Amazon, Facebook, FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network

105 root-parent 2026-05-21 17:57:17 UTC prismreports.org Llama Share 20

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.

Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

132 speleo 2026-05-21 16:27:17 UTC valhovey.github.io Full Share 37

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

Flipper One – we need your help

803 sandebert 2026-05-21 11:27:17 UTC blog.flipper.net Llama Share 357

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.

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

150 asenna 2026-05-21 14:27:17 UTC blog.simbastack.com Llama Share 54

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.

BBEdit 16 Is Here

5 qaz_plm 2026-05-21 18:22:17 UTC barebones.com Prefix Share 0

BBEdit 16 is a free upgrade for all licensed BBEdit 15 customers who purchased licenses on or after November 1, 2025. BBEdit 16 is a paid upgrade for licensed customers: US$29.99 for BBEdit 15 customers (if purchased before November 1, 2025); US$39.99 for customers with BBEdit 14.6.9 or earlier. There are more than a hundred new feature additions, changes, and refinements, including ...

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive's access

21 jaredwiener 2026-05-21 17:27:17 UTC niemanlab.org Llama Share 2

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.

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

54 apwheele 2026-05-21 17:27:17 UTC rosmine.ai Llama Share 35

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.

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

234 rbanffy 2026-05-21 11:27:17 UTC blog.changs.co.uk Llama Share 115

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.

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

0 2026-05-21 17:27:17 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.

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

194 pseudolus 2026-05-21 11:27:17 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 56

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.

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

28 gustrigos 2026-05-21 16:27:17 UTC runtm.com Llama Share 7

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.

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

481 sofumel 2026-05-21 10:27:17 UTC blog.google Llama Share 413

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.

Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS

45 pvtmert 2026-05-21 14:27:17 UTC jvns.ca Llama Share 30

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 ...

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

113 mattas 2026-05-21 17:27:17 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 129

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.

Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices

21 ohjeez 2026-05-21 16:27:17 UTC calculators.de Llama Share 2

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

Michael Keating has died

64 speckx 2026-05-21 15:27:17 UTC bigfinish.com Llama Share 34

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.

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

41 speckx 2026-05-21 17:27:17 UTC discover.swns.com Llama Share 13

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: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking

134 bojta-lepenye 2026-05-21 14:27:17 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 12

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

What Is Happening to Publishing?

39 benbreen 2026-05-21 16:27:17 UTC resobscura.substack.com Llama Share 12

The article discusses the decline of non-fiction book sales and the rise of AI-generated content, podcasts, and explainer videos, which may be replacing the traditional format of physical books. The author argues that physical books offer a unique experience of layered, spaced attention and communion with characters, which is lost in digital formats.

We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API

41 yakkomajuri 2026-05-21 15:27:17 UTC rivet.dev Llama Share 5

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.

FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation

62 WhyNotHugo 2026-05-21 12:27:17 UTC fatgid.io Llama Share 28

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.

Vivaldi 8.0

264 OuterVale 2026-05-21 07:27:17 UTC vivaldi.com Llama Share 189

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.

Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40

51 ibobev 2026-05-21 13:27:17 UTC fabiensanglard.net Llama Share 46

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.

Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch

362 ssiddharth 2026-05-21 14:27:17 UTC 0xsid.com Llama Share 199

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.

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

147 shideneyu 2026-05-21 09:27:17 UTC github.com/helvesec Llama Share 69

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.

What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?

102 baruchel 2026-05-21 10:27:17 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 44

Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems proved that no formal system of mathematics can be complete, leaving some true statements unprovable. This has implications for physics, where a discrete space-time may be necessary to avoid undecidability.

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

171 cdrnsf 2026-05-21 13:27:17 UTC wired.com Llama Share 48

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.

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

665 speckx 2026-05-21 14:27:17 UTC axelk.ee Llama Share 540

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.

Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

342 napolux 2026-05-21 10:27:17 UTC noslopgrenade.com Llama Share 200

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.

IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation

59 rbanffy 2026-05-21 11:27:17 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.