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The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube
23 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Free tool to see how much AI bots are costing your site
11 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
How ChatGPT adoption broadened in early 2026
ChatGPT adoption surged in Q1 2026, with fastest growth among users over 35 and more balanced gender usage, signaling broader mainstream AI adoption.
Marco Polo: Finding a friend with only distance and motion
48 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind Oxygen’s revival
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Exploring 8 Shaft Weaving
15 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Netflix Serves 84% of Query Results from Cache with Interval-Aware Caching in Apache Druid
Netflix improves Apache Druid performance with interval aware caching, serving 84% of analytics results from cache and reducing query load by 33%. The system decomposes rolling window queries into reusable time segments, enabling partial cache reuse and recomputation only for recent data. At scale, it reduces scan volume, improves P90 latency, and optimizes real time analytics workloads. By Leela Kumili
Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095550 Points: 296 # Comments: 509
The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work
21 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?
50 points, 18 comments on Hacker News
What is random generation?
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Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw
43 points, 25 comments on Hacker News
Create a 90s GeoCities style website in seconds (Python)
25 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Rootkit, macOS Crypto Stealer, WebSocket Skimmers and More
Rough Monday. Somebody poisoned a trusted download again, somebody else turned cloud servers into public housing, and a few crews are still getting into boxes with bugs that should’ve died years ago — the same old holes, same lazy access paths, same “how the hell is this still open” feeling. One report this week basically reads like a guy tripped over root access by accident and decided to stay
Presentation: Evolution of a Backend for a Streaming Application
Daniele Frasca explains the architectural evolution of Joyn, a German streaming giant. He discusses moving from fragile single-node setups to resilient serverless architectures using AWS. He shares insights on the Hub and Spoke pattern for data consistency, cell-based isolation to reduce blast radius, and cost-optimization strategies for achieving affordable multi-region active-active setups. By Daniele Frasca
Web Feeds in 2026: A Survey
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Your Purple Team Isn't Purple — It's Just Red and Blue in the Same Room
Defending a network at 2 am looks a lot like this: an analyst copy-pasting a hash from a PDF into a SIEM query. A red team script is being rewritten by hand so the blue team can use it. A patch waiting on a change-approval window that's longer than the exploitation window itself. Nobody in that chain is incompetent. Every human is doing their job correctly. The problem is the system, its
European Money Pours into Palantir
Article URL: https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/branded/2026-04-11/european-money-pours-into-palantir-over-100-asset-managers-and-banks-boost-their-investments-in-the-controversial-tech-company.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093626 Points: 81 # Comments: 14
An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins
68 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Podcast: From Java EE to Quarkus and LLMs: Adam Bien’s Playbook for Boring, Future‑Proof Systems
Adam Bien, an independent consultant and pioneer of zero dependencies in the enterprise world of Java, highlights the benefits of consistently using standards, regardless of whether they involve Java or existing patterns. He argues that by doing so, he managed to future-proof the systems he built, preparing them for the cloud era and even for the AI-Native era. By Adam Bien
Article: Local-First AI Inference: A Cloud Architecture Pattern for Cost-Effective Document Processing
The Local-First AI Inference pattern routes 70–80% of documents to deterministic local extraction at zero API cost, reserving Azure OpenAI calls for edge cases and flagging low-confidence results for human review. Deployed on 4,700 engineering drawing PDFs, it cut API costs by 75% and processing time by 55%, while bounding errors through a human review tier. By Obinna Iheanachor
Programmable Whitelist-based Configs: Embedding Rye in Go
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Saying Goodbye to one line of APL
53 points, 13 comments on Hacker News
Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
400 points, 139 comments on Hacker News
All Those A.I. Note Takers? They're Making Lawyers Nervous
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/business/dealbook/ai-notetakers-legal-risk.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093043 Points: 127 # Comments: 87
OpenAI Campus Network: Student club interest form
Join the OpenAI Campus Network—connect student clubs worldwide, access AI tools, host events, and build an AI-powered campus community.
How enterprises are scaling AI
How enterprises scale AI: from early experiments to compounding impact through trust, governance, workflow design, and quality at scale.
The Adventure Family Tree
Article URL: https://mipmip.org/advfamily/advfamily.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48092367 Points: 37 # Comments: 2
New DORA Report Claims Strong Engineering Foundations Drive AI Return on Investment
Google Cloud's DORA team released a report detailing a framework for assessing the ROI of AI in software development. It emphasizes that successful AI implementation depends on organizational systems rather than just tools. The report introduces a J-Curve model for value realization. It also discusses the importance of workforce retention and process redesign for achieving long-term gains. By Matt Saunders
Netflix Introduces ‘Model Lifecycle Graph’ to Scale Enterprise Machine Learning
Netflix has developed a graph-based architecture for managing machine learning systems, called the Model Lifecycle Graph. This system maps interconnections between datasets, models, features, and workflows, addressing challenges in scaling ML operations. It enhances discoverability, governance, and component reuse while supporting a self-service approach for engineers and data scientists. By Matt Foster
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