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Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a 'depressing' new record • May 5, 2026 at 10:57 PM • scientificamerican.com • Hacker News
27
Defeating Works by Design's Unpickable Lock [video] • May 5, 2026 at 10:31 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
38
Game Changer: At Home Edition Kickstarter • May 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM • kickstarter.com • ~games
1057
StarFighter 16-Inch • May 5, 2026 at 10:03 PM • us.starlabs.systems • Hacker News
87
FFmpeg developer calls out OxideAV for AI license laundering of his code • May 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM • github.com/OxideAV • Hacker News
444
Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents • May 5, 2026 at 9:38 PM • letsdatascience.com • Hacker News
452
YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken • May 5, 2026 at 9:15 PM • openrss.org • Hacker News
133
Has anyone here successfully scaled a solo-built web app past the “toy project” stage? • May 5, 2026 at 9:10 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
97
What was the best job you ever had? • May 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM • tildes.net • ~life
50
Ask HN: The death of software development as a job? • May 5, 2026 at 8:42 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
37
The vi family • May 5, 2026 at 7:49 PM • lpar.ath0.com • Lobsters
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Microplastics in the atmosphere are now recognized as active climate forcing agents. A new study shows they exert a warming effect equivalent to 16% of black carbon, with regional impacts over the North Pacific nearly 5 times higher than soot. • May 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM • nature.com • r/science
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abandoning the algorithm • May 5, 2026 at 7:36 PM • mossbed.bearblog.dev • Bear
69
OpenTelemetry signals from first principles • May 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM • kodraus.github.io • r/programming
40
Human brain changes after first psilocybin use • May 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
150
Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership • May 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM • dexerto.com • Hacker News
47
Printing Blogs • May 5, 2026 at 6:41 PM • fi-le.net • Hacker News
56
Why Only Rich Kids Make It in Music Today • May 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say • May 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
148
SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice • May 5, 2026 at 6:02 PM • singleride.nyc • Hacker News
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NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address • May 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM • npr.org • Hacker News
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A website ranking judges by elo for the cases they dismiss in SF • May 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM • sfcrime.pages.dev • Hacker News
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Single dose of magic mushroom psychedelic can cause anatomical brain changes, study finds. Participants took 25mg of psilocybin, reporting deeper psychological insight and better wellbeing a month later. • May 5, 2026 at 5:36 PM • theguardian.com • r/science
689
A study that was cited hundreds of times as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted, in less than a year after being published. • May 5, 2026 at 5:35 PM • nature.com • r/science
22
Survey: Building Software in 2026 • May 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
640
Write some software, give it away for free • May 5, 2026 at 5:26 PM • nonogra.ph • Hacker News
72
krabby: making a fast Rust compiler • May 5, 2026 at 5:22 PM • bal-e.org • Lobsters
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The VCs of BC (2015) • May 5, 2026 at 5:10 PM • nytimes.com • ~humanities.history
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When teenage daughters use humor to talk about sex with their mothers, they tend to experience better sexual well-being. The same study suggests that when mothers use humor during these conversations, it can actually make daughters less willing to open up. • May 5, 2026 at 5:09 PM • psypost.org • r/science
379
Why most product tours get skipped • May 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM • productonboarding.com • Hacker News
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Google DeepMind Workers Vote To Unionize Over Military AI Deals • May 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM • tech.slashdot.org • Slashdot
96
Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm • May 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM • andonlabs.com • Hacker News
28
moving to notebooks • May 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM • analogwave.bearblog.dev • Bear
30
Let's not fool ourselves about AI taking jobs. It's humans, laying humans off • May 5, 2026 at 4:39 PM • circuitbored.com • Hacker News
126
Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens • May 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM • macrumors.com • Hacker News
33
StarFighter 16-inch • May 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM • us.starlabs.systems • Lobsters
13
Singleride.nyc: “Travel the longest route you can on the NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice.” • May 5, 2026 at 4:19 PM • singleride.nyc • ~creative
1153
DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved • May 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM • status.denic.de • Hacker News
976
Brain scans of 800 incarcerated men link psychopathy to an expanded cortical surface area • May 5, 2026 at 4:15 PM • psypost.org • r/science
54
Moving To Mainframe Can Be Cheaper Than Sticking With VMware • May 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM • theregister.com • Slashdot
31
Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/ac/ax/be/bn) • May 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM • wiisfi.com • Lobsters
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Google UK staff vote to unionise in protest against Israeli military contract • May 5, 2026 at 3:47 PM • telegraph.co.uk • Hacker News
299
A Theory of Deep Learning • May 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM • elonlit.com • Hacker News
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FDA Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Safe • May 5, 2026 at 3:32 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
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While the King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello from 1993 • May 5, 2026 at 3:32 PM • lowendbox.com • Hacker News
29
The Traveling Salesdog Problem • May 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM • wespiser.com • Hacker News
59
Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person • May 5, 2026 at 3:24 PM • popularwoodworking.com • Hacker News
47
The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape • May 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM • iopscience.iop.org • Hacker News
177
What makes a good smartphone camera? • May 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM • cadence.moe • Hacker News
124
The brave souls who bought a used, 340k-mile rental camper van • May 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM • thedrive.com • Hacker News
312
Looking for feedback on AI content in r/programming and the April no-AI trial • May 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM • reddit.com • r/programming
43
How do open source products survive, like how do they take care of operational cost?? • May 5, 2026 at 2:36 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
128
Are web devs more prone to procrastination? • May 5, 2026 at 2:31 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
162
PySimpleGUI 6 • May 5, 2026 at 2:18 PM • github.com/PySimpleGUI • Hacker News
825
California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy • May 5, 2026 at 2:13 PM • sfgate.com • Hacker News
297
Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks • May 5, 2026 at 2:13 PM • paletteinspiration.com • Hacker News
19
SubQ: Sub-quadratic LLM built for 12M-token context • May 5, 2026 at 2:06 PM • subq.ai • Hacker News
64
Ask HN: Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption? • May 5, 2026 at 2:04 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement • May 5, 2026 at 2:04 PM • variety.com • Hacker News
266
Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue • May 5, 2026 at 2:04 PM • notepad-plus-plus.org • Hacker News
66
US Government Warns of Severe CopyFail Bug Affecting Major Versions of Linux • May 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM • techcrunch.com • yro.slashdot
192
GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents • May 5, 2026 at 1:52 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
26
Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) with Gemma 4 • May 5, 2026 at 1:47 PM • newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com • ~comp
41
SLAM: s6/synit based NixOS • May 5, 2026 at 1:40 PM • worker.informatics.coop • Lobsters
69
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Quantum Cryptography (QC) • May 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM • nsa.gov • Hacker News
628
IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields • May 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM • devblogs.microsoft.com • Hacker News
131
Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC • May 5, 2026 at 1:18 PM • leetusman.com • Hacker News
101
Code coverage tells you what you didn't test — not whether your tests are good • May 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM • bubble.ro • r/programming
27
Kagi's Orion browser hits public beta on Linux • May 5, 2026 at 1:10 PM • omgubuntu.co.uk • Hacker News
40
Easy Random Trees • May 5, 2026 at 1:08 PM • blog.wilsonb.com • Hacker News
143
Why airlines are always going bankrupt • May 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM • davidoks.blog • Hacker News
106
GPT‑5.5 Instant • May 5, 2026 at 1:02 PM • openai.com • Hacker News
28
A dispute over the TAB key between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures • May 5, 2026 at 12:57 PM • devblogs.microsoft.com • Lobsters
37
Treat your coding agents like developers • May 5, 2026 at 12:46 PM • finbarr.site • Hacker News
122
Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers? • May 5, 2026 at 12:45 PM • infosec.exchange • Hacker News
24
Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives • May 5, 2026 at 12:40 PM • bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com • Lobsters
749
Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs • May 5, 2026 at 12:34 PM • reflex.dev • Hacker News
1010
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters • May 5, 2026 at 12:14 PM • blog.google • Hacker News
444
Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes • May 5, 2026 at 12:03 PM • smmt.co.uk • Hacker News
521
I'm scared about biological computing • May 5, 2026 at 12:03 PM • kuber.studio • Hacker News
27
Tildes Gardening Group: Week 3/5/26 • May 5, 2026 at 12:02 PM • tildes.net • ~hobbies
87
VS Code Update Added Copilot As Default Co-Author To Git Commits • May 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM • heise.de • Slashdot
24
i haven't talked about depression & my old self in a while • May 5, 2026 at 11:53 AM • tala.bearblog.dev • Bear
65
Finding the differences in a series of power supplies • May 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM • lttlabs.com • Hacker News
151
Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8 • May 5, 2026 at 11:49 AM • macrumors.com • Hacker News
420
EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] • May 5, 2026 at 11:47 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
21
SubQ – a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence • May 5, 2026 at 11:44 AM • twitter.com/alex_whedon • Hacker News
888
Three Inverse Laws of AI • May 5, 2026 at 11:27 AM • susam.net • Hacker News
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
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
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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
589
The fun has been optimized out of the Internet • May 5, 2026 at 10:29 AM • muddy.jprs.me • Hacker News
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
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
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
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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
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RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google • May 5, 2026 at 9:46 AM • shkspr.mobi • Lobsters
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Trump spent nearly $2B of taxpayer money to undo wind projects underway • May 5, 2026 at 9:43 AM • fortune.com • Hacker News
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
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
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
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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
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
68
A bidirectional typechecking puzzle • May 5, 2026 at 8:21 AM • haskellforall.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
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
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
1895
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
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
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
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
653
When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing • May 5, 2026 at 5:30 AM • robert-glaser.de • Hacker News
21
Using Apache + HTTP/2? You might want to update • May 5, 2026 at 5:12 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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
41
LinkedIn locks your GDPR rights behind a paywall • May 5, 2026 at 4:54 AM • noyb.eu • 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
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
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
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
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
20
things inside other things • May 5, 2026 at 2:01 AM • garnet.bearblog.dev • Bear
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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
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
326
CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers • May 4, 2026 at 11:43 PM • dragonsreach.it • Hacker News
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OpenAI President Discloses His Stake In the Company Is Worth $30 Billion • May 4, 2026 at 11:30 PM • apnews.com • yro.slashdot
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