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    Long-term editing of brain circuits using an engineered electrical synapse (www.nature.com)
  • 1 7

    GitHub's take on age assurance for developers (github.blog)
  • 1 11

    Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad' (www.openculture.com)
  • 23 100

    Google Declaring War on the Web (tante.cc)
  • 19 31

    Starship's Twelfth Flight Test (www.spacex.com)
  • 2 11

    Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects (legiscan.com)
  • 3 10

    Show HN: Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents (github.com)
  • 2 23

    In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google Declared War on the Remnants of the Web (tldr.nettime.org)
  • 2 20

    PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play (vmax.ai)
  • 67 99

    Declining America (www.tbray.org)
  • 60 106

    SpaceX S-1 (www.sec.gov)
  • 18 30

    SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death (www.scientificamerican.com)
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    Panelook (www.panelook.com)
  • 60 90

    Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing (www.science.org)
  • 110 338

    GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 0 23

    LoRA and Weight Decay (2023) (irhum.github.io)
  • 341 516

    An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)
  • 61 165

    Flipper One Tech Specs (docs.flipper.net)
  • 32 101

    Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal) (nodejs.org)
  • 46 71

    Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025) (www.usni.org)
  • 125 160

    Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling (www.beyondplastics.org)
  • 29 77

    Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year (www.reuters.com)
  • 24 75

    Why is Inkwell stuck in review (www.manton.org)
  • 12 18

    Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90% (newatlas.com)
  • 23 73

    Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet (www.scientificamerican.com)
  • 86 77

    Why I don’t vibe code (jacobharr.is)
  • 65 239

    How fast is N tokens per second really? (mikeveerman.github.io)
  • 91 143

    Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
  • 63 46

    Standard Chartered CEO walks back comment about 'lower-value human capital' (www.wsj.com)
  • 97 107

    After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban (www.404media.co)
  • 14 43

    Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model (github.com)
  • 64 63

    OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon (www.wsj.com)
  • 204 392

    Apparently Google hates us now (twitter.com)
  • 16 36

    Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC (appleinsider.com)
  • 21 37

    Handling the great code forge fragmentation (www.alexselimov.com)
  • 21 92

    Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops (reubenbrooks.dev)
  • 16 78

    Stable Audio 3 (arxiv.org)
  • 6 113

    SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014) (pvk.ca)
  • 3 29

    Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend (github.com)
  • 20 27

    Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000) (www.edn.com)
  • 78 41

    Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel (lithub.com)
  • 10 71

    Testing distributed systems with AI agents (github.com)
  • 418 633

    Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit (www.fire.org)
  • 0 49

    Autoregressive next token prediction and KV Cache in transformers (medium.com)
  • 96 43

    560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits (bmjgroup.com)
  • 49 91

    America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen (danieltan.weblog.lol)
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    Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment (www.lesnumeriques.com)
  • 7 74

    When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (2024) (github.com)
  • 370 874

    Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE (www.alqst.org)
  • 122 280

    Saying Goodbye to Asm.js (spidermonkey.dev)
  • 187 232

    Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order (torrentfreak.com)
  • 167 232

    Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back (www.bbc.com)
  • 352 349

    College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 155 155

    Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 92 68

    No way to parse integers in C (2022) (blog.habets.se)
  • 222 571

    Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier (qwen.ai)
  • 134 379

    Map of Metal (mapofmetal.com)
  • 11 47

    The Invention of Buses (worksinprogress.co)
  • 214 353

    Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension (blog.railway.com)
  • 67 39

    The weird, wild story of humanity's obsession with gold (www.economist.com)
  • 1 10

    Show HN: Typeset sitelen pona and copy a PNG (for toki pona speakers) (sitelen.vercel.app)
  • 130 125

    Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) (zfhuang99.github.io)
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    Enabling Resizable Bar on RTX 3080 Vbios via GitHub (github.com)
  • 2 44

    Simulated Evolution on the PICO-8 (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
  • 10 51

    CopyFail: From Pod to Host (xint.io)
  • 75 73

    There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going (kottke.org)
  • 43 156

    Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy (news.infomaniak.com)
  • 48 61

    RISC-V and Floating-Point (fprox.substack.com)
  • 154 337

    Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame (www.bbc.com)
  • 58 85

    Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates (www.macobserver.com)
  • 607 467

    Everything in C is undefined behavior (blog.habets.se)
  • 12 31

    Nostalgic Kits Central (2024) (www.nostalgickitscentral.com)
  • 2 29

    Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows (andlukyane.com)
  • 5 37

    Skills in Web, iOS, and Android (x.ai)
  • 105 112

    India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark (www.hindustantimes.com)
  • 6 260

    GitHub Compromised (twitter.com)
  • 27 82

    In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident (producelikeapro.com)
  • 4 25

    Evals will break (wanglun1996.github.io)
  • 25 64

    HTML-in-Canvas Demos (github.com)
  • 5 41

    Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments (imaginaryinstruments.org)
  • 78 358

    FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (fivethirtyeightindex.com)
  • 14 17

    Microsoft is 1.84 Peters, Google is 0.66. What's the Peter unit? (github.com)
  • 23 88

    The Mercury logic programming system (github.com)
  • 3 92

    Railway Is Having a Major Outage (status.railway.com)
  • 195 377

    Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026 (developers.googleblog.com)
  • 39 51

    El Niño is coming. The last time ocean temp. looked like this, millions died (respublicamgz.substack.com)
  • 345 546

    Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved] (status.railway.com)
  • 321 603

    GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories (twitter.com)
  • 3 31

    Unusual uses of OEIS sequences on GitHub (www.jeremykun.com)
  • 23 55

    The two oldest printing presses (museumplantinmoretus.be)
  • 239 373

    Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images (github.com)
  • 4 52

    Tool mapping 90 companies in the photonics and CPO supply chain (leonardo-boquillon.com)
  • 13 101

    Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001) (sep.turbifycdn.com)
  • 13 130

    Growing Neural Cellular Automata (distill.pub)
  • 176 327

    OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool (openai.com)
  • 1 11

    Crossview 4.4.0 is now available (github.com)
  • 242 490

    Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day (www.autonocion.com)
  • 10 87

    The TTY Demystified (2008) (www.linusakesson.net)
  • 138 205

    Dumb ways for an open source project to die (nesbitt.io)
  • 234 768

    Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets (www.npr.org)
  • 1 5

    Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic (www.thevccorner.com)
  • 0 30

    Era: From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery (research.google)
  • 234 641

    Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com)
  • 95 330

    Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI (www.emmi.ai)
  • 908 666

    Google changes its search box (blog.google)
  • 250 441

    Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (www.natesilver.net)
  • 4 13

    Google changes its search box for the first time in 25 years (www.nytimes.com)
  • 5 38

    The Silver Swan (thebowesmuseum.org.uk)
  • 636 935

    Gemini 3.5 Flash (blog.google)
  • 16 49

    AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome: A Communications Intervention (www.personfamiliar.com)
  • 0 25

    Deciphering the Hashihara Castle Town Map (www.obayashi.co.jp)
  • 11 115

    Google Search as you know it is over (techcrunch.com)
  • 140 319

    Gemini Omni (deepmind.google)
  • 7 45

    KV cache is becoming the memory hierarchy of inference (touchdown-labs.com)
  • 3 21

    Cursor Cloud Agents Down (forum.cursor.com)
  • 55 75

    'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech (www.theguardian.com)
  • 11 61

    'Comically bad' datasets used to train clinical models for stroke and diabetes (retractionwatch.com)
  • 1 180

    Gemini 3.5 Flash: frontier intelligence with action (blog.google)
  • 6 9

    Raindrop Workshop: Local OSS agent debugger (github.com)
  • 187 122

    Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements (apnews.com)
  • 2 35

    KV Sharing, MHC, and Compressed Attention (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)
  • 56 20

    Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car (insideevs.com)
  • 2 26

    Google IO 26 Keynote [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 261 184

    Google I/O (io.google)
  • 14 43

    Show HN: Haystack – Review the PRs that need human attention (haystackeditor.com)
  • 23 36

    'You can hear me now or pay me later' Music exec tells graduates booing AI (www.independent.co.uk)
  • 9 12

    Slopinator: Attack AI training with poisoned GitHub repositories (codeberg.org)
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  • 144 141

    AI is too expensive (www.wheresyoured.at)
  • 45 69

    Show HN: Superlog (YC P26) – Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs (superlog.sh)
  • 208 921

    I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of (virtualosmuseum.org)
  • 245 151

    Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism (www.ox.ac.uk)
  • 52 131

    Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities (www.gentoo.org)
  • 124 76

    Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz (arstechnica.com)
  • 600 1398

    I’ve joined Anthropic (twitter.com)
  • 109 59

    New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing (www.plex.tv)
  • 117 55

    Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore (max.gp)
  • 28 114

    U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub (gizmodo.com)
  • 31 138

    Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory (emptysqua.re)
  • 32 84

    Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists (setpose.com)
  • 181 468

    CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub (krebsonsecurity.com)
  • 92 86

    Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried (www.vincentschmalbach.com)
  • 22 58

    An Apple (II) for Teacher (technicshistory.com)
  • 43 144

    Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation (sundaylongread.com)
  • 301 410

    OpenBSD 7.9 (www.openbsd.org)
  • 28 72

    IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media (www.timesofisrael.com)
  • 103 120

    Colonization of Venus (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 12 61

    Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language (2024) (github.com)
  • 374 714

    Apple unveils new accessibility features (www.apple.com)
  • 54 40

    Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents (github.com)
  • 205 197

    Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users (github.com)
  • 195 515

    Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry (superspl.at)
  • 55 44

    Energy return in running shoes explained (2025) (runrepeat.com)
  • 119 284

    I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert (medium.com)
  • 7 30

    Consider the Sister (www.thesmallbow.com)
  • 18 61

    My domain got abused on GitHub Pages (meertens.dev)
  • 30 99

    The lasting influence of Netscape Time (thehistoryoftheweb.com)
  • 301 382

    Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised (safedep.io)
  • 24 219

    Polypad (polypad.amplify.com)
  • 2 5

    Show HN: I built a sovereign OS, L1 blockchain, AI agent, and language (github.com)
  • 1 9

    Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir (2014) (theappendix.net)
  • 43 62

    Make zip files smaller with zip shrinker (evanhahn.com)
  • 4 16

    Show HN: Clark-Browser – Stealth Chromium (github.com)
  • 0 5

    Show HN: Closed Rings – A CLI-first time tracker for developers (closedrings.sh)
  • 19 25

    LLMCap – A proxy that hard-stops LLM API calls when you hit a dollar cap (www.llmcap.io)
  • 73 177

    Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone (www.kv4p.com)
  • 79 96

    Codex-maxxing (jxnl.co)
  • 7 53

    Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust (github.com)
  • 3 18

    Sieve – scans Cursor/Claude chat history for leaked API keys (apps.apple.com)
  • 24 311

    Peter Neumann has died (www.tuhs.org)
  • 16 52

    As of April 2026: Iran has destroyed 42 U.S. Military Aircraft in Op: Epic Fury (nationalsecurityjournal.org)
  • 22 63

    Apple Silicon costs less than OpenRouter (twitter.com)
  • 25 94

    PyTorch Landscape (pytorch.landscape2.io)
  • 9 44

    Why is it called Kent House? (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
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    War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare (nsarchive.gwu.edu)
  • 88 122

    Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell (www.abgeo.dev)
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    Peter Salus has died (www.tuhs.org)
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    The last six months in LLMs in five minutes (simonwillison.net)
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    The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam (www.wsj.com)
  • 45 58

    Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0 (www.zdnet.com)
  • 49 177

    Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions (nicholas.carlini.com)
  • 62 75

    When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call? (quuxplusone.github.io)
  • 45 81

    What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights (Qwen 3.5) (vas-blog.pages.dev)
  • 25 86

    Coding on Paper (wickstrom.tech)