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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-...

Appearing productive in the workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-producti...

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-a...

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-se...

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

https://blog.val.town/better-auth

The bottleneck was never the code

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/thoughts-on-cod...

UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing

https://bmmagazine.co.uk/news/uk-jet-fuel-shortage...

Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model

https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

https://tilde.run/

DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing

Inkscape 1.4.4

https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inksc...

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

http://halupedia.com/

A Theory of Deep Learning

https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-lea...

Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader

https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-re...

Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC

https://leetusman.com/nosebook/yvi

Ted Turner has died

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death

Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts

Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

https://play.templatical.com

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-space...

Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

https://catstret.ch/202605/srss-hipster202510/

SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags

https://yibo-fu.com/SoundOff-Low-cost-Passive-Ultr...

Following the Text Gradient at Scale

http://ai.stanford.edu/blog/feedback-descent/

What makes a good smartphone camera?

https://cadence.moe/blog/2026-05-05-what-makes-a-g...

Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/di...

Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software

https://adaptivesoftware.substack.com/p/the-wrappe...

Virtual violin produces realistic sounds

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-engineers-virtual-vi...

Coverage Cat (YC S22) Seeks Fractional Engineer to Build AI Growth Toolkit

https://www.coveragecat.com/careers/engineering/fr...

Programming Still Sucks

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-suck...

Kash Patel's Personalized Bourbon Stash

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/05/kash-...

Going Full Time on Open Source

https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-o...