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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
GIT - the stupid content tracker
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pgBackRest is dead. Now what?
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Show HN: Apple's Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web
Article URL: https://github.com/bring-shrubbery/ml-sharp-web Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995037 Points: 109 # Comments: 18
Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16
Article URL: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/pymanager-261/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994327 Points: 17 # Comments: 13
Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs
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Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
Article URL: https://acai.sh/blog/specsmaxxing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994012 Points: 113 # Comments: 107
CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Root Access Bug CVE-2026-31431 to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed security flaw impacting various Linux distributions to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a case of local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an
Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal
15 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
NetHack 5.0.0 Released
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Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives
33 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
Article URL: https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993235 Points: 282 # Comments: 141
The first photo published in a newspaper
21 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
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