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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

item?id=48085993
279 points
1073 comments

Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop

https://vouchatlas.com
74 points
89 comments

Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/louis-ros...
624 points
331 comments

Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes

https://www.databricks.com/blog/how-lakebase-archi...
122 points
36 comments

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

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-...
1750 points
1140 comments

Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

https://brennan.io/2026/05/09/pinball-and-escrow/
352 points
131 comments

Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyh...
920 points
644 comments

A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/business/dealbo...
260 points
190 comments

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/making-your-...
137 points
80 comments

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
479 points
201 comments

Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria

https://www.wired.com/story/mexican-science-transf...
174 points
87 comments

The One Dollar Counterfeiter

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/05/emerich-juet...
363 points
145 comments

The Adventure Family Tree (2024)

https://mipmip.org/advfamily/advfamily.html
55 points
9 comments

The Walled Garden of the Surveilled Web

https://kirill.korins.ky/articles/the-walled-garde...
8 points
0 comments

Electricity generation from solar could exceed coal in ERCOT for the first time

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67...
9 points
2 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR9PpXWsKFQ
152 points
49 comments

Forking the Web

https://dillo-browser.org/lab/web-fork/
145 points
144 comments

The Serial TTL connector we deserve

https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/05...
106 points
79 comments

Two Thousand Line educational operating system released by Cornell University

https://github.com/yhzhang0128/egos-2000
12 points
5 comments

Appearing productive in the workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-producti...
1629 points
649 comments

When semiconductor materials misbehave

https://semiengineering.com/when-semiconductor-mat...
21 points
4 comments

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

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artific...
318 points
200 comments

RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me...
296 points
79 comments

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

https://github.com/wojtczyk/trust
174 points
87 comments

Idempotency is easy until the second request is different

https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/
334 points
218 comments

eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12...
233 points
238 comments

From Buffon's Needle to Buffon's Noodle

https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/buffons-noodle/
37 points
13 comments

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747...
526 points
274 comments

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-retur...
852 points
638 comments

Steve Jobs U.S. Commemorative $1 Coin

https://www.usmint.gov/american-innovation-1-coin-...
10 points
2 comments