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Show HN: NFC tags are good material for pranks on Android

https://mastodon.social/@maxwellito/11652425010043...

A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury

https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of...

Inventing Cyrillic

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matte...

My Claude Code Setup: Pure CLI, Pure Unix, Zero IDE

https://sindro.me/posts/2026-04-09-claude-code-pur...

Correction Has to Occur – NYU Finance Professor Warn

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/correction-occur-ny...

Google Tag Gateway – Ad-Block Killer?

https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/tag-man...

This Month in Ladybird – April 2026

https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/

QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/04/16/qui...

A complete Llama2 inference engine that fits in 1356 bytes of x86 assembly

https://github.com/rdmsr/sectorllm

SubQ: a sub-quadratic LLM with 12M-token context

https://subq.ai/introducing-subq

Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake

https://c3-lang.org/blog/unsigned-sizes-a-five-yea...

Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/05/psa-instagram...

Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/314311

Southwest Headquarters Tour

https://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/sout...

Richard Dawkins 'convinced' AI is conscious

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/06/richar...

Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/2015041...

Why is southern Italy poorer than northern Italy?

https://statsandsociety.substack.com/p/fully-expla...

Why Only Rich Kids Make It in Music Today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJrR1OdAIg

Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person

https://www.popularwoodworking.com/editors-blog/to...

The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox

https://www.mendral.com/blog/agent-harness-belongs...

Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design

A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games

https://easel.games/blog/2026-rollback-physics

Did I photograph the Aurora or was it something else? (2016)

https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/aurorawatchuk/2016/03/16/di...

The Deletion Test – The Phoenix Architecture

https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/3md5ftetaes2e

Show HN: New Benchmark from SWE-bench team is 0% solved

https://programbench.com/

Show HN: A Mutating Webhook to automatically strip PII from K8s logs

https://github.com/aragossa/pii-shield

Why is Cloudflare protecting the DDoS'er (beamed.st) attacking Ubuntu servers?

https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11651802262136...

Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit

https://knhash.in/built-an-exhibit/

Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-o...

Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/small-html-pages...