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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creat...
1195•haunter•13h ago•377 comments

Permacomputing Principles

https://permacomputing.net/principles/
58•andsoitis•2h ago•4 comments

Appearing productive in the workplace

https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
853•diebillionaires•12h ago•321 comments

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/
482•e12e•13h ago•525 comments

SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html
86•whatisabcdefgh•6h ago•20 comments

Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE

https://aniket.foo/posts/20260505-netboot/
12•stereo-highway•1h ago•0 comments

The Vatican's Website in Latin

https://www.vatican.va/latin/latin_index.html
82•ks2048•3h ago•53 comments

Finding the differences in a series of power supplies

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/05/05/testing-psu-series
31•LabsLucas•1d ago•2 comments

Pen pal programs endure in a digital age

https://apnews.com/article/pen-pals-letters-comeback-bc87e1b9c229665bafd368e19751d6ca
24•petethomas•1d ago•2 comments

The Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-mathematical-dance-inside-plant-cells-20260504/
7•isaacfrond•1d ago•0 comments

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

https://blog.val.town/better-auth
230•stevekrouse•11h ago•154 comments

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-t...
250•unforgivenpasta•10h ago•231 comments

Programming Still Sucks

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
208•jeromechoo•9h ago•60 comments

What I Learned Making an App for My Family

https://mendelgreenberg.com/posts/ourcar/
14•chabad360•15h ago•1 comments

How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260504-00/?p=112296
45•ingve•1d ago•38 comments

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

http://halupedia.com/
182•bstrama•12h ago•166 comments

Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC

https://leetusman.com/nosebook/yvi
36•zeech•1d ago•17 comments

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

https://tilde.run/
135•ozkatz•12h ago•102 comments

Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model

https://sander.ai/2026/05/06/flow-maps.html
120•benanne•10h ago•19 comments

Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader

https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader
65•dmos62•1d ago•20 comments

A Theory of Deep Learning

https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/
151•elonlit•1d ago•31 comments

What British people mean when they say 'sorry'

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260506-what-british-people-really-mean-when-they-say-sorry
35•BiraIgnacio•5h ago•21 comments

Perturb-MARS: Reading mouse experiments through a human lens

https://www.noetik.blog/p/perturb-mars-reading-mouse-experiments
10•crescit_eundo•2d ago•0 comments

Ted Turner has died

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/06/us/ted-turner-death
250•pseudolus•13h ago•201 comments

Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

https://play.templatical.com
116•oahmadov•12h ago•29 comments

Inkscape 1.4.4

https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html
249•s1291•9h ago•72 comments

SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags

https://yibo-fu.com/SoundOff-Low-cost-Passive-Ultrasound-Tags-for-Non-invasive-and-Non
50•jonbaer•11h ago•1 comments

Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts
45•asmodios•8h ago•9 comments

The bottleneck was never the code

https://www.thetypicalset.com/blog/thoughts-on-coding-agents
534•Anon84•2d ago•348 comments

RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/rss-feeds-send-me-more-traffic-than-google/
11•SpyCoder77•4h ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

What I Learned Making an App for My Family

https://mendelgreenberg.com/posts/ourcar/
13•chabad360•15h ago

Comments

DreaminDani•4h ago
Great writeup and also a great example of where LLMs can step in to help fill the gaps in areas where you don't have as much skill or interest. For instance, your wife used ChatGPT to come up with a name and you used AI to generate the admin flows that you weren't interested in building.

Sounds like Flutter was a good technology choice too, given its flexibility across platforms. As a designer, I know how frustrating it can be that the Google and Apple interface guidelines aren't too prescriptive but patterns vary so much across domains, that it's better to do what you did and evaluate what others do to solve similar problems. Great work!