BBEdit 16

205 qaz_plm 2026-05-21 18:24:15 UTC barebones.com Llama Share 57

BBEdit 16 offers a free upgrade for licensed customers who purchased after November 1, 2025, and paid upgrades for earlier customers. It includes over 100 new features, improved performance, and notable additions like image text search and customizable color schemes.

Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

315 speleo 2026-05-21 17:24:15 UTC valhovey.github.io Full Share 87

See a recreation of the Project Hail Mary in-ship navigation computer with accurate star data from the GAIA DR3 mission.

Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

59 speckx 2026-05-21 19:24:15 UTC crocidb.com Llama Share 12

The user migrated their blog from a 10-year-old Digital Ocean VPS running Ubuntu 16.04 to a Hetzner virtual machine with FreeBSD, citing security concerns with the outdated Ubuntu system. They set up a FreeBSD server with Jails and Bastille for managing Jails.

Flipper One – we need your help

940 sandebert 2026-05-21 11:24:15 UTC blog.flipper.net Llama Share 392

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.

Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps

99 sanity 2026-05-21 19:24:15 UTC freenet.org Llama Share 35

Freenet is a decentralized platform for apps, allowing peer-to-peer communication, collaboration, and commerce without relying on big tech. It's a global network of peers, with apps running in browsers, unstoppable and secure.

Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

30 speckx 2026-05-21 20:24:15 UTC veroniiiica.com Llama Share 1

The user experienced visual fatigue while using a cluttered search engine but found relief with Kagi, a paid search engine offering ad-free search and customizations. Kagi's features, such as lenses, bangs, and custom CSS, helped the user navigate search results more efficiently with low vision.

We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot

525 sofumel 2026-05-21 10:24:15 UTC blog.google Llama Share 440

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.

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

158 apwheele 2026-05-21 17:24:15 UTC rosmine.ai Llama Share 117

The author built a 6x 6000 Ada GPU server, "grumbl", for $48K to support independent research, and calculated that it would take a year of 85%+ utilization to match cloud rental rates. The server has paid for itself and now saves the author $90-$105 per day.

Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

359 root-parent 2026-05-21 18:24:15 UTC prismreports.org Llama Share 146

Seattle Shield is a secretive public-private network sharing intelligence with law enforcement, including corporations and military agencies, to prevent terrorism but raises concerns about accountability and potential misuse. The network has been criticized for labeling protesters as potential terrorists and creating a surveillance system of informants that benefits private economic interests.

Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

59 elffjs 2026-05-21 18:24:15 UTC hollywoodreporter.com Llama Share 114

Spotify's new feature "Reserved" sets aside concert tickets for premium subscribers, giving them a better chance at buying them. The feature will be available in the US this summer, partnering with Live Nation to identify dedicated fans.

Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

225 asenna 2026-05-21 14:24:15 UTC blog.simbastack.com Llama Share 78

The author is a hacker who splits his year between the Maasai Mara and Silicon Valley, struggling to edit his massive video archive. He built a custom indexer using Claude Code and DaVinci Resolve to make his archive queryable in English.

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

185 mattas 2026-05-21 17:24:15 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 231

Waymo's robotaxi got stuck in a flooded Atlanta street, prompting the company to pause service in the city. Waymo is investigating the incident and has faced previous issues with its robotaxis, including illegal passing of stopped school buses and a crash in Santa Monica.

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

294 rbanffy 2026-05-21 11:24:15 UTC blog.changs.co.uk Llama Share 132

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.

News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism

158 jaredwiener 2026-05-21 17:24:15 UTC niemanlab.org Llama Share 52

Major news publishers are blocking the Internet Archive due to concerns about AI companies scraping their content. Over 340 local news sites in the US are limiting the Internet Archive's access, with some citing concerns about intellectual property and others wanting to control how their content is used.

ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Distributed Systems/Platform Engineers

0 2026-05-21 17:24:15 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share

ParadeDB is building a cloud-based managed service for its Postgres extension. They seek a distributed systems engineer with Kubernetes, Go, and Postgres expertise.

Thoughts on People and Blogs

13 meysamazad 2026-05-21 20:24:15 UTC afranca.com.br Llama Share 1

Manu Moreale's plea for support resonated deeply, highlighting a disconnect between digital consumption and active engagement. As consumers of independent content, we have a collective responsibility to reciprocate with human connection, not just financial support.

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

250 pseudolus 2026-05-21 11:24:15 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 78

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.

Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

49 Kaibeezy 2026-05-21 18:24:15 UTC thek6project.co.uk Full Share 33

Hello and welcome to the K6 project, a personal adventure to travel the length and breadth of the UK finding old red telephone boxes, the k6 used to be everywhere before mobile telephones became the prevalent form of telecommunication.

Google's Antigravity bait and switch

440 ssiddharth 2026-05-21 14:24:15 UTC 0xsid.com Llama Share 227

Google's new Antigravity update unexpectedly replaced the user's preferred IDE with a conversational prompt box, breaking their workflow. The user had to completely purge their system and reinstall the legacy IDE to restore functionality, losing their chat history and settings in the process.

Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

75 pvtmert 2026-05-21 15:24:15 UTC jvns.ca Llama Share 41

The user created a project called git-commit-folders that allows users to explore their Git repository as a filesystem where every commit is a folder, aiming to give users intuition on how Git works under the hood. The project uses FUSE, NFS, and WebDav to mount the filesystem, but the user encountered several issues, including duplicated code, NFS stale file handle errors, and performance ...

Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team

44 gustrigos 2026-05-21 16:24:15 UTC runtm.com Llama Share 17

Runtime is a platform that connects environments, automates tasks, and provides live visibility into every session, allowing teams to build, deploy, and manage coding agents from a single dashboard. It offers customizable sandboxes, integrations, and guardrails, and can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud, with policies and audit logs following the team across both.

Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices

53 ohjeez 2026-05-21 16:24:15 UTC calculators.de Llama Share 12

Users listed various types of calculators and related items from different brands and languages. They also mentioned related topics like history, museum, and collection.

Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

423 napolux 2026-05-21 12:24:15 UTC noslopgrenade.com Llama Share 254

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.

Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid

109 speckx 2026-05-21 17:24:15 UTC discover.swns.com Llama Share 45

A man who lost his sense of taste and smell after catching Covid had both senses restored after chewing specially-developed flavoured gum for 12 weeks. The trial, led by Dr Nicole Yang, saw 67% of participants improve their sense of smell and 83% their taste.

Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

29 adisingh13 2026-05-21 18:24:15 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 32

Haakam, Michael, and Adi from AgentMail created Agent.Email, a signup flow for AI agents, to address the irony of agents needing human credentials. They're seeking feedback on their restricted-until-claimed trust model and exploring additional security measures for secure sign-ups.

Bournegol??? (2014)

26 greyface- 2026-05-21 18:24:15 UTC oldhome.schmorp.de Full Share 4

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Vivaldi 8.0

308 OuterVale 2026-05-21 07:24:15 UTC vivaldi.com Llama Share 216

Vivaldi 8.0 offers a unified design with more control, capability, and choice, featuring a new look and improved interface. The browser includes six preset layouts and a wide range of customizable settings to adapt to individual preferences.

Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O

22 atomicthumbs 2026-05-21 20:24:15 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 1

Researchers improved AI agents by allowing multiple parallel streams of computation, enabling simultaneous reading and writing, and improving efficiency, security, and monitorability. This change remedies limitations in chat models, such as inability to act while reading or thinking.

FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation

81 WhyNotHugo 2026-05-21 12:24:15 UTC fatgid.io Llama Share 36

The kernel has a buffer overflow vulnerability in kern_setcred_copyin_supp_groups due to incorrect sizeof(*groups) calculation. This allows an attacker to corrupt the r12 register and indirectly control the td_proc pointer.

Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket

112 vcf 2026-05-21 13:24:15 UTC papers.ssrn.com Full Share 103