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Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis • May 20, 2026 at 10:51 PM • weirdgloop.org • Lobsters
9
MoonRay, DreamWorks Animation's Open Source Production Renderer • May 20, 2026 at 10:50 PM • aswf.io • Hacker News
23
Carousing for Cairn • May 20, 2026 at 10:47 PM • dungeonmecha.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Apple's new iPhone comes with Israeli chips • May 20, 2026 at 10:43 PM • nonogra.ph • Hacker News
275
Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users • May 20, 2026 at 10:37 PM • arstechnica.com • r/programming
24P
I'm Filing for Justice Samuel Alito's Disbarment • May 20, 2026 at 10:35 PM • cmarmitage.substack.com • Hacker News
24
Some more road trip pictures • May 20, 2026 at 10:29 PM • blog.lauramichet.com • Bear
13
I made a browser alone and barely got any users • May 20, 2026 at 10:27 PM • kagerou.glass • Hacker News
140
OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday • May 20, 2026 at 10:24 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
6
PyTorch 2.12 Release • May 20, 2026 at 10:22 PM • pytorch.org • Hacker News
255
Haskell Foundation 2026 Update • May 20, 2026 at 10:13 PM • discourse.haskell.org • Hacker News
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House Passes Housing Bill, Uniting on a Measure to Bring Down Costs • May 20, 2026 at 10:09 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
95
Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding • May 20, 2026 at 10:07 PM • third-bit.com • Lobsters
19
Smart Earbuds with built-in camera and AI • May 20, 2026 at 9:57 PM • heyordo.com • Hacker News
5859
Depression appears to alter how young adults remember childhood trauma and adversity. Dealing with these emotional health challenges may actually be the primary driver behind shifting memories, pointing to a need to treat current mood to help heal past wounds. • May 20, 2026 at 9:56 PM • psypost.org • r/science
7
HD189733B: A hot Jupiter that rains molten glass • May 20, 2026 at 9:52 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
9
Finland's longest and tallest bridge, the Kruunuvuorensilta is designed only for walking, cycling and light rail • May 20, 2026 at 9:33 PM • youtube.com • ~transport
205P
What is a Demand Coop • May 20, 2026 at 9:20 PM • cahootzcoops.com • Hacker News
10
81yo Grandma Streaming Minecraft to Pay for Grandson's Cancer Swatted • May 20, 2026 at 9:17 PM • thegamer.com • Hacker News
48
The Problem of Evil in "The Lord Of The Rings" • May 20, 2026 at 9:06 PM • palmzealot.com • Bear
9
What should the architecture of a personal site in next.js look like? • May 20, 2026 at 8:50 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
7
Show HN: My custom Statusline for Claude Code (Python wrapper around claudeline) • May 20, 2026 at 8:47 PM • gist.github.com • Hacker News
448
Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI • May 20, 2026 at 8:36 PM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
67
I NEED TO COMPLIMENT YOU!! TELL ME HOW!!! • May 20, 2026 at 8:30 PM • diels-daydreams.bearblog.dev • Bear
319
A "Japanese developer" offered me $3K/month to be his face with US clients. Here's the full email thread • May 20, 2026 at 8:28 PM • news.ycombinator.com • r/programming
81
LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years • May 20, 2026 at 8:15 PM • alphapixeldev.com • Hacker News
49P
The Mislabeled Bricks of Utopia • May 20, 2026 at 8:07 PM • orib.dev • Lobsters
356
The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf] • May 20, 2026 at 7:58 PM • gwern.net • Hacker News
532
Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers • May 20, 2026 at 7:54 PM • github.com/kageroumado • Hacker News
8
Show HN: Remote Job Board • May 20, 2026 at 7:52 PM • remotejobs.place • Hacker News
5
Nvidia Rides Blistering Chip Sales to Another Record Quarter • May 20, 2026 at 7:42 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
87
What platform are you building your websites on these days? • May 20, 2026 at 7:39 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
6
Waterfox Release 6.6.13 removes Startpage as default search provider • May 20, 2026 at 7:26 PM • waterfox.com • Lobsters
9
Search engines and me. Is the classic internet dying? [off-topic] • May 20, 2026 at 7:21 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
23
Deep – CLI/REPL for generating and iterating on codebases using DeepSeek • May 20, 2026 at 7:16 PM • github.com/cynchro • Hacker News
59
Intuit To Lay Off Over 3,000 Employees To Refocus On AI • May 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM • slashdot.org • Slashdot
11P
China Wants A.I. To Flourish, but Not at the Expense of Jobs • May 20, 2026 at 6:51 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
5
Can one run AI on source code with the prompt "Find below-avg swear rate files"? • May 20, 2026 at 6:46 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
8
Why Many Americans Choose Not to Have Children • May 20, 2026 at 6:40 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
42P
Jewish American Security Act requires online platforms to moderate purge content • May 20, 2026 at 6:33 PM • lankford.senate.gov • Hacker News
463P
YAML? That's Norway problem • May 20, 2026 at 6:29 PM • lab174.com • r/programming
19
Pixel phones running Graphene OS not eligibile for battery replacement program • May 20, 2026 at 6:26 PM • twitter.com/nikolaiG22 • Hacker News
6
Staged publishing for npm packages • May 20, 2026 at 6:20 PM • docs.npmjs.com • Lobsters
2
How to build .NET obfuscator Part III • May 20, 2026 at 6:03 PM • kant2002.github.io • r/programming
35
Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic into First Profitable Quarter • May 20, 2026 at 6:03 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
52
Google Publishes Exploit Code Threatening Millions of Chromium Users • May 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM • arstechnica.com • Slashdot
13P
Congress Banned a Gun Registry. AI Doesn't Need One • May 20, 2026 at 5:58 PM • medium.com/statute-circuit • Hacker News
40
Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo • May 20, 2026 at 5:57 PM • github.com/arashthr • Hacker News
9
Nvidia commits $90B to AI deals • May 20, 2026 at 5:54 PM • semafor.com • Hacker News
73
Sam Altman makes 'mic drop' offer to every Y Combinator startup • May 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
152
Cloudflare CEO on how he chooses which employees to replace with AI • May 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
103
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry • May 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM • openai.com • Lobsters
227
Starship's Twelfth Flight Test • May 20, 2026 at 5:41 PM • spacex.com • Hacker News
4428
Younger partners and sex toy use are associated with less severe symptoms of menopause. Orgasms, specifically those achieved through masturbation with sex toys, help alleviate the physical and emotional symptoms of menopause. • May 20, 2026 at 5:39 PM • psypost.org • r/science
6
Intuit to cut 17% of global jobs to streamline operations • May 20, 2026 at 5:38 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
1061
Google Declaring War on the Web • May 20, 2026 at 5:33 PM • tante.cc • Hacker News
145
Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos • May 20, 2026 at 5:28 PM • github.com/kouhxp • Hacker News
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America Turned Against AI According to the Poll Data: A Very Big Compilation • May 20, 2026 at 5:23 PM • thealgorithmicbridge.com • Hacker News
578
My two-part desk setup (2025) • May 20, 2026 at 5:21 PM • arslan.io • Hacker News
6
Anthropic will be scaling up on GB200 capacity in SpaceX Colossus 2 • May 20, 2026 at 5:15 PM • twitter.com/nottombrown • Hacker News
66
GitHub's take on age assurance for developers • May 20, 2026 at 5:14 PM • github.blog • Hacker News
56
PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play • May 20, 2026 at 5:11 PM • vmax.ai • Hacker News
14
AI Didn't Invent Slop – It Scaled It • May 20, 2026 at 5:10 PM • nadathurx.com • Hacker News
315
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice | In a field experiment sending more than 8,000 fictitious résumés to real job ads, applicants with a self-employment background received ~28% fewer callbacks than wage earners in associate-professional jobs, while facing almost no penalty in managerial positions • May 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM • doi.org • r/science
14
GPU Memory Math for LLMs: Formula That Tells You What Fits on Your GPU • May 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM • theahmadosman.substack.com • Hacker News
19P
Kennedy Fires Leaders of Key Health Task Force • May 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
17
RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance • May 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM • linux.slashdot.org • Slashdot
545P
Declining America • May 20, 2026 at 4:58 PM • tbray.org • Hacker News
5P
Tears – Tiered Enforcement, Authorship Review System • May 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM • github.com/Thillel • Hacker News
74
What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? • May 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM • devblogs.microsoft.com • Hacker News
653
Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200 • May 20, 2026 at 4:55 PM • twitter.com/nottombrown • Hacker News
9
SpaceX Files for IPO • May 20, 2026 at 4:52 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
826
SpaceX S-1 • May 20, 2026 at 4:49 PM • sec.gov • Hacker News
20P
$40K for an $8 knob? The case for a military right to repair • May 20, 2026 at 4:46 PM • fighttorepair.substack.com • Hacker News
6
Data centers could lower power bills. Energy utilities won't • May 20, 2026 at 4:46 PM • governance.fyi • Hacker News
4
Supercharge Your C64 with C64 OS – Gregory Nacu [video] • May 20, 2026 at 4:43 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
19
Driver intentionally drove Cybertruck into lake to use vehicle's 'Wade Mode • May 20, 2026 at 4:38 PM • wcvb.com • Hacker News
25
Gorilla: A fast, scalable, in-memory time series database (2016) • May 20, 2026 at 4:36 PM • blog.acolyer.org • Hacker News
79
Bolt CEO says he let go of HR team for creating problems that didn't exist • May 20, 2026 at 4:34 PM • fortune.com • Hacker News
11
Nvidia Announces Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal 2027 • May 20, 2026 at 4:31 PM • nvidianews.nvidia.com • Hacker News
14
Open Source Burnout Claims Another Project • May 20, 2026 at 4:30 PM • vlad.website • Hacker News
26
In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google Declared War on the Remnants of the Web • May 20, 2026 at 4:30 PM • tldr.nettime.org • Hacker News
303P
Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects • May 20, 2026 at 4:28 PM • legiscan.com • Hacker News
40
An OpenAI model has disproven a central conjecture in discrete geometry • May 20, 2026 at 4:27 PM • openai.com • ~science
11
OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity • May 20, 2026 at 4:26 PM • openai.com • Hacker News
7
OpenAI Announces Construction of New Data Center on Top of Sick Child • May 20, 2026 at 4:23 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
34
Google published exploit code for an unfixed Chromium bug • May 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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Revised^7 Report on Scheme, Large: Procedural Fascicle Draft is now public • May 20, 2026 at 4:21 PM • r7rs.org • Hacker News
63
SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death • May 20, 2026 at 4:21 PM • scientificamerican.com • Hacker News
341
A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft • May 20, 2026 at 4:19 PM • modrinth.com • Hacker News
35
Timmy the stranded whale is dead. Please, let’s put animal welfare first and human emotion second. • May 20, 2026 at 4:16 PM • theconversation.com • ~misc
6
India scorched by heat wave, power demand driven to new record • May 20, 2026 at 4:13 PM • accuweather.com • Hacker News
33
GitHub's Internal Repos Breached Via Employee's Use of Malicious VS Code Extension • May 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM • bleepingcomputer.com • yro.slashdot
74
Google Search as you know it is over • May 20, 2026 at 3:57 PM • techcrunch.com • ~tech
268P
AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale • May 20, 2026 at 3:53 PM • axelk.ee • Bear
9
TargetBridge: Use an iMac as Display for a Modern Mac • May 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM • github.com/swellweb • Hacker News
9P
UK radio station apologises for accidentally announcing king's death • May 20, 2026 at 3:45 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
415
Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing • May 20, 2026 at 3:38 PM • science.org • Hacker News
12
Show HN: I built Istanbul live transit map • May 20, 2026 at 3:36 PM • tarif.ist • Hacker News
22
Gemini 3.5 deleted 28,745 lines, broke production, and wrote a fake post-mortem • May 20, 2026 at 3:32 PM • reddit.com • Hacker News
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OpenSSF's CRob: 'The Runway Is Rapidly Running Out' on EU CRA Readiness • May 20, 2026 at 3:32 PM • devops.com • Hacker News
121
Chromium publishes fixed exploit 4 years later, turns out it's actually unfixed • May 20, 2026 at 3:29 PM • infosec.exchange • Lobsters
46
A random sci-fi question for you • May 20, 2026 at 3:28 PM • tildes.net • ~talk
9
Engineering for Breathing Room • May 20, 2026 at 3:23 PM • rfc.earendil.com • Lobsters
132
Railway is STILL down • May 20, 2026 at 3:19 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
40
WordPress 7.0 • May 20, 2026 at 3:19 PM • wordpress.org • Hacker News
7
Who Builds a House Without Drawing Blueprints? (2015) • May 20, 2026 at 3:13 PM • cacm.acm.org • Lobsters
71
Why does the arrow (->) operator in C exist? • May 20, 2026 at 3:12 PM • stackoverflow.com • Lobsters
296
redis is not a database and i will keep saying this until people stop using it like one • May 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
4
She Is Set to Win 2026 Fields Medal, Nobel of Math [video] • May 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
2479
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry • May 20, 2026 at 3:05 PM • openai.com • Hacker News
99P
Everyone Against Us (2023) • May 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM • chicagomag.com • Hacker News
103P
Make-A-Wish requests that volunteers please not report kids dying of cancer to ICE • May 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM • pseudosingleton.com • Bear
54P
Anna's Archive Hit With Global Domain Takedown Order • May 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM • torrentfreak.com • yro.slashdot
3
Show HN: expo-callkit-telecom – easily integrate CallKit/Core-Telecom • May 20, 2026 at 2:53 PM • github.com/mfairley • Hacker News
366
Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling • May 20, 2026 at 2:50 PM • beyondplastics.org • Hacker News
53
Grief and guilt • May 20, 2026 at 2:50 PM • tildes.net • ~life.pets
207
Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal) • May 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM • nodejs.org • Hacker News
8P
Ask HN: US is planning another Invasion (Cuba).Can Congress/public stop this? • May 20, 2026 at 2:47 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
7
GitHub Source code leaked. Be prepared • May 20, 2026 at 2:47 PM • twitter.com/github • Hacker News
29
What You Will Lose When You Retire – By Dan Haylett • May 20, 2026 at 2:44 PM • danhaylett.substack.com • Hacker News
694
Flipper One Tech Specs • May 20, 2026 at 2:33 PM • docs.flipper.net • Hacker News
40
XSS Is Deadly for Passkeys: The Hidden Risk of Attestation None • May 20, 2026 at 2:20 PM • scotthelme.co.uk • Lobsters
12P
Former Cuban president Raúl Castro indicted in US over fatal downing of 2 planes • May 20, 2026 at 2:18 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
34
Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90% • May 20, 2026 at 2:15 PM • newatlas.com • Hacker News
15
8k Meta employees are waking up to an email saying they've been laid off • May 20, 2026 at 2:13 PM • qz.com • Hacker News
70
Excerpts from actual one-star Amazon.com reviews of books from Time’s list of the 100 best novels from 1923 to the present • May 20, 2026 at 2:06 PM • themorningnews.org • ~books
16
Logic bug in the Linux kernel's __ptrace_may_access() function (CVE-2026-46333) • May 20, 2026 at 2:04 PM • cdn2.qualys.com • Lobsters
11
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) • May 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM • tildes.net • ~anime
70
Seagate Sparks Memory Sell-Off As CEO Says It Would 'Take Too Long' To Build New Factories • May 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM • cnbc.com • Slashdot
29
Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial • May 20, 2026 at 1:57 PM • arstechnica.com • Lobsters
10P
What Do Unions Do? • May 20, 2026 at 1:53 PM • nicholasdecker.substack.com • Hacker News
32
Notes on I2C • May 20, 2026 at 1:52 PM • rana-emaan.com • Lobsters
34
OpenAI is preparing to file for an IPO in the coming weeks • May 20, 2026 at 1:52 PM • bloomberg.com • ~finance
11P
Online child safety campaigners call for US inquiry into Roblox • May 20, 2026 at 1:49 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
92
Curly braces: An evolution of Unix and C • May 20, 2026 at 1:49 PM • thalia.dev • Hacker News
319P
Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025) • May 20, 2026 at 1:48 PM • usni.org • Hacker News
60
Show HN: I made a tool for learning scales, chords, and how to combine them • May 20, 2026 at 1:44 PM • projects.alesh.com • Hacker News
8P
Use a VPN, Says Canadian Government That Wants VPN Logs • May 20, 2026 at 1:39 PM • reclaimthenet.org • Hacker News
4
Lawyer for Guy Who Sued Women Who Called Him 'Psycho' Caught Using AI • May 20, 2026 at 1:35 PM • 404media.co • Hacker News
18
github isnt terrible but man the little annoyances pile up after a while • May 20, 2026 at 1:34 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
200
Why is Inkwell stuck in review • May 20, 2026 at 1:30 PM • manton.org • Hacker News
6P
The Alaska Permanent Fund as Loose Precedent for AI Data Center 'UBI' Payments • May 20, 2026 at 1:26 PM • daringfireball.net • Hacker News
112
What's your favorite personal gaming memory? • May 20, 2026 at 1:25 PM • tildes.net • ~games
1098
Young men with same-sex parents are more likely to work in female-dominated industries, new study finds • May 20, 2026 at 1:21 PM • doi.org • r/science
10
Polymarket launches private company trading for speculating on Anthropic, OpenAI • May 20, 2026 at 1:19 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
144
Silk: Open-source cooperative fiber scheduler • May 20, 2026 at 1:15 PM • github.com/ClickHouse • Hacker News
42
OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO in the Coming Days or Weeks • May 20, 2026 at 1:13 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
2
Show HN: IgniteMS – batch text embeddings at 253K msg/s on 8x A100 • May 20, 2026 at 1:07 PM • github.com/Artain-AI • Hacker News
73
How are you keeping your dependencies up to date? • May 20, 2026 at 1:03 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
64
Yearslong Fight Over Users' Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial • May 20, 2026 at 1:00 PM • arstechnica.com • yro.slashdot
3
PreyReach – AI chat that pulls local-business leads live from Google Places • May 20, 2026 at 12:58 PM • preyreach.com • Hacker News
23
Embracer Group has announced its intention to split into two public companies, with a new spin-off taking over its biggest game IPs, including Tomb Raider • May 20, 2026 at 12:57 PM • videogameschronicle.com • ~games
207
Why I don’t vibe code • May 20, 2026 at 12:56 PM • jacobharr.is • Hacker News
33
Facebook is terrifyingly bad with privacy • May 20, 2026 at 12:56 PM • gary.onl • Bear
228P
After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban • May 20, 2026 at 12:55 PM • 404media.co • Hacker News
30
Show HN: Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents • May 20, 2026 at 12:53 PM • github.com/mupt-ai • Hacker News
285P
Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident? • May 20, 2026 at 12:50 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
14
Nobody Cares, Write Anyway • May 20, 2026 at 12:48 PM • blog.absurdpirate.com • Hacker News
8
Transformer vs. Post-Transformer Debate: Kaiser, Kosowski, Jones, Lechner [video] • May 20, 2026 at 12:41 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
133P
Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year • May 20, 2026 at 12:41 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
7
Samsung Overtakes Apple for Top Smartphone Customer Satisfaction • May 20, 2026 at 12:40 PM • macrumors.com • Hacker News
131
Standard Chartered CEO walks back comment about 'lower-value human capital' • May 20, 2026 at 12:38 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
11
I need help with a website • May 20, 2026 at 12:33 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
750
Apparently Google hates us now • May 20, 2026 at 12:27 PM • twitter.com/pokemoncentral • Hacker News
611
OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon • May 20, 2026 at 12:24 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
12
Meta lays off 8k employees • May 20, 2026 at 12:24 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
123
ArcBrush – Node-based 2D image editor • May 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM • arcbrush.com • Hacker News
197
Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success • May 20, 2026 at 12:01 PM • pacifichorticulture.org • Hacker News
22
What programming/technical projects have you been working on? • May 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM • tildes.net • ~comp
61
Regional Winners of Prestigious Literary Prize Suspected of Using Chatbots • May 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM • slashdot.org • Slashdot
57
Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC • May 20, 2026 at 11:56 AM • appleinsider.com • Hacker News
10
The Security of Ephemeral Pages • May 20, 2026 at 11:54 AM • schalkneethling.com • Hacker News
33
The Hardware Lottery • May 20, 2026 at 11:48 AM • hardwarelottery.github.io • Hacker News
164
The first British person in space • May 20, 2026 at 11:47 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
78
Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model • May 20, 2026 at 11:45 AM • github.com/bytedance • Hacker News
7
You never learned to delegate. AI just made it obvious • May 20, 2026 at 11:45 AM • jeroensangers.com • Hacker News
171
SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014) • May 20, 2026 at 11:39 AM • pvk.ca • Hacker News
176
Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops • May 20, 2026 at 11:25 AM • reubenbrooks.dev • Hacker News
11
the top 10 ways to scam the modern american programmer, by Zed A Shaw • May 20, 2026 at 11:23 AM • youtu.be • r/programming
12
Cybertruck owner believed Elon Musk that it could cross lake – now he's in jail • May 20, 2026 at 11:23 AM • electrek.co • Hacker News
3
How cross-thread double free detection could work in glibc malloc • May 20, 2026 at 11:11 AM • kallus.org • Lobsters
122
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel • May 20, 2026 at 11:10 AM • lithub.com • Hacker News
115
Stable Audio 3 • May 20, 2026 at 11:10 AM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
42P
Russian Troops' Fear Grows as Ukraine AI "Slaughterbot" Drones Headhunt Them • May 20, 2026 at 11:09 AM • thelowdownblog.com • Hacker News
18
Meta begins 8k job cuts in AI efficiency push • May 20, 2026 at 11:06 AM • latimes.com • Hacker News
184
Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond • May 20, 2026 at 11:06 AM • jeffgeerling.com • Hacker News
2
How I burned 389K Claude Code cache-creation tokens before the real prompt • May 20, 2026 at 11:05 AM • skinny.cloud • Hacker News
52
Lost in a sea of HVAC • May 20, 2026 at 11:03 AM • tildes.net • ~life.home_improvement
40
Google's AI Studio Now Lets Anyone Build Android Apps In Minutes • May 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM • techcrunch.com • build.slashdot
45
Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend • May 20, 2026 at 10:51 AM • github.com/ueberdosis • Hacker News
115
Testing distributed systems with AI agents • May 20, 2026 at 10:40 AM • github.com/shenli • Hacker News
9
CEO of $300M company Bolt says problems disappeared after firing HR team • May 20, 2026 at 10:37 AM • hindustantimes.com • Hacker News
1273P
Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit • May 20, 2026 at 10:30 AM • fire.org • Hacker News
5P
Russians Fear Ukraine "Slaughterbot" Drones Are Head-Hunting Them • May 20, 2026 at 10:21 AM • forbes.com • Hacker News
19
Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative • May 20, 2026 at 10:19 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
90
Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more • May 20, 2026 at 10:16 AM • lwn.net • Hacker News
71P
We swapped one crutch for another and nobody wants to admit it • May 20, 2026 at 10:14 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
7P
Former congressman Barney Frank has died • May 20, 2026 at 10:12 AM • nbcnews.com • Hacker News
781P
A new approach to cancer vaccination yields more powerful T cells using mRNA vaccines. In studies in mice, the mRNA cancer vaccine completely eradicate most tumors, including bladder cancer, colon carcinoma, melanoma, and metastatic lung cancer. • May 20, 2026 at 10:06 AM • news.mit.edu • r/science
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the may 2026 fedi software vulnerability • May 20, 2026 at 10:02 AM • w.on-t.work • Lobsters
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hybrid quota-linear rate limiter – Tony Finch • May 20, 2026 at 9:58 AM • dotat.at • r/programming
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The engine behind the 100 TB GitHub search engine • May 20, 2026 at 9:57 AM • github.blog • Hacker News
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Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’ • May 20, 2026 at 9:54 AM • fortune.com • ~tech
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C++26: More function wrappers • May 20, 2026 at 9:52 AM • sandordargo.com • Lobsters
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Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now? • May 20, 2026 at 9:50 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension • May 20, 2026 at 9:49 AM • bleepingcomputer.com • r/webdev
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modulejail: Proactively shrink a Linux host's kernel-module attack surface by blacklisting every module not currently in use • May 20, 2026 at 9:46 AM • github.com/jnuyens • Lobsters
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Alternatives Pt. II - Social Networking • May 20, 2026 at 9:45 AM • technically-good.ca • Bear
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Fewer Bots, More Ads: The Pentagon's Evolving Online Influence Campaigns • May 20, 2026 at 9:44 AM • lawfaremedia.org • Hacker News
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GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension • May 20, 2026 at 9:43 AM • bleepingcomputer.com • Hacker News
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Deutsche Bahn blocks Linux users • May 20, 2026 at 9:39 AM • heise.de • Hacker News
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560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits • May 20, 2026 at 9:35 AM • bmjgroup.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: Every Lego minifigure ranked, from over 1.3M user votes • May 20, 2026 at 9:31 AM • brickelo.com • Hacker News
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Former Housemarque game director Harry Krueger launches new studio Cosmic Division – Finnish studio working on a new single-player franchise for PC and consoles • May 20, 2026 at 9:30 AM • gamedeveloper.com • ~games
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The road to non-directed kidney donation • May 20, 2026 at 9:26 AM • tildes.net • ~health
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Execs admit AI makes them value human workers less • May 20, 2026 at 9:25 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
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Mass surveillance of foreigners in China revealed by abandoned demo dashboard • May 20, 2026 at 9:24 AM • netaskari.substack.com • Hacker News
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America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen • May 20, 2026 at 9:19 AM • danieltan.weblog.lol • Hacker News
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sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library • May 20, 2026 at 9:05 AM • spader.zone • Hacker News
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Golfing Zig ELF Binaries (2025) • May 20, 2026 at 9:05 AM • ctf.gg • Lobsters
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Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment • May 20, 2026 at 9:02 AM • lesnumeriques.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: Agyn, an open-source Kubernetes runtime for AI agents • May 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM • github.com/agynio • Hacker News
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Study of 440,000+ people found lifetime cancer risk varies dramatically based on individual factors • May 20, 2026 at 8:55 AM • ascopubs.org • r/science
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enjoying feeds in moderation • May 20, 2026 at 8:55 AM • receipts.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Show HN: A fast, thread-safe C hashmap with lazy sorting • May 20, 2026 at 8:54 AM • github.com/RaphaelPrevost • Hacker News
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Moderate to heavy drinking tends to be associated with increased bodily inflammation, even for individuals who maintain a highly nutritious diet. The study provides evidence that eating well might not be enough to counter the harmful physical effects of frequent alcohol consumption. • May 20, 2026 at 8:52 AM • psypost.org • r/science
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Yeunjoo Choi from Igalia on Chromium • May 20, 2026 at 8:49 AM • theconsensus.dev • Hacker News
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Erasing Existentials • May 20, 2026 at 8:45 AM • wolfgirl.dev • Lobsters
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Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE • May 20, 2026 at 8:43 AM • alqst.org • Hacker News
147
Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025) • May 20, 2026 at 8:42 AM • phys.org • Hacker News
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Comprehensive phenotypic, physiological, and genetic analyses reveal stronger seedling-stage drought tolerance in Xian/indica than Geng/japonica rice • May 20, 2026 at 8:36 AM • doi.org • r/science
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Childhood maltreatment increases risk of later domestic abuse: Experiencing abuse or neglect as a child can increase the risk of being victimised by a romantic partner in adulthood, by impacting personality and mental health development, finds a new study. • May 20, 2026 at 8:32 AM • ucl.ac.uk • r/science
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Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order • May 20, 2026 at 8:30 AM • torrentfreak.com • Hacker News
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Score by Collisions, Patch by Panic • May 20, 2026 at 8:26 AM • blog.himanshuanand.com • Hacker News
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New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire • May 20, 2026 at 8:22 AM • scientificamerican.com • Hacker News
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You can access Gemini chat history without unlocking your phone with Android 16 • May 20, 2026 at 8:21 AM • reddit.com • Hacker News
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Adults should aim to do between 560-610 minutes/week of moderate to vigorous physical activity to achieve a substantial reduction in the risk of heart attacks and stroke (3-4 times higher than the current public health recommendation of 150 minutes ), suggest the findings of an observational study • May 20, 2026 at 8:17 AM • bmjgroup.com • r/science
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The quadratic sandwich • May 20, 2026 at 8:06 AM • fedemagnani.github.io • Hacker News
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The mental load of understanding code we didn't write • May 20, 2026 at 8:03 AM • eduardmoldovan.com • Hacker News
565
Saying goodbye to asm.js • May 20, 2026 at 8:01 AM • spidermonkey.dev • Hacker News
429
Railway has new term of service • May 20, 2026 at 7:59 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs • May 20, 2026 at 7:58 AM • bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com • Hacker News
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Saying goodbye to asm.js • May 20, 2026 at 7:57 AM • spidermonkey.dev • Lobsters
14
Smoke tests for fun and profit • May 20, 2026 at 7:55 AM • nicolasfella.de • r/programming
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A study tracking children over a period of seven years identified distinct brain-wave patterns emerging from age 9 can forecast a child’s vulnerability to anxiety or depression by age 13. Anxiety is linked to activity on the right side of the brain, while depression is tied to the left. • May 20, 2026 at 7:54 AM • eurekalert.org • r/science
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College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos • May 20, 2026 at 7:51 AM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
25
Feels like utility code naturally drifts apart over time no matter how organized you try to be. • May 20, 2026 at 7:49 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Once-A-Day Pill Effective In Treating Sleep Apnea Without CPAP. In clinical trials, people taking the pill saw their breathing interruptions decrease by about 44% compared to almost 18% for those taking a placebo. Nearly 1 in 5 taking the pill achieved complete relief from sleep apnea • May 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM • site.thoracic.org • r/science
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Virtual Museum with Every Operating System You Can Think Of • May 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM • virtualosmuseum.org • r/programming
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Show HN: Rust Database from Scratch • May 20, 2026 at 7:32 AM • github.com/ayoubnabil • Hacker News
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📧 I have over 200 email addresses • May 20, 2026 at 7:25 AM • jamesbaker.uk • Bear
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LLemdashes • May 20, 2026 at 7:20 AM • wil.to • Lobsters
171
New NGINX Vulnerability Allows Unauthenticated RCE • May 20, 2026 at 7:17 AM • cybersecuritynews.com • r/programming
20
C++26: More Function Wrappers • May 20, 2026 at 7:17 AM • sandordargo.com • Hacker News
19
Show HN: Open-Source Agentic QA Harness with Memory • May 20, 2026 at 7:10 AM • vostride.com • Hacker News
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Reconstructing the west-east genetic division in Indonesia using ancient genomes • May 20, 2026 at 7:10 AM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
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Show HN: I built a dashboard to combine my WHOOP, Oura and Apple Health data • May 20, 2026 at 7:09 AM • vitaltrends.net • Hacker News
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Ask HN: Second time my post gets [dead] within a minute • May 20, 2026 at 7:04 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: AI Doctor Notes – Private doctor visit notes app for patients • May 20, 2026 at 7:02 AM • aidoctornotes.app • Hacker News
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I used to think experienced developers had perfectly organized reusable code systems. • May 20, 2026 at 7:01 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Google Accused of Pushing 'Free For Life' G Suite Users Onto Paid Plans • May 20, 2026 at 7:00 AM • theregister.com • Slashdot
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Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back • May 20, 2026 at 6:57 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
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TeamPCP Interview • May 20, 2026 at 6:53 AM • buymeacoffee.com • Lobsters
618
Map of Metal • May 20, 2026 at 6:47 AM • mapofmetal.com • Hacker News
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Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier • May 20, 2026 at 6:35 AM • qwen.ai • Hacker News
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Real Signals or Artificial Stereotypes? • May 20, 2026 at 6:31 AM • kucharski.substack.com • Hacker News
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No way to parse integers in C (2022) • May 20, 2026 at 6:28 AM • blog.habets.se • Hacker News
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Show HN: IResearch – C++ search that beat Lucene and Tantivy on their benchmark • May 20, 2026 at 6:21 AM • github.com/serenedb • Hacker News
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"Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout • May 20, 2026 at 6:17 AM • cosmiciron.github.io • Hacker News
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations can create a landscape of fear. Increased ICE activity led to significant declines in employment among immigrant women at childcare centers, who are more likely than native-born peers to hold advanced certifications, and not being replaced. • May 20, 2026 at 6:07 AM • uvm.edu • r/science
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Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) • May 20, 2026 at 6:04 AM • zfhuang99.github.io • Hacker News
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Artist with no technical experience stumbles upon the next generation of LLMs • May 20, 2026 at 5:59 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Cities: Skylines Uses a Stock-Market Analogy to Influence Gameplay • May 20, 2026 at 5:55 AM • jkm.dev • Hacker News
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Prompts are technical debt too • May 20, 2026 at 5:35 AM • seangoedecke.com • Lobsters
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Grafana Labs GitHub repos breached via TanStack npm supply chain attack • May 20, 2026 at 5:33 AM • grafana.com • Lobsters
7
Ask HN: How to make a mono-repo AI-Ready? • May 20, 2026 at 5:32 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds • May 20, 2026 at 5:26 AM • kcl.ac.uk • Hacker News
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Show HN: Kreuzberg Cloud – ultra fast content intelligence – in public beta • May 20, 2026 at 5:24 AM • kreuzberg.dev • Hacker News
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Elevated radiation levels detected on Russian drone debris • May 20, 2026 at 5:18 AM • unn.ua • Hacker News
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A new book about humanity's obsession with gold • May 20, 2026 at 5:09 AM • economist.com • Hacker News
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Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (2020) • May 20, 2026 at 5:03 AM • horses.extension.org • Hacker News
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Ask HN: Sorry, what Was FiveThirtyEight? • May 20, 2026 at 4:58 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Show HN: The AI Quant Desk for Onchain Finance • May 20, 2026 at 4:49 AM • grid.raster.finance • Hacker News
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Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension • May 20, 2026 at 4:37 AM • blog.railway.com • Hacker News
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Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages • May 20, 2026 at 4:13 AM • utcc.utoronto.ca • Hacker News
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Github: internal repositories have been accessed • May 20, 2026 at 3:49 AM • nitter.net • Lobsters
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Need honest guidance from seniors where do I actually stand in tech right now? • May 20, 2026 at 3:41 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Researchers closed a major "blind spot" in aerospace engineering. By combining Ga⁺ & Xe⁺ ion beams (FIB-DIC), they mapped mesoscale residual stresses (0.05–0.5 mm) in titanium aircraft blades. This multiscale approach drastically improves engine reliability. • May 20, 2026 at 3:40 AM • sciencedirect.com • r/science
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The way you draw circles says a lot about you • May 20, 2026 at 3:30 AM • qz.com • Hacker News
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Ask HN: What are you working on (20 May) • May 20, 2026 at 3:18 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed at Arizona U commencement speech • May 20, 2026 at 3:08 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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Webb Discovers One of the Universe's First Galaxies • May 20, 2026 at 3:00 AM • phys.org • science.slashdot
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I • May 20, 2026 at 2:29 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
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Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame. • May 20, 2026 at 2:27 AM • bbc.com • ~enviro
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Everything in C is undefined behavior • May 20, 2026 at 2:26 AM • blog.habets.se • Lobsters
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GitHub Source Code Breach - TeamPCP Claims Access to Internal Source Code • May 20, 2026 at 2:08 AM • cybersecuritynews.com • Lobsters
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Everything in C is undefined behavior • May 20, 2026 at 2:07 AM • blog.habets.se • Hacker News
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Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates • May 20, 2026 at 1:56 AM • macobserver.com • Hacker News
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Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C • May 20, 2026 at 1:54 AM • thalia.dev • Lobsters
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Complex decisions: The faster the better - When it comes to complex strategic decisions, a shorter thinking time is associated with a higher quality of decisions. • May 20, 2026 at 1:49 AM • lmu.de • r/science
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Neuroepithelial Tumor with AAV Integration after Intracisternal Magna Vector Delivery | New England Journal of Medicine • May 20, 2026 at 1:47 AM • nejm.org • r/science
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Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy • May 20, 2026 at 1:43 AM • news.infomaniak.com • Hacker News
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There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going • May 20, 2026 at 1:33 AM • kottke.org • Hacker News
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Node.js Security Bug Bounty Program Paused Due to Loss of Funding • May 20, 2026 at 1:09 AM • nodejs.org • Lobsters
227
India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark • May 20, 2026 at 1:07 AM • hindustantimes.com • Hacker News
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Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows • May 20, 2026 at 12:51 AM • andlukyane.com • Hacker News
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Hiring | AI Automation Engineer | Remote • May 20, 2026 at 12:33 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Visited Meteor Crater • May 20, 2026 at 12:25 AM • blog.lauramichet.com • Bear
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Ask HN: How does everyone talk about their work when they've used AI? • May 20, 2026 at 12:22 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Even by Trumpian standards, a $1.8B fund for friends is bad • May 20, 2026 at 12:18 AM • economist.com • Hacker News
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boy troubles • May 20, 2026 at 12:17 AM • smokingacigarette.bearblog.dev • Bear
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GitHub Compromised • May 20, 2026 at 12:12 AM • twitter.com/github • Hacker News
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Ask HN: How to manage AI APIs for SaaS application? • May 20, 2026 at 12:11 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Oversharing in personal sites • May 20, 2026 at 12:04 AM • radarambles.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Fast Factorial Algorithms • May 19, 2026 at 11:55 PM • luschny.de • Hacker News
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If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly (2024) • May 19, 2026 at 11:45 PM • devblogs.microsoft.com • Lobsters
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trying to imagine sisyphus happy • May 19, 2026 at 11:36 PM • tiramisu.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban Prediction Markets • May 19, 2026 at 11:30 PM • npr.org • yro.slashdot
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LLM detector with science behind it • May 19, 2026 at 11:29 PM • huggingface.co • Hacker News
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Ask HN: What are Stainless users doing now that Anthropic has killed it? • May 19, 2026 at 11:28 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Taking psychedelic substances with a romantic partner is associated with a deeper sense of mutual understanding and enhanced relationship quality. In contrast, using these substances alone might leave partners out of sync, potentially contributing to relationship dissolution later on. • May 19, 2026 at 11:28 PM • psypost.org • r/science
105
Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years • May 19, 2026 at 11:25 PM • caio.ca • Lobsters
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Show HN: Javalamp – A glowing terminal screensaver that keeps your Mac awake • May 19, 2026 at 11:24 PM • github.com/breschio • Hacker News
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Evals will break • May 19, 2026 at 11:10 PM • wanglun1996.github.io • Hacker News