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Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU
33 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
223 points, 264 comments on Hacker News
Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/spain-blocks-prediction-markets-polymarket-kalshi-over-lack-gambling-licences-2026-05-26/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279316 Points: 147 # Comments: 75
What is a harmonic? An interactive comic about additive synthesis
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How Virtual Tables Work in the Itanium C++ ABI
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Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs. Frontier labs
Article URL: https://www.signalbloom.ai/posts/outsourcing-plus-localai-will-soon-become-more-economical-vs-frontier-labs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278610 Points: 100 # Comments: 103
Platform Engineering Labs Expands formae with Kubernetes Support, Native Helm Integration
Platform Engineering Labs has announced a major update to its open-source Infrastructure-as-Code platform, formae, introducing full Kubernetes support, native Helm integration, direct .tfvars compatibility, and a new public plugin hub aimed at simplifying cloud-native infrastructure management By Craig Risi
[THN Webinar] New AI DDoS Attacks Are Smarter. Learn How to Fight Back
Every single day, hackers are finding new ways to crash websites and steal data. But right now, something has changed. Hackers are no longer working alone. They are now using powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to make their attacks faster, stronger, and much harder to stop. According to recent updates from The Hacker News, bad actors are using AI to find weak spots in systems and
Microsoft Patches SharePoint RCE Flaw CVE-2026-45659 Across Server Versions
Microsoft has rolled out updates to fix a remote code execution vulnerability impacting SharePoint that could be exploited by bad actors in attacks without requiring any specialized conditions to be met. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-45659, carries a CVSS score of 8.8. It has been assigned an important severity. "Deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows
Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team
Article URL: https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-05-26-eagle-3-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278407 Points: 52 # Comments: 17
Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier
Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/netherlands-blocks-us-takeover-vital-digital-supplier/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278406 Points: 277 # Comments: 107
GitHub Actions down again today
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/?today Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278374 Points: 546 # Comments: 271
Incident with Actions and Pages
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gnftqj9htp0g Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278090 Points: 56 # Comments: 13
Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-assed App in 2026
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Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes
5 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
MFA Prompt Bombing: Why Your Second Factor Isn't Saving You
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) was supposed to close a critical gap in identity security. It meant that, even if an attacker possessed the account credentials, they couldn't log in without the second factor. While that logic was sound, attackers have now figured out that they don't need to steal the second factor: they just need the user to hand it over. If your workforce authenticates with
Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/937116/uber-ai-investment-hard-to-justify Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277485 Points: 141 # Comments: 53
InfoQ Online Certification Program: New AI Engineering and Organizational Architecture Cohorts
InfoQ expands its online certification portfolio with new AI Engineering and Organizational Architecture cohorts, giving senior practitioners a confidential peer group to pressure-test production AI, platform, team design, and architecture decisions. By Artenisa Chatziou
Exposing Critical Vulnerabilities in CBSE's On-Screen Marking Portal
Article URL: https://ni5arga.com/blog/posts/hacking-cbse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277357 Points: 40 # Comments: 10
A portentous reunion
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CERT-In Mandates 12-Hour Patching for Internet-Facing Flaws Amid AI-Assisted Attacks
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued new guidelines requiring organizations to patch critical security vulnerabilities in internet-exposed systems within 12 hours of being flagged where "feasible" to safeguard against potential threats stemming from threat actors' abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and large language models (LLMs) to automate vulnerability
Presentation: Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads
Joseph Stein discusses engineering an enterprise AI-as-a-Service platform within a private cloud data center. He explains how to maximize underutilized GPU pools via multi-namespace scheduling, leverage Valkey and Lua for atomic priority queuing and backpressure management, mitigate OWASP Top 10 LLM risks via central proxy gateways, and scale batch pipelines using a custom S3-to-Kafka proxy. By Joseph Stein
BadHost – CVE-2026-48710: Starlette Host-Header Auth Bypass
49 points, 18 comments on Hacker News
Google Expands SynthID Adoption for AI Watermarking, Previews Content Detection API
Google's SynthID, designed to embed imperceptible signals into AI-generated content, is adding a new Content Detection API on Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, after gaining adoption by several industry players including Nvidia and OpenAI. By Sergio De Simone
Article: Architecting Cloud-Native Kafka: From Tiered Storage Towards a Diskless Future
This article explores Kafka's transition toward a cloud-native architecture, examining how tiered storage, FinOps telemetry, elastic consumer scaling, virtual clusters, and Share Groups reshape the operational and economic model of event streaming platforms. It also analyzes emerging diskless-storage proposals and their architectural trade-offs. By Viquar Khan
TamboUI Promises to Bring Better Capabilities to Build TUIs in Java
The call to action, “to make 2026 the year of Java in the terminal,” was quickly responded to by the launch of TamboUI. Inspired by Ratatui, the library used in Claude CLI, it promises support ranging from low-level terminal drawing to high-level APIs such as components and event handling. Currently at version 0.3.0, it has already been adopted by major projects such as Maven and Spring. By Olimpiu Pop
News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development
108 points, 80 comments on Hacker News
DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD
Article URL: https://dynip.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276363 Points: 98 # Comments: 28
Iranian Hackers Deploy MiniFast and MiniJunk V2 via Phishing and SEO Poisoning
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Nimbus Manticore (aka Screening Serpens and UNC1549) has been attributed to a fresh campaign using lures impersonating organizations in the aviation and software sectors across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East following the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign against the country in late February 2026. The activity, besides embracing
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