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1381ENG

PHP's Oddities

10 points, 2 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsflowtwo.ioMay 19
1382AI

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.

OpenAI Blogopenai.comMay 19
1383ENG

I am not a Software Engineer

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Lobstershuronbikes.mataroa.blogMay 19
1384ENG

Solving the "Zork" Mystery

27 points, 11 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsdpolakovic.spaceMay 19
1385ENG

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

Hacker Newsautonocion.comMay 19
1386ENG

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

Hacker Newsresearch.googleMay 19
1387ENG

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

Hacker Newsopenai.comMay 19
1388ENG

pgBackRest will continue

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Lobsterspgbackrest.orgMay 19
1389ENG

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

Hacker Newsnesbitt.ioMay 19
1390ENG

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

InfoQinfoq.comMay 19
1391ENG

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

Hacker Newsemmi.aiMay 19
1392ENG

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

Hacker Newsnpr.orgMay 19
1393ENG

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

Hacker Newsnatesilver.netMay 19
1394ENG

Pokemon Gen2 compression myth

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Lobstersreddit.comMay 19
1395ENG

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

Hacker Newslinusakesson.netMay 19
1396ENG

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

Hacker Newsblog.googleMay 19
1397ENG

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

Hacker Newsdevelopers.googleblog.comMay 19
1398ENG

Gemini Omni

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-omni/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196609 Points: 185 # Comments: 85

Hacker Newsdeepmind.googleMay 19
1399ENG

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

Hacker Newsblog.googleMay 19
1400ENG

CopyFail: From Pod to Host

19 points, 0 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsxint.ioMay 19
1401ENG

Better generated branch names with jj

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Lobstersddbeck.comMay 19
1402ENG

A 1955 Los Alamos computer experiment changed our understanding of chaos

28 points, 3 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newslanl.govMay 19
1403ENG

Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24

27 points, 2 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsclarityboss.comMay 19
1404SEC

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

The Hacker News (Security)thehackernews.comMay 19
1405ENG

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

Hacker Newssuperlog.shMay 19
1406ENG

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

Hacker Newsvirtualosmuseum.orgMay 19
1407ENG

Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds

36 points, 13 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsonlinelibrary.wiley.comMay 19
1408ENG

How we used Quint to find over 10 bugs in SQLite while hardening Turso

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Lobstersturso.techMay 19
1409ENG

Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

90 points, 89 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsreuters.comMay 19
1410ENG

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

Hacker Newsgentoo.orgMay 19

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