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Write some software, give it away for free
Article URL: https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028842 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
Why Most Product Tours Get Skipped
Article URL: https://productonboarding.com/articles/why-product-tours-get-skipped Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028546 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/ac/ax/be/bn)
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Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm
Article URL: https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-cafe-stockholm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028289 Points: 18 # Comments: 8
Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/05/apple-mac-studio-mac-mini-ram-cuts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028136 Points: 34 # Comments: 20
.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?
Article URL: https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/nic.de Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027897 Points: 353 # Comments: 116
DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
Article URL: https://status.denic.de/pages/incident/592577eab611ce1e0d00046f/69fa60ef9d12f5057a974f38 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027897 Points: 671 # Comments: 336
A Theory of Deep Learning
89 points, 20 comments on Hacker News
SLAM: s6/synit based NixOS
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PySimpleGUI 6
81 points, 35 comments on Hacker News
California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-aid-california-farmers-22240694.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026349 Points: 186 # Comments: 226
Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
I built PaletteInspiration.com, a browsable archive of color palettes pulled from artworks by 3,000+ master painters (Monet, Vermeer, Raphael, Van Gogh). Why I built it: every color palette generator I tried converged on the same five muted pastels. Painters spent centuries figuring out color and we mostly ignore that body of work when picking colors for digital design. Please share your feedback on the Color Harmony Explorer - drag the wheel to any color and it shows which hues master painters historically paired with it (not only standard complementary, analogous, triadic, etc.) It is solely based on co-occurrence across thousands of real paintings. Not algorithmic color theory rules - actual empirical pairings. No signup, no paywall, no email capture. Just curious what people think. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026342 Points: 66 # Comments: 22
Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-publishers-scott-turow-1236738383/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026207 Points: 126 # Comments: 79
GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26752 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026021 Points: 86 # Comments: 20
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Quantum Cryptography (QC)
Article URL: https://www.nsa.gov/Cybersecurity/Quantum-Key-Distribution-QKD-and-Quantum-Cryptography-QC/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025828 Points: 36 # Comments: 12
IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260505-00/?p=112298 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025687 Points: 250 # Comments: 147
Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC
34 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
Easy Random Trees
8 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
Article URL: https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024859 Points: 227 # Comments: 121
Critical Apache HTTP/2 Flaw (CVE-2026-23918) Enables DoS and Potential RCE
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released security updates to address several security vulnerabilities in the HTTP Server, including a severe vulnerability that could potentially lead to remote code execution (RCE). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-23918 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a case of "double free and possible RCE" in the HTTP/2 protocol handling. This issue
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024540 Points: 362 # Comments: 166
DAEMON Tools Supply Chain Attack Compromises Official Installers with Malware
A newly identified supply chain attack targeting DAEMON Tools software has compromised its installers to serve a malicious payload, according to findings from Kaspersky. "These installers are distributed from the legitimate website of DAEMON Tools and are signed with digital certificates belonging to DAEMON Tools developers," Kaspersky researchers Igor Kuznetsov, Georgy Kucherin, Leonid
One week of view_types
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Finding the differences in a series of power supplies
27 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024129 Points: 181 # Comments: 39
Three Inverse Laws of AI
Article URL: https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023861 Points: 30 # Comments: 3
Show HN: A Mutating Webhook to automatically strip PII from K8s logs
Article URL: https://github.com/aragossa/pii-shield Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023587 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Agents for financial services and insurance
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/finance-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023533 Points: 42 # Comments: 17
Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
I’m Michel, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte (https://airbyte.com/). We’ve spent the last six years building data connectors. Today we're launching Airbyte Agents (https://docs.airbyte.com/ai-agents/), a unified data layer for agents to discover information and take action across operational systems. Here’s a quick walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZosDytyf1fg As agents move into real workflows, they need access to more tools (e.g. Slack, Salesforce, Linear). That means a ton of API plumbing: authentication, pagination, filters, handling schema, and matching entities across systems. Most MCPs don’t fix this. They’re thin wrappers over APIs, so agents inherit their weak primitives and still get it wrong most of the time, especially when working across tools. An even deeper issue is that APIs assume you already know what to query (think endpoints, Object IDs, fields), whereas agents usually start one step earlier: they need first to discover what matters before they can even star
It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs
Article URL: https://tech.yahoo.com/vpn/article/its-official-utah-is-the-us-state-closest-to-banning-vpns-153556814.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023473 Points: 55 # Comments: 30
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