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1591ENG

Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000)

13 points, 3 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsedn.comMay 17
1592ENG

Growing Neural Cellular Automata

31 points, 4 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsdistill.pubMay 17
1593ENG

Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260513221821.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171906 Points: 35 # Comments: 26

Hacker Newssciencedaily.comMay 17
1594ENG

New design for the FreeBSD website

The commit introducing the new design: https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/commit/?id=c9c518d9dbb70240c23810f300ce4a5ba60442c6 Comments

Lobstersfreebsd.orgMay 17
1595ENG

Bitsocial: Open Source P2P Network for Social Apps

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Lobstersbitsocial.netMay 17
1596ENG

Nostalgic Kits Central (2024)

23 points, 10 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsnostalgickitscentral.comMay 17
1597ENG

The occasional ECONNRESET

80 points, 19 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsmovq.deMay 17
1598ENG

Bun's problem may be developing in the open

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Lobsters00f.netMay 17
1599ENG

Don't answer the first question

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Lobsterslalitm.comMay 17
1600ENG

Don’t Outsource the Learning

Article URL: https://addyosmani.com/blog/dont-outsource-learning/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170118 Points: 36 # Comments: 11

Hacker Newsaddyosmani.comMay 17
1601ENG

In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident

47 points, 15 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsproducelikeapro.comMay 17
1602ENG

Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory

24 points, 4 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsemptysqua.reMay 17
1603ENG

Reviewing so called Pull Requests at $dayjob

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Lobstersrkta.deMay 17
1604ENG

Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep

69 points, 23 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsgithub.comMay 17
1605ENG

Coding on Paper

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Lobsterswickstrom.techMay 17
1606AI

Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery

A collection of science tools and experiments to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration.

Google DeepMinddeepmind.googleMay 17
1607AI

Making it easier to understand how content was created and edited

We're expanding our tools to help you understand how content was created and edited across the web.

Google DeepMinddeepmind.googleMay 17
1608ENG

Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit

194 points, 88 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newstechspot.comMay 17
1609ENG

WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency

132 points, 59 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsnytimes.comMay 17
1610ENG

I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation

52 points, 16 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsgithub.comMay 17
1611ENG

AI is a technology not a product

91 points, 23 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsdaringfireball.netMay 17
1612ENG

Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language

41 points, 8 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsgithub.comMay 17
1613ENG

Claude Code managed to get Adobe Lightroom working on Linux

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Lobstersgithub.comMay 17
1614ENG

CUDA Books

25 points, 0 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsgithub.comMay 17
1615ENG

Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails

14 points, 5 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsgithub.comMay 17
1616ENG

I don't think AI will make your processes go faster

239 points, 171 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsfrederickvanbrabant.comMay 17
1617ENG

Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

174 points, 136 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newswilliamangel.netMay 17
1618ENG

Go European — Discover European products and services

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Lobstersgoeuropean.orgMay 17
1619ENG

Scientists believe ibogaine can help veterans overcome PTSD

26 points, 17 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsbbc.comMay 17
1620SEC

NGINX CVE-2026-42945 Exploited in the Wild, Causing Worker Crashes and Possible RCE

A newly disclosed security flaw impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open has come under active exploitation in the wild, days after its public disclosure, according to VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS score: 9.2), is a heap buffer overflow in ngx_http_rewrite_module affecting NGINX versions 0.6.27 through 1.30.0. According to AI-native security company depthfirst, the

The Hacker News (Security)thehackernews.comMay 17

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