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Stories first seen Wednesday, 13 May 2026, UTC

3 36 A History of IDEs at Google (le-brun.eu)
5 16 Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration (tryardent.com)
26 82 Haiku (haiku-os.org)
7 25 U.S. intelligence shows Iran retains substantial missile capabilities (nytimes.com)
7 16 Fragnesia Made Public as Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (phoronix.com)
4 6 European Stagnation Is Real (siliconcontinent.com)
6 40 S-100 Virtual Workbench (grantmestrength.github.io)
14 50 Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC (github.com/nooga)
41 97 Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time (ossresistance.com)
64 67 50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers (fortune.com)
144 194 Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors (kotaku.com)
21 36 The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare (kerkour.com)
18 38 Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined (dynomight.net)
64 240 Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (fredchan.org)
14 39 Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2005) (greem.co.uk)
39 34 The AI Backlash Could Get Ugly (theatlantic.com)
111 54 The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization (avkcode.github.io)
37 124 Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 (python.org)
36 41 Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains (404media.co)
148 207 Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent (nltimes.nl)
205 384 Leaving GitHub for Forgejo (jorijn.com)
6 90 An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins (magnusross.github.io)
1 4 Show HN: I asked AI to write Sci-Fi for eternity (f055.net)
22 56 Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems (atalaykutlay.com)
— — Substrate (YC S24) Is Hiring a Technical Success Manager (ycombinator.com)
24 78 Web Server on a Nintendo Wii (sjmulder.nl)
0 6 Another day, another universal Linux LPE (twitter.com/v12sec)
51 40 Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways (vittorioromeo.com)
451 665 I moved my digital stack to Europe (monokai.com)
31 161 Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter (dmitry.gr)
15 103 The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025) (acesounderglass.com)
104 230 New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater (sciencedaily.com)
29 32 “I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT (thestandard.com.hk)
15 35 What if there was no BASIC in EndBASIC? (blogsystem5.substack.com)
101 203 SecurityBaseline.eu (internetcleanup.foundation)
7 6 AluminiumOS, by Google: Android Reimagined for the Desktop (aluminium-os.com)
3 4 One Startup Is Gambling. Ten Is Mathematics (mynameisfeng.com)
8 19 I made Rust’s cargo copy but for CPP (github.com/user-with-username)
18 37 Up in Smoke (thebaffler.com)
1 4 We tested super-resolution pre-filter for LPR OCR. It did nothing (wink.co)
64 270 Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics (arxiv.org)
34 39 Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI (zero-native.dev)
1 10 What can singing mice say about human speech? (phys.org)
161 247 The vi family (ath0.com)
5 36 Temu is advertising filet mignon on X (twitter.com/shoptemu)
14 42 Referer Reality (robinsloan.com)
6 15 AI shouldn't have a meter. Unlimited tokens. Forever (openmonoagent.ai)
5 10 You Don't Look Like a Gamer: On Toxicity, Gatekeeping, & Women Who Share Gaming (gardinerbryant.com)
408 254 Starship V3 (spacex.com)
36 152 Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s (github.com/tracewayapp)
27 145 When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug (cloudflare.com)
3 4 The Cost of Doing Business: How SF's Tax Structure Constrains Economic Growth [pdf] (bayareaeconomy.org)
49 331 Scrcpy v4.0 (github.com/genymobile)
27 82 Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams (github.com/xtellect)
98 357 Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine (savethearchive.com)
77 197 My graduation cap runs Rust (ericswpark.com)

Tue, May 12

22 31 Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video] (youtube.com)
173 210 Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track (bbc.com)
31 182 EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant (eff.org)
8 86 Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot (x86.lol)
272 611 Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers (github.com/fulu-foundation)
34 65 Riding the D in Los Angeles: city hopes new subway stations will be game changer (theguardian.com)
36 47 Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices (reuters.com)
113 126 As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work (nautil.us)
2 15 A Preview of the Future (aresluna.org)
10 44 Beyond Semantic Similarity (arxiv.org)
57 449 How to make your text look futuristic (2016) (typesetinthefuture.com)
7 33 Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want (thebuild.com)
2 15 Unauthorized Anthropic stock sales and investment scams (claude.com)
28 37 SQL: Incorrect by Construction (chreke.com)
32 46 We accidentally recreated old Facebook (amrshawky.com)
70 119 The Rise of the Bullshittery (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
74 351 Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol (duckdb.org)
168 581 Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)
3 24 The Moth Story Map (themoth.org)
197 357 CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq (thekelleys.org.uk)
2 14 New Jersey residents say they can't even wash their clothes due to data centers (thecooldown.com)
201 235 Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era (deepmind.google)
39 43 Testing UPS Output Waveforms (lttlabs.com)
27 85 Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable (github.com/statewright)
39 66 Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim (xbow.com)
100 309 Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare (eff.org)
1471 887 Googlebook (googlebook.google)
51 145 When life gives you lemons, write better error messages (wix-ux.com)
42 81 Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL (hypercubic.ai)
0 6 A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme (2005) (codinghorror.com)
217 237 Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers (insidehighered.com)
19 46 Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder
313 739 Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)
153 174 Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools (arstechnica.com)
21 48 The Real Story of Troy (storica.club)
1 5 Where Are All the Data Centers? (wheresyoured.at)
151 430 The Future of Obsidian Plugins (obsidian.md)
20 53 Launch HN: Voker (YC S24) – Analytics for AI Agents (voker.ai)
53 192 Operation: Epic Furious (epicfurious.com)
179 193 eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible (bloomberg.com)
0 5 Jankó Keyboard (wikipedia.org)
404 1301 Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)
4 10 I hate the recent open-source rise (jvt.me)
38 27 Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties (phys.org)
0 8 The gutting of USAID has left a void China will not fill (economist.com)
10 27 Through the looking glass of benchmark hacking (poolside.ai)
38 58 The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube (construction-physics.com)
161 156 US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war (bbc.com)
40 514 Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets (maximeheckel.com)
22 77 Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler (python.org)
23 131 UnDUNE II (liquidream.itch.io)
14 71 Chasing Chicago's movable bridges (2014) (aresluna.org)
41 38 Don't hijack my mouse pointer (ruky.me)
42 60 Houses are for living, not for speculation (wikipedia.org)
— — Text Blaze (YC W21) Is Hiring for a No-AI Summer Internship (ycombinator.com)
67 74 A HN post with negative points – how? (news.ycombinator.com)
60 60 Docker images are hundreds of MB; a full game engine compiles to 35MB WASM (bogomolov.work)
385 436 EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids (cnbc.com)
69 165 Coursera and Udemy are now one company (coursera.org)
0 11 Yabasic (Yet Another Basic) (wikipedia.org)
16 33 Optimize for change not application performance (echooff.dev)
49 72 Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production (gagadget.com)
39 32 Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows? (quanten.co)
6 43 HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver (phoronix.com)
107 532 Learning Software Architecture (matklad.github.io)
87 119 Toxicity on Social Media – The Noisy Room (thenoisyroom.com)
1 3 Words Fail (2020) (carcinisation.com)
9 45 Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy (pietschsoft.com)
14 71 Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC (github.com/pion)
2 15 When semiconductor materials misbehave (semiengineering.com)
331 629 Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)
0 7 Supercomputer networking to accelerate large scale AI training (openai.com)
3 10 US in closely-guarded talks to open 3 new bases in Greenland (bbc.com)
1 11 High-precision HDC reference instrument for the Sol Star System (pypi.org)
15 179 Extremely Low Frequencies (computer.rip)
1 10 Arcadia, CA, Mayor Federally Charged with Acting as Illegal Agent of PRC, Pleads (justice.gov)
29 53 Productivity isn't about going faster (humanpro.co)
21 61 Boriel BASIC (zxbasic.readthedocs.io)
15 31 Why Everyone's Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (gardinerbryant.com)
7 63 VGA Memory Access Is Complicated (os2museum.com)
27 177 Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)
27 37 Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot (fireflysentinel.github.io)
176 525 They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker (github.com/davmlaw)
54 85 A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began (newscientist.com)
87 210 Claude Platform on AWS (claude.com)
1 11 Show HN: Safe-install – safer NPM installs with trusted build dependencies (npmjs.com)
23 103 Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)
58 16 A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan (freerange.city)
3 44 Abstract Machines for Logic Programs (chrisistyping.bearblog.dev)
0 5 Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise (tanstack.com)

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