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Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person

https://www.popularwoodworking.com/editors-blog/to...

Why Only Rich Kids Make It in Music Today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJrR1OdAIg

Show HN: New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved

https://programbench.com/

Show HN: A Mutating Webhook to automatically strip PII from K8s logs

https://github.com/aragossa/pii-shield

Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/314311

Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11651802262136...

Why is southern Italy poorer than northern Italy?

https://statsandsociety.substack.com/p/fully-expla...

Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak

https://wordtrak.com/blog/2026-05-05-I-built-a-new...

Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors

https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-t...

They Called It LISP For A Reason (2005)

https://gigamonkeys.com/book/they-called-it-lisp-f...

'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/ne...

Make your own microforest (2025)

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

Show HN: NFC tags are good material for pranks on Android

https://mastodon.social/@maxwellito/11652425010043...

UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing

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

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

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

What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)

https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/18/cogniti...

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

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

NetHack 5.0.0

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

Google Tag Gateway – Ad-Block Killer?

https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-man...

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

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

“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)

https://www.space.com/entertainment/space-games/ki...

The Deletion Test – The Phoenix Architecture

https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/3md5ftetaes2e

Companies Will Stop Making Software

https://thegeneralpartnership.substack.com/p/the-b...

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

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

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

https://hnup.date/hn-sota

Let's Buy Spirit Air

https://letsbuyspiritair.com/

Show HN: Codeberg (Forgejo) CLI, built with Xclif

https://codeberg.org/thatxliner/codeberg-cli

Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/clarify-npp-tra...

Microsoft's response to plain text passwords in Edge – it is an expected feature

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-edge-passw...

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-...