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Show HN: Ableton Live MCP
Article URL: https://github.com/bschoepke/ableton-live-mcp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999656 Points: 48 # Comments: 27
BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
Article URL: https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999636 Points: 165 # Comments: 53
This Wasm interpreter fits in a QR code
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LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction
Article URL: https://www.lelanthran.com/chap15/content.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999520 Points: 87 # Comments: 83
I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNQDcpHc68 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999460 Points: 51 # Comments: 8
Fake Notepad++ for Mac
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How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
Article URL: https://chromium-drift.pages.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999006 Points: 143 # Comments: 53
Southwest Headquarters Tour
After years of flying Southwest, I recently had the opportunity to tour the headquarters in Dallas. I particularly enjoyed seeing the full-motion 737 simulators, Network Operations Center, and TechOps maintenance hangar up close. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998946 Points: 144 # Comments: 28
Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan
Article URL: https://www.thegamer.com/mgs2-hd-edition-source-code-massive-leak/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998790 Points: 182 # Comments: 71
Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/underwater-robot-tracks-sperm-whale-conversations-real-time-2026-05-01/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998664 Points: 23 # Comments: 2
Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors
32 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-0... (https://archive.ph/0QYbN) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998449 Points: 69 # Comments: 5
Your Container Is Not a Sandbox
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Israel Said It's Applying the Gaza Model in Lebanon
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/03/world/middleeast/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-gaza-destruction.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998009 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases
28 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Business Owners Are Worst Clients
Article URL: https://zencapital.substack.com/p/business-owners-are-worst-clients Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997679 Points: 23 # Comments: 23
Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad
Article URL: https://mobeigi.com/blog/security/security-through-obscurity-is-not-bad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997486 Points: 8 # Comments: 6
A desktop made for one
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Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
Article URL: https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997418 Points: 91 # Comments: 44
Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/utah-becomes-first-us-state-to-target-vpn-use-with-age-verification-law Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997358 Points: 126 # Comments: 109
Breaking Up with WordPress After Two Decades
Article URL: https://yusufaytas.com/breaking-up-with-wordpress-after-two-decades Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997339 Points: 31 # Comments: 11
Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery
Article URL: https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_US/2026/motorsport/porsche-will-contest-laguna-seca-in-historic-colors-of-the-apple-computer-livery.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997138 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Alert-Driven Monitoring
Article URL: https://simpleobservability.com/docs/alert-driven-monitoring Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997056 Points: 25 # Comments: 8
git-async web demo - A git browser in the browser
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I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now
Article URL: https://hoeijmakers.net/thirty-years-of-caching-sorted-in-an-afternoon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996797 Points: 7 # Comments: 10
My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS
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The extended predicative Mahlo universe in Martin-Löf type theory
15 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
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Coffee doesn't just wake you up–a biological pathway illuminates health effects
Article URL: https://sciencex.com/news/2026-04-coffee-doesnt-key-biological-pathway.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995757 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Cloudflare Builds High-Performance Infrastructure for Running LLMs
Cloudflare has recently announced new infrastructure designed to run large AI language models across its global network. As these models rely on costly hardware and must handle large volumes of incoming and outgoing text, Cloudflare separates the model's input processing and output generation onto different optimized systems. By Renato Losio
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