Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

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Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests

Police officers across the US are misusing automated license plate reader systems to track romantic interests, with 14 cases identified since 2024. Most incidents came to light after victims reported the officers' behavior, highlighting concerns about privacy and security.
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whohas is a command line tool that queries package lists from various distributions. It displays package version information, URLs, and repository details for specified packages.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

Multiple individuals are seeking freelance, contract, or full-time work in various tech fields, including software engineering, DevOps, AI, and UX design, with experience in languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, and more. They are open to remote work and are located in different parts of the world, including the US, Europe, and India.

Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant

Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died

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Sally A. McKee, a renowned computer science professor, passed away on Feb 12 after a short illness. She was a beloved friend, mentor, and researcher who advanced cybersecurity and inspired many with her kindness and generosity.

Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres

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GitGres is a starting point for private reimplementations of GitHub optimizied for individual teams' agent needs. GitHub is a fantastic site for sharing code and it is likely how you're viewing this if you're a human. GitGres exists to solve for a few issues: Trading off cost for uptime. GitHub offers free code storage but less-than-stellar uptime. With GitGres, you have the ...

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

The HP C2089A PostScript Cartridge Plus is a 1991 add-on for LaserJet II/III that still renders PostScript correctly today. retro-ps emulates the cartridge on a modern system, lifting its original constraints to render high-DPI pages with any paper size.

Understand Anything

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Turn any codebase, knowledge base, or docs into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more. A huge thank you to the community! The support for Understand-Anything has been incredible. If this tool saves you a few minutes of digging through complexity, that's all I wanted. 🚀 You just ...

Your Website Is Not for You

Decision-makers often forget that a website is for the customer, not themselves. They should prioritize user needs over personal preferences.

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

The user discusses various US immigration topics including the new $100k H1B fee, N400 application delays, L1 visa changes, and green card application challenges. They also mention the difficulties of sponsoring H1-B workers for permanent status and the increasing RFE and denial rates for certain green card applications.

An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open

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The NHS is walking back its commitment to open-source code, which requires more work but ensures higher quality and security. We urge NHS England to reaffirm its commitment to the NHS Service Standard Principle 12.

Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk

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Loopsy is a control surface for your machine, accessed by your phone, routed through a self-hosted relay on Cloudflare Workers. It enables remote control of your machine, file transfer, and shared state, with features like auto-approve and custom commands.

New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome

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Researchers from Trinity College Dublin discovered a 1,300-year-old manuscript in Rome containing the first known poem in the English language, Caedmon's Hymn. The poem, praising God for creation, was composed by a cowherd from North Yorkshire after a divine visitation.

Advanced Quantization Algorithm for LLMs

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AutoRound is a quantization toolkit for LLMs and VLMs that achieves high accuracy at ultra-low bit widths with minimal tuning. It supports mixed-precision quantization and various formats, including AutoRound, AutoAWQ, and GGUF.

Engineering tough blood clots for rapid haemostasis and enhanced regeneration

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Blood clots are pivotal for haemostasis and regeneration1, but they are mechanically weak and form slowly2, posing risks for life-threatening haemorrhage and limiting broader applications3,4,5. These limitations are attributed to complex coagulation cascades, abundant mechanically ineffective cells and little structural polymers. Strategies that strengthen polymer networks are inapplicable to ...

Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows

Erwin built a free open-source utility to bridge Bluetooth LE MIDI keyboards to Windows MIDI Services. It detects the receive channel of the piano and allows any DAW or Web MIDI app to use it.

OpenWarp

OpenWarp 是基于 Warp 开源代码的社区分支,支持自定义 OpenAI 接口和多语言。它保留 Warp 体验,允许用户控制 AI 层和凭证。

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

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A supply chain attack compromised the PyPI package 'lightning' versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3, stealing credentials and attempting to poison GitHub repositories. The attack is linked to the 'mini Shai-Hulud' campaign and affects teams using lightning in their dependency tree.

Grok 4.3

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Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey

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The author is concerned that AI models like Claude Opus 4.7 can identify individuals from their writing style, even if they write anonymously. This could lead to a loss of anonymity for writers and potentially harm those who rely on it for protection.

Maladaptive Frugality

The writer realized they had maladaptive frugality, prioritizing saving over spending on essential expenses and experiences. They learned to reframe frugality as a tool, not a virtue, and focus on mindful spending to achieve a higher quality of life.

Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care?

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Softmax is a function that maps vectors into a probability distribution. It takes an unconstrained vector and projects it onto the probability simplex, where each entry is non-negative and sums to 1.

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

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WhatCable is a macOS menu bar app that identifies USB-C cables and their capabilities. It exposes cable information, charging diagnostics, and connected device identities via a friendly menu bar popover.

How an oil refinery works

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Oil refineries process crude oil into various products like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel using distillation, cracking, and other processes. The refining process is complex and requires large industrial facilities to handle the massive volume of crude oil consumed worldwide.

If I could make my own GitHub

The author wants to create a new forge that addresses issues with modern forges, such as enforcing pre-commit hooks, customizable PR approval, and smaller hosting units.

AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on

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Amazon’s cloud customers will need to wait several more months before the US tech company can repair war-damaged data centers and restore normal operations in the Middle East. The announcement comes two months after Iranian drone strikes targeted three Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain—meaning that full recovery from the cloud disruption could take nearly half a year ...

A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)

Dijkstra's comments on APL are ironic as Ken Iverson invented APL notation for communication, not computer implementation. APL can be used for formal manipulations and computations, as demonstrated by examples in the text.

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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