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On The Conflation of Money and Things
5 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake
13 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
The <noscript> element as a trap
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New agents.txt file found on DreamHost
3 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions
45 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
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Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation
37 points, 23 comments on Hacker News
MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students
242 points, 255 comments on Hacker News
Claude AI recovers an 11 yrs old BTC wallet holding 400k USD
119 points, 51 comments on Hacker News
Passwords suck. Can passkeys replace them?
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Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals
75 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-layoffs-bad-vibes-mark-zuckerberg-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135782 Points: 120 # Comments: 104
Mandy: ActivityPub on Goblins
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Ghostwriter Targets Ukrainian Government With Geofenced PDF Phishing, Cobalt Strike
The Belarus-aligned threat group known as Ghostwriter has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting governmental organizations in Ukraine. Active since at least 2016, Ghostwriter has been linked to both cyber espionage and influence operations targeting neighboring countries, particularly Ukraine. It's also tracked under the monikers FrostyNeighbor, PUSHCHA, Storm-0257, TA445, UAC‑0057
How do I write Elixir tests?
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Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland
81 points, 39 comments on Hacker News
USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought
165 points, 114 comments on Hacker News
Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged
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Beware of Drunk Deer, French Police Say, Announcing Season of Inebriation
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/world/europe/france-drunk-deer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134905 Points: 27 # Comments: 7
Presentation: Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox
Amit Navindgi discusses the systematic shift at Zoox from fragmented documentation to an AI-driven ecosystem. He explains how they built "Cortex," a secure platform integrating RAG, multi-modal LLMs, and contributor-friendly agent APIs. He shares practical strategies for driving adoption through AI champions and hackathons, emphasizing the move from deterministic workflows to autonomous agents. By Amit Navindgi
Coding Is Thinking: Why I Still Write Code by Hand
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The Third Hard Problem
40 points, 27 comments on Hacker News
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Our billing pipeline was suddenly slow. The culprit was a hidden bottleneck in ClickHouse
When a partitioning change to our petabyte-scale ClickHouse cluster caused critical billing jobs to stall, standard metrics showed no obvious errors. This post explores how we identified severe lock contention in ClickHouse's query planner and built upstream patches to fix it.
Computer Hobby Movement in Canada
103 points, 28 comments on Hacker News
Moonrepo Releases Moon v2.0 with WASM Plugin Toolchains and Overhauled CLI
Moonrepo has released moon v2.0, its first major update since v1, featuring a plugin-based toolchain system and support for multiple configuration formats including JSON and TOML. The CLI has been restructured, enhancing task inheritance and Docker integration. Notable changes include a shift in architecture and improvements to VCS support. By Daniel Curtis
Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO
114 points, 79 comments on Hacker News
Research on mildew contamination affecting the sound quality of analog tapes
21 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build
Article URL: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/14/1220 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134084 Points: 77 # Comments: 44
Scaling Social Systems in Software Organizations
Fast-scaling teams must rebuild trust and psychological safety as their social systems expand. Intentional, redundant communication across multiple formats can keep everyone aligned. Cross-team rituals, buddy systems, and rotating facilitators can reduce silos by building bridges between teams. Leaders accelerate this by modeling the vulnerability they want to see. By Ben Linders
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