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A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

(gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/)

329 points by _alternator_ 8 hours ago | loading comments

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

(reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users)

1066 points by anonymousiam 16 hours ago | loading comments

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

(twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935)

160 points by pretext 6 hours ago | loading comments

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

(moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/)

329 points by atgctg 2 days ago | loading comments

Mythical Man Month

(martinfowler.com/bliki/MythicalManMonth.html)

167 points by ingve 2 days ago | loading comments

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

(www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o)

653 points by defrost a day ago | loading comments

What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting

(www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-lightning-the-answer-keeps-getting-more-interesting-20260506/)

61 points by Tomte 3 days ago | loading comments

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

(www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures)

341 points by speckx 17 hours ago | loading comments

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

(www.wiisfi.com/)

249 points by homebrewer 3 days ago | loading comments

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AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved

(www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/aws-outage-data-center-fanduel-coinbase.html)

227 points by christhecaribou a day ago | loading comments

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America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy

(apnews.com/projects/pfas-forever-stained/)

20 points by rawgabbit 3 days ago | loading comments

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The React2Shell Story

(lachlan.nz/blog/the-react2shell-story/)

149 points by mufeedvh 18 hours ago | loading comments

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Cartoon Network Flash Games

(www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games)

347 points by willmeyers 18 hours ago | loading comments

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An Introduction to Meshtastic

(meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/)

455 points by ColinWright a day ago | loading comments

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You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

(ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html)

186 points by MrBruh 15 hours ago | loading comments

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Teaching Claude Why

(www.anthropic.com/research/teaching-claude-why)

169 points by pretext 17 hours ago | loading comments

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Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?

(www.sigops.org/2026/can-llms-model-real-world-systems-in-tla/)

85 points by mad 18 hours ago | loading comments

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Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM

(btxx.org/posts/memory/)

227 points by xngbuilds 20 hours ago | loading comments

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The soul of maintaining a new machine

(books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everything/communities-of-practice/the-soul-of-maintaining-a-new-machine/3)

54 points by akkartik 3 days ago | loading comments

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Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible

(www.colorado.edu/today/2026/05/06/light-without-electricity-glowing-algae-could-make-it-possible)

77 points by geox 3 days ago | loading comments

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Mojo 1.0 Beta

(mojolang.org/)

354 points by sbt567 a day ago | loading comments

22.

Making Julia as Fast as C++

(flow.byu.edu/posts/julia-c++)

4 points by d_tr 3 days ago | loading comments

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PortalVR Motion – use any VR content in 2D with 3D tracked Joy-Cons

(portalvr.io/motion)

21 points by gfodor 3 days ago | loading comments

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Roadside Attraction

(theoffingmag.com/essay/roadside-attraction/)

22 points by aways 15 hours ago | loading comments

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US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

(www.war.gov/UFO/)

300 points by david-gpu a day ago | loading comments

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Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso

(mceglowski.substack.com/p/bitter-lessons-from-the-isspresso)

104 points by zdw 3 days ago | loading comments

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All means are fair except solving the problem

(yosefk.com/blog/all-means-are-fair-except-solving-the-problem.html)

59 points by akkartik 3 days ago | loading comments

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All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot

(adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-carousel-now-it-s-an-ai-chatbot.md)

100 points by edent 3 hours ago | loading comments

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EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push

(cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/)