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Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/14/ontario-auditors-find-doctors-ai-note-takers-routinely-blow-basic-facts/5240771 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142188 Points: 156 # Comments: 71
Colossus: The Forbin Project
6 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
A few words on DS4
208 points, 66 comments on Hacker News
Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries
46 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: GridTravel- A community based travel app for users to share routes
Hey HN, My co-founders and I have been building GridTravel, a free iOS app for planning and sharing travel routes with turn-by-turn GPS nav. We just launched yesterday after App Store approval. We're three 21-year-old cofounders and best friends since middle school. We built GridTravel after years of frustration navigating new cities on every trip we took together. The idea: most people either search Google for "top 10 places to visit in…" lists or go on social media to get inspiration on where to go. GridTravel is built around user-generated routes — actual paths someone walked, that you can follow, save, download, and discover from other travelers. Users also have the ability to create private routes and collaborate with their friends. Tech stack: Mapbox (Nav SDK + maps), Supabase (auth, DB, storage), and Swift. Native iOS for now, Android coming soon. Our two real cost drivers are Mapbox Search (hit when users create routes) and Mapbox Navigation (hit when users use live navigation)
GitHub availability report: April 2026
In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: April 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control
Article URL: https://www.openvehicles.com/home Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141732 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Claude for Legal
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141234 Points: 24 # Comments: 13
Show HN: I built a Web-Scraper API that is 6-7x more efficient than current ones
Runo is a web-scraping API that returns typed, structured JSON. You define a schema (field name, type, example value), and Runo fetches the page and returns the data. No HTML, no parsers, no post-processing. Over the past few weeks, I have been building this non stop. Currently, every scraper API out there solves the site fetching problem but left the extraction of the actual data entirely to users. Runo makes that completely disappear. For Runo, I went ahead and added JS rendering, stealth mode, and full LLM extraction to make this a fully functional and capable of scraping most if not all sites. Also, another major problem with current web scrapers is that they charge per feature or bundle them into expensive credit tiers. A single large or JS rendered request can cost 5-75 credits, which means you essentially get nothing out of their plans. Runo is flat per request, no matter the site. At the Scale tier, Runo works out to $0.90 per 1,000 effective requests vs. around $6 for the near
Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring Sr Dev Advocate to make agents cloud cost-aware
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infracost/jobs/NzwUQ7c-senior-developer-advocate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141191 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Minimal Structures
Article URL: https://chefcinnamon.github.io/memo/posts/minimal-structures/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141060 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet
Article URL: https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/exploiting-the-tesla-wall-connector-from-its-charge-port-connector-part-2-bypassing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140953 Points: 23 # Comments: 0
New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references
Article URL: https://twitter.com/tdietterich/status/2055000956144935055 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140922 Points: 88 # Comments: 9
Sea's View on the Future of Agentic Software Development with Codex
Sea Limited's CPO explains why the company is deploying Codex across engineering teams to accelerate AI-native software development in Asia.
Core Team Panel - Gleam Gathering 2026
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Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/amazonbot-respecting-robots-txt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140730 Points: 62 # Comments: 11
Hindenburg's Smoking Room
31 points, 10 comments on Hacker News
RISC-V Router
Article URL: https://router.start9.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140541 Points: 30 # Comments: 13
Work with Codex from Anywhere
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140529 Points: 49 # Comments: 13
Multi-Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests
26 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Illusions of understanding in the sciences
43 points, 17 comments on Hacker News
PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10 closing 11 CVEs
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WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/discussions/11096 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139704 Points: 68 # Comments: 49
Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal?
26 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)
Article URL: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/power-free-popsicle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139316 Points: 50 # Comments: 16
Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Linux Kernel Startup
Article URL: https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/linux-kernel-startup/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139220 Points: 64 # Comments: 10
First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
Article URL: https://blog.calif.io/p/first-public-kernel-memory-corruption Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139219 Points: 141 # Comments: 22
AI is making me dumb
Article URL: https://jpain.io/god-damn-ai-is-making-me-dumb/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139148 Points: 325 # Comments: 212
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller Auth Bypass Actively Exploited to Gain Admin Access
Cisco has released updates to address a maximum-severity authentication bypass flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Controller that it said has been exploited in limited attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20182, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. "A vulnerability in the peering authentication in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, formerly SD-WAN vSmart, and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly
Stealer Backdoor Found in 3 Node-IPC Versions Targeting Developer Secrets
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm about what has been described as "malicious activity" in newly published versions of node-ipc. According to Socket and StepSecurity, three different versions of the npm package have been confirmed as malicious - [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] "Early analysis indicates that [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]
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