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I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert
25 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
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Bear spray is exploding in the trash near Yellowstone National Park
Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/exploding-bear-spray-yellowstone-22244713.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165548 Points: 9 # Comments: 8
Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller
Article URL: https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165295 Points: 45 # Comments: 1
The lasting influence of Netscape Time
26 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19897 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165265 Points: 16 # Comments: 5
The Tomy Tutor and the state of 1983 home computers
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Make ZIP files smaller with ZIP Shrinker
25 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
Async I/O in Zig 0.16, today
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Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-after-bankruptcy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164891 Points: 79 # Comments: 31
A nicer voltmeter clock
Article URL: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164432 Points: 90 # Comments: 14
MCP Hello Page
Article URL: https://www.hybridlogic.co.uk/blog/2026/05/mcp-hello-page Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164294 Points: 65 # Comments: 24
Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
Article URL: https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164287 Points: 214 # Comments: 71
Understanding Singleflight in Go
29 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype
15 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163392 Points: 108 # Comments: 94
The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
87 points, 43 comments on Hacker News
Ubuntu Embraces Local AI Instead of Cloud-First OS Integration
Ubuntu has outlined its AI strategy, describing it as a deliberate departure from industry trends towards cloud-centric, AI-first operating systems. Instead, the company says, Ubuntu will focus future releases on local intelligence, modular design, and strict user control. By Sergio De Simone
Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand
Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/japan-robot-wolf-bear-attacks-ohta-seiki-b2975670.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162882 Points: 46 # Comments: 23
The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention
78 points, 11 comments on Hacker News
Subscription Bombing: Email under Attack
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Halt and Catch Fire
Article URL: https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162468 Points: 15 # Comments: 1
The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Really Means
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What Is Date:Italy?
3 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server
Article URL: https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/14/kioxia-and-dell-cram-10-pb-into-slim-2ru-server/5240574 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161997 Points: 84 # Comments: 57
Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol
Article URL: https://tangled.org/rocksky.app/rocksky Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161881 Points: 35 # Comments: 13
HTML Lists
Article URL: https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2026/05/13/you-dont-know-html-lists/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161861 Points: 258 # Comments: 52
Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone
94 points, 31 comments on Hacker News
Funnel Builder Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables WooCommerce Checkout Skimming
A critical security vulnerability impacting the Funnel Builder plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild to inject malicious JavaScript code into WooCommerce checkout pages with the goal of stealing payment data. Details of the activity were published by Sansec this week. The vulnerability currently does not have an official CVE identifier. It
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