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Mind Reader?

https://www.science.org/content/article/indian-police-are-trying-read-minds-suspects-over-neuroscientists-objections
2•YeGoblynQueenne•1m ago•0 comments

Apple, Synchron develop tech that lets people control its devices with thoughts

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/apple-has-teamed-up-with-synchron-to-develop-tech-that-lets-people-control-its-devices-with-thoughts-154018858.html
1•gmays•1m ago•0 comments

The case for Mars terraforming research [pdf]

https://www.erikadebenedictis.com/s/The-case-for-Mars-terraforming-research.pdf
1•edwinkite•3m ago•1 comments

Rust Turns 10

https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/05/15/10-years-of-rust/
1•praseodym•3m ago•0 comments

First gene-edited spiders produce red fluorescent silk

https://www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/press-release/gene-editing-spiders
1•geox•4m ago•0 comments

Large Concept Models: A Paradigm Shift in AI Reasoning

https://www.infoq.com/articles/lcm-paradigm-shift-ai-reasoning/
1•kjhughes•6m ago•0 comments

FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as they end DEI programs

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/fcc-chair-brendan-carr-is-letting-isps-merge-as-long-as-they-end-dei-programs/
2•rntn•6m ago•0 comments

Debian Trixie is hard frozen

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/05/msg00004.html
1•p4bl0•7m ago•0 comments

Russia bans "undesirable" Amnesty International

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-bans-undesirable-amnesty-international/
2•mdp2021•8m ago•0 comments

Google Decided Against Offering Publishers Options in AI Search

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-19/google-gave-sites-little-choice-in-using-data-for-ai-search
1•mfiguiere•9m ago•0 comments

How Big Tech Mined Our Attention and Broke Our Politics

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/books/review/superbloom-nicholas-carr-the-sirens-call-chris-hayes.html
2•larodi•9m ago•2 comments

Nvidia's Dirty Manipulation of Reviews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiekGcwaIho
1•blacktulip•10m ago•0 comments

Microcontrollers with Gleam [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jd1lRQ4LZg
1•crowdhailer•11m ago•0 comments

Kilo: A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search

https://github.com/antirez/kilo
2•klaussilveira•13m ago•0 comments

Cooperative Source Software Licenses

https://bsky.app/profile/gordon.bsky.social/post/3lpjuqt7ezk2q
2•surprisetalk•13m ago•0 comments

Why everyone is suddenly so thirsty for designers

https://carly.substack.com/p/were-so-back-why-everyone-is-suddenly
1•carlyayres•14m ago•0 comments

Efootball

1•Grevy•15m ago•0 comments

Qualcomm to launch data center processors that link to Nvidia chips

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/19/qualcomm-to-launch-data-center-processors-that-link-to-nvidia-chips.html
1•srameshc•19m ago•0 comments

Markovian Parallax Denigrate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markovian_Parallax_Denigrate
1•CGMthrowaway•19m ago•0 comments

Sharded Is Not Distributed: What You Should Know When PostgreSQL Is Not Enough

https://blog.ydb.tech/sharded-is-not-distributed-what-you-should-know-when-postgresql-is-not-enough-f743ad06b5be
1•eivanov89•21m ago•0 comments

Revenue effects of Denuvo digital rights management on PC video games

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875952124002532
1•doener•21m ago•0 comments

Anyone building anything for disaster response (drones, software, alerts)?

https://entropysurvival.com/blogs/news-views/tornado-warning
2•lukavaughn•23m ago•0 comments

WireGuard-vanity-keygen: WireGuard vanity key generator

https://github.com/axllent/wireguard-vanity-keygen
1•simonpure•25m ago•0 comments

Linux on macOS

https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
1•behnamoh•26m ago•0 comments

Button-sized eggs and teapot cities: A peek into the big, WW of miniatures

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-s1-5389937/miniature-art-tiktok
2•rolph•26m ago•1 comments

Better Conversations Can Help Fight Misinformation and Build Media Literacy

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65502/how-better-conversations-can-help-fight-misinformation-and-build-media-literacy
1•rbanffy•27m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Any recommendations for help with (engineering) career presentation?

1•tfederman•27m ago•1 comments

A Free People Need a Free Press

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/ag-sulzberger-free-press.html
5•rbanffy•28m ago•1 comments

Claude Code GitHub Action

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/github-actions
2•alvis•30m ago•0 comments

Little Tasks, Little Trust

https://rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/little-tasks-little-trust
1•aard•31m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

DARPA zaps popcorn with laser power beamed 5.3 miles through air

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/19/darpa_energy_beaming_record/
9•rntn•3h ago

Comments

its_down_again•2h ago
This is fascinating. Could the same machine (PRAD) be adapted to zap mosquitoes in flight and help control disease vectors? Nothing’s worse than waking up to multiple mosquito bites and dreading falling asleep knowing there’ll be more.
Jtsummers•2h ago
https://spectrum.ieee.org/backyard-star-wars

I don't think you need PRAD for mosquitoes.

gowld•2h ago
As the article notes, this is Real Genius.
Communitivity•14m ago
Someone, somewhere in DARPA, watched Real Genius and said 'Hey, we can DO that!'.
pharos92•2m ago
Can they butter it mid-air too?