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What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-lightni...

Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616...

Court to DOGE: Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' Is Not Proper Legal Process

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/08/court-to-doge-...

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

https://blog.val.town/better-auth

The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-26...

Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools and Colleges Nationwide

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/canvas-breach-...

Bleeding Llama: Critical Unauthenticated Memory Leak in Ollama

https://www.cyera.com/research/bleeding-llama-crit...

CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers

https://www.dragonsreach.it/2026/05/04/cve-2026-31...

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI

How Monero’s proof of work works

https://blog.alcazarsec.com/tech/posts/how-moneros...

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

https://openrss.org/blog/youtube-your-feeds-are-br...

Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade

https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/05/06/mythos-c...

Farewell to a Giant of Botany

https://nautil.us/farewell-to-a-giant-of-botany-12...

Aids Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/health/pepfar-h...

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

http://halupedia.com/

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

https://www.robert-glaser.de/when-everyone-has-ai-...

Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts

First, the FBI Searched Her Home. Then, She Won a Pulitzer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/media/...

Easy Random Trees

https://blog.wilsonb.com/posts/2026-02-27-easy-ran...

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

https://draxinar.github.io/articles/2026-05-01-uod...

California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/usda-a...

The Iran war has changed the global energy system forever

https://grist.org/energy/iran-war-oil-gas-coal-sol...

Poka-Yoke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke

Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark...

Write some software, give it away for free

https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-awa...

Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database

https://pomiferous.com/

Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/texico/

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-vo...

Let’s Encrypt: Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident – Resolved

https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957...

CERN's KiCad component library now open source

https://home.cern/cerns-kicad-component-library-no...