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The people preserving the scientific practice of bird banding

7 points, 0 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsthenarwhal.caMay 7
2582ENG

Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study

Article URL: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gambling-ads-on-social-media-reach-more-than-twice-as-many-men-as-women Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056359 Points: 27 # Comments: 8

Hacker Newscam.ac.ukMay 7
2583ENG

Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10448-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056268 Points: 70 # Comments: 26

Hacker Newsbcm.eduMay 7
2584ENG

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056227 Points: 242 # Comments: 107

Hacker Newsxeiaso.netMay 7
2585ENG

Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows

Agentic workflows that run on every pull request can quietly accumulate large API bills. Here's how we instrumented our own production workflows, found the inefficiencies, and built agents to fix them. The post Improving token efficiency in GitHub Agentic Workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

GitHub Bloggithub.blogMay 7
2586ENG

Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect

Article URL: https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/research-and-discoveries-articles/nonprofit-hospitals-spend-billions-on-management-consultants Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056158 Points: 95 # Comments: 30

Hacker Newsuchicagomedicine.orgMay 7
2587ENG

Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

https://thetech.com/2026/05/07/canvas-breach-26 https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/hackers-deface-school-logi... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055913 Points: 365 # Comments: 263

Hacker Newstheverge.comMay 7
2588ENG

Why Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII?

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Lobsterstylerhillery.comMay 7
2589ENG

Cloudflare lays off 1,100 employees

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Lobstersblog.cloudflare.comMay 7
2590ENG

Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce

https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054423 Points: 330 # Comments: 205

Hacker Newsreuters.comMay 7
2591ENG

Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

Article URL: https://www.citizen.co.za/news/home-affairs-officials-suspended-ai-hallucinations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053842 Points: 63 # Comments: 17

Hacker Newscitizen.co.zaMay 7
2592ENG

Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives"

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/mozilla-says-271-vulnerabilities-found-by-mythos-have-almost-no-false-positives/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053816 Points: 39 # Comments: 9

Hacker Newsarstechnica.comMay 7
2593ENG

Creating for a niche

Article URL: https://www.davesnider.com/posts/working-in-a-niche Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053770 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

Hacker Newsdavesnider.comMay 7
2594ENG

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053623 Points: 240 # Comments: 105

Hacker Newsopenwall.comMay 7
2595ENG

Affordances of a screenless writing interface

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Lobstersjamesg.blogMay 7
2596ENG

Colored Shadow Penumbra

Article URL: https://chosker.github.io/blog/colored-shadow-penumbra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053435 Points: 25 # Comments: 10

Hacker Newschosker.github.ioMay 7
2597ENG

Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here’s how to review them.

A practical guide to reviewing agent-generated pull requests: what to look for, where issues hide, and how to catch technical debt before it ships. The post Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here’s how to review them. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

GitHub Bloggithub.blogMay 7
2598ENG

A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began

22 points, 3 comments on Hacker News

Hacker Newsnewscientist.comMay 7
2599SEC

Ivanti EPMM CVE-2026-6973 RCE Under Active Exploitation Grants Admin-Level Access

Ivanti is warning that a new security flaw impacting Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) has been explored in limited attacks in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-6973 (CVSS score: 7.2), is a case of improper input validation affecting EPMM before versions 12.6.1.1, 12.7.0.1, and 12.8.0.1. It allows "a remotely authenticated user with administrative access to achieve remote code

The Hacker News (Security)thehackernews.comMay 7
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Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencoders Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052537 Points: 135 # Comments: 41

Hacker Newsanthropic.comMay 7
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PCPJack Credential Stealer Exploits 5 CVEs to Spread Worm-Like Across Cloud Systems

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new credential theft framework dubbed PCPJack that targets exposed cloud infrastructure and ousts any artifacts linked to TeamPCP from the environments. "The toolset harvests credentials from cloud, container, developer, productivity, and financial services, then exfiltrates the data through attacker-controlled infrastructure while attempting

The Hacker News (Security)thehackernews.comMay 7
2602ENG

Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard

Article URL: https://www.elciudadano.com/en/brazils-pix-payment-system-faces-pressure-from-visa-and-mastercard/04/04/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052371 Points: 118 # Comments: 77

Hacker Newselciudadano.comMay 7
2603ENG

Principles for agent-native CLIs

Article URL: https://twitter.com/trevin/status/2051316002730991795 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48052333 Points: 40 # Comments: 22

Hacker Newstwitter.comMay 7
2604ENG

Show HN: Full Python GUI apps in the browser – no JavaScript, no server

I have been working on Dear ImGui Bundle since 2022, but it is the first time I talk about it here. It is a framework around Dear ImGui for building interactive applications in Python and C++. It comes with batteries included: Plotting, image inspection, Markdown, node editors, 3D gizmos, knobs, toggles, etc. https://imgui-bundle.pages.dev It now also runs smoothly in the browser via pyodide: The playground below is a python app running in your browser (no server, no JavaScript). You can edit the code on the left and click Run. It even works on mobile. https://imgui-bundle.pages.dev/playground I have a strong interest in providing tools that help others express their creativity. This project aims to be a step in this direction as it helps develop GUIs where the code is extremely readable & hackable. Some of the goals it addresses: - Bring true Immediate Mode GUI to Python and C++ - A versatile range of high quality libraries: Widgets, Plots, Image Analysis, Node edition, markdown rende

Hacker Newsgithub.comMay 7

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