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Have a Coherent AI Policy
L: https://brianmeeker.me/2026/05/14/have-a-coherent-ai-policy/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142553
posted on 2026.05.14 at 19:24:45 (c=0, p=4)

mimalloc: A new, high-performance, scalable memory allocator for the modern era
L: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mimalloc-a-high-performance-scalable-memory-allocator-for-the-modern-era/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142404
posted on 2026.05.14 at 19:03:51 (c=0, p=5)

ICLR 2026 – Institutional Affiliations Dataset and Analysis
L: https://github.com/DmytroLopushanskyy/iclr2026-affiliations
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142312
posted on 2026.05.14 at 18:50:48 (c=0, p=3)

Parametric CAD Bench
L: https://cadbench.ai/news/parametric-cad-bench
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141556
posted on 2026.05.14 at 17:32:29 (c=1, p=6)

PyTorch simulator refutes an 18-year-old quantum theorem
L: https://github.com/lizbeth307/quantum-superactivation-refutation
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141774
posted on 2026.05.14 at 17:54:11 (c=1, p=4)

IPv8
L: https://openipv8.org/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142057
posted on 2026.05.14 at 18:22:47 (c=3, p=5)

Bare-metal STM32: vector table, linker script, and startup code from scratch
L: https://lmilz.dev/blog/2026/04/19/Embedded-Hello-World.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109270
posted on 2026.05.12 at 10:57:25 (c=0, p=4)

More than half of U.S. faces worst drought in decades
L: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/05/drought-united-states-la-nina-expert.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142193
posted on 2026.05.14 at 18:38:18 (c=0, p=9)

'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system
L: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142251
posted on 2026.05.14 at 18:44:16 (c=0, p=6)

An Engineer's Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
L: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-employee-protest-mouse-tracking-surveillance-ai-training/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141131
posted on 2026.05.14 at 16:56:40 (c=0, p=13)

Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts
L: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/14/ontario-auditors-find-doctors-ai-note-takers-routinely-blow-basic-facts/5240771
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142188
posted on 2026.05.14 at 18:37:40 (c=0, p=4)

Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes
L: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/fired-hacker-twins-forget-to-end-teams-recording-capture-own-crimes/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142038
posted on 2026.05.14 at 18:20:17 (c=0, p=7)

A Few Words on DS4
L: https://antirez.com/news/165
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142108
posted on 2026.05.14 at 18:29:12 (c=0, p=8)

Court bans Kars4Kids ads in California for violating false advertising law
L: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/kars4kids-california-false-advertising-22259298.php
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141771
posted on 2026.05.14 at 17:53:53 (c=0, p=4)

Postgres FDW: Pushdown is a negotiation
L: https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgres-fdw-pushdown-negotiation
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141306
posted on 2026.05.14 at 17:10:55 (c=0, p=4)

Wrap Go binaries in Python wheels
L: https://github.com/simonw/go-to-wheel
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109677
posted on 2026.05.12 at 11:23:58 (c=0, p=5)

Best "Brain" for Agents Is Just Versioned Folders of Markdown Files
L: https://extency.com/blog/markdown-versioned-folders-agent-brain-2026
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140648
posted on 2026.05.14 at 16:15:26 (c=0, p=5)

OpenAI's Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
L: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/930763/openai-codex-chatgpt-ios-android-app-preview
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140747
posted on 2026.05.14 at 16:25:01 (c=0, p=9)

SpaceX sets date for first Starship version 3 launch – SpaceNews
L: https://spacenews.com/spacex-sets-date-for-first-starship-version-3-launch/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141531
posted on 2026.05.14 at 17:30:26 (c=0, p=5)

OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control
L: https://www.openvehicles.com/home
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141732
posted on 2026.05.14 at 17:50:17 (c=1, p=3)

Head of Microsoft's Israel branch to step down after inquiry into deal with IDF
L: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/12/microsoft-head-israel-step-down
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141328
posted on 2026.05.14 at 17:12:56 (c=0, p=5)

Claude for Legal
L: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-for-legal
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141234
posted on 2026.05.14 at 17:05:05 (c=0, p=6)

Minimal Structures
L: https://chefcinnamon.github.io/memo/posts/minimal-structures/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141060
posted on 2026.05.14 at 16:50:46 (c=1, p=5)

Show HN: I built a Web-Scraper API that is 6-7x more efficient than current ones
L: https://scrapewithruno.com/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141206
posted on 2026.05.14 at 17:02:01 (c=0, p=4)

Our Partnership with Z.ai
L: https://developer.puter.com/blog/puter-zai-annoucement/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141057
posted on 2026.05.14 at 16:50:38 (c=0, p=3)

The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work
L: https://acesounderglass.com/2025/10/13/the-biochemical-beauty-of-retatrutide-how-glp-1s-actually-work/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095490
posted on 2026.05.11 at 10:30:02 (c=0, p=4)

Work with Codex from Anywhere
L: https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140529
posted on 2026.05.14 at 16:06:14 (c=1, p=12)

Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet
L: https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/exploiting-the-tesla-wall-connector-from-its-charge-port-connector-part-2-bypassing
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140953
posted on 2026.05.14 at 16:41:48 (c=0, p=4)

Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
L: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/amazonbot-respecting-robots-txt/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140730
posted on 2026.05.14 at 16:22:35 (c=0, p=3)

New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references
https://twitter.com/tdietterich/status/2055000956144935055
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140922
posted on 2026.05.14 at 16:39:12 (c=0, p=4)

RISC-V Router
L: https://router.start9.com/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140541
posted on 2026.05.14 at 16:06:53 (c=0, p=4)

Codex is now available on mobile via ChatGPT app
https://twitter.com/openai/status/2055016850849993072
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140679
posted on 2026.05.14 at 16:17:43 (c=1, p=3)

Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux
L: https://benstoneonline.com/posts/porting-3d-movie-maker-to-linux/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097786
posted on 2026.05.11 at 13:17:20 (c=0, p=5)

Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain
L: https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136949
posted on 2026.05.14 at 11:33:16 (c=2, p=8)

WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
L: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/discussions/11096
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139704
posted on 2026.05.14 at 15:01:58 (c=0, p=4)

OpenData Vector: MIT-Licensed Vector Search on Object Storage
L: https://www.opendata.dev/blog/introducing-vector/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139142
posted on 2026.05.14 at 14:19:08 (c=0, p=5)

Postgres minor releases closing 11 CVEs
L: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-184-1710-1614-1518-and-1423-released-3297/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140038
posted on 2026.05.14 at 15:26:06 (c=0, p=4)

Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
L: https://www.wired.com/story/overworked-ai-agents-turn-marxist-study/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139504
posted on 2026.05.14 at 14:47:38 (c=0, p=6)

City and Flock Manipulate Security Scores
L: https://ipvm.com/reports/flock-review-dunwoody
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139646
posted on 2026.05.14 at 14:57:54 (c=0, p=4)

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M
L: https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/14/kde-bags-13m-as-europe-realizes-it-might-need-an-os-of-its-own/5240562
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139912
posted on 2026.05.14 at 15:16:02 (c=0, p=3)

DIY open-source ultrasound hardware on the rp2040/rp2350
L: http://un0rick.cc/pic0rick
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138913
posted on 2026.05.14 at 14:01:17 (c=0, p=5)

The AI Zombification of Universities
L: https://www.thenewcritic.com/p/the-great-zombification
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139355
posted on 2026.05.14 at 14:37:08 (c=0, p=6)

Green Card Holders Targeted for Deportation by New 'Removal Apparatus'
L: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/us/politics/green-cards-immigration-deportation-trump.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139775
posted on 2026.05.14 at 15:07:12 (c=0, p=4)

London's Smallest Public Sculptures
L: https://lookup.london/londons-smallest-public-sculptures/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099240
posted on 2026.05.11 at 15:03:01 (c=0, p=3)

German intelligence offices snub Palantir software
L: https://www.dw.com/en/german-intelligence-offices-snub-us-based-palantir-software/a-77160897
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139547
posted on 2026.05.14 at 14:50:02 (c=0, p=4)

Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139188
posted on 2026.05.14 at 14:22:49 (c=0, p=4)

You Don't Align an AI, You Align with It
L: https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2026/05/you-dont-align-an-ai-you-align-with-it
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139144
posted on 2026.05.14 at 14:19:13 (c=0, p=4)

The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)
L: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/power-free-popsicle
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139316
posted on 2026.05.14 at 14:33:47 (c=0, p=3)

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
L: https://blog.calif.io/p/first-public-kernel-memory-corruption
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139219
posted on 2026.05.14 at 14:25:09 (c=1, p=8)

ChatGPT Gave Me Chilling Advice–As I Simulated Planning a Mass Shooting
L: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/05/openai-chatgpt-mass-shooting-guardrails-fail/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138956
posted on 2026.05.14 at 14:04:25 (c=0, p=4)