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Jonathan Swift's Last Joke

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/jonathan-swifts-last-joke
20•samizdis•2d ago

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thisisauserid•55m ago
Swift wrote his famous epitaph to eternally mock his bitter rival.

Thanks, Gemini.

nealabq•34m ago
I find myself wondering if this essay is meant as a gentle satire. Bemused not savage, not Swiftian.

I am reminded of Lord Peter Wimsey.

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/
252•Sean-Der•5h ago•94 comments

I am worried about Bun

https://wwj.dev/posts/i-am-worried-about-bun/
387•remote-dev•8h ago•260 comments

Talking to strangers at the gym

https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/
1112•thitran•13h ago•520 comments

Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability

https://www.strix.ai/blog/how-strix-found-zero-auth-vulnerability-dod-backed-startup
162•bearsyankees•7h ago•72 comments

Agent Skills

https://addyosmani.com/blog/agent-skills/
75•BOOSTERHIDROGEN•3h ago•19 comments

GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p8yled1do
635•n1b0m•15h ago•596 comments

Testing macOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/05/testing-macos-on-apple-network-server.html
49•zdw•1d ago•8 comments

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35117
198•littlexsparkee•9h ago•190 comments

Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight

https://stripe.dev/blog/formatting-an-entire-25-million-line-codebase-overnight-the-rubyfmt-story
109•r00k•4h ago•58 comments

Redis array: short story of a long development process

https://antirez.com/news/164
223•antirez•10h ago•78 comments

Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused

https://twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N/status/2051308329880719730
388•cft•6h ago•143 comments

Jonathan Swift's Last Joke

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/jonathan-swifts-last-joke
20•samizdis•2d ago•2 comments

1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'

https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/tesla-1966-mustang-ev-conversion-full-self-driving/
117•Brajeshwar•9h ago•87 comments

Transformers Are Inherently Succinct (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19315
28•bearseascape•4h ago•6 comments

UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations

https://www.fuelinsight.co.uk
157•theazureguy•9h ago•74 comments

Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database

https://pomiferous.com/
99•Ariarule•10h ago•43 comments

How Monero’s proof of work works

https://blog.alcazarsec.com/tech/posts/how-moneros-proof-of-work-works
228•alcazar•10h ago•177 comments

US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/us-healthcare-marketplaces-shared-citizenship-and-race-data-wit...
404•ZeidJ•7h ago•138 comments

Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation

https://sierra.ai/blog/better-customer-experiences-built-on-sierra
85•doppp•9h ago•110 comments

Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to

https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/04/29/stop-big-tech-from-making-users-behave-in-ways-the...
211•andsoitis•7h ago•145 comments

Let's talk about LLMs

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/apr/09/llms/
134•cdrnsf•7h ago•94 comments

Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application

https://github.com/lsferreira42/nfsdiag
40•lsferreira42•2d ago•3 comments

Heat pump sales rise across Europe

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/05/04/heat-pump-sales-rise-17-across-europe-in-q1-as-energy-pric...
203•doener•7h ago•120 comments

The Visible Zorker: Zork 3

https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork3/
46•zarlez•7h ago•2 comments

Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit

https://knhash.in/built-an-exhibit/
6•kn81198•2d ago•0 comments

'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis
81•dmm•3h ago•64 comments

Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026

https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2026
74•brightbeige•3h ago•24 comments

Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

https://www.science.org/content/article/newton-s-law-gravity-passes-its-biggest-test-ever
133•pseudolus•12h ago•122 comments

A little comparison between R and Kap

https://blog.dhsdevelopments.com/a-little-comparison-between-r-and-kap
21•tosh•2d ago•3 comments

Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)

https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers
126•jxmorris12•2d ago•42 comments