81
SQL: Incorrect by Construction • May 12, 2026 at 1:56 PM • chreke.com • Hacker News
452
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol • May 12, 2026 at 1:54 PM • duckdb.org • Hacker News
1283
Death from interactions with polar bears is exceedingly rare, largely due to their remote and inhospitable territory, but also due to their nature. And that they are largely indifferent to humans and often demonstrate behaviour that is more curious than aggressive. • May 12, 2026 at 1:54 PM • doi.org • r/science
39
The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't • May 12, 2026 at 1:53 PM • jdhodges.com • Hacker News
114
Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim • May 12, 2026 at 1:52 PM • xbow.com • Hacker News
22
The Deathbed Notes of Henry James (1968) • May 12, 2026 at 1:44 PM • theatlantic.com • Hacker News
27
New Jersey residents say they can't even wash their clothes due to data centers • May 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM • thecooldown.com • Hacker News
463
Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era • May 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM • deepmind.google • Hacker News
2484
Googlebook • May 12, 2026 at 1:37 PM • googlebook.google • Hacker News
505P
Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare • May 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM • eff.org • Hacker News
24
FairyFuse: Multiplication-Free LLM Inference on CPUs via Fused Ternary Kernels • May 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
944
I built a world record exact solver for the minimum line cover of prime points after watching a Numberphile video. It turned the previous 282-hour record into 22 minutes, then kept going to prove 20 new awkward primes never certified before. • May 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM • prime-line-cover.vercel.app • r/programming
42
cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs the old ways • May 12, 2026 at 1:20 PM • vittorioromeo.com • r/programming
308
As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work • May 12, 2026 at 1:16 PM • nautil.us • Hacker News
147
Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL • May 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM • hypercubic.ai • Hacker News
39
Leak reveals Google's Aluminium OS with a 16-minute video • May 12, 2026 at 1:03 PM • androidauthority.com • Hacker News
398P
Trump Administration Cuts CDC’s Key Role in Global Program to Stop HIV • May 12, 2026 at 12:53 PM • science.org • r/science
164
Testing UPS Output Waveforms • May 12, 2026 at 12:50 PM • lttlabs.com • Hacker News
222
Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station • May 12, 2026 at 12:47 PM • openculture.com • Hacker News
71
What is BusyBox? • May 12, 2026 at 12:46 PM • specular.fi • Lobsters
64
Parents say ChatGPT got their son killed with bad advice on party drugs • May 12, 2026 at 12:39 PM • theverge.com • Hacker News
31
The tipping point: what happens when deaths outnumber births? • May 12, 2026 at 12:38 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
88
Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder • May 12, 2026 at 12:32 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
498
Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools • May 12, 2026 at 12:29 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
46P
Eliminating faith words • May 12, 2026 at 12:24 PM • skuth.us • Bear
19P
California Mayor Resigns, Admitting to Being an Agent for China • May 12, 2026 at 12:23 PM • time.com • Hacker News
45
Where Are All the Data Centers? • May 12, 2026 at 12:21 PM • wheresyoured.at • Hacker News
175
Redis and the Cost of Ambition • May 12, 2026 at 12:01 PM • charlesleifer.com • Lobsters
75P
FCC Says Foreign-Made Routers Can Get Updates Until 2029 • May 12, 2026 at 12:00 PM • darkreading.com • Slashdot
471
eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible • May 12, 2026 at 11:49 AM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
617
The Future of Obsidian Plugins • May 12, 2026 at 11:45 AM • obsidian.md • Hacker News
80
Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents • May 12, 2026 at 11:45 AM • voker.ai • Hacker News
204
Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined • May 12, 2026 at 11:30 AM • dynomight.net • Hacker News
122
A molecule with half-Möbius topology • May 12, 2026 at 11:28 AM • science.org • Hacker News
7307
Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come directly from the Earth’s mantle, a sign of a rupture in the tectonic plates and the possible beginning of a new continental boundary • May 12, 2026 at 11:27 AM • newscientist.com • r/science
34
Wrap Go binaries in Python wheels • May 12, 2026 at 11:23 AM • github.com/simonw • Hacker News
88
Show HN: Reducing LLM input tokens by 70% • May 12, 2026 at 11:18 AM • adola.app • Hacker News
504
Operation: Epic Furious • May 12, 2026 at 11:13 AM • epicfurious.com • Hacker News
38
Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation • May 12, 2026 at 11:12 AM • computerhistory.org • r/programming
1138
Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise • May 12, 2026 at 11:08 AM • nair.sh • Hacker News
99
Show HN: UIGen – Production UI from any API spec with full override control • May 12, 2026 at 11:07 AM • github.com/darula-hpp • Hacker News
25
Bare-metal STM32: vector table, linker script, and startup code from scratch • May 12, 2026 at 10:57 AM • lmilz.dev • Hacker News
1809
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract • May 12, 2026 at 10:54 AM • jeffgeerling.com • Hacker News
56
We should take hantavirus more seriously • May 12, 2026 at 10:49 AM • nytimes.com • ~health
158
Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract • May 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM • jeffgeerling.com • Lobsters
56
Graduated Community College • May 12, 2026 at 10:42 AM • blog.absurdpirate.com • Bear
1335
Every time the AIs hit a wall, we get these "maybe x quality shouldn't matter" started with code quality and fundamentals, remember the "you don't need to learn the fundamentals.."? • May 12, 2026 at 10:35 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
182
Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable • May 12, 2026 at 10:24 AM • github.com/statewright • Hacker News
3488
Earth’s upper atmosphere is cooling more than 10 times faster than natural rates. A new study reveals why: while CO₂ traps heat near Earth’s surface, it also makes the stratosphere radiate infrared energy into space more efficiently, creating a key fingerprint of human-caused climate change. • May 12, 2026 at 10:22 AM • nature.com • r/science
26
All the ways to mock your Rust code • May 12, 2026 at 10:17 AM • blog.appliedcomputing.io • Lobsters
219
Tanstack getting wrecked: Check if you're affected NOW • May 12, 2026 at 10:14 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
368
Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011) • May 12, 2026 at 10:14 AM • gynvael.coldwind.pl • Hacker News
24
Killing a `Cow` made my JSON formatter 42% faster • May 12, 2026 at 10:10 AM • jacobasper.com • Lobsters
72
Tom's Namespaces: An Odin Fanfic • May 12, 2026 at 10:02 AM • zylinski.se • r/programming
693P
US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war • May 12, 2026 at 9:51 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
217
Release of nanoplastic from polypropylene kettles - npj Emerging Contaminants • May 12, 2026 at 9:51 AM • doi.org • r/science
571
Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets • May 12, 2026 at 9:26 AM • blog.maximeheckel.com • Hacker News
65
How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory • May 12, 2026 at 9:11 AM • youtube.com • Lobsters
215
Gyroflow: Video stabilization using gyroscope data • May 12, 2026 at 9:11 AM • github.com/gyroflow • Hacker News
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ICE Agents Have List of 20M People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir • May 12, 2026 at 9:09 AM • 404media.co • Hacker News
26
AEPs: API Enhancement Proposals • May 12, 2026 at 8:58 AM • github.com/aep-dev • Hacker News
592
Mental defeat: the hidden experience fuelling daily suffering in chronic pain • May 12, 2026 at 8:46 AM • journals.lww.com • r/science
35
The Age of the Amplifier • May 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM • construction-physics.com • Hacker News
5
How is the tech community addressing the use of public/open-source data by large corporate models without an explicit "opt-in" or compensation model? • May 12, 2026 at 8:08 AM • opensource.com • r/programming
5194P
Threatening men’s masculinity does not make them more politically conservative, new study finds. By testing thousands of participants across the United States, researchers found no consistent evidence that making men feel insecure about their gender identity changes their political attitudes. • May 12, 2026 at 8:02 AM • psypost.org • r/science
120
Don't hijack my mouse pointer • May 12, 2026 at 8:00 AM • ruky.me • Hacker News
262
People who work at consultant firms, freelancers, do you get paid less and less job because now AI can code so clients think why do i need to pay so much like before? • May 12, 2026 at 7:48 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
234P
Houses are for living, not for speculation • May 12, 2026 at 7:20 AM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
19
Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic • May 12, 2026 at 7:04 AM • mullvad.net • Lobsters
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EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids • May 12, 2026 at 7:00 AM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
81
Arts and Cultural Engagement 'Linked To Slower Pace of Biological Aging' • May 12, 2026 at 7:00 AM • theguardian.com • science.slashdot
46
Learning Software Architecture • May 12, 2026 at 6:50 AM • matklad.github.io • Lobsters
294
Coursera and Udemy are now one company • May 12, 2026 at 6:37 AM • blog.coursera.org • Hacker News
175
A HN post with negative points – how? • May 12, 2026 at 6:29 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
15
Fuzzing fork of go toolchain • May 12, 2026 at 6:27 AM • blog.trailofbits.com • Lobsters
192
A higher BMI over time leads to more rapid declines in cognitive functions, memory, and executive functioning, which includes managing emotions, organizing, planning tasks, concentrating, and more. This is according to a study that followed 8,200 people over the age of 50 for 24 years • May 12, 2026 at 6:06 AM • news.uga.edu • r/science
183
Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production • May 12, 2026 at 5:49 AM • gagadget.com • Hacker News
19P
Unison In Anger • May 12, 2026 at 5:44 AM • blog.feld.me • Lobsters
716
Learning Software Architecture • May 12, 2026 at 5:30 AM • matklad.github.io • Hacker News
30P
EU Cloud Comparison Matrix • May 12, 2026 at 5:08 AM • eualternative.eu • Hacker News
111
HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver • May 12, 2026 at 5:01 AM • phoronix.com • Hacker News
17750
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), a condition affecting more than 170 million people worldwide, has been officially renamed Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS) following a landmark global consensus study published today in The Lancet. • May 12, 2026 at 5:00 AM • news.cuanschutz.edu • r/science
9
URLSession to Electrons: how networking works under the hood • May 12, 2026 at 5:00 AM • blog.jacobstechtavern.com • r/programming
108
national-park-service/fonts: US National Park Service inspired Open Source fonts • May 12, 2026 at 4:57 AM • github.com/national-park-service • r/webdev
49
Re: STEM is not "more autistic" than the humanities • May 12, 2026 at 4:53 AM • chilblands.bearblog.dev • Bear
105
Just published my first game • May 12, 2026 at 4:47 AM • tildes.net • ~games
107
Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows? • May 12, 2026 at 4:28 AM • arc.quanten.co • Hacker News
25
A Technical Guide to Compiling Emacs for Performance on Linux and Unix systems • May 12, 2026 at 4:23 AM • jamescherti.com • Lobsters
10
Abstract machines for logic programs • May 12, 2026 at 4:03 AM • chrisistyping.bearblog.dev • r/programming
28
Rob Pike: Tech industry losing its soul • May 12, 2026 at 4:01 AM • hachyderm.io • Hacker News
33
Can a Language Model Paint? • May 12, 2026 at 3:44 AM • etive-mor.com • Hacker News
289P
Toxicity on Social Media • May 12, 2026 at 3:31 AM • thenoisyroom.com • Hacker News
26
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Testifies In OpenAI Trial • May 12, 2026 at 3:00 AM • cnbc.com • yro.slashdot
62
The Problem of Pedagogy in Advanced Mathematics • May 12, 2026 at 2:43 AM • susam.net • Lobsters
27
Amazon staff use AI tool for unnecessary tasks to inflate usage scores • May 12, 2026 at 2:42 AM • ft.com • Hacker News
45
Kagi: Good Enough to Leave Google (search) • May 12, 2026 at 2:04 AM • jamesphilbrick.com • Bear
48
How and Why I Journal • May 12, 2026 at 1:48 AM • jan.miksovsky.com • Hacker News
1095
Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes • May 12, 2026 at 1:11 AM • typewritten.org • Hacker News
18
CSS & vertical rhythm for text, images, and tables • May 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM • vincent.bernat.ch • Lobsters
44
Google Search Is Down • May 12, 2026 at 12:59 AM • google.com • Hacker News
45
Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead • May 12, 2026 at 12:48 AM • macrumors.com • Hacker News
39
Notes from Optimizing CPU-Bound Go Hot Paths • May 12, 2026 at 12:46 AM • blog.andr2i.com • Hacker News
30P
US in closely-guarded talks to open new bases in Greenland • May 12, 2026 at 12:44 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
35P
Show HN: Doomscroll the Goverment's UFO Files as One Gigantic Microfilm • May 12, 2026 at 12:40 AM • hypergrid.systems • Hacker News
2119
Researchers map rogue breast cancer cells that divide remarkably slowly and can evade detection for decades, helping explain how breast cancer can return years after successful treatment • May 12, 2026 at 12:24 AM • unsw.edu.au • r/science
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Arcadia, CA, Mayor Federally Charged with Acting as Illegal Agent of PRC, Pleads • May 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM • justice.gov • Hacker News
262
Extremely Low Frequencies • May 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM • computer.rip • Hacker News
72
A Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons of Water Unnoticed • May 11, 2026 at 11:30 PM • politico.com • Slashdot
838
Mass npm Supply Chain Attack Hits TanStack, Mistral AI, and 170+ Packages • May 11, 2026 at 11:29 PM • safedep.io • r/programming
102
Productivity isn't about going faster • May 11, 2026 at 11:28 PM • humanpro.co • Hacker News
516
Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers • May 11, 2026 at 10:56 PM • insidehighered.com • Hacker News
47
Popular Go library fsnotify raises supply chain alarms after maintainer access changes • May 11, 2026 at 10:49 PM • socket.dev • Lobsters
86
New coworker has fully embraced AI. • May 11, 2026 at 10:38 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
85
The boy that cried Mythos • May 11, 2026 at 10:36 PM • flyingpenguin.com • ~comp
90
The PSP feels surprisingly present right now • May 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM • gardinerbryant.com • Hacker News
262
Software Internals Book Club • May 11, 2026 at 10:28 PM • eatonphil.com • Hacker News
88
Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot • May 11, 2026 at 10:22 PM • fireflysentinel.github.io • Hacker News
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Microsoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary over surveillance of Palestinians • May 11, 2026 at 10:18 PM • pcgamer.com • Hacker News
80P
A consistent pattern of lying': trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman • May 11, 2026 at 10:17 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
58
Client from hell story | Should I go over their head? • May 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
344
Heads up: fake "clients" on Dribbble/Upwork are sending GitHub repos that malware your machine on `npm install` • May 11, 2026 at 10:10 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
83
What’s something that didn’t work for you? • May 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM • tildes.net • ~talk
31
Dusk: an unofficial cross-platform release of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess • May 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM • twilitrealm.dev • ~games
314
Claude Platform on AWS • May 11, 2026 at 9:24 PM • claude.com • Hacker News
60
Extraordinary Ordinals • May 11, 2026 at 9:03 PM • text.marvinborner.de • Hacker News
749
They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker • May 11, 2026 at 8:37 PM • github.com/davmlaw • Hacker News
14
Byron Allen to buy BuzzFeed in $120 million deal, will take over as CEO • May 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM • hollywoodreporter.com • ~tech
136P
A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan • May 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM • freerange.city • Hacker News
155
GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills • May 11, 2026 at 7:33 PM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
184
No ai means no ai • May 11, 2026 at 7:19 PM • rlraymond.com • Bear
67
Rational Discussion • May 11, 2026 at 7:10 PM • tqs.bearblog.dev • Bear
211
Developer disappeared and I need advice. • May 11, 2026 at 6:57 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
69
A Caddy Cert Expired Because Systemd-Resolved Was Selectively Broken • May 11, 2026 at 6:35 PM • rant.mvh.dev • Hacker News
18
A strong El Niño may be coming. Global warming is changing its effects. • May 11, 2026 at 6:23 PM • nytimes.com • ~enviro
82P
Chinese website traffic • May 11, 2026 at 6:17 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
46
CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company • May 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM • wired.com • Slashdot
47
French woman was told by doctors hantavirus symptoms were just anxiety • May 11, 2026 at 5:57 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
109
Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS • May 11, 2026 at 5:35 PM • github.com/jameslockman • Hacker News
47
Through the looking glass of benchmark hacking • May 11, 2026 at 5:24 PM • poolside.ai • Hacker News
3286
The testosterone myth: Large analysis of 52 studies finds no link between the “macho” hormone and risk-taking. Furthermore, the lack of association did not depend on participants’ sex. • May 11, 2026 at 5:24 PM • psypost.org • r/science
1552
Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise • May 11, 2026 at 5:08 PM • tanstack.com • Hacker News
548
I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night • May 11, 2026 at 5:04 PM • martin.sh • Hacker News
63
Anthropic's Bug-Hunting Mythos Was Greatest Marketing Stunt Ever, Says cURL Creator • May 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM • it.slashdot.org • Slashdot
41
Native Instruments Is Bought Out • May 11, 2026 at 4:58 PM • the-berliner.com • Hacker News
73
Zig vs Rust in 2026 • May 11, 2026 at 4:54 PM • zackoverflow.dev • Lobsters
379
Interaction Models • May 11, 2026 at 4:53 PM • thinkingmachines.ai • Hacker News
1363
GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values • May 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM • about.gitlab.com • Hacker News
1874
If AI writes your code, why use Python? • May 11, 2026 at 4:45 PM • medium.com/@NMitchem • Hacker News
103
Fossils show millipede and centipede ancestors evolved legs underwater • May 11, 2026 at 4:39 PM • phys.org • Hacker News
75
Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video] • May 11, 2026 at 4:38 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
49
Show HN: E2a – Open-source email gateway for AI agents • May 11, 2026 at 4:26 PM • github.com/Mnexa-AI • Hacker News
136
Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity • May 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM • github.com/ab-613 • Hacker News
269P
590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped • May 11, 2026 at 4:19 PM • finance.yahoo.com • Hacker News
102
Linux Terminal Memory Usage • May 11, 2026 at 3:49 PM • gilesorr.com • Hacker News
87
The Tree House: A voyage to the source of a backyard dream • May 11, 2026 at 3:41 PM • laphamsquarterly.org • Hacker News
207
Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog • May 11, 2026 at 3:38 PM • hollywoodreporter.com • Hacker News
67
W – The European social network for verified humans • May 11, 2026 at 3:35 PM • wsocial.news • Hacker News
199
Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory • May 11, 2026 at 3:33 PM • github.com/mamba-studio • Hacker News
39
Golden Testing a CAD Library • May 11, 2026 at 3:12 PM • doscienceto.it • Hacker News
69
Serious question about senior devs… • May 11, 2026 at 3:03 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
45
London's Smallest Public Sculptures • May 11, 2026 at 3:03 PM • lookup.london • Hacker News
104P
Palantir to be granted "unlimited access" to UK NHS patient data • May 11, 2026 at 2:57 PM • digitalhealth.net • Hacker News
27
Natural-language messages between LLM agents are an architectural anti-pattern • May 11, 2026 at 2:56 PM • novaberg.de • Hacker News
35
Anthropic,OpenAI meet religious leaders to discuss faith and AI • May 11, 2026 at 2:52 PM • fastcompany.com • Hacker News
69
cross-stitching my favorite album covers • May 11, 2026 at 2:30 PM • migrainebrain.bearblog.dev • Bear
86
Gram 2.0.0 released • May 11, 2026 at 2:29 PM • gram-editor.com • Lobsters
86
“Rediscovering” the operating system (AKA: the desktop is the killer app) • May 11, 2026 at 2:26 PM • tildes.net • ~tech
448
Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical? • May 11, 2026 at 2:12 PM • flyingpenguin.com • Hacker News