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Mastodon: Don't use "mastodon" or "mstdn" in domain names
Well, this isn't exactly "news": Social media guidelines —— https://github.com/mastodon/joinmastodon/~ (2022) But this is the first time they've included proactive reminders within the software. Comments
The becquerel as an SI unit for request rate
28 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
CLTRACE: DTrace inspired tracing and observability framework for Common Lisp applications
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Switching higher-order streams to first-order streams
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RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ramain/jobs/bwtwd9W-founding-gtm-operations-lead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789607 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
UAC-0247 Targets Ukrainian Clinics and Government in Data-Theft Malware Campaign
The Computer Emergencies Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of a new campaign that has targeted governments and municipal healthcare institutions, mainly clinics and emergency hospitals, to deliver malware capable of stealing sensitive data from Chromium-based web browsers and WhatsApp. The activity, which was observed between March and April
Zero-Copy Pages in Rust: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lifetimes
31 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
Ben Lerner's Big Feelings
36 points, 17 comments on Hacker News
IPv8 Proposal
Article URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788857 Points: 89 # Comments: 61
Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet
32 points, 31 comments on Hacker News
Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus
22 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
A Look into NaviDial, Japan's Legacy Phone Service
25 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
124 points, 67 comments on Hacker News
RedSun: System user access on Win 11/10 and Server with the April 2026 Update
50 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account
88 points, 36 comments on Hacker News
North American English Dialects
9 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Stop Using Ollama
88 points, 20 comments on Hacker News
The simple geometry behind any road
56 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Hiraeth – AWS Emulator
With the recent changes around Localstack pricing/licensing I've been hunting for alternatives. I decided that it might be a fun experiment to try rolling my own. SQS is a service I use heavily so I chose that as the first service to implement. I have more services planned and in development. A few things I think are cool: 4MB Docker Image Size Instant Startup AWS Sigv4 Authentication A little admin UI that can be helpful for development/troubleshooting Most of the SQS API implemented, the rest will soon follow :) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787947 Points: 19 # Comments: 5
Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/iran-internet-blackout-satellite-tv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787877 Points: 80 # Comments: 24
Introducing GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research
OpenAI introduces GPT-Rosalind, a frontier reasoning model built to accelerate drug discovery, genomics analysis, protein reasoning, and scientific research workflows.
Agent - Native Mac OS X coding ide/harness
Article URL: https://github.com/macOS26/Agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787127 Points: 36 # Comments: 6
Accelerating the cyber defense ecosystem that protects us all
Leading security firms and enterprises join OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber, using GPT-5.4-Cyber and $10M in API grants to strengthen global cyber defense.
YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts
78 points, 26 comments on Hacker News
KTaO3-Based Supercurrent Diode
3 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
I made a terminal pager
44 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling (2017)
44 points, 18 comments on Hacker News
The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
186 points, 113 comments on Hacker News
Hacker News CLI
24 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
ChatGPT for Excel
Article URL: https://chatgpt.com/apps/spreadsheets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785397 Points: 96 # Comments: 77
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