Flipper One – we need your help

1049 sandebert 2026-05-21 11:03:38 UTC blog.flipper.net Llama Share 417

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.

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

754 speckx 2026-05-21 13:38:12 UTC axelk.ee Llama Share 651

AI companies profit from learned results without compensating original authors. Lazy website authors copy tutorials from the internet and pass them off as their own, often ranking higher in Google search results.

Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

584 speleo 2026-05-21 16:23:11 UTC valhovey.github.io Full Share 137

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

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

565 sofumel 2026-05-21 09:49:46 UTC blog.google Llama Share 518

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.

Google's Antigravity bait and switch

540 ssiddharth 2026-05-21 13:50:59 UTC 0xsid.com Llama Share 267

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.

Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

504 napolux 2026-05-21 09:31:15 UTC noslopgrenade.com Llama Share 304

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.

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

415 root-parent 2026-05-21 17:55:58 UTC prismreports.org Llama Share 168

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.

Vivaldi 8.0

351 OuterVale 2026-05-21 07:21:55 UTC vivaldi.com Llama Share 232

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.

Shunning AI is the human choice

350 cdrnsf 2026-05-21 13:36:06 UTC thehandbasket.co Llama Share 492

People are increasingly skeptical and even hostile towards AI, citing its flaws and misuse. A growing "anti-AI rebellion" is emerging, with many questioning the benefits and ethics of relying on AI.

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

331 rbanffy 2026-05-21 11:10:11 UTC blog.changs.co.uk Llama Share 159

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.

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

295 asenna 2026-05-21 14:01:37 UTC blog.simbastack.com Llama Share 91

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.

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

288 pseudolus 2026-05-21 11:02:26 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 94

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.

BBEdit 16

268 qaz_plm 2026-05-21 18:21:37 UTC barebones.com Llama Share 83

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.

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

256 mattas 2026-05-21 16:30:47 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 321

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.

Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI

250 wapasta 2026-05-21 00:36:01 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 186

Intuit is laying off 18,200 employees to simplify its corporate structure and focus on AI efforts. The move comes as the tech industry cuts over 100,000 jobs this year, citing AI project refocusing.

US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds

234 robtherobber 2026-05-21 13:25:41 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 194

US employers spend over $1.5 billion annually on union opposition efforts, hiring consultants and law firms to avoid unionization. This spending contributes to declining union membership and density in the US, now at 10%, down from 20.3% in 1983.

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

230 cdrnsf 2026-05-21 12:58:18 UTC wired.com Llama Share 82

US lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment to ban automated license plate readers for non-tolling purposes, affecting state and local programs nationwide. The amendment, sponsored by Reps Scott Perry and Jesús García, would restrict federal highway funding recipients from using ALPRs for anything other than tolling.

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

218 jaredwiener 2026-05-21 16:59:27 UTC niemanlab.org Llama Share 80

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.

Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking

212 bojta-lepenye 2026-05-21 12:56:37 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 42

Bojta Lepenye thanks Hashcat developers and shares his 4-year experience in password cracking, documenting it in his book available on Amazon.

Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

204 speckx 2026-05-21 14:29:14 UTC osnews.com Llama Share 181

Bitwarden users should consider migrating their passwords due to the company's new CEO and changes in values and pricing. Using an open format like KeePass can ensure password ownership and independence from proprietary services.

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

197 sanity 2026-05-21 14:34:57 UTC freenet.org Llama Share 104

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.

London Mayor Blocks Palantir

176 ZiiS 2026-05-21 16:35:01 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 56

London Mayor Sadiq Khan blocked a £50m Met police deal with Palantir due to procurement rule breach. Khan cited concerns over value for money and Palantir's values not aligning with London's.

Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

175 azhenley 2026-05-21 02:13:23 UTC discourse.haskell.org Llama Share 65

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.

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

167 speckx 2026-05-21 18:54:55 UTC crocidb.com Llama Share 94

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.

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

165 shideneyu 2026-05-21 09:22:00 UTC github.com/helvesec Llama Share 81

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.

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

153 speckx 2026-05-21 17:14:56 UTC discover.swns.com Llama Share 86

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.

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades

150 Anon84 2026-05-21 10:52:12 UTC newscientist.com Llama Share 134

Global warming is accelerating at a rate of 0.36°C per decade, potentially breaching the Paris Agreement goal of 1.5°C by 2028. This acceleration is attributed to climate change with 98% confidence, but its exact rate may slow down due to reduced aerosol emissions.

OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday

137 doppp 2026-05-21 02:24:35 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 3

OpenAI is preparing to file a draft of its IPO prospectus, valued at over $850 billion, with banks including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. This move comes as rival SpaceX, also backed by Elon Musk, is set to publicly disclose its IPO prospectus.

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

135 vcf 2026-05-21 12:55:16 UTC papers.ssrn.com Full Share 132

Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

134 speckx 2026-05-21 19:32:16 UTC veroniiiica.com Llama Share 26

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.

Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

107 elffjs 2026-05-21 16:26:58 UTC hollywoodreporter.com Llama Share 209

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.

The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics

103 d0ks 2026-05-21 21:55:56 UTC davidoks.blog Llama Share 79

The global smartphone market is facing a crisis due to a shortage of memory chips, which has led to a sharp increase in prices and a decline in sales, especially among budget smartphone makers. The shortage is caused by a surge in demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for artificial intelligence applications, which has led to a reallocation of wafer capacity away from commodity DRAM and ...

Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt

92 mkaramuk 2026-05-21 13:04:21 UTC gist.github.com Embed Share 42

FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation

89 WhyNotHugo 2026-05-21 12:15:02 UTC fatgid.io Llama Share 40

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.

Michael Keating has died

86 speckx 2026-05-21 14:31:33 UTC bigfinish.com Llama Share 39

Michael Keating, a renowned British actor, died at 79, best known for his role as Vila Restal in Blake's 7. He had a long and varied career in theatre and television, reprising his iconic role in Big Finish audio productions.

What is a Demand Coop

85 DeonRob 2026-05-21 01:20:52 UTC cahootzcoops.com Llama Share 103

Cahootz is a network of co-ops that pools and directs spending power to build communal businesses and assets. It aims to reduce economic leakage by coordinating demand and creating long-term ownership within communities.

Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

82 theorchid 2026-05-21 23:37:14 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 42

You're frustrated with AI responses that don't address your questions and people forwarding AI answers without reading or understanding them. You want to have real conversations with humans who can provide thoughtful and relevant responses.

Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40

76 ibobev 2026-05-21 13:13:36 UTC fabiensanglard.net Llama Share 89

The user participated in a Magic The Gathering event and built six decks to recapture the spirit of the late 90s. They share their favorite cards and deck combinations, including Erhangeddon, Beta Serra Angels, and Red/Black aggro decks.

Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess

74 nchagnet 2026-05-21 20:56:36 UTC loopwerk.io Llama Share 53

The user praises uv's speed but criticizes its poor CLI experience, especially when updating dependencies. They suggest improvements, including a dedicated outdated command and safer default version constraints.

Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices

73 ohjeez 2026-05-21 15:50:04 UTC calculators.de Llama Share 16

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

We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API

71 yakkomajuri 2026-05-21 14:50:34 UTC rivet.dev Llama Share 11

Docker has introduced Docker Sandboxes using microVMs for secure isolation of untrusted code. Docker's microVM API allows for secure execution of workloads like AI coding agents and user-submitted scripts.

Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

70 Kaibeezy 2026-05-21 18:04:17 UTC thek6project.co.uk Full Share 45

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.

IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation

69 rbanffy 2026-05-21 10:39:48 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 2

Bill Harding envisioned a fully automated wafer-fabrication line in 1970 to produce integrated circuits in under a day. He led Project SWIFT, achieving a 5-hour turnaround time, a feat that has never been equaled despite advancements in technology.

The IBM-ification of Google?

68 sabatonfan 2026-05-21 23:30:10 UTC zeroshot.bearblog.dev Llama Share 68

Google's vertical monopoly is failing due to poor treatment of customers, lack of trust, and neglect of core products. Their focus on AI and ad revenue is suffocating innovation and driving users away.

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

68 gustrigos 2026-05-21 16:07:13 UTC runtm.com Llama Share 21

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.

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

64 atomicthumbs 2026-05-21 19:37:26 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 5

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.

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

62 adisingh13 2026-05-21 16:42:34 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 66

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.

Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps

46 thisisjedr 2026-05-21 20:23:37 UTC github.com/eigenpal Llama Share 3

The Eigenpal Docx Editor is an open-source WYSIWYG editor for React and Vue with real-time collaboration and tracked changes. It has a framework-agnostic core and agent-ready features, with a live demo and documentation available.

The famous O3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work

44 ingve 2026-05-21 08:52:45 UTC seangoedecke.com Llama Share 13

The OpenAI o3 model was found to be surprisingly good at geolocation, but its capabilities were not fully understood until a benchmark was created to test its performance. The benchmark showed that the model's performance was not significantly improved by a complex prompt, suggesting that the prompt's effectiveness was overestimated.

Curtis Yarvin and the Political Evolution of Silicon Valley Reactionaries

33 betterthanever 2026-05-21 21:49:40 UTC dontbeasucker.blog Llama Share 14

Curtis Yarvin's neo-feudalist ideology, outlined in "The Butterfly Revolution," advocates for a dictatorial Trump regime replacing American democracy with a quasi-corporate monarchy. Yarvin's ideas have influenced prominent figures like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and J.D. Vance, and are being implemented through Project 2025.

Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf]

27 tosh 2026-05-21 18:29:35 UTC nabstreamingsummit.com Llama Share 20

Sendfile directs kernel to send data from file descriptor to TCP socket, eliminating data copy. kTLS offload enabled in production, allowing TCP stack to send partial TLS records without performance loss.