Magnifica Humanitas

654 theletterf 2026-05-25 10:57:44 UTC vatican.va Llama Share 257

The Church calls for a shared discernment process to navigate the challenges of emerging technologies and build a more just world. Christians must choose between constructing a Tower of Babel or rebuilding Jerusalem, prioritizing human dignity and communion over profit and self-sufficiency.

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers

62 xngbuilds 2026-05-25 14:57:44 UTC lemon.rip Llama Share 14

C code often relies on non-standard behaviors and language extensions to work around bugs and gaps in different compilers and libraries. Many codebases attempt to support various environments through preprocessor checks and guards, but these attempts are often finicky or broken.

Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage

19 garygao 2026-05-25 15:57:44 UTC trychert.com Llama Share 57

Twilio's Chert delivers peer-to-peer iMessage threads with blue bubbles, read receipts, and tapbacks, offering higher open and reply rates than A2P SMS. It exposes a REST API and webhooks for integration with CRMs, sales tools, and data stores.

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

133 jruohonen 2026-05-25 13:57:44 UTC krebsonsecurity.com Llama Share 21

Dutch authorities arrested two men, Andrey Nesterenko and Youssef Zinad, for violating sanctions law by aiding Russia's cyberattacks. They were arrested for their roles in operating MIRhosting and WorkTitans, which provided infrastructure for pro-Russian cyberattacks.

IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry

82 rbanffy 2026-05-25 09:57:44 UTC futurumgroup.com Llama Share 24

IBM's Anderon foundry receives $1 billion in CHIPS incentives to establish a 300mm quantum wafer fabrication facility. The funding structure creates a two-tier quantum ecosystem, favoring superconducting silicon architectures over competing modalities.

Leave Me Behind

236 mooreds 2026-05-25 12:57:44 UTC androidessence.com Llama Share 170

The author learned Android development in 2014 and spent a decade honing his skills, creating apps with real-world benefits. He cherishes the human connections made during his journey, not just the outcomes.

Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)

85 cdrnsf 2026-05-25 13:57:44 UTC tmj4.com Llama Share 59

Microsoft has abandoned plans for a data center in Caledonia, Wis, after community pushback from residents. The company remains interested in investing in Southeast Wisconsin and will work with local leaders to find a new site.

Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)

247 kelseyfrog 2026-05-25 02:57:44 UTC pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Llama Share 116

Didgeridoo playing reduced daytime sleepiness and apnoea-hypopnoea index in patients with moderate obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. It also improved sleep quality for partners.

Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

77 rickcarlino 2026-05-25 07:57:44 UTC rickcarlino.com Llama Share 20

Gnutella is a decentralized file-sharing protocol that scaled to millions of users in the early 2000s, but its popularity declined as the internet and user behavior changed. Despite being largely forgotten, Gnutella remains operational today, thanks to its robust design and ability to adapt to new technologies and challenges.

Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web

452 pantelisk 2026-05-24 20:57:44 UTC audiomass.co Llama Share 102

AudioMass is a free, open source web-based audio editor running in the browser with no plugins required. It supports various audio operations and effects, with key shortcuts using Shift + key combos.

Hive (YC S14) is hiring sr back-end developers (CA/US remote OK)

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He Lost It at the Movies

6 tintinnabula 2026-05-25 14:57:44 UTC theideasletter.org Prefix Share 0

The film critic A.S. Hamrah came to widespread attention in the late 2000s with a new form, a knockabout variant of the capsule reviews familiar to readers of Cahiers du cinéma and Halliwell’s Film Guide. As he explains in “Remember Me on this Computer,” the introduction to his first collection The Earth Dies Streaming, he was asked by Keith Gessen, an editor at the Brooklyn-based magazine ...

2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update

60 mooreds 2026-05-25 13:57:44 UTC medcurity.com Llama Share 47

The 2026 HIPAA Security Rule is finalized and requires annual security risk assessments, universal encryption of ePHI, multi-factor authentication, regular vulnerability scanning, and detailed compliance documentation. Healthcare organizations must prepare now to meet the new requirements, which will be enforced starting in late 2026 or early 2027, and will require significant changes to ...

The physicists who convinced Fermilab to send Brazil's emails

27 maguay 2026-05-25 10:57:44 UTC buttondown.com Llama Share 11

Brazil's introduction to Western networks was hampered by local telecoms and government control, but a few copper wires laid across the Gulf of Mexico in 1991 broke the impasse. Demi Getschko and his team successfully brought the Internet to Brazil, despite being slower than others, by sticking with Fermilab and persevering through setbacks.

I manage teams without a single call

21 theorchid 2026-05-25 12:57:44 UTC orchidfiles.com Llama Share 16

The author dislikes short calls that disrupt their workflow and can be unnecessary. They prefer text-based communication for its clarity and efficiency.

DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost

639 Alifatisk 2026-05-24 16:57:44 UTC esengine.github.io Llama Share 262

Reasonix is a terminal-based AI coding agent for DeepSeek, engineered for prefix-cache stability. It's a free, MIT-licensed project with a paid DeepSeek API key.

Show HN: Geomatic – a command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff

52 nivter 2026-05-25 08:57:44 UTC tinyvolt.com Full Share 13

Geometric editor with slash command autocomplete

Migrating from Go to Rust

389 jabits 2026-05-24 18:57:44 UTC corrode.dev Llama Share 385

Go developers considering Rust are often motivated by correctness guarantees, runtime tradeoffs, and developer ergonomics, rather than performance. Rust's type system and borrow checker provide stronger guarantees and more explicit control over runtime behavior, but can be more verbose and require a different mindset.

AI errno(2) values

76 zdw 2026-05-25 08:57:44 UTC netmeister.org Llama Share 14

This C header file defines custom error codes for AI-related issues. The codes cover various problems such as hallucination, system compromise, and excessive marketing.

Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)

93 azhenley 2026-05-25 06:57:44 UTC dubroy.com Llama Share 31

Bytecode VMs are used in various places including SQLite, Linux kernel's eBPF, DWARF debug information, WinRAR file format, and TrueType font specification. These VMs are used for executing SQL statements, network packet filtering, debugging, data transformation, and rendering, among other tasks, often providing a flexible and efficient way to execute complex operations.

Ubers COO says its getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing

11 _____k 2026-05-25 16:45:44 UTC businessinsider.com Llama Share 1

Uber's operations chief Andrew Macdonald said AI costs are hard to justify due to lack of direct link to useful consumer features. He noted that AI usage can seem free but companies ultimately foot the bill.

The Cost of Safetyism

38 obscurette 2026-05-25 14:57:44 UTC stevemagness.substack.com Llama Share 25

We're overprotecting our kids due to a culture of safetyism, which prevents them from developing essential life skills like autonomy, resilience, and emotional regulation. By giving kids more freedom and allowing them to navigate discomfort, we can help them build confidence and self-determination.

White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems

156 michaelsbradley 2026-05-24 23:57:44 UTC ohwr.org Llama Share 35

White Rabbit provides sub-nanosecond accuracy and picoseconds precision for large distributed systems with deterministic data delivery. CERN is recruiting FPGA and hardware designers to work on White Rabbit switch v4 and other projects.

Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages

41 ankitg12 2026-05-25 06:57:44 UTC utcc.utoronto.ca Llama Share 1

The user is blocked due to an old browser version or suspicious user agent. They can contact the author to resolve the issue or use a different browser like archive.org.

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

615 dougdude3339 2026-05-24 16:57:44 UTC dougmacdowell.com Llama Share 98

I used to live on a quiet hill with a great view of the city, but now I live downtown and work with databases. I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph by hand, learning to control line weight and style, and now I appreciate the process and art of hand-drawn data visualization.

A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned

209 littlexsparkee 2026-05-24 20:57:44 UTC wired.com Llama Share 107

Researchers at Tohoku University discovered a new method to reduce aerodynamic drag by up to 43.6 percent using distributed micro-roughness. This technology, called DMR, delays the transition from laminar to turbulent flow, reducing frictional drag.

Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU

145 luu 2026-05-24 23:57:44 UTC phabricator.services.mozilla.com Full Share 47

Jira Is Turing-Complete

262 vinhnx 2026-05-25 03:57:44 UTC seriot.ch Llama Share 115

Jira's automation language is Turing-complete due to a Minsky register machine reduction. It uses two counters and finite instructions to simulate any computation.

Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

456 elorant 2026-05-25 12:57:44 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 427

Google is overhauling its Search to use AI, but users are skeptical and some are looking for alternatives. Alternative search engines like Kagi, DuckDuckGo, and Startpage offer ad-free or AI-free options.

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

497 DamnInteresting 2026-05-24 16:57:44 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 183

Microsoft released source code for the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS 1.00 kernel, along with utilities like CHKDSK. The code was transcribed from paper printouts by the DOS Disassembly Group, a team of historians and preservationists.