Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

920 giuliomagnifico 2026-05-20 12:43:41 UTC alqst.org Llama Share 388

Meta restricted Facebook and Instagram accounts of NGOs and activists in Saudi Arabia and UAE at the request of the governments, violating freedom of expression and access to information. The undersigned organisations call on Meta to be transparent about its human rights assessments and notify affected users with specific details about the restricted content.

Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment

893 healsdata 2026-05-20 13:02:30 UTC lesnumeriques.com Llama Share 706

L'Europe se prépare à créer une alternative aux cartes de crédit Visa et Mastercard avec l'alliance Wero, qui réunira 130 millions d'utilisateurs. Cette plateforme européenne souveraine permettra des transactions sans données transitées aux États-Unis.

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

702 tedsanders 2026-05-20 19:05:30 UTC openai.com Llama Share 506

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.

Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit

661 ceejayoz 2026-05-20 14:30:47 UTC fire.org Llama Share 442

Larry Bushart, a retired Tennessee law enforcement officer, won an $835,000 settlement after being jailed for 37 days for posting a meme. The settlement comes after Bushart filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the county and sheriff behind his arrest for violating his constitutional rights.

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

606 splenditer 2026-05-20 00:01:18 UTC twitter.com/github Full Share 326

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Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

605 kevinsimper 2026-05-20 10:35:02 UTC qwen.ai Llama Share 243

Qwen3.7-Max is a versatile agent foundation model designed for the agent era, capable of writing and debugging code, automating office workflows, and sustaining autonomous execution. It excels in coding, office automation, and long-horizon tasks, demonstrating strong performance across various benchmarks.

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

514 Timofeibu 2026-05-20 13:43:37 UTC bleepingcomputer.com Llama Share 185

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.

Everything in C is undefined behavior

474 lycopodiopsida 2026-05-20 06:07:22 UTC blog.habets.se Llama Share 618

The author argues that all nontrivial C/C++ code has undefined behavior due to the language's lack of memory safety features. This makes it unfair to blame programmers for mistakes.

Apparently Google hates us now

424 zeitg3ist 2026-05-20 16:27:25 UTC twitter.com/pokemoncentral Full Share 228

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Map of Metal

396 robin_reala 2026-05-20 10:47:20 UTC mapofmetal.com Full Share 143

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Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

384 0xedb 2026-05-20 08:37:55 UTC blog.railway.com Llama Share 226

Google Cloud suspended Railway's production account, causing an 8-hour platform-wide outage. Railway is making changes to prevent similar incidents, including removing Google Cloud dependencies and extending high availability database shards.

FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive

362 ChocMontePy 2026-05-20 01:34:19 UTC fivethirtyeightindex.com Full Share 78

An index of every fivethirtyeight.com article preserved by the Internet Archive.

College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos

355 iancmceachern 2026-05-20 11:51:32 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 358

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced a hostile reception at the University of Arizona for his positive comments on Artificial Intelligence. He told graduates that AI will shape the world and they must guide it, but his message was met with boos and jeers.

Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame

340 ranit 2026-05-20 01:43:06 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 155

Japan's widespread planting of two fast-growing tree species in the 1950s has led to severe hay fever issues due to high pollen levels. The government is now working to replace these monoculture forests with more diverse ecosystems to alleviate the problem.

Google Declaring War on the Web

318 cdrnsf 2026-05-20 21:33:18 UTC tante.cc Llama Share 204

The working class must break the capitalist system's hold through self-reliance and resistance. This is a fundamental fact for social reconstruction and the use-value of the kingdom to the working class.

Saying goodbye to asm.js

311 eqrion 2026-05-20 12:01:56 UTC spidermonkey.dev Llama Share 133

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.

GitHub Compromised

260 claaams 2026-05-20 04:12:48 UTC twitter.com/github Full Share 6

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Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back

250 tigerlily 2026-05-20 10:57:09 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 172

Google and other AI companies have been updating their policies to address the issue of AI manipulation, but experts say it's still a serious problem and people are finding new ways to fool the system. The best defence against AI manipulation is to be cautious and remember that AI tools can give biased or inaccurate information, so it's essential to verify the information through multiple sources.

Flipper One Tech Specs

245 gregsadetsky 2026-05-20 18:33:56 UTC docs.flipper.net Llama Share 85

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.

Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order

243 iamnothere 2026-05-20 12:30:58 UTC torrentfreak.com Llama Share 195

Publishers won a $19.5 million default judgment against Anna's Archive, a shadow library sharing pirated books, and a permanent injunction to disable its domains and hosting. The injunction targets technical intermediaries, including Cloudflare and domain name registries, to stop working with the site.

SpaceX S-1

211 cachecow 2026-05-20 20:49:59 UTC sec.gov Llama Share 157

SEC limits automated tool requests to prevent network overload and ensure equitable access. Excessive requests may be blocked for 10 minutes before access is resumed.

Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling

190 theanonymousone 2026-05-20 18:50:59 UTC beyondplastics.org Llama Share 133

A national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that none of the tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cups ended up at a recycling facility, instead going to landfills and incinerators. The findings contradict Starbucks' claims that its single-use polypropylene cups are "widely recyclable" and highlight the need for the company to prioritize plastic-free alternatives.

Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

158 darktoto 2026-05-20 05:43:51 UTC news.infomaniak.com Llama Share 45

Infomaniak transferred majority voting rights to a Swiss public-interest foundation to ensure independence and protect its values. This move guarantees the company's sovereignty, privacy, and environmental responsibility forever.

Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?

156 srameshc 2026-05-20 16:50:54 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 95

The user is concerned about Google Cloud's reliability after Railway's account was suspended without warning. They think Google should provide a clear explanation for the incident and fear for their own workload's security.

Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

146 Timofeibu 2026-05-20 19:38:25 UTC science.org Llama Share 122

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Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)

126 pramodbiligiri 2026-05-20 10:04:28 UTC zfhuang99.github.io Llama Share 133

The user built a Rust-based multi-Paxos consensus engine that modernizes Azure's Replicated State Library (RSL) for today's hardware, achieving unprecedented productivity and performance optimization with AI-assisted coding. The user utilized various AI coding agents and developed techniques such as code contracts, lightweight spec-driven development, and aggressive performance optimization ...

Declining America

124 AndrewDucker 2026-05-20 20:58:09 UTC tbray.org Llama Share 73

I received an invitation to an AI unconference in the USA but declined due to concerns about the country's leader and potential risks at the border. I regretfully declined as a Canadian with a family to support and strong opinions on the subject.

SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014)

123 yacin 2026-05-20 15:39:48 UTC pvk.ca Llama Share 7

The user is designing a virtual machine with a small stack and exploring techniques to optimize its performance, including specialising primitives for a restricted stack size and using indirect jumps to reduce data shuffling. They are using SBCL to generate domain-specific machine code and experimenting with different control flow primitives, including unconditional jumps, calls, and ...

Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)

122 aarestad 2026-05-20 18:48:30 UTC nodejs.org Llama Share 39

Node.js 26 is released with Temporal API enabled by default, V8 engine updated to 14.6, and Undici to 8.0.2. It will be the Current release for six months before entering long-term support in October.

India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark

112 rustoo 2026-05-20 05:07:23 UTC hindustantimes.com Llama Share 106

Banda in India is experiencing extreme heat, with temperatures reaching 48.2°C, making it one of the country's hottest locations. The heat is attributed to years of ecological destruction and climate crisis, causing widespread disruption to daily life and livelihoods.

After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban

111 cdrnsf 2026-05-20 16:55:17 UTC 404media.co Llama Share 103

Bandera, Texas city council voted to end its contract with surveillance company Flock. A dissenting council member plans to propose banning cell phones, internet, cameras, and most technology in the town.

Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)

110 thnaks 2026-05-20 17:48:52 UTC usni.org Llama Share 61

Qian Xuesen, a Chinese scientist, was deported to China in 1955 after being accused of Communist ties in the US. He went on to develop China's space and nuclear programs, creating technologies that now threaten US naval dominance.

Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops

108 pyrex41 2026-05-20 15:25:45 UTC reubenbrooks.dev Llama Share 24

Shen-Backpressure is a tool that uses a small, statically-typed Lisp to enforce invariants in production software by lowering them into guard types in the target language. This approach provides deterministic signals that tell you whether the artifact has the shape you intend, making it a high-leverage tool for production AI coding loops.

Why is Inkwell stuck in review

103 speckx 2026-05-20 17:30:15 UTC manton.org Llama Share 32

The user's iOS app, Inkwell, has been repeatedly rejected by Apple due to various issues including design problems, lack of reporting and blocking features, and trademark concerns. The user has made numerous changes and appeals, but is still waiting to hear back from Apple, citing concerns about the company's use of its control over iOS app distribution to enforce a trademark that has been ...

Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects

100 ki4jgt 2026-05-20 20:28:18 UTC legiscan.com Llama Share 26

To resolve the security verification issue on legiscan.com, check your internet and firewall settings to ensure they're not blocking access to challenges.cloudflare.com. If issues persist, refer to Cloudflare's troubleshooting documentation or your browser/device's documentation for further assistance.

America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen

91 danieltanfh95 2026-05-20 13:19:36 UTC danieltan.weblog.lol Llama Share 49

Qian Xuesen, a Chinese-American scientist, was deported from the US in 1955 after his security clearance was revoked due to alleged ties to communism, and he went on to develop China's aerospace and defense capabilities. His work laid the foundation for China's strategic-technology complex, which now rivals the US in capabilities, including hypersonic glide vehicles, anti-ship ballistic ...

Stable Audio 3

88 guardienaveugle 2026-05-20 15:10:05 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 17

Stable Audio 3 is a family of fast latent diffusion models for variable-length audio generation and editing. It supports inpainting and can generate music and sounds in under 2 seconds on an H200 GPU or a few seconds on a MacBook Pro M4.

Starship's Twelfth Flight Test

86 pantalaimon 2026-05-20 21:41:54 UTC spacex.com Llama Share 74

Starship's 12th flight test is set to launch on May 21, featuring a new generation of vehicles and engines. The test aims to demonstrate launch, ascent, and landing capabilities, as well as test new Starlink satellites and heat shield technology.

Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates

85 neya 2026-05-20 05:56:02 UTC macobserver.com Llama Share 59

A woman claims Apple intentionally slows down older phones with software updates to force users to buy new models, sparking debate about planned obsolescence. Industry leaks suggest the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro will feature a new display design with facial recognition sensors under the screen.

Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year

83 mooreds 2026-05-20 16:41:00 UTC reuters.com Full Share 30

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Why I don’t vibe code

82 birdculture 2026-05-20 16:56:42 UTC jacobharr.is Llama Share 88

The author is a developer who doesn't "vibe" with Large Language Models (LLMs) for coding. They tried using LLMs but found them limiting due to their inability to understand essential complexity and the need for human judgment.

DOS Zone

77 rglover 2026-05-20 22:53:27 UTC dos.zone Full Share 19

Игры на русском языке и сделаные в СССР и СНГ В этом разделе мы собрали лучшие игры сделанные в России и СНГ, а так же мировую классику переведенную на русский язык. Enjoy classic games completely free and without ads on dos.zone! Support us to keep these ad-free, timeless experiences open for everyone. Join the mission today!

Testing distributed systems with AI agents

76 shenli3514 2026-05-20 14:40:42 UTC github.com/shenli Llama Share 12

Two AI coding skills design and run claim-driven tests for distributed systems, producing a test plan and findings report with 9-state verdicts. The skills work with various agents and reuse the system's toolbox, ensuring safety, durability, and idempotency.

There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going

73 tobr 2026-05-20 05:33:06 UTC kottke.org Llama Share 77

Author Steven Rosenbaum admitted to using AI-generated quotes in his book "The Future of Truth". Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search with interactive experiences and tools for personalized mini apps.

No way to parse integers in C (2022)

71 konmok 2026-05-20 10:28:05 UTC blog.habets.se Llama Share 95

The C standard library's string to number parsing functions are broken for unsigned types. They return incorrect values or undefined behavior for certain inputs.

Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

67 aurareturn 2026-05-20 20:55:52 UTC xcancel.com Full Share 51

In the next few days we'll be ramping up Claude inference on Colossus. Grateful to be partnering with SpaceX here. We are going to need to move a lot of atoms in order to keep up with AI demand, and there's nobody better at quickly moving atoms (on or off planet Earth)

OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon

67 louiereederson 2026-05-20 16:24:42 UTC wsj.com Full Share 65

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El Niño is coming. The last time ocean temp. looked like this, millions died

52 ResPublica 2026-05-20 00:06:13 UTC respublicamgz.substack.com Llama Share 39

A Super El Niño is predicted with over 95% probability, potentially causing catastrophic global effects including famine, floods, and droughts. Scientists warn it could push global temperatures past 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels, threatening food security and economic stability worldwide.

Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model

50 cleardusk 2026-05-20 15:45:32 UTC github.com/bytedance Llama Share 15

Lance is a 3B native unified multimodal model that supports image and video understanding, generation, and editing within a single framework. It is efficient at 3B scale and delivers strong performance across various benchmarks with a staged multi-task recipe and training from scratch.

Standard Chartered CEO walks back comment about 'lower-value human capital'

49 Brajeshwar 2026-05-20 16:38:10 UTC wsj.com Full Share 66

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560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits

45 stevenwoo 2026-05-20 13:35:21 UTC bmjgroup.com Llama Share 96

Researchers suggest adults need 560-610 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise a week to reduce cardiovascular risk. Less fit individuals need to do more exercise to achieve the same benefits as fitter individuals.

Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel

43 bookofjoe 2026-05-20 15:10:43 UTC lithub.com Llama Share 79

Olga Tokarczuk admitted to using AI in her creative process, finding it beneficial for literary fiction. She believes AI will be a valuable tool for writers, but also thinks readers have lost interest in complex literary work.

Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC

39 frizlab 2026-05-20 15:56:01 UTC appleinsider.com Llama Share 16

Google I/O conference lacked convincing announcements and failed to impress despite showcasing AI advancements. The event felt amateurish compared to Apple's WWDC.

The weird, wild story of humanity's obsession with gold

39 andsoitis 2026-05-20 09:09:40 UTC economist.com Llama Share 68

Lloyd Blankfein, future Goldman Sachs boss, bought a kilogram of gold as a conversation piece costing $15,000. It mesmerized dinner guests but failed to spark meaningful conversations.

I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

35 kageroumado 2026-05-20 23:54:06 UTC github.com/kageroumado Llama Share 6

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.

Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend

34 philipisik 2026-05-20 14:51:00 UTC github.com/ueberdosis Full Share 4

The Yjs CRDT WebSocket backend for conflict-free real-time collaboration in your app. - ueberdosis/hocuspocus

PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play

33 AMavorParker 2026-05-20 21:11:55 UTC vmax.ai Llama Share 6

PopuLoRA is a system that trains co-evolving populations of teacher and student large language models to generate and solve verifiable tasks, resulting in a self-adaptive curriculum that keeps expanding throughout training. This approach outperforms single-agent self-play on code and math benchmarks, suggesting a practical path for self-play and self-improving systems that can generate part ...

SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death

33 mywacaday 2026-05-20 20:21:14 UTC scientificamerican.com Llama Share 23

SpaceX is preparing for a critical Starship test flight on May 21, amid scrutiny from federal officials over delays and worker safety concerns. The test aims to demonstrate the new Starship V3's capabilities, ahead of NASA's planned moon mission in 2028.

Testing MiniMax M2.7 via API on three real ML and coding workflows

29 Artgor 2026-05-20 04:51:42 UTC andlukyane.com Llama Share 2

The user tested MiniMax M2.7 API credits with Claude Code on three workflows and found it useful when tasks had clear boundaries and explicit constraints, but struggled with open-ended cases. M2.7 worked well for supervised work with rapid iteration, returning tool calls and completing multi-step plans faster and at a lower cost than Opus 4.7.

Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos

26 mrkn1 2026-05-20 21:28:28 UTC github.com/kouhxp Llama Share 10

yapsnap is a Python tool that transcribes audio and video files into plaintext on a CPU, without GPU or cloud usage. It uses ffmpeg for decoding and a streaming Zipformer2 transducer for recognition, with optional sentence-level timestamps and speed control.

Evals will break

25 rajveerb 2026-05-20 03:10:30 UTC wanglun1996.github.io Llama Share 4

The current evaluation infrastructure for LLMs is structurally reactive, failing to predict qualitative changes in model capabilities. This is because standard metrics often fail to anticipate regime shifts, making it difficult to detect the next capability jump.

GitHub's take on age assurance for developers

23 hanifbbz 2026-05-20 21:14:03 UTC github.blog Llama Share 14

Policymakers are advancing age assurance proposals to protect children online, but these laws risk imposing burdens on open source software and developers. Developers must engage with policymakers to ensure laws balance child safety with access to open source development.

In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google Declared War on the Remnants of the Web

23 ndr42 2026-05-20 20:30:11 UTC tldr.nettime.org Llama Share 2

Google is trying to establish a new abstraction layer on the web by decontextualizing information and controlling access to it. This move is seen as a threat to the participatory web and people's ability to share cultural artifacts.

Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90%

18 geox 2026-05-20 18:15:55 UTC newatlas.com Llama Share 14

Scientists developed a 3D-printed copper-plate cooling tech that can reduce data center cooling electricity consumption by over 90%. The technology combines a mathematical algorithm with 3D printing to create pure copper cooling plates that outperform conventional cold plates.

Show HN: Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents

16 byhong03 2026-05-20 16:53:07 UTC github.com/mupt-ai Llama Share 5

dari-docs is a CLI for testing documentation clarity with simulated agents. It reports where agents get stuck and generates proposed edits for improvement.