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Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

(www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach)

658 points by stefanpie 12 hours ago | loading comments

Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce

(www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cut-over-1100-jobs-2026-05-07/)

766 points by PriorityLeft 14 hours ago | loading comments

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

(xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/)

537 points by psxuaw 12 hours ago | loading comments

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

(www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8)

649 points by flipped 15 hours ago | loading comments

Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2

(www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/260508.html)

27 points by razorbeamz 4 hours ago | loading comments

ClojureScript Gets Async/Await

(clojurescript.org/news/2026-05-07-release)

66 points by Borkdude 3 hours ago | loading comments

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

(www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/)

656 points by speckx 20 hours ago | loading comments

The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs

(sdocs.dev/blogs/journey-to-pdf-generation)

20 points by FailMore a day ago | loading comments

Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered

(storica.club/blog/pinocchio-in-italian/)

159 points by cemsakarya 2 days ago | loading comments

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A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings

(ivanpleshkov.dev/blog/polynomial-autoencoder/)

46 points by timvisee 3 days ago | loading comments

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Agents need control flow, not more prompts

(bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/)

471 points by bsuh 18 hours ago | loading comments

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Floats Don't Agree with Themselves

(docs.merca.earth/blog/floats-dont-agree-with-themselves)

17 points by cremer 2 days ago | loading comments

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Dithering with CSS

(ikesau.co/blog/dithering-with-css/)

16 points by speckx 4 days ago | loading comments

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Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE

(github.com/graemeg/blaise)

50 points by peter_d_sherman 6 hours ago | loading comments

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Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

(www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencoders)

285 points by instagraham 17 hours ago | loading comments

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DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal

(github.com/antirez/ds4)

396 points by tamnd 19 hours ago | loading comments

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AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

(deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/)

295 points by berlianta 20 hours ago | loading comments

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

(www.elciudadano.com/en/brazils-pix-payment-system-faces-pressure-from-visa-and-mastercard/04/04/)

207 points by wslh 17 hours ago | loading comments

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Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

(www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/06/singapore-caning-school-bullies)

189 points by rustoo 2 days ago | loading comments

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Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus

(www.bcm.edu/news/researchers-discover-advanced-language-processing-in-the-unconscious-human-brain)

108 points by hhs 11 hours ago | loading comments

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GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094

(github.com/robertdfrench/ifuncd-up)

81 points by foltik 10 hours ago | loading comments

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Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

(hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/)

200 points by HieronymusBosch 18 hours ago | loading comments

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AI slop is killing online communities

(rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/)

673 points by thm 16 hours ago | loading comments

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How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device

(zknill.io/posts/everyone-said-sse-token-streaming-was-easy/)

34 points by zknill 2 days ago | loading comments

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Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation

(lwn.net/Articles/1066418/)

33 points by signa11 7 hours ago | loading comments

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Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

(www.citizen.co.za/news/home-affairs-officials-suspended-ai-hallucinations/)

101 points by jruohonen 15 hours ago | loading comments

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Programming Still Sucks

(www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp)

627 points by jeromechoo 2 days ago | loading comments

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Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect

(www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/research-and-discoveries-articles/nonprofit-hospitals-spend-billions-on-management-consultants)

158 points by hhs 12 hours ago | loading comments

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Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos

(www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/from-ghost-particle-to-cosmic-messenger)

33 points by LAsteNERD 2 days ago | loading comments

30.

I want to live like Costco people

(tastecooking.com/i-want-to-live-like-costco-people/)

296 points by speckx 19 hours ago | loading comments