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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:17) - I’ve joined Anthropic
• (01:31) - Gemini 3.5 Flash
• (03:22) - I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
• (04:44) - Apple unveils new accessibility features
• (06:19) - Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
• (07:42) - Google changes its search box
• (09:42) - Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks
• (11:13) - Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)
• (12:39) - GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
• (13:48) - Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images
• (15:15) - Outro

Gemini 3.5 Flash
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196570

I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
https://virtualosmuseum.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009

Apple unveils new accessibility features
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-apple-intelligence/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192224

Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197980

Google changes its search box
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197370

Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks
https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192383

Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)
https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201484

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
https://twitter.com/github/status/2056884788179726685
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316

Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images
https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200569

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
• (02:05) - The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
• (03:53) - Anthropic acquires Stainless
• (04:49) - Click (2016)
• (05:56) - We let AIs run radio stations
• (07:15) - AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]
• (08:28) - Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25
• (09:55) - Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
• (10:54) - Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence
• (11:59) - Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
• (13:37) - Outro

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188183

Anthropic acquires Stainless
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182281

Click (2016)
https://clickclickclick.click/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187054

We let AIs run radio stations
https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183301

AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50363cf324ac8e905e7df861/t/6a0af5d0484fbf5fe9a7743e/1779103184855/2026-Spring-AI.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179021

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187201

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156186

Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence
https://isabisabel.com/gacha/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123359

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184322

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - I don't think AI will make your processes go faster
• (01:43) - I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
• (03:09) - Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
• (04:40) - GenCAD
• (05:52) - Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels
• (07:24) - Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
• (08:32) - Colossus: The Forbin Project
• (09:45) - Hindenburg’s Smoking Room
• (11:01) - Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely
• (12:29) - CUDA Books
• (13:35) - Outro

I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
https://github.com/tech4bot/rk3562deb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168668

Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
https://github.com/MinishLab/semble
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169874

GenCAD
https://gencad.github.io/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173429

Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels
https://electrek.co/2026/05/14/tesla-solar-roof-promise-vs-reality-pivot-panels/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165980

Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147091

Colossus: The Forbin Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142115

Hindenburg’s Smoking Room
https://www.airships.net/hindenburg-smoking-room/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140556

Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely
https://idahonews.com/news/local/two-f-18-fighter-jets-have-crashed-during-an-airshow-at-mountain-home-air-force-base
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173468

CUDA Books
https://github.com/alternbits/awesome-cuda-books
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168485

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:15) - Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
• (02:11) - Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
• (03:11) - SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
• (04:36) - We've made the world too complicated
• (05:59) - Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
• (07:10) - δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models
• (08:56) - OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
• (10:02) - A nicer voltmeter clock
• (11:09) - Halt and Catch Fire
• (12:28) - Outro

Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164287

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video
https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159445

We've made the world too complicated
https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158065

Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/15/mozilla-to-uk-regulators-vpns-are-essential-privacy-and-security-tools-and-should-not-be-undermined/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166459

δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12357
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158506

OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163392

A nicer voltmeter clock
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164432

Halt and Catch Fire
https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162468

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
• (02:06) - Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
• (03:14) - Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
• (04:30) - A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
• (06:25) - SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
• (07:35) - The sigmoids won't save you
• (08:52) - Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image
• (10:07) - Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
• (11:49) - The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)
• (13:11) - The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme
• (14:38) - Outro

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
https://www.gutenberg.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150431

Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152994

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
https://projectzero.google/2026/05/pixel-10-exploit.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148460

SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
https://analytics.fixelsmith.com/posts/sql-fraud-patterns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155212

The sigmoids won't save you
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-sigmoids-wont-save-you
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147021

Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image
https://github.com/neilsonnn/image-blaster
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150069

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157559

The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)
https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155324

The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132106

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
• (01:36) - RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
• (03:14) - Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
• (04:53) - New Nginx Exploit
• (06:23) - First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
• (07:50) - Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
• (08:36) - A few words on DS4
• (10:02) - UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
• (11:19) - Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
• (12:17) - HDD Firmware Hacking
• (13:44) - Outro

RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-05-05-egpu-mac-gaming/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137145

Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
https://tmctmt.com/posts/mullvad-exit-ips-as-a-fingerprinting-vector/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143880

New Nginx Exploit
https://github.com/DepthFirstDisclosures/Nginx-Rift
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138268

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
https://blog.calif.io/p/first-public-kernel-memory-corruption
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139219

Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140529

A few words on DS4
https://antirez.com/news/165
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142108

UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142251

Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
https://explorer.samismith.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146129

HDD Firmware Hacking
https://icode4.coffee/?p=1465
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137553

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:19) - Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
• (01:43) - Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
• (02:55) - Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
• (04:08) - A History of IDEs at Google
• (05:54) - Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
• (07:24) - The Emacsification of Software
• (08:46) - Claude for Small Business
• (10:03) - Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
• (11:03) - Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15
• (12:37) - MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
• (14:08) - Outro

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
https://fredchan.org/blog/locality-domains-guide/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122635

Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115438

A History of IDEs at Google
https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/a-history-of-ides-at-google
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073979

Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-examinations-passed-faculty-133-years-precedent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126848

The Emacsification of Software
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118727

Claude for Small Business
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130950

Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
http://www.scorch2000.com/web/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129694

Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15
https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077924

MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125617

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:18) - Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
• (01:40) - Googlebook
• (02:52) - Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
• (04:21) - Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
• (05:57) - Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
• (07:25) - Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
• (08:43) - The Future of Obsidian Plugins
• (09:58) - How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
• (11:01) - Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
• (12:34) - CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
• (14:00) - Outro

Googlebook
https://googlebook.google/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-expertise/why-senior-developers-fail-to-communicate-their-expertise
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109460

Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111896

Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107997

Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115127

The Future of Obsidian Plugins
https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109970

How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113895

Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807

CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042