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Profunctor Equipment in Haskell
22 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools
https://mag.openrockets.com/p/how-an-australian-teen-team-is... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160914 Points: 99 # Comments: 27
How an Australian Teen Team Is Making Radio Astronomy Affordable for Schools
Article URL: https://mag.openrockets.com/p/how-an-australian-teen-team-is-making-radio-astronomy-affordable-for-rural-schools-4894opuisyhfdisubgi/?b=2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160914 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/steering-vectors/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160807 Points: 36 # Comments: 0
Recent Kernel exploits, attack surface reduction, example IPSEC
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Accelerate
34 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
A 90's era Keygen-like for X11 for Unix/Linux
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My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs
Article URL: https://george.mand.is/2026/05/my-favorite-bugs-invalid-surrogate-pairs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159790 Points: 34 # Comments: 14
SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
134 points, 61 comments on Hacker News
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Marketer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/1rLQAro-founding-marketer-content-community Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159405 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Greek Alphabet Cards
Article URL: https://labs.randomquark.com/alphabet_cards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159354 Points: 36 # Comments: 11
Accelerando (2005)
123 points, 62 comments on Hacker News
A few ways of specifying per-theme colours in only CSS
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My Thoughts on Bun's Rust Rewrite
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Virtual Bevy Meetup 13 Recordings now on YouTube
The recordings of our last virtual meetup are now live on YouTube. Give it a watch and a like to appreciate our community speakers! Comments
Futhark by Example
Article URL: https://futhark-lang.org/examples.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158606 Points: 77 # Comments: 20
Ascetic Computing
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Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models
130 points, 31 comments on Hacker News
Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials
Article URL: https://refractor.io/adhd-autism/fecal-transplants-for-autism-delivers-success-in-clinical-trials/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158494 Points: 169 # Comments: 123
Strengthening Singapore’s AI Future: A New National Partnership
Google DeepMind and Singapore partner to apply frontier AI to address complex challenges across health, education, and sustainability and more.
Cheap smart doorbell allows fleet-wide account takeover and call hijacking
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Google Introduces Cloud Fraud Defense as Successor to reCAPTCHA
At the recent Next ‘26 conference, Google introduced Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the successor to reCAPTCHA. The platform goes beyond basic bot detection to address broader online fraud across login, account creation, and payment flows, helping organizations detect suspicious behavior and block abuse, including fake accounts, automated attacks, and transaction fraud. By Renato Losio
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/05/01/where-to-buy-a-non-apple-non-google-smartphone/5219681 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158130 Points: 149 # Comments: 96
Microsoft Releases Aspire 13.3 with Major Deployment and Frontend Updates
Microsoft has released Aspire 13.3, introducing a new aspire destroy command for tearing down deployments across Azure, Kubernetes, and Compose. The release adds native Kubernetes deployment in preview, first-class JavaScript publishing for Next.js and Vite, browser log capture, and a default-enabled container tunnel, alongside several breaking changes developers should review. By Almir Vuk
Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques
Article URL: https://petapixel.com/2026/05/14/someone-shared-a-real-monet-painting-as-ai-and-asked-for-critiques/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158110 Points: 23 # Comments: 20
We've made the world too complicated
123 points, 119 comments on Hacker News
Finding the molecular switches behind new infectious diseases
Clare Bryant uses Co-Scientist to identify genetic triggers in emerging infectious diseases.
Opening new paths in aging research
Calico Life Sciences uses Co-Scientist to connect scattered findings and generate new leads in aging research.
Accelerating discovery of liver disease mechanisms
Filippo Menolascina uses Co-Scientist to identify new liver disease treatments and explain why existing drugs only help certain patients.
Uniting biological toolkits for a new approach to ALS
Co-Scientist unites Boston Children’s Hospital and MIT’s labs to explore new RNA-based treatments for ALS.
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