frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

A Professor in Every Pocket – A New Framework for Higher Education

https://lagomor.ph/2026/01/a-professor-in-every-pocket/
1•ChilledTonic•5m ago•0 comments

Isaac Newton on Laputa

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/great-debates/isaac-newton-laputa
1•hhs•12m ago•0 comments

mimalloc: A new, high-performance, scalable memory allocator for the modern era

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/mimalloc-a-high-performance-scalable-memory-allocat...
1•matt_d•13m ago•0 comments

A scientist made a clone of a clone of a clone of a clone

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/scientists-reclone-mice+
1•mrtedbear•13m ago•0 comments

Learn Python the Hard Way Was Right About One Thing

https://fagnerbrack.com/learn-python-the-hard-way-was-right-about-one-thing-9b6ab0b67526
1•birdculture•19m ago•0 comments

AI to infest eight in ten premium phones within two years

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/05/14/ai-to-infest-eight-in-ten-premium-phones-wit...
1•Bender•20m ago•0 comments

Cisco to fire 4k staff and generously give them free training – on Cisco

https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/05/14/cisco-to-fire-4000-staff-and-generously-give-them...
2•Bender•21m ago•0 comments

To gain root access at this company, all an intruder had to do was ask nicely

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/14/to-gain-root-access-intruder-just-had-to-ask/5239853
1•Bender•22m ago•0 comments

Encountering the roots of mathematics

https://www.ias.edu/ideas/encountering-roots-mathematics
1•hhs•23m ago•0 comments

AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops

https://www.404media.co/ai-poop-analysis-app-offered-to-sell-me-access-to-its-users-poops/
2•Cider9986•26m ago•0 comments

ICLR 2026 – Institutional Affiliations Dataset and Analysis

https://github.com/DmytroLopushanskyy/iclr2026-affiliations
2•stared•26m ago•0 comments

Do deep learning models recognize 3D shapes in the same way humans do?

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/do-deep-learning-models-recognize-3d-shapes-in-the-same-...
1•hhs•28m ago•0 comments

Mirror Life's Doomsday Potential

https://www.noemamag.com/the-doomsday-organism/
1•littlexsparkee•29m ago•0 comments

The Cost of Free Doughnuts

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/08/794592539/episode-386-the-cost-of-free-doughnuts
1•compiler-guy•30m ago•0 comments

AI #168: Not Leading the Future

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-168-not-leading-the-future
2•paulpauper•30m ago•0 comments

Too Much Is Happening Too Fast

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/too-much-happening-too-fast/687177/
2•paulpauper•31m ago•0 comments

Sensational Books to Read This Summer

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/05/summer-reading-2026/686880/
1•paulpauper•32m ago•1 comments

'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2j1lxdk5o
11•cdrnsf•32m ago•1 comments

Fields of the World: A Global Field Boundary Ecosystem

https://fieldsofthe.world/
1•tokai•33m ago•0 comments

Everyone's a thought leader. Almost no one is thinking

https://bernste.in/writings/everyones-a-thought-leader-almost-no-one-is-thinking/
1•mbernstein•34m ago•0 comments

We Now Know How Many People the CDC Is Monitoring for Hantavirus

https://www.wired.com/story/how-many-people-cdc-is-monitoring-for-hantavirus/
2•ent101•34m ago•0 comments

Automated red teaming with RL: attacker-defender co-training

https://castform.com/blog/red-team-rl/
3•ClassifexRL•34m ago•1 comments

More than half of U.S. faces worst drought in decades

https://news.vt.edu/articles/2026/05/drought-united-states-la-nina-expert.html
6•littlexsparkee•38m ago•0 comments

Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts

https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/14/ontario-auditors-find-doctors-ai-note-takers-routine...
15•sohkamyung•39m ago•0 comments

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
3•gmcabrita•41m ago•0 comments

Roman Letters

https://romanletters.org/
4•diodorus•42m ago•0 comments

Indie dev says Steam's blocking their game for infringement of the dev's own IP

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/indie-dev-says-steams-blocking-their-game-for-ip-infring...
4•hn_acker•46m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Parse LLM Markdown streams incrementally on the server or client

https://github.com/nimeshnayaju/markdown-parser
2•nayajunimesh•46m ago•1 comments

Colossus: The Forbin Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
2•doener•46m ago•0 comments

A few words on DS4

https://antirez.com/news/165
33•caust1c•47m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Court bans Kars4Kids ads in California for violating false advertising law

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/kars4kids-california-false-advertising-22259298.php
16•01-_-•1h ago

Comments

Terr_•35m ago
'Bout damn time.

Spoilers for The Good Place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFQHHor6mT8

neksn•23m ago
> Kids in need aren’t even really the target of the organization’s financial efforts. Instead, those go to 17- and 18-year-olds seeking gap-year trips to Israel and their families.

This is priceless.

chmaynard•18m ago
The broadcast companies that have been selling air time to K4K for two decades should be held accountable for misleading advertising. Oh wait, the broadcasters own the US Congress and federal regulators. Never mind.
sciencesama•10m ago
every single time we are scammed out of money it is one country that benefits the most !