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Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years
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GitHub Breached — Employee Device Hack Led to Exfiltration of 3,800+ Internal Repos
GitHub on Tuesday said it's investigating unauthorized access to its internal repositories after the notorious threat actor known as TeamPCP listed the platform's source code and internal organizations for sale on a cybercrime forum. "While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub's internal repositories (such as our customers' enterprises,
Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization
9 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260515-the-1950s-blunder-which-causes-mass-hay-fever-in-japan Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202047 Points: 99 # Comments: 35
Ben Welsh made an index of all FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive
Article URL: https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201973 Points: 51 # Comments: 12
Railway Blocked by Google Cloud
Article URL: https://status.railway.com/?date=20260519 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201484 Points: 264 # Comments: 113
Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)
https://status.railway.com/incident/I23M92U0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201484 Points: 475 # Comments: 304
GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
Article URL: https://twitter.com/github/status/2056884788179726685 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316 Points: 211 # Comments: 57
How Ramp engineers accelerate code review with Codex
How Ramp engineers use Codex with GPT-5.5 to review code and ship improvements, allowing them to get substantive feedback in minutes instead of hours.
The next phase of OpenAI’s Education for Countries
OpenAI advances Education for Countries, expanding AI adoption in schools with new partnerships, teacher training, and tools to improve global learning outcomes.
An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.
HTML-in-Canvas Demos
Article URL: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/css-web-ui-demos/blob/main/html-in-canvas/awesome-html-in-canvas.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201222 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Remove–AI–Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images
Article URL: https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200569 Points: 155 # Comments: 98
PHP's Oddities
10 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Introducing OpenAI for Singapore
OpenAI for Singapore launches a multi-year AI partnership to expand deployment, build local talent, and support businesses and public services with AI.
I am not a Software Engineer
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Solving the "Zork" Mystery
27 points, 11 comments on Hacker News
Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day
Article URL: https://www.autonocion.com/us/tesla-lithium-refinery-texas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198551 Points: 307 # Comments: 147
Era: From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery
Article URL: https://research.google/blog/empirical-research-assistance-era-from-nature-publication-to-catalyzing-computational-discovery/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198293 Points: 17 # Comments: 0
OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/advancing-content-provenance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198291 Points: 88 # Comments: 33
pgBackRest will continue
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Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
Article URL: https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/19/dumb-ways-for-an-open-source-project-to-die.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198127 Points: 67 # Comments: 25
Anthropic Introduces MCP Tunnels for Private Agent Access to Internal Systems
Anthropic has expanded its Claude Managed Agents platform with two enterprise-focused capabilities: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels. The release aims to address a recurring challenge in enterprise AI deployments, where organizations want to use autonomous agents but cannot allow execution environments or internal systems to leave their security perimeter. By Robert Krzaczyński
Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack
Article URL: https://www.emmi.ai/news/mistral-ai-acquires-emmi-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197995 Points: 98 # Comments: 16
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197980 Points: 174 # Comments: 71
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
Article URL: https://www.natesilver.net/p/disney-erased-fivethirtyeight Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197703 Points: 208 # Comments: 107
Pokemon Gen2 compression myth
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The TTY Demystified (2008)
Article URL: https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197445 Points: 49 # Comments: 8
Google changes its search box
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar..., https://archive.ph/XI1sQ https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-... https://www.theverge.com/tech/932970/google-search-ai-update... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197370 Points: 216 # Comments: 391
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