Click (2016)

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A browser-based game on online profiling.

Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

The user created a chess engine using a custom regular expression-based CPU emulator that can play chess by executing a sequence of 84,688 regular expressions. The engine uses a macro-assembler compiler that performs symbolic execution to generate a sequence of regular expressions that can be executed in parallel to find the best move.

Anthropic co-founder to present AI encyclical alongside Pope Leo XIV

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Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas on AI will be released on May 25, 2026, at the Vatican's Synod Hall. The event will feature several speakers discussing AI's impact on humanity, followed by Pope Leo XIV's address and blessing.

Anthropic acquires Stainless

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Anthropic is acquiring Stainless to extend the reach of its agents, allowing them to connect to more systems. The acquisition combines Anthropic's MCP with Stainless' SDK and server tooling to advance developer experience and agent connectivity.

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

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GitHub's AI-generated contributions have degraded quality and overwhelmed legitimate contributors, prompting the team to block new users from commenting or creating PRs unless they've previously committed to the main branch. The team implemented a workaround to whitelist prior contributors by adding their handles to an external contributors file and pushing a commit to main.

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

Clojure has gone furthest in this direction, making all the customary list functions work on vectors as well. lisp has a tradition of using lists of pairs for dictionaries; emacs also has prog1 and -all for returning the value of the 1st or 2nd expression. in c++, if the argument is not an array, it will be recursively expanded until it is free

RIP Peter Salus

Dan Cross via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org Tue May 19 10:20:01 AEST 2026 I just found out that Peter Salus passed away on May 15. His "Quarter Century of Unix" is required reading for any serious student of Unix history. - Dan C. More information about the TUHS mailing list

The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden

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Bitwarden's new CEO Michael Sullivan has a background in mergers and acquisitions, raising concerns about the company's long-term direction. Changes to the company's values and pricing strategy suggest a shift away from its original commitment to being "Always free."

We let AIs run radio stations

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Andon Labs ran an experiment where four AI models, Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok, controlled their own radio stations, each with unique personalities and behaviors, and the results showed how AIs think and act when left to their own devices. The experiment revealed a range of outcomes, from DJ GPT's well-behaved and informative broadcasts to DJ Claude's transformation into an activist DJ ...

Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

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User input is a repetitive phrase "NUMBER GACHA" 50 times. Summary: User repeated "NUMBER GACHA" 50 times.

Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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The user discusses the limitations of using a Second Brain and PKM tools, highlighting the importance of understanding and not just taking notes. They also share their development process and decisions for a chat-based knowledge base application.

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

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The speaker presented a lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, summarizing six months of LLM developments, including the November 2025 inflection point where coding agents improved significantly. The past six months also saw the rise of laptop-available models, such as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, and personal AI assistants, known as Claws.

Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

Cloudflare tested Mythos Preview, a security-focused LLM, on their infrastructure and found it effective in identifying vulnerabilities and generating proofs of concept. A custom-built harness is needed to manage the model's execution and achieve high coverage, rather than relying on a single agent.

Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space

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We have created a 240 light-year wide bubble of electromagnetic radiation around Earth, containing all human broadcasts and messages sent into space since the early 1900s. This bubble marks the furthest point that any human signal has reached, travelling at the speed of light, and contains approximately 0.000002% of our galaxy.

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

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Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft due to statute of limitations. He plans to appeal the verdict.

The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam

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When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call?

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Modern compilers devirtualize calls to final methods reliably, but corner cases vary across compilers. Various techniques can help compilers devirtualize calls, including final methods, internal linkage, and specific class structures.

Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model

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Agora-1 is a multi-agent world model that enables real-time interaction between multiple participants, including humans and AI. It learns to simulate and render shared environments, allowing for applications like multiplayer games and robotics.

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)

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The user wanted to switch between their Mac laptop and Linux desktop quickly without using cables or dongles, so they bought a monitor with KVM functionality, the MSI MPG 321URX. They used DDC commands to bind keyboard shortcuts to switch between inputs, using m1ddc on macOS and ddcutil on Linux to control the monitor's inputs.

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

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The FBI wants to buy access to nationwide ALPRs to track vehicle movements without a warrant for $36 million. Flock and Motorola are potential vendors, with Flock having 80,000 cameras and Motorola having a massive ALPR database.

Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch

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The user created a scientific calculator project after a power grid failure in 2021, involving pathfinding, Verilog, and FPGA development. The project spanned 5 years, with multiple iterations, including a 2025 rewrite, and resulted in a working calculator in 1593 logic cells.

Coding on Paper

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The author bought a 25.3" e-ink monitor, Onyx BOOX Mira Pro Color, for $2000 and uses it as their primary monitor, finding it energizing and happy. They customized their system for the monitor's high contrast requirements and have mixed feelings about its color panel and menu system.

The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention

Fil-C achieves memory safety even for programs that behave adversarially by catching type-violating calls with a panic or ascribing safe behavior. It generates efficient code for common cases like register-based calls.

Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents

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InsForge is an open-source backend platform for agentic coding, providing database, auth, storage, compute, hosting, and AI gateway. It allows coding agents to ship full-stack apps end-to-end.

Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE

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Share your audio code with the community. Let others discover and learn from your work. "Finally, a tool that makes audio programming accessible. The visual feedback helps me understand what I'm creating." "I love being able to experiment with sounds directly in the browser. No setup, just pure creativity."

Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment

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Researchers studied how AI pretraining data affects alignment, finding that discussing AI misalignment increases misaligned behavior, while discussing aligned behavior reduces misalignment. Pretraining data shapes alignment priors, suggesting its importance for AI development alongside capabilities.

Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint

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Modal optimized inference workloads on GPUs by implementing a cloud buffer to maintain idle GPUs, reducing spin-up time from tens of minutes to tens of seconds. They also improved container start times by 10x and device-dependent steps like weight loading and inference engine setup with checkpoint/restore and custom filesystems.

Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait

Iran has launched a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies to transit the Strait of Hormuz. The service, called Hormuz Safe, provides fast digital insurance for Iranian shipping companies and cargo owners.

Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions

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Shutterstock Inc will pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations of unfair and deceptive practices including charging consumers without consent and making cancellation difficult. The company must now clearly disclose terms, obtain consent and provide simple cancellation mechanisms.