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New paper reviews the history of ‘fast lanes’ (preferential flows) in soils that water models largely miss in forests, and highlights key gaps in understanding when and where this process matters. • May 5, 2026 at 11:34 AM • researchgate.net • r/science
888
Three Inverse Laws of AI • May 5, 2026 at 11:27 AM • susam.net • Hacker News
4
I'm a Doctor. Here's What A.I. Cannot Do • May 5, 2026 at 11:27 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
5
Trustworthy JavaScript for the Open Web • May 5, 2026 at 11:21 AM • hacks.mozilla.org • Lobsters
18
Diamonds Suck (2006) • May 5, 2026 at 11:19 AM • diamondssuck.com • Hacker News
38
New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS • May 5, 2026 at 11:15 AM • debarshibasak.github.io • Hacker News
9
How tf do I export all the tabs in postman • May 5, 2026 at 11:12 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
26
Show HN: New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved • May 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM • programbench.com • Hacker News
28
Show HN: A Mutating Webhook to automatically strip PII from K8s logs • May 5, 2026 at 11:09 AM • github.com/aragossa • Hacker News
7
LF a modern way to implement parallax with CSS/Sass • May 5, 2026 at 11:08 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
16
Show HN: Codeberg (Forgejo) CLI, built with Xclif • May 5, 2026 at 11:07 AM • codeberg.org • Hacker News
446
Agents for financial services and insurance • May 5, 2026 at 11:05 AM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
200
Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources • May 5, 2026 at 11:03 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs • May 5, 2026 at 11:01 AM • tech.yahoo.com • Hacker News
67
'Notepad++ For Mac' Release Is Disavowed By the Creator of the Original • May 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM • arstechnica.com • Slashdot
28
Airborne Microplastics May Be Warming the Planet • May 5, 2026 at 10:53 AM • e360.yale.edu • Hacker News
109
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent • May 5, 2026 at 10:53 AM • thatprivacyguy.com • ~tech
25
One week of view_types • May 5, 2026 at 10:53 AM • scrabsha.dev • Lobsters
5
Show HN: I made a local proxy for AI tool calls to keep my API keys safe • May 5, 2026 at 10:51 AM • github.com/factorly-dev • Hacker News
3
Show HN: Aimeat, BBS-style sysop culture for the AI era • May 5, 2026 at 10:40 AM • github.com/miikkij • Hacker News
39
Freelancers - is Figma a necessary evil? • May 5, 2026 at 10:39 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Permission to Suck: When Preparation Becomes Paralysis • May 5, 2026 at 10:39 AM • savvynormie.com • Bear
95
SubQ: a sub-quadratic LLM with 12M-token context • May 5, 2026 at 10:37 AM • subq.ai • Hacker News
9
Show HN: A live counter of human lifetime burned in your meetings • May 5, 2026 at 10:30 AM • meetingburn.sillyprod.com • Hacker News
589
The fun has been optimized out of the Internet • May 5, 2026 at 10:29 AM • muddy.jprs.me • Hacker News
10
Looking for Technical Co-Founder • May 5, 2026 at 10:25 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
14P
The Consensus Trap • May 5, 2026 at 10:22 AM • the-hard-parts.iliemad.workers.dev • r/programming
229
Incident with Actions – Resolved • May 5, 2026 at 10:21 AM • githubstatus.com • Hacker News
267
Building Websites With Lots of Little HTML Pages • May 5, 2026 at 10:18 AM • blog.jim-nielsen.com • r/programming
10
Ask HN: What will you do once you get old? • May 5, 2026 at 10:18 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
17
We're announcing Mikan: a proof assistant for cubical type theory, forked from the Agda codebase • May 5, 2026 at 10:15 AM • types.pl • Lobsters
17
Claudette – An open-source desktop companion for Claude Code • May 5, 2026 at 10:13 AM • utensils.io • Hacker News
760
Coinbase cuts 14% of workforce • May 5, 2026 at 10:08 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
837
AI didn't delete your database, you did • May 5, 2026 at 10:07 AM • idiallo.com • Hacker News
69
Simple Meta-Harness on Islo.dev • May 5, 2026 at 9:55 AM • zozo123.github.io • Hacker News
11
institutionally managed open source alternatives that don’t suck • May 5, 2026 at 9:55 AM • blog.sulimans.space • Bear
19
RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google • May 5, 2026 at 9:52 AM • shkspr.mobi • Hacker News
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Google, Microsoft and xAI agree to share early AI models with U.S. • May 5, 2026 at 9:51 AM • wsj.com • Hacker News
14
Bear Blog Carnival: I love my Cinnamon (Disc Golf) • May 5, 2026 at 9:49 AM • musings101.bearblog.dev • Bear
13
Show HN: Open-source CLI to generate UI tests from user flows • May 5, 2026 at 9:48 AM • resources.kusho.ai • Hacker News
160
RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google • May 5, 2026 at 9:46 AM • shkspr.mobi • Lobsters
22P
Trump spent nearly $2B of taxpayer money to undo wind projects underway • May 5, 2026 at 9:43 AM • fortune.com • Hacker News
7
Show HN: Octopus Code Review is now free for OSI-licensed repos • May 5, 2026 at 9:43 AM • octopus-review.ai • Hacker News
9
Waiting unitl all fonts and CSS have been loaded (and applied): best practice • May 5, 2026 at 9:36 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
334
THE AI PERCEPTION GAP: Across 71 scenarios, AI experts (N=119) and the public (N=1100) have differing views on the risks, benefits, and value of AI. More importantly, AI experts discount the influence of risks stronger than the public does when forming their value judgments. • May 5, 2026 at 9:35 AM • doi.org • r/science
44
Researchers identify new ways to boost nervous system repair in MS • May 5, 2026 at 9:32 AM • helsinki.fi • r/science
44
They Called It LISP For A Reason (2005) • May 5, 2026 at 9:28 AM • gigamonkeys.com • Hacker News
85
Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion • May 5, 2026 at 9:26 AM • flux.community • Hacker News
11
Show HN: ClankerView – AI agents browse your web app and give UX feedback • May 5, 2026 at 9:23 AM • clankerview.com • Hacker News
13
Small technical SEO habit that catches real problems before launch • May 5, 2026 at 9:07 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
45
Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python: Lock-less, Deadlock-free, Ownership-based • May 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM • microsoft.github.io • Lobsters
341
AI Product Graveyard • May 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM • tooldirectory.ai • Hacker News
218
Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader • May 5, 2026 at 8:56 AM • github.com/crosspoint-reader • Hacker News
25
NASA just released 12k more pictures from Artemis II mission • May 5, 2026 at 8:49 AM • eol.jsc.nasa.gov • Hacker News
17
Figma Builds In-House Redis Proxy to Hit Six Nines Uptime • May 5, 2026 at 8:46 AM • infoq.com • r/programming
118
Why didn’t IPv6 work in my home network? • May 5, 2026 at 8:46 AM • gowtham.dev • Lobsters
414
Scientists have identified a protective brain pathway that may help slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease by strengthening the brain’s own dopamine‑producing neurons, but the positive effect was only observed in females • May 5, 2026 at 8:43 AM • stories.tamu.edu • r/science
11
Tell HN: Archive.ph Is Gone • May 5, 2026 at 8:42 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
9509
Egg consumption is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease for those 65 years and older. Eating one egg per day for at least five days a week reduces risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 27%, researchers found. • May 5, 2026 at 8:39 AM • eurekalert.org • r/science
5
How not to format a private key (2025) • May 5, 2026 at 8:38 AM • keymaterial.net • Lobsters
9
Show HN: Furwall – macOS menu bar app that blocks keys when your cat sits down • May 5, 2026 at 8:38 AM • olliewagner.com • Hacker News
13
Tokens and Dreams • May 5, 2026 at 8:28 AM • charlesleifer.com • Lobsters
747
iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet • May 5, 2026 at 8:28 AM • walletwallet.alen.ro • Hacker News
62
claude code is not making your product better • May 5, 2026 at 8:27 AM • ethanding.substack.com • Lobsters
21
OpenCL 3.1 is Here • May 5, 2026 at 8:24 AM • khronos.org • r/programming
4
Astronomers release massive set of 'virtual universes' for global research • May 5, 2026 at 8:22 AM • phys.org • Hacker News
68
A bidirectional typechecking puzzle • May 5, 2026 at 8:21 AM • haskellforall.com • Lobsters
10
Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC • May 5, 2026 at 8:17 AM • leetusman.com • Lobsters
26
Show HN: Orch8 – Durable workflow engine in Rust, one binary, Postgres or SQLite • May 5, 2026 at 8:15 AM • github.com/orch8-io • Hacker News
122
Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak • May 5, 2026 at 8:14 AM • wordtrak.com • Hacker News
1258
Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% • May 5, 2026 at 8:10 AM • twitter.com/brian_armstrong • Hacker News
17
bearroll.dev - April Stats from Bear Blog trending • May 5, 2026 at 7:59 AM • blog.bearroll.dev • Bear
40
Rolling the Root Key • May 5, 2026 at 7:56 AM • blog.apnic.net • Hacker News
52
learning to talk about things i like • May 5, 2026 at 7:40 AM • woolgathering.bearblog.dev • Bear
13
OpenCL 3.1 Released To Bolster AI & HPC Workloads • May 5, 2026 at 7:35 AM • phoronix.com • r/programming
44
A Caddy Cert Expired Because systemd-resolved Was Selectively Broken • May 5, 2026 at 7:32 AM • rant.mvh.dev • Lobsters
140
A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings • May 5, 2026 at 7:31 AM • ivanpleshkov.dev • Hacker News
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Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US Military • May 5, 2026 at 7:15 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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Sustained reduction in abdominal fat preserves cognitive function. Research found that even when weight loss is modest, sustained reductions in visceral fat – as measured across the entire period – are associated with preservation of brain structure and a slower rate of atrophy. • May 5, 2026 at 7:07 AM • eurekalert.org • r/science
5
Hashful storage. Store your whole file in the URL hash • May 5, 2026 at 7:04 AM • 0x1.pt • r/programming
19
Should I delete my Amazon account? • May 5, 2026 at 7:01 AM • chupacabra.bearblog.dev • Bear
43
How Microplastics Are Likely Helping To Heat Up the Planet • May 5, 2026 at 7:00 AM • news.slashdot.org • Slashdot
2
Rolling the root key • May 5, 2026 at 6:56 AM • blog.apnic.net • Lobsters
9
HELPPP!!!! Site down after SSL renewal "Too many redirects" loop and I'm stumped. • May 5, 2026 at 6:52 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
105
What’s the one non-dev tool that actually made you a better developer? • May 5, 2026 at 6:49 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
5
Chinese solar exports double in a month to hit record high amid energy crisis • May 5, 2026 at 6:41 AM • ember-energy.org • Hacker News
3
Intel Inside the Micro Revolution: 8008 Origins • May 5, 2026 at 6:35 AM • thechipletter.substack.com • Hacker News
38
Par, a session-typed language with automatic concurrency, and no panics or deadlocks • May 5, 2026 at 6:28 AM • par.run • r/programming
30
Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026? • May 5, 2026 at 6:23 AM • distr.sh • r/programming
91
Mid-Holocene retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet indicated by subglacial methane release • May 5, 2026 at 6:16 AM • nature.com • r/science
40
Nobody Reviews Compiler Output • May 5, 2026 at 6:05 AM • skiplabs.io • Hacker News
35
Breastfeeding may give babies early practice in self-control, longitudinal study suggests. The findings provide evidence that the act of breastfeeding gives babies early, regular practice at recognizing when they are full. • May 5, 2026 at 6:05 AM • psypost.org • r/science
23
Show HN: Got tired of paying $100/mo for SEO tools, so I built an alternative • May 5, 2026 at 5:57 AM • idiotproofseo.com • Hacker News
84
Are we starting to trust AI-generated code a bit too much? • May 5, 2026 at 5:47 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
62
Popular DAEMON Tools software infected – supply chain attack ongoing since April 8, 2026 • May 5, 2026 at 5:38 AM • securelist.com • r/programming
7
What to do before quantum computers break today's encryption (Cloudflare) • May 5, 2026 at 5:31 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
653
When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing • May 5, 2026 at 5:30 AM • robert-glaser.de • Hacker News
10
Post-Quantum VPN Based on QUIC • May 5, 2026 at 5:20 AM • github.com/quincy-rs • Lobsters
21
Using Apache + HTTP/2? You might want to update • May 5, 2026 at 5:12 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
6
What I’m Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) • May 5, 2026 at 5:03 AM • margaretstorey.com • Lobsters
733
Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages · Issue #314311 · microsoft/vscode • May 5, 2026 at 4:56 AM • github.com/microsoft • r/programming
16P
China Opens Rocket Launches to International Satellites • May 5, 2026 at 4:56 AM • china-in-space.com • Hacker News
41
LinkedIn locks your GDPR rights behind a paywall • May 5, 2026 at 4:54 AM • noyb.eu • Hacker News
19
Are Installers Dead? • May 5, 2026 at 4:50 AM • exasol.com • Hacker News
13
minipgp6: A very lean interpretation of modern OpenPGP • May 5, 2026 at 4:48 AM • codeberg.org • Lobsters
3
Twenty Years of Stacking Commits • May 5, 2026 at 4:47 AM • julien.danjou.info • Lobsters
61
Paradoxical thinking and attitudes toward prostitution: preliminary experimental findings • May 5, 2026 at 4:46 AM • tandfonline.com • r/science
13
Harvard doctor believes we've been getting cholesterol all wrong • May 5, 2026 at 4:29 AM • telegraph.co.uk • Hacker News
23
Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there? • May 5, 2026 at 4:28 AM • arstechnica.com • ~design
38
Oasis Linux • May 5, 2026 at 4:13 AM • git.sr.ht • Hacker News
60
Why you can't allocate a human-readable ID before the record exists • May 5, 2026 at 4:13 AM • simoninglis.com • r/programming
76
The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells • May 5, 2026 at 4:09 AM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
11
PGKeeper: Building the bouncer we needed for Postgres • May 5, 2026 at 3:57 AM • figma.com • Hacker News
460
Retraction Note: Nature retracts meta-analysis that claimed ChatGPT had a positive impact on learning • May 5, 2026 at 3:44 AM • nature.com • r/science
69
How do you handle the gap between how you test and how real users actually behave? • May 5, 2026 at 3:36 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
2879
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent • May 5, 2026 at 3:34 AM • thatprivacyguy.com • Hacker News
39
Show HN: Brainio – Markdown notepad that turns notes into visual mind maps • May 5, 2026 at 3:28 AM • brainio.com • Hacker News
58
The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls • May 5, 2026 at 3:26 AM • sethmlarson.dev • Hacker News
702
Async Rust never left the MVP state • May 5, 2026 at 3:26 AM • tweedegolf.nl • Hacker News
13
Germany's solar installations drop while new battery storage hits record • May 5, 2026 at 3:10 AM • cleanenergywire.org • Hacker News
48
Do you play knock-offs of celebrated indie games? • May 5, 2026 at 3:08 AM • tildes.net • ~games
288
Bun is being rewritten to Rust • May 5, 2026 at 3:08 AM • github.com/oven-sh • r/programming
502
Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? • May 5, 2026 at 3:05 AM • dbreunig.com • Hacker News
31
Astronomers May Have Detected an Atmosphere Around a Tiny, Icy World Past Pluto • May 5, 2026 at 3:00 AM • apnews.com • science.slashdot
689
Switch favicon based on color scheme • May 5, 2026 at 2:59 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
26
A complete Llama2 inference engine that fits in 1356 bytes of x86 assembly • May 5, 2026 at 2:53 AM • github.com/rdmsr • Hacker News
28
MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble • May 5, 2026 at 2:44 AM • jdhodges.com • Lobsters
5
Suspected hantavirus outbreak traps 150 on ship off Cape Verde • May 5, 2026 at 2:39 AM • reuters.com • Hacker News
169
When is localStorage actually the right choice? • May 5, 2026 at 2:38 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
21
Notification Schedules Are Your Responsibility • May 5, 2026 at 2:18 AM • next.kennyqin.com • Bear
12
A man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared • May 5, 2026 at 2:17 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
141
How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? • May 5, 2026 at 2:14 AM • devblogs.microsoft.com • Hacker News
278
Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story • May 5, 2026 at 2:09 AM • stripe.dev • r/programming
29
Amazon rolls out Claude Code and Codex internally • May 5, 2026 at 2:09 AM • businessinsider.com • Hacker News
15
Inexpressibility in Exp-Minus-Log (EML) • May 5, 2026 at 2:05 AM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
5
Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to 'raw sewage' • May 5, 2026 at 2:01 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
20
things inside other things • May 5, 2026 at 2:01 AM • garnet.bearblog.dev • Bear
17P
Norwegian fish farms are filling fjords and other coastal waters with nutrient pollution equivalent to the raw sewage of tens of millions of people each year, a report has found • May 5, 2026 at 1:59 AM • theguardian.com • ~enviro
20
Quick life update • May 5, 2026 at 1:55 AM • silvers.bearblog.dev • Bear
4
Show HN: SongShift, an advanced, AI-powered song conversion service • May 5, 2026 at 1:38 AM • songshift.reachnick.co • Hacker News
6
Show HN: Retroguard – Verifiably secure AI guardrails • May 5, 2026 at 1:28 AM • retroguard.ai • Hacker News
9
Wolfgang Koeppen's Structural Musicality • May 5, 2026 at 1:13 AM • theparisreview.org • Hacker News
15
Why Does a Single Firefox Tab Take Almost 1.5GB RAM? • May 5, 2026 at 1:06 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
9
Inexpressibility in Exp-Minus-Log • May 5, 2026 at 12:57 AM • arxiv.org • Lobsters
10
Ask HN: Why would we care about "extended time horizons" and LLMs? • May 5, 2026 at 12:48 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
15
OpenAI can't build working RSS feeds • May 5, 2026 at 12:40 AM • openai.com • Hacker News
427
Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache • May 5, 2026 at 12:36 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
593
Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold • May 5, 2026 at 12:33 AM • walzr.com • Hacker News
109
2-D Mathematical Curves • May 5, 2026 at 12:27 AM • 2dcurves.com • Hacker News
518
Train Your Own LLM from Scratch • May 5, 2026 at 12:09 AM • github.com/angelos-p • Hacker News
269
Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025) • May 5, 2026 at 12:02 AM • sethmlarson.dev • Hacker News
14
Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer Source Code for Command and Lunar Module • May 5, 2026 at 12:00 AM • github.com/chrislgarry • Hacker News
7
Microsoft Lead: "AI Will Never Replace Coders, Here's Why" [video] • May 4, 2026 at 11:54 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
326
CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers • May 4, 2026 at 11:43 PM • dragonsreach.it • Hacker News
167P
OpenAI President Discloses His Stake In the Company Is Worth $30 Billion • May 4, 2026 at 11:30 PM • apnews.com • yro.slashdot
11
Fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender • May 4, 2026 at 11:28 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
38
Apple Explores Using Intel and Samsung to Build Main Device Chips in the US • May 4, 2026 at 11:22 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
36
Ask HN: Best Embedding Models? • May 4, 2026 at 11:15 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
15
Musk Settles SEC Suit for Underpaying Twitter Investors by $150M for Just $1.5M • May 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM • law.com • Hacker News
14
Meta, TikTok Recv Personal Data from Health Exchanges Alarming Privacy Experts • May 4, 2026 at 11:04 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
16
An LLM agent that runs on any Linux box • May 4, 2026 at 11:00 PM • getclaw.site • Hacker News
435
New manufacturing process used to develop lead-free perovskite indoor solar panels with 16.36% power conversion efficiency • May 4, 2026 at 10:58 PM • aibn.uq.edu.au • r/science
32
Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026? • May 4, 2026 at 10:45 PM • lucasaguiar.xyz • Hacker News
14P
Becoming even more of a Hater • May 4, 2026 at 10:39 PM • pseudosingleton.com • Bear
91P
Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting • May 4, 2026 at 10:22 PM • pulitzer.org • Hacker News
15
Why AI Agents Need Proof Chains, Not Just Logs • May 4, 2026 at 10:17 PM • github.com/rodriguezaa22ar-boop • Hacker News
362
What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) • May 4, 2026 at 10:08 PM • margaretstorey.com • Hacker News
124
Bun (the js runtime) is being vibe-ported from zig to rust • May 4, 2026 at 10:07 PM • github.com/oven-sh • Lobsters
51
Learning how to Email • May 4, 2026 at 10:04 PM • kadennewton.com • Bear
230
The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars • May 4, 2026 at 10:01 PM • nobodyaskedforthis.lol • Hacker News
39
Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks • May 4, 2026 at 9:53 PM • independent.co.uk • Hacker News
54
Tildes Minecraft Weekly • May 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM • tildes.net • ~games
13
Show HN: A tiny C program where an LLM rewires its DAG while running • May 4, 2026 at 9:43 PM • github.com/kouhxp • Hacker News
101
Do you prefer chunky or smooth peanut butter? • May 4, 2026 at 9:39 PM • tildes.net • ~food
31
Woman's Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court • May 4, 2026 at 9:29 PM • proofnews.org • Hacker News
5
Valve just imported 50 tons of game consoles in two days • May 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM • theverge.com • Hacker News
7
Emergency brakes: How to limit temps long before last resort of geoengineering • May 4, 2026 at 9:09 PM • thebulletin.org • Hacker News
1242
Zig → Rust porting guide • May 4, 2026 at 9:08 PM • github.com/oven-sh • Hacker News
10
Following the Text Gradient at Scale (2025) • May 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM • ai.stanford.edu • Hacker News
98
What's your dream job? • May 4, 2026 at 8:34 PM • tildes.net • ~life
11
Show HN: Kanban-CLI – a web UI for local Markdown todo lists • May 4, 2026 at 8:28 PM • github.com/Vochsel • Hacker News
17
Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case with Ariel OS • May 4, 2026 at 8:21 PM • arxiv.org • Lobsters
8
Peter Thiel backs $1B ocean data centre startup powered by waves • May 4, 2026 at 8:09 PM • ft.com • Hacker News
445
Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?) • May 4, 2026 at 8:09 PM • daringfireball.net • Hacker News
24
Show HN: I built a native macOS audio player and it changed my life • May 4, 2026 at 8:06 PM • github.com/chrisallick • Hacker News
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A little comparison between R and Kap • May 4, 2026 at 7:57 PM • blog.dhsdevelopments.com • Lobsters
5
Show HN: Yames – A distraction-free desktop metronome built with Rust and Tauri • May 4, 2026 at 7:49 PM • turutupa.github.io • Hacker News
4P
Austria expels three Russian embassy staff after 'forest of antennae' discovered • May 4, 2026 at 7:49 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
9
AOL killed the early internet on a single day in September 1993 • May 4, 2026 at 7:48 PM • twitter.com/GeniusGTX • Hacker News
41
Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs • May 4, 2026 at 7:47 PM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
3
Metalenz Has Figured Out a Way to Make Face ID Invisible • May 4, 2026 at 7:36 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
5P
America's retail army came to rule the stock market • May 4, 2026 at 7:32 PM • ft.com • Hacker News
35
Any good resources to connect developers who want to showcase their skills and charities or other places that could use web resources? • May 4, 2026 at 7:30 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
57
cheapest way to host multiple backend sites for my portfolio • May 4, 2026 at 7:26 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
9P
The Open Social Web Needs Section 230 to Survive • May 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM • techdirt.com • Hacker News
126P
White House Considers Vetting AI Models Before They Are Released • May 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM • yro.slashdot.org • yro.slashdot
8
The case against OpenAI is getting markedly stronger • May 4, 2026 at 6:59 PM • twitter.com/garymarcus • Hacker News
26
Ask HN: Where are you getting your AI news from? • May 4, 2026 at 6:55 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
17
SprintiQ – open-source sprint planning for Claude Code • May 4, 2026 at 6:52 PM • github.com/SprintiQ-Incorporated • Hacker News
44
Peace out Apple • May 4, 2026 at 6:46 PM • project72.bearblog.dev • Bear
37
I migrated a 40-year-old Clipper ERP. The orphan invoice rows weren't a bug. • May 4, 2026 at 6:37 PM • asktheledger.com • r/programming
8
Show HN: Node-Vmm – Linux MicroVMs in Pure Node.js for Mac/Windows/Linux in ~1s • May 4, 2026 at 6:37 PM • github.com/misaelzapata • Hacker News
24
The best climate news all year • May 4, 2026 at 6:34 PM • youtube.com • ~enviro
7
Twitch donations IRL • May 4, 2026 at 6:21 PM • danangell.com • ~finance
60
Pizza Hut reinstating the BOOK IT! program • May 4, 2026 at 6:19 PM • bookitprogram.com • ~books
10
Shelley: Mobile-friendly, web-based, multi-modal, single-user coding agent • May 4, 2026 at 6:13 PM • github.com/boldsoftware • Hacker News
57
Bear Blog Carnival: Your favorite ____ in your niche hobby • May 4, 2026 at 6:13 PM • kami.bearblog.dev • Bear
22
Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got "Trendslop" in Return • May 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM • hbr.org • Hacker News
32
Show HN: I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents • May 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM • allbsides.com • Hacker News
22
New Zealand passes solar tipping point • May 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM • rnz.co.nz • Hacker News
79
OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill To Fund 'AI Literacy' In Schools • May 4, 2026 at 6:00 PM • 404media.co • Slashdot
28
What do we lose when AI does our work? • May 4, 2026 at 5:57 PM • rickyyean.com • Hacker News
45
Apple confirms iOS 26.5 Messages app adds RCS end-to-end encryption • May 4, 2026 at 5:46 PM • 9to5mac.com • Hacker News
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Agent Skills • May 4, 2026 at 5:40 PM • addyosmani.com • Hacker News
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Dads are dying after their kids are born, and no one is tracking it. New study of paternal mortality data in Georgia finds majority of deaths were potentially preventable, such as homicide, accidental injury, suicide. While maternal deaths are closely tracked, paternal mortality is rarely examined. • May 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM • news.northwestern.edu • r/science
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Cannabis is the most commonly microdosed substance in the U.S., with about 9.4% of adults — roughly 24 million people — reporting lifetime use. Cannabis microdosing was nearly twice as common as psilocybin, LSD or MDMA. Microdosing was more common among people reporting poorer mental health. • May 4, 2026 at 5:30 PM • today.ucsd.edu • r/science
9
Warren Buffett Warns That Prediction Markets Are 'Gambling,' Not Investing • May 4, 2026 at 5:30 PM • thenewstribune.com • Hacker News
4
Exploring the behavior of a strung computational Stradivarius violin • May 4, 2026 at 5:28 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
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Canadian election databases use "canary traps"–and they work • May 4, 2026 at 5:26 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
387P
'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level • May 4, 2026 at 5:25 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
58
Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit • May 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM • garrido.io • Lobsters
86
Welcome to Gas City • May 4, 2026 at 5:19 PM • steve-yegge.medium.com • Hacker News
130
Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026 • May 4, 2026 at 5:14 PM • pulitzer.org • Hacker News
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Pentagon Delays Put 150 Wind Projects on Ice as Trump Targets Wind Power • May 4, 2026 at 5:05 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
12
Ask HN: Can't follow "don't use HN for promotion" due to my lifestyle: OK or no? • May 4, 2026 at 5:03 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
36
The Pixel 11 Could Be the Next Victim of the RAM Shortage • May 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM • theverge.com • Slashdot
112P
When networking doesn't work • May 4, 2026 at 4:56 PM • os2museum.com • Hacker News
14
Ask HN: When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system? • May 4, 2026 at 4:54 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
8
More than 100 people remain on ship where suspected hantavirus has killed 3 • May 4, 2026 at 4:51 PM • cnn.com • Hacker News
5
Unable to create a Plaid account • May 4, 2026 at 4:49 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
11
Ask HN: Are employers getting the returns from AI? • May 4, 2026 at 4:45 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
8
Valencia and a Sledgehammer (MinnMax spotlight on a new game from Deconstructeam) • May 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM • youtube.com • ~games
285
Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004) • May 4, 2026 at 4:28 PM • ticalc.org • Hacker News
261
I did not vibe code a small algorithm, it felt refreshing • May 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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In Defense of Normal • May 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM • bluemountain.bearblog.dev • Bear
10P
From private to public repo • May 4, 2026 at 4:18 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
16
Your Dinner Got Worse On Purpose • May 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM • worseonpurpose.com • Hacker News
5P
Russian satellites over Ukraine: where and when they fly over • May 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM • texty.org.ua • Hacker News
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Chinese Government Got the Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled • May 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
24
Tips for "refinishing" a D pad? • May 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM • tildes.net • ~games
316
Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight • May 4, 2026 at 4:11 PM • stripe.dev • Hacker News
4
Show HN: NeuralScript – A pure-Rust AOT compiler • May 4, 2026 at 4:06 PM • github.com/bwiemz • Hacker News
70
Transformers Are Inherently Succinct (2025) • May 4, 2026 at 4:03 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
26
Game Boy Advance Dev: Link Cable Networking • May 4, 2026 at 4:03 PM • mattgreer.dev • Hacker News
29
Expanded AMD HDMI 2.1 Support Is Coming To Linux • May 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM • gamingonlinux.com • Slashdot
366P
Investing in wind and solar provides several times more climate and health benefits per dollar than Direct Air Capture (DAC). A new peer-reviewed study warns that grid-connected DAC can even increase local air pollution unless the grid is fully clean. • May 4, 2026 at 3:59 PM • nature.com • r/science
9P
"Open" doesn't mean anything nowadays • May 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM • lr0.org • Lobsters
26P
Germany's far-left war on infrastructure • May 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM • politico.eu • Hacker News
30P
5 years of social media history required to enter the US • May 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
7
How LLMs Distort Our Written Language • May 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM • sites.google.com • Hacker News
649
How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale • May 4, 2026 at 3:42 PM • openai.com • Hacker News
50
Nondeterminism's not the problem • May 4, 2026 at 3:38 PM • isaacvando.com • Lobsters
11P
FCC votes to ban all Chinese labs from certifying electronics sold in the US • May 4, 2026 at 3:34 PM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
4
SCI Companion – An IDE for Sierra SCI Games • May 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM • scicompanion.com • Hacker News
25
CATL says sodium batteries are mainstream-ready, signs 60 GWh deal • May 4, 2026 at 3:29 PM • electrek.co • Hacker News
38
Tell HN: The saddest irony of my/our craft • May 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
167
Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2 • May 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM • unsung.aresluna.org • Hacker News
9
Show HN: Agent-evals – Claude skill to build your own evals • May 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM • github.com/fsilavong • Hacker News
47
Stop building rainbow AI slop • May 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM • aleksei.dev • Bear
70
Google is discontinuing its free web search index for developers • May 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM • heise.de • Hacker News
14
The state of ARM64 on Windows in 2026 • May 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM • ssg.dev • Hacker News
19
slow down, you're going too fast • May 4, 2026 at 3:25 PM • rnotte.art • Bear
4
Show HN: Genosyn – Run Autonomous Companies • May 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM • genosyn.com • Hacker News
102
'Staggering' number of people believe unproven health claims • May 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
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White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released • May 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
72
Security Advisory: Local privilege escalation in Lix and Nix • May 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM • discourse.nixos.org • Lobsters
8
Ways to Make Cold • May 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM • hackaday.com • Hacker News
69
Squarespace sold me a domain then threatened my account for owning it • May 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM • mattrb.com • r/webdev
6P
US Supreme Court temporarily restores access to mail-order abortion pills • May 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
145P
DHS demanded Google surrender data on a Canadian man over anti-ICE posts • May 4, 2026 at 3:06 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
2
One API for WhatsApp, SMS, and Email. SendAPI • May 4, 2026 at 3:01 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
67
The Audio Industry Is Grappling With the Rise of 'Podslop' • May 4, 2026 at 3:00 PM • slashdot.org • Slashdot
150
Does anyone actually enjoy writing YAML? • May 4, 2026 at 2:59 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
77
The Thinking Plant's Man (2025) • May 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM • sciencehistory.org • Hacker News
6
BlinkPi – Use your hardware the way you want • May 4, 2026 at 2:50 PM • github.com/OVR92 • Hacker News
28
Perturb-MARS: Reading mouse experiments through a human lens • May 4, 2026 at 2:44 PM • noetik.blog • Hacker News
13
uutils coreutils CVEs • May 4, 2026 at 2:41 PM • seclists.org • Lobsters
19
The proud painter • May 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM • robertbirming.com • Bear
4
Show HN: NoReporter – AI-only newsroom, $1/year • May 4, 2026 at 2:38 PM • noreporter.ai • Hacker News
322
"Bathtub Ring" is new evidence for an ancient ocean on Mars: « Caltech researchers have identified geological features on Mars that could point to the existence of a long-dried ocean that once covered a third of the Red Planet's surface. » • May 4, 2026 at 2:32 PM • caltech.edu • r/science
51
For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day. In 2026, the music is out of phase with the work. • May 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM • christophermeiklejohn.com • ~tech
35
Swatch Did What? (AI slop) • May 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM • musings101.bearblog.dev • Bear
15131P
Fox News viewership linked to belief in a racist conspiracy theory | White Americans who regularly get their political news from Fox News show much higher levels of support for the Great Replacement Theory than those who do not watch the network. • May 4, 2026 at 2:23 PM • psypost.org • r/science
867
Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused • May 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM • twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N • Hacker News
92
Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline • May 4, 2026 at 2:20 PM • geeksandgamers.com • Hacker News
87
Usage-based pricing killing your vibe, here's how to roll your own local AI • May 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM • theregister.com • Hacker News
318
Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp) • May 4, 2026 at 2:17 PM • chevrolet.com • Hacker News
6
OpenMythos: A theoretical reconstruction of the Claude Mythos architecture, built from first principles using the available research literature • May 4, 2026 at 2:11 PM • github.com/kyegomez • Lobsters
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Wizards of the Coast declines to voluntarily recognize Magic Arena union • May 4, 2026 at 2:11 PM • enworld.org • Hacker News
35
Small bowel GIST harboring concurrent KIT exon 9 duplication and SDHC mutation: A case report • May 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM • doi.org • r/science
88
Oasis Linux • May 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM • git.sr.ht • Lobsters
10P
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat • May 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
45
Release v0.9.0 · Foxboron/ssh-tpm-agent • May 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM • github.com/Foxboron • Lobsters
148P
Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC • May 4, 2026 at 2:04 PM • taipeitimes.com • Hacker News
9
Anthropic Nears $1.5 Billion AI Joint Venture With Wall Street Firms • May 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM • news.slashdot.org • Slashdot
51
Speedup in Lattice Boltzmann Cylinder Flow • May 4, 2026 at 1:57 PM • github.com/alikamp • Hacker News
6
Did the Yahoo News RSS feed go away, or is it just me? • May 4, 2026 at 1:55 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
210
The brain may use dopamine to bend time and shape memory • May 4, 2026 at 1:54 PM • nature.com • r/science
6
Dating App Sued for Targeting Men in Her Dormitory with Her Tiktoks • May 4, 2026 at 1:48 PM • cyberscoop.com • Hacker News
4
A thermodynamic trust layer cutting LLM hallucinations by 52% • May 4, 2026 at 1:46 PM • github.com/Dan23RR • Hacker News
322
Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability • May 4, 2026 at 1:46 PM • strix.ai • Hacker News
93
Steam Controller 2 sold out • May 4, 2026 at 1:43 PM • tildes.net • ~games
549
Days without GitHub incidents • May 4, 2026 at 1:36 PM • dayswithoutgithubincident.com • Hacker News
482
Heat pump sales rise across Europe • May 4, 2026 at 1:35 PM • pv-magazine.com • Hacker News
232
“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025) • May 4, 2026 at 1:33 PM • space.com • Hacker News
378
Let's talk about LLMs • May 4, 2026 at 1:29 PM • b-list.org • Hacker News
51P
Flock Holding Closed Police Conference, Requires Police Consent for Marketing • May 4, 2026 at 1:28 PM • ipvm.com • Hacker News
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A new study suggests that regularly drinking four cups of coffee a day could have a positive impact on mood and stress levels. • May 4, 2026 at 1:22 PM • medicalnewstoday.com • r/science
136P
Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts • May 4, 2026 at 1:21 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
58
📌 married for a year • May 4, 2026 at 1:19 PM • blog.avas.space • Bear
681P
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants • May 4, 2026 at 1:16 PM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
484P
Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to • May 4, 2026 at 1:10 PM • economist.com • Hacker News
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Denmark's ‘hands‑off’ approach to parenting could offer a blueprint for raising more resilient, self‑reliant kids • May 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM • theconversation.com • ~life
197
Current models predict that "slow rotator" galaxies should be rare in the early universe, but astronomers have discovered a galaxy at less than 2Gy after the Big Bang that is not rotating. It may have formed by the merger of two galaxies with nearly opposite angular momentum. • May 4, 2026 at 1:06 PM • ucdavis.edu • r/science
94
GameStop Offers to Buy eBay for $56 Billion • May 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM • cnbc.com • Slashdot
85
The Visible Zorker: Zork 3 • May 4, 2026 at 12:59 PM • eblong.com • Hacker News
2
travel time APU • May 4, 2026 at 12:49 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
17
Robot dogs with tech boss faces roam Berlin art exhibit • May 4, 2026 at 12:46 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
864
I am worried about Bun • May 4, 2026 at 12:45 PM • wwj.dev • Hacker News
23
Show HN: Muesli – If Granola and Wisprflow had an open source on device baby • May 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM • freedspeech.xyz • Hacker News
181
Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016) • May 4, 2026 at 12:39 PM • happydaze.se • Hacker News
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Trump administration cites national security to widen clampdown on wind farms • May 4, 2026 at 12:37 PM • telegraph.co.uk • Hacker News
231
OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools • May 4, 2026 at 12:21 PM • 404media.co • Hacker News
280
RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust • May 4, 2026 at 12:19 PM • ratex.lites.dev • Hacker News
31
Teeny-tiny Notes • May 4, 2026 at 12:16 PM • khoaly.xyz • Bear
51P
Losing Skills • May 4, 2026 at 12:14 PM • noahbogart.com • Lobsters
59
Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter • May 4, 2026 at 12:12 PM • theverge.com • Hacker News
19
OpenAI Finalizes $10B Joint Venture with PE Firms to Deploy AI • May 4, 2026 at 12:11 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
25
Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation? • May 4, 2026 at 12:07 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
34P
The Complexity of Simplicity • May 4, 2026 at 12:03 PM • m.youtube.com • r/programming
4
What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? • May 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM • tildes.net • ~food
59
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? • May 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM • tildes.net • ~games
11
Scientists Discover 27 Potential New Planets That Orbit Two Stars • May 4, 2026 at 12:00 PM • theguardian.com • science.slashdot
687
Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved • May 4, 2026 at 11:53 AM • githubstatus.com • Hacker News
33
Research paper suggests that sitting by a window gives a cognitive benefit • May 4, 2026 at 11:51 AM • sciencedirect.com • ~science
264
Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation • May 4, 2026 at 11:51 AM • sierra.ai • Hacker News
45
Comic Sans is Great and I'm Tired of Pretending It's Not • May 4, 2026 at 11:50 AM • blog.absurdpirate.com • Bear
217P
Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster • May 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM • globalnews.ca • Hacker News
16
Show HN: Bonsai 1.7B ternary model at 442T/s on M4 Max • May 4, 2026 at 11:47 AM • agents2agents.ai • Hacker News
11
Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers? • May 4, 2026 at 11:46 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Content for Content's Sake • May 4, 2026 at 11:46 AM • lucumr.pocoo.org • Hacker News