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C Constructs That Still Don’t Work in C++ — and a Few That Changed
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Cuneiforth: A Forth for your Chifir
You and your team of 23rd century archaeologists have been digging for days with no result, but it seems your efforts have finally been rewarded. You stand before what looks to be a rusty shipping container with large letters scratched into its side. The letters read: "The Archive of Late 20th Century Computing" Comments
Lisp in Vim (2019)
6 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode
24 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Oura says it gets government demands for user data. Will it share how many?
51 points, 24 comments on Hacker News
Wayland compositor implemented as a mod in Minecraft
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The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers
47 points, 20 comments on Hacker News
Opaque Types in Python
53 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
On The <dl>
149 points, 48 comments on Hacker News
The Art of Money Getting
25 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Multimodal adaptive optical microscope: in vivo imaging, molecules to organisms
5 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
I Miss Terry Pratchett
201 points, 173 comments on Hacker News
Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given "Predictable" Data
81 points, 21 comments on Hacker News
80386 Microcode Disassembled
125 points, 21 comments on Hacker News
Judson's Last Ride
Article URL: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/22/judsons_last_ride_154150.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246993 Points: 61 # Comments: 2
Claude Mythos AI Finds 10,000 High-Severity Flaws in Widely Used Software
Anthropic on Friday disclosed that Project Glasswing has helped uncover more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities across some of the most "systemically" important software across the world since the cybersecurity initiative went live last month. Project Glasswing is a defensive effort launched by the artificial intelligence (AI) company to secure critical global software
Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite
Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2058064720553222567 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246917 Points: 101 # Comments: 106
Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles
74 points, 28 comments on Hacker News
HP bought Hyperspace, & once offered 3 different pre-boot or in-boot OSs, including Quickweb
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US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate
Article URL: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/us-tech-firms-share-dutch-regulator-officials-names-with-senate/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246614 Points: 157 # Comments: 113
mvm - a fast virtual machine for Go
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That one time I used Go panics for flow control
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Laravel-Lang PHP Packages Compromised to Deliver Cross-Platform Credential Stealer
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh software supply chain attack campaign that has targeted multiple PHP packages belonging to Laravel-Lang to deliver a comprehensive credential-stealing framework. The affected packages include - laravel-lang/lang laravel-lang/http-statuses laravel-lang/attributes laravel-lang/actions "The timing and pattern of the newly published tags
- -dangerously-skip-reading-code – olano.dev
Article URL: https://olano.dev/blog/dangerously-skip/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246232 Points: 21 # Comments: 16
Google Cloud Introduces Cross-Engine Iceberg Support in BigQuery
At the Apache Iceberg Summit last month, Google announced new interoperability features for Apache Iceberg in BigQuery. The preview of the serverless Iceberg REST catalog lets teams create, update, and query the same Apache Iceberg tables in BigQuery and in engines like Spark, Flink, and Trino without duplicating data. By Renato Losio
White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems
31 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
26 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
A new suite of modern tools coming for editing and publishing RFCs
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Don't Roll Your Own …
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LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin CVE-2026-48172 Exploited to Run Scripts as Root
A maximum-severity security vulnerability impacting LiteSpeed User-End cPanel Plugin has come under active exploitation in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-48172 (CVSS score: 10.0), relates to an instance of incorrect privilege assignment that an attacker could abuse to run arbitrary scripts with elevated permissions. "Any cPanel user (including an attacker or a compromised account) may
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