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Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
Article URL: http://www.scorch2000.com/web/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129694 Points: 163 # Comments: 60
Fame! A Misunderstanding: A new translation of Albert Camus's complete notebooks
28 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
Helping ChatGPT better recognize context in sensitive conversations
Learn how new ChatGPT safety updates improve context awareness in sensitive conversations, helping detect risk over time and respond more safely.
Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
I wanted to try codex after 5 months of claude code max subscription. And then I went back to my previous projects on claude design only to realize I don't have access to them anymore. This is a first. I never lost access to any of my past sessions because I unsubscribed in any of the LLM apps. I actually wanted to try out codex previously, but had similar experience with my credits. They gave extra credits equivalent to my montly subscription price, with some time limit because claude has so many issues that month. And as soon as plan ended. I lost access to the credits. Even after resubscribing, I still don't have access to those credits. I have sympathies towards the engineers, especially the ones that are putting themselves on X. But only when someone with large following has some issue, they sort it out. Having worked at a billing company, I can see how complex contracts sound good for the growth/sales folks but are also horrible for engineers actually implementing those contracts
Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/medicares-new-payment-model-is-built-for-ai-and-most-of-the-tech-world-has-no-idea/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48127815 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Content-defined chunking added to Bazel
32 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/929091/meta-ai-threads-account-block Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126981 Points: 37 # Comments: 10
5 Years and $5M Later: Inventing a New Programming Language for Web Development Was a Mistake
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In-person examinations at Princeton will be proctored starting July 1
Article URL: https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-examinations-passed-faculty-133-years-precedent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126848 Points: 152 # Comments: 192
Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs
I spent a fortnight using Claude to create specs for every version of RAR, then another using gpt-5.5 to write compressors in Rust. It's not fast and it's not pretty, but it works. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126675 Points: 65 # Comments: 43
3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend
16 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Anthropic Launches Claude Platform on AWS
Anthropic has announced the general availability of Claude Platform on AWS, a new deployment option that gives AWS customers direct access to Anthropic’s native Claude platform using AWS authentication, billing, and monitoring services. By Daniel Dominguez
Making the news available at no cost is a victory
Article URL: https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2026/05/12/just-days-tribune-reporting/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126156 Points: 84 # Comments: 95
"Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage
Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/evicore-health-insurance-denials-cigna-unitedhealthcare-aetna-prior-authorizations Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126000 Points: 105 # Comments: 62
A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools
Article URL: https://andreafortuna.org/2026/05/13/amarcord/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125557 Points: 28 # Comments: 9
Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure
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Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration
Hey HN! We’re Vikram and Evan from Ardent (https://tryardent.com). We're building database sandboxes for you and your coding agents. In the last two years coding agents have gotten dramatically more capable at handling complex engineering tasks. But without access to a realistic sandbox at the DB layer for testing, they ship garbage that can take down production databases. I spent over a year building an AI Data Engineer that failed for this exact reason. Evan spent the last 12 years in data engineering and hit this wall building agents at his last company. Ardent was built to make it possible for coding agents to get near instant access to production-like sandboxes so they can test their work. To do this we write a replication stream out of the target DB, scaling with kafka onto a read replica with copy on write enabled and autoscaling compute (we currently prefer neon as a primary branching engine due to their implementation of these properties). Our replication stream uses logical r
Fragnesia: New Linux Privilege Escalation Exploit
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Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets
30 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
Dungeons & Desktops: 10 roguelikes that never die (because their communities won’t let them)
Roguelikes don’t die. They fork, mutate, get argued over, rewritten, abandoned, and revived again. Sometimes all at once. The post Dungeons & Desktops: 10 roguelikes that never die (because their communities won’t let them) appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
S-100 Virtual Workbench
4 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence
81 points, 32 comments on Hacker News
Kickstarter Is Forced to Ban Adult Content by Payment Processors
Article URL: https://kotaku.com/kickstarter-is-the-latest-platform-seemingly-forced-to-ban-adult-content-by-payment-processors-2000695648 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123198 Points: 77 # Comments: 37
50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/12/lake-tahoe-data-center-49000-residents-power-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123090 Points: 26 # Comments: 2
Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time
Article URL: https://ossresistance.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123015 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare
Article URL: https://kerkour.com/the-limits-of-rust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122954 Points: 25 # Comments: 6
Lua as a practical "soft-bedrock" language
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EMiX: Emulating Beyond Single-FPGA Limits
12 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Airbnb Implements Context-Aware Identity Model to Support Privacy-First Social Features
Airbnb has redesigned its identity system to support privacy-first social features in Experiences. The platform introduces context-specific profiles that separate global user identity from externally visible profiles, preventing cross-context linkage. The migration leveraged automated auditing, manual validation, and AI-assisted refactoring to enforce correct identity usage across services. By Leela Kumili
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