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It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness • May 17, 2026 at 10:59 PM • noemamag.com • Hacker News
20
Electric ships are slowly starting to make sense • May 17, 2026 at 10:56 PM • youtube.com • ~transport
119
Researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker • May 17, 2026 at 10:06 PM • techspot.com • Lobsters
581
How fast is N tokens per second really? • May 17, 2026 at 10:04 PM • mikeveerman.github.io • Hacker News
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Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025) • May 17, 2026 at 9:39 PM • theverge.com • Hacker News
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Reverse engineering Android malware with Claude Code • May 17, 2026 at 9:13 PM • zanestjohn.com • Lobsters
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Racial resentment plays a major role in driving conservative political beliefs among White Americans who are not religiously conservative. Harboring racial resentment provides evidence of a conservative political shift among White religious moderates, liberals, and nonreligious individuals. • May 17, 2026 at 9:03 PM • psypost.org • r/science
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Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments • May 17, 2026 at 8:45 PM • imaginaryinstruments.org • Hacker News
103
Reverse engineering Android malware from popular Chinese projectors • May 17, 2026 at 8:36 PM • zanestjohn.com • Hacker News
82
Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch • May 17, 2026 at 8:26 PM • baltazarstudios.com • Hacker News
172
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Booed During Graduation Speech About AI • May 17, 2026 at 7:46 PM • nbcnews.com • Slashdot
235
WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound • May 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM • hellmood.111mb.de • Hacker News
116
Design posters showcasing your country's electrical grid • May 17, 2026 at 6:47 PM • github.com/open-energy-transition • Hacker News
23
What core metrics do you guys monitor in the backend? • May 17, 2026 at 6:46 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
38
May I recommend eww for Emacs’s innovative UI? • May 17, 2026 at 6:41 PM • matem.unam.mx • Lobsters
61P
Small Town Fights Over Flock's AI-Enhanced Network of License Plate-Reading Cameras • May 17, 2026 at 6:39 PM • wnyt.com • yro.slashdot
78
Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP • May 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM • xca-attacks.github.io • Hacker News
168
The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations • May 17, 2026 at 5:56 PM • jdhodges.com • Hacker News
494
Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely • May 17, 2026 at 5:45 PM • idahonews.com • Hacker News
51
Japan Team Successfully Test Engine for Mach 5 Aircraft, Eyeing 2HR Trip to US • May 17, 2026 at 5:28 PM • mainichi.jp • Hacker News
27
Cory Doctorow - The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (Excerpt) • May 17, 2026 at 5:27 PM • youtube.com • ~books
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An AI Hate Wave Is Here • May 17, 2026 at 5:23 PM • axios.com • Hacker News
282
Prolog Coding Horror • May 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM • metalevel.at • Hacker News
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Early-career researchers do more ‘disruptive’ science than veterans. Analysis of millions of scientists shows that older researchers tend to stick with ideas from their past. This phenomenon, the nostalgia effect, can hold back scientific innovation, as scientists get hung up on ideas from the past. • May 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM • nature.com • r/science
47
A little confused on domain purchasing • May 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
20
DDD & Hexagonal Architecture Dilemma • May 17, 2026 at 4:34 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
71
Where OpenClaw Security Is Heading • May 17, 2026 at 4:32 PM • openclaw.ai • Hacker News
83
Diaryland Gave me Closure After 20 years • May 17, 2026 at 4:30 PM • sparenotes.online • Bear
46
Fired Atlassian engineer posts breakdown of every system he built • May 17, 2026 at 4:20 PM • twitter.com/polydao • Hacker News
68
Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software • May 17, 2026 at 4:14 PM • fitsonafloppy.com • Lobsters
66
Autoregressive next token prediction and KV Cache in transformers • May 17, 2026 at 4:07 PM • medium.com/advanced-deep-learning • Hacker News
65
The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse • May 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM • anarc.at • Hacker News
229
VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025) • May 17, 2026 at 3:39 PM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
136
Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI • May 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM • bsky.app • Hacker News
53
Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000) • May 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM • edn.com • Hacker News
143
Growing Neural Cellular Automata • May 17, 2026 at 3:21 PM • distill.pub • Hacker News
96
Energy return in running shoes explained (2025) • May 17, 2026 at 3:12 PM • runrepeat.com • Hacker News
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Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy • May 17, 2026 at 2:42 PM • sciencedaily.com • Hacker News
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University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt's AI cheerleading • May 17, 2026 at 2:37 PM • theverge.com • Hacker News
140P
The AI water issue is fake • May 17, 2026 at 2:35 PM • blog.andymasley.com • Hacker News
75
The ten levels of smartphone de-addiction • May 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM • akashbhat.com • Bear
54
My Chrome extension went from 200 to 1,500 weekly users in 3 days, installs, page views, impressions all normal. What's going on? • May 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
159
Tildes Survey #5: Pineapple on pizza? (Results) • May 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM • tildes.net • ~talk
67
Kagi Snaps • May 17, 2026 at 1:58 PM • daringfireball.net • Hacker News
108
New design for the FreeBSD website • May 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM • freebsd.org • Lobsters
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US Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media • May 17, 2026 at 1:34 PM • time.com • science.slashdot
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EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process government data • May 17, 2026 at 1:29 PM • osnews.com • Hacker News
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'Stargazers: A Star Trek Story' boldly launches May 17 on Webtoon • May 17, 2026 at 1:23 PM • inverse.com • ~comics
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Nostalgic Kits Central (2024) • May 17, 2026 at 1:14 PM • nostalgickitscentral.com • Hacker News
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Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request • May 17, 2026 at 1:10 PM • twitter.com/ryangrim • Hacker News
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The occasional ECONNRESET • May 17, 2026 at 1:09 PM • movq.de • Hacker News
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At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025 • May 17, 2026 at 1:09 PM • stateofsurveillance.org • Hacker News
18
Divers have confirmed that a dead humpback whale spotted off Denmark is the same animal that spent weeks beached off Germany's Baltic coast – comes two weeks after contentious rescue operation • May 17, 2026 at 12:36 PM • dw.com • ~enviro
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How Owners of EVs from Bankrupt Fisker Saved Their Cars With an Open Source Nonprofit • May 17, 2026 at 12:34 PM • electrek.co • Slashdot
125P
Canada’s Bill C-22 would weaken protections on private messages • May 17, 2026 at 12:15 PM • opencivics-labs.github.io • Hacker News
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Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state' • May 17, 2026 at 12:04 PM • businessinsider.com • Hacker News
143
Don’t Outsource the Learning • May 17, 2026 at 12:04 PM • addyosmani.com • Hacker News
115
In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident • May 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM • producelikeapro.com • Hacker News
181
Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory • May 17, 2026 at 11:52 AM • emptysqua.re • Hacker News
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What do folks carry in their hiking/backpacking/camping first aid kits these days? • May 17, 2026 at 11:44 AM • tildes.net • ~hobbies
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Even mild blows to the head disrupt the microbiome • May 17, 2026 at 11:38 AM • nature.com • r/science
591
Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep • May 17, 2026 at 11:37 AM • github.com/MinishLab • Hacker News
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Sysadmin Creates 'ModuleJail' To Automatically Blacklist Unused Kernel Modules • May 17, 2026 at 11:34 AM • github.com/jnuyens • Slashdot
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AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency • May 17, 2026 at 11:31 AM • washingtonpost.com • Hacker News
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Handling the great code forge fragmentation • May 17, 2026 at 11:31 AM • alexselimov.com • Hacker News
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Adults Have Lost the Ability to Smile, Why? • May 17, 2026 at 11:31 AM • livingkindfully.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Don't answer the first question • May 17, 2026 at 11:28 AM • lalitm.com • Lobsters
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Tool mapping 90 companies in the photonics and CPO supply chain • May 17, 2026 at 11:22 AM • leonardo-boquillon.com • Hacker News
29
NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore • May 17, 2026 at 11:16 AM • spacedaily.com • ~space
46
KV Cache Is Becoming the Memory Hierarchy of Inference • May 17, 2026 at 10:57 AM • touchdown-labs.com • Hacker News
357
Native all the way, until you need text • May 17, 2026 at 10:50 AM • justsitandgrin.im • r/programming
102
XS: A programming language. Anywhere, anytime, by anyone • May 17, 2026 at 10:48 AM • xslang.org • Hacker News
50
Reviewing so called Pull Requests at $dayjob • May 17, 2026 at 10:40 AM • rkta.de • Lobsters
34
Python Stays #1, R Rises in Popularity, Says TIOBE • May 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM • tiobe.com • science.slashdot
80
Coding on Paper • May 17, 2026 at 10:28 AM • wickstrom.tech • Lobsters
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Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit • May 17, 2026 at 9:42 AM • techspot.com • Hacker News
33
A revolutionary cancer treatment could transform autoimmune disease • May 17, 2026 at 9:41 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
111
Coding on Paper • May 17, 2026 at 9:29 AM • wickstrom.tech • Hacker News
545
WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency • May 17, 2026 at 9:22 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
668
I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation • May 17, 2026 at 9:16 AM • github.com/tech4bot • Hacker News
681
AI is a technology not a product • May 17, 2026 at 9:11 AM • daringfireball.net • Hacker News
72
Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language (2024) • May 17, 2026 at 9:09 AM • github.com/status-im • Hacker News
290
CUDA Books • May 17, 2026 at 8:52 AM • github.com/alternbits • Hacker News
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Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails • May 17, 2026 at 8:44 AM • github.com/ShurikenTrade • Hacker News
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A healthy brain, achieved through exercise, a healthy diet, sufficient sleep, and embracing new cognitive challenges, may help shield thinking and memory skills from the early effects of Alzheimer's disease, according to an MRI study on 600 Americans • May 17, 2026 at 8:30 AM • murdoch.edu.au • r/science
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I don't think AI will make your processes go faster • May 17, 2026 at 8:13 AM • frederickvanbrabant.com • Hacker News
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Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter • May 17, 2026 at 8:09 AM • williamangel.net • Hacker News
235
Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD • May 17, 2026 at 8:03 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
29
Claude Code managed to get Adobe Lightroom working on Linux • May 17, 2026 at 7:58 AM • github.com/sander110419 • Lobsters
109
Native all the way, until you need text • May 17, 2026 at 7:57 AM • justsitandgrin.im • Lobsters
750
Native all the way, until you need text • May 17, 2026 at 7:49 AM • justsitandgrin.im • Hacker News
807
AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise • May 17, 2026 at 7:49 AM • thestateofbrand.com • Hacker News
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Elon Musk's xAI Launches 'Grok Build', Its First AI Coding Agent • May 17, 2026 at 7:34 AM • pcmag.com • Slashdot
182
PyPI packages are increasing rapidly • May 17, 2026 at 7:21 AM • rushter.com • r/programming
399
Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users • May 17, 2026 at 7:18 AM • github.com/Diolinux • Hacker News
51
Go European — Discover European products and services • May 17, 2026 at 7:03 AM • goeuropean.org • Lobsters
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How does Google expect the open web to survive AI Overviews without a compensation/citation model? • May 17, 2026 at 6:48 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Eurotrashed • May 17, 2026 at 6:15 AM • bez-lightyear.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Feeling empty after finishing a video game (post-game depression) is a real phenomenon. A recent study has found that many video game players experience a specific sense of emptiness and sadness after finishing highly engaging games. • May 17, 2026 at 6:09 AM • psypost.org • r/science
312
Do most non tech savvy people think Al-generated websites look good or hasn't Al-fatigue caught up to them yet? • May 17, 2026 at 6:06 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
73
San Francisco Sign Guild • May 17, 2026 at 5:57 AM • sfsignguild.com • ~arts
232
A breakthrough in C/C++ dependency management • May 17, 2026 at 5:29 AM • lcamtuf.substack.com • r/programming
84P
replaced social media with a different form • May 17, 2026 at 5:25 AM • mattiverse.online • Bear
137
When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call? • May 17, 2026 at 4:58 AM • quuxplusone.github.io • Hacker News
97
Porting my 3D points renderer on a ZX Spectrum 48K • May 17, 2026 at 4:55 AM • github.com/ttsiodras • Hacker News
158
Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU • May 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM • arnaud-carre.github.io • Hacker News
31
GitHub - kepano/defuddle: Get the main content of any page as Markdown. • May 17, 2026 at 3:50 AM • github.com/kepano • r/webdev
329P
Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them • May 17, 2026 at 3:50 AM • rutgerbregman.substack.com • Hacker News
70
Ksharp – k version 3 Language Interpreter in C# • May 17, 2026 at 3:44 AM • github.com/ERufian • Hacker News
53P
We Are All Rankers Now: Or Why the Internet Has Turned to Shit • May 17, 2026 at 2:32 AM • grumpywelshman.com • Hacker News
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Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools • May 17, 2026 at 2:17 AM • blog.mozilla.org • Hacker News
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Square peg in a round hole: airpower against mobile targets and missiles • May 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM • secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com • ~humanities.history
668
Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels • May 17, 2026 at 12:09 AM • electrek.co • Hacker News
210
Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell • May 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM • abgeo.dev • Hacker News
110
Grafana Labs internal source code accessed • May 16, 2026 at 11:48 PM • twitter.com/grafana • Hacker News
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Recent political discussions often focus on working-class voters moving away from the Democratic Party, but a new analysis provides evidence that the last four decades, high-income, highly educated, and white-collar White voters have steadily moved toward the Democratic Party. • May 16, 2026 at 11:43 PM • psypost.org • r/science
42
Amazon Stops Supporting Pre-2013 Kindles Today. Some Owners Turn to Jailbreaking • May 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM • amzn.to • build.slashdot
66
The latest X algorithm has been published to GitHub • May 16, 2026 at 11:31 PM • twitter.com/elonmusk • Hacker News
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I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert • May 16, 2026 at 11:25 PM • medium.com/@breid.at • Hacker News
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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of May 17 • May 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM • tildes.net • ~games