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Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)
54 points, 36 comments on Hacker News
Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software
Article URL: https://adaptivesoftware.substack.com/p/the-wrapper-and-the-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042099 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Validating agentic behavior when “correct” isn’t deterministic
How to build the “Trust Layer” for Github Copilot Coding Agents without brittle scripts or black-box judgements by using dominatory analysis. The post Validating agentic behavior when “correct” isn’t deterministic appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions
Article URL: https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041316 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Mirai-Based xlabs_v1 Botnet Exploits ADB to Hijack IoT Devices for DDoS Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a new Mirai-derived botnet that self-identifies as xlabs_v1 and targets internet-exposed devices running Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to enlist them in a network capable of carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Hunt.io, which detailed the malware, said it made the discovery after identifying an exposed directory on a Netherlands-hosted
MIT’s virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/mits-virtual-violin-offers-luthiers-a-new-design-tool/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041009 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
Inkscape 1.4.4
Article URL: https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040622 Points: 133 # Comments: 22
Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible
33 points, 14 comments on Hacker News
OpenBSD Stories: The closest thing to cute kittens (OpenBSD/zaurus)
55 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023)
36 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
48 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
Programming Still Sucks
Article URL: https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040269 Points: 169 # Comments: 36
Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model
Article URL: https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040002 Points: 51 # Comments: 12
Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362 Points: 113 # Comments: 104
I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up
52 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
Boosting multimodal inference performance by >10% with a single Python dict
5 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Going Full Time on Open Source
Article URL: https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038864 Points: 127 # Comments: 16
From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
Article URL: https://blog.val.town/better-auth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038827 Points: 151 # Comments: 83
SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags
Article URL: https://yibo-fu.com/SoundOff-Low-cost-Passive-Ultrasound-Tags-for-Non-invasive-and-Non Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038750 Points: 48 # Comments: 1
The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962
39 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
When DNSSEC goes wrong: how we responded to the .de TLD outage
On May 5, 2026, DENIC published broken DNSSEC signatures for the .de TLD, making millions of domains unreachable. Here's what 1.1.1.1 saw, how serve stale cushioned the impact, and how we restored resolution.
Life During Class Wartime
Article URL: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038307 Points: 128 # Comments: 94
Show HN: Hallucinopedia
Article URL: http://halupedia.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038257 Points: 72 # Comments: 73
Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer
Article URL: https://play.templatical.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038019 Points: 72 # Comments: 18
Appearing productive in the workplace
Article URL: https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038001 Points: 501 # Comments: 190
Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986 Points: 293 # Comments: 220
Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent Sandbox with a Transactional, Versioned Filesystem
Article URL: https://tilde.run/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037724 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
All means are fair except solving the problem
15 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
Article URL: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037555 Points: 21 # Comments: 3
What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting
56 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
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