Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

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Internet Archive Switzerland

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Internet Archive Switzerland launched as a non-profit foundation in St. Gallen to preserve endangered archives and AI models. It joins a global network of mission-aligned organizations to build a distributed digital library.

I’ve banned query strings

The user doesn't want tracking stuff in URLs and has banned unauthorized query strings on their site. They're testing Caddy's handling of query strings at /no-query-strings.

Zed Editor Theme-Builder

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Access Zed's theme builder from the desktop and browse available theme extensions. The MeetingScheduler component helps schedule meetings about scheduling meetings.

FreeBSD: Local Privilege Escalation via Execve()

FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec is a security advisory that fixes a local privilege escalation via execve() in all supported versions of FreeBSD. The issue is corrected in stable/15, 14.4-STABLE, and 13.5-STABLE branches.

CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers

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cPanel released a second emergency security patch on May 8, 2026, covering three new vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-29201, CVE-2026-29202, and CVE-2026-29203. Two of the three vulnerabilities have a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating High severity.

Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]

Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

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The author is creating a Go utility to manage Claude Code profiles but is frustrated with Apple's developer program requirements, including a yearly subscription and ID verification process that doesn't work well with their MacBook's webcam.

I caught the car

I started my first software job out of college in July of 2023. In January 2026, two and a half years later, I secured my second promotion, earning the title of Senior Software Engineer. This alone is not so remarkable as to deserve a blog post - I recently listened to a pretty good podcast featuring an IC who was Senior Staff at Uber by 25 - but I have thoughts on it that I'm choosing to ...

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Google's new reCAPTCHA system requires Android users to run Google Play Services to prove they're human, excluding de-Googled phones. This move establishes a precedent for accessing basic web content, favoring Google's ecosystem control over user data consent.

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

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Large Language Models (LLMs) degrade documents during long workflows, corrupting 25% of content on average. Current LLMs are unreliable delegates, introducing severe errors that silently corrupt documents over time.

Meta's Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable

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Show HN: I wrote a flight simulator in my own programming language

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Simple flight simulator. Contribute to navid-m/flightsim development by creating an account on GitHub.

The ROKR wooden typewriter: a closer look

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A Chinese model kit company ROKR created a working wooden typewriter that can type in capital letters, with moving keys and a rolling carriage. The typewriter's design was inspired by the Underwood No. 5 and took a year and a half to develop, with a team of designers and engineers working on it.

The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism

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The user reflects on the early days of the internet and how the ideology of cyberlibertarianism, which emphasized individual freedom and deregulation, led to the creation of a platform that prioritizes profit over people and has devastating consequences. The user argues that it's time to face the facts that this ideology has failed and that we need to evolve and find a new ethical code to ...

PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

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The user explores the RISC OS operating system and PipeDream productivity suite, highlighting their unique features and quirks, including the three-button mouse, drag-and-drop file management, and customizable keyboard shortcuts. Despite the system's elegance and ease of use, the user finds it disorienting and frustrating at times, particularly with the word processing and database functions, ...

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

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How LEDs are made (2014)

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The author visited YunSun factory in China and learned about the LED manufacturing process, including die production, wire bonding, and epoxy molding. The factory uses a combination of manual and automated processes, with multiple suppliers involved in the tool-chain, making it difficult to create custom LEDs.

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

A mathematician used ChatGPT 5.5 Pro to improve the upper bound on a problem in additive number theory from exponential to polynomial in time, with the AI producing a result that was almost certainly correct according to a human expert. The mathematician suggests that the era of human mathematicians solving problems independently may be coming to an end, and that the future of mathematics ...

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

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The user strongly advises against using WebRTC for voice AI due to its limitations and trade-offs, such as introducing artificial latency and aggressively dropping packets. The user suggests using QUIC instead, which offers better performance and scalability, and provides a detailed explanation of how QUIC can be used for load balancing and connection management.

Mythical Man Month

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Fred Brooks managed IBM's System/360 in the 1960s and wrote influential book The Mythical Man-Month in 1975. The book emphasizes conceptual integrity in system design, simplicity, and straightforwardness to avoid communication issues and ensure effective work.

America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy

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Bob Shaw, CEO of Shaw Industries, clashed with 3M executives in 2000 over Scotchgard reformulation due to environmental concerns. Shaw's company and others continued using PFAS alternatives despite warnings and health risks.

Random tie knots (2014)

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

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Sir David Attenborough turns 100, receiving birthday messages from the royal couple and many celebrities. A special concert at the Royal Albert Hall celebrates his life and legacy.

GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch

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GrapheneOS has released an update to fix a VPN bypass vulnerability that leaks a user's real IP address even with Android's VPN protections enabled. The update disables a QUIC connection feature and includes the May 2026 Android security patch level and other security improvements.

Introduction to Beaver Triples

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The group of friends wants to decide on a restaurant for dinner without revealing individual affordability and food preference scores, using secret sharing and Beaver triples to privately compute restaurant scores. Two members of the group open the final restaurant scores using Lagrange interpolation, revealing the results to the group and deciding on the restaurant with the highest score.

Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU

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The TD4 is a 4-bit CPU built from 74-series TTL logic ICs, featuring 12 instructions and a 16-byte ROM. It's a simple, educational tool for understanding computer architecture, with a straightforward build process and no firmware or calibration required.

What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting

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Joseph Dwyer studied cosmic events before researching lightning on Earth. He discovered that lightning initiation requires extreme events, not just electricity.

Show HN: Mochi.js: bun-native high-fidelity browser automation library

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mochi.js is a Bun-native browser automation framework that creates fingerprint-free sessions. It uses a single (profile, seed) pair to derive all fingerprint surfaces through a 48-rule DAG.

Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023)

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The IBM Selectric Composer used a 9-unit grid for its type elements, but this caused issues with letter widths, particularly with the Univers typeface, which was adapted for the machine. A digitization of the Univers typeface was created by scaling scans of the original type elements and applying a rounded corners filter to maintain the typeface's friendly impression.