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What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting • May 6, 2026 at 11:41 AM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
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Some kids are bypassing age verification checks with a fake mustache • May 6, 2026 at 11:36 AM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
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Get a Degree in Software Engineering they Said… • May 6, 2026 at 11:33 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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Even the unconscious brain can learn - and predict what you’ll say next. Neuronal recordings of people under anesthesia show that their brains are processing words and sounds. • May 6, 2026 at 11:33 AM • nature.com • r/science
673
The Amazon tipping point is much closer than expected due to deforestation. A new study shows that with 25% forest loss, 1.5°C of warming could trigger a shift to savannah—a catastrophe that would otherwise only occur at 4°C of warming. • May 6, 2026 at 11:29 AM • nature.com • r/science
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Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated • May 6, 2026 at 11:24 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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FBI investigating leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Pate • May 6, 2026 at 11:24 AM • ms.now • Hacker News
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Am I Meant to Be Impressed? • May 6, 2026 at 11:21 AM • wheresyoured.at • Hacker News
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Our Continuation of MkDocs • May 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM • github.com/orgs • Hacker News
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America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy • May 6, 2026 at 11:17 AM • apnews.com • Hacker News
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We see something that works, and then we understand it • May 6, 2026 at 11:15 AM • lemire.me • Hacker News
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Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like • May 6, 2026 at 11:06 AM • simonwillison.net • Hacker News
28
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Ted Turner has died • May 6, 2026 at 10:56 AM • cnn.com • Hacker News
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Ted Turner, cable TV visionary who created CNN, dies at 87 • May 6, 2026 at 10:53 AM • washingtonpost.com • Hacker News
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World's first vaccine for Lyme disease could be available in 2027 • May 6, 2026 at 10:49 AM • refractor.io • ~science
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87
How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device • May 6, 2026 at 10:31 AM • zknill.io • Hacker News
21
Google Chrome silently installs 4 GB Gemini Nano AI model without consent • May 6, 2026 at 10:27 AM • alternativeto.net • Hacker News
116
Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade • May 6, 2026 at 10:24 AM • sfstandard.com • Hacker News
48
Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos • May 6, 2026 at 10:21 AM • lanl.gov • Hacker News
21
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Losing relationships over politics. Research found more than a third of Americans (37%) report having lost at least one relationship due to political differences, including friendships, family ties, coworker relationships, and romantic partnerships, with most losing more than one. • May 6, 2026 at 9:58 AM • socialecology.uci.edu • r/science
230
Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster • May 6, 2026 at 9:54 AM • 404media.co • Hacker News
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Open weights are quietly closing up - and that's a problem • May 6, 2026 at 9:47 AM • martinalderson.com • Lobsters
192
OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family • May 6, 2026 at 9:44 AM • mendelgreenberg.com • Hacker News
44
Simple and safe implicit async programming model for imperative (JS/Python-like) languages • May 6, 2026 at 9:31 AM • geleto.github.io • r/programming
33
The most successful piece of furniture ever made • May 6, 2026 at 9:29 AM • elliot.my • Bear
179P
OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury • May 6, 2026 at 9:25 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
289
I’m curious if “I’m curious” is the new em dash AI tell • May 6, 2026 at 9:10 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
33
Show HN: Adam – An embeddable cross-platform AI agent library • May 6, 2026 at 8:56 AM • github.com/sqliteai • Hacker News
66
How an HTTP header caused time.gov to skew from UTC • May 6, 2026 at 8:55 AM • alexsci.com • Lobsters
253
RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both • May 6, 2026 at 8:50 AM • gizmodo.com • Hacker News
47
Building the deployment tool I wish I had • May 6, 2026 at 8:49 AM • ruuda.nl • Hacker News
44
Peer Production License • May 6, 2026 at 8:48 AM • worker.informatics.coop • Lobsters
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Cranberry juice may boost UTI antibiotics. Researchers exposed lab-grown strains of pathogenic E coli to cranberry juice. Compounds in the juice re-sensitize resistant strains to antibiotic treatment. • May 6, 2026 at 8:46 AM • asm.org • r/science
806
Higher steroid use linked to higher depression, anxiety and impulsivity, according to a study on nearly 19,000 adults between 2022 and 2025 • May 6, 2026 at 8:43 AM • news.griffith.edu.au • r/science
432
Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered • May 6, 2026 at 8:27 AM • storica.club • Hacker News
42
I made a post here two years ago about starting my first SWE job, since then I've been promoted and have recently recieved a very exciting job offer • May 6, 2026 at 8:20 AM • tildes.net • ~tech
792
Activating analytical thinking does not appear to reduce a person’s religious beliefs. This finding provides evidence against the popular idea that leaning on logic directly diminishes faith. • May 6, 2026 at 8:05 AM • psypost.org • r/science
44
how to deal with feeling dehumanized? • May 6, 2026 at 8:04 AM • skuka.online • Bear
183P
White House App Is a Terrifying Security Mess • May 6, 2026 at 7:00 AM • androidheadlines.com • Slashdot
196
Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 • May 6, 2026 at 6:53 AM • catstret.ch • Hacker News
109
Building the deployment tool I wish I had • May 6, 2026 at 6:50 AM • ruuda.nl • Lobsters
927
Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions • May 6, 2026 at 6:28 AM • red-squares.cian.lol • Hacker News
28
Scroll-Driven Animations • May 6, 2026 at 6:15 AM • joshwcomeau.com • Lobsters
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NZ Government to Disestablish the BSA • May 6, 2026 at 5:57 AM • beehive.govt.nz • Hacker News
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Visualize Any Hugging Face Model • May 6, 2026 at 5:53 AM • hfviewer.com • Hacker News
112
Multi-stroke text effect in CSS • May 6, 2026 at 5:35 AM • yuanchuan.dev • Lobsters
39
044 - [check your pockets] • May 6, 2026 at 5:31 AM • puppie.bearblog.dev • Bear
24
The sea that is vanishing in real time • May 6, 2026 at 5:01 AM • dw.com • ~enviro
406
"Yesterday, your site was accessed from 486,109 different IP addresses" • May 6, 2026 at 4:32 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
91
Fedora is now the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself • May 6, 2026 at 4:27 AM • xda-developers.com • Hacker News
94
The Boring Internet • May 6, 2026 at 4:23 AM • terrygodier.com • Hacker News
29
Emacs Completion Showcase with VOMPECCC • May 6, 2026 at 4:18 AM • chiply.dev • Lobsters
123
How Programmers Spend Their Time | Probably Dance • May 6, 2026 at 4:09 AM • probablydance.com • r/programming
12
Lerd v1.19, local dev environment for PHP and any container, follow-up to launch post • May 6, 2026 at 3:59 AM • github.com/geodro • r/webdev
456
The vi family • May 6, 2026 at 3:51 AM • lpar.ath0.com • Hacker News
29
Ask HN: Who got hired with Who wants to be hired? (On 2026) • May 6, 2026 at 3:47 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
99
Mark Cuban: OpenAI Will Never Return the $1T It's Investing [video] • May 6, 2026 at 3:37 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
128
A Programmer's Guide to Leaving GitHub • May 6, 2026 at 3:21 AM • lord.io • r/programming
153
CO2 Levels In the Atmosphere Hit 'Depressing' New Record • May 6, 2026 at 3:00 AM • news.slashdot.org • Slashdot
52
Academics Need to Wake Up on AI • May 6, 2026 at 2:34 AM • popularbydesign.org • Hacker News
309
Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server • May 6, 2026 at 2:31 AM • draxinar.github.io • Hacker News
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Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school • May 6, 2026 at 2:29 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
55
iPhone dumbphone • May 6, 2026 at 2:19 AM • stopa.io • Lobsters
78
Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python • May 6, 2026 at 1:34 AM • microsoft.github.io • Hacker News
684
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158
Inventing Cyrillic (2024) • May 6, 2026 at 1:02 AM • historytoday.com • Hacker News
408
Multi-stroke text effect in CSS • May 6, 2026 at 12:43 AM • yuanchuan.dev • Hacker News
96
Google tools for customizing searches • May 6, 2026 at 12:40 AM • cardcatalogforlife.substack.com • Hacker News
35
"AccountDumpling": Hunting Down the Google-Sent Phishing Wave Compromising 30,000+ Facebook Accounts • May 6, 2026 at 12:34 AM • guard.io • r/programming
25
Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250M for not delivering AI Siri • May 6, 2026 at 12:28 AM • theverge.com • Hacker News
111
Pen pal programs endure in a digital age • May 6, 2026 at 12:10 AM • apnews.com • Hacker News
102
The soul of maintaining a new machine • May 6, 2026 at 12:01 AM • books.worksinprogress.co • Hacker News
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Performance trick: optimistic vs pessimistic checks • May 6, 2026 at 12:00 AM • lemire.me • r/programming
80
Go is FIPS 140-3 certified • May 5, 2026 at 11:42 PM • csrc.nist.gov • Lobsters
457
245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping • May 5, 2026 at 11:37 PM • investors.micron.com • Hacker News
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US data center land use issues are fake • May 5, 2026 at 11:36 PM • blog.andymasley.com • ~enviro
20
SubQ: Sub-Quadratic LLM • May 5, 2026 at 11:31 PM • subq.ai • Hacker News
44
Brockman Rebuts Musk's Take On Startup's History, Recounts Secret Work For Tesla • May 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM • cnbc.com • yro.slashdot
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Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me • May 5, 2026 at 11:24 PM • stripes.com • Hacker News
38
After a 40-year wait, technology enables three-sided zipper design • May 5, 2026 at 11:24 PM • techxplore.com • Hacker News
165
Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages • May 5, 2026 at 11:15 PM • github.com/microsoft • Hacker News
141
Principia Softwarica • May 5, 2026 at 11:14 PM • principia-softwarica.org • Lobsters
1022
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy • May 5, 2026 at 11:10 PM • blog.cloudflare.com • Hacker News
37
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a 'depressing' new record • May 5, 2026 at 10:57 PM • scientificamerican.com • Hacker News
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Why is southern Italy poorer than northern Italy? • May 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM • statsandsociety.substack.com • Hacker News
27
Defeating Works by Design's Unpickable Lock [video] • May 5, 2026 at 10:31 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
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Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize • May 5, 2026 at 10:22 PM • theguardian.com • ~tech
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
161P
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
38P
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
17938
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
47
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
31
Space Hauler | Announcement trailer • May 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM • youtube.com • ~games
177
What makes a good smartphone camera? • May 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM • cadence.moe • Hacker News
27
How to learn web game development • May 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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
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