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Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/05...

Make your own microforest (2025)

https://ambrook.com/offrange/environment/a-forest-...

PGKeeper: Building the bouncer we needed for Postgres

https://www.figma.com/blog/pgkeeper-building-the-b...

A bidirectional typechecking puzzle in the Grace programming language

https://haskellforall.com/2026/05/a-bidirectional-...

Human brain changes after first psilocybin use

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71962-3

Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS

https://status.canonical.com/#/incident/KNms6QK9ew...

Show HN: I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents

https://allbsides.com/

Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/startup-sa...

Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/20...

Let's Buy Spirit Air

https://letsbuyspiritair.com/

Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan

https://www.thegamer.com/mgs2-hd-edition-source-co...

New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges

https://wideluxx.com

Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary

https://github.com/sambigeara/pollen

OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30...

Buffon's needle problem visualized

https://ivanludvig.dev/pi-needle/

Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)

https://aruljohn.com/blog/macos-created-tar-files-...

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquir...

Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans

https://github.com/bruin-data/dac

Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

https://firethering.com/granite-4-1-ibm-open-sourc...

The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility

https://xogium.me/the-text-mode-lie-why-modern-tui...

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/...

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1854

NetHack 5.0.0

https://nethack.org/v500/release.html

Little magazines are back

https://wsjfreeexpression.substack.com/p/little-ma...

Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters

https://hnup.date/hn-sota

Incident with Actions – Resolved

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/1j40g94rn22...

Ask HN: Is the future everyone having 100 MCP processes running on their PC?

item?id=48032863

Jonathan Swift's Last Joke

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essa...

What can we gain by losing infinity?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-we-gain-by...

How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

https://chromium-drift.pages.dev/