It is time to build a new internet

17 mrmarket 2026-05-22 02:21:53 UTC mrmarket.bearblog.dev Llama Share 17

The writer is dissatisfied with the current state of the internet, which they call the Obvious Internet, and want a new, decentralized public commons for discourse. They propose a new protocol stack that is not interoperable with TCP/IP and a higher barrier to entry to prevent commercialization.

Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

608 speleo 2026-05-21 16:42:53 UTC valhovey.github.io Full Share 138

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

Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

141 speckx 2026-05-21 19:42:53 UTC veroniiiica.com Llama Share 29

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.

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

173 speckx 2026-05-21 19:42:53 UTC crocidb.com Llama Share 95

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Digital Ocean VPS running Ubuntu 16.04 to a Hetzner virtual machine with FreeBSD, citing security concerns with the outdated Ubuntu system.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.

The Death of the Brick and Mortar Toy Store

24 speckx 2026-05-22 00:42:53 UTC brainbaking.com Full Share 14

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

304 apwheele 2026-05-21 16:42:53 UTC rosmine.ai Llama Share 225

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.

The IBM-ification of Google?

87 sabatonfan 2026-05-21 23:42:53 UTC zeroshot.bearblog.dev Llama Share 79

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.

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

202 sanity 2026-05-21 18:42:53 UTC freenet.org Llama Share 110

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.

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

303 asenna 2026-05-21 14:42:53 UTC blog.simbastack.com Llama Share 92

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.

Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success

38 mooreds 2026-05-21 22:42:53 UTC pacifichorticulture.org Llama Share 5

Mycorrhizal fungi form beneficial relationships with plant roots, providing nutrients and protection. Adding mycorrhizal fungi to soil can improve plant growth, health, and survival, reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides.

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

333 rbanffy 2026-05-21 11:42:53 UTC blog.changs.co.uk Llama Share 161

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.

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

69 gustrigos 2026-05-21 17:42:53 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.

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

291 pseudolus 2026-05-21 11:42:53 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 95

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.

Flipper One – we need your help

1057 sandebert 2026-05-21 11:42:53 UTC blog.flipper.net Llama Share 421

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.

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

259 mattas 2026-05-21 16:42:53 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 323

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.

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

417 root-parent 2026-05-21 18:42:53 UTC prismreports.org Llama Share 170

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.

Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

110 elffjs 2026-05-21 18:42:53 UTC hollywoodreporter.com Llama Share 218

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 <Noscript> Element as a Trap

3 speckx 2026-05-22 01:42:53 UTC hacktivis.me Prefix Share 0

One of the few traps of the web is how the <noscript> element doesn't provides the right behavior. Definition: The <noscript> element provides alternate content when JavaScript is entirely toggled off or entirely unsupported. Sources: HTML4 § 18.3.1 The NOSCRIPT element with ignoring non-JavaScript in <script> (W3C gives Tcl as example, I'd more point to JScript and ...

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

77 nchagnet 2026-05-21 21:42:53 UTC loopwerk.io Llama Share 55

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.

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

67 atomicthumbs 2026-05-21 19:42:53 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.

Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar

22 carabiner 2026-05-22 01:42:53 UTC qz.com Llama Share 3

The website is blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.

BBEdit 16

273 qaz_plm 2026-05-21 18:42:53 UTC barebones.com Llama Share 84

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.

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

0 2026-05-21 17:42:53 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.

Google's Antigravity bait and switch

546 ssiddharth 2026-05-21 14:42:53 UTC 0xsid.com Llama Share 272

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.

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

224 jaredwiener 2026-05-21 17:42:53 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.

Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

92 pvtmert 2026-05-21 14:42:53 UTC jvns.ca Llama Share 45

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 ...

Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

509 napolux 2026-05-21 11:42:53 UTC noslopgrenade.com Llama Share 305

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.

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

568 sofumel 2026-05-21 10:42:53 UTC blog.google Llama Share 520

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.

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

62 adisingh13 2026-05-21 18:42:53 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.

Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

70 Kaibeezy 2026-05-21 18:42:53 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.