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Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

(www.gutenberg.org/)

771 points by JSeiko 12 hours ago | loading comments

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

(twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578)

939 points by reasonableklout 7 hours ago | loading comments

Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64

(phoboslab.org/log/2026/05/n64-additive-blending)

46 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | loading comments

Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals

(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/naturally-occurring-quasicrystals/)

73 points by lukeplato 2 days ago | loading comments

The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme

(www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/)

39 points by sohkamyung 2 days ago | loading comments

Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer

(ploopy.co/shop/bean-pointing-stick/)

12 points by jibcage 3 days ago | loading comments

The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)

(dynomight.net/p2p-meth/)

64 points by tomjakubowski 4 hours ago | loading comments

How to Write to SSDs [pdf]

(www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p1469-lee.pdf)

60 points by matt_d 5 hours ago | loading comments

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10

(projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html)

347 points by happyhardcore 14 hours ago | loading comments

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Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI

(ljtn.github.io/epiq/)

24 points by jolaflow 3 hours ago | loading comments

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California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down

(arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/)

373 points by Lihh27 8 hours ago | loading comments

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ESP-EEG is an affordable 8-channel biosensing board

(www.autodidacts.io/cerelog-esp-eeg-affordable-openbci-like-board/)

28 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | loading comments

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The sigmoids won't save you

(www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-sigmoids-wont-save-you)

166 points by Tomte 17 hours ago | loading comments

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Erlang/OTP 29.0

(www.erlang.org/news/188)

133 points by pyinstallwoes 4 hours ago | loading comments

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I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan

(gardinerbryant.com/i-bought-a-junk-psp-from-japan-heres-how-it-went/)

7 points by Kate0CoolLibby 3 days ago | loading comments

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I broke AppLovin's mediation cipher protocol

(www.buchodi.com/i-broke-applovins-mediation-cipher-protocol/)

17 points by lmbbuchodi 3 hours ago | loading comments

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The Zulip Foundation

(blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/)

236 points by boramalper 9 hours ago | loading comments

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I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator

(github.com/gdevic/FPGA-Calculator)

89 points by gdevic 11 hours ago | loading comments

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'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens

(kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/)

220 points by alligatorplum 3 hours ago | loading comments

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Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image

(github.com/neilsonnn/image-blaster)

139 points by MattRogish 12 hours ago | loading comments

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U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app

(macdailynews.com/2026/05/15/u-s-doj-demands-apple-and-google-unmask-over-100000-users-of-popular-car-tinkering-app-in-emissions-crackdown/)

382 points by tencentshill 10 hours ago | loading comments

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NYT and Vaping: How to Lie by Saying Only True Things

(gwern.net/vaping)

13 points by Ariarule 4 hours ago | loading comments

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Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake

(ppo.gradexp.xyz/)

128 points by c1b 2 days ago | loading comments

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ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline

(twitter.com/baseballot/status/2055309076209492208)

275 points by cmsparks 9 hours ago | loading comments

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Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'

(www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/waymo-recalls-3800-robotaxis-after-able-drive-into-standing-water.html)

170 points by drob518 10 hours ago | loading comments

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ASCII by Jason Scott

(ascii.textfiles.com/)

162 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | loading comments

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SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud

(analytics.fixelsmith.com/posts/sql-fraud-patterns/)

14 points by redbell 4 hours ago | loading comments

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Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

(hightouch.com/careers)

1 points by joshwget 11 hours ago | loading comments

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A SQL-Inspired Query Language Designed for Event Sourcing (2025)

(yoeight.github.io/blog/2025/12/21/EventQL_A_SQL_Inspired_Query_Language_Designed_For_Event_Sourcing.html)