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Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach
604•stefanpie•10h ago•373 comments

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/
489•psxuaw•9h ago•253 comments

Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cut-over-1100-jobs-2026-05-07/
686•PriorityLeft•12h ago•437 comments

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8
626•flipped•13h ago•257 comments

Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

199•CliffStoll•1d ago•26 comments

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/
639•speckx•18h ago•313 comments

ClojureScript Gets Async/Await

https://clojurescript.org/news/2026-05-07-release
28•Borkdude•1h ago•4 comments

Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered

https://storica.club/blog/pinocchio-in-italian/
134•cemsakarya•1d ago•60 comments

A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings

https://ivanpleshkov.dev/blog/polynomial-autoencoder/
33•timvisee•2d ago•7 comments

Agents need control flow, not more prompts

https://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/
461•bsuh•16h ago•222 comments

Inventing Cyrillic

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/inventing-cyrillic
27•lermontov•2d ago•27 comments

Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE

https://github.com/graemeg/blaise
41•peter_d_sherman•4h ago•12 comments

GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094

https://github.com/robertdfrench/ifuncd-up
77•foltik•8h ago•31 comments

Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

https://www.anthropic.com/research/natural-language-autoencoders
270•instagraham•15h ago•89 comments

Digging into Drama at the Document Foundation

https://lwn.net/Articles/1066418/
26•signa11•5h ago•1 comments

DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal

https://github.com/antirez/ds4
381•tamnd•17h ago•102 comments

AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/
289•berlianta•17h ago•123 comments

Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus

https://www.bcm.edu/news/researchers-discover-advanced-language-processing-in-the-unconscious-hum...
104•hhs•9h ago•39 comments

Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard

https://www.elciudadano.com/en/brazils-pix-payment-system-faces-pressure-from-visa-and-mastercard...
189•wslh•15h ago•161 comments

Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/06/singapore-caning-school-bullies
171•rustoo•2d ago•225 comments

Dithering with CSS

https://ikesau.co/blog/dithering-with-css/
3•speckx•3d ago•0 comments

Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gambling-ads-on-social-media-reach-more-than-twice-as-many-me...
65•hhs•9h ago•53 comments

AI slop is killing online communities

https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/
635•thm•14h ago•558 comments

Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/
181•HieronymusBosch•16h ago•87 comments

Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/from-ghost-particle-to-cosmic-messenger
31•LAsteNERD•1d ago•3 comments

HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker

https://hantawatch.net/
11•Accher•3h ago•5 comments

How to make SSE token streams resumable, cancellable, and multi-device

https://zknill.io/posts/everyone-said-sse-token-streaming-was-easy/
25•zknill•1d ago•2 comments

Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect

https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/research-and-discoveries-articles/nonprofit-hospitals-...
145•hhs•10h ago•42 comments

Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/home-affairs-officials-suspended-ai-hallucinations/
87•jruohonen•13h ago•19 comments

GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs

https://openrouter.ai/announcements/gpt55-cost-analysis
35•gmays•7h ago•2 comments