2102
1267
Mitchellh – I strongly believe there are entire companies now under AI psychosis
https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
5 months ago
1233
280
Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
https://www.gutenberg.org/
601
387
Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
https://tmctmt.com/posts/mullvad-exit-ips-as-a-fingerprinting-vector/
595
484
California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/
538
122
Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
https://explorer.samismith.com/
488
345
Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/30719
★ 92.3k Rust – 5 months ago
475
367
U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app
https://macdailynews.com/2026/05/15/u-s-doj-demands-apple-and-google-unmask-over-100000-users-of-popular-car-tinkering-app-in-emissions-crackdown/
448
240
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html
398
433
Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage–so they're making up tasks
https://www.fastcompany.com/91541586/amazon-workers-pressured-to-up-ai-use-extraneous-tasks
390
171
ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/2055309076209492208
362
285
The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program
https://turso.tech/blog/the-wonders-of-ai
319
130
SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
https://analytics.fixelsmith.com/posts/sql-fraud-patterns/
314
80
The Zulip Foundation
https://blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/
307
286
The Sigmoids Won't Save You
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-sigmoids-wont-save-you
283
68
Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks
https://github.com/Andyyyy64/whichllm
★ 1.6k Python MIT– 5 months ago
59
Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/
273
93
Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git
https://radicle.dev/
269
141
Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site
https://www.fastcompany.com/91542655/bitwarden-scrubs-always-free-and-inclusion-values-from-its-website-as-longtime-execs-step-down
267
104
Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha
https://www.tristandc.com/government/news-2026-05-11-airdrop.php
257
61
Erlang/OTP 29.0
https://www.erlang.org/news/188
247
160
How Claude Code works in large codebases
https://claude.com/blog/how-claude-code-works-in-large-codebases-best-practices-and-where-to-start
244
44
Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution
https://github.com/chiennv2000/orthrus
★ 348 Python MIT– 5 months ago
243
55
O(x)Caml in Space
https://gazagnaire.org/blog/2026-05-14-borealis.html
226
217
Cut Off: why access to frontier AI will soon be scarce and selective
https://writing.antonleicht.me/p/cut-off
224
213
Steve Jobs Next Computer: His Forgotten Exile Years
https://spectrum.ieee.org/steve-jobs-next-computer
222
25
ASCII by Jason Scott
https://ascii.textfiles.com/
219
214
Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after they drive into flood waters
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/waymo-recalls-3800-robotaxis-after-able-drive-into-standing-water.html
216
53
Jank now has its own custom IR
https://jank-lang.org/blog/2026-05-08-optimization/
211
165
C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
https://lucisqr.substack.com/p/c26-shipped-a-simd-library-nobody
32
How to Write to SSDs [pdf]
https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1469-lee.pdf
210
82
Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26055524.palantir-hired-30-senior-uk-government-officials/
255
Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/AGWUVH-mercurial-aint-you-dead-yet/
203
258
The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2022)
https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/
198
24
Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
https://askanastronaut.issinrealtime.org/
196
40
Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image
https://github.com/neilsonnn/image-blaster
★ 3.9k TypeScript MIT– 5 months ago
192
181
Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center
https://fortune.com/2026/05/14/meta-data-center-tax-break-hyperion-louisiana/
188
87
Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-crystals-found-inside-wreckage-from-the-first-nuclear-bomb-test/
164
Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue
https://www.revswap.ai/
180
30
Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64
https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/05/n64-additive-blending
178
2
Archaeologists Find Egyptian Mummy Buried with the 'Iliad'
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/science/archaeology-egypt-mummy-iliad.html
175
136
Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?
https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-power-tools-got-worse-on-purpose
172
Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145524
166
142
London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
https://reclaimthenet.org/london-police-deploy-facial-recognition-at-protest-for-first-time
152
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/
149
177
Too dangerous or just too expensive? The real reason Anthropic is hiding Mythos
https://kingy.ai/ai/too-dangerous-to-release-or-just-too-expensive-the-real-reason-anthropic-is-hiding-its-most-powerful-ai/
140
WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64
https://github.com/ThroatyMumbo/WinCE64
★ 124 C MIT– 5 months ago
134
Show HN: Burn, baby, burn (those tokens)
https://github.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn
★ 369 Shell MIT– 5 months ago
131
89
Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security
https://www.metabase.com/blog/strip-mining-era-of-open-source-security
124
99
Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms
https://dylan.gr/1775146616
143
OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid
https://firethering.com/chatgpt-bank-account-plaid-openai/
121
I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows
https://jpain.io/i-love-linux-but-i-cant-quit-windows/
119
42
I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator
https://github.com/gdevic/FPGA-Calculator
★ 103 C++ – 5 months ago
117
70
Judge Bars Kars4Kids from Broadcasting 'Misleading' Ads in California
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/kars4kids-advertising-banned-california.html
110
37
High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry(2017) [pdf]
https://www.ams.org/government/DonohoPresentation06-28-17Final.pdf
108
reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification Is Bringing the Play Integrity API to Desktops
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35428-recaptcha-mobile-verification-is-bringing-the-play-integrity-api-to-desktops
107
112
RelaxAI – UK sovereign LLM inference at 80% cheaper than OpenAI/Claude
https://relax.ai/docs
106
139
Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does
https://imagenotfound.writeas.com/the-holes-we-painted-and-why-we-did-it-anyway
101
We don't know why Malawi is poor
https://newsletter.deenamousa.com/p/we-dont-know-why-malawi-is-poor
62
How Diamonds Are Made
https://diamond.jaydip.me/
The Aperiodic Table
https://blog.jgc.org/2026/05/the-aperiodic-table.html
15
UK Government Kicks Out Palantir
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/uk-government-kicks-out-palantir/
84
31
DeepSeek V4: The Open-Source Model Frontier Labs Feared
https://helloai.com/articles/deepseek-v4-open-source-frontier-parity