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The One Dollar Counterfeiter

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/05/emerich-juet...

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyh...

Nonlinearities in Vacuum Tubes, Bipolar and, Field-Effect Transistors(2024)

https://till.com/articles/devicedistortion/

From Buffon's Needle to Buffon's Noodle

https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/buffons-noodle/

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-...

A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan

https://www.freerange.city/p/can-we-code-our-way-o...

Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR9PpXWsKFQ

The Serial TTL connector we deserve

https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/05...

Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artific...

Diversity and functional profile of the "microbial proteome" in fermented foods

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/202...

Forking the Web

https://dillo-browser.org/lab/web-fork/

FCC walks back router update ban before it bricks America's network security

https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/05/12/fc...

Idempotency is easy until the second request is different

https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/

American Airlines flight from Miami lands in Chicago with two flat tires

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/american-airl...

Cloud Latency Map – Latency Changes by City

https://clm.kentik.com/

Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/can-someone-please-e...

Phel v0.36.0 – Lisp on PHP, now with numeric tower and first-class Vars

https://github.com/phel-lang/phel-lang/releases/ta...

Europe builds deep. Korea builds fast. General argues neither is enough alone

https://vulpesetleo.substack.com/p/lessons-from-uk...

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-retur...

Appearing productive in the workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-producti...

Rotten Dot Com

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/05/06/rot...

Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want

https://thebuild.com/blog/2026/05/12/snowflake-pos...

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky

Show HN: Doomscroll the Goverment's UFO Files as One Gigantic Microfilm

https://hypergrid.systems/war.gov-ufo-viewer/micro...

Another day, another universal Linux LPE

https://twitter.com/v12sec/status/2054491454064746...

First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed

https://www.arup.com/en-us/news/first-fehmarnbelt-...

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747...

Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989

https://github.com/wojtczyk/trust

RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me...