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We see something that works, and then we understand it
96 points, 32 comments on Hacker News
Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037128 Points: 53 # Comments: 29
B.C. residents baffled as shape floats through night sky
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/strange-light-british-columbia-9.7189267 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037072 Points: 15 # Comments: 4
CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037009 Points: 33 # Comments: 10
Floats Don't Agree with Themselves
14 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Open weights are quietly closing up - and that's a problem
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Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade
16 points, 18 comments on Hacker News
Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos
7 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
LinkedIn Consolidates Hiring Data Pipelines to Power AI Driven Talent Systems
LinkedIn introduced a unified integrations platform to standardize and reconcile hiring data across systems. The platform reduces onboarding time by 72%, improves data consistency and completeness, and enables scalable AI-driven hiring features through standardized schemas, orchestration workflows, and centralized data processing. By Leela Kumili
How an HTTP header caused time.gov to skew from UTC
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Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster
76 points, 17 comments on Hacker News
Peer Production License
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What I Learned Making an App for My Family
7 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
MuddyWater Uses Microsoft Teams to Steal Credentials in False Flag Ransomware Attack
The Iranian state-sponsored hacking group known as MuddyWater (aka Mango Sandstorm, Seedworm, and Static Kitten) has been attributed to a ransomware attack in what has been described as a "false flag" operation. The attack, observed by Rapid7 in early 2026, has been found to leverage social engineering techniques via Microsoft Teams to initiate the infection sequence. Although the incident
Shrinkflation Is Quietly Making All Gadgets Worse
Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/shrinkflation-is-quietly-making-all-gadgets-worse-2000754565 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035617 Points: 47 # Comments: 36
Solod v0.1: Go ergonomics, practical stdlib, native C interop
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Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
41 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
The Hacker News Launches 'Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026' — Submissions Now Open
For nearly 20 years, we at The Hacker News have mostly told scary stories about cyberspace — big hacks, broken systems, and new threats. But behind every headline, there’s a quieter, better story. It’s the story of leaders making tough calls under pressure, teams building smarter defenses, and security products that keep hunting threats 24/7 — even when it’s hard. Most of the time, this work is
Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI-Native Growth Toolkit
Article URL: https://www.coveragecat.com/careers/engineering/fractional-growth-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035223 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Building the deployment tool I wish I had
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Scroll-Driven Animations
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Presentation: AI-First Software Delivery: Balancing Innovation with Proven Practices
Wes Reisz discusses the shift toward AI-first software delivery, emphasizing that agentic workflows are not one-size-fits-all. He explains a strategic two-by-two model based on code longevity and automated verification to decide between supervised and unsupervised agents. He shares the RIPER-5 framework - Research, Innovate, Plan, Execute, Review - to amplify engineering discipline. By Wes Reisz
Your AI Agents Are Already Inside the Perimeter. Do You Know What They're Doing?
Analysts recently confirmed what identity security teams have quietly feared: AI agents are being deployed faster than enterprises can govern them. In their inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents, Gartner states that “enterprise adoption of AI agents is accelerating, outpacing maturity of governance policy controls.” Enterprise leaders can request access to the Gartner Market Guide for
Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10
Article URL: https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034762 Points: 88 # Comments: 22
Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
Article URL: https://red-squares.cian.lol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034587 Points: 682 # Comments: 149
Attacker Bought 30 WordPress Plugins on Flippa and Backdoored All of Them
An attacker purchased 30+ WordPress plugins on Flippa for six figures, planted a PHP deserialization backdoor in the first commit, and waited eight months before activating it across 400,000 installations. The attack used Ethereum smart contracts to resolve C2. WordPress.org has no mechanism for reviewing plugin ownership transfers, a gap that npm and PyPI addressed years ago. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Google New TPU Generation is Specifically Designed for Agents and SOTA Model Training
Google has unvelied a new generation of Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), featuring two specialized chips designed to accelerate model training and agent workflows, which require continuous, multi-step reasoning, and action loops distributed across multiple models. The new TPUs deliver better performance, memory, and energy efficiency, the company says. By Sergio De Simone
Emacs Completion Showcase with VOMPECCC (video)
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Programming Is Real Engineering, And AI Proves It
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Google's Android Apps Get Public Verification to Stop Supply Chain Attacks
Google has announced expanded Binary Transparency for Android as a way to safeguard the ecosystem from supply chain attacks. "This new public ledger ensures the Google apps on your device are exactly what we intended to build and distribute," Google's product and security teams said. The initiative builds upon the foundation of Pixel Binary Transparency, which Google introduced in October 2021
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