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Hallucinations Undermine Trust; Metacognition Is a Way Forward

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01428

Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/2...

What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting

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

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...

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

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

Pedestrian Killed by Frontier Airlines Plane Leaving Denver Airport

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026...

The mechanical latching memory of an adhesive tape

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

Death of a Software Developer

https://isthisanart.substack.com/p/death-of-a-soft...

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

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

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

Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools and Colleges Nationwide

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

Your Computer Doesn't Belong to You Anymore

https://aquisthoughts.substack.com/p/your-computer...

How Monero’s proof of work works

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

Intel's comeback story is even wilder than it seems

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/intels-comeback-...

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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

Bleeding Llama: Critical Unauthenticated Memory Leak in Ollama

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

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...

Mark Zuckerberg Told 8k Employees Their Layoffs Are a Line Item in AI Bill

https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/05/08/mark-zu...

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

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

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

http://halupedia.com/

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

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

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

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

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

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

Easy Random Trees

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

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

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

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/

Write some software, give it away for free

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