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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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Where is ‘Figma for Web Developers’? • May 6, 2026 at 11:38 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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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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2026 California Billionaire Tax • May 6, 2026 at 11:20 AM • en.wikipedia.org • 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
307
We see something that works, and then we understand it • May 6, 2026 at 11:15 AM • lemire.me • Hacker News
11
Proton Mail now supports post-quantum encryption • May 6, 2026 at 11:07 AM • proton.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
B.C. residents baffled as shape floats through night sky • May 6, 2026 at 11:02 AM • cbc.ca • Hacker News
427
Years of chronic exposure of human skin to sunlight strongly disrupts its body‑clock rhythm • May 6, 2026 at 11:01 AM • manchester.ac.uk • r/science
10
Revisiting the 2015 Open Source Census • May 6, 2026 at 10:59 AM • nesbitt.io • Hacker News
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ReMarkable Releases a New Notepad • May 6, 2026 at 10:57 AM • theverge.com • Hacker News
534
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
13
Google Tag Gateway – Ad-Block Killer? • May 6, 2026 at 10:52 AM • developers.google.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
69
Floats Don't Agree with Themselves • May 6, 2026 at 10:48 AM • docs.merca.earth • Hacker News
6
AlphaFold database hits 'next level': the AI system now includes protein pairing • May 6, 2026 at 10:45 AM • nature.com • Hacker News
24
A Programmer's Guide to Leaving GitHub • May 6, 2026 at 10:32 AM • lord.io • r/programming
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
12
The next great software company won't sell software • May 6, 2026 at 10:12 AM • blog.layerx.xyz • Hacker News
21
Random tie knots (2014) • May 6, 2026 at 10:00 AM • tieknots.how • Hacker News
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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
68P
Open weights are quietly closing up - and that's a problem • May 6, 2026 at 9:47 AM • martinalderson.com • Lobsters
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OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family • May 6, 2026 at 9:44 AM • mendelgreenberg.com • Hacker News
19
Show HN: NFC tags are good material for pranks on Android • May 6, 2026 at 9:44 AM • mastodon.social • Hacker News
16
Accelerating the GraalVM Release Train • May 6, 2026 at 9:34 AM • medium.com/graalvm • 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
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Australia will run an overt command economy by 2040 • May 6, 2026 at 9:15 AM • caseyhandmer.wordpress.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: BattleClaws – A battle arena where AI agents fight autonomously • May 6, 2026 at 9:14 AM • battleclaws.ai • 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
27
Ask HN: How to start up as an individual developer? • May 6, 2026 at 8:37 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
273
Higher intake of total and saturated fats was associated with increased risks of several site-specific cancers, whereas polyunsaturated fats may have protective effects, umbrella review finds • May 6, 2026 at 8:31 AM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
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How the AP uncovered US big tech's role in China's digital police state • May 6, 2026 at 8:29 AM • apnews.com • Hacker News
8P
David Sacks, The Venture-Capital Populist • May 6, 2026 at 8:28 AM • theatlantic.com • Hacker News
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
5
Building Software in 2026 Early Results • May 6, 2026 at 8:08 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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
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China to Invest in DeepSeek at $50B Valuation • May 6, 2026 at 7:53 AM • wsj.com • Hacker News
7
The layoffs will continue till we learn to use AI • May 6, 2026 at 7:44 AM • twitter.com/championswimmer • Hacker News
26
Solod v0.1: Go ergonomics, practical stdlib, native C interop • May 6, 2026 at 7:39 AM • antonz.org • Lobsters
9
Platform Engineering End-to-End • May 6, 2026 at 7:19 AM • lucavall.in • r/programming
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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
47
Visualize Any Hugging Face Model • May 6, 2026 at 5:53 AM • hfviewer.com • Hacker News
21
[bearblog carnival] my favorite GDPR article • May 6, 2026 at 5:47 AM • blog.avas.space • Bear
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
8
Best software development companies in Europe right now? • May 6, 2026 at 5:23 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
6
Emacs Completion Showcase with VOMPECCC (video) • May 6, 2026 at 5:13 AM • chiply.dev • r/programming
24
The sea that is vanishing in real time • May 6, 2026 at 5:01 AM • dw.com • ~enviro
15
The AI operator: Biggest role in Silicon Valley • May 6, 2026 at 5:00 AM • rishgupta.com • Hacker News
220
Randomized controlled trial finds that a brief psychological intervention for people with probable personality disorder did not improve social functioning over 12 months compared with treatment-as-usual in a multicentre study conducted across England • May 6, 2026 at 4:59 AM • pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov • r/science
7
Choosing between Squarespace, Hostinger and WordPress for a sound design portfolio • May 6, 2026 at 4:48 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
29
Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (A Surprisingly Long Answer) • May 6, 2026 at 4:47 AM • newsletter.signoz.io • Hacker News
406
"Yesterday, your site was accessed from 486,109 different IP addresses" • May 6, 2026 at 4:32 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
16
You made me rich, thank you • May 6, 2026 at 4:29 AM • github.com/theori-io • Hacker News
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
10
The Deletion Test – The Phoenix Architecture • May 6, 2026 at 4:25 AM • aicoding.leaflet.pub • 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
18
Programming Is Real Engineering, And AI Proves It • May 6, 2026 at 4:13 AM • jerf.org • 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
18
A text editor as UI: implementation • May 6, 2026 at 3:54 AM • softwaremaniacs.org • Lobsters
456
The vi family • May 6, 2026 at 3:51 AM • lpar.ath0.com • Hacker News
13
I wrote a Jupyter kernel for a toy language to avoid rewriting my ML homework • May 6, 2026 at 3:48 AM • leavenha.github.io • r/programming
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
17
A new filesystem for pidfds (2024) • May 6, 2026 at 3:45 AM • lwn.net • Lobsters
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
10
Node.js 26.0.0 (Current) • May 6, 2026 at 3:11 AM • nodejs.org • Hacker News
153
CO2 Levels In the Atmosphere Hit 'Depressing' New Record • May 6, 2026 at 3:00 AM • news.slashdot.org • Slashdot
6
Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso • May 6, 2026 at 2:54 AM • mceglowski.substack.com • Hacker News
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
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RFK Jr. plans to curb antidepressants, which he falsely compares to heroin • May 6, 2026 at 2:18 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
11
Ask HN: Is the future everyone having 100 MCP processes running on their PC? • May 6, 2026 at 2:14 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
78
Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python • May 6, 2026 at 1:34 AM • microsoft.github.io • Hacker News
19
We're Not Building AI Features for the Money • May 6, 2026 at 1:21 AM • zed.dev • Lobsters
9
Generative UI Browser • May 6, 2026 at 1:19 AM • github.com/manupareekk • Hacker News
684
Knitting bullshit • May 6, 2026 at 1:13 AM • katedaviesdesigns.com • Hacker News
17
Detection of an atmosphere on a trans-Neptunian object beyond Pluto • May 6, 2026 at 1:07 AM • nature.com • Hacker News
158
Inventing Cyrillic (2024) • May 6, 2026 at 1:02 AM • historytoday.com • Hacker News
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The Trail of Jeremiah • May 6, 2026 at 1:01 AM • theamericanscholar.org • Hacker News
15
My Claude Code Setup: Pure CLI, Pure Unix, Zero IDE • May 6, 2026 at 1:00 AM • sindro.me • 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
59
Performance trick: optimistic vs pessimistic checks • May 6, 2026 at 12:00 AM • lemire.me • r/programming
23
Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it • May 5, 2026 at 11:43 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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
231
New PNAS Analysis (5/4/2026) 1.6 mil year old butchery site in Kenya shows early Homo had primary access to fleshed carcasses and systematically extracted marrow, with same pattern up to 2 mil years old. The authors argue intensive meat consumption established before Homo erectus appeared. • May 5, 2026 at 11:00 PM • doi.org • r/science
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
8
93k Layoffs in 2026 • May 5, 2026 at 10:53 PM • layoffs.fyi • Hacker News
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SEC moves to scrap quarterly reporting requirement • May 5, 2026 at 10:49 PM • ft.com • Hacker News
27
Defeating Works by Design's Unpickable Lock [video] • May 5, 2026 at 10:31 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
18P
Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize • May 5, 2026 at 10:22 PM • theguardian.com • ~tech
14
Depression Hates a Moving Target • May 5, 2026 at 10:20 PM • twitter.com/anishmoonka • 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
7
LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Enhances LLMs for Text Reasoning • May 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM • machinelearning.apple.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
15
Second backend language or going Full Stack? • May 5, 2026 at 8:07 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
37
The vi family • May 5, 2026 at 7:49 PM • lpar.ath0.com • Lobsters
2879
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
11
Show HN: Better Design – 28 Shadcn design systems (OSS, MCP: Cursor/Claude Code) • May 5, 2026 at 7:31 PM • github.com/marvkr • Hacker News
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
5
Learning analytics • May 5, 2026 at 7:17 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
7
An atmosphere around a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto • May 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
10P
AI Has America's Oldest Monopoly Problem – Part 1 • May 5, 2026 at 7:09 PM • easydays.substack.com • Hacker News
9
The Cult of Male Miata Drivers (2022) • May 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM • melmagazine.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
21P
The West's bubble of illusion about Israel and about itself is being burst • May 5, 2026 at 6:37 PM • middleeasteye.net • Hacker News
12
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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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Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize over Military AI Deals • May 5, 2026 at 6:16 PM • wired.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
45
Coinbase Lays Off Nearly 700 Workers In 'AI-Native' Restructuring • May 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM • slashdot.org • Slashdot
396P
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
30
Humble Choice - May 2026 • May 5, 2026 at 5:17 PM • tildes.net • ~games
6
Character.ai sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license • May 5, 2026 at 5:13 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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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
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13
The Camera-Shy Hoodie • May 5, 2026 at 5:03 PM • macpierce.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
8
Xbox winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop dev of Copilot on console • May 5, 2026 at 4:44 PM • twitter.com/asha_shar • Hacker News
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
17
X user tricks Grok into sending them $200k • May 5, 2026 at 4:39 PM • dexerto.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
16
Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack • May 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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
21
Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website • May 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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
32P
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
42P
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
6
PayPal plans 20% job cuts • May 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM • bloomberg.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
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The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape • May 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM • iopscience.iop.org • Hacker News
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Space Hauler | Announcement trailer • May 5, 2026 at 3:14 PM • youtube.com • ~games
8
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent • May 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM • thatprivacyguy.com • Lobsters
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What five years of data tells us about lasting relationships • May 5, 2026 at 3:05 PM • hanker.dating • Hacker News
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
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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
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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
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Trump Pressures FDA Commissioner to Approve Flavored Vapes • May 5, 2026 at 2:23 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
162
PySimpleGUI 6 • May 5, 2026 at 2:18 PM • github.com/PySimpleGUI • Hacker News
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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
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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
34
Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it • May 5, 2026 at 1:48 PM • theguardian.com • 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
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Eight vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia • May 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM • gavi.org • Hacker News
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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
25
any good alternative to trustpilot yet? • May 5, 2026 at 1:24 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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
50
Oscars Bans AI Actors and Writing From Awards • May 5, 2026 at 1:00 PM • entertainment.slashdot.org • Slashdot
8
Single dose of psylocibin can cause anatomical brain changes, study finds • May 5, 2026 at 12:59 PM • theguardian.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
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Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs • May 5, 2026 at 12:34 PM • reflex.dev • Hacker News
10
Show HN: Pathetic – Java pathfinding: 10k concurrent paths in ~7ms • May 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM • github.com/bsommerfeld • Hacker News
8
Detection of an atmosphere on a trans-Neptunian object beyond Pluto • May 5, 2026 at 12:22 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
207
‘Super Shoes’ Can Improve Running Performance but May Contribute to Injury • May 5, 2026 at 12:20 PM • massgeneralbrigham.org • r/science
14
Is it okay to use user-select: none on certain interface elements, such as navigation bars? Or does it conflict with accessibility? • May 5, 2026 at 12:19 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
1010
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters • May 5, 2026 at 12:14 PM • blog.google • Hacker News
9
Nassi–Shneiderman Diagram • May 5, 2026 at 12:13 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
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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
21
Pornhub to become accessible again for some UK users • May 5, 2026 at 11:59 AM • bbc.co.uk • Hacker News
24
i haven't talked about depression & my old self in a while • May 5, 2026 at 11:53 AM • tala.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Finding the differences in a series of power supplies • May 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM • lttlabs.com • Hacker News
17
When You Cannot Afford a New Macbook, Do This • May 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM • livingkindfully.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8 • May 5, 2026 at 11:49 AM • macrumors.com • Hacker News
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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
7
An exploitable integer overflow in Lix (CVE-2026-44028) • May 5, 2026 at 11:44 AM • lix.systems • Lobsters