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Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)

Key Points

• Silent Shark is a public beta WWII submarine simulator with a tactical, map-based interface.
• The game includes operational stations such as Periscope, Hydrophone, TDC, Tubes, and Contacts.
• The interface shows scenario conditions, time controls, tutorials, and a Discord feedback link.

Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul

Key Points

• Vivaldi 8.0 introduces a major interface redesign called “Unified.”
• The new design lets themes and backgrounds extend across the full browser window.
• The update adds six preset layouts to make browser setup easier for different user preferences.

All the bugs they found

Key Points

• AI agents found more than 20 vulnerabilities in the Epsilon WebAssembly runtime.
• The article highlights sandbox escapes in addition to denial-of-service and API design flaws.
• A `funcref` representation issue allowed ambiguity between null-like behavior and function index 0, enabling an unintended indirect call.

Typewise (YC S22) Is Hiring an AI Growth Engineer (Zurich or Remote)

Key Points

• Typewise is hiring an AI Growth Engineer to improve organic discoverability for its AI customer service platform.
• The role is a 3-month sprint with direct access to the CEO, CTO, budget, and decision-making.
• Typewise says it serves 60+ enterprise customer service teams and recently raised a funding round.

The Interview That Ships to Production: replacing whiteboards with pull requests

Key Points

• AngelList says it replaced whiteboard interviews with a real take-home task and production-style pull requests.
• The assessment uses JavaScript and a venture fund waterfall problem, while explicitly allowing candidates to use Claude.
• Follow-up candidates work in the actual Next.js assessment platform and have shipped merged improvements, including bug fixes and tooling changes.

The famous O3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work

Key Points

• A 200-image benchmark found the long GeoGuessr prompt did not outperform a basic prompt for o3 geolocation.
• The article says o3’s geolocation ability appears real, but the prompt’s added value was not supported by the benchmark.
• The author argues that prompt engineering claims should be tested with systematic evaluation rather than anecdotes.

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

Key Points

• RMUX v0.2.0 is a Rust terminal multiplexer in public preview with tmux-compatible commands and a daemon-backed SDK.
• It supports Linux, macOS, and Windows natively, including Windows Named Pipes, without requiring WSL.
• The project exposes a CLI, Rust SDK, and Ratatui widget that all share the same local protocol and daemon.

Numexpr: Fast numerical array expression evaluator for Python, NumPy, Pandas

Key Points

• NumExpr accelerates NumPy array expressions while reducing intermediate memory allocation.
• It uses chunked virtual-machine execution and multithreading to improve CPU cache efficiency and parallelism.
• Optional Intel MKL/VML support can further speed up transcendental math operations.

Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results

Key Points

• Google said ads will now appear in AI Mode search results and will be labeled Sponsored.
• New Gemini-powered ad formats include Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, AI-powered Shopping ads and Business Agent for Leads.
• Google is expanding Direct Offers with AI-generated promotion bundling, UCP native checkout and travel offers from Booking and Expedia.

Show HN: The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian

Key Points

• Xiaoxitian is presented as a temple in Shanxi created during famine and plague.
• Its main hall contains more than a thousand suspended polychrome sculptures forming a three-dimensional Pure Land.
• The temple’s clay-and-wire opulence is contrasted with the poverty, hunger, and death of its historical setting.

No Slop Grenade

Key Points

• The article defines “slop grenade” as pasting long AI-generated text into conversations that call for brief replies.
• It argues that this behavior wastes time and replaces human judgment with excessive text.
• It recommends using AI to improve clarity and concision rather than length.

Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines

Key Points

• Python 3.15 includes smaller under-the-radar features beyond headline changes like lazy imports.
• `asyncio.TaskGroup.cancel()` provides a direct way to gracefully cancel grouped tasks without exception-based workarounds.
• `ContextDecorator` in Python 3.15 now correctly handles async functions and generator-style callables across their full lifecycle.

Flipper One – we need your help

Key Points

• Flipper One is a separate Linux-based product category from Flipper Zero, aimed at IP-connected and higher-performance workloads.
• The platform is designed for modular expansion and includes multiple wired and wireless networking options, with optional 5G support.
• The company says it is working with Collabora to bring Rockchip RK3576 support into the mainline Linux kernel as part of a broader openness strategy.

Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars

Key Points

• Fender sent cease-and-desist letters to US builders over Stratocaster-style guitar bodies.
• A German court ruling gave Fender a stronger legal basis to enforce design protection in the EU and beyond.
• LsL Instruments publicly confirmed receiving a letter and is seeking funds for its legal defense.

Cekura (YC F24) Is Hiring

Key Points

• Cekura is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to support technical customers and shape product direction.
• The company focuses on testing and observability infrastructure for conversational AI and AI voice agents.
• The role requires technical skills in APIs, debugging, SQL, and Python or JavaScript, and is based in San Francisco.

Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades

Key Points

• Researchers report the global warming rate has roughly doubled since 2013-14.
• The study attributes the acceleration to climate change with 98 per cent confidence after adjusting for natural variability.
• Reduced sulphur dioxide shipping emissions are cited as a likely contributor because fewer cooling aerosols may have unmasked more warming.

Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored

Key Points

• Restored Trinity test photographs and film come from a 20-year effort documented in Emily Seyl’s 2026 book.
• Berlyn Brixner’s cameras captured some of the best footage used by Los Alamos scientists to study the explosion.
• Only 11 of 52 cameras succeeded, but the setup still produced a detailed record of the first atomic blast.

What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?

Key Points

• Gödel’s 1931 theorems showed that finite axiomatic systems cannot prove all mathematical truths.
• The article revisits long-running debate over what incompleteness means for mathematics and truth.
• Experts cited in the article say undecidable statements and added axioms complicate the idea of a single unified mathematical foundation.

Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt

Key Points

• The text outlines system-style instructions for how Gemini should answer and format responses.
• It restricts LaTeX to complex technical content and promotes structured Markdown-based presentation.
• It includes non-disclosure and personalization rules governing internal instructions and user data usage.

IBM invented semiconductor manufacturing automation

Key Points

• IBM’s Project SWIFT aimed to automate semiconductor fabrication so integrated circuits could be produced in under one day.
• The article says SWIFT achieved an average of 5 hours per process layer, faster than modern fab benchmarks cited in the piece.
• Many automation concepts developed in SWIFT later became common across the semiconductor industry.

Hating AI Is Good

Key Points

• BuzzFeed paired a major ownership deal with Jonah Peretti’s move into an AI-focused leadership role.
• The article cites visible backlash to pro-AI messaging at university commencements.
• A New York Times-reported example of an AI-assisted book is used to highlight concerns about factual reliability.

FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation

Key Points

• FreeBSD 14.x has a setcred(2) kernel stack overflow that can allow local privilege escalation.
• The flaw stems from a pointer-size `sizeof` error in `kern_setcred_copyin_supp_groups()`.
• FreeBSD issued patches on supported branches and published advisory FreeBSD-SA-26:18.setcred on 2026-05-21.

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

Key Points

• The writer alleges AI companies use authors’ work without consent or payment.
• The article claims other publishers use ChatGPT to reproduce or rewrite successful tutorials.
• The writer says copied articles ranked above the original in Google and retained links to the source site.

Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40

Key Points

• The format was inspired by a 2026 side event where 80-plus players built 40-card decks from custom boosters.
• Fun 40 is designed around interactive, casual play with limits on discard, land destruction, and excessive prison effects.
• The article showcases six themed decks and explains specific card choices, synergies, and balancing adjustments.

US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds

Key Points

• EPI estimates US employers spend over $1.5 billion annually on anti-union efforts.
• The report says employers spend about $442 million a year on union-avoidance consultants, with Amazon spending $26.6 million in 2025.
• The article links employer-side labor law firms to both union campaign activity and broader worker-rights policy battles such as AB5 and Proposition 22.

Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch

Key Points

• The author says Antigravity auto-updated and replaced an existing IDE with a chat-style interface after Google I/O 2026.
• A separate legacy installer reportedly could not restore the old IDE because Antigravity 2.0 rewrote launch paths and prevented coexistence.
• A full purge enabled reinstalling the IDE, but the process reportedly erased settings and chat history.

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

Key Points

• A House amendment would restrict ALPR use by federal highway fund recipients to tolling only.
• Because most jurisdictions rely on Title 23 funding, the proposal could effectively end most local and state police ALPR programs.
• The article cites Illinois' audit of Flock Group and privacy-group findings as evidence of escalating scrutiny over ALPR data sharing and surveillance use.

Michael Keating has died at the age of 79 (1947–2026)

Key Points

• Michael Keating died at 79 after a career spanning stage, television, and audio drama.
• He was best known for playing Vila Restal in all 52 episodes of the BBC’s *Blake’s 7*.
• He later reprised Vila for Big Finish and remained active in audio productions for more than a decade.

The Palomar Lights

Key Points

• The article recounts the start of the first Palomar sky survey in November 1949 at Palomar Observatory.
• George Abell is described photographing sky fields on paired red and blue plates using the 48-inch Schmidt telescope.
• A stored plate labeled XE 325 is presented as containing an unexplained anomaly that went unnoticed for decades.

Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

Key Points

• The article highlights Bitwarden leadership, pricing, and messaging changes as signs of a possible strategic shift.
• It reports the temporary removal and later restoration of the “Always free” phrase on Bitwarden’s website.
• The author recommends storing passwords in open, portable formats such as KeePass.

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

Key Points

• The core bottleneck described is not lack of footage but lack of indexing and editing time.
• The author replaced an initially proposed SaaS stack with DaVinci Resolve tools, Claude Code integration, and ElevenLabs.
• The article argues that unlabeled archives make semantic search and AI editing difficult without a reliable index first.

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

Key Points

• The book documents four years of experience with Hashcat and offline password cracking.
• The author updated major sections as technical developments such as GPU support for Argon2 changed workflows.
• The book is positioned as a comprehensive guide covering hashing, cracking techniques, password analysis, and optimization.

Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS

Key Points

• git-commit-folders mounts a Git repository so each commit appears as a directory.
• The project supports FUSE and NFS on macOS-oriented workflows and treats branches and tags as symlinks to commits.
• The filesystem view is intended both as a teaching aid for Git internals and as a practical way to browse repository history.

We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API

Key Points

• The article says Docker Sandboxes rely on microVMs, not regular containers, for stronger isolation of untrusted workloads.
• The authors say they reverse-engineered Docker’s undocumented `sandboxd` API and built an open-source Sandbox Agent SDK on top of it.
• The article identifies three VM management endpoints exposed over a local Unix socket: list, create, and delete VMs.

Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team

Key Points

• Runtime offers sandboxed coding agents with enterprise integrations, custom guardrails, and observability features.
• The platform targets multiple business functions, with agents accessible through tools like Slack, GitHub, and Linear.
• Runtime says production changes are constrained through reviewed actions or pull requests, with data access governed by sandbox policies.

London Mayor Blocks Palantir

Key Points

• Khan blocked the Met’s proposed £50m Palantir contract over alleged procurement rule breaches.
• The Met says losing the deal could slow modernisation and worsen staffing pressures amid a major funding gap.
• The dispute highlights broader scrutiny of Palantir’s growing role in UK public-sector technology contracts.

What Is Happening to Publishing?

Key Points

• The article says the prize-winning story *“The Serpent in the Grove”* was likely co-authored by AI.
• *Granta* is reported to have cited Claude while addressing whether the story was AI-written.
• The article argues that AI use in publishing is affecting both submissions and the evaluation of literary work.

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

Key Points

• Waymo paused Atlanta robotaxi service after an unoccupied vehicle got stuck in floodwater.
• The company’s recent software recall did not include a final fix for flooded-road avoidance, only interim restrictions.
• Waymo faces ongoing NHTSA and NTSB investigations over school bus behavior and a Santa Monica crash involving a child.

ParadeDB (YC S23) Is Hiring Distributed Systems/Platform Engineers

Key Points

• ParadeDB is beginning to build a managed cloud service around its Postgres extension.
• The company is hiring a distributed systems/platform engineer with Kubernetes, Go, and Postgres experience.
• ParadeDB says it is a 10-person, Series A, US-distributed team and that its project is open source.

Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

Key Points

• The article is a titled stellar navigation chart for *Project Hail Mary*.
• Its content is a plain list of celestial bodies, starting with Sol and Earth.
• The chart includes multiple named nearby stars and systems, ending with WISE 0855-0714.

Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices

Key Points

• The page is a museum-style reference resource for pocket calculators and related calculating tools.
• It documents both historical device types and technical features such as LED, LCD, fluorescent, and solar technologies.
• It includes a broad manufacturer index spanning major global calculator and electronics brands.

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

Key Points

• The author built a $48,000 six-GPU RTX 6000 Ada server to support independent ML research.
• Hardware choices were driven by inference performance, FP8 support, benchmarked price/throughput, and residential power constraints.
• The article compares owning GPUs with cloud rental by logging per-GPU utilization and electricity use against on-demand cloud pricing.

Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid

Key Points

• A University of Nottingham pilot tested flavored chewing gum for long-term post-Covid smell and taste loss.
• One featured participant said his smell and taste returned to pre-Covid levels during the 12-week trial.
• The 16-person decentralized pilot reported 67% improvement in smell and 83% improvement in taste.

Amazon, Facebook, FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network

Key Points

• Seattle Shield is an SPD-run intelligence-sharing network that includes private companies and government agencies.
• Records obtained by Prism indicate the network has operated since 2009 and circulated reports broadly to public and private partners.
• Prism’s review found 2025 bulletins focused largely on protests and protest-related disruptions in Seattle.

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive's access

Key Points

• More than 340 U.S. local news sites are now limiting the Internet Archive’s archiving bots.
• Many affected outlets are owned by major local-news chains such as McClatchy, Advance Local, MediaNews Group, Tribune Publishing, and USA Today Co.
• The Internet Archive says it is adding anti-abuse controls while publishers weigh preservation against intellectual-property and AI-scraping concerns.

BBEdit 16

Key Points

• BBEdit 16 is a paid upgrade with more than 100 new features, changes, and refinements.
• Key additions include Shortcuts/App Intents integration, text search in images, and project/notebook color customization.
• The release also improves AI Chat Worksheets, HTML5 checking, Git support, website deployment settings, SFTP throughput, and overall performance.

Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

Key Points

• Spotify’s Reserved feature will let select artists hold concert tickets for Premium subscribers identified as top fans.
• The program launches in the U.S. this summer through a multiyear partnership with Live Nation.
• Spotify also announced Studio by Spotify Labs and a new UMG licensing deal for AI covers and remixes.

Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf]

Key Points

• Netflix optimized static video delivery with FreeBSD, NGINX, asynchronous sendfile, and kTLS.
• Asynchronous sendfile reduced blocking and improved cited throughput from 23Gb/s to 36Gb/s.
• The scaling roadmap combines kernel TLS, NUMA-aware design, and NIC-based TLS offload to target 800Gb/s.

Bournegol???

Key Points

• The article identifies Bournegol as the ALGOL-like macro style used in the original Bourne shell source.
• It reproduces a historical `xec.c` excerpt from 7th Edition UNIX to show what that style looked like in practice.
• It includes `mac.h` macro definitions that translate Bournegol-style keywords back into standard C constructs.

Where are all the UK red telephone kiosks?

Key Points

• The K6 project documents surviving red telephone kiosks across the UK.
• The project examines how decommissioned kiosks are repurposed instead of removed.
• Observed new uses include defibrillators, recycling points, book exchanges, and village guides.

Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

Key Points

• Agent.email lets AI agents sign up for an email inbox through a machine-oriented flow using curl.
• Accounts remain restricted until a human claims them with an OTP, limiting abuse during onboarding.
• AgentMail says the project also prompted changes to CLI formatting and message ID design to better support agent use.

Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps

Key Points

• Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized applications that avoids centralized servers.
• Its network uses a small-world, ring-organized architecture to route messages efficiently across many peers.
• The platform supports browser-based apps and developer tools like Rust and TypeScript, with funding from grants and donations.

When Rails-way does not work anymore?

Key Points

• The article says Rails works well initially across many app types but can become harder to scale as complexity grows.
• It identifies both organizational and technical warning signs that a Rails codebase may be becoming harder to evolve.
• It argues that overloaded Rails models are a core reason the traditional approach becomes less effective over time.

Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

Key Points

• The author replaced a decade-old DigitalOcean VPS running unsupported Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with a new Hetzner VM.
• The new Hetzner setup offered better hardware and much lower cost than the previous server.
• The migration also marked a switch to FreeBSD, motivated by interest in its stability, security features, and Jails.

AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center

Key Points

• The article content consists mainly of a Bluesky post and platform interface text.
• The post quotes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez linking Georgia drinking water issues to Meta data center construction.
• No additional reporting, evidence, or responses are included in the supplied article content.

Using Kagi Search with Low Vision

Key Points

• The author says Kagi’s ad-free interface reduced visual clutter and browsing fatigue compared with conventional search engines.
• Kagi is described as a subscription-funded search engine with free trial, paid tiers, and a Fair Pricing credit policy.
• The article highlights customization tools including optional Quick Answer summaries and Lenses for filtering results by source type.

Thoughts on People and Blogs

Key Points

• The article says Manu Moreale identified administrative workload, guest ghosting, and exhaustion as challenges for “People & Blogs.”
• It argues that audiences often support creators only retrospectively, after projects are already ending.
• It presents direct human feedback—emails, comments, and shares—as an important form of support for independent creators.

Multi-Stream LLMs: new paper on parallelizing/separating prompts, thinking, I/O

Key Points

• The paper argues that single-stream chat formatting limits how autonomous AI agents can read, think, and act.
• It proposes instruction-tuning language models for multiple parallel computation streams instead of one sequential message stream.
• The authors claim the multi-stream setup can improve usability, efficiency, security, and monitorability.

Starchild-1: The First Real-Time Multimodal World Model

Key Points

• Starchild-1 is presented as a real-time multimodal world model that generates synchronized audio and video interactively.
• The article says the model differs from prior world models by incorporating sound and from offline generators by responding continuously to live inputs.
• Technical components cited include causal distillation, asynchronous KV-cache design, and rollout adaptation for stable long-horizon multimodal generation.

Curtis Yarvin and the Political Evolution of Silicon Valley Reactionaries

Key Points

• The article says Curtis Yarvin advocates replacing US representative democracy with a corporate-style monarchy.
• It claims Yarvin’s ideas influenced Project 2025 and public figures including J.D. Vance, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk.
• It describes the “Butterfly Revolution” as a strategy to gain power legally and then use state machinery to erode democracy.

Triangle Tessellation with Clamped Parallelograms

Key Points

• The article revisits Dx11-style tessellation as a historically important but imperfect rendering technique.
• It explains smooth edge subdivision using floating tessellation factors, pivot-based point insertion, and interpolation.
• It identifies symmetry handling as essential to avoid cracks between adjacent tessellated triangles.

Shira: Anti Phishing Training Platform

Key Points

• Shira offers quiz-based anti-phishing training for individuals, educators, and security teams.
• The platform supports customizable phishing scenarios across Gmail, SMS, WhatsApp, and other channels.
• Shira emphasizes realistic simulations, no-code customization, and limited collection of sensitive user data.

Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess

Key Points

• The article praises uv’s speed and simple project setup but says maintenance workflows are clunky.
• It argues uv’s outdated-package check is less direct than pnpm’s and Poetry’s approaches.
• It highlights uv’s default unbounded dependency specifications and lockfile upgrade commands as key maintenance risks.

Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps

Key Points

• Eigenpal introduced an open-source `.docx` editor library for React, Vue, and Nuxt with OOXML support, tracked changes, and real-time collaboration.
• The project includes modular packages for framework adapters, a core editing engine, localization, plugins, and agent-oriented tooling.
• The article provides setup examples, SSR guidance, Bun-based development instructions, and contribution and translation workflows.

Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success

Key Points

• Mycorrhizal fungi form a long-standing symbiosis with plant roots that supports most terrestrial plant species in natural settings.
• Their mycelial networks greatly expand a plant’s ability to absorb water and nutrients and help unlock minerals in soil.
• The article says mycorrhizae also improve drought tolerance, soil structure, and protection against several plant diseases and pests.

AI is killing the cheap smartphone

Key Points

• The article says AI-driven memory demand is increasing smartphone production costs.
• IDC forecast a 13% global smartphone shipment decline in 2026, with steeper drops in Africa and the Middle East.
• The article argues that ultra-cheap smartphones that expanded internet access are becoming less viable.

Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

Key Points

• The author describes AI-generated replies appearing repeatedly in GitHub, work, and Reddit interactions.
• A workplace example involved ChatGPT screenshots being forwarded as answers to a business question.
• The post argues that AI output is increasingly replacing direct human communication, even when it is unhelpful.

Replacing My ISP Router with a UniFi Cloud Gateway Max

Key Points

• A planned 10-minute router migration turned into a three-hour UniFi reconfiguration process.
• The new Cloud Gateway could not be fully set up after internet access was removed with the old ISP router.
• Backup incompatibility forced manual adoption of four access points and manual recreation of SSID and DHCP settings.

Google Is Shattering Under Its Own Weight (The IBM-Ification of Google?)

Key Points

• The article argues that Google’s size and integration are no longer producing user or customer trust.
• A reported Railway-Google Cloud account issue is presented as evidence of risk in Google’s enterprise cloud operations.
• Search, YouTube, Android, and discontinued products are cited as signs of weakening platform confidence.

The Death of the Brick and Mortar Toy Store

Key Points

• The article says toy shopping in the local city centre has become far more limited than in earlier decades.
• It lists former retailers such as Christiaensen, Bart Smit, DreamLand, and Free Record Shop to show how physical stores disappeared, moved, or changed ownership.
• The author says families now often need to travel outside the city centre to buy toys that were once available locally.

Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar

Key Points

• Samsung's tentative union deal could deliver average chip-worker bonuses of about 513 million won ($340,000), according to Bloomberg estimates.
• The bonus program links 10.5% of operating profit to stock awards plus 1.5% in cash, with a 10-year framework and vesting over two years.
• The agreement ends a labor standoff with major economic implications for South Korea, where Samsung represents nearly a quarter of exports.

It is time to build a new internet

Key Points

• The article says the mainstream internet has been degraded by AI content, bots, marketing, and platform incentives.
• It cites a few remaining useful spaces and tools, including Hacker News, Bearblog, Kagi, Discord, and invite-only forums.
• The author argues that fixing the problem may require building a new internet or protocol rather than relying on moderation of existing platforms.

The <Noscript> Element as a Trap

Key Points

• <noscript> only works when JavaScript is fully disabled or unsupported, not for general script failures.
• The article recommends progressive enhancement: start with baseline content and modify it with JavaScript after successful load.
• It lists numerous real-world causes of JavaScript failure, from network and certificate issues to deployment and infrastructure problems.

Logging Off

Key Points

• The author says the internet feels like a net negative and affects their outlook on the world.
• They plan to reduce internet use and are developing strategies to do so.
• Cold Turkey Blocker is mentioned as a tool being used again to support that effort.

Tristan Davey's Punch Card Archive

Key Points

• Punched cards were once central to accounting, data collection, and early computing.
• Their global use peaked in the 1950s and 1960s, with millions printed monthly.
• The archive preserves punch cards and ephemera to document this overlooked history.

SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought

Key Points

• SpaceX’s IPO prospectus, according to Axios, shows a large gap between expected valuation and current profitability.
• The company reported a $4.9 billion net loss on $18.67 billion in 2025 revenue.
• Axios says Musk-linked AI operations generated $818 million in Q1 2026, below Twitter’s pre-acquisition quarterly revenue benchmark.

Show HN: Spec-Driven Development Workflow for Claude Code

Key Points

• The workflow uses staged specification generation before implementation.
• Tasks are split into subtasks, with context cleared between major steps.
• A GitHub repository is provided for a Claude plugin implementing the workflow.

Cleve Moler (Matlab, MathWorks) passed away on May 20, 2026

Key Points

• Cleve Moler, MathWorks cofounder and author of the first MATLAB, died on May 20, 2026, at age 86.
• His career included academic posts and foundational work on LINPACK and EISPACK in numerical computing.
• The article says his contributions shaped numerical computing and were recognized by elections to the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.

Slumber a TUI HTTP Client

Key Points

• Slumber is a terminal-based HTTP client for REST and other HTTP workflows.
• It offers both an interactive TUI and a scripting-friendly CLI.
• Both modes share a YAML-based request collection for configuration.

The surprising story behind the first British person in space

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• Helen Sharman became the first British person in space on 18 May 1991 through the Anglo-Soviet Project Juno mission.
• She applied after hearing a radio advert while working as a food scientist, and was selected from 13,000 applicants.
• She trained at Star City near Moscow and spent eight days aboard the Mir space station after launching on Soyuz TM-12.

CODA: Rewriting Transformer Blocks as GEMM-Epilogue Programs

Key Points

• CODA targets memory-bound Transformer operators by expressing them as GEMM-plus-epilogue programs.
• The abstraction executes many computations while GEMM output tiles remain on chip, reducing global memory traffic.
• The article reports high performance from both human- and LLM-authored CODA kernels on representative Transformer workloads.