Flipper One – we need your help

572 sandebert 2026-05-21 11:42:56 UTC blog.flipper.net Llama Share 271

Flipper One is a massive open-source project that aims to create a truly open Linux hardware platform with full mainline Linux kernel support, expandable hardware, and a custom GUI framework. The project is seeking community help to overcome technical and financial challenges, and contributors can participate in various sub-projects, including hardware, software, and user interface development.

We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot

416 sofumel 2026-05-21 10:42:56 UTC blog.google Llama Share 342

Google is testing new ad formats with Gemini models to provide helpful answers and connect people with businesses. The formats include Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, AI-powered Shopping ads, and Business Agent for Leads, designed to make decision-making easier and more confident.

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

172 rbanffy 2026-05-21 11:42:56 UTC blog.changs.co.uk Llama Share 78

Python 3.15.0b1 introduces features like lazy imports, tachyon profiler, and improved asyncio with TaskGroup cancellation. New features also include ContextDecorator improvements, threading utilities, and enhancements to collections.Counter and json.load/json.loads.

Michael Keating has died

25 speckx 2026-05-21 14:42:56 UTC bigfinish.com Llama Share 11

Michael Keating, a renowned British actor, died at 79, best known for his role as Vila Restal in Blake's 7. He had a long and varied career in theatre and television, reprising his iconic role in Big Finish audio productions.

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

111 pseudolus 2026-05-21 11:42:56 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 27

On July 16, 1945, the world entered the nuclear age with the Trinity test, a massive explosion above a New Mexico desert. The test captured on film and witnessed by scientists and soldiers was an awe-inspiring, blindingly bright event.

Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence from Polymarket

45 vcf 2026-05-21 13:42:56 UTC papers.ssrn.com Full Share 33

FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation

41 WhyNotHugo 2026-05-21 12:42:56 UTC fatgid.io Llama Share 9

The kernel has a buffer overflow vulnerability in kern_setcred_copyin_supp_groups due to incorrect sizeof(*groups) calculation. This allows an attacker to corrupt the r12 register and indirectly control the td_proc pointer.

Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

30 asenna 2026-05-21 14:42:56 UTC blog.simbastack.com Llama Share 11

The author is a hacker who splits his year between the Maasai Mara and Silicon Valley, struggling to edit his massive video archive. He built a custom indexer using Claude Code and DaVinci Resolve to make his archive queryable in English.

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

1308 tedsanders 2026-05-20 19:42:56 UTC openai.com Llama Share 950

An AI system has autonomously resolved the planar unit distance problem, a longstanding open problem in combinatorial geometry. The proof uses algebraic number theory to create unit-length differences among points in the plane.

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

445 speckx 2026-05-21 13:42:56 UTC axelk.ee Llama Share 316

AI companies profit from learned results without compensating original authors. Lazy website authors copy tutorials from the internet and pass them off as their own, often ranking higher in Google search results.

Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch

187 ssiddharth 2026-05-21 14:42:56 UTC 0xsid.com Llama Share 102

Google's new Antigravity update unexpectedly replaced the user's preferred IDE with a conversational prompt box, breaking their workflow. The user had to completely purge their system and reinstall the legacy IDE to restore functionality, losing their chat history and settings in the process.

Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK

131 shideneyu 2026-05-21 09:42:56 UTC github.com/helvesec Llama Share 62

RMUX is a Rust multiplexer for the agentic era, offering detachable, scriptable, and inspectable sessions with a tmux-compatible CLI and native Ratatui integration. It's a fresh public preview with 90 tmux-compatible commands implemented, but bugs are expected.

Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring

0 2026-05-21 12:42:56 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Cekura is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work with technical customers, helping them use the platform to improve AI agents. The role involves embedding with customers, automating product insights, and driving product direction.

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

969 Timofeibu 2026-05-20 18:42:56 UTC bleepingcomputer.com Llama Share 416

GitHub was breached after an employee installed a malicious VS Code extension, exposing 3,800 internal repositories. The company removed the extension and secured the device, with no evidence of customer data being affected.

The Palomar Lights

18 tardismechanic 2026-05-21 13:42:56 UTC comics.phillyharper.com Llama Share 6

Beatriz Villarroel and her team discovered 100,000 short-lived transients in old Palomar plates, which they believe are reflective objects orbiting Earth. The transients are linked to nuclear tests and UFO sightings, with some researchers suggesting they could be evidence of extraterrestrial technology.

IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation

39 rbanffy 2026-05-21 10:42:56 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 1

Bill Harding envisioned a fully automated wafer-fabrication line in 1970 to produce integrated circuits in under a day. He led Project SWIFT, achieving a 5-hour turnaround time, a feat that has never been equaled despite advancements in technology.

Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

57 speckx 2026-05-21 14:42:56 UTC osnews.com Llama Share 28

Bitwarden users should consider migrating their passwords due to the company's new CEO and changes in values and pricing. Using an open format like KeePass can ensure password ownership and independence from proprietary services.

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

80 cdrnsf 2026-05-21 13:42:56 UTC wired.com Llama Share 10

US lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment to ban automated license plate readers for non-tolling purposes, affecting state and local programs nationwide. The amendment, sponsored by Reps Scott Perry and Jesús García, would restrict federal highway funding recipients from using ALPRs for anything other than tolling.

Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40 (2025)

35 ibobev 2026-05-21 13:42:56 UTC fabiensanglard.net Llama Share 32

The user participated in a Magic The Gathering event and built six decks to recapture the spirit of the late 90s. They share their favorite cards and deck combinations, including Erhangeddon, Beta Serra Angels, and Red/Black aggro decks.

Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking

36 bojta-lepenye 2026-05-21 14:42:56 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 1

Bojta Lepenye thanks Hashcat developers and shares his 4-year experience in password cracking, documenting it in his book available on Amazon.

Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS

5 pvtmert 2026-05-21 14:42:56 UTC jvns.ca Prefix Share 2

Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE filesystem for a git repository where all every commit is a folder? It turns out the answer is yes! There’s giblefs, GitMounter, and git9 for Plan 9. But FUSE is pretty annoying to use on Mac – you need to install a kernel extension, and Mac OS seems to be making it harder and harder to install kernel extensions for ...

What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?

60 baruchel 2026-05-21 10:42:56 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 21

Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems proved that no formal system of mathematics can be complete, leaving some true statements unprovable. This has implications for physics, where a discrete space-time may be necessary to avoid undecidability.

Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

361 kageroumado 2026-05-21 00:42:56 UTC github.com/kageroumado Llama Share 87

Phosphene is a macOS app that plays video files as desktop and lock-screen wallpaper. It uses Apple's private WallpaperExtensionKit framework for gapless looping and power-aware playback.

Flipper One Tech Specs

477 gregsadetsky 2026-05-20 18:42:56 UTC docs.flipper.net Llama Share 158

The Flipper One has 8 cores, 4 high-performance and 4 efficiency, up to 2.2 GHz. It has various interfaces including PCIe, USB, SATA, and more.

The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]

236 bambax 2026-05-21 00:42:56 UTC gwern.net GoogleT5 Share 41

A l t h e ruler-and-compass program can be used to draw arcs from points i and j. m c s y r o n d g p u k w f x v - q, 5, z / b'0 ; th ere is no need for

Haskell Foundation 2026 Update

156 azhenley 2026-05-21 02:42:56 UTC discourse.haskell.org Llama Share 54

José, the longest-serving executive director, is stepping down in June 2026, and the Board is restructuring the Haskell Foundation to focus on technical work and member engagement. The Foundation will have a new committee and a part-time role for financial sustainability, with a reduced Board composition.

No Slop Grenade

219 napolux 2026-05-21 09:42:56 UTC noslopgrenade.com Llama Share 130

Redis offers persistence, complex data operations, and native sharding, but is more complex. Memcached is simpler, faster for basic caching, but lacks persistence and flexibility.

DOS Zone

312 rglover 2026-05-20 23:42:56 UTC dos.zone Full Share 72

Игры на русском языке и сделаные в СССР и СНГ В этом разделе мы собрали лучшие игры сделанные в России и СНГ, а так же мировую классику переведенную на русский язык. Enjoy classic games completely free and without ads on dos.zone! Support us to keep these ad-free, timeless experiences open for everyone. Join the mission today!

Shunning AI is the human choice

280 cdrnsf 2026-05-21 13:42:56 UTC thehandbasket.co Llama Share 331

People are increasingly skeptical and even hostile towards AI, citing its flaws and misuse. A growing "anti-AI rebellion" is emerging, with many questioning the benefits and ethics of relying on AI.

All the bugs they found

73 ziggy42 2026-05-21 06:42:56 UTC andreapivetta.com Llama Share 27

The user wrote a small WASM runtime in Go called Epsilon, which was extensively tested but found to have several security vulnerabilities, including sandbox escapes and type-related issues. The user used a combination of scripts and AI models, including Gemini 3.1 Pro, to discover the bugs, which included a stack height misalignment bug and a host function signature mismatch bug.