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A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro • May 8, 2026 at 10:41 PM • gowers.wordpress.com • Hacker News
19
Teaching Claude why • May 8, 2026 at 9:38 PM • anthropic.com • ~comp
70
Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy • May 8, 2026 at 8:57 PM • pietschsoft.com • Hacker News
260
Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria • May 8, 2026 at 8:42 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
322
People Hate AI Art • May 8, 2026 at 8:39 PM • mccue.dev • Hacker News
48
I've been blocking social media on the weekends. • May 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM • sameoldstory.co • Bear
32
Archive.today Reverts to Monero-Only Donations • May 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM • archive.fo • Hacker News
1055
Study finds multiple PFAS, the man-made ‘forever chemicals’, in 98.5% of Americans across more than 10,500 blood samples examined, and 98.8% had at least one PFAS in their blood. Some of them are linked to serious complications, including cancer, infertility, high cholesterol, and weakened immunity. • May 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM • eurekalert.org • r/science
44
Di.gg AI preview • May 8, 2026 at 8:20 PM • di.gg • ~tech
10671
Caffeine alters the human brain’s electrical braking system: Consuming an amount of caffeine equivalent to two cups of coffee enhances the brain’s ability to temporarily quiet its own motor signals in response to sensory input. • May 8, 2026 at 7:59 PM • psypost.org • r/science
21P
The FCC Wants Your ID Before You Get a Phone Number • May 8, 2026 at 7:49 PM • reclaimthenet.org • Hacker News
102P
The Tax of Living in a Low-Trust Society: How Collapsed Trust Costs You • May 8, 2026 at 7:46 PM • yourbrainonmoney.substack.com • Hacker News
31
U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops • May 8, 2026 at 7:45 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
13
Which speech-to-text API do you recommend? • May 8, 2026 at 7:38 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
145
Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests • May 8, 2026 at 7:37 PM • nhtsa.gov • Hacker News
46
Show HN: CADara – I made an open-source in-browser CAD • May 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM • cadara.app • Hacker News
24
RISC-V Server Platform Spec Ratified • May 8, 2026 at 7:16 PM • github.com/riscv-non-isa • Hacker News
18
Jetro – JSON query engine for Rust (jq-like DSL with compilation and VM) • May 8, 2026 at 7:12 PM • github.com/mitghi • Hacker News
15
New anti-tank round punches through high-tech explosive armor • May 8, 2026 at 7:06 PM • newatlas.com • Hacker News
85
Does Fidelity's Reorganization Signal the Beginning of the End for 'Small-Team Agile'? • May 8, 2026 at 7:00 PM • bostonglobe.com • Slashdot
145
Dirty Frag: Yet Another Universal Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Active Since 2017, Unaffected By "Copy Fail" Mitigations • May 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM • wiz.io • r/programming
5
Stuff Your Earbuds hosted by RomanceAudiobookworms.com on May 8th and 9th • May 8, 2026 at 6:48 PM • romanceaudiobookworms.com • ~books
90
The Boston library where you still can borrow a giant puppet • May 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM • binj.news • Hacker News
38
The Moth Story Map • May 8, 2026 at 6:30 PM • themoth.org • Hacker News
45
GrapheneOS isn't vulnerable to the 3 recent Linux memory logic vulnerabilities • May 8, 2026 at 6:23 PM • discuss.grapheneos.org • Hacker News
28
How we made Notion available offline • May 8, 2026 at 6:19 PM • notion.com • r/webdev
81P
Judge rules DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional • May 8, 2026 at 6:06 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
38
Compound drivers of Antarctic sea ice loss and Southern Ocean destratification • May 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM • science.org • Hacker News
69
Micron Ships Gigantic 245TB SSD • May 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM • nerds.xyz • Slashdot
46
One month of Bear • May 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM • puppynet.work • Bear
549
Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging • May 8, 2026 at 5:47 PM • pcmag.com • Hacker News
17
ASML to invest $1.5B in Mistral at over $11B valuation • May 8, 2026 at 5:45 PM • calcalistech.com • Hacker News
40
AWS data center outage hits trading on Fanduel, Coinbase • May 8, 2026 at 5:37 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
234
When life gives you lemons, write better error messages • May 8, 2026 at 5:31 PM • wix-ux.com • Hacker News
30
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies • May 8, 2026 at 5:29 PM • ifanyonebuildsit.com • Hacker News
62
Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs • May 8, 2026 at 5:23 PM • flox.dev • Hacker News
18
Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE • May 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM • github.com/V4bel • Hacker News
57
I learned something about GPUs today • May 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM • foon.uk • Lobsters
20
Internet Archive Switzerland: Expanding a Global Mission to Preserve Knowledge • May 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM • blog.archive.org • Hacker News
21
Behind the scenes hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview • May 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM • hacks.mozilla.org • ~comp
87
When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions • May 8, 2026 at 4:18 PM • 0xkrt26.github.io • Hacker News
56
Classification of amino acids • May 8, 2026 at 4:07 PM • khanacademy.org • Hacker News
24
jank now has its own custom IR • May 8, 2026 at 4:01 PM • jank-lang.org • Lobsters
22
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures • May 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM • jefftk.com • ~comp
254
Mozilla: Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox • May 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM • hacks.mozilla.org • r/programming
22
Let's Encrypt Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident • May 8, 2026 at 3:54 PM • letsencrypt.status.io • Lobsters
147
Discord Incident – Resolved • May 8, 2026 at 3:52 PM • discordstatus.com • Hacker News
92
the dumbphone idea is nothing but an idea • May 8, 2026 at 3:48 PM • blog.sulimans.space • Bear
52
is old stuff better? • May 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM • rnotte.art • Bear
234
Let’s Encrypt: Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident – Resolved • May 8, 2026 at 3:45 PM • letsencrypt.status.io • Hacker News
199
Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video] • May 8, 2026 at 3:45 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
49
Roadside Attraction • May 8, 2026 at 3:43 PM • theoffingmag.com • Hacker News
351
You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) • May 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM • ze3tar.github.io • Hacker News
6368
From your exp. do you work less, more or evenly after using AI? • May 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
231P
Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years • May 8, 2026 at 3:36 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
47
How long would a society comprised of video game protagonists survive? • May 8, 2026 at 3:36 PM • tildes.net • ~games
81
My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem • May 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM • blog.pavementlink.ch • Hacker News
196
Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service • May 8, 2026 at 3:19 PM • probablydance.com • Hacker News
53
NixOS and Secrets • May 8, 2026 at 3:13 PM • isabelroses.com • Lobsters
32
I designed Microsoft's EA channel in 2001. It's being dismantled in 2026 • May 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM • brendanoconnor.net • Hacker News
83
Pentagon Begins Releasing New Files On UFOs • May 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM • apnews.com • yro.slashdot
237
What we lost the last time code got cheap • May 8, 2026 at 2:53 PM • poppastring.com • Hacker News
795
Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house • May 8, 2026 at 2:51 PM • abc7chicago.com • Hacker News
2137
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users • May 8, 2026 at 2:45 PM • reclaimthenet.org • Hacker News
25
Korea Surpasses Canada as Seventh-Largest Stock Market • May 8, 2026 at 2:36 PM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
28
Ice Cream Blending (1965) [pdf] • May 8, 2026 at 2:21 PM • bitsavers.org • Hacker News
46
STEM is not "more autistic" than the humanities • May 8, 2026 at 2:16 PM • manateeswake.bearblog.dev • Bear
219
The unconscious brain may still process sound, learn patterns, and predict words under anesthesia: « Learn how researchers recorded neurons responding to stories and predicting words while patients remained unconscious during surgery. » • May 8, 2026 at 2:06 PM • discovermagazine.com • r/science
411
Teaching Claude Why • May 8, 2026 at 1:59 PM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
595
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures • May 8, 2026 at 1:55 PM • jefftk.com • Hacker News
53P
The Case for Hope • May 8, 2026 at 1:55 PM • notesonliving.bearblog.dev • Bear
27
Meta Is Dying. It's About Time • May 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
20
Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running entirely in RAM • May 8, 2026 at 1:37 PM • btxx.org • ~comp
371
Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal • May 8, 2026 at 1:25 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
115P
Court to DOGE: Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' Is Not Proper Legal Process • May 8, 2026 at 1:14 PM • techdirt.com • Hacker News
170
How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022) • May 8, 2026 at 1:06 PM • stroustrup.com • Hacker News
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Men objectify women more when sexually aroused, regardless of their underlying personality traits. This shift happens independently of a man’s general personality traits, providing evidence that momentary biological states play a central role in how people perceive others • May 8, 2026 at 1:02 PM • psypost.org • r/science
70
AI Hard Drive Shortage Makes Archiving the Internet Harder • May 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM • 404media.co • Slashdot
267
The React2Shell Story • May 8, 2026 at 12:39 PM • lachlan.nz • Hacker News
220
AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs • May 8, 2026 at 12:34 PM • duarteocarmo.com • Hacker News
21
no-cache does not disable caching • May 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM • temich.net • r/webdev
544
Cartoon Network Flash Games • May 8, 2026 at 12:29 PM • webdesignmuseum.org • Hacker News
19P
Banks are funding climate chaos. You don't have to • May 8, 2026 at 12:27 PM • not-ship.com • Hacker News
153
Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+? • May 8, 2026 at 12:21 PM • sigops.org • Hacker News
83
Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB • May 8, 2026 at 12:17 PM • getadb.com • Hacker News
3P
US Government UFO document release • May 8, 2026 at 12:14 PM • defense.gov • ~misc
76
I didn't think I could get addicted to weed • May 8, 2026 at 12:11 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
146
Chrome Silently Installs a 4GB AI Model On Your Device Without Consent • May 8, 2026 at 12:00 PM • thatprivacyguy.com • Slashdot
41
What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap • May 8, 2026 at 11:55 AM • poppastring.com • Lobsters
139
Your Onboarding Is a Hazing Ritual and You Call It Agile • May 8, 2026 at 11:51 AM • dhung.dev • r/programming
158
Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes • May 8, 2026 at 11:46 AM • databricks.com • Hacker News
9
I made VideoFlow, an open source library to render videos programmatically (alternative to Remotion) • May 8, 2026 at 11:16 AM • videoflow.dev • r/webdev
47
Railway solar project turns unused track space into energy • May 8, 2026 at 11:16 AM • groupe-sncf.com • ~enviro
23
Hallucinations Undermine Trust; Metacognition Is a Way Forward • May 8, 2026 at 11:16 AM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
1089
Bjarne Stroustrup: How do I deal with memory leaks? By writing code that doesn't have any. • May 8, 2026 at 11:15 AM • stroustrup.com • r/programming
344
Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM • May 8, 2026 at 11:10 AM • btxx.org • Hacker News
3
What did you do this week (and weekend)? • May 8, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~talk
36P
In Blow to Democrats, Virginia Court Strikes Down House Map • May 8, 2026 at 10:48 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
25
When semiconductor materials misbehave • May 8, 2026 at 10:43 AM • semiengineering.com • Hacker News
18
Four stable kernels with partial fixes for Dirty Frag • May 8, 2026 at 10:18 AM • lwn.net • Hacker News
191
Show HN: Git for AI Agents • May 8, 2026 at 10:15 AM • github.com/regent-vcs • Hacker News
215
PC Engine CPU • May 8, 2026 at 10:14 AM • jsgroth.dev • Hacker News
25
The `Sync` bound nobody asked for • May 8, 2026 at 10:12 AM • verrchu.github.io • Lobsters
478
Tiny parasitic wasp named after David Attenborough for his 100th birthday. Scientists from the Natural History Museum in London have paid tribute to the world-renowned broadcaster for his 100th birthday on 8 May by describing a new genus of parasitic wasp, Attenboroughnculus tau. • May 8, 2026 at 10:06 AM • theguardian.com • r/science
100P
Scams That We Just Accept • May 8, 2026 at 10:05 AM • blog.absurdpirate.com • Bear
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How couples divide household chores is linked to women’s sexual desire, but it depends on personal beliefs about gender roles. Women who prefer equal partnerships tend to experience lower sexual desire when they take on more of the housework, while those who embrace traditional gender roles do not. • May 8, 2026 at 10:02 AM • psypost.org • r/science
485
Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off • May 8, 2026 at 9:58 AM • theverge.com • Hacker News
1049P
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged • May 8, 2026 at 9:56 AM • privatecaptcha.com • Hacker News
91P
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged • May 8, 2026 at 9:42 AM • privatecaptcha.com • r/programming
415
Just Use Go • May 8, 2026 at 9:40 AM • blainsmith.com • Hacker News
177
Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning • May 8, 2026 at 9:39 AM • imtomt.github.io • Hacker News
161
Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit • May 8, 2026 at 9:22 AM • garrido.io • Hacker News
21P
Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters • May 8, 2026 at 9:19 AM • war.gov • Hacker News
60
A rant about TV shows • May 8, 2026 at 9:19 AM • migrainebrain.bearblog.dev • Bear
69P
Holding Community Space • May 8, 2026 at 9:15 AM • supernuclear.substack.com • Hacker News
4654
A major European clinical consensus confirms that ultra-processed foods (UPFs) increase the risk of cardiovascular death by up to 65%. Experts are now calling on doctors to treat food processing as a standalone risk factor, separate from nutrient profiles. • May 8, 2026 at 9:14 AM • academic.oup.com • r/science
36
Human typing habits and token counts • May 8, 2026 at 9:12 AM • pankajpipada.com • Hacker News
64P
UFO Release 1: Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters • May 8, 2026 at 9:06 AM • war.gov • Hacker News
146
The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025) • May 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM • acesounderglass.com • Hacker News
35
Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running Entirely in RAM • May 8, 2026 at 8:55 AM • btxx.org • Lobsters
894
A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking • May 8, 2026 at 8:37 AM • sinceyouarrived.world • Hacker News
16
IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power • May 8, 2026 at 8:34 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
1905P
Poland is now among the 20 largest economies • May 8, 2026 at 8:30 AM • apnews.com • Hacker News
7332
For the first time in the history of mankind, men are less fertile than women, according to a new international study. The shift has occurred at different times around the world and is a result of the growing share of men in the population • May 8, 2026 at 8:24 AM • uio.no • r/science
17
Render Accessibility • May 8, 2026 at 8:21 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
147
Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads • May 8, 2026 at 8:20 AM • neowin.net • Hacker News
858P
US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos • May 8, 2026 at 8:10 AM • war.gov • Hacker News
1046
David Attenborough's 100th Birthday • May 8, 2026 at 8:03 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
489
Just Fucking Use Go • May 8, 2026 at 7:58 AM • blainsmith.com • Lobsters
11
how do you structure webhook state when payment events arrive late or out of order? • May 8, 2026 at 7:47 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
351
Anybody else skipping agents in their workflow? • May 8, 2026 at 7:35 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
212
Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider • May 8, 2026 at 7:26 AM • joachimschipper.nl • Hacker News
701
An Introduction to Meshtastic • May 8, 2026 at 7:22 AM • meshtastic.org • Hacker News
115
Eight More '8-Bit Era' Microprocessors • May 8, 2026 at 7:21 AM • thechipletter.substack.com • Hacker News
361
Feeling regret. Your feelings may mellow as you age. Although older and younger adults report a similar number of long-term regrets, older adults experience less anger and frustration when they think about those mistakes and missed chances. • May 8, 2026 at 7:10 AM • apa.org • r/science
3405
A new Columbia University School of Nursing AI-assisted audit reveals nearly 3,000 peer-reviewed medical papers have fake citations that do not exist in scientific databases. The results highlight an alarming trend in academic publishing as the use of AI grows • May 8, 2026 at 7:04 AM • eurekalert.org • r/science
24
Wii IP6 webserver • May 8, 2026 at 7:01 AM • wii.sjmulder.nl • Lobsters
97
First Segment of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel Is In Place • May 8, 2026 at 7:00 AM • heise.de • Slashdot
65
Stop MITM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider • May 8, 2026 at 6:26 AM • joachimschipper.nl • Lobsters
252
New Study: AI’s Carbon Footprint Could Rival Entire Countries • May 8, 2026 at 6:19 AM • azocleantech.com • r/science
108
I'm building a fully functioning retro desktop environment for my social network Cyberspace • May 8, 2026 at 5:56 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
143
People underestimate how much trust a fast website creates • May 8, 2026 at 5:29 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
43
building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning • May 8, 2026 at 5:01 AM • imtomt.github.io • Lobsters
65
What are you doing this weekend? • May 8, 2026 at 4:43 AM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
1165
Beign software developer doesn't make sense anymore • May 8, 2026 at 4:15 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
421
Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004) • May 8, 2026 at 4:00 AM • slate.com • Hacker News
822
Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... • May 8, 2026 at 3:57 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
245P
High-resolution (2.35 Å) structure of the Andes virus Gn-Gc glycoprotein tetramer reveals the molecular mechanism of viral entry and provides a blueprint for vaccine design (Cell, 2026) • May 8, 2026 at 3:53 AM • cell.com • r/science
482
I hate soldering • May 8, 2026 at 3:26 AM • user8.bearblog.dev • Hacker News
77
Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars • May 8, 2026 at 3:18 AM • github.com/phel-lang • Hacker News
67
Goldman Sachs flags Amazon and Alphabet for inflating S&P 500 earnings growth figures • May 8, 2026 at 3:09 AM • seekingalpha.com • ~finance
348
ClojureScript Gets Async/Await • May 8, 2026 at 3:04 AM • clojurescript.org • Hacker News
121
QBE – Compiler Back End • May 8, 2026 at 3:00 AM • c9x.me • Hacker News
470
Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2 • May 8, 2026 at 2:56 AM • nintendo.co.jp • Hacker News
91
Nintendo raises prices for Switch, Switch 2 and NSO • May 8, 2026 at 2:43 AM • nintendo.co.jp • ~games
32
blaise: A modern, self-hosting Object Pascal compiler built for the 2020s. Zero legacy, full ARC, and unified UTF-8 • May 8, 2026 at 1:54 AM • github.com/graemeg • Lobsters
73
HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker • May 8, 2026 at 1:24 AM • hantawatch.net • Hacker News
147
How we made Notion available offline • May 8, 2026 at 1:07 AM • notion.com • r/programming
209
dBase: 1979-2026 • May 8, 2026 at 1:00 AM • delphinightmares.substack.com • Hacker News
53
How to decide api url structure? • May 8, 2026 at 12:55 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
155
Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE • May 8, 2026 at 12:44 AM • github.com/graemeg • Hacker News
15
From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth • May 8, 2026 at 12:41 AM • blog.val.town • Lobsters
32
Agentic Engineering • May 8, 2026 at 12:27 AM • addyosmani.com • Hacker News
50
Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo • May 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM • github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork • Hacker News
130P
US will start revoking passports for parents who owe child support • May 7, 2026 at 11:52 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
66
Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation • May 7, 2026 at 11:51 PM • lwn.net • Hacker News
59P
Sam Altman Had a Bad Day In Court • May 7, 2026 at 11:50 PM • businessinsider.com • yro.slashdot
10
Has anyone tried mise + aube for Node/web projects? • May 7, 2026 at 11:45 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
270
Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer • May 7, 2026 at 11:43 PM • tautme.github.io • Hacker News
53P
Brainrot is killing the queer movement • May 7, 2026 at 11:38 PM • blog.bidisaster.party • Bear
51
Utah data center: Projected daily heat equivalent to 23 atomic bombs • May 7, 2026 at 11:37 PM • abc4.com • Hacker News
50P
New York state set to ban law enforcement, including ICE, from wearing masks • May 7, 2026 at 11:36 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
46
mass effect vs my gpa • May 7, 2026 at 11:36 PM • deadboarder.bearblog.dev • Bear
460
AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved • May 7, 2026 at 11:31 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
46
Canvas hack impacts university students and professors during finals week • May 7, 2026 at 11:05 PM • cnn.com • ~tech