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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license
3 months ago
1676
258
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037336
1633
651
Appearing Productive in the Workplace
https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
787
884
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/
767
167
Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
https://red-squares.cian.lol/
725
336
Programming Still Sucks
https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
686
389
StarFighter 16-Inch
https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter
663
192
SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html
658
368
Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
509
485
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex
206
Knitting Bullshit
https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/knitting-bullshit/
411
103
Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)
https://www.wiisfi.com/
409
441
Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/
403
Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/06/singapore-caning-school-bullies
367
44
Multi-stroke text effect in CSS
https://yuanchuan.dev/multi-stroke-text-effect-in-css
354
107
Inkscape 1.4.4 Is Out
https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html
353
120
Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me
https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21465037.html
340
116
YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-broken
308
130
Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
https://storica.club/blog/pinocchio-in-italian/
306
267
Show HN: Hallucinopedia
http://halupedia.com/
303
239
From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
https://blog.val.town/better-auth
294
238
CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death
279
194
The vi family
https://lpar.ATH0.com/posts/2026/05/the-vi-family/
265
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BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
https://electrek.co/2026/05/05/byd-overtakes-tesla-kia-best-selling-ev-brand-key-overseas-markets/
264
199
Industry-Leading 245TB Micron 6600 Ion Data Center SSD Now Shipping
https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/industry-leading-245tb-micron-6600-ion-data-center-ssd-now
247
69
Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
https://draxinar.github.io/articles/2026-05-01-uodemo-reverse-engineering.html
54
What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting
https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting-20260506/
235
213
Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
https://letsdatascience.com/news/telus-uses-ai-to-alter-call-agent-accents-a3868f63
231
237
Life During Class Wartime
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime
223
98
We see something that works, and then we understand it
https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/04/we-see-something-that-works-and-then-we-understand-it/
204
133
Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent Sandbox with a Transactional, Versioned Filesystem
https://tilde.run/
202
43
Going Full Time on Open Source
https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/
185
112
America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
https://apnews.com/projects/pfas-forever-stained/
181
Man Finds $1M Worth of Yu-Gi-Oh Cards in a Dumpster
https://www.404media.co/man-finds-1-million-worth-of-yu-gi-oh-cards-in-a-dumpster/
173
240
The Disappearance of the Public Bench
https://placesjournal.org/article/the-disappearance-of-the-public-bench/
168
48
Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer
https://play.templatical.com
166
91
I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up
https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/visual-basic-history-chapter-1-launch
161
23
Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model
https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html
152
60
Proton Meet
https://proton.me/business/blog/introducing-proton-meet
145
52
Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10
https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/
114
Shrinkflation Is Quietly Making All Gadgets Worse
https://gizmodo.com/shrinkflation-is-quietly-making-all-gadgets-worse-2000754565
136
41
Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/bitter-lessons-from-the-isspresso
Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-04-26/colombia-hosts-talks-on-exiting-fossil-fuels-as-global-energy-crisis-deepens
110
What British people mean when they say 'sorry'
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260506-what-british-people-really-mean-when-they-say-sorry
79
What I Learned Making an App for My Family
https://mendelgreenberg.com/posts/ourcar/
111
38
Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/05/06/light-without-electricity-glowing-algae-could-make-it-possible
102
66
Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/314311
★ 184.8k TypeScript MIT– 3 months ago
96
8
The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine
https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everything/communities-of-practice/the-soul-of-maintaining-a-new-machine/3
21
Yes, pen pal programs still exist in a digital world
https://apnews.com/article/pen-pals-letters-comeback-bc87e1b9c229665bafd368e19751d6ca
90
Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/disneyland-entrance-facial-recognition
113
UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing
https://bmmagazine.co.uk/news/uk-jet-fuel-shortage-rationing-goldman-sachs-warning/
89
25
Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions
https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts
★ 107 PHP MIT– 3 months ago
88
94
OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/openai-president-explains-to-jury-why-his-diary-entries-sound-greedy/
87
86
DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
62
Making Julia as Fast as C++
https://flow.byu.edu/posts/julia-c++
83
56
All means are fair except solving the problem
https://yosefk.com/blog/all-means-are-fair-except-solving-the-problem.html
82
6
FFmpeg developer calls out OxideAV for AI license laundering of his code
https://github.com/OxideAV/oxideav-magicyuv/issues/3
★ 5 Rust MIT– 3 months ago
81
12
How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device
https://zknill.io/posts/everyone-said-sse-token-streaming-was-easy/
80
Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software
https://adaptivesoftware.substack.com/p/the-wrapper-and-the-code
20
Google has a secret reference desk
https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has-a-secret-reference-desk
9
Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023)
https://www.kutilek.de/selectric/
78
1
SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags
https://yibo-fu.com/SoundOff-Low-cost-Passive-Ultrasound-Tags-for-Non-invasive-and-Non
OpenBSD Stories: The closest thing to cute kittens (OpenBSD/zaurus)
http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/zaurus1.html