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Archives for 21 May 2026
  1. Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers
    (120 points | Comments)

  2. The IBM-ification of Google?
    (206 points | Comments)

  3. Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?
    (103 points | Comments)

  4. The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
    (543 points | Comments)

  5. Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess
    (334 points | Comments)

  6. C constructs that still don't work in C++
    (122 points | Comments)

  7. Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps
    (106 points | Comments)

  8. Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O
    (156 points | Comments)

  9. Using Kagi Search with Low Vision
    (268 points | Comments)

  10. Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
    (373 points | Comments)

  11. BBEdit 16
    (318 points | Comments)

  12. Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police
    (491 points | Comments)

  13. Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid
    (193 points | Comments)

  14. News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism
    (332 points | Comments)

  15. Improving C# Memory Safety
    (165 points | Comments)

  16. London Mayor Blocks Palantir
    (195 points | Comments)

  17. Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
    (368 points | Comments)

  18. Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
    (181 points | Comments)

  19. Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C
    (112 points | Comments)

  20. Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
    (1195 points | Comments)

  21. Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team
    (102 points | Comments)

  22. I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph
    (663 points | Comments)

  23. Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps
    (388 points | Comments)

  24. Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can
    (224 points | Comments)

  25. Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)
    (470 points | Comments)

  26. Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop
    (185 points | Comments)

  27. Google's Antigravity bait and switch
    (768 points | Comments)

  28. AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
    (822 points | Comments)

  29. Shunning AI is the human choice
    (371 points | Comments)

  30. US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds
    (251 points | Comments)

  31. A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide
    (254 points | Comments)

  32. Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking
    (267 points | Comments)

  33. Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket
    (172 points | Comments)

  34. FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation
    (105 points | Comments)

  35. Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines
    (429 points | Comments)

  36. Flipper One – we need your help
    (1264 points | Comments)

  37. Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored
    (423 points | Comments)

  38. Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
    (160 points | Comments)

  39. We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
    (630 points | Comments)

  40. Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
    (712 points | Comments)

  41. Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK
    (193 points | Comments)

  42. Vivaldi 8.0
    (370 points | Comments)

  43. OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday
    (137 points | Comments)

  44. Haskell Foundation 2026 Update
    (181 points | Comments)

  45. Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
    (262 points | Comments)