-them Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949750 Points: 135 # Comments: 83  ( 34 min )
    Mistral Medium 3.5
    Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/vibe-remote-agents-mistral-medium-3-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949642 Points: 145 # Comments: 57  ( 17 min )
    What can we gain by losing infinity?
    Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-we-gain-by-losing-infinity-20260429/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949616 Points: 74 # Comments: 82  ( 19 min )
    Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained
    Article URL: https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/linux-broke-postgresql Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949585 Points: 84 # Comments: 29  ( 21 min )
    An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce
    Article URL: https://github.com/GliaX/Stethoscope Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949204 Points: 63 # Comments: 27  ( 11 min )
    Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans
    Hi all, this is Burak. When agents became a reality one of the first things I wanted to do was to automate building dashboards. The first, and the most obvious, wall that I ran into was that a lot of the tools were just driven by UI. This meant that without the agents handling browser UIs and whatnot, it wasn't possible to have the agents do that. In addition, it would be impossible to review any of the changes the agent would make. The first instinct there is to get your agent to build a React app for the dashboard. This works beautifully for the happy path, but I quickly ran into other issues there: - every dashboard turns out to be different - have to implement a backend to centralize the query execution - there is no centralized mechanism to control the rules and standards around visua…  ( 10 min )
    Zed 1.0
    Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949027 Points: 574 # Comments: 194  ( 41 min )
    How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video]
    Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNyuX1zoOgU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948664 Points: 61 # Comments: 30
    Tangled – We need a federation of forges
    Article URL: https://blog.tangled.org/federation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948603 Points: 280 # Comments: 158  ( 1 min )
    Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL
    Article URL: https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/barman Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948526 Points: 58 # Comments: 9  ( 5 min )
    10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home
    Article URL: https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/10g-ethernet-what-i-did Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947944 Points: 77 # Comments: 53  ( 13 min )
    Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team
    Article URL: https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/IssueArticle/improving-handovers-by-learning-from-scuderia-ferrari Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947834 Points: 50 # Comments: 49  ( 15 min )
    Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing
    Article URL: https://blog.jeffschomay.com/letting-ai-play-my-game Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947525 Points: 72 # Comments: 11
    He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice
    Article URL: https://www.diabettech.com/i-asked-ai-to-count-my-carbs-27000-times-it-couldnt-give-me-the-same-answer-twice/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947490 Points: 143 # Comments: 169  ( 22 min )
    Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker
    Firefox 149 ships adblock-rust (Brave's Rust engine, MPL-2.0) completely disabled with no UI. It's controlled by two about:config prefs with no WebExtension API, so you can't touch them programmatically from a standard extension. This extension gives it a UI: ETP toggle (via browser.privacy API, instant), filter list manager with clipboard helpers for the manual about:config steps, and 8 preset lists. You can also add your own if you so desire. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947369 Points: 65 # Comments: 33  ( 17 min )
    Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew
    Article URL: https://physicsworld.com/a/coffee-with-a-splash-of-physics-how-to-make-the-most-out-of-your-brew/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947318 Points: 68 # Comments: 36  ( 19 min )
    HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'
    Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/mitchell_hashimoto_ghostty_quitting_github/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946958 Points: 245 # Comments: 121  ( 6 min )
    New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome
    Article URL: https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2026/caedmons-hymn-discovery/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946899 Points: 58 # Comments: 26  ( 6 min )
    GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts
    Article URL: https://github.com/DOS-History/Paterson-Listings Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946813 Points: 60 # Comments: 1  ( 6 min )
    Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things
    Article URL: https://rip.so Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945955 Points: 61 # Comments: 37  ( 9 min )
    Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
    Article URL: https://www.nldigitalgovernment.nl/news/soft-launch-for-government-open-source-code-platform/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945918 Points: 118 # Comments: 60  ( 8 min )
    Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell
    Article URL: https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/why-i-still-reach-for-scheme-instead-of-haskell/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945707 Points: 59 # Comments: 11  ( 6 min )
    Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
    Received by email tonight about two hours ago: Dear Tindie Community, My name is Gongyu Su, and I am writing on behalf of the new Tindie ownership team. First, we sincerely apologize for the recent downtime and the disruption it caused. We understand that many buyers and community members were left without clear information during the transition, and that this created frustration and concern. Tindie is now owned by EETree LLC, a Washington State company. Our team took over Tindie because we believe it remains an important platform for makers, hardware creators, engineers, and independent sellers around the world. The recent transition was more complex than expected. Tindie runs on an older technical framework with many connected services, and the migration from the previous operating envir…  ( 7 min )
    Low-Compilation-Cost Register Allocation in LLVM-Based Binary Translation
    Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3767295.3803591 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944931 Points: 56 # Comments: 1
    HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle
    Article URL: https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2026-04-26/hardenedbsd-officially-radicle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944864 Points: 59 # Comments: 7  ( 2 min )
    I built my own hair electrolysis machine
    Article URL: https://www.scd31.com/posts/diy-hair-electrolysis-machine Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943632 Points: 101 # Comments: 19  ( 12 min )
    Bugs Rust won't catch
    Article URL: https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943499 Points: 129 # Comments: 44  ( 12 min )
    When the Internet Was a Place
    Article URL: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/09/when-the-internet-was-a-place/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943190 Points: 56 # Comments: 12  ( 39 min )
    We decreased our LLM costs with Opus
    Article URL: https://www.mendral.com/blog/frontier-model-lower-costs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942903 Points: 56 # Comments: 16  ( 11 min )
    Maladaptive Frugality
    Article URL: https://herbertlui.net/maladaptive-frugality/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942863 Points: 80 # Comments: 54  ( 14 min )

  • Open

    Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals
    Not sure if anybody else has experienced this, but for my job I've been playing around with Claude Managed Agents to run code generation tasks in our repo. Every read operation in the managed agent is appended with a system prompt instructing Claude to scan the file for malware; Claude then wastes a bunch of time and tokens (money) performing the analysis; then, once the agent has confirmed that it is not malware, it still interprets the appended prompt to mean that it is disallowed to augment or write any code, and quits. And we're charged for every session that this happens in. Posting here because apparently they only addressed the issue in the past because of a Hacker News discussion. So here's hoping they'll see this and prioritize fixing it again so we can stop losing money. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942492 Points: 168 # Comments: 61  ( 23 min )
    How ChatGPT serves ads
    Article URL: https://www.buchodi.com/how-chatgpt-serves-ads-heres-the-full-attribution-loop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942437 Points: 195 # Comments: 132  ( 3 min )
    Claude for Creative Work
    Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-creative-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942386 Points: 77 # Comments: 48  ( 7 min )
    Apple CMF (Color-Matching Functions) 2026
    Article URL: https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/04/11/apple-studio-display-xdr-display-testing-results Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942353 Points: 66 # Comments: 2
    London to Calcutta by Bus (2022)
    Article URL: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/08/london-to-calcutta-by-bus.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941931 Points: 50 # Comments: 18  ( 23 min )
    Before GitHub
    Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940921 Points: 55 # Comments: 9  ( 9 min )
    Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected
    Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/denuvo-has-been-bypassed-in-all-single-player-games-it-previously-protected-2k-games-and-denuvo-reportedly-retaliate-with-mandatory-14-day-online-checks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940789 Points: 154 # Comments: 57  ( 130 min )
    I won a championship that doesn't exist
    Article URL: https://ron.stoner.com/How_I_Won_a_Championship_That_Doesnt_Exist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940389 Points: 59 # Comments: 42  ( 5 min )
    Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles
    Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/no-fly-zones-around-moving-ice-vehicles-this-drone-pilot-fought-back-and-won/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940271 Points: 61 # Comments: 7  ( 13 min )
    Ghostty is leaving GitHub
    Article URL: https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579 Points: 391 # Comments: 77  ( 6 min )
    OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs
    https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/openai/ https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/bedrock-openai-models https://openai.com/index/openai-on-aws/ https://x.com/amazon/status/2049178618639839427 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939320 Points: 114 # Comments: 41  ( 44 min )
    I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
    Article URL: https://gregraiz.com/blog/local-vibe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939246 Points: 100 # Comments: 90  ( 4 min )
    The Church Rock Uranium Mill Spill
    Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spill Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939158 Points: 100 # Comments: 5
    CJIT: C, Just in Time
    Article URL: https://dyne.org/cjit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939105 Points: 56 # Comments: 16
    A playable DOOM MCP app
    Article URL: https://chrisnager.com/blog/doom-runs-in-chatgpt-and-claude/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939079 Points: 67 # Comments: 26  ( 5 min )
    Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent
    Article URL: https://www.uscourts.gov/data-news/judiciary-news/2026/04/23/bankruptcies-increase-119-percent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938756 Points: 130 # Comments: 65  ( 9 min )
    Waymo in Portland
    Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/waymo-in-portland/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938184 Points: 147 # Comments: 165  ( 2 min )
    Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API
    Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/9l93x2ht4s5w Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938097 Points: 190 # Comments: 156  ( 13 min )
    Reverse Engineering SimTower
    This is the story of building https://towers.world, a ~perfect, tick-for-tick reproduction of 1993 game SimTower. I spent weeks reverse-engineering the original EXE and writing up a detailed spec of how the simulation actually works under the hood — population flow, elevator AI, the whole star-rating system. The specs are all on GitHub if you want to read them: https://github.com/phulin/tower-together/tree/main/specs It's also collaborative. Multiple players can connect to the same tower, the simulation keeps running as long as anyone's connected, and build actions sync across clients in real time. Because I rebuilt the UI, I could add features like shift-click to build grids of rooms - instead of painstakingly clicking to build rows of offices and hotels, shift-click allows a 10-floor grid to be built all at once. The game runs on Cloudflare Durable Objects, one of my favorite web primitives. Everything is open source: https://github.com/phulin/tower-together Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937814 Points: 56 # Comments: 5  ( 6 min )
    Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU
    Article URL: https://github.com/FeSens/auto-arch-tournament/blob/main/docs/auto-arch-tournament-blog-post.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937380 Points: 78 # Comments: 19  ( 20 min )
    Warp is now Open-Source
    Article URL: https://github.com/warpdotdev/warp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937349 Points: 65 # Comments: 21  ( 9 min )
    New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges
    Article URL: https://wideluxx.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937033 Points: 142 # Comments: 68  ( 14 min )
    AI's Economics Don't Make Sense
    Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936867 Points: 89 # Comments: 48  ( 37 min )
    Laguna XS.2 and M.1
    Article URL: https://poolside.ai/blog/laguna-a-deeper-dive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936511 Points: 78 # Comments: 32  ( 20 min )
    GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown
    Article URL: https://www.wiz.io/blog/github-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-3854 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936479 Points: 121 # Comments: 35  ( 63 min )
    Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
    Article URL: https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936370 Points: 116 # Comments: 88  ( 4 min )
    AISLE Discovers 38 CVEs in OpenEMR Healthcare Software
    Article URL: https://aisle.com/blog/aisle-discovers-38-critical-security-vulnerabilities-in-healthcare-software-used-by-100000-providers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936347 Points: 125 # Comments: 73  ( 11 min )
    Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor
    Hi HN, Francesco from Cua here. I hacked this project together last weekend, inspired by the Codex Computer-Use release and lessons learned from deploying GUI-operating agents for our customers. The main problem: when a UI automation process controls a desktop app today, it usually takes over the human’s session. Your cursor moves, keyboard focus gets stolen, windows jump to the front, and you have to stop working until the agent is done. That is why we have historically avoided encouraging users to run these processes directly on their host machine, instead relying on VMs or GUI containers for concurrency and background execution. But computer-use - the tools we give agents to operate computers like humans - does not scale cleanly that way. As models get smarter, agents need to share host…  ( 12 min )
    Warp is now open-source
    Article URL: https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936264 Points: 73 # Comments: 30  ( 28 min )
    FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger
    Article URL: https://deadline.com/2026/04/paramount-fcc-request-wbd-merger-middle-east-1236873732/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936210 Points: 50 # Comments: 12  ( 44 min )
    Auto Polo
    Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_polo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936184 Points: 65 # Comments: 18
    Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI
    Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/919494/google-pentagon-classified-ai-deal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936156 Points: 88 # Comments: 55  ( 25 min )
    Your phone is about to stop being yours
    Article URL: https://keepandroidopen.org/en/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935853 Points: 186 # Comments: 92  ( 88 min )
    Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage
    Hi HN, I'm Hugo. I've been building Rocky over the past month, shipping fast in the open. The binary is on GitHub Releases, `dagster-rocky` on PyPI, and the VS Code extension on the Marketplace. I held off on a broader announcement until the trust-system surface was coherent enough to talk about as one thing. The governance waveplan — column classification, per-env masking, 8-field audit trail on every run, `rocky compliance` rollup, role-graph reconciliation, retention policies — landed end-to-end last week in engine-v1.16.0 and rounded out in v1.17.4 (tagged 2026-04-26). That's the milestone I'd been waiting for. The pitch: keep Databricks or Snowflake. Bring Rocky for the DAG. Rocky is a Rust-based control plane for warehouse pipelines. Storage and compute stay with your warehouse. Rock…  ( 12 min )
    OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership
    Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/openai-ceo-identity-verification-company-fake-bruno-mars-partnership-mistaken-identity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934269 Points: 52 # Comments: 21  ( 26 min )
    Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage
    Article URL: https://www.lumara-space.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934261 Points: 81 # Comments: 19  ( 5 min )
    UAE Leaves OPEC and OPEC+
    Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/uae-says-it-quits-opec-opec-statement-2026-04-28/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934120 Points: 73 # Comments: 3
    UAE to leave OPEC in blow to oil cartel
    Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/8c354f2d-3e66-47f1-aad4-9b4aa30e386d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933983 Points: 106 # Comments: 96
    A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve?
    Article URL: https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933934 Points: 90 # Comments: 19  ( 130 min )
    GitHub Actions is the weakest link
    Article URL: https://nesbitt.io/2026/04/28/github-actions-is-the-weakest-link.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933257 Points: 66 # Comments: 13  ( 8 min )
    Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI
    Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933236 Points: 108 # Comments: 64  ( 14 min )
    Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
    Article URL: https://github.com/localsend/localsend Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933208 Points: 242 # Comments: 99  ( 16 min )
    Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta
    Article URL: https://femtechdesigndesk.substack.com/p/your-period-tracking-app-has-been Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932990 Points: 115 # Comments: 96
    Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
    Article URL: https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-claude-code-wrote Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932937 Points: 94 # Comments: 112
    An Update on GitHub Availability
    Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932422 Points: 105 # Comments: 92  ( 13 min )
    GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
    Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-27-github-copilot-code-review-will-start-consuming-github-actions-minutes-on-june-1-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932028 Points: 54 # Comments: 60  ( 6 min )
    GTFOBins
    Article URL: https://gtfobins.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931035 Points: 145 # Comments: 43  ( 10 min )
    WASM is not quite a stack machine
    Article URL: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/wasm-is-not-quite-a-stack-machine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930493 Points: 63 # Comments: 18  ( 4 min )
    High Performance Git
    Article URL: https://gitperf.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929035 Points: 86 # Comments: 12  ( 1 min )

  • Open

    Integrated by Design
    Article URL: https://vivianvoss.net/blog/integrated-by-design-launch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928554 Points: 75 # Comments: 28
    Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
    Article URL: https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927903 Points: 147 # Comments: 43  ( 21 min )
    Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans
    Article URL: https://www.noctua.at/en/3d-cad-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927627 Points: 443 # Comments: 98
    NPM Website Is Down
    Article URL: https://status.npmjs.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927526 Points: 92 # Comments: 35  ( 18 min )
    Three men are facing 44 charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests
    Article URL: https://www.tps.ca/media-centre/stories/unprecedented-sms-blaster-arrests/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927070 Points: 50 # Comments: 22
    Is my blue your blue?
    Article URL: https://ismy.blue/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926861 Points: 88 # Comments: 56
    Withnail's Coat and I
    Article URL: https://ontherow.substack.com/p/withnails-coat-and-i Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47926148 Points: 112 # Comments: 14
    My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock
    Article URL: https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-stratum-0-atomic-clock_9.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925792 Points: 55 # Comments: 14  ( 13 min )
    United Wizards of the Coast
    Article URL: https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925425 Points: 128 # Comments: 80  ( 7 min )
    You can beat the binary search
    Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/27/you-can-beat-the-binary-search/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924912 Points: 135 # Comments: 69  ( 21 min )
    Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator
    Article URL: https://zsnes.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924877 Points: 101 # Comments: 20  ( 3 min )
    Open-Source KiCad PCBs for Common Arduino, ESP32, RP2040 Boards
    Article URL: https://github.com/Hanqaqa/Easyduino Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924813 Points: 87 # Comments: 6  ( 10 min )
    GitHub is having issues now
    Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924775 Points: 213 # Comments: 75  ( 37 min )
    Canada's first sovereign wealth fund
    Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sovereign-wealth-fund-carney-major-projects-9.7178238 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924188 Points: 66 # Comments: 29  ( 13 min )
    GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
    Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923357 Points: 99 # Comments: 66  ( 11 min )
    Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Landmark Roundup Weedkiller Case
    Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/climate/supreme-court-bayer-monsanto-roundup-glyphosate.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923121 Points: 52 # Comments: 26
    Apple is dropping AFP/TimeCapsule support in macOS 27
    Article URL: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/23/networking-changes-coming-in-macos-27/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923010 Points: 57 # Comments: 40  ( 17 min )
    The Woes of Sanitizing SVGs
    Article URL: https://muffin.ink/blog/scratch-svg-sanitization/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922957 Points: 52 # Comments: 18  ( 10 min )
    US Supreme Court Reviews Police Use of Cell Location Data to Find Criminals
    Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/supreme-court-cell-data-geofence.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922940 Points: 61 # Comments: 24
    Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud
    Article URL: https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/140634/dutch-central-bank-chooses-lidl-for-european-cloud/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922712 Points: 67 # Comments: 23  ( 8 min )
    "Why not just use Lean?"
    Article URL: https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2026/04/23/Why_not_Lean.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922079 Points: 115 # Comments: 46  ( 6 min )
    Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL
    Article URL: https://bensimms.moe/postgres-lateral-makes-quite-a-good-dsl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921802 Points: 70 # Comments: 15  ( 14 min )
    Show HN: Utilyze – an open source GPU monitoring tool more accurate than nvtop
    The standard GPU utilization metric reported by nvidia-smi, nvtop, Weights & Biases, Amazon CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, and Azure Monitor is highly misleading. It reports the fraction of time that any kernel is running on the GPU, which means a GPU can report 100% utilization even if only a small portion of its compute capacity is actually being used. In practice, we've seen workloads with ~1–10% real compute throughput while dashboards show 100%. This becomes a problem when teams rely on that metric for capacity planning or optimization decisions, it can make underutilized systems look saturated. We're releasing an open-source (Apache 2.0) tool, Utilyze, to measure GPU utilization differently. It samples hardware performance counters and reports compute and memory throughput relative to the hardware's theoretical limits. It also estimates an attainable utilization ceiling for a given workload. GitHub link: https://github.com/systalyze/utilyze We'd love to hear your thoughts! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921626 Points: 69 # Comments: 19  ( 27 min )
    Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools
    Article URL: https://github.com/serverless-dna/tendril Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921377 Points: 57 # Comments: 23  ( 16 min )
    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... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921248 Points: 263 # Comments: 241
    Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight
    Article URL: https://deploy.live/blog/running-local-llms-offline-on-a-ten-hour-flight/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921064 Points: 65 # Comments: 48  ( 3 min )
    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 run in leaderboard compliant way (no modification of resources or timeouts) 3. The full terminal bench run was done using the fully open source version of the agent, no difference between what is on github and what was run. I was originally going to wait for it to land on the leaderboard, but it has been 8 days and the maintainers do not respond unfortunately (there is a large backlog of the pull requests on their HF) so I decided to post anyways. HF PR: https://huggingface.co/datasets/harborframework/terminal-ben... It is astounding how much the harness matters, based on this and other experiments I have done. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920787 Points: 64 # Comments: 20  ( 13 min )
    China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus
    https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-blocks-fore... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0v0gr2yz7o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920315 Points: 83 # Comments: 36  ( 49 min )
    Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings
    While speccing out this spreadsheet tool, I realized that I never had to think about the keybindings. It all just came naturally from Vim. Normal/insert/visual modes, hjkl navigation, dd/yy/p, :w, :q. The usual muscle memory works. It supports CSV/TSV import and export, and a native .cell format that preserves formulas. The formula engine handles SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, and IF with range references. The codebase is a Cargo workspace: a pure cell-sheet-core library (no TUI dependency) and a cell-sheet-tui crate on top of ratatui. Early days, but it's usable. To try it out: cargo install cell-sheet-tui Feedback of any kind is greatly appreciated! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920289 Points: 50 # Comments: 24  ( 15 min )
    Men Who Stare at Walls
    Article URL: https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/men_who_stare_at_walls/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920074 Points: 64 # Comments: 31  ( 2 min )
    Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained
    Article URL: https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919997 Points: 70 # Comments: 17  ( 20 min )
    FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy for Treatment of Genetic Hearing Loss
    Article URL: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-ever-gene-therapy-treatment-genetic-hearing-loss-under-national-priority-voucher Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919733 Points: 115 # Comments: 46  ( 4 min )
    France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American
    Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/04/16/how-frances-mistral-built-a-14-billion-ai-empire-by-not-being-american/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919725 Points: 111 # Comments: 66  ( 87 min )
    4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
    Article URL: https://app.oravys.com/blog/mercor-breach-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919630 Points: 227 # Comments: 90  ( 17 min )
    Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers
    Article URL: https://quarkdown.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919240 Points: 54 # Comments: 9  ( 2 min )
    It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)
    Article URL: https://robbowen.digital/wrote-about/abandoned-side-projects/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918961 Points: 101 # Comments: 46  ( 5 min )
    Can You Find the Comet?
    Article URL: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260427.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918891 Points: 64 # Comments: 18  ( 1 min )
    The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination
    Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-mushroom-that-make-people-have-the-exact-same-hallucination/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918657 Points: 61 # Comments: 42  ( 27 min )
    I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers
    Article URL: https://leblancfg.com/intensity-pad-founder-story.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918549 Points: 51 # Comments: 42  ( 4 min )
    The Prompt API
    Article URL: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/prompt-api Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917026 Points: 68 # Comments: 50  ( 12 min )
    EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code
    Article URL: https://github.com/evanklem/evanflow Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916909 Points: 65 # Comments: 27  ( 25 min )
    TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough
    Article URL: https://arkaung.github.io/interactive-turboquant/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916890 Points: 83 # Comments: 12  ( 84 min )
    Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft
    Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/2429f0f0-b685-4747-b425-bf8001a2e94c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916410 Points: 78 # Comments: 45

  • Open

    Voice Modems
    Article URL: https://computer.rip/2026-04-26-voice-modems.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916103 Points: 56 # Comments: 7  ( 20 min )
    FreeBSD Device Drivers Book
    Article URL: https://github.com/ebrandi/FDD-book Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47915632 Points: 64 # Comments: 9  ( 38 min )
    Deep under Antarctic ice, a long-predicted cosmic whisper breaks through
    Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-04-deep-antarctic-ice-cosmic-strange.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47915023 Points: 65 # Comments: 29  ( 11 min )
    Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch
    Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-america-a-close-look-at-the-western-monarch-shows-why-180988582/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914677 Points: 54 # Comments: 10  ( 13 min )
    Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall)
    Most RAG setups fail because they treat memory like a static filing cabinet. When every transient bug fix or abandoned rule is stored forever, the context window eventually chokes on noise, spiking token costs and degrading the agent's reasoning. This implementation experiments with a biological approach by using the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve to manage context as a living substrate. Memories are assigned a "strength" score where each recall reinforces the data and flattens its decay curve (spaced repetition), while unused data eventually hits a threshold and is pruned. To solve the "logical neighbor" problem where semantic search misses relevant but non-similar nodes, a graph layer is layered over the vector store. Benchmarked against the LoCoMo dataset, this reached 52% Recall@5, nearly double the accuracy of stateless vector stores, while cutting token waste by roughly 84%. Built as a local first MCP server using DuckDB, the hypothesis is that for agents handling long-running projects, "what to forget" is just as critical as "what to remember." I'd be interested to hear if others are exploring non-linear decay or similar biological constraints for context management. GitHub: https://github.com/sachitrafa/cognitive-ai-memory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914367 Points: 70 # Comments: 32  ( 19 min )
    Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
    https://www.letsrun.com/news/2026/04/15930-sabastian-sawe-sh... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914350 Points: 124 # Comments: 80  ( 23 min )
    I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
    Article URL: https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914165 Points: 93 # Comments: 29
    MoQ Boy
    Article URL: https://moq.dev/blog/moq-boy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914161 Points: 52 # Comments: 5  ( 4 min )
    Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
    Article URL: https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-mystery-shadowbrokers-reference-reveals-high-precision-software-sabotage-5-years-before-stuxnet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913855 Points: 84 # Comments: 25  ( 45 min )
    Fast16: Cyberweapon that predates Stuxnet by five years
    Article URL: https://hackingpassion.com/fast16-pre-stuxnet-cyber-sabotage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913855 Points: 51 # Comments: 9  ( 8 min )
    A.I. is creating engineers who can't think without it
    Article URL: https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650 Points: 74 # Comments: 70  ( 8 min )
    If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you
    Article URL: https://evalcode.com/posts/if-you-stop-hiring-juniors-your-seniors-own-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913641 Points: 50 # Comments: 32  ( 5 min )
    The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color
    Article URL: https://www.barwypowstania.pl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913406 Points: 82 # Comments: 29  ( 1 min )
    Chernobyl wildlife forty years on
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260424-chernobyl-wildlife-forty-years-on Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913382 Points: 57 # Comments: 4  ( 35 min )
    Waymo says expecting driverless taxis to stay out of bike lanes is unrealistic
    Article URL: https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912645 Points: 139 # Comments: 147  ( 27 min )
    Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds
    Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2026/plants-can-sense-sound-rain-new-study-finds-0422 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912513 Points: 51 # Comments: 6  ( 8 min )
    Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
    Article URL: https://dillo-browser.org/release/3.3.0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911977 Points: 105 # Comments: 16  ( 3 min )
    GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation
    Article URL: https://anchor.host/godaddy-gave-a-domain-to-a-stranger-without-any-documentation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911780 Points: 87 # Comments: 23  ( 11 min )
    The Visible Zorker: Zork 1
    Article URL: https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911644 Points: 60 # Comments: 4
    An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
    Article URL: https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911524 Points: 57 # Comments: 57  ( 3 min )
    Clay PCB Tutorial
    Article URL: https://feministhackerspaces.cargo.site/Clay-PCB-Tutorial Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911350 Points: 84 # Comments: 56  ( 43 min )
    Free Textbook on Engineering Thermodynamics
    Article URL: https://thermodynamicsbook.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911013 Points: 72 # Comments: 26  ( 3 min )
    GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup
    Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192666 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910546 Points: 70 # Comments: 31  ( 7 min )
    Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910388 Points: 80 # Comments: 63
    At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared
    Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/us/deaths-disappearances-scientists-investigation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909942 Points: 77 # Comments: 49
    Bob Odenkirk would like to remind you that life is a meaningless farce
    Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/magazine/bob-odenkirk-interview.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909860 Points: 78 # Comments: 64
    Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
    Article URL: https://asahilinux.org/2026/04/progress-report-7-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909226 Points: 123 # Comments: 9  ( 13 min )
    Statecharts: hierarchical state machines
    Article URL: https://statecharts.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908833 Points: 91 # Comments: 19  ( 4 min )
    Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter
    Article URL: https://www.edenai.co Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908433 Points: 57 # Comments: 31  ( 7 min )
    Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)
    Article URL: https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908139 Points: 52 # Comments: 8  ( 17 min )
    Self-updating screenshots
    Article URL: https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908051 Points: 106 # Comments: 17  ( 3 min )
    The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code
    Article URL: https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907879 Points: 155 # Comments: 63  ( 15 min )
    AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice
    Article URL: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907543 Points: 56 # Comments: 9  ( 8 min )
    Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar
    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/15/hidden-treasures-spanish-archaeologists-discover-trove-of-ancient-shipwrecks-in-bay-of-gibraltar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907175 Points: 83 # Comments: 14  ( 16 min )
    EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
    https://web.archive.org/web/20260426040218/https://juraj.bed... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907130 Points: 68 # Comments: 16
    GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline
    Article URL: https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q2/000504.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907018 Points: 67 # Comments: 20  ( 6 min )
    Meetings are forcing functions
    Article URL: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3734 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906942 Points: 71 # Comments: 32  ( 7 min )
    A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design
    Article URL: https://pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/epet302/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906666 Points: 54 # Comments: 3  ( 4 min )
    I have officially retired from Emacs
    Article URL: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/04/26/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906651 Points: 65 # Comments: 36  ( 2 min )
    When the cheap one is the cool one
    Article URL: https://arun.is/blog/cheap-cool/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906420 Points: 78 # Comments: 26  ( 7 min )
    Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
    Every day for the past 3 days around 1pm EST the 'Headspace' app has been silently appearing on my iPhone (13 Pro). Automatic downloads are turned off and I've updated to the latest iOS since this started happening. I googled around and found a couple reddit threads with people reporting the exact same thing starting 2 or 3 days ago. There were reports from people on iPhone 12 and iPhone 17 so it doesn't seem device-specific. Anyone else seeing this? Does anyone understand how or why this is happening? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906253 Points: 144 # Comments: 77  ( 11 min )
    The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024)
    Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906161 Points: 56 # Comments: 10  ( 12 min )
    Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?
    Article URL: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905984 Points: 113 # Comments: 54

  • Open

    Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill
    Article URL: https://fosstodon.org/@carlrichell/116460505717380644 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905304 Points: 74 # Comments: 25
    Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation
    Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905283 Points: 135 # Comments: 30
    How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way
    Article URL: https://nbelakovski.substack.com/p/how-i-learned-what-a-decoupling-capacitor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905208 Points: 95 # Comments: 49
    USB Cheat Sheet
    Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/usbcheat/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904876 Points: 51 # Comments: 11  ( 3 min )
    The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It
    Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/article/209163/ai-industry-discovering-public-backlash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904568 Points: 68 # Comments: 42  ( 15 min )
    Can you stop beans from making you gassy?
    Article URL: https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-reduce-bean-gas-tested-11883862 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904224 Points: 71 # Comments: 43
    Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision
    Article URL: https://learnings.aleixmorgadas.dev/p/adding-a-team-was-the-wrong-strategic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904053 Points: 59 # Comments: 19  ( 22 min )
    America's Geothermal Breakthrough
    Article URL: https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Geothermal-Energy/Americas-Geothermal-Breakthrough-Could-Unlock-a-150-Gigawatt-Energy-Revolution.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903945 Points: 83 # Comments: 93  ( 16 min )
    Three constraints before I build anything
    Article URL: https://jordanlord.co.uk/blog/3-constraints/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903541 Points: 82 # Comments: 13  ( 2 min )
    The quiet resurgence of RF engineering
    Article URL: https://atempleton.bearblog.dev/quiet-resurgence-of-rf-engineering/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903439 Points: 193 # Comments: 106  ( 12 min )
    Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp
    Article URL: https://coalton-lang.github.io/mine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903173 Points: 50 # Comments: 11  ( 2 min )
    Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
    https://www.erdosproblems.com/1196 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903126 Points: 108 # Comments: 57  ( 9 min )
    Hokusai and Tesselations
    Article URL: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902993 Points: 65 # Comments: 12
    Simulacrum of Knowledge Work
    Article URL: https://blog.happyfellow.dev/simulacrum-of-knowledge-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902987 Points: 56 # Comments: 21  ( 4 min )
    Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center
    Article URL: https://boilingsteam.com/framework-laptop-13-pro-announced/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902816 Points: 67 # Comments: 20  ( 4 min )
    Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish
    Article URL: https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/its-ok-to-use-coding-assistance-tools-to-revive-the-projects-you-never-were-going-to-finish/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902525 Points: 54 # Comments: 35  ( 7 min )
    Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
    Article URL: https://github.com/niri-wm/niri/releases/tag/v26.04 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902416 Points: 137 # Comments: 37  ( 19 min )
    What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role
    Article URL: https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/04/24/agents_as_collective_bargains Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902339 Points: 51 # Comments: 45  ( 10 min )
    Mo RAM, Mo Problems (2025)
    Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/curse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902269 Points: 123 # Comments: 19  ( 3 min )
    GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty
    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-bio-bug-bounty/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901734 Points: 55 # Comments: 52
    A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023)
    Article URL: https://allbrainsbelong.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CLINICIAN-GUIDE-Everything-is-Connected-to-Everything-Project-All-Brains-Belong-VT-8.15.23.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901469 Points: 50 # Comments: 30  ( 80 min )
    Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico
    Article URL: https://github.com/WeebLabs/DSPi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901433 Points: 116 # Comments: 23  ( 55 min )
    HEALPix
    Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEALPix Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901312 Points: 50 # Comments: 6
    The World's Most Complex Machine
    Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-worlds-most-complex-machine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901064 Points: 225 # Comments: 135  ( 15 min )
    Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 2024
    Article URL: https://aschmelyun.com/blog/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900649 Points: 71 # Comments: 10  ( 6 min )
    Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI
    Article URL: https://victortaelin.github.io/lambench/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900506 Points: 68 # Comments: 21  ( 31 min )
    Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s
    Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/discret11/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900478 Points: 58 # Comments: 8  ( 6 min )
    Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x
    Article URL: https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/windows-2-gui-wonderland-12a/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900451 Points: 60 # Comments: 43  ( 32 min )
    A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp
    Article URL: https://github.com/nakagami/grdpwasm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900440 Points: 57 # Comments: 24  ( 9 min )
    Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games
    Article URL: https://github.com/MartinGalway/C64_music Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900398 Points: 74 # Comments: 12  ( 3 min )
    Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
    I shipped a wiki layer for AI agents that uses markdown + git as the source of truth, with a bleve (BM25) + SQLite index on top. No vector or graph db yet. It runs locally in ~/.wuphf/wiki/ and you can git clone it out if you want to take your knowledge with you. The shape is the one Karpathy has been circling for a while: an LLM-native knowledge substrate that agents both read from and write into, so context compounds across sessions rather than getting re-pasted every morning. Most implementations of that idea land on Postgres, pgvector, Neo4j, Kafka, and a dashboard. I wanted to go back to the basics and see how far markdown + git could go before I added anything heavier. What it does: -> Each agent gets a private notebook at agents/{slug}/notebook/.md, plus access to a shared team wiki…  ( 25 min )
    New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper
    Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47899053 Points: 115 # Comments: 31  ( 3 min )
    Quirks of Human Anatomy
    Article URL: https://www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/lewheldquirk/figlegq6.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898660 Points: 54 # Comments: 32  ( 12 min )
    Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port
    Article URL: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898597 Points: 88 # Comments: 15  ( 88 min )
    Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
    Article URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897891 Points: 109 # Comments: 44  ( 9 min )
    Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do
    Article URL: https://alash3al.github.io/stash?_v01 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897790 Points: 66 # Comments: 23  ( 23 min )
    Cosmology with Geometry Nodes
    Article URL: https://www.blender.org/user-stories/cosmology-with-geometry-nodes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897706 Points: 61 # Comments: 1  ( 13 min )
    "Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung
    Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897681 Points: 63 # Comments: 10  ( 1 min )
    Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom
    Article URL: https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897647 Points: 92 # Comments: 12  ( 13 min )
    Education must go beyond the mere production of words
    Article URL: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/schnell-repairing-the-ruins Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897349 Points: 51 # Comments: 15  ( 12 min )

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    Show HN: I've built a nice home server OS
    ohai! I've released Lightwhale 3, which is possibly the easiest way to self-host Docker containers. It's a free, immutable Linux system purpose-built to live-boot straight into a working Docker Engine, thereby shortcutting the need for installation, configuration, and maintenance. Its simple design makes it easy to learn, and its low memory footprint should make it especially attractive during these times of RAMageddon. If this has piqued your interest, do check it out, along with its easy-to-follow Getting Started guide. In any event, have a nice day! =) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896163 Points: 71 # Comments: 31
    Google Flow Music
    Article URL: https://www.flowmusic.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895765 Points: 57 # Comments: 24  ( 1 min )
    Do I belong in tech anymore?
    Article URL: https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895380 Points: 56 # Comments: 28  ( 8 min )
    Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute
    Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/google-to-invest-up-to-40b-in-anthropic-in-cash-and-compute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895080 Points: 86 # Comments: 37  ( 11 min )
    Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks
    I've been using Anthropic's hook features [0] since they were introduced. It allows me to inject determinism into my workflows. This worked perfectly until 4.7. Now, Claude routinely ignores the hook rules. For example, I have a stop hook that prevents Claude from stopping if a source file has been changed and no tests have been run. Here's the relvant part of the script: # Source edits made without a subsequent test run -> block the stop. cat Me: "message": { "role": "user", "content": "Why are you continually ignoring my stop hooks?" } "message": { "type": "message", "role": "assistant", "content": [ { "text": "You're right. I apologize for the deflection.The stop hook is firing correctly. I should have: 1. Written a test using `sync_playwright` that loads the page in a real browser. 2. Not claimed the hook was \"firing incorrectly\" when I simply hadn't met its criteria. Let me do it properly now." } ] } Claude: "message": { "type": "message", "role": "assistant", "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "\n\nThe stop hook fires after I finish responding, telling me to run tests before I stop. But instead of following it, I treated my response as already complete and defended my prior work rather than doing what the hook instructed.\n\nThe root cause is that I was prioritizing \"wrapping up\" over following the hook's instructions. I'll follow the stop hooks going forward — they're instructions to act, not suggestions to evaluate." } ] } [0]: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895029 Points: 62 # Comments: 56  ( 13 min )
    My audio interface has SSH enabled by default
    Article URL: https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894747 Points: 60 # Comments: 15  ( 3 min )
    The Classic American Diner
    Article URL: https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894435 Points: 52 # Comments: 16  ( 6 min )
    The Nintendo Switch Switch (2019)
    Article URL: https://blog.cynthia.re/post/nintendo-switch-ethernet-switch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894124 Points: 55 # Comments: 7  ( 2 min )
    SFO Quiet Airport (2025)
    Article URL: https://viewfromthewing.com/san-francisco-airport-removed-90-minutes-of-daily-noise-travelers-say-it-changed-everything/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894081 Points: 80 # Comments: 42  ( 19 min )
    Mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE
    Article URL: https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894014 Points: 56 # Comments: 2  ( 9 min )
    OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API
    GPT-5.5 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092 - April 2026 (1010 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894000 Points: 137 # Comments: 79  ( 19 min )
    There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21691 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893779 Points: 73 # Comments: 19  ( 3 min )
    CSS as a Query Language
    Article URL: https://evdc.me/blog/css-query Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893427 Points: 51 # Comments: 16  ( 12 min )
    Redesigning the Recurse Center application to inspire curious programmers
    Article URL: https://www.recurse.com/blog/192-redesigning-the-recurse-center-application Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892660 Points: 52 # Comments: 9  ( 4 min )
    Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)
    Article URL: https://parl.ai/projects/params_vs_compute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892655 Points: 52 # Comments: 11  ( 4 min )
    SDL Now Supports DOS
    Article URL: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/15377 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892291 Points: 114 # Comments: 44  ( 14 min )
    Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations
    Article URL: https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260424-filco-diatec/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892236 Points: 52 # Comments: 17  ( 9 min )
    Google Plans to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic
    Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-anthropic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892074 Points: 129 # Comments: 215
    I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support
    Article URL: https://nickyreinert.de/en/2026/2026-04-24-claude-critics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892019 Points: 159 # Comments: 67  ( 6 min )
    Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009)
    Article URL: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-apps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891801 Points: 57 # Comments: 32  ( 10 min )
    Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s
    Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/norway-wants-kids-to-be-kids-with-social-media-ban-for-under-16s Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891019 Points: 185 # Comments: 137  ( 22 min )
    Different Language Models Learn Similar Number Representations
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20817 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890873 Points: 66 # Comments: 27  ( 2 min )
    Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task
    Hey HN, We got tired of browser frameworks restricting the LLM, so we removed the framework and gave the LLM maximum freedom to do whatever it's trained on. We gave the harness the ability to self correct and add new tools if the LLM wants (is pre-trained on) that. Our Browser Use library is tens of thousands of lines of deterministic heuristics wrapping Chrome (CDP websocket). Element extractors, click helpers, target managemenet (SUPER painful), watchdogs (crash handling, file downloads, alerts), cross origin iframes (if you want to click on an element you have to switch the target first, very anoying), etc. Watchdogs specifically are extremely painful but required. If Chrome triggers for example a native file popup the agent is just completely stuck. So the two solutions are to: 1. code…  ( 7 min )
    Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing
    Article URL: https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890799 Points: 156 # Comments: 36  ( 9 min )
    Machine Learning Reveals Unknown Transient Phenomena in Historic Images
    Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18799 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890456 Points: 53 # Comments: 39  ( 3 min )
    Sloppy Copies
    Article URL: https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/04/19/sloppy-copies/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890339 Points: 56 # Comments: 13  ( 7 min )
    The operating cost of adult and gambling startups
    Article URL: https://orchidfiles.com/stigma-is-a-tax-on-every-operational-decision/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889279 Points: 75 # Comments: 107  ( 4 min )
    Aspartame is not that bad?
    Article URL: https://dynomight.net/aspartame/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889030 Points: 58 # Comments: 55  ( 13 min )
    8087 Emulation on 8086 Systems
    Article URL: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xx-8087-emulation-on-8086-systems/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888694 Points: 53 # Comments: 19  ( 15 min )
    UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500 000 people are offered for sale
    Article URL: https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s781 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888557 Points: 133 # Comments: 49
    Hear your agent suffer through your code
    Article URL: https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888465 Points: 76 # Comments: 23  ( 7 min )
    How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
    Article URL: https://nate.leaflet.pub/3mk4xkaxobc2p Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888372 Points: 98 # Comments: 76  ( 48 min )
    Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly
    Article URL: https://jeroen.github.io/notes/webassembly-tar/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888124 Points: 53 # Comments: 14  ( 3 min )
    S. Korea police arrest man over AI image of runaway wolf that misled authorities
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gx1n0dl9no Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887683 Points: 73 # Comments: 35  ( 16 min )
    Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler
    Article URL: https://github.com/matz/spinel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887334 Points: 65 # Comments: 15  ( 19 min )
    Composition Shouldn't be this Hard
    Article URL: https://www.cambra.dev/blog/announcement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886773 Points: 65 # Comments: 42  ( 13 min )
    Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture
    All content is based on Andrej Karpathy's "Intro to Large Language Models" lecture (youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI). I downloaded the transcript and used Claude Code to generate the entire interactive site from it — single HTML file. I find it useful to revisit this content time to time. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886517 Points: 73 # Comments: 12  ( 25 min )
    Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go
    Article URL: https://github.com/NV404/gova Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886272 Points: 72 # Comments: 14  ( 10 min )
    Why Not Venus?
    Article URL: https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/why-not-venus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885739 Points: 73 # Comments: 41
    Running Bare-Metal Rust Alongside ESP-IDF on the ESP32-S3's Second Core
    Article URL: https://tingouw.com/blog/embedded/esp32/run_rust_on_app_core Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885719 Points: 70 # Comments: 11  ( 22 min )
    Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years
    Article URL: https://felixbarbalet.com/familiarity-is-the-enemy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885668 Points: 54 # Comments: 23  ( 24 min )
    Ubuntu 26.04
    Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1069399/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885596 Points: 76 # Comments: 24  ( 1 min )
    Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
    Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71264-8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885377 Points: 59 # Comments: 25  ( 67 min )
    Mahjong: A Visual Guide
    Article URL: https://themahjong.guide/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885239 Points: 76 # Comments: 20  ( 5 min )
    Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)
    Article URL: https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2024/you-have-built-a-kubernetes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885012 Points: 55 # Comments: 88  ( 2 min )
    DeepSeek v4
    https://api-docs.deepseek.com/ https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro/blob/main... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884971 Points: 1827 # Comments: 1427  ( 1 min )
    DeepSeek v4
    Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884971 Points: 455 # Comments: 183  ( 1 min )
    Why I Write (1946)
    Article URL: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/why-i-write/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884768 Points: 103 # Comments: 23  ( 13 min )
    How Hard Is It to Open a File?
    Article URL: https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884625 Points: 68 # Comments: 11  ( 7 min )
    Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency
    Article URL: https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/how-magic-the-gathering-took-me-from-n2-to-japanese-fluency Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883839 Points: 56 # Comments: 16

  • Open

    U.S. Soldier Charged with Using Classified Info to Profit from Prediction Market
    Article URL: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-soldier-charged-using-classified-information-profit-prediction-market-bets?bm-verify=AAQAAAAN_____y6To7sZYZ502biZwIHXlr-7zXZUqV4H0xLTfW__wDA3SjNLqifXRaQwsikyuz6IJknyuL8xfVYRkesxcDk5V10m-HoXl2K93f17rygBphL77WVFoQ_XvlmUo922IwM_DQ66137X6wWMtpdHslcEjpJG7KbBmUw9Su4kDENpDt_yv2spThQZehgv-X1Adk5U2VHfp41co2s_QJGjRj4y0KmL1mhSCyVaE7MC1LHG0mtP-xYmD0xBOQwn6PlHkPiP5Nt46h5ZIjLGXgCZDEVD42i7rIEM379DKLPUPX0PDNmOAwFSuTqcTDVnT_UUV8vxpHLRMb7rUxPxKUPcIB23iZTRJddWDDtPHMXadpwv67xr-f1sKDLZT9NgHCO4iuC2EthmAt0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883108 Points: 53 # Comments: 20  ( 7 min )
    Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
    Hey there! I am Luca, I write https://refactoring.fm/ and I built Tolaria for myself to manage my own knowledge base (10K notes, 300+ articles written in over 6 years of newslettering) and work well with AI. Tolaria is offline-first, file-based, has first-class support for git, and has strong opinions about how you should organize notes (types, relationships, etc). Let me know your thoughts! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882697 Points: 121 # Comments: 39  ( 10 min )
    US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid
    https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-soldier-charged-usin... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882645 Points: 121 # Comments: 181
    TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale
    Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/torchtpu-running-pytorch-natively-on-tpus-at-google-scale/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881786 Points: 78 # Comments: 3  ( 7 min )
    How the Tech World Turned Evil
    Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/article/208876/tech-world-evil-musk-bezos-thiel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881724 Points: 67 # Comments: 12  ( 45 min )
    Using the internet like it's 1999
    Article URL: https://joshblais.com/blog/using-the-internet-like-its-1999/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881198 Points: 52 # Comments: 21  ( 9 min )
    Anthropic's Claude Desktop App Installs Undisclosed Native Messaging Bridge
    Article URL: https://letsdatascience.com/news/claude-desktop-installs-preauthorized-browser-extension-mani-4064fb1a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47880697 Points: 56 # Comments: 6
    Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d4zgnqpqeo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47880189 Points: 96 # Comments: 47  ( 24 min )
    Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
    https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/meta-job-cuts-10-percent-8... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879986 Points: 436 # Comments: 415
    Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees
    Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/meta-job-cuts-10-percent-8000-employees/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879986 Points: 289 # Comments: 212  ( 10 min )
    Astronomers find the edge of the Milky Way
    Article URL: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/astronomers-find-the-edge-of-the-milky-way/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879239 Points: 61 # Comments: 11
    GPT-5.5
    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092 Points: 747 # Comments: 371
    An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
    Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878905 Points: 389 # Comments: 273  ( 13 min )
    Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
    Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878633 Points: 391 # Comments: 282  ( 101 min )
    Box to save memory in Rust
    Article URL: https://dystroy.org/blog/box-to-save-memory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878231 Points: 84 # Comments: 19  ( 5 min )
    MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
    Article URL: https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878117 Points: 83 # Comments: 52  ( 3 min )
    The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement
    Article URL: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/shall-we-play-a-game Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877811 Points: 51 # Comments: 8  ( 16 min )
    My phone replaced a brass plug
    Article URL: https://drobinin.com/posts/my-phone-replaced-a-brass-plug/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877715 Points: 62 # Comments: 8  ( 22 min )
    Incident with multple GitHub services
    Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/myrbk7jvvs6p Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877644 Points: 144 # Comments: 68  ( 19 min )
    If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad?
    Article URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/if-americas-so-rich-howd-it-get-so Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877429 Points: 114 # Comments: 188  ( 32 min )
    French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
    Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/french-govt-agency-confirms-breach-as-hacker-offers-to-sell-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877366 Points: 321 # Comments: 113
    France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens' IDs
    Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/france-confirms-data-breach-at-government-agency-that-manages-citizens-ids/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877366 Points: 175 # Comments: 57  ( 10 min )
    I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards
    Article URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ooko Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877277 Points: 50 # Comments: 51
    Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories
    Article URL: http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/vaxfp.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876930 Points: 54 # Comments: 1  ( 13 min )
    To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets
    Article URL: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/to-protect-and-swerve-nypd-cop-has-527-speeding-tickets-yet-remains-on-the-force Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876647 Points: 100 # Comments: 68  ( 14 min )
    Show HN: Turning a Gaussian Splat into a videogame
    Article URL: https://blog.playcanvas.com/turning-a-gaussian-splat-into-a-videogame/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876071 Points: 58 # Comments: 11  ( 8 min )
    Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign
    Article URL: https://socket.dev/blog/bitwarden-cli-compromised Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876043 Points: 302 # Comments: 147  ( 31 min )
    UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub
    I'm a researcher studying privacy, and I started tracking the DMCA notices that UK Biobank sends to GitHub. I tracked 110 notices filed so far, targeting 197 code repositories by 170 developers across the world. The exposure of Biobank data on GitHub is the latest in a long series of governance challenges for UK Biobank. (My colleague and I have an editorial in the BMJ about this: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.s660?ijkey=dEot4dJZGZGXe...). The latest is today, with information of all half a million members listed for sale on Alibaba. Looking at the takedown notices, we often see specific files being targeted rather than entire repositories (possibly to justify the copyright infringement as required for a takedown notice, not a copyright expert; although it is clear that they only use DMCA notices as a last resort, for GitHub users they cannot identify, and who were likely not given access in the first place). A quarter of the files are genetic/genomics. Tabular data account for another large share and could contain phenotype or health records. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875843 Points: 51 # Comments: 14  ( 5 min )
    Flipdiscs
    Article URL: https://flipdisc.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875795 Points: 388 # Comments: 67  ( 7 min )
    US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxd0xxp0jko Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875629 Points: 83 # Comments: 65  ( 18 min )
    Optimizing Datalog for the GPU
    Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3669940.3707274 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875597 Points: 53 # Comments: 3
    I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable
    Article URL: https://tenphi.me/blog/why-i-spent-years-trying-to-make-css-states-predictable/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875025 Points: 53 # Comments: 18  ( 17 min )
    Raylib v6.0
    Article URL: https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/releases/tag/6.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874854 Points: 79 # Comments: 6  ( 15 min )
    Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns
    https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exp... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874814 Points: 266 # Comments: 75  ( 13 min )
    Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite
    Article URL: https://github.com/russellromney/honker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874647 Points: 112 # Comments: 18  ( 33 min )
    Spam in conversational replies to blog posts
    Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/sneaky-spam-in-conversational-replies-to-blog-posts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874631 Points: 72 # Comments: 50
    Commenting and Approving Pull Requests
    Article URL: https://www.jakeworth.com/posts/on-commenting-and-approving-pull-requests/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874613 Points: 60 # Comments: 41  ( 6 min )
    Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)
    Article URL: https://ar-ms.me/thoughts/c-compiler-1-zig/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873694 Points: 63 # Comments: 19
    Email could have been X.400 times better
    Article URL: https://buttondown.com/blog/x400-vs-smtp-email Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873323 Points: 96 # Comments: 81  ( 21 min )
    Our newsroom AI policy
    Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872452 Points: 61 # Comments: 40  ( 9 min )
    I am building a cloud
    Article URL: https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872324 Points: 64 # Comments: 8  ( 6 min )
    MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be
    Article URL: https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872306 Points: 162 # Comments: 95  ( 7 min )
    Borrow-checking without type-checking
    Article URL: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/borrow-checking-without-type-checking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871817 Points: 54 # Comments: 13  ( 22 min )
    Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image
    Article URL: https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-now-has-a-reproducible-docker-image/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871519 Points: 73 # Comments: 15  ( 3 min )
    Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game
    Article URL: https://tempest.homemade.systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871195 Points: 50 # Comments: 16  ( 1 min )
    OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise
    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/axios-developer-tool-compromise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871077 Points: 58 # Comments: 23
    OpenAI Privacy Filter
    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870901 Points: 132 # Comments: 21

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    Desmond Morris, 98, Dies; Zoologist Saw Links Between Humans and Apes
    Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/science/desmond-morris-dead.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870439 Points: 57 # Comments: 5
    Lute: A Standalone Runtime for Luau
    Article URL: https://lute.luau.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870245 Points: 50 # Comments: 7  ( 1 min )
    Bring your own Agent to MS Teams
    Article URL: https://microsoft.github.io/teams-sdk/blog/bring-your-agent-to-teams/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870108 Points: 57 # Comments: 44  ( 5 min )
    Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
    Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868867 Points: 88 # Comments: 28  ( 11 min )
    The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard
    Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/20/the-illuminated-man-by-christopher-priest-and-nina-allan-review-an-unconventional-portrait-of-jg-ballard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868832 Points: 50 # Comments: 17  ( 17 min )
    Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics
    Article URL: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2023/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867755 Points: 137 # Comments: 162  ( 45 min )
    Flickr: The first and last great photo platform
    Article URL: https://petapixel.com/2026/04/22/flickr-the-first-and-last-great-photo-platform/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867473 Points: 69 # Comments: 35  ( 14 min )
    Website streamed live directly from a model
    https://x.com/zan2434/status/2046982383430496444 (https://xcancel.com/zan2434/status/2046982383430496444) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867048 Points: 58 # Comments: 26
    Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
    Article URL: https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866913 Points: 152 # Comments: 81  ( 12 min )
    Workspace Agents in ChatGPT
    Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-workspace-agents-in-chatgpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866860 Points: 65 # Comments: 23
    Parallel Agents in Zed
    Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/parallel-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866750 Points: 85 # Comments: 41  ( 43 min )
    We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
    Article URL: https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866697 Points: 77 # Comments: 22  ( 121 min )
    Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries
    Article URL: https://lpeproject.org/blog/surveillance-pricing-exploiting-information-asymmetries/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866395 Points: 70 # Comments: 28  ( 15 min )
    PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology
    Article URL: https://nikomc.com/2026/04/22/pcr/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866215 Points: 53 # Comments: 6  ( 24 min )
    The Joy of Folding Bikes
    Article URL: https://blog.korny.info/2026/04/19/the-joy-of-folding-bikes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866127 Points: 54 # Comments: 25  ( 3 min )
    Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
    Article URL: https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865868 Points: 317 # Comments: 112
    Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
    Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-02.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865661 Points: 163 # Comments: 32  ( 4 min )
    Martin Fowler: Technical, Cognitive, and Intent Debt
    Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-14.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865661 Points: 104 # Comments: 19  ( 4 min )
    Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline
    Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/science/988-youth-suicides-decline.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865622 Points: 72 # Comments: 25
    Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players
    Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/sports/ping-pong-robot-ace-makes-history-by-beating-top-level-human-players-2026-04-22/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864785 Points: 52 # Comments: 56
    DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser
    Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/04/13/announcing-duckdb-152 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864454 Points: 75 # Comments: 19  ( 3 min )
    Show HN submissions tripled and now mostly have the same vibe-coded look
    Article URL: https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864393 Points: 130 # Comments: 104  ( 2 min )
    Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
    Article URL: https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75877 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864056 Points: 122 # Comments: 32
    1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)
    Article URL: https://www.hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863570 Points: 145 # Comments: 21  ( 2 min )
    Treetops glowing during storms captured on film for first time
    Article URL: https://www.psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral-sciences/story/treetops-glowing-during-storms-captured-film-first-time Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863324 Points: 84 # Comments: 17  ( 10 min )
    Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
    Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863217 Points: 108 # Comments: 58  ( 1 min )
    Columnar Storage Is Normalization
    Article URL: https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/columnar-storage-is-normalization/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862626 Points: 75 # Comments: 26  ( 6 min )
    A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU
    Article URL: https://clad.you/blog/posts/questionnaire-mlp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862541 Points: 50 # Comments: 9  ( 9 min )
    Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
    https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tpu-8t-and-tp... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862497 Points: 129 # Comments: 81  ( 19 min )
    3.4M Solar Panels
    Article URL: https://tech.marksblogg.com/american-solar-farms-v2.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862386 Points: 131 # Comments: 68  ( 11 min )
    GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
    Article URL: https://cli.github.com/telemetry Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862331 Points: 178 # Comments: 113  ( 3 min )
    Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports
    Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1068928/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862230 Points: 57 # Comments: 30  ( 11 min )
    Nobody Got Fired for Uber's $8M Ledger Mistake?
    Article URL: https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/nobody-got-fired-for-ubers-8-million Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861731 Points: 78 # Comments: 50  ( 16 min )
    CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes
    Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/catls-new-lfp-battery-can-charge-from-10-to-98-in-less-than-7-minutes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861703 Points: 77 # Comments: 36  ( 8 min )
    Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
    Article URL: https://social.hails.org/@hailey/116446826733136456 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861270 Points: 200 # Comments: 45  ( 1 min )
    How does GPS work?
    Article URL: https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-gps-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861087 Points: 121 # Comments: 24  ( 21 min )
    Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
    Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-new-ai-tool-tracks-staff-activity-sparks-concern-2026-4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860961 Points: 76 # Comments: 59  ( 17 min )
    Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs
    Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/meta_employee_surveillance_software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860742 Points: 132 # Comments: 78  ( 4 min )
    You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts
    https://xcancel.com/orsonscottcard/status/204670229440668075... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860682 Points: 76 # Comments: 45  ( 3 min )
    The Free Universal Construction Kit
    Article URL: https://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860198 Points: 141 # Comments: 24  ( 16 min )
    XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?
    Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260421-00/?p=112247 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859861 Points: 55 # Comments: 54  ( 27 min )
    A Man Who Invented the Future
    Article URL: https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-man-who-invented-the-future Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859543 Points: 50 # Comments: 14
    Panipat: The rise of the Mughals
    Article URL: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/panipat-rise-mughals Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859514 Points: 51 # Comments: 58
    What async promised and what it delivered
    Article URL: https://causality.blog/essays/what-async-promised/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859442 Points: 86 # Comments: 80  ( 9 min )
    Paraloid B-72
    Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858939 Points: 112 # Comments: 21
    Humpback whales are forming super-groups
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260416-the-humpback-super-groups-swarming-the-seas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858294 Points: 63 # Comments: 21  ( 35 min )
    FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX
    Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/scientists-disappear-die-nasa-space-blue-origin-spacex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858246 Points: 82 # Comments: 17  ( 30 min )
    How to Implement an FPS Counter
    Article URL: https://vplesko.com/posts/how_to_implement_an_fps_counter.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857563 Points: 94 # Comments: 16  ( 7 min )
    Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"
    Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/global-growth-in-solar-the-largest-ever-observed-for-any-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857509 Points: 59 # Comments: 4  ( 11 min )
    San Diego rents declined more than 19 of 20 top US markets after surge in supply
    Article URL: https://www.kpbs.org/news/economy/2026/03/27/san-diego-rents-declined-more-than-19-of-nations-top-20-markets-following-surge-in-supply Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857477 Points: 112 # Comments: 73  ( 10 min )
    I'm Sick of AI Everything
    A while back, I stopped using Facebook because I just couldn't take it anymore. Just totally sick of it. I'm honestly getting there with AI. At this point, I would prefer to have anything AI related just be blocked at the browser level. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857461 Points: 141 # Comments: 62  ( 14 min )

  • Open

    Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)
    Article URL: https://luminousmen.substack.com/p/drunk-post-things-ive-learned-as Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856535 Points: 100 # Comments: 49
    SpaceX Says It Has Agreement to Acquire Cursor for $60B
    Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/spacex-says-has-agreement-to-acquire-cursor-for-60-billion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855616 Points: 75 # Comments: 20
    Claude Code no longer included in Pro tier
    Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3mjzxwfx3qs2a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855565 Points: 106 # Comments: 54  ( 1 min )
    SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
    https://www.reuters.com/technology/spacex-says-it-has-option... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/business/spacex-cursor-de... (https://archive.ph/c2Tac) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/spacex-sa... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855293 Points: 340 # Comments: 468  ( 3 min )
    WireGuard for Windows Reaches v1.0
    Article URL: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2026-April/009580.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854710 Points: 59 # Comments: 1  ( 5 min )
    Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan
    Article URL: https://claude.com/pricing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854477 Points: 68 # Comments: 21  ( 65 min )
    Another Day Has Come
    Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/another_day_has_come Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854365 Points: 61 # Comments: 53  ( 5 min )
    California has more money than projected after admin miscalculated state budget
    Article URL: https://www.kcra.com/article/california-more-money-than-projected-newsom-miscalculated-budget/71056376 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854125 Points: 74 # Comments: 39  ( 38 min )
    I don't want your PRs anymore
    Article URL: https://dpc.pw/posts/i-dont-want-your-prs-anymore/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854051 Points: 62 # Comments: 41  ( 4 min )
    ChatGPT Images 2.0
    Livestream: https://openai.com/live/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852835 Points: 165 # Comments: 135
    OpenAI Livestream
    Article URL: https://openai.com/live/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852835 Points: 57 # Comments: 40
    Framework Laptop 13 Pro
    Article URL: https://frame.work/laptop13pro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852177 Points: 394 # Comments: 214  ( 5 min )
    Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com
    Article URL: https://github.com/calcom/cal.diy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852155 Points: 58 # Comments: 12  ( 54 min )
    Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
    Alt link: https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articles/exclusive-meta-st... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851948 Points: 192 # Comments: 167
    Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
    Article URL: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-to-start-capturing-employee-mouse-movements-keystrokes-for-ai-training-data/articleshow/130422612.cms?from=mdr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851948 Points: 91 # Comments: 47  ( 43 min )
    Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
    Article URL: https://britannica11.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851885 Points: 107 # Comments: 61  ( 1 min )
    The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
    Vercel April 2026 security incident - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824463 - April 2026 (485 comments) A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844431 - April 2026 (145 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851634 Points: 146 # Comments: 57  ( 36 min )
    Ibuilt a tiny Unix‑like 'OS' with shell and filesystem for Arduino UNO (2KB RAM)
    Article URL: https://github.com/Arc1011/KernelUNO Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851630 Points: 50 # Comments: 10  ( 12 min )
    Work with the garage door up
    Article URL: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_garage_door_up Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851613 Points: 59 # Comments: 58  ( 5 min )
    A Periodic Map of Cheese
    Article URL: https://cheesemap.netlify.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851077 Points: 93 # Comments: 51  ( 34 min )
    CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production
    https://www.brex.com/journal/building-crabtrap-open-source Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850212 Points: 91 # Comments: 25  ( 9 min )
    Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker
    Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/34369-original-grapheneos-responses-to-wired-fact-checker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849854 Points: 190 # Comments: 102  ( 43 min )
    As Oceans Warm, Great White Sharks Are Overheating
    Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/great-white-sharks-climate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849592 Points: 73 # Comments: 37  ( 4 min )
    The mail sent to a video game publisher
    Article URL: https://www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail-arco-despelote-time-flies-thank-goodness-teeth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849455 Points: 89 # Comments: 2  ( 19 min )
    Fusion Power Plant Simulator
    Article URL: https://www.fusionenergybase.com/fusion-power-plant-simulator Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849315 Points: 79 # Comments: 27  ( 58 min )
    Your favorite brands got worse on purpose
    Article URL: https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-favorite-brands-got-worse-on-purpose Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849221 Points: 85 # Comments: 24  ( 58 min )
    Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go
    Hi, I’m Jakub, a solo founder based in Warsaw. I’ve been building GoModel since December with a couple of contributors. It's an open-source AI gateway that sits between your app and model providers like OpenAI, Anthropic or others. I built it for my startup to solve a few problems: - track AI usage and cost per client or team - switch models without changing app code - debug request flows more easily - reduce AI spendings with exact and semantic caching - ~17MB docker image - LiteLLM's image is more than 44x bigger ("docker.litellm.ai/berriai/litellm:latest" ~ 746 MB on amd64) - request workflow is visible and easy to inspect - config is environment-variable-first by default Website: https://gomodel.enterpilot.io Any feedback is appreciated. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849097 Points: 93 # Comments: 29  ( 17 min )
    Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
    Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/anthropic-takes-5b-from-amazon-and-pledges-100b-in-cloud-spending-in-return/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848276 Points: 67 # Comments: 67  ( 10 min )
    Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days
    Article URL: https://www.tindie.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848195 Points: 63 # Comments: 19
    A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory
    Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-renaissance-gambling-dispute-spawned-probability-theory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848162 Points: 61 # Comments: 8  ( 16 min )
    Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
    Hi HN, I built VidStudio, a privacy focused video editor that runs in the browser. I tried to keep it as frictionless as possible, so there are no accounts and no uploads. Everything is persisted on your machine. Some of the features: multi-track timeline, frame accurate seek, MP4 export, audio, video, image, and text tracks, and a WebGL backed canvas where available. It also works on mobile. Under the hood, WebCodecs handles frame decode for timeline playback and scrubbing, which is what makes seeking responsive since decode runs on the hardware decoder when the browser supports it. FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly handles final encode, format conversion, and anything WebCodecs does not cover. Rendering goes through Pixi.js on a WebGL canvas, with a software fallback when WebGL is not available. Projects live in IndexedDB and the heavy work runs in Web Workers so the UI stays responsive during exports. Happy to answer technical questions about the tradeoffs involved in keeping the whole pipeline client-side. Any feedback welcome. Link: https://vidstudio.app/video-editor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847558 Points: 108 # Comments: 47  ( 1 min )
    Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing
    Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2026/tim-cooks-impeccable-timing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847324 Points: 70 # Comments: 85  ( 20 min )
    Laws of Software Engineering
    Article URL: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847179 Points: 318 # Comments: 141  ( 79 min )
    An amateur historian's favorite books about the Silk Road
    Article URL: https://bookdna.com/best-books/silk-road Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847153 Points: 56 # Comments: 22  ( 8 min )
    Apple ignores DMA interoperability requests and contradicts own documentation
    Article URL: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260420-01.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847124 Points: 139 # Comments: 20  ( 6 min )
    A type-safe, realtime collaborative Graph Database in a CRDT
    Article URL: https://codemix.com/graph Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846946 Points: 73 # Comments: 27  ( 6 min )
    Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70656-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846861 Points: 64 # Comments: 3  ( 9 min )
    A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels?
    Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-physical-life-force-turns-biologys-wheels-20260420/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846718 Points: 66 # Comments: 12  ( 12 min )
    Your hex editor should color-code bytes
    Article URL: https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846688 Points: 104 # Comments: 18  ( 21 min )
    Less human AI agents, please
    Article URL: https://nial.se/blog/less-human-ai-agents-please/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845429 Points: 77 # Comments: 97  ( 3 min )
    Louis Zocchi, inventor of the d100, has died
    Article URL: https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/62176/r-i-p-louis-zocchi-the-godfather-dice Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845231 Points: 50 # Comments: 15  ( 4 min )
    Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely
    Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/cocaine-pollution-gives-salmon-wanderlust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844890 Points: 83 # Comments: 49
    The Beauty of Bonsai Styles
    Article URL: https://longwoodgardens.org/blog/2023-05-17/beauty-bonsai-styles Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844539 Points: 53 # Comments: 14  ( 8 min )
    A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform
    Article URL: https://webmatrices.com/post/how-a-roblox-cheat-and-one-ai-tool-brought-down-vercel-s-entire-platform Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844431 Points: 69 # Comments: 27
    Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
    Article URL: https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/anthropic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844269 Points: 165 # Comments: 91  ( 4 min )
    The Onion to Take over InfoWars
    Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843434 Points: 52 # Comments: 4
    How to Make a Fast Dynamic Language Interpreter
    Article URL: https://zef-lang.dev/implementation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843194 Points: 60 # Comments: 3  ( 19 min )

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    Making RAM at Home [video]
    Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6GWikWlAQA Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842569 Points: 145 # Comments: 28
    Monero Community Crowdfunding System
    Article URL: https://ccs.getmonero.org/ideas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841149 Points: 67 # Comments: 42  ( 1 min )
    Desmond Morris has died
    Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y797v200o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841141 Points: 60 # Comments: 11  ( 25 min )
    Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
    Article URL: https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841129 Points: 75 # Comments: 15  ( 9 min )
    OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on "prompt relevance"
    Article URL: https://www.adweek.com/media/exclusive-leaked-deck-reveals-stackadapts-playbook-for-chatgpt-ads/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840980 Points: 63 # Comments: 16  ( 50 min )
    What killed the Florida orange?
    https://slate.com/business/2026/04/florida-state-orange-food... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840618 Points: 92 # Comments: 87  ( 56 min )
    Verus is a tool for verifying the correctness of code written in Rust
    Article URL: https://verus-lang.github.io/verus/guide/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840252 Points: 59 # Comments: 11  ( 3 min )
    Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman
    Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840219 Points: 176 # Comments: 47  ( 20 min )
    AI Resistance Is Growing
    Article URL: https://stephvee.ca/blog/artificial%20intelligence/ai-resistance-is-growing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839951 Points: 78 # Comments: 26  ( 5 min )
    F-35 is a masterpiece built for the wrong war
    Article URL: https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-f-35-is-a-masterpiece-built-for-the-wrong-war/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839835 Points: 67 # Comments: 61  ( 13 min )
    Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64
    Article URL: https://github.com/gizmo64k/soulplayer-c64 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839645 Points: 54 # Comments: 12  ( 17 min )
    We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090
    Article URL: https://github.com/Luce-Org/lucebox-hub Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838788 Points: 70 # Comments: 18  ( 13 min )
    Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers
    Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-vendor-verifier Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838703 Points: 61 # Comments: 5  ( 2 min )
    Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
    Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838508 Points: 245 # Comments: 48  ( 11 min )
    The Palantir's Stasi Protocols
    Article URL: https://professorsigmund.com/praxis/palantir-stasi-protocols.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838178 Points: 71 # Comments: 18  ( 16 min )
    At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours
    Article URL: https://theonion.info/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837620 Points: 163 # Comments: 2  ( 11 min )
    At long last, InfoWars is ours
    Article URL: https://theonion.com/at-long-last-infowars-is-ours/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837611 Points: 351 # Comments: 127  ( 21 min )
    The Theory of Interstellar Trade [pdf] (1978)
    Article URL: https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837105 Points: 56 # Comments: 16  ( 54 min )
    Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys
    Article URL: https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836784 Points: 53 # Comments: 23  ( 13 min )
    We accepted surveillance as default
    Article URL: https://vivianvoss.net/blog/why-we-accepted-surveillance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836730 Points: 145 # Comments: 63
    Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
    Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-of-songs-uploaded-to-its-platform-daily-are-ai-generated/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835928 Points: 153 # Comments: 173  ( 11 min )
    I'm never buying another Kindle
    Article URL: https://www.androidauthority.com/amazon-kindle-2026-3657863/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835775 Points: 153 # Comments: 125  ( 20 min )
    Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding
    Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835735 Points: 357 # Comments: 170  ( 9 min )
    I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs
    Article URL: https://surfacedby.com/blog/nginx-logs-ai-traffic-vs-referral-traffic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835646 Points: 110 # Comments: 19  ( 12 min )
    Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
    Article URL: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/the-mystery-in-the-medicine-cabinet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835635 Points: 189 # Comments: 72  ( 15 min )
    Show HN: Alien – Self-hosting with remote management (written in Rust)
    Hi HN, I'm Alon, and I'm building Alien, an open-source platform for deploying your software into your customer's environment and keeping it fully managed. In my previous startup, I heard the same question from every single enterprise customer over and over again: "My data is sensitive. Can I deploy your product to my own cloud account?" Self-hosting is becoming very popular because it lets users keep their data private, local, and inside their own environment. Unfortunately, self-hosting breaks down when someone starts paying for your software. Especially if it's an enterprise customer. Customers usually don't actually know how to operate your software. They might change something small — Postgres version, environment variables, IAM, firewall rules — and things start failing. From their p…  ( 5 min )
    Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness
    Eight years ago, my then-fiancée and I decided to get a prenup, so we hired a local mediator. The meetings were useful, but I felt there was no systematic process to produce a final agreement. So I started to think about this problem, and after a bit of research, I discovered the Nash bargaining solution. Yet if John Nash had solved negotiation in the 1950s, why did it seem like nobody was using it today? The issue was that Nash's solution required that each party to the negotiation provide a "utility function", which could take a set of deal terms and produce a utility number. But even experts have trouble producing such functions for non-trivial negotiations. A few years passed and LLMs appeared, and about a year ago I realized that while LLMs aren’t good at directly producing utility estimates, they are good at doing comparisons, and this can be used to estimate utilities of draft agreements. This is the basis for Mediator.ai, which I soft-launched over the weekend. Be interviewed by an LLM to capture your preferences and then invite the other party or parties to do the same. These preferences are then used as the fitness function for a genetic algorithm to find an agreement all parties are likely to agree to. An article with more technical detail: https://mediator.ai/blog/ai-negotiation-nash-bargaining/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835411 Points: 58 # Comments: 26  ( 14 min )
    How does Shazam work?
    Article URL: https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-shazam-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835366 Points: 130 # Comments: 29  ( 22 min )
    MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
    Article URL: http://mnt.stanleylieber.com/reform/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834689 Points: 152 # Comments: 58  ( 3 min )
    Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
    Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-max-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834565 Points: 84 # Comments: 21  ( 1 min )
    Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
    I'm building a P2P crowdshipping marketplace, basically BlaBlaCar but for packages instead of passengers. Travelers going between cities/countries carry items for people who need to send stuff. About to launch the MVP and hitting the classic chicken-and-egg problem. Travelers won't sign up without packages to carry, senders won't post without travelers available. Every marketplace founder says "focus on one side first" but nobody gets specific about how they actually did it, especially when you can't fake supply like you can with a SaaS landing page. For those who've built P2P platforms or two-sided marketplaces: what actually worked for your first 50-100 transactions? Did you manually match people? Subsidize one side? Constrain to one route/city? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834213 Points: 102 # Comments: 103  ( 26 min )
    All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
    Article URL: https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/04/20/eu-to-force-replaceable-batteries-in-phones-and-tablets-from-2027/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834195 Points: 280 # Comments: 119
    Show HN: Saunas lower nighttime heart rate more than exercise (n=59,000)
    Article URL: https://tryterra.co/research/sauna-effect-on-heart-rate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834184 Points: 174 # Comments: 100  ( 14 min )
    ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
    Article URL: https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833558 Points: 54 # Comments: 11  ( 20 min )
    Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI
    Article URL: https://letsdatascience.com/news/atlassian-enables-default-data-collection-to-train-ai-f71343d8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833247 Points: 113 # Comments: 29
    NASA Artemis Posters
    Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/artemis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833092 Points: 55 # Comments: 8  ( 13 min )
    WebUSB Extension for Firefox
    Article URL: https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832969 Points: 65 # Comments: 48  ( 15 min )
    All your agents are going async
    Article URL: https://zknill.io/posts/all-your-agents-are-going-async/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832720 Points: 54 # Comments: 37  ( 5 min )
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