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GitHub faces a fight for its survival at Microsoft • May 21, 2026 at 1:43 PM • theverge.com • Hacker News
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Megalodon: Mass GitHub Repo Backdooring via CI Workflows • May 21, 2026 at 1:38 PM • safedep.io • Hacker News
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mass github repo backdooring via CI workflows(Megalodon) • May 21, 2026 at 1:30 PM • safedep.io • r/programming
31
Ask HN: Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please • May 21, 2026 at 1:19 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid • May 21, 2026 at 1:14 PM • discover.swns.com • Hacker News
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Waymo Pauses Atlanta Service As Its Robotaxis Keep Driving Into Floods • May 21, 2026 at 1:02 PM • techcrunch.com • Slashdot
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what people freaking out about birth rate decline sound like • May 21, 2026 at 1:02 PM • nostalgia.bearblog.dev • Bear
453P
News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism • May 21, 2026 at 12:59 PM • niemanlab.org • Hacker News
208
Improving C# Memory Safety • May 21, 2026 at 12:54 PM • devblogs.microsoft.com • Hacker News
204
Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP • May 21, 2026 at 12:42 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
50
New "old school" gadgets? • May 21, 2026 at 12:40 PM • tildes.net • ~tech
174
Flipper One — we need your help • May 21, 2026 at 12:37 PM • blog.flipper.net • Lobsters
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London Mayor Blocks Palantir • May 21, 2026 at 12:35 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods • May 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
55
Hot or Not: Temperature guessing game • May 21, 2026 at 12:27 PM • hotornot.guissmo.com • ~creative
540
Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans • May 21, 2026 at 12:26 PM • hollywoodreporter.com • Hacker News
166
Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C • May 21, 2026 at 12:25 PM • github.com/boratanrikulu • Hacker News
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Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart • May 21, 2026 at 12:23 PM • valhovey.github.io • Hacker News
42
Heretic has been served a legal notice by Meta, Inc • May 21, 2026 at 12:13 PM • reddit.com • Hacker News
131
Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team • May 21, 2026 at 12:07 PM • runtm.com • Hacker News
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Shifting focus • May 21, 2026 at 11:55 AM • robertbirming.com • Bear
111
Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices • May 21, 2026 at 11:50 AM • calculators.de • Hacker News
22
Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial • May 21, 2026 at 11:45 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
23
Reflections on Building Forum Software • May 21, 2026 at 11:41 AM • counting-stuff.com • Hacker News
22
Show HN: Let agents run any analysis with Mixpanel data, no UI required • May 21, 2026 at 11:14 AM • docs.mixpanel.com • Hacker News
765
I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph • May 21, 2026 at 11:05 AM • dougmacdowell.com • Hacker News
720
A 10-year study in Germany reports that extending screening for Type 1 diabetes successfully identified more children without a family history of the disease. About 90 percent of people who develop type 1 diabetes do not have family members with diabetes. • May 21, 2026 at 11:03 AM • sciencenews.org • r/science
2
Fitness Weekly Discussion • May 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~health
82
OpenAI Claims It Solved an 80-Year-Old Math Problem • May 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM • science.slashdot.org • science.slashdot
106
We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API • May 21, 2026 at 10:50 AM • rivet.dev • Hacker News
655
Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps • May 21, 2026 at 10:34 AM • freenet.org • Hacker News
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Michael Keating has died • May 21, 2026 at 10:31 AM • bigfinish.com • Hacker News
416
Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can • May 21, 2026 at 10:29 AM • osnews.com • Hacker News
52
TSA announces TSA Gold+ • May 21, 2026 at 10:25 AM • tsa.gov • ~transport
67
Book Review: On the Calculation of Volume • May 21, 2026 at 10:24 AM • stephendiehl.com • Hacker News
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More than half of students (54%) regularly listened to music while studying. Almost all of them believed it helped them. They described using music to boost motivation, enhance focus, or block external noise. Classical and Rock were most common genres. Many preferred non‑lyrical, slow music. • May 21, 2026 at 10:11 AM • ecu.edu.au • r/science
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Internships for early university / no former employment • May 21, 2026 at 10:09 AM • lobste.rs • Lobsters
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Read the DNC's 2024 autopsy obtained by CNN • May 21, 2026 at 10:04 AM • cnn.com • Hacker News
603
Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap) • May 21, 2026 at 10:01 AM • blog.simbastack.com • Hacker News
238
Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop • May 21, 2026 at 9:55 AM • github.com/logannye • Hacker News
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70% of Faculty Vote to Overhaul Harvard Grading with A Cap • May 21, 2026 at 9:51 AM • thecrimson.com • Hacker News
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Google's Antigravity bait and switch • May 21, 2026 at 9:50 AM • 0xsid.com • Hacker News
82
Highest Random Weight in Elixir • May 21, 2026 at 9:48 AM • jola.dev • Hacker News
104
Avoiding npm dependencies in frontend dev • May 21, 2026 at 9:46 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale • May 21, 2026 at 9:38 AM • axelk.ee • Hacker News
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Shunning AI is the human choice • May 21, 2026 at 9:36 AM • thehandbasket.co • Hacker News
65
Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018) • May 21, 2026 at 9:31 AM • blog.0patch.com • Hacker News
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US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds • May 21, 2026 at 9:25 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
58
Does anyone use self-hosted recipe server/software like Mealie? • May 21, 2026 at 9:22 AM • tildes.net • ~food
135
A performance regression in code I didn’t touch: debugging an L1 i-cache associativity issue • May 21, 2026 at 9:16 AM • blog.andr2i.com • r/programming
183
Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40 • May 21, 2026 at 9:13 AM • fabiensanglard.net • Hacker News
136
Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt • May 21, 2026 at 9:04 AM • gist.github.com • Hacker News
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A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide • May 21, 2026 at 8:58 AM • wired.com • Hacker News
327
Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking • May 21, 2026 at 8:56 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
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Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket • May 21, 2026 at 8:55 AM • papers.ssrn.com • Hacker News
52
Show HN: I Made a Claude Skill for Spec-Driven Development (SDD) • May 21, 2026 at 8:49 AM • github.com/FredAntB • Hacker News
43
Show HN: Twixt – transform one word into another in four moves • May 21, 2026 at 8:29 AM • twixt.games • Hacker News
43
Tesla Cybertruck driver arrested after driving into lake to use 'wade mode' • May 21, 2026 at 8:24 AM • bbc.co.uk • Hacker News
41
Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines • May 21, 2026 at 8:16 AM • blog.changs.co.uk • Lobsters
145
FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation • May 21, 2026 at 8:15 AM • fatgid.io • Hacker News
1947
Modeling study finds that when Vitamin C is also present in food, such as leafy greens like spinach, which contain both Vitamin C and nitrate, it could decrease cancer risk by limiting the formation of potentially carcinogenic compounds in the body • May 21, 2026 at 8:02 AM • uwaterloo.ca • r/science
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Purity culture exposure linked to higher sexual shame in trauma survivors. This research highlights the deep impact that specific religious scripts can have on psychological recovery and sexual well-being. • May 21, 2026 at 8:01 AM • psypost.org • r/science
405
We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations — and it scaled • May 21, 2026 at 7:51 AM • shopify.engineering • r/programming
52
CPPL: A Circuit Prompt Programming Language • May 21, 2026 at 7:50 AM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
169
i'm a backend dev, what is the laziest yet good-looking (preferably lightweight) way to do frontend? • May 21, 2026 at 7:36 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
553
Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers • May 21, 2026 at 7:12 AM • fagnerbrack.com • r/programming
640
Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines • May 21, 2026 at 7:10 AM • blog.changs.co.uk • Hacker News
14
Google just spat in my face • May 21, 2026 at 7:09 AM • dbushell.com • Hacker News
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Flipper One – we need your help • May 21, 2026 at 7:03 AM • blog.flipper.net • Hacker News
540
Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored • May 21, 2026 at 7:02 AM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
120
SpaceX Reveals Its Finances For the First Time • May 21, 2026 at 7:00 AM • nytimes.com • Slashdot
146
What ways to create an infinitely scrolling website? • May 21, 2026 at 6:59 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
314
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades • May 21, 2026 at 6:52 AM • newscientist.com • Hacker News
43
Denmark's wind and solar investments shield it from global energy turmoil • May 21, 2026 at 6:44 AM • pbs.org • Hacker News
86
IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation • May 21, 2026 at 6:39 AM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
105
Staged publishing for npm packages • May 21, 2026 at 6:05 AM • docs.npmjs.com • r/programming
1200
We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot • May 21, 2026 at 5:49 AM • blog.google • Hacker News
1124
Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations • May 21, 2026 at 5:31 AM • noslopgrenade.com • Hacker News
36
Kubernetes In Anger • May 21, 2026 at 5:27 AM • samof76.space • Lobsters
287
Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK • May 21, 2026 at 5:22 AM • github.com/helvesec • Hacker News
62
AI Engineering from Scratch • May 21, 2026 at 5:14 AM • aiengineeringfromscratch.com • Hacker News
58
The famous O3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work • May 21, 2026 at 4:52 AM • seangoedecke.com • Hacker News
74
The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails • May 21, 2026 at 4:06 AM • buttondown.com • Hacker News
42
You are Allowed to Want What You Like • May 21, 2026 at 4:00 AM • livingkindfully.bearblog.dev • Bear
208
Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens • May 21, 2026 at 3:39 AM • nationalgeographic.com • Hacker News
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It finally happened • May 21, 2026 at 3:30 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
606
Vivaldi 8.0 • May 21, 2026 at 3:21 AM • vivaldi.com • Hacker News
16
Comparing Objective Caml and Standard ML • May 21, 2026 at 3:07 AM • adam.chlipala.net • Hacker News
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NASA Expects Chinese Crewed Mission Around the Moon In 2027 • May 21, 2026 at 3:00 AM • spacenews.com • science.slashdot
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Tailwind: Suffering From Success • May 21, 2026 at 2:20 AM • blog.sebin-nyshkim.net • Lobsters
53
On Google declaring war on the Web • May 21, 2026 at 1:59 AM • tante.cc • Lobsters
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[RFC] LLVM Foundation statement in favor of open access to standards documents • May 21, 2026 at 1:51 AM • discourse.llvm.org • Lobsters
72
Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C • May 21, 2026 at 1:35 AM • thalia.dev • r/programming
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He Lost It at the Movies • May 21, 2026 at 1:22 AM • theideasletter.org • Hacker News
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YAML? That's Norway Problem • May 21, 2026 at 12:18 AM • lab174.com • Hacker News
35
OpenSMTPD Is The Mail Server For The Future • May 20, 2026 at 11:27 PM • bsdly.blogspot.com • Lobsters
60
Tildes Minecraft Weekly • May 20, 2026 at 11:20 PM • tildes.net • ~games
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no filming pls • May 20, 2026 at 11:13 PM • tism.help • Bear
251
Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis • May 20, 2026 at 10:51 PM • weirdgloop.org • Lobsters
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Apple's new iPhone comes with Israeli chips • May 20, 2026 at 10:43 PM • nonogra.ph • Hacker News
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Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users • May 20, 2026 at 10:37 PM • arstechnica.com • r/programming
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I'm Filing for Justice Samuel Alito's Disbarment • May 20, 2026 at 10:35 PM • cmarmitage.substack.com • Hacker News
140
OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday • May 20, 2026 at 10:24 PM • cnbc.com • Hacker News
255
Haskell Foundation 2026 Update • May 20, 2026 at 10:13 PM • discourse.haskell.org • Hacker News
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Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding • May 20, 2026 at 10:07 PM • third-bit.com • Lobsters
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
205P
What is a Demand Coop • May 20, 2026 at 9:20 PM • cahootzcoops.com • Hacker News
48
The Problem of Evil in "The Lord Of The Rings" • May 20, 2026 at 9:06 PM • palmzealot.com • Bear
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
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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
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
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Jewish American Security Act requires online platforms to moderate purge content • May 20, 2026 at 6:33 PM • lankford.senate.gov • Hacker News
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YAML? That's Norway problem • May 20, 2026 at 6:29 PM • lab174.com • r/programming
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Pixel phones running Graphene OS not eligibile for battery replacement program • May 20, 2026 at 6:26 PM • twitter.com/nikolaiG22 • Hacker News
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
40
Show HN: Git-based front-end interface for Hugo • May 20, 2026 at 5:57 PM • github.com/arashthr • 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
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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
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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
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
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
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Kennedy Fires Leaders of Key Health Task Force • May 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
545P
Declining America • May 20, 2026 at 4:58 PM • tbray.org • Hacker News
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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
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SpaceX S-1 • May 20, 2026 at 4:49 PM • sec.gov • 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
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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
14
Open Source Burnout Claims Another Project • May 20, 2026 at 4:30 PM • vlad.website • Hacker News
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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
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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
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
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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
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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
415
Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing • May 20, 2026 at 3:38 PM • science.org • 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
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
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
71
Why does the arrow (->) operator in C exist? • May 20, 2026 at 3:12 PM • stackoverflow.com • Lobsters
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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
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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry • May 20, 2026 at 3:05 PM • openai.com • Hacker News
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Everyone Against Us (2023) • May 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM • chicagomag.com • Hacker News
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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
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
29
What You Will Lose When You Retire – By Dan Haylett • May 20, 2026 at 2:44 PM • danhaylett.substack.com • Hacker News
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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
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