808
354
Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/15/mozilla-to-uk-regulators-vpns-are-essential-privacy-and-security-tools-and-should-not-be-undermined/
2 months ago
679
451
I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-05-15-i-dont-think-ai-will-make-your-processes-go-faster/
593
263
Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
https://www.techspot.com/news/112410-security-researcher-microsoft-secretly-built-backdoor-bitlocker-releases.html
478
209
AI is a technology not a product
https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/ai_is_technology_not_a_product
452
306
Native all the way, until you need text
https://justsitandgrin.im/posts/native-all-the-way-until-you-need-text/
448
237
I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
https://github.com/tech4bot/rk3562deb
★ 353CMIT–2 months ago
444
151
Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
https://github.com/MinishLab/semble
★ 4.2kPythonMIT–2 months ago
443
323
Americans Are Smashing Flock Cameras
https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/flock-cameras-destroyed-nationwide-ice-backlash-2026/
440
127
GenCAD
https://gencad.github.io/
420
401
Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise
https://www.thestateofbrand.com/news/ai-subscription-time-bomb
355
300
Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/05/17/offline-llm-energy-use.html
327
351
Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels
https://electrek.co/2026/05/14/tesla-solar-roof-promise-vs-reality-pivot-panels/
226
WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/world/africa/ebola-congo-uganda-who-public-health-emergency.html
287
119
I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert
https://medium.com/@breid.at/ultra-pure-quantum-crystals-from-an-abandoned-mine-in-a-mysterious-desert-93cc87d12314
258
33
WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound
https://hellmood.111mb.de//wake_up_16b_writeup.html
252
23
Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller
https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/
245
Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely
https://idahonews.com/news/local/two-f-18-fighter-jets-have-crashed-during-an-airshow-at-mountain-home-air-force-base
242
60
CUDA Books
https://github.com/alternbits/awesome-cuda-books
★ 818MIT–2 months ago
231
109
Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them
https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/10-signs-of-fascism-america-has-all
225
24
Polypad
https://polypad.amplify.com/
206
149
Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/2055992439031185782
202
83
Prolog Coding Horror
https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/horror
198
210
Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users
https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
★ 11.2kCSSGPL-3.0–2 months ago
168
62
VoIP Brings Back Old-Fashioned Pay Phones to Rural Vermont
https://spectrum.ieee.org/payphone-voip
158
71
EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process sensitive gov data
https://www.osnews.com/story/144943/eu-weighs-restricting-use-of-us-cloud-platforms-to-process-sensitive-government-data/
147
35
Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory
https://emptysqua.re/blog/intro-to-tla-plus-for-the-llm-era/
132
13
Growing Neural Cellular Automata
https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/
124
90
Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell
https://www.abgeo.dev/blog/anyone-can-ring-your-doorbell
25
The occasional ECONNRESET
https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-05-05/1/POSTING-en.html
116
196
Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'
https://www.businessinsider.com/mistral-ceo-warns-europe-2-years-avoid-us-ai-dependence-2026-5
113
125
Scientists believe ibogaine can help veterans overcome PTSD
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260514-how-hallucinogenic-ibogaine-helps-veterans-overcome-ptsd
112
46
Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU
https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2026-05-15-ym-fast-emu/
111
57
ThinkPad: From IBM's Bento Box to Lenovo's AI Workstations
https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/thinkpad-history/
107
Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [PDF]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19897
126
An AI Hate Wave Is Here
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentiment
103
1
University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt's AI cheerleading
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/932203/university-of-arizona-students-boo-eric-schmidt-ai-commencement
100
Don't Outsource the Learning
https://addyosmani.com/blog/dont-outsource-learning/
99
30
The lasting influence of Netscape Time
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-lasting-influence-of-netscape-time/
98
28
Dontsurveil.me
https://opencivics-labs.github.io/dontsurveil.me/c22.html
19
Design posters showcasing your country's electrical grid
https://github.com/open-energy-transition/grid2poster
★ 180PythonMIT–2 months ago
89
In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident
https://producelikeapro.com/blog/how-one-recording-mistake-created-a-musical-phenomenon-in-the-80s/
Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely