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Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/104185/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347961 Points: 46 # Comments: 39
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI
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Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years
95 points, 52 comments on Hacker News
Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA
Article URL: https://deflock.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347370 Points: 120 # Comments: 31
Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
73 points, 105 comments on Hacker News
The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI
86 points, 50 comments on Hacker News
Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
394 points, 267 comments on Hacker News
Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace
77 points, 47 comments on Hacker News
Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/31/daily-pill-daraxonrasib-double-survival-time-pancreatic-pancreas-cancer-clinical-trial Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346629 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
Article URL: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-image-4b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346257 Points: 33 # Comments: 7
Folding Beijing
Article URL: https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/folding-beijing-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346125 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
Restartable Sequences
Article URL: https://justine.lol/rseq/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346019 Points: 28 # Comments: 8
The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
Article URL: https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345896 Points: 97 # Comments: 50
Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
Article URL: https://hacktivis.me/articles/cloudflare-turnstile-webgl-fingerprinting Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345840 Points: 147 # Comments: 77
Frost: [Browser] Fingerprinting Remotely Using OPFS-Based SSD Timing [pdf]
Article URL: https://hannesweissteiner.com/pdfs/frost.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345822 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Croft - TUI VSCode Clone
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I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200
Article URL: https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/v100localllm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345694 Points: 113 # Comments: 60
DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors
11 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008)
Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/boss.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345282 Points: 40 # Comments: 31
United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
207 points, 320 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6
Article URL: https://kenforthewin.github.io/atomic-editor/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345201 Points: 16 # Comments: 6
You Must Fix Your Asserts
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Dutch Authorities Dismantle Botnet Linked to 17 Million Infected Devices
Dutch authorities have announced the takedown of a botnet that enslaved millions of infected devices, including computers, tablets, smartphones, and IoT devices, to carry out malicious attacks. The bot network, per the Dutch Politie and the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), consisted of at least 17 million infected devices. More than 200 servers located in the Netherlands acted as the
Backpressure is all you need
114 points, 75 comments on Hacker News
Dav2d
Article URL: https://jbkempf.com/blog/2026/dav2d/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344961 Points: 270 # Comments: 80
DuckDB Quack: Client/Server Protocol over HTTP for Multi-User Analytics
DuckDB has recently announced Quack, a new remote protocol over HTTP that lets multiple DuckDB instances connect to and work with the same database over a network. The protocol introduces client-server capabilities to a database that was previously mostly local and embedded. By Renato Losio
A pragmatic set of modern colour space transforms for the Odin language
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Squillions: How Money Laundering Won
35 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)
92 points, 22 comments on Hacker News
securix: NixOS-based secure operating system. Provides a hardened environment with strong isolation, reproducibility, and policy-driven configurations
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