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KDE Plasma 6.7 to Provide a Better Experience for CPU-Based Rendering

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-Faster-WL...

While the King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello from 1993

https://lowendbox.com/blog/while-the-king-lives-an...

Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/02/automating-h...

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons

https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commit...

Why most product tours get skipped

https://productonboarding.com/articles/why-product...

Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes...

Proton Meet

https://proton.me/business/blog/introducing-proton...

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35117

Agent Skills

https://addyosmani.com/blog/agent-skills/

Building the deployment tool I wish I had

https://ruuda.nl/2026/deptool

Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance (2025)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-025-01173-4

When networking doesn't work

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/when-networking-doesn...

Testing Mac OS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/05/testing-macos-o...

HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker

https://hantawatch.net/

Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition

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

Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)

https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers

Show HN: DAG-based Kanji learning through components

https://mykanji.app/

Zig → Rust porting guide

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270...

Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

https://paletteinspiration.com/

Prompt API: No web standard should require users to agree an ads company's TOC

https://wil.to/posts/googles-prompt-api/

Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal

https://unsung.aresluna.org/mouse-pointer-as-a-mer...

Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

https://sierra.ai/blog/better-customer-experiences...

2-D Mathematical Curves

https://www.2dcurves.com/

Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

https://www.science.org/content/article/newton-s-l...

The first photo published in a newspaper, in 1848 (2023)

https://phsne.org/the-first-photograph-published-i...

As U.S. Debt Hits a Worrying Milestone, Washington Barely Notices

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/business/us-deb...

Mealy Machines, Moore Machines, and Why Event Sourcing Works

https://kevinwebber.ca/blog/mealy-machines-and-eve...

AWS EC2 outage in use1-az4 (us-east-1)

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?t=2026...

Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web

https://github.com/bring-shrubbery/ml-sharp-web