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FreeBSD – A Lesson in Poor Defaults

https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults

8•jruohonen•2h ago

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bell-cot•2h ago

A regular item over the past decade; the 91 comments from 2022 would be the most current -

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mrsk.me

jruohonen•42m ago

> A regular item over the past decade

Oh, I didn't know, but now I wonder why HN's duplicate detector didn't work? From the looks of it, also most of the past postings were 1:1 duplicates.

lifthrasiir•37m ago

HN allows exact duplicates once months (I think) have passed since the last posting, so that a new thread can be established as needed.

Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

https://brennan.io/2026/05/09/pinball-and-escrow/

35•jandeboevrie•51m ago•4 comments

Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different

https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/

105•ludovicianul•3d ago•54 comments

Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/2053047748191232310

600•heldrida•1d ago•579 comments

The One Dollar Counterfeiter

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/05/emerich-juettner-one-dollar.html

176•cainxinth•2d ago•53 comments

Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

https://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/premium/en-s100x-jc1-u/

169•dr_kiszonka•3d ago•71 comments

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers?utm_source=x8pZ4B3P3Q

1•ukd1•13m ago

Task Paralysis and AI

https://g5t.de/articles/20260510-task-paralysis-and-ai/index.html

39•MrGilbert•5h ago•30 comments

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky

307•imtomt•9h ago•146 comments

We see something that works, and then we understand it

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/04/we-see-something-that-works-and-then-we-understand-it/

122•surprisetalk•3d ago•39 comments

Gemini API File Search is now multimodal

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanded-gemini-api-file-search...

113•gmays•8h ago•18 comments

Internet Archive Switzerland

https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzerland-expanding-a-global-mission-to-pr...

630•hggh•1d ago•104 comments

Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary

https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/replacing-a-3-gb-sqlite-database-with-a-7-mb-fst-finite-state-t...

31•hiAndrewQuinn•1h ago•1 comments

I’ve banned query strings

https://chrismorgan.info/no-query-strings

443•susam•19h ago•236 comments

Debian must ship reproducible packages

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html

199•robalni•6h ago•72 comments

Local privilege escalation via execve()

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec.asc

167•Deeg9rie9usi•15h ago•80 comments

Zed Editor Theme-Builder

https://zed.dev/theme-builder

237•cuechan•18h ago•71 comments

Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-my-cortisol-levels

322•LorenDB•21h ago•219 comments

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/

644•_alternator_•1d ago•471 comments

Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms

https://github.com/nooga/let-go

188•marcingas•18h ago•54 comments

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

427•rbanffy•1d ago•168 comments

From Buffon's Needle to Buffon's Noodle

https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/buffons-noodle/

8•_alternator_•2d ago•2 comments

I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left

http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html

5•andrewstuart•1d ago•1 comments

I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/visual-basic-history-chapter-1-launch

119•speckx•3d ago•42 comments

LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05419

24•okey•3h ago•11 comments

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/making-your-own-programming-language.html

111•ibobev•2d ago•57 comments

Show HN: Rust but Lisp

https://github.com/ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp

142•thatxliner•14h ago•68 comments

Think Linear Algebra

https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html

4•tamnd•2h ago•0 comments

The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism

https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/

351•ColinWright•22h ago•309 comments

The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962

https://www.righto.com/2024/02/the-first-microcomputer-transfluxor.html

63•rsecora•3d ago•3 comments

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935

474•pretext•1d ago•262 comments