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Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08419 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117810 Points: 176 # Comments: 41
what 262,715 regex questions on stack overflow haven't answered
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Recreation of the 1956 IPL-I version of the Logic Theorist theorem prover
10 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't
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Starship V3
Article URL: https://www.spacex.com/updates#starship-v3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116781 Points: 142 # Comments: 89
My graduation cap runs Rust
Article URL: https://ericswpark.com/blog/2026/2026-05-12-my-graduation-cap-runs-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116207 Points: 96 # Comments: 27
Our response to the TanStack npm supply chain attack
OpenAI details its response to the TanStack “Mini Shai-Hulud” supply chain attack, outlines protections taken to secure systems and signing certificates, and explains why macOS users must update OpenAI apps by June 12, 2026. Learn what happened, what was affected, and how OpenAI is strengthening defenses against evolving software supply chain threats.
Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track
88 points, 29 comments on Hacker News
Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
Article URL: https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807 Points: 223 # Comments: 53
Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
218 points, 145 comments on Hacker News
I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan
10 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
256 points, 105 comments on Hacker News
EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/eff-fourth-circuit-electronic-device-searches-border-require-warrant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115059 Points: 139 # Comments: 19
Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition
Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers -- including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Oracle -- fixing near record volumes of security bugs, and/or quickening the tempo of their patch releases.
Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/meta-us-employees-organize-protest-against-mouse-tracking-tech-2026-05-12/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114461 Points: 35 # Comments: 17
Scrcpy v4.0
Article URL: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases/tag/v4.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114356 Points: 63 # Comments: 9
Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer
17 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
Soon We Can Finally Banish JavaScript to the ShadowRealm
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How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
Article URL: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113895 Points: 101 # Comments: 10
Beyond Semantic Similarity
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05242 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113518 Points: 22 # Comments: 2
Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want
Article URL: https://thebuild.com/blog/2026/05/12/snowflake-postgres-lakebase-horizondb-picking-the-lock-in-you-want/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113425 Points: 16 # Comments: 4
Charity – Categorical programming language (1998)
5 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
Article URL: https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042 Points: 166 # Comments: 73
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention is the right primitive for this, and FFN parameters are wasted at this scale. Simple Attention Networks: the entire model is just attention and gating, no MLPs anywhere. Needle is an experimental run for single-shot function calling for consumer devices (phones, watches, glasses...). Training: - Pretrained on 200B tokens across 16 TPU v6e (27 hours) - Post-trained on 2B tokens of synthesized function-calling d
SQL: Incorrect by Construction
Article URL: https://chreke.com/posts/sql-incorrect-by-construction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111798 Points: 24 # Comments: 21
Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111765 Points: 117 # Comments: 26
Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim
Article URL: https://xbow.com/blog/dead-letter-cve-2026-45185-xbow-found-rce-exim Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111748 Points: 47 # Comments: 23
What is BusyBox?
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Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111581 Points: 88 # Comments: 73
Googlebook
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducin... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545 Points: 457 # Comments: 732
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