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Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/polymarket-k...

Because it doesn't have to

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/04/b...

FDA Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Safe

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/politics/fda...

What Happens When Jails and Prisons Make Phone Calls Free?

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jails-pr...

CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940

https://labs.watchtowr.com/the-internet-is-falling...

Full-Text Search with DuckDB

https://peterdohertys.website/blog-posts/full-text...

Reverse Engineering SimTower

https://phulin.me/blog/simtower

Inexpressibility in Exp-Minus-Log (EML)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01636

The fun has been optimized out of the Internet

https://muddy.jprs.me/posts/2026-05-03-the-best-is...

The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%2...

Artemis II Photo Timeline

https://artemistimeline.com/#artemis-ii-walkout-nh...

DeepSeek V4's indexer OOMs at 65K context. We got it to 1M in 6G

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02568

Google is discontinuing its free web search index for developers

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Google-is-discontinui...

Oasis Linux

https://git.sr.ht/~mcf/oasis

Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes

https://www.smmt.co.uk/two-millionth-electric-car-...

California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypjx3rg2go

Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML

https://acai.sh/blog/specsmaxxing

Roger Sweet, Creator of the He-Man Action Figure, Dies at 91

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/arts/roger-swee...

A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/Dijkstra_Letter.h...

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable

Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents

https://flueframework.com/

Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/roblox-rblx-stock-...

Cursor Camp

https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/

Does Postgres Scale?

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/benchmarking-workflow-ex...

Understand Anything

https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

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Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs

https://github.com/intel/auto-round

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblow...

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency...

Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_US/2026/motorsport...