Updated May 23, 2026
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BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
Article URL: https://xcancel.com/josefprusa/status/2054602354851254330 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245862 Points: 15 # Comments: 1
Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/22/experience-found-baby-subway-now-26-year-old-son Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245571 Points: 71 # Comments: 14
FSFE intervenes against Apple before EUCJ for the second time
Article URL: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260519-01.en.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233939 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-apple-ai-graduation-speech-2026-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233563 Points: 33 # Comments: 6
Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results
Article URL: https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220105 Points: 78 # Comments: 66
No Slop Grenade
Article URL: https://noslopgrenade.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219992 Points: 27 # Comments: 2
Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)
Article URL: https://zfhuang99.github.io/rust/claude%20code/codex/contracts/spec-driven%20development/2025/12/01/rust-with-ai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205415 Points: 13 # Comments: 6
The weird, wild story of humanity's obsession with gold
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/05/14/the-weird-wild-story-of-humanitys-obsession-with-gold Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205026 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
Article URL: https://superspl.at/scene/84df8849 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191602 Points: 20 # Comments: 10
Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised
Article URL: https://safedep.io/mini-shai-hulud-strikes-again-314-npm-packages-compromised/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189368 Points: 116 # Comments: 60
NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era
Article URL: https://spacedaily.com/nasa-still-maintains-some-of-the-voyager-spacecraft-code-in-a-1970s-era-programming-language-that-almost-nobody-on-earth-fully-understands-anymore-and-the-handful-of-engineers-who-do-are-now-in-their/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177716 Poi
The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf]
Article URL: http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/psos.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177300 Points: 43 # Comments: 16
Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU
Article URL: https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2026-05-15-ym-fast-emu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166920 Points: 28 # Comments: 3
Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/15/mozilla-to-uk-regulators-vpns-are-essential-privacy-and-security-tools-and-should-not-be-undermined/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166459 Points: 167 # Comments: 44
Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques
Article URL: https://petapixel.com/2026/05/14/someone-shared-a-real-monet-painting-as-ai-and-asked-for-critiques/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158110 Points: 8 # Comments: 3
Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
Article URL: https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157559 Points: 100 # Comments: 76
RelaxAI – UK sovereign LLM inference at 80% cheaper than OpenAI/Claude
Article URL: https://relax.ai/docs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146424 Points: 13 # Comments: 5
Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
Article URL: https://explorer.samismith.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146129 Points: 34 # Comments: 7
Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
Article URL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132488 Points: 40 # Comments: 26
Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
Article URL: https://classic7.lol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132030 Points: 48 # Comments: 35
SecurityBaseline.eu
Article URL: https://internetcleanup.foundation/2026/05/european-governments-3000-tracking-sites-1000-phpmyadmins-and-99pct-poorly-encrypted-email-introducing-securitybaseline-eu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118763 Points: 154 # Comments: 68
Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08419 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117810 Points: 179 # Comments: 41
Learning Software Architecture
Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/12/software-architecture.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106024 Points: 43 # Comments: 0
HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-DSC-AMDGPU-FRL Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105874 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
Article URL: https://ratty-term.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093100 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
When Is "Next Friday"?
Article URL: https://whenisnextfriday.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093016 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
Rotten Dot Com
Article URL: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/05/06/rotten-dot-com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082039 Points: 36 # Comments: 22
Debian must ship reproducible packages
Article URL: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081245 Points: 128 # Comments: 23
All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot
Article URL: https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-carousel-now-it-s-an-ai-chatbot.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072720 Points: 73 # Comments: 25
EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push
Article URL: https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072190 Points: 180 # Comments: 123
ClojureScript Gets Async/Await
Article URL: https://clojurescript.org/news/2026-05-07-release Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059662 Points: 40 # Comments: 6
HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker
Article URL: https://hantawatch.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058917 Points: 13 # Comments: 8
ZAYA1-8B: An 8B Moe Model with 760M Active Params Matching DeepSeek-R1 on Math
Article URL: https://firethering.com/zaya1-8b-open-source-math-coding-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047082 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Social Network for Corporate Cringe
Built social network to make fun of corporate cringe. Post humblebrag content and react with direct emotions. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48046874 Points: 18 # Comments: 15
The Boring Internet
Article URL: https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033689 Points: 13 # Comments: 10
Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
Article URL: https://draxinar.github.io/articles/2026-05-01-uodemo-reverse-engineering.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032976 Points: 36 # Comments: 6
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Article URL: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019219 Points: 192 # Comments: 201
The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls
Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/the-frog-for-whom-the-bell-tolls Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019165 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Trademark Violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
Article URL: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-trademark-infringement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006445 Points: 43 # Comments: 4
GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p8yled1do Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006402 Points: 24 # Comments: 3
Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16
Article URL: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/pymanager-261/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994327 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me (BBC)
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c242pzr1zp2o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994150 Points: 20 # Comments: 4
Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds
Article URL: https://mathstick.github.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983485 Points: 9 # Comments: 12
CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/rEWfZ6R-senior-forward-deployed-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983385 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
USB-C cables can be a mess. One cable charges at 5W, another does 100W and Thunderbolt 4, and they look identical in the drawer.WhatCable sits in your menu bar and reads the cable data your Mac already has access to. Plug in a cable and it tells you in plain English what it can actually do: charging
Grok 4.3
Article URL: https://docs.x.ai/developers/models/grok-4.3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972447 Points: 42 # Comments: 31
DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble
Article URL: https://datacenter.fm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959513 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API
Article URL: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959463 Points: 46 # Comments: 7
Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things
Article URL: https://rip.so Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945955 Points: 5 # Comments: 3
Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
Article URL: https://www.nldigitalgovernment.nl/news/soft-launch-for-government-open-source-code-platform/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945918 Points: 22 # Comments: 2
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