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How to Write to SSDs [pdf]
62 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/london-police-deploy-facial-recognition-at-protest-for-first-time Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153400 Points: 48 # Comments: 23
Mitchellh – I strongly believe there are entire companies now under AI psychosis
Article URL: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153379 Points: 305 # Comments: 107
The 30-Hour Shift That Turned a San Jose Robot Lab into a Global Spectacle
4 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials
Article URL: https://www.thenational.scot/news/26055524.palantir-hired-30-senior-uk-government-officials/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153183 Points: 123 # Comments: 9
Microscale Thermite Reaction
Article URL: https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/microscale-thermite-reaction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153142 Points: 32 # Comments: 12
California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152994 Points: 142 # Comments: 74
LLM generated submissions should be disallowed
There's a lot of talk about what to do if an LLM generated article gets posted. I don't believe that there's a clear policy about whether they should be allowed. I think users posting them regularly should be banned from the site. A notification on the submission page reminding people that LLM generated articles are not allowed here would also be a good idea. This should reduce the amount of debate on whether the article should be flagged or commented on.
Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/14/meta-data-center-tax-break-hyperion-louisiana/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152825 Points: 117 # Comments: 98
Judge Bars Kars4Kids from Broadcasting 'Misleading' Ads in California
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/kars4kids-advertising-banned-california.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152777 Points: 75 # Comments: 39
Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts
64 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64
Article URL: https://github.com/ThroatyMumbo/WinCE64 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152729 Points: 102 # Comments: 29
Git Is Not Fine
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ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
Article URL: https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/2055309076209492208 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152553 Points: 143 # Comments: 72
The Zulip Foundation
Article URL: https://blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152168 Points: 112 # Comments: 34
The Aperiodic Table
45 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/waymo-recalls-3800-robotaxis-after-able-drive-into-standing-water.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151767 Points: 118 # Comments: 111
Building a UMatrix Replacement
Article URL: https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/umatrix.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151761 Points: 28 # Comments: 8
5× faster fast_blur in image-rs
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U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app
Article URL: https://macdailynews.com/2026/05/15/u-s-doj-demands-apple-and-google-unmask-over-100000-users-of-popular-car-tinkering-app-in-emissions-crackdown/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151383 Points: 288 # Comments: 185
Feedr v0.8.0 – a TUI RSS reader, now read the full article from your terminal
Article URL: https://github.com/bahdotsh/feedr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151317 Points: 28 # Comments: 12
Jank now has its own custom IR
60 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator
Article URL: https://github.com/gdevic/FPGA-Calculator Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151237 Points: 60 # Comments: 14
Turla Turns Kazuar Backdoor Into Modular P2P Botnet for Persistent Access
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Turla has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that's engineered for stealth and persistent access to compromised hosts. Turla, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is assessed to be affiliated with Center 16 of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB)
Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring
1 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"
Article URL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/30719 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150900 Points: 412 # Comments: 285
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
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Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
585 points, 155 comments on Hacker News
Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process
Learn about the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting. The post Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Anthropic Introduces Routines for Claude Code Automation
Anthropic has introduced a new feature called Routines for Claude Code, allowing developers to configure automated coding workflows that run on schedules, through API calls, or in response to external events. By Daniel Dominguez
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