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Switching to Colemak
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Fully in-browser container builds
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Podcast: Chasing Efficient Java Development: From 1BRC to Developing Hardwood AI Natively
Gunnar Morling, technologist at Confluent and Java Champion, shares his experiences with building high-performance applications in Java, especially in the data space. He shares insights from experiments with building durable execution engines, bootstrapping, and AI natively developing Apache Hardwood - a minimal dependencies Java parser for Apache Parquet. By Gunnar Morling
Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers
53 points, 35 comments on Hacker News
Nix's Substituter List Is Not a Routing Table
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What are you doing this week?
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.
Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)
508 points, 211 comments on Hacker News
IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry
72 points, 21 comments on Hacker News
Lazarus Deploys RemotePE Memory-Only RAT Against Financial and Crypto Firms
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cross-platform malware called RemotePE that has been put to use by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group in attacks targeting financial and cryptocurrency organizations. RemotePE, per NCC Group subsidiary Fox-IT, is part of a multi-stage attack chain that involves two loaders tracked as DPAPILoader and RemotePELoader. "DPAPILoader decrypts and
Gemma 4 Multi-Token Prediction Delivers Up to ~3x Faster Token Generation
Gemma 4 can be paired with multi-token prediction (MTP) drafters that use speculative decoding to generate multiple tokens in parallel, allowing the model to verify them in a single pass and achieve up to ~3× faster inference without quality loss. By Sergio De Simone
Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter
9 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Geomatic – a command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff
9 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Scoped Error in Rust
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Lambda on Lambda: Serverless Haskell on AWS
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Announcing feed-repeat v1.0
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NodeJS Proposes Built-In Virtual File System, Sparking Debate Over AI-Generated Contributions
Matteo Collina has proposed a Virtual File System (VFS) for Node.js core through the node:vfs module. The proposal includes about 19,000 lines of code and addresses common workflow challenges. While it has community support, concerns have arisen regarding the use of AI in its development, prompting debates about its implications for code verification and necessity in the Node.js ecosystem. By Daniel Curtis
TrapDoor Supply Chain Attack Spreads Credential-Stealing Malware via npm, PyPI, and CratesIO
A new coordinated cross-ecosystem software supply chain attack campaign has targeted npm, PyPI, and Crates.io to distribute credential-stealing malware. The campaign, codenamed TrapDoor, spans more than 34 malicious packages across over 384 versions. The earliest activity was recorded on May 22, 2026, at 8:20 p.m. UTC, with new packages published to the ecosystems in waves from a cluster of
Scaling Akvorado BMP RIB with sharding
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Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
33 points, 21 comments on Hacker News
OpenJDK News Roundup: Vector API, Compact Object Headers and G1GC as Default in JDK 27
There was a flurry of activity in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of May 18th, 2026, highlighting three JEPs elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted and three JEPs elevated from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 27. The proposed release schedule has also been finalized. By Michael Redlich
Freediving, Embodiment and Humanity – Joanna Rutkowska
17 points, 11 comments on Hacker News
The Eternal Sloptember
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OpenAI, Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL announce strategic content partnership
OpenAI partners with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL to bring trusted Brazilian journalism to ChatGPT, expanding access to news with attribution and transparency.
JS Crossword - a crossword where the clue = eval(answer)
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Discussion about C array type semantics
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Ten Basic Clouds
62 points, 20 comments on Hacker News
Flatpak will depend on systemd
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IBM Confidential: System/360 File Organization [video]
5 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
A history of obituaries in American newspapers
20 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices
Article URL: https://www.cbp.gov/document/directives/cbp-directive-no-3340-049b-border-search-electronic-devices Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260140 Points: 85 # Comments: 25
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