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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
Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026
Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transitioning-gemini-cli-to-antigravity-cli/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196867 Points: 97 # Comments: 33
Gemini Omni
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-omni/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196609 Points: 185 # Comments: 85
Gemini 3.5 Flash
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-flas... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196570 Points: 366 # Comments: 301
CopyFail: From Pod to Host
19 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Better generated branch names with jj
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A 1955 Los Alamos computer experiment changed our understanding of chaos
28 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24
27 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Trapdoor Android Ad Fraud Scheme Hit 659 Million Daily Bid Requests Using 455 Apps
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ad fraud and malvertising operation dubbed Trapdoor targeting Android device users. The activity, per HUMAN's Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team, encompassed 455 malicious Android apps and 183 threat actor-owned command-and-control (C2) domains, turning the infrastructure into a pipeline for multi-stage fraud. "Users
Launch HN: Superlog (YC P26) – Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs
Hey HN, we’re Nico and Arseniy, co-founders of Superlog (https://superlog.sh). We're building a self-installing, self healing observability tool meant not to be opened. It has a wizard that daily sets up proper logging and an agent that investigates errors and opens PRs. Super short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFhU9Mk247M. In our earlier startups, we tried Sentry, Datadog, Grafana, Dash0, and nothing was good enough. Proper telemetry and alerting still requires a ton of manual setup. We struggled with adding good logs, so debugging was tough, especially as codebases grow at a faster pace. Meanwhile, the Datadog/Dash0 bill kept climbing, and we still spent engineering hours to learn, configure, and maintain our observability tooling. With Sentry, we found ourselves flooded by a stream of alerts into our Slack channel, most were duplicates or lacked context, so alert fatigue/constant interrupts were a real pain. The #ops notification is consistently the worst feeling on a Satu
I've built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
Article URL: https://virtualosmuseum.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds
36 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
How we used Quint to find over 10 bugs in SQLite while hardening Turso
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Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
90 points, 89 comments on Hacker News
Gentoo News: Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia Kernel Vulnerabilities
Article URL: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/05/19/copy-fail-fragnesia-vulnerabilities.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48194614 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
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