Bun ported to Rust in 6 days

63 qprofyeh 2026-05-09 18:49:55 UTC xunroll.com Llama Share 23

A 960,000 LOC rewrite of bun in Rust has achieved 99.8% test suite pass rate on Linux x64, reducing memory leak and crash worries. This massive rewrite, completed in 6 days, enables compiler-enforced lifetimes and destructors, improving maintainability and stability.

Internet Archive Switzerland

403 hggh 2026-05-09 12:25:55 UTC internetarchive.ch Llama Share 57

Internet Archive Switzerland is a non-profit foundation in St. Gallen, Switzerland, aiming for universal access to all knowledge. It preserves digital information and collaborates with partners to rescue vulnerable collections and build the Gen AI Archive.

CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers

44 ggallas 2026-05-09 17:25:55 UTC copahost.com Llama Share 26

cPanel released a second emergency security patch on May 8, 2026, covering three new vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-29201, CVE-2026-29202, and CVE-2026-29203. Two of the three vulnerabilities have a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating High severity.

I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs

57 susam 2026-05-09 17:25:55 UTC susam.net Llama Share 20

The author of Wander Console implemented a referral query string feature but later removed it after realizing it was a bad idea. Chris Morgan's blog post on banning query strings helped the author reconsider their decision.

Show HN: I wrote a flight simulator in my own programming language

46 pizza_man 2026-05-09 16:25:55 UTC github.com/navid-m Full Share 12

Simple flight simulator. Contribute to navid-m/flightsim development by creating an account on GitHub.

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

263 rbanffy 2026-05-09 09:25:55 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 100

Large Language Models (LLMs) degrade documents during long workflows, corrupting 25% of content on average. Current LLMs are unreliable delegates, introducing severe errors that silently corrupt documents over time.

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

1372 anonymousiam 2026-05-08 19:25:55 UTC reclaimthenet.org Llama Share 498

Google's new reCAPTCHA system requires Android users to run Google Play Services to prove they're human, excluding de-Googled phones. This move establishes a precedent for accessing basic web content, favoring Google's ecosystem control over user data consent.

PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

55 msephton 2026-05-09 15:25:55 UTC stonetools.ghost.io Llama Share 17

The user explores the RISC OS operating system and PipeDream productivity suite, highlighting their unique features and quirks, including the three-button mouse, drag-and-drop file management, and customizable keyboard shortcuts. Despite the system's elegance and ease of use, the user finds it disorienting and frustrating at times, particularly with the word processing and database functions, ...

Apple is increasing my cortisol levels

54 LorenDB 2026-05-09 15:25:55 UTC blog.kronis.dev Llama Share 21

The author is creating a Go utility to manage Claude Code profiles but is frustrated with Apple's developer program requirements, including a yearly subscription and ID verification process that doesn't work well with their MacBook's webcam.

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

368 pretext 2026-05-09 05:25:55 UTC twitter.com/trq212 Full Share 217

Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot. Some privacy related extensions may cause issues on x.com. Please disable them and try again.

Zed Editor Theme-Builder

35 cuechan 2026-05-09 18:25:55 UTC zed.dev Llama Share 19

Access Zed's theme builder from the desktop and browse available theme extensions. The MeetingScheduler component helps schedule meetings about scheduling meetings.

How LEDs are made (2014)

104 smig0 2026-05-09 11:25:55 UTC learn.sparkfun.com Llama Share 14

The author visited YunSun factory in China and learned about the LED manufacturing process, including die production, wire bonding, and epoxy molding. The factory uses a combination of manual and automated processes, with multiple suppliers involved in the tool-chain, making it difficult to create custom LEDs.

Mythical Man Month

306 ingve 2026-05-09 02:25:55 UTC martinfowler.com Llama Share 176

Fred Brooks managed IBM's System/360 in the 1960s and wrote influential book The Mythical Man-Month in 1975. The book emphasizes conceptual integrity in system design, simplicity, and straightforwardness to avoid communication issues and ensure effective work.

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

532 _alternator_ 2026-05-09 04:25:55 UTC gowers.wordpress.com Llama Share 391

A mathematician used ChatGPT 5.5 Pro to improve the upper bound on a problem in additive number theory from exponential to polynomial in time, with the AI producing a result that was almost certainly correct according to a human expert. The mathematician suggests that the era of human mathematicians solving problems independently may be coming to an end, and that the future of mathematics ...

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem

432 atgctg 2026-05-08 23:25:55 UTC moq.dev Llama Share 137

The user strongly advises against using WebRTC for voice AI due to its limitations and trade-offs, such as introducing artificial latency and aggressively dropping packets. The user suggests using QUIC instead, which offers better performance and scalability, and provides a detailed explanation of how QUIC can be used for load balancing and connection management.

America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy

136 rawgabbit 2026-05-09 07:25:55 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 80

Bob Shaw, CEO of Shaw Industries, clashed with 3M executives in 2000 over Scotchgard reformulation due to environmental concerns. Shaw's company and others continued using PFAS alternatives despite warnings and health risks.

The ROKR wooden typewriter: a closer look

4 speckx 2026-05-09 18:25:55 UTC writingball.blogspot.com Prefix Share 0

In April I posted about the wooden typewriter from Chinese model kit company ROKR. Easily believing Rokr's prominent warning that this is "NOT A TYPING TOOL," I took it to be a charming, though arguably somewhat kitschy, tribute to typewriters rather than an actual writing machine.It turns out that the warning on Rokr's ad is overly cautious. Their typewriter does type! ...

Introduction to Beaver Triples

11 badcryptobitch 2026-05-09 16:25:55 UTC stoffelmpc.com Llama Share 5

The group of friends wants to decide on a restaurant for dinner without revealing individual affordability and food preference scores, using secret sharing and Beaver triples to privately compute restaurant scores. Two members of the group open the final restaurant scores using Lagrange interpolation, revealing the results to the group and deciding on the restaurant with the highest score.

GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch

159 Georgelemental 2026-05-09 14:25:55 UTC cyberinsider.com Llama Share 48

GrapheneOS has released an update to fix a VPN bypass vulnerability that leaks a user's real IP address even with Android's VPN protections enabled. The update disables a QUIC connection feature and includes the May 2026 Android security patch level and other security improvements.

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

799 defrost 2026-05-08 19:25:55 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 154

Sir David Attenborough turns 100, receiving birthday messages from the royal couple and many celebrities. A special concert at the Royal Albert Hall celebrates his life and legacy.

Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU

38 zdw 2026-05-09 13:25:55 UTC jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com Llama Share 11

The TD4 is a 4-bit CPU built from 74-series TTL logic ICs, featuring 12 instructions and a 16-byte ROM. It's a simple, educational tool for understanding computer architecture, with a straightforward build process and no firmware or calibration required.

Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023)

57 tangus 2026-05-09 10:25:55 UTC kutilek.de Llama Share 5

The IBM Selectric Composer used a 9-unit grid for its type elements, but this caused issues with letter widths, particularly with the Univers typeface, which was adapted for the machine. A digitization of the Univers typeface was created by scaling scans of the original type elements and applying a rounded corners filter to maintain the typeface's friendly impression.

The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism

169 ColinWright 2026-05-09 14:25:55 UTC matduggan.com Llama Share 119

The user reflects on the early days of the internet and how the ideology of cyberlibertarianism, which emphasized individual freedom and deregulation, led to the creation of a platform that prioritizes profit over people and has devastating consequences. The user argues that it's time to face the facts that this ideology has failed and that we need to evolve and find a new ethical code to ...

Show HN: Mochi.js: bun-native high-fidelity browser automation library

15 ccheshirecat 2026-05-09 14:25:55 UTC mochijs.com Llama Share 11

mochi.js is a Bun-native browser automation framework that creates fingerprint-free sessions. It uses a single (profile, seed) pair to derive all fingerprint surfaces through a 48-rule DAG.

What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting

159 Tomte 2026-05-09 05:25:55 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 40

Joseph Dwyer studied cosmic events before researching lightning on Earth. He discovered that lightning initiation requires extreme events, not just electricity.

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

341 homebrewer 2026-05-08 22:25:55 UTC wiisfi.com GoogleT5 Share 90

A mid-range wi-fi 6 router supporting (1) 44 mimo [7], (2) all dfs channels, (3) 160 mhz (he160) wide channels is. if you are not right next to the router, your actual speed will be around 900 mbps 100 for 22 mimo and 650 for wi-fi 5 - edward s. lewis. says unless you

Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

70 signa11 2026-05-09 09:25:55 UTC lwn.net GoogleT5 Share 19

Af_alg_sendmsg() is the highest-level entry into the af_alg +sent path. engaging it with retval '-eperm' causes every send attempt to return -eperm to userspace; no caller ever sees +half-initialised state. +* inline functions, freed __init symbols, and anything compiled away cannot

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

401 speckx 2026-05-08 19:25:55 UTC jefftk.com Llama Share 160

A security vulnerability was discovered and shared publicly after an initial attempt at a closed disclosure, highlighting a tension between coordinated and immediate disclosure. AI-assisted vulnerability detection is making long embargoes obsolete and shortening the time to detection.

An Introduction to Meshtastic

491 ColinWright 2026-05-08 19:25:55 UTC meshtastic.org Llama Share 180

Meshtastic is a community-driven, open-source project using LoRa radios for long-range off-grid communication. It forms a mesh network allowing multiple users to receive messages, with each device supporting one user at a time.

Cartoon Network Flash Games

396 willmeyers 2026-05-08 19:25:55 UTC webdesignmuseum.org Llama Share 121

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