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Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents • May 18, 2026 at 11:40 AM • github.com/InsForge • Hacker News
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How to select a mobile OS • May 18, 2026 at 11:33 AM • blog.gridranger.dev • Lobsters
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The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets • May 18, 2026 at 11:28 AM • wired.com • Hacker News
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Supercharging Immune Cells May Help Control HIV Long-Term • May 18, 2026 at 11:27 AM • wired.com • Hacker News
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The Interview That Ships to Production: replacing whiteboards with pull requests • May 18, 2026 at 11:24 AM • angellist.com • Hacker News
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We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag • May 18, 2026 at 11:24 AM • archestra.ai • Hacker News
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Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting • May 18, 2026 at 11:18 AM • radleybalko.substack.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta) • May 18, 2026 at 11:08 AM • silentshark.app • Hacker News
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The implementation of select in Go • May 18, 2026 at 11:05 AM • internals-for-interns.com • Lobsters
103
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160
WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency • May 18, 2026 at 11:00 AM • science.slashdot.org • science.slashdot
94
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42
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4
AI Agent Security - MIT 6.566 guest lecture • May 18, 2026 at 10:41 AM • github.com/anishathalye • Lobsters
21
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The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming • May 18, 2026 at 10:31 AM • thebignewsletter.com • Hacker News
4
Show HN: Dataset for AI training and fine tuning • May 18, 2026 at 10:22 AM • neurvance.com • Hacker News
38
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298
1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries • May 18, 2026 at 10:13 AM • github.com/2b2tplace • Hacker News
171
Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet • May 18, 2026 at 10:10 AM • scientificamerican.com • Hacker News
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When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (2024) • May 18, 2026 at 10:10 AM • github.com/deng-ai-lab • Hacker News
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Booking.com and Weaviate • May 18, 2026 at 10:06 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Global rivers are losing oxygen, with 78.8% experiencing sustained deoxygenation over the last 40 years. A new study shows climate warming is the main driver, with tropical rivers emerging as the most vulnerable hotspots for severe hypoxia. • May 18, 2026 at 10:05 AM • science.org • r/science
564P
Actually, democracy dies in H.R. • May 18, 2026 at 10:04 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
527
A next-generation CAR T-cell therapy successfully eliminates glioblastoma brain tumors in preclinical trials. The treatment targets a protein called uPAR, destroying both the deadly cancer cells and the supportive infrastructure that fuels them. • May 18, 2026 at 10:02 AM • science.org • r/science
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Everything You Do Is Being Recorded: Is there any way of fighting back? • May 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM • theatlantic.com • Hacker News
11
A Linux-like kernel in a browser tab - deep dive in the BrowserPod architecture • May 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM • labs.leaningtech.com • Lobsters
65
The Invention of Buses • May 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM • worksinprogress.co • Hacker News
40
The Great Crypto Con • May 18, 2026 at 9:58 AM • jonathanscott.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Shame them, shun them, ban them, beat them • May 18, 2026 at 9:52 AM • experimental-history.com • Hacker News
497
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us • May 18, 2026 at 9:37 AM • blog.cloudflare.com • Hacker News
58
Re: Adults Have Lost the Ability to Smile, Why? • May 18, 2026 at 9:35 AM • scribblypam.bearblog.dev • Bear
1081
Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian • May 18, 2026 at 9:33 AM • github.com/zakirullin • Hacker News
124
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI • May 18, 2026 at 9:26 AM • 404media.co • Hacker News
114
RISC-V and Floating-Point • May 18, 2026 at 9:24 AM • fprox.substack.com • Hacker News
20P
The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly • May 18, 2026 at 9:20 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
14
The OEIS meta sequence and subway stations • May 18, 2026 at 9:15 AM • jeremykun.com • Hacker News
11
This ultra-lightweight Linux OS saved my Windows 10 laptop from the scrapheap • May 18, 2026 at 9:13 AM • neowin.net • Hacker News
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28P
The era of free money may have ended • May 18, 2026 at 9:04 AM • reuters.com • Hacker News
11
Ask HN: Do you know what data your AI coding agent sends to the cloud? • May 18, 2026 at 9:02 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
291
'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs' • May 18, 2026 at 9:01 AM • bbc.co.uk • Hacker News
35
Unusual uses of OEIS sequences on GitHub • May 18, 2026 at 9:00 AM • jeremykun.com • Hacker News
127P
Russia is starting to lose ground in Ukraine • May 18, 2026 at 8:56 AM • economist.com • Hacker News
59
De‐bloating Javascript • May 18, 2026 at 8:55 AM • github.com/naver • Lobsters
238
Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO • May 18, 2026 at 8:49 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
10
Should I take my car to the carwash 50M away or walk? • May 18, 2026 at 8:49 AM • twitter.com/openservai • Hacker News
5
Show HN: Layoutmaster cures DOM reflow with six simple API • May 18, 2026 at 8:49 AM • layoutmaster.dev • Hacker News
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78
Hershey Bets on Agentic AI to Rethink $2B in Marketing Spend • May 18, 2026 at 8:41 AM • adweek.com • Hacker News
2
Show HN: I'm done. Flow editors are broken. And you all know it • May 18, 2026 at 8:35 AM • wanderer-flow.de • Hacker News
316
Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable' • May 18, 2026 at 8:20 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
1314
Long-term exposure to air pollution from traffic, industry, and wildfires linked to to worse cognitive function and small but visible brain damage, with higher effects observed in women • May 18, 2026 at 8:20 AM • news.mcmaster.ca • r/science
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MAGA allies tell Trump to vet AI before release • May 18, 2026 at 8:19 AM • axios.com • Hacker News
172
Learn Harness Engineering • May 18, 2026 at 8:17 AM • walkinglabs.github.io • Hacker News
7
A Linux-like kernel in a browser tab - deep dive in the BrowserPod architecture • May 18, 2026 at 8:08 AM • labs.leaningtech.com • r/webdev
6
A Linux-like kernel in a browser tab - deep dive in the BrowserPod architecture • May 18, 2026 at 8:08 AM • labs.leaningtech.com • r/programming
162P
Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks • May 18, 2026 at 8:03 AM • plough.com • Hacker News
1747
Magic mushrooms could be effective treatment for cocaine addiction, study shows. Participants who got single dose of psilocybin were more likely to abstain from cocaine than those who got placebo • May 18, 2026 at 7:58 AM • theguardian.com • r/science
3
Siri App to Have Auto-Deleting Chats • May 18, 2026 at 7:52 AM • bloomberg.com • Hacker News
138
Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001) • May 18, 2026 at 7:51 AM • sep.turbifycdn.com • Hacker News
169
Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks • May 18, 2026 at 7:51 AM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
52
A 16-byte x86 demo: Matrix rain with sound • May 18, 2026 at 7:40 AM • hellmood.111mb.de • Lobsters
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Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets • May 18, 2026 at 7:38 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
49
Steven Soderbergh Defends AI Use in His New Documentary about John Lennon • May 18, 2026 at 7:34 AM • apnews.com • Slashdot
459
Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS • May 18, 2026 at 7:32 AM • github.com/stephenlthorn • Hacker News
87
The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Probably Think • May 18, 2026 at 7:26 AM • derekthompson.org • Hacker News
7784
ADHD and Rejection Sensitivity: A qualitative study explores how the anticipation of rejection causes more psychological distress than the actual events, driving a "vicious circle" of emotional masking, bodily pain, and social withdrawal. (n=5) • May 18, 2026 at 7:11 AM • doi.org • r/science
25P
An ICE Firearms Trainer Was Involved in at Least 4 Deadly Shootings • May 18, 2026 at 7:01 AM • wired.com • Hacker News
43
The Silver Swan • May 18, 2026 at 7:00 AM • thebowesmuseum.org.uk • Hacker News
47
Email sender services • May 18, 2026 at 6:59 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
4945
Student wellbeing drops after move to high school. Researchers found wellbeing declined across every measured domain, including happiness, optimism, perseverance, emotional regulation, cognitive engagement and life satisfaction, while sadness and worry increased. • May 18, 2026 at 6:58 AM • eurekalert.org • r/science
245
Key Python 3.15 Updates To Make Your Coding Faster, Cleaner, and Easier • May 18, 2026 at 6:55 AM • medium.com/techtofreedom • r/programming
752
Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation • May 18, 2026 at 6:50 AM • nbcnews.com • Hacker News
204
NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era • May 18, 2026 at 6:43 AM • spacedaily.com • Hacker News
216
I’m so done with Shopify/Webflow/Woo for client builds. Anyone found something better? • May 18, 2026 at 6:29 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
46
my phone is just used for calls and it's amazing • May 18, 2026 at 6:29 AM • skuka.online • Bear
40
WHO declares major outbreak of Ebola virus species an international emergency • May 18, 2026 at 6:28 AM • science.org • Hacker News
13P
Ten significant Australian-made games, and how they relate to the National Cultural Policy • May 18, 2026 at 6:20 AM • haraiva.bearblog.dev • Bear
9106P
Scientists expected both liberals and conservatives to be reluctant to promote rhetoric associated with the opposing political side, but this was more consistent among liberals. Conservatives appeared relatively willing to support causes aligned with their views regardless of the moral framing used. • May 18, 2026 at 6:19 AM • psypost.org • r/science
13
How do you keep track of Free Trials on extensions? • May 18, 2026 at 6:16 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
19
insight for people who have to use instagram but hate instagram (i.e. me) • May 18, 2026 at 6:14 AM • skuka.online • Bear
161
Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP • May 18, 2026 at 6:08 AM • yes-we-scan.app • Hacker News
89
Dogma 25 – Vow of Chastity (2025) • May 18, 2026 at 6:05 AM • dogma25.dk • Hacker News
50P
many people's business is really not that impressive • May 18, 2026 at 5:59 AM • blog.avas.space • Bear
6
iOS Safari: taking multiple photos in a web form keeps replacing the first one • May 18, 2026 at 5:48 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
6
The Mysterious Crypto Judges Who Settle Polymarket Disputes • May 18, 2026 at 5:45 AM • wsj.com • Hacker News
221
The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf] • May 18, 2026 at 5:40 AM • csl.sri.com • Hacker News
31
Ebola outbreak with uncommon strain erupts in Congo and Uganda; 65 deaths • May 18, 2026 at 5:37 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
3
Protéger Mastodon contre les bots IA avec Anubis – Techno-Fil et faits divers • May 18, 2026 at 5:30 AM • blogs.gayfr.social • Hacker News
633
Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops? • May 18, 2026 at 5:28 AM • indiepixel.de • Hacker News
40
What are you doing this week? • May 18, 2026 at 5:25 AM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
146P
Don't answer the first question • May 18, 2026 at 5:21 AM • lalitm.com • Hacker News
182
Kubernetes from Dev to Production: Lessons learned from self-hosting an European alternative to Google Docs • May 18, 2026 at 5:15 AM • georg-schwarz.com • r/programming
330
Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches • May 18, 2026 at 5:12 AM • nbcnews.com • Hacker News
181P
Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes • May 18, 2026 at 5:08 AM • ft.com • Hacker News
6
LKML: Linus Torvalds: Linux 7.1-rc4 • May 18, 2026 at 5:04 AM • lkml.org • Hacker News
27
Colombian singer Shakira acquitted of tax fraud in Spain • May 18, 2026 at 5:00 AM • reuters.com • Hacker News
5
Humans are better at coding than AI • May 18, 2026 at 4:58 AM • github.com/Mattbusel • Hacker News
29
Microsoft admits Windows 11's dedicated Copilot key breaks certain workflows • May 18, 2026 at 4:53 AM • windowscentral.com • Hacker News
35
Find bugs in YOUR code using OpenCode, Llama.cpp and Qwen3.6 • May 18, 2026 at 4:51 AM • wtarreau.blogspot.com • Lobsters
3
Complications of funding an open source operating system • May 18, 2026 at 4:45 AM • posixcafe.org • Lobsters
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Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late • May 18, 2026 at 4:41 AM • howtocenterdiv.com • Hacker News
646P
Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late • May 18, 2026 at 4:40 AM • howtocenterdiv.com • r/programming
119
Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space • May 18, 2026 at 4:36 AM • thescientificdrop.com • Hacker News
9
FediMeteo, HAProxy, and the art of not wasting snac threads • May 18, 2026 at 4:30 AM • it-notes.dragas.net • Lobsters
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We Are Sliding Back into the Middle Ages • May 18, 2026 at 4:30 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
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Is Europe in Economic Decline? • May 18, 2026 at 4:25 AM • paulkrugman.substack.com • Hacker News
169
Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena? • May 18, 2026 at 4:19 AM • reddit.com • Hacker News
46
website blocking which works long term • May 18, 2026 at 3:51 AM • hanki.dev • Bear
16
Ask HN: Could free/low cost LLMs be a momentary thing? • May 18, 2026 at 3:36 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
417P
Iran Now Threatens Fees for Subsea Internet Cables in the Strait of Hormuz • May 18, 2026 at 3:34 AM • cnn.com • Slashdot
8
Apple May Add Auto-Deleting Chats to Siri as Gemini Powers Back End AI • May 18, 2026 at 3:27 AM • firethering.com • Hacker News
6
Rasmus Højlund set to join SSC Napoli on a permanent deal from Manchester United after helping Serie A side secure Champions League qualification with victory over Pisa • May 18, 2026 at 3:26 AM • bbc.com • ~sports.football
116
The Mercury logic programming system • May 18, 2026 at 3:12 AM • github.com/Mercury-Language • Hacker News
436
Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video] • May 18, 2026 at 2:27 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
475
Started Learning Docker - Around 50% Done and Loving the Process! • May 18, 2026 at 2:27 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
14
Stranger Than Heaven | Cast and story reveal trailer • May 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM • youtube.com • ~games
40
The occasional `ECONNRESET` • May 18, 2026 at 1:42 AM • movq.de • Lobsters
19
Spring Physics in my Word Game? An exploration of advanced CSS animations in SvelteJS • May 18, 2026 at 1:38 AM • colechamberlin.substack.com • r/programming
9
Calvin - Determinism, Distributed ACID transactions (2020) • May 18, 2026 at 1:35 AM • mydistributed.systems • Lobsters
8
Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months (2015) • May 18, 2026 at 1:28 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
131
BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork • May 18, 2026 at 1:18 AM • github.com/jarczakpawel • Hacker News
78
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6
3months ago, I predicted OpenClaw wouldn't uninstall cleanly and prepared for it • May 18, 2026 at 12:42 AM • github.com/oswarld • Hacker News
67
Étienne Ghys: The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth • May 18, 2026 at 12:38 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
23
Freelang – a Libc-free, direct sys/kernel call language with weird concurrency • May 18, 2026 at 12:31 AM • freelang.dev • Hacker News
16
Show HN: Pdf2md – 10MB Rust PDF-to-Markdown Tool with a Free API • May 18, 2026 at 12:06 AM • pdf2md.deepdiy.net • Hacker News
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America's Most-Spoken Languages After English and Spanish • May 17, 2026 at 11:41 PM • visualcapitalist.com • Hacker News
29
Which country voted the best at Eurovision? • May 17, 2026 at 11:39 PM • lalitm.com • Hacker News
68
Linus Torvalds: AI-Detected Bug Reports Make Kernel Security List 'Almost Entirely Unmanageable' • May 17, 2026 at 11:34 PM • lkml.org • Slashdot
9
Review: Sylve on FreeBSD • May 17, 2026 at 11:28 PM • distrowatch.com • Lobsters
13
spr: Stacked Pull Requests on GitHub • May 17, 2026 at 11:22 PM • github.com/ejoffe • Lobsters
25
I Stopped Building “WordPress Sites” and Started Building API-First Backends • May 17, 2026 at 11:20 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
44
Reddit is pro-AI • May 17, 2026 at 11:11 PM • radarambles.bearblog.dev • Bear
1071
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
40
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6
Slop Bucket Idea – a dataset of AI slop (train AI what not to do) • May 17, 2026 at 10:11 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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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Students deserve better than COLLEGE • May 17, 2026 at 10:00 PM • stanforddaily.com • Hacker News
221P
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
24P
Apple announced the iPhone 17e with a chip developed in Israel • May 17, 2026 at 9:37 PM • jpost.com • Hacker News
15
Show HN: How to Kill the Dead Internet • May 17, 2026 at 9:35 PM • chromewebstore.google.com • Hacker News
18
America's Library of Congress Officially Inducts... the Soundtrack for the Videogame 'Doom' • May 17, 2026 at 9:34 PM • engadget.com • Slashdot
22
Reverse engineering Android malware with Claude Code • May 17, 2026 at 9:13 PM • zanestjohn.com • Lobsters
7312P
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
5
Reversing ‘Grateful Dead: D2S2’ on Mac (2022) • May 17, 2026 at 8:46 PM • blog.os9.ca • Lobsters
46
Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments • May 17, 2026 at 8:45 PM • imaginaryinstruments.org • Hacker News
5
EDR vendors: source code access (3), staged updates (8), SBoM rare • May 17, 2026 at 8:37 PM • av-comparatives.org • Hacker News
719
By 2023, the transition to new energy vehicles in China led to reductions of 23.80% in particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less (8.97 µg m−3) and 30.67% in carbon monoxide (0.26 mg m−3), resulting in the prevention of approximately 262,000 non-accidental deaths and 75,000 all-cause deaths. • May 17, 2026 at 8:36 PM • nature.com • r/science
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
21
Cats Lock – keyboard lock for cat people • May 17, 2026 at 8:25 PM • catslock.app • Hacker News
51P
Why does Amazon have no Western rivals? • May 17, 2026 at 8:10 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
3
Experimental native text editing directly inside PDF.js • May 17, 2026 at 8:10 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
3
Show HN: Cheap-IM: Thinking Machines' demo on a CPU laptop • May 17, 2026 at 7:49 PM • github.com/kouhxp • Hacker News
172
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Booed During Graduation Speech About AI • May 17, 2026 at 7:46 PM • nbcnews.com • Slashdot
18
Rust async and the ARM generic timer • May 17, 2026 at 7:28 PM • thejpster.org.uk • Lobsters
235
WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound • May 17, 2026 at 7:10 PM • hellmood.111mb.de • Hacker News
12
Scientists have invented a way to erase bad memories. But should we? • May 17, 2026 at 7:02 PM • sciencefocus.com • Hacker News
1201
Traffic pollution increases chronic kidney disease hospitalizations up to 4x. A 10-year study shows that vehicle emissions (PM2.5) enter the bloodstream, triggering kidney inflammation and premature organ aging. • May 17, 2026 at 6:53 PM • nature.com • r/science
81
WriteUp: 16 bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound • May 17, 2026 at 6:52 PM • hellmood.111mb.de • r/programming
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
36
AI Wearables Are Coming but They'll Need to Pass the Coffee Shop Test to Survive • May 17, 2026 at 5:49 PM • inc.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
26
Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93 • May 17, 2026 at 5:43 PM • nytimes.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
232P
An AI Hate Wave Is Here • May 17, 2026 at 5:23 PM • axios.com • Hacker News
21
What are the next steps toward the dream of becoming a full-stack web developer? • May 17, 2026 at 5:17 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
282
Prolog Coding Horror • May 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM • metalevel.at • Hacker News
2734
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
23P
FTC tells platforms to comply with Take It Down Act by May 19 • May 17, 2026 at 4:58 PM • ftc.gov • Hacker News
12
Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerability Actively Exploited, in a Bad Week for Microsoft • May 17, 2026 at 4:56 PM • securityweek.com • Slashdot
83
These ants navigate with a compass tuned to the moon • May 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM • scientificamerican.com • r/science
32
Microsoft AI CEO forecasts human-level AI in 18 months • May 17, 2026 at 4:50 PM • twitter.com/kimmonismus • Hacker News
7
The Cost of 24/7: Tracking Home Lab Power with Shelly • May 17, 2026 at 4:47 PM • veerendra2.github.io • Hacker News
20
Long-term editing of brain circuits using an engineered electrical synapse • May 17, 2026 at 4:46 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
204
A small object past Pluto may have a thin atmosphere: « The possible atmosphere around 2002 XV93 would be a first for a small object beyond Pluto. » • May 17, 2026 at 4:44 PM • sciencenews.org • 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
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46
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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
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The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse • May 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM • anarc.at • Hacker News
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Fwd: [multicians] Peter Neumann has died • May 17, 2026 at 3:53 PM • lwn.net • Hacker News
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Longtime Leading AMD Linux GPU Driver Developer Now Working for Valve • May 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM • phoronix.com • Hacker News
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New UFO files offer no answers–but something is happening in the skies • May 17, 2026 at 3:39 PM • popsci.com • Hacker News
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VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025) • May 17, 2026 at 3:39 PM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
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Paul Erdos • May 17, 2026 at 3:38 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
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WHO warns nicotine pouch brands targeting youth as sales surge • May 17, 2026 at 3:35 PM • who.int • Hacker News
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Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI • May 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM • bsky.app • Hacker News
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Enabling Resizable Bar on RTX 3080 Vbios via GitHub • May 17, 2026 at 3:26 PM • github.com/danindiana • Hacker News
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Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000) • May 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM • edn.com • Hacker News
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Growing Neural Cellular Automata • May 17, 2026 at 3:21 PM • distill.pub • Hacker News
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Consider the Sister • May 17, 2026 at 3:13 PM • thesmallbow.com • Hacker News
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Energy return in running shoes explained (2025) • May 17, 2026 at 3:12 PM • runrepeat.com • Hacker News
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'We Still Can't See Dark Matter. But What If We Can Hear It?' • May 17, 2026 at 3:09 PM • space.com • science.slashdot
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Show HN: HypergraphZ – directed hypergraph library in Zig with Python bindings • May 17, 2026 at 3:08 PM • github.com/yamafaktory • Hacker News
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Study suggests that different substances have different associations with criminal behavior and police arrests. Psychedelics like psilocybin tend to be associated with lower rates of arrest, other substances like PCP and GHB show strong links to violent and non-violent crimes. • May 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM • psypost.org • r/science
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Microsoft is 1.84 Peters, Google is 0.66. What's the Peter unit? • May 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM • github.com/zozo123 • Hacker News
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Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and Risk of Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy | Neurology • May 17, 2026 at 2:47 PM • neurology.org • r/science
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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
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The AI water issue is fake • May 17, 2026 at 2:35 PM • blog.andymasley.com • Hacker News
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The Case Against Quantum Computing • May 17, 2026 at 2:29 PM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
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Effective Use of HTML with Agents • May 17, 2026 at 2:13 PM • daanluttik.nl • Hacker News
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AI chatbots are giving out people's real phone numbers • May 17, 2026 at 2:09 PM • technologyreview.com • Hacker News
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The ten levels of smartphone de-addiction • May 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM • akashbhat.com • Bear
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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
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Tildes Survey #5: Pineapple on pizza? (Results) • May 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM • tildes.net • ~talk
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Kagi Snaps • May 17, 2026 at 1:58 PM • daringfireball.net • Hacker News
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Tarweb - the io_uring, no syscalls, kernel TLS static web server • May 17, 2026 at 1:47 PM • github.com/ThomasHabets • r/webdev
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I did everything but my app doesn't attract anyone • May 17, 2026 at 1:46 PM • apps.apple.com • Hacker News
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Confessions of a Gasoline Huffer • May 17, 2026 at 1:44 PM • thestranger.com • Hacker News
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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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Bitsocial: Open Source P2P Network for Social Apps • May 17, 2026 at 1:18 PM • bitsocial.net • Lobsters
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Nostalgic Kits Central (2024) • May 17, 2026 at 1:14 PM • nostalgickitscentral.com • Hacker News
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What AI Did to My College Class • May 17, 2026 at 1:12 PM • nytimes.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
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The Protein Shortage Is Coming • May 17, 2026 at 1:08 PM • theatlantic.com • Hacker News
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Google Maps Satellite Imagery of Palisades Fire Area Reverts • May 17, 2026 at 1:02 PM • twitter.com/royolone • Hacker News
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A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names • May 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM • themarginalian.org • Hacker News
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Show HN: Typeset sitelen pona and copy a PNG (for toki pona speakers) • May 17, 2026 at 12:41 PM • sitelen.vercel.app • Hacker News
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Age Assurance on the Internet: Identity, Privacy, and the Limits of Verification • May 17, 2026 at 12:37 PM • sphericalcowconsulting.com • Hacker News
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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
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U.K. Economy Accelerates to Outpace U.S. as War Headwinds Loom • May 17, 2026 at 12:31 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
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Almost there: Aptera has built five solar EVs on their validation assembly line • May 17, 2026 at 12:22 PM • aptera.us • Hacker News
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On arXiv, LLMs, and What It Means to Put Your Name on a Paper • May 17, 2026 at 12:22 PM • scottgehlbach.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Can Bloom Energy build them? • May 17, 2026 at 12:17 PM • theloadgrowth.substack.com • Hacker News
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Curated list of 736 verified remote tech companies hiring (May 2026) • May 17, 2026 at 12:15 PM • dj5333111-ux.github.io • Hacker News
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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
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Don’t Outsource the Learning • May 17, 2026 at 12:04 PM • addyosmani.com • Hacker News
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In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident • May 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM • producelikeapro.com • Hacker News
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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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La Machine • May 17, 2026 at 11:50 AM • la-machine.fr • 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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Designing a Scientific Calculator from scratch in FPGA • May 17, 2026 at 11:44 AM • baltazarstudios.com • Lobsters