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Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria

https://www.wired.com/story/mexican-science-transf...

Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

https://brennan.io/2026/05/09/pinball-and-escrow/

Steve Jobs U.S. Commemorative $1 Coin

https://www.usmint.gov/american-innovation-1-coin-...

The Adventure Family Tree (2024)

https://mipmip.org/advfamily/advfamily.html

When semiconductor materials misbehave

https://semiengineering.com/when-semiconductor-mat...

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

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/making-your-...

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

The One Dollar Counterfeiter

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

AI isn't paying off in the way companies think according to Gartner study

https://fortune.com/2026/05/11/ai-automation-layof...

Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

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

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

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

From Buffon's Needle to Buffon's Noodle

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

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

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

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

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

The Serial TTL connector we deserve

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

WinMerge 2.16.56 – A Windows tool for visual difference display and merging

https://github.com/WinMerge/winmerge/releases/tag/...

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

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

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

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

Forking the Web

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

GnuPG 2.5.20 Released

https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2...

Trump Backs Tobacco Firms in Vape Dispute, Prompting FDA Chief's Resignation

https://las-vegas-news.com/trump-backs-tobacco-fir...

Idempotency is easy until the second request is different

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

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

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

Nextpad++

https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/nextpad

Appearing productive in the workplace

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

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

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

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

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

Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?

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

Rotten Dot Com

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

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

https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky