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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
RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google
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Inside Claude Code Auto Mode: Anthropic’s Autonomous Coding System with Human Approval Gates
Anthropic has introduced auto mode in Claude Code, enabling multi-step software development workflows with reduced manual intervention. The feature combines automated execution with layered safety mechanisms, including input filtering, action evaluation, and two-stage classification, while maintaining human approval checkpoints for sensitive operations. By Leela Kumili
Welcome to Maintainer Month: Celebrating the people behind the code
What maintainers are telling us, what we've shipped, and how to celebrate the people behind open source. The post Welcome to Maintainer Month: Celebrating the people behind the code appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
The fun has been optimized out of the Internet
Article URL: https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-05-03-the-best-is-over/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022992 Points: 234 # Comments: 168
Yet Another GitHub Incident
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/1j40g94rn22j Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022900 Points: 21 # Comments: 5
China-Linked UAT-8302 Targets Governments Using Shared APT Malware Across Regions
A sophisticated China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been attributed to attacks targeting government entities in South America since at least late 2024 and government agencies in southeastern Europe in 2025. The activity is being tracked by Cisco Talos under the moniker UAT-8302, with post-exploitation involving the deployment of custom-made malware families that have been put
AI didn't delete your database, you did
Article URL: https://idiallo.com/blog/ai-didnt-delete-your-database-you-did Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022742 Points: 280 # Comments: 127
Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python: Lock-less, Deadlock-free, Ownership-based
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Presentation: How Netflix Shapes our Fleet for Efficiency and Reliability
The speakers explain the inherent tension between service efficiency and reliability at Netflix's global scale. They share a mental model for "risk-adjusted net value," moving beyond simple CPU utilization to focus on capacity buffers. They discuss hardware shaping, proactive traffic steering, and reactive levers like "hammers" and prioritized load shedding to protect critical playback. By Joseph Lynch, Argha C
Simple Meta-Harness on Islo.dev
Article URL: https://zozo123.github.io/meta-harness-on-islo-page/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022596 Points: 29 # Comments: 13
Why didn’t IPv6 work in my home network?
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Tokens and Dreams
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