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Click (2016)

(clickclickclick.click/)

218 points by andrewzeno 4 hours ago | loading comments

Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

(nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/regex-chess.html)

31 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | loading comments

Anthropic co-founder to present AI encyclical alongside Pope Leo XIV

(www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html)

129 points by cucho 4 hours ago | loading comments

Anthropic acquires Stainless

(www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless)

376 points by tomeraberbach 10 hours ago | loading comments

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

(archestra.ai/blog/only-responsible-ai)

430 points by ildari 12 hours ago | loading comments

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

(hyperpolyglot.org/lisp)

138 points by veqq 8 hours ago | loading comments

The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden

(blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden)

550 points by DaSHacka 2 days ago | loading comments

We let AIs run radio stations

(andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm)

190 points by lukaspetersson 9 hours ago | loading comments

RIP Peter Salus

(www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033750.html)

3 points by speckx 13 minutes ago | loading comments

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Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

(isabisabel.com/gacha/)

69 points by babel16 5 days ago | loading comments

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Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

(github.com/zakirullin/files.md)

561 points by zakirullin 14 hours ago | loading comments

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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

(simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/)

13 points by yakkomajuri 2 hours ago | loading comments

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Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard

(asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainablebuildings/article/doi/10.1115/1.4071922/1233035/Data-center-waste-heat-as-an-emerging-urban)

17 points by littlexsparkee 3 hours ago | loading comments

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Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

(blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/)

295 points by Fysi 14 hours ago | loading comments

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Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space

(www.thescientificdrop.com/2026/05/earths-radio-bubble-every-signal-weve.html)

40 points by jonbaer 19 hours ago | loading comments

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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

(techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/)

822 points by nycdatasci 10 hours ago | loading comments

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The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam

(www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-american-rebellion-against-ai-is-gaining-steam-94b72529)

29 points by JaakkoP an hour ago | loading comments

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When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call?

(quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/02/15/devirtualization/)

20 points by lionkor 2 days ago | loading comments

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Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model

(odyssey.ml/introducing-agora-1)

87 points by olivercameron 8 hours ago | loading comments

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Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)

(alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/)

180 points by ankitg12 3 days ago | loading comments

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The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

(www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/)

241 points by cdrnsf 8 hours ago | loading comments

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Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch

(baltazarstudios.com/calculator/)

53 points by zdw a day ago | loading comments

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Coding on Paper

(wickstrom.tech/2026-05-16-coding-on-paper.html)

47 points by owickstrom 2 days ago | loading comments

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The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention

(fil-c.org/calling_convention)

116 points by pizlonator 2 days ago | loading comments

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Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents

(github.com/InsForge/InsForge)

37 points by mrcoldbrew 11 hours ago | loading comments

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Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE

(loopmaster.xyz/)

73 points by stagas 8 hours ago | loading comments

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Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment

(arxiv.org/abs/2601.10160)

26 points by anigbrowl 6 hours ago | loading comments

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Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint

(modal.com/blog/truly-serverless-gpus)

74 points by charles_irl 9 hours ago | loading comments

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Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait

(www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/iran-starts-bitcoin-backed-shipping-insurance-for-hormuz-strait)

275 points by srameshc 10 hours ago | loading comments

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Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions

(www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/05/shutterstock-pay-35-million-settle-ftc-allegations-over-illegal-subscription-cancellation-practices)

146 points by Lihh27 7 hours ago | loading comments