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GitHub Actions is the weakest link

https://nesbitt.io/2026/04/28/github-actions-is-th...

Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage

https://sfist.com/2026/05/01/waymo-drives-off-with...

An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce

https://github.com/GliaX/Stethoscope

Deepfakes Are Coming for Your Bank Account

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/cha...

Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising

https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insight...

Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years

https://jivx.com/kyoto-bloom

Historic Tennessee hotel is also home to the greatest duck tradition (2016)

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/tennessees-most-h...

Our agent found a bug with WireGuard in Google Kubernetes Engine

https://lovable.dev/blog/hunting-networking-bugs-i...

As a Ukrainian journalist, I've covered the US for 20 years. I find it shocking

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/30/as-a...

Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs

https://interfaze.ai/blog/introducing-structured-o...

Music with Lyrics Interferes with Cognitive Tasks (2023)

https://journalofcognition.org/articles/10.5334/jo...

How we run iSCSI over the internet

https://scsipub.com/blog/how-we-run-iscsi-over-the...

Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing

https://blog.jeffschomay.com/letting-ai-play-my-ga...

Can You Find the Comet?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260427.html

DRAM Crunch: Lessons for System Design

https://www.eetimes.com/what-the-dram-crunch-teach...

Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write

https://github.com/aallan/vera

How ChatGPT serves ads

https://www.buchodi.com/how-chatgpt-serves-ads-her...

Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor

https://github.com/trycua/cua

Chinese EVs Can Now Project Movies from Their Headlights

https://insideevs.com/news/794295/chinese-ev-headl...

SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding

https://simplex.chat/blog/20260430-simplex-channel...

A Milestone in Formalization: The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimension 8

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2604.23468

Apple raises Mac Mini starting price $599 to $799, 256GB storage discontinued

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/01/mac-mini-now-...

Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me (BBC)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c242pzr1zp2o

GCC 16 has been released

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-16/changes.html

Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage

https://www.lumara-space.app/

NSA Warned Everyone to Reboot Their Routers

https://www.staysafeonline.org/articles/the-nsa-ju...

Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-universal-patterns-e...

Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?

https://legallayer.substack.com/p/who-owns-the-cla...

Compositing and Blending – Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes

https://nik.digital/posts/compositing-blending

Laws of UX

https://lawsofux.com/