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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth • May 6, 2026 at 2:01 PM • propublica.org • Hacker News
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) • May 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM • tildes.net • ~anime
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Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA • May 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM • cloud.google.com • Hacker News
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Microsoft's response to plain text passwords in Edge – it is an expected feature • May 6, 2026 at 1:57 PM • zdnet.com • Hacker News
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Mealy Machines, Moore Machines, and Why Event Sourcing Works • May 6, 2026 at 1:53 PM • kevinwebber.ca • Hacker News
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I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up • May 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM • evilgeniuslabs.ca • Hacker News
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My solution for a multi-column description list without breaking • May 6, 2026 at 1:46 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
16
Boosting multimodal inference performance by >10% with a single Python dict • May 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM • modal.com • Hacker News
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Doctors' growing AI deepfakes problem • May 6, 2026 at 1:40 PM • axios.com • Hacker News
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Ask HN: How do I get freelance developer jobs? • May 6, 2026 at 1:32 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer's Disease in Adventist Health Study-2 • May 6, 2026 at 1:23 PM • sciencedirect.com • Hacker News
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Going Full Time on Open Source • May 6, 2026 at 1:22 PM • jdx.dev • Hacker News
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From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth • May 6, 2026 at 1:19 PM • blog.val.town • Hacker News
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Judge: Nvidia's Shadow Library Scripts 'Have No Other Purpose' Than Infringement • May 6, 2026 at 1:14 PM • torrentfreak.com • Hacker News
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Chrome downloads a 4GB AI file without user consent, researcher alleges • May 6, 2026 at 1:14 PM • engadget.com • Hacker News
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SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags • May 6, 2026 at 1:13 PM • yibo-fu.com • Hacker News
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A meta-analysis of 3 million people confirms a strong bidirectional link between cannabis use and depression. 31% of those with cannabis use disorder also suffer from major depression, with rates nearly 3x higher in psychiatric clinics than in the community. • May 6, 2026 at 1:11 PM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
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Show HN: DoodleMate: Animate Your Child's Hand Drawings Without Generative AI • May 6, 2026 at 1:06 PM • doodlemate.com • Hacker News
27
EVE Online developer CCP Games has rebranded to Fenris Creations following its split from former parent company Pearl Abyss • May 6, 2026 at 1:05 PM • gematsu.com • ~games
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The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962 • May 6, 2026 at 1:00 PM • righto.com • Hacker News
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Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement • May 6, 2026 at 1:00 PM • variety.com • yro.slashdot
174
Multi-stroke text effect in CSS • May 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM • yuanchuan.dev • r/programming
49
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like • May 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM • simonwillison.net • Lobsters
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Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens • May 6, 2026 at 12:54 PM • latimes.com • Hacker News
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PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons • May 6, 2026 at 12:42 PM • portalvr.io • Hacker News
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Life During Class Wartime • May 6, 2026 at 12:41 PM • tbray.org • Hacker News
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Show HN: Hallucinopedia • May 6, 2026 at 12:37 PM • halupedia.com • Hacker News
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Ask HN: Is anyone seriously considering a career change? • May 6, 2026 at 12:32 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Atlassian HipChat (2017) • May 6, 2026 at 12:31 PM • web.archive.org • Hacker News
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Mexico City is sinking so quickly, it can be seen from space • May 6, 2026 at 12:31 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
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SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1 • May 6, 2026 at 12:28 PM • twitter.com/xai • Hacker News
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Companies Will Stop Making Software • May 6, 2026 at 12:27 PM • thegeneralpartnership.substack.com • Hacker News
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Let others know you blog • May 6, 2026 at 12:27 PM • robertbirming.com • Bear
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the freedom of writing anonymously • May 6, 2026 at 12:25 PM • receipts.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Reviewing in the Age of AI • May 6, 2026 at 12:24 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008) • May 6, 2026 at 12:21 PM • theamericanscholar.org • Hacker News
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To Smartphone or Not to Smartphone • May 6, 2026 at 12:21 PM • blog.absurdpirate.com • Bear
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Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer • May 6, 2026 at 12:20 PM • play.templatical.com • Hacker News
2260
Appearing productive in the workplace • May 6, 2026 at 12:18 PM • nooneshappy.com • Hacker News
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Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX • May 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
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DNA matches identify four more sailors from the doomed Franklin expedition including one found 80 miles away from his ship. In 1846 after two years out at sea, the ships became trapped in the ice near King William Island, and the crew eventually were forced to set out on foot. • May 6, 2026 at 12:14 PM • uwaterloo.ca • r/science
68
Anyone have experience with payment processors other than Stripe? • May 6, 2026 at 12:14 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview claimed he was a sex offender • May 6, 2026 at 12:12 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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HOEDOWN is here! • May 6, 2026 at 12:11 PM • streetlightcadence.com • Bear
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Israel's AI targeting system: How data from a phone become a death sentence • May 6, 2026 at 12:07 PM • latimes.com • Hacker News
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The Original Super Mario 64 Is Now Playable On GBA • May 6, 2026 at 12:06 PM • retrododo.com • Lobsters
505
Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) • May 6, 2026 at 12:01 PM • wiisfi.com • Hacker News
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on? • May 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM • tildes.net • ~comp
57
Silicon Valley Bets $200 Million On AI Data Centers Floating In the Ocean • May 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM • arstechnica.com • Slashdot
336
Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem • May 6, 2026 at 11:58 AM • tilde.run • Hacker News
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All means are fair except solving the problem • May 6, 2026 at 11:52 AM • yosefk.com • Hacker News
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How the heck do solar panels work? • May 6, 2026 at 11:49 AM • perthirtysix.com • Hacker News
10
Arguments parsing in Guile • May 6, 2026 at 11:48 AM • fishinthecalculator.me • Lobsters
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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license • May 6, 2026 at 11:44 AM • digitalfoundry.net • Hacker News
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TikTok's algorithm favored Republican content in 2024 US elections, study finds • May 6, 2026 at 11:42 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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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
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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
85
Study highlights how mitochondrial dysfunction drives neurodegeneration via impaired astrocytic glutamate clearance • May 6, 2026 at 11:13 AM • mdpi.com • r/science
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
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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
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Revisiting the 2015 Open Source Census • May 6, 2026 at 10:59 AM • nesbitt.io • 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
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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
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Floats Don't Agree with Themselves • May 6, 2026 at 10:48 AM • docs.merca.earth • Hacker News
24
A Programmer's Guide to Leaving GitHub • May 6, 2026 at 10:32 AM • lord.io • r/programming
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How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device • May 6, 2026 at 10:31 AM • zknill.io • Hacker News
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
52
New eye-tracking algorithm utilizing IR subtraction and K-means clustering doubled the accuracy of eye tracking, including for users with glasses, contact lenses, or glare caused by bright light. • May 6, 2026 at 4:48 AM • ieeexplore.ieee.org • r/science
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
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
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize • May 5, 2026 at 10:22 PM • theguardian.com • ~tech
14
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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
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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
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
7
An atmosphere around a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto • May 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
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AI Has America's Oldest Monopoly Problem – Part 1 • May 5, 2026 at 7:09 PM • easydays.substack.com • Hacker News
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The Cult of Male Miata Drivers (2022) • May 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM • melmagazine.com • Hacker News
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Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership • May 5, 2026 at 6:43 PM • dexerto.com • Hacker News
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Printing Blogs • May 5, 2026 at 6:41 PM • fi-le.net • Hacker News
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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
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.de TLD Issue Solved • May 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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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
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Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say • May 5, 2026 at 6:07 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
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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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Coinbase Lays Off Nearly 700 Workers In 'AI-Native' Restructuring • May 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM • slashdot.org • Slashdot
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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
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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
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Survey: Building Software in 2026 • May 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Write some software, give it away for free • May 5, 2026 at 5:26 PM • nonogra.ph • Hacker News
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krabby: making a fast Rust compiler • May 5, 2026 at 5:22 PM • bal-e.org • Lobsters
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Humble Choice - May 2026 • May 5, 2026 at 5:17 PM • tildes.net • ~games
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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
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Why most product tours get skipped • May 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM • productonboarding.com • Hacker News
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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
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Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm • May 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM • andonlabs.com • Hacker News
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moving to notebooks • May 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM • analogwave.bearblog.dev • Bear
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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
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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
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X user tricks Grok into sending them $200k • May 5, 2026 at 4:39 PM • dexerto.com • Hacker News
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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
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StarFighter 16-inch • May 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM • us.starlabs.systems • Lobsters
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Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack • May 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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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
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DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved • May 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM • status.denic.de • Hacker News
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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
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Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website • May 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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Moving To Mainframe Can Be Cheaper Than Sticking With VMware • May 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM • theregister.com • Slashdot
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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
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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
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The Traveling Salesdog Problem • May 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM • wespiser.com • Hacker News
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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
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Kids Bypass Age Verification With Fake Moustaches • May 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM • theregister.com • Slashdot
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What makes a good smartphone camera? • May 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM • cadence.moe • Hacker News
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks • May 5, 2026 at 2:13 PM • paletteinspiration.com • Hacker News
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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
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Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue • May 5, 2026 at 2:04 PM • notepad-plus-plus.org • Hacker News