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Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000)
13 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Growing Neural Cellular Automata
31 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
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
New design for the FreeBSD website
The commit introducing the new design: https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/commit/?id=c9c518d9dbb70240c23810f300ce4a5ba60442c6 Comments
Bitsocial: Open Source P2P Network for Social Apps
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Nostalgic Kits Central (2024)
23 points, 10 comments on Hacker News
The occasional ECONNRESET
80 points, 19 comments on Hacker News
Bun's problem may be developing in the open
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Don't answer the first question
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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
In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident
47 points, 15 comments on Hacker News
Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory
24 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
Reviewing so called Pull Requests at $dayjob
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Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
69 points, 23 comments on Hacker News
Coding on Paper
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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.
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.
Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
194 points, 88 comments on Hacker News
WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency
132 points, 59 comments on Hacker News
I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
52 points, 16 comments on Hacker News
AI is a technology not a product
91 points, 23 comments on Hacker News
Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language
41 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
Claude Code managed to get Adobe Lightroom working on Linux
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CUDA Books
25 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails
14 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
239 points, 171 comments on Hacker News
Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
174 points, 136 comments on Hacker News
Go European — Discover European products and services
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Scientists believe ibogaine can help veterans overcome PTSD
26 points, 17 comments on Hacker News
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
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