Flipper One – we need your help

297 sandebert 2026-05-21 11:26:12 UTC blog.flipper.net Llama Share 159

Flipper One is a massive open-source project that aims to create a truly open Linux hardware platform with full mainline Linux kernel support, expandable hardware, and a custom GUI framework. The project is seeking community help to overcome technical and financial challenges, and contributors can participate in various sub-projects, including hardware, software, and user interface development.

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

98 rbanffy 2026-05-21 11:26:12 UTC blog.changs.co.uk Llama Share 44

Python 3.15.0b1 introduces features like lazy imports, tachyon profiler, and improved asyncio with TaskGroup cancellation. New features also include ContextDecorator improvements, threading utilities, and enhancements to collections.Counter and json.load/json.loads.

Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt

25 mkaramuk 2026-05-21 13:07:12 UTC gist.github.com Embed Share 6

Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results

247 sofumel 2026-05-21 10:26:12 UTC blog.google Llama Share 240

Google is testing new ad formats with Gemini models to provide helpful answers and connect people with businesses. The formats include Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, AI-powered Shopping ads, and Business Agent for Leads, designed to make decision-making easier and more confident.

Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK

107 shideneyu 2026-05-21 09:26:12 UTC github.com/helvesec Llama Share 51

RMUX is a Rust multiplexer for the agentic era, offering detachable, scriptable, and inspectable sessions with a tmux-compatible CLI and native Ratatui integration. It's a fresh public preview with 90 tmux-compatible commands implemented, but bugs are expected.

Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars

62 rectang 2026-05-21 10:26:12 UTC guitarworld.com Llama Share 37

Fender sent cease and desist letters to US firms, including LsL Instruments, to stop producing S-style electric guitars. The move follows a landmark ruling in Germany that established the Stratocaster body design as a copyrighted work of art.

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

1262 tedsanders 2026-05-20 19:26:12 UTC openai.com Llama Share 921

An AI system has autonomously resolved the planar unit distance problem, a longstanding open problem in combinatorial geometry. The proof uses algebraic number theory to create unit-length differences among points in the plane.

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

41 pseudolus 2026-05-21 11:26:12 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 12

On July 16, 1945, the world entered the nuclear age with the Trinity test, a massive explosion above a New Mexico desert. The test captured on film and witnessed by scientists and soldiers was an awe-inspiring, blindingly bright event.

Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring

0 2026-05-21 12:26:12 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Cekura is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work with technical customers, helping them use the platform to improve AI agents. The role involves embedding with customers, automating product insights, and driving product direction.

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

930 Timofeibu 2026-05-20 19:26:12 UTC bleepingcomputer.com Llama Share 390

GitHub was breached after an employee installed a malicious VS Code extension, exposing 3,800 internal repositories. The company removed the extension and secured the device, with no evidence of customer data being affected.

Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

343 kageroumado 2026-05-21 00:26:12 UTC github.com/kageroumado Llama Share 81

Phosphene is a macOS app that plays video files as desktop and lock-screen wallpaper. It uses Apple's private WallpaperExtensionKit framework for gapless looping and power-aware playback.

Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

144 azhenley 2026-05-21 02:26:12 UTC discourse.haskell.org Llama Share 50

José, the longest-serving executive director, is stepping down in June 2026, and the Board is restructuring the Haskell Foundation to focus on technical work and member engagement. The Foundation will have a new committee and a part-time role for financial sustainability, with a reduced Board composition.

The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]

218 bambax 2026-05-21 00:26:12 UTC gwern.net GoogleT5 Share 33

A l t h e ruler-and-compass program can be used to draw arcs from points i and j. m c s y r o n d g p u k w f x v - q, 5, z / b'0 ; th ere is no need for

Flipper One Tech Specs

442 gregsadetsky 2026-05-20 19:26:12 UTC docs.flipper.net Llama Share 146

The Flipper One has 8 cores, 4 high-performance and 4 efficiency, up to 2.2 GHz. It has various interfaces including PCIe, USB, SATA, and more.

What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?

27 baruchel 2026-05-21 10:26:12 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 3

Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems proved that no formal system of mathematics can be complete, leaving some true statements unprovable. This has implications for physics, where a discrete space-time may be necessary to avoid undecidability.

No Slop Grenade

127 napolux 2026-05-21 10:26:12 UTC noslopgrenade.com Llama Share 67

Redis offers persistence, complex data operations, and native sharding, but is more complex. Memcached is simpler, faster for basic caching, but lacks persistence and flexibility.

DOS Zone

294 rglover 2026-05-20 23:26:12 UTC dos.zone Full Share 68

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New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output

108 siteshwar 2026-05-21 03:26:12 UTC developers.redhat.com Full Share 18

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Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

240 aurareturn 2026-05-20 23:26:12 UTC twitter.com/nottombrown Full Share 257

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All the bugs they found

55 ziggy42 2026-05-21 06:26:12 UTC andreapivetta.com Llama Share 20

The user wrote a small WASM runtime in Go called Epsilon, which was extensively tested but found to have several security vulnerabilities, including sandbox escapes and type-related issues. The user used a combination of scripts and AI models, including Gemini 3.1 Pro, to discover the bugs, which included a stack height misalignment bug and a host function signature mismatch bug.

How fast is N tokens per second really?

443 hexagr 2026-05-20 16:26:12 UTC mikeveerman.github.io Llama Share 91

The tool simulates LLM throughput by rendering code and reasoning sentences at varying token rates. It approximates BPE-style tokenization, showing how different content types affect perceived performance.

Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++

54 HeliumHydride 2026-05-21 05:26:12 UTC ryanjk5.github.io Llama Share 12

The author of GOLDE, a cellular automata editor and simulator, implemented the HashLife algorithm to simulate trillions of generations instantly using modern C++23 features. The author overcame technical challenges such as implementing a quadtree data structure, memoizing node lookups, and supporting arbitrary step sizes in the simulation loop.

OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon

139 louiereederson 2026-05-20 17:26:12 UTC wsj.com Full Share 284

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Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'

165 diodorus 2026-05-20 21:26:12 UTC openculture.com Llama Share 125

A 1,600-year-old Roman-era tomb in Egypt contained pages from Homer's Iliad. The ancient Egyptians valued Greek literature, using it as a cultural passport and even crediting it with curative properties.

Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)

80 epaga 2026-05-21 05:26:12 UTC silentshark.app Full Share 25

Saying goodbye to asm.js

397 eqrion 2026-05-20 13:26:12 UTC spidermonkey.dev Llama Share 150

Mozilla is disabling asm.js by default in Firefox 148 and plans to remove it due to WebAssembly's success and maintenance costs. Users are encouraged to recompile asm.js content to WebAssembly for faster execution and smaller binaries.

Show HN: The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian

20 hanyangwang 2026-05-21 09:26:12 UTC funes.world Llama Share 5

The Xiaoxitian temple was built during a time of great suffering in Shanxi, China, as a desperate dream of a better world. It features over a thousand suspended sculptures, creating an immersive Pure Land in stark contrast to its grim creation.

Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water

74 smugglerFlynn 2026-05-21 04:26:12 UTC waterdictionary.net Full Share 35

Simple mixing recipes for brewing, coffee, baking, and aquariums using waters from your local supermarket. 1 Pick the water you want — Pilsen for pilsner, Melbourne for flat whites, San Francisco for sourdough. 3 Combine in the ratio we give you. That’s it. No chemistry degree required.

Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP

97 gmac 2026-05-21 00:26:12 UTC yes-we-scan.app Llama Share 31

A web app called yes-we-scan.app allows users to access old USB scanners via their browser. It uses v86 to emulate an x86 CPU and SANE to connect to scanners over USB/IP.

IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation

7 rbanffy 2026-05-21 11:26:12 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Prefix Share 0

In 1970, Bill Harding envisioned a fully automated wafer-fabrication line that would produce integrated circuits in less than one day. Not only was such a goal gutsy 54 years ago, it would be bold even in today’s billion-dollar fabs, where the fabrication time of an advanced IC is measured in weeks, not days. Back then, ICs, such as random-access memory chips, were typically produced in a ...