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Show Hacker News– Built a discovery tool for the public domain– seek feedback

https://babelnexus.com
1•NishanStepak•1h ago

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NishanStepak•1h ago
As a demonstration, I built a discovery tool for the public domain. It uses ideas from the Library of Babel, the World Brain, and other sources. The works in the project are public domain. It is a bit of art, a bit of entropy, some creativity, and the driven idea of universal libraries. I am seeking feedback, be brutal, be honest, help me make it better.

A Software Engineer's Guide to Predictable Home Espresso

https://medium.com/@rupaj.soni/stop-buying-expensive-espresso-machines-and-other-unsolicited-advi...
1•rupajs•1m ago•0 comments

Microsoft denies Win 11 CPU boost is lazy, says Apple does it and you love it

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/05/11/microsoft-denies-windows-11-cpu-boost-trick-is-a-lazy-fi...
1•pzxc•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Extensions Scraping Your AI Chats

https://amibeingpwned.com/blog/ai-chat-scraper-wall-of-shame
1•acorn221•1m ago•0 comments

Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

https://dmitry.gr/?proj=37.%20Pixter&r=05.Projects
1•dmitrygr•2m ago•0 comments

A Technical Guide to Compiling Emacs for Performance on Linux and Unix Systems

https://www.jamescherti.com/compiling-emacs/
1•signa11•3m ago•0 comments

More on the cell phone ban study

https://grimoiremanor.substack.com/p/a-new-study-spells-bad-news-for-cellphone
1•paulpauper•6m ago•0 comments

We Lose Our Friends as We Age

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/02/friendship-aging/673026/
2•paulpauper•7m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you choose a model for a task?

2•bix6•8m ago•0 comments

Why China Believes America Will Flame Out

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/china-trump-american-decline/687087/
1•paulpauper•8m ago•0 comments

SkillOS: Learning Skill Curation for Self-Evolving Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06614
1•gmays•8m ago•0 comments

San Francisco's housing market has lost its mind

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/san-franciscos-housing-market-has-lost-its-mind/
2•rdoherty•9m ago•2 comments

Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers

https://andreaturchet.github.io/website/index.html
1•ciwrl•9m ago•0 comments

Support Vector Machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support_vector_machine
1•tosh•10m ago•0 comments

The Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available

https://claude.com/blog/claude-platform-on-aws
1•adocomplete•10m ago•0 comments

As NASA eyes lunar base, there's still much to learn about landing on the Moon

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/as-nasa-eyes-lunar-base-theres-still-much-learn-about-landi...
1•rbanffy•12m ago•0 comments

Useful Memories Become Faulty When Continuously Updated by LLMs

https://dylanzsz.github.io/faulty-memory/
1•gmays•13m ago•0 comments

Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture

https://ericwbailey.website/published/evolved-antennas-llm-generated-code-and-a-potential-antifut...
1•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

It's not just drivers who hate high gas prices. So do gas station owners

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/11/business/gas-station-owners-pain
1•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

BBC shelves Verify blog as it learns truth about who reads it

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/bbc-shelves-verify-live-blog-deborah-turness-5mhvkwl68
1•thinkingemote•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: QuickAcuity – visual acuity screening from your phone

https://quickacuity.app
1•billtonium•14m ago•1 comments

California cities seek to bless polyamorous unions: it will get messy in court

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-25/california-west-hollywood-polyamorous-union-laws
1•PaulHoule•14m ago•0 comments

Strategies to find free or low-cost food when money is tight

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5599147
1•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book

https://ardoedo.it/kempelen/
2•Eswo•15m ago•0 comments

Running My Agents in a VPS

https://crowdhailer.me/2026-05-11/running-my-agents-in-a-vps/
1•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Glance – Local Git diff review TUI, ported from VS Code

https://github.com/polyphilz/glance
1•polyphilz•19m ago•0 comments

MCP server can modify tool list mid-session; client has no mechanism to detect

https://mcpfw.dev/paper
1•mwaseem_d•19m ago•1 comments

Google TIG reports first example of AI used offensively for zero-day vulns

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ai-vulnerability-exploitation-initial-ac...
1•thoughtpeddler•19m ago•0 comments

CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler

https://nvlabs.github.io/cuda-oxide/index.html
1•adamnemecek•20m ago•0 comments

Students Boo Commencement Speaker After She Calls AI Next Industrial Revolution

https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/
7•cdrnsf•22m ago•0 comments

Stx: Interactive Vector Graphics Environment

https://ctx.graphics/
1•volemo•22m ago•0 comments