680
258
The Gay Jailbreak Technique
https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md
★ 697 Roff – 3 months ago
674
395
DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deepseek-v4/
3 months ago
601
483
Ti-84 Evo
https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo
561
166
Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable
★ 2.1k Swift MIT– 3 months ago
476
122
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-demo-renews-contract-anyway/
461
272
It's Possible to Learn in Our Sleep. Should We?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we
409
396
AI Uses Less Water Than the Public Thinks
https://californiawaterblog.com/2026/04/26/ai-water-use-distractions-and-lessons-for-california/
404
530
Grok 4.3
https://docs.x.ai/developers/models/grok-4.3
401
Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months
https://www.briefs.co/news/uber-torches-entire-2026-ai-budget-on-claude-code-in-four-months/
383
321
Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app
https://xcancel.com/aaronp613/status/2049986504617820551
382
0
Show HN: We Rebuilt AppAnne and Created Appkittiedead
https://www.appkittie.com
377
131
Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers
https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/
307
503
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975571
287
308
Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yerr4m1yno
271
109
Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests
https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-times-in-recent-years/
267
189
Your Website Is Not for You
https://websmith.studio/blog/your-website-is-not-for-you/
261
14
An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open
https://keepthingsopen.com
256
128
Apocalypse Early Warning System
https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/
240
191
Credit Cards Are Vulnerable to Brute Force Kind Attacks
https://metin.nextc.org/posts/Credit_Cards_Are_Vulnerable_To_Brute_Force_Kind_Attacks.html
222
73
US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-usindian-space-mission-extreme-subsidence.html
220
71
Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS for more than 15h
https://status.canonical.com/#/incident/KNms6QK9ewuzz-7xUsPsNylV20jEt5kyKsd8A-3ptQEHpOd8VQ40ZQs-KD81fboQXeGZB94okNHdHBGlCv58Sw==
213
224
The X-Files Has Made Me Nostalgic for a Time I Never Experienced
https://midnightmurmurations.substack.com/p/the-x-files-has-made-me-nostalgic
210
249
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975676
207
147
OpenWarp
https://openwarp.zerx.dev
192
145
Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHwxV0Sd9V8
96
Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc
★ 372 C – 3 months ago
186
48
Text-to-CAD
https://github.com/earthtojake/text-to-cad
★ 2.1k JavaScript MIT– 3 months ago
177
Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/05/01/windows-quality-update-progress-weve-made-since-march/
169
Understand Anything
https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything
★ 13.1k TypeScript MIT– 3 months ago
164
77
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/amazon-stuck-with-months-of-repairs-after-drone-strikes-on-data-centers/
162
165
Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25679
154
36
Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1854
153
38
whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search
https://github.com/whohas/whohas
★ 178 Perl GPL-2.0– 3 months ago
152
515
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975570
143
129
After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/after-dissing-anthropic-for-limiting-mythos-openai-restricts-access-to-cyber-too/
139
17
Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs
https://github.com/intel/auto-round
★ 1.3k Python Apache-2.0– 3 months ago
138
127
Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/30/adhd-subtype-extreme-brain-scans/
134
66
A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025) [pdf]
https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf
39
What Is Z-Angle Memory and Why Is Intel Developing It?
https://www.hpcwire.com/2026/02/05/what-is-z-angle-memory-and-why-is-intel-developing-it/
28
Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-has-been-down-for-more-than-a-day/
Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/30/mac-studio-mac-mini-constrained-months/
126
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GhostBox – disposable little machines from the Global Free Tier.
https://www.ghost.charity/
125
42
A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm
https://lwn.net/Articles/1066156/
124
43
Sally McKee, who coined the term "the Memory Wall", has died
https://www.online-tribute.com/SallyMcKee
111
10
Whimsical Animations Course Open House
https://courses.joshwcomeau.com/wham/open-house/00-introduction
108
24
A Treasure Trove of Fossils Rewrites the Story of Early Life
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-treasure-trove-of-cambrian-fossils-rewrites-the-story-of-early-life-20260501/
107
49
Your Biggest Vulnerability is your Shitty Compensation
https://green.spacedino.net/your-biggest-vulnerability-is-your-shitty-compensation/
105
A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
https://www.rightscon.org/rc26-statement/
35
Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972888
99
Show HN: AI CAD Harness
https://fusion.adam.new/install
98
Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows
https://github.com/kernalix7/winpodx
★ 275 Python MIT– 3 months ago
94
16
NHS Goes to War Against Open Source
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/
91
51
K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s
https://github.com/alexellis/k3sup
★ 7.3k Go – 3 months ago
85
87
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/canonical_confirms_ubuntu_infrastructure_under/
80
45
Artemis II Fault Tolerance
https://alearningaday.blog/2026/05/01/artemis-ii-fault-tolerance/
79
7
How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4pvyw82exo
74
2
If I Could Make My Own GitHub
https://matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/
A Letter from Dijkstra on APL
https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/Dijkstra_Letter.htm
70
Show HN: Site Mogging
https://sitemogging.com