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U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, but It's Not at the Ballot Box
Article URL: https://blog.checkpoint.com/exposure-management/the-2026-u-s-midterms-have-a-cyber-problem-but-its-not-at-the-ballot-box/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365237 Points: 25 # Comments: 14
Codex is becoming a productivity tool for everyone
The Next Era of Knowledge Work report explores how Codex is transforming productivity through AI-powered research, data analysis, workflow automation, and content creation.
macOS needs its grid back
Article URL: https://blog.hopefullyuseful.com/blog/macos-needs-its-grid-back/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364800 Points: 85 # Comments: 47
Crystal Nights (2008)
Article URL: https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364754 Points: 16 # Comments: 2
How is Groq raising more money?
Article URL: https://www.zach.be/p/how-the-hell-is-groq-raising-more Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364620 Points: 42 # Comments: 18
Book Dedications
Article URL: https://walzr.com/dedications Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364379 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
https://archive.ph/nKEVw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364055 Points: 137 # Comments: 306
The Frame Problem (2004)
Article URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frame-problem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363903 Points: 19 # Comments: 4
Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/age-verification-for-social-media-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-a-free-internet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363882 Points: 129 # Comments: 73
Chipotlai Max
Article URL: https://github.com/cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363765 Points: 89 # Comments: 17
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/openai-frontier-models-and-codex-are-now-available-on-aws/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363132 Points: 171 # Comments: 60
Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Hazelcast, Quarkus, Hibernate, Koog, JHipster, Introducing Endive
This week's Java roundup for May 25th, 2026, features news highlighting: lifecycle changes with two of the JEPs that were targeted for JDK 27; the GA release of Koog 1.0; point releases of Hazelcast, Quarkus, Hibernate and JHipster; the eighth milestone release of Spring AI 2.0; and introducing Endive, a JVM-native WebAssembly (Wasm) runtime. By Michael Redlich
The art and engineering of Silpheed
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Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute
67 points, 48 comments on Hacker News
Debug Project
60 points, 23 comments on Hacker News
Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts
66 points, 41 comments on Hacker News
BattleTris: Two-player networked tetris with a twist
From the README: BattleTris was written at Brown University as a CS32 final project in spring 1994 by Bryan Cantrill, Charlie Hoecker and Mike Shapiro. It was revived several times between 1994 and 2001, and then exhumed in 2026 by Adam Leventhal. (A fuller history -- including the inspiration for BattleTris in Wesleyan Tetris -- can be found here.) Comments
GitHub and the crime against software
154 points, 53 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text
Hi all, I'm excited to show off Textile, a desktop app I recently built. Textile can combine bits of text using various inputs, such as commands on your computer, the contents of your clipboard, and hard-coded strings that you provide. It lets you carefully build up and modify a dynamic string, step by step, until it's exactly how you need it. The saved steps can then be executed on demand, with the click of a button or using a keyboard shortcut. I built Textile because I was often constructing complicated, dynamic URLs from various sources that all existed on my computer. I got tired of manually switching between different apps, copying and pasting various chunks of text, and assembling them all together somewhere. I've also found Textile to be quite useful as a kind of repository for obscure bits of static text, such as ½ and other fraction characters, when I can't be bothered to remember their built-in keyboard combinations. I also built Textile because I wanted to learn Electron, a
GrapheneOS Speech Services version 2 released
44 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Hating AI is good, actually
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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)
Article URL: https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360137 Points: 92 # Comments: 105
Miasma Supply Chain Attack Compromises Red Hat npm Packages with Credential-Stealing Worm
A new Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack campaign, codenamed Miasma, has compromised @redhat-cloud-services packages to steal credentials and secrets from developer machines and deliver a self-propagating worm. "This is effectively a Mini Shai-Hulud campaign: it uses the same core tactics of install-time execution, credential harvesting, CI/CD targeting, encrypted exfiltration, and potential
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta's "AI support assistant" bot into resetting account passwords.
The postmodern build system
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You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough
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Our views on AI policy and political advocacy
Our approach to AI policy and political advocacy, transparency, support for thoughtful regulation and AI safety, and that no outside political group speaks on the company’s behalf.
Arm desktop: so many cores, not enough speed
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Claude Code Adds Dynamic Workflows for Parallel Agent Coordination
Anthropic introduced Dynamic Workflows, a new capability for Claude Code designed to handle complex software engineering tasks by coordinating large numbers of AI agents within a single workflow. The feature allows Claude to dynamically create orchestration scripts, break work into subtasks, run them in parallel, and validate results before presenting a final answer. By Robert Krzaczyński
How we reduced core unit boot time from hours to minutes
We investigated why firmware updates were causing our core servers to take four hours to reboot. By diving into UEFI data structures and iPXE automation, we eliminated unnecessary timeouts and cut boot times back down to minutes.
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