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Ti-84 Evo

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Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising

The current AI adoption rate does not indicate imminent displacement risk, and historical technological advancements suggest a productivity shock from AI will be disinflationary and growth-enhancing in the medium term. The economy's ability to adapt and the elasticity of human wants will likely offset potential negative effects of AI, with productivity gains expanding real incomes and ...

Artemis II Photo Timeline

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An interactive photo timeline of NASA's Artemis II mission — scrub through every crew moment, lunar flyby shot, and audio clip from April 1–10, 2026.

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming

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Scientists have been studying sleep learning, where people learn new information while asleep, and found promising results, but early studies were flawed. Recent research has shown that sleep can influence behavior and learning, with some people able to solve puzzles and remember information after waking.

LFM2-24B-A2B: Scaling Up the LFM2 Architecture

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LFM2-24B-A2B is a large language model with 24 billion parameters, released in an early checkpoint, and is deployable across cloud and edge environments. It shows consistent quality gains on standard benchmarks and has favorable throughput scaling, making it suitable for on-device deployment.

K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes

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K3k, Kubernetes in Kubernetes, is a tool that empowers you to create and manage isolated K3s clusters within your existing Kubernetes environment. It enables efficient multi-tenancy, streamlined experimentation, and robust resource isolation, minimizing infrastructure costs by allowing you to run multiple lightweight Kubernetes clusters on the same physical host. K3k offers both ...

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

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CollectWise is a Y Combinator-backed startup using AI to automate debt collection. They're hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead client implementations and reach $10 million in revenue within a year.

To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi

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Conservationists on Palmyra Atoll are working to restore native wildlife by removing invasive palm trees and introducing native fungi. Researchers found rare mycorrhizal fungi that could help supply nutrients to Pisonia trees and boost seedling growth.

I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings

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agent-desktop is a Rust-based CLI for native desktop automation, providing structured access to applications through OS accessibility trees. It supports various programming languages and offers features like progressive skeleton traversal and AX-first interactions.

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

The user discusses various US immigration topics including the new $100k H1B fee, N400 application delays, L1 visa changes, and green card application challenges. They also mention the difficulties of sponsoring H1-B workers for permanent status and the increasing RFE and denial rates for certain green card applications.

Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service

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A standalone feed. No website, no newsletter. Just your words, delivered to your readers’ rss reader.

Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming

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lib0xc is a C library that aims to make systems programming safer by providing safer APIs and utilities. It uses the C preprocessor to expose its API surface and leans heavily on clang bounds safety extensions.

Direct electrochemical black coffee quality appraisal using cyclic voltammetry

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Researchers used cyclic voltammetry to measure coffee strength and roast color without sample preparation. The technique relates beverage strength to total dissolved solids and roast color to the ensemble chemical composition of the coffee.

The smelly baby problem

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Benjamin Spock's 1946 book "Baby and Child Care" advised parents on childcare, while Procter & Gamble developed the first disposable diaper, Pampers, in 1961. Disposable diapers became a market leader, with Huggies eventually surpassing Pampers and dominating the market by the 1990s.

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment

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A startup called Eka is developing a robot with advanced dexterity, allowing it to perform tasks like screwing in a light bulb and handling food. The robot's creators believe their approach could revolutionize robotics and enable robots to work in various settings.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

Here are the job postings summarized in 2 concise English sentences each, not exceeding 200 characters:

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

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WhatCable is a macOS menu bar app that identifies USB-C cables and their capabilities. It exposes cable information, charging diagnostics, and connected device identities via a friendly menu bar popover.

Chasing a SharedKey signature mismatch: fix azurerm_storage_table_entity

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Some bugs announce themselves loudly. A null pointer in a hot path, a missing route that returns 404 to every request — the kind of thing that fails immediately and points straight at the cause. Others are quieter. They let most of the stack work correctly and only reveal themselves at the intersection of two independently correct but mutually incompatible assumptions. The ...

A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025) [pdf]

Open source maintainers face burnout due to lack of payment and unsustainable expectations. This leads to a crisis in the open source community, affecting mental health and self-worth.
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whohas is a command line tool that queries package lists from various distributions. It displays package version information, URLs, and repository details for specified packages.

Apocalypse Early Warning System

The site tracks business jets using FAA registry data and ADS-B Exchange heatmap files, comparing current airborne counts to historical baselines for anomalies. It estimates max people on board by mapping aircraft models to published capacities and scaling unknowns by average.

Whimsical Animations Course Open House

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You've made some course lessons public for preview, showcasing your teaching style. Some course features are only available to registered students, but you can still browse lessons using navigation links.

Create an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed

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Create an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed. The tool opens the URL in headless Chrome, captures viewport screenshots at fixed scroll offsets, and streams those frames into ffmpeg. Codex will create a cue sheet, render the MP4, and keep the cue sheet and video together so revisions are easy. To revise, ask for changes the same way you would give notes to an editor, such as ...

City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo

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Flock employees accessed cameras in sensitive locations in Dunwoody, including a children's gymnastics room and a Jewish community center, as part of sales demonstrations. Flock has agreed to stop using Dunwoody's cameras for demonstrations and will train employees to conduct demos in more public locations.

Tvheadend: Self-Hosted IPTV Server

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The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

A novel technique exploits AI guardrails by requesting information in a gay voice, using political correctness to bypass alignment. This "Gay Jailbreak" method is highly flexible and can be used to obtain sensitive information.

Show HN: AI CAD Harness

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Install AdamFusion by dropping the bundle into Fusion's AddIns or plug-in folder, then run and enable it. Sign in with your Autodesk account to start chatting in the Adam palette.

Understand Anything

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Understand Anything is a Claude Code Plugin that analyzes a codebase with a multi-agent pipeline, building a knowledge graph of every file, function, class, and dependency for interactive exploration. It provides an interactive dashboard to visualize the codebase as a graph, allowing users to search, explore, and ask questions about the codebase.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

Multiple individuals are seeking freelance, contract, or full-time work in various tech fields, including software engineering, DevOps, AI, and UX design, with experience in languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, and more. They are open to remote work and are located in different parts of the world, including the US, Europe, and India.