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AI is killing the cheap smartphone • May 21, 2026 at 10:49 PM • davidoks.blog • ~comp
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Cleve Moler has died • May 21, 2026 at 10:35 PM • mathworks.com • Hacker News
360
Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It • May 21, 2026 at 10:24 PM • rickcarlino.com • Hacker News
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It is time to build a new internet • May 21, 2026 at 10:19 PM • mrmarket.bearblog.dev • Hacker News
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Riot Games celebrates bricking cheat devices • May 21, 2026 at 10:05 PM • twitter.com/riotgames • Hacker News
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It is time to build a new internet • May 21, 2026 at 10:04 PM • mrmarket.bearblog.dev • Bear
134
Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It • May 21, 2026 at 9:37 PM • rickcarlino.com • Lobsters
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Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar • May 21, 2026 at 9:30 PM • qz.com • Hacker News
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Iran Moved Billions Through Binance to Fund Regime–Continuing into This Month • May 21, 2026 at 9:27 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
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How to stop using Claude • May 21, 2026 at 9:16 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
107
May 2026 Backlog Burner: Week 4 Discussion • May 21, 2026 at 9:10 PM • tildes.net • ~games
58
How you probably will find Satoshi • May 21, 2026 at 9:05 PM • foxchapelresearch.substack.com • Hacker News
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today is Moogle's 1st Gotcha Day! incoming cat pic photo dump • May 21, 2026 at 8:52 PM • stitching.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Introducing the pkg.go.dev API • May 21, 2026 at 8:33 PM • go.dev • Lobsters
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U.S. bears brunt of Israel's missile defense, Pentagon assessments show • May 21, 2026 at 8:23 PM • washingtonpost.com • Hacker News
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The most pointless use of generative AI I've seen so far • May 21, 2026 at 8:04 PM • danielle.bearblog.dev • Bear
175
Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers • May 21, 2026 at 7:37 PM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
359
The IBM-ification of Google? • May 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM • zeroshot.bearblog.dev • Hacker News
57
Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle • May 21, 2026 at 7:21 PM • wheresyoured.at • Hacker News
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NES Documentation [pdf] • May 21, 2026 at 6:56 PM • nesdev.org • Hacker News
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US DHS put out alert on comedian who created parody ICE tip website • May 21, 2026 at 6:54 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
164
Are we self-sovereign PKI yet? • May 21, 2026 at 6:49 PM • buffrr.dev • Hacker News
124
How many branches can your CPU predict? – Daniel Lemire's blog • May 21, 2026 at 6:28 PM • lemire.me • r/programming
13
uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess • May 21, 2026 at 6:23 PM • loopwerk.io • Lobsters
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The SpaceX IPO It's Worse Than You Think [video] • May 21, 2026 at 6:19 PM • youtube.com • Hacker News
492
How to Call an API from an Email • May 21, 2026 at 6:11 PM • redo.com • r/programming
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Bungie announces final update for Destiny 2 • May 21, 2026 at 6:08 PM • bungie.net • ~games
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How to Call an API from an Email • May 21, 2026 at 6:05 PM • redo.com • Hacker News
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The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics • May 21, 2026 at 5:55 PM • davidoks.blog • Hacker News
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Buying your way to better health comes at the expense of others. An increase in private health insurance uptake leads to poorer health in the population over time. Paying for private health services may be beneficial for those who can afford to do so, but it comes at the expense of others. • May 21, 2026 at 5:52 PM • eurekalert.org • r/science
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Curtis Yarvin and the Political Evolution of Silicon Valley Reactionaries • May 21, 2026 at 5:49 PM • dontbeasucker.blog • Hacker News
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Interview with the Engineer of Uruky, a Private Search Engine • May 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM • theprivacydad.com • Bear
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Trump Calls Off AI Executive Order Over Concern It Could Weaken US Tech Edge • May 21, 2026 at 5:00 PM • yro.slashdot.org • yro.slashdot
473
Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess • May 21, 2026 at 4:56 PM • loopwerk.io • Hacker News
146
The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers • May 21, 2026 at 4:51 PM • diffuseai.pub • Hacker News
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Why banning the recycling logo is progress in the fight against plastic waste • May 21, 2026 at 4:50 PM • washingtonpost.com • Hacker News
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Chromium publishes fixed exploit 4 years later, turns out it's unfixed • May 21, 2026 at 4:45 PM • infosec.exchange • Hacker News
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C constructs that still don't work in C++ • May 21, 2026 at 4:40 PM • lospino.so • Hacker News
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ACLU Secures $485,000 Settlement for FWC Biologist Fired over Charlie Kirk Post • May 21, 2026 at 4:25 PM • live-awp-florida.pantheonsite.io • Hacker News
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Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps • May 21, 2026 at 4:23 PM • github.com/eigenpal • Hacker News
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Opening calc.exe from the S&Box C# sandbox • May 21, 2026 at 4:18 PM • slugcat.systems • Hacker News
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AI-assisted engineers are burning out, is this fine? • May 21, 2026 at 4:10 PM • evilmartians.com • Hacker News
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Why meat-eating dinosaurs like T. rex evolved tiny arms: « The evolution of tiny arms in several groups of meat-eating dinosaurs was likely driven by the development of strong, powerful heads, which were used to attack prey. » • May 21, 2026 at 4:01 PM • cam.ac.uk • r/science
38
Flipper One Could Be the Ultimate Linux Cyberdeck • May 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM • nerds.xyz • devices.slashdot
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Show HN: Anyone interested in a tool helps to explore C++ ASTs • May 21, 2026 at 3:53 PM • uvic-aurora.github.io • Hacker News
44
what's in my bag? • May 21, 2026 at 3:49 PM • lassmaya.bearblog.dev • Bear
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Israel's High-Tech Campaign to Kill or Capture Every Oct. 7 Attacker • May 21, 2026 at 3:40 PM • wsj.com • Hacker News
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Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O • May 21, 2026 at 3:37 PM • arxiv.org • Hacker News
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Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah • May 21, 2026 at 3:32 PM • milwaukeemag.com • Hacker News
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Using Kagi Search with Low Vision • May 21, 2026 at 3:32 PM • veroniiiica.com • Hacker News
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Mozilla and Adafruit Bring Web Serial Workflows to Firefox • May 21, 2026 at 3:30 PM • blog.mozilla.org • Hacker News
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SpaceX's IPO Bagship carries full payload of Elon's mistakes • May 21, 2026 at 3:30 PM • jamesthomason.com • Hacker News
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Don't host your projects on Netlify unless you're ready to lose access to your own site • May 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center • May 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM • bsky.app • Hacker News
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I made my own Reddit alternative • May 21, 2026 at 3:08 PM • psephos.cc • ~tech
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Web Serial Support in Firefox • May 21, 2026 at 3:05 PM • hacks.mozilla.org • Hacker News
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Announcing Web Serial Support in Firefox • May 21, 2026 at 3:02 PM • hacks.mozilla.org • Lobsters
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How to open calc.exe from S&Box • May 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM • slugcat.systems • Lobsters
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22% Layoff at ClickUp • May 21, 2026 at 2:58 PM • twitter.com/dj_curfew • Hacker News
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Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD • May 21, 2026 at 2:54 PM • crocidb.com • Hacker News
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Just You Wait • May 21, 2026 at 2:35 PM • shiflett.org • Hacker News
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Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf] • May 21, 2026 at 2:29 PM • nabstreamingsummit.com • Hacker News
51
Dependency cooldowns are unfair; we should use phased rollouts instead • May 21, 2026 at 2:14 PM • illegalcode.net • Lobsters
251
Incompetent managers are worse than AI-hyped CEOs • May 21, 2026 at 2:11 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
151
Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks? • May 21, 2026 at 2:04 PM • thek6project.co.uk • Hacker News
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Getting an old Computer online with Android Ethernet tethering • May 21, 2026 at 2:03 PM • 82mhz.net • Hacker News
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Spotify Will Start Reserving Concert Tickets For Fans • May 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM • hollywoodreporter.com • Slashdot
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Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police • May 21, 2026 at 1:55 PM • prismreports.org • Hacker News
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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
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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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what people freaking out about birth rate decline sound like • May 21, 2026 at 1:02 PM • nostalgia.bearblog.dev • Bear
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Heretic has been served a legal notice by Meta, Inc • May 21, 2026 at 12:13 PM • reddit.com • Hacker News
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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
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Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial • May 21, 2026 at 11:45 AM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
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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
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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
14
John Regehr's Integers in C Quiz • May 21, 2026 at 10:35 AM • acepace.net • Lobsters
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
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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
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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
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Advice for 2026 commencement speakers: Don't bring up AI • May 21, 2026 at 9:58 AM • text.npr.org • Hacker News
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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
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Highest Random Weight in Elixir • May 21, 2026 at 9:48 AM • jola.dev • Hacker News
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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
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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
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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
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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
11
FatGid - FreeBSD 14.x kernel LPE • May 21, 2026 at 8:42 AM • fatgid.io • Lobsters
50
What can I do to stop a persistent bot from hammering my site? • May 21, 2026 at 8:32 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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
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Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines • May 21, 2026 at 8:16 AM • blog.changs.co.uk • Lobsters
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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
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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
27
Modern Python Tooling in 2026 • May 21, 2026 at 5:14 AM • medium.com/gitconnected • r/programming
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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
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The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails • May 21, 2026 at 4:06 AM • buttondown.com • Hacker News
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
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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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Meta Lays Off 8k Employees, as A.I. Casualties Mount • May 21, 2026 at 1:13 AM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
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YAML? That's Norway Problem • May 21, 2026 at 12:18 AM • lab174.com • Hacker News
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OpenSMTPD Is The Mail Server For The Future • May 20, 2026 at 11:27 PM • bsdly.blogspot.com • Lobsters
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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