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The Worm in the Registry

https://medium.com/@vektormemory/the-worm-in-the-registry-83008d5daee0
2•vektormemory•1h ago

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•12m 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•21m ago•0 comments

Encountering the roots of mathematics

https://www.ias.edu/ideas/encountering-roots-mathematics
1•hhs•22m 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•25m 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•28m 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•29m 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•31m 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
5•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/
3•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•45m ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/nimeshnayaju/markdown-parser
2•nayajunimesh•45m 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
31•caust1c•47m ago•2 comments