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Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust

https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0
385•gidellav•11h ago•158 comments

Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/15/mozilla-to-uk-regulators-vpns-are-essential-privacy...
165•WithinReason•3h ago•43 comments

Colossus: The Forbin Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
98•doener•2d ago•23 comments

A nicer voltmeter clock

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock
174•surprisetalk•10h ago•24 comments

Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/
125•zdw•8h ago•11 comments

Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2026-05-15-ym-fast-emu/
28•z303•1h ago•2 comments

C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For

https://lucisqr.substack.com/p/c26-shipped-a-simd-library-nobody
128•signa11•2d ago•73 comments

OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/
187•bookofjoe•13h ago•205 comments

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/15/moving-away-from-tailwind--and-learning-to-structure-my-css-/
537•mpweiher•1d ago•315 comments

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/
338•mjgil•21h ago•135 comments

Citroën metropolis concept car (2010)

https://www.citroenet.org.uk/prototypes/metropolis/metropolis1.html
30•Alifatisk•2d ago•16 comments

Illusions of understanding in the sciences

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-026-00271-1
42•sebg•2d ago•15 comments

MCP Hello Page

https://www.hybridlogic.co.uk/blog/2026/05/mcp-hello-page
95•Dachande663•11h ago•31 comments

Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/twilight-of-the-velocipede/
12•benbreen•12h ago•0 comments

We've made the world too complicated

https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/
291•James72689•1d ago•273 comments

Why did Clovis toolmakers choose difficult quartz crystal?

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-clovis-toolmakers-difficult-quartz-crystal.html
26•PaulHoule•2d ago•13 comments

Accelerando (2005)

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html
288•eamag•21h ago•165 comments

Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-unknowable-math-can-help-hide-secrets-20260511/
51•Xcelerate•3d ago•11 comments

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

https://kabir.au/blog/the-ctf-scene-is-dead
377•frays•1d ago•382 comments

Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19897
61•teleforce•8h ago•16 comments

δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12357
213•44za12•1d ago•57 comments

Halt and Catch Fire

https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire
139•ScottWRobinson•15h ago•73 comments

A molecule with half-Möbius topology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea3321
92•bryanrasmussen•4d ago•7 comments

The Third Hard Problem

https://mmapped.blog/posts/48-the-third-hard-problem
74•surprisetalk•2d ago•44 comments

3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend

https://bfeldman.me/3dgs-weekend/
92•b__feldman•3d ago•10 comments

Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol

https://tangled.org/rocksky.app/rocksky
77•tsiry•16h ago•33 comments

Content-defined chunking added to Bazel

https://www.buildbuddy.io/blog/content-defined-chunking/
51•siggi•3d ago•5 comments

Greek Alphabet Cards

https://labs.randomquark.com/alphabet_cards/
126•ricochet11•21h ago•57 comments

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578
1960•reasonableklout•1d ago•1146 comments

Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

https://www.blocksandfiles.com/flash/2026/05/14/kioxia-and-dell-cram-10-pb-into-slim-2ru-server/5...
125•rbanffy•16h ago•90 comments
Open in hackernews

XS Programming Language

15•xs-lang•2d ago
Made my language called XS. It's a general-purpose language, currently at v1.2.15 as of this writing. Would like feedback and how I can improve it! Website it at https://xslang.org. There is a playground to try XS out in, and fully complete docs as well. Enjoy!

Comments

dnnddidiej•2d ago
Very cool. Since you have memoize ... does that mean all values are immutable?

Like the built in decorators. I think language design based on what people want to achieve rather than creating the most generic zoo of primitives is underexplored. So this is good.

tacostakohashi•1d ago
Language design based on what people want to achieve: that's basically what php, perl, python, visual basic... many others are/were.

It works pretty well!

Then... what people want to achieve changes, maybe they want to write a web app instead of desktop, and then you're screwed. Perl was excellent when everything was text... but when things started being XML or JSON or whatever, less so.

It's a fair point though, languages built around practicality have their place.

Panzerschrek•1d ago
Does it have destructors? Is is memory-safe?
sheept•44m ago
Just a quick search through the docs, it's garbage collected and has no means of directly manipulating memory, so it seems to be memory safe
banner521520•1d ago
Does your playground support astrocarto-style coordinate mapping? Would be cool for location-based data.
arendtio•33m ago
So how does it compare to

- JS

- Go

- Java

- Python

I think adding a page about that in the docs could help evaluate the language.

nexthash•24m ago
Of all languages to implement the XS toolchain in... why did you choose C?

Afaic this is DOA, there is no excuse in implementing the core toolchain of a new language in a memory-unsafe manner in 2026.

ShinTakuya•6m ago
Plenty of valid reasons to pick C, memory safety isn't a reason to trade off all other possible benefits. One big reason is portability, you can't compile Rust for example for certain targets.
spacedcowboy•18m ago
S'funny - I just used Claude to help me make a more-modern language[1] for the Atari 8-bit than the assembly/Action!/C that I've been using up until now

1: http://atari-xt.com/ (I really ought to get on that SSL cert, I guess)

eps•15m ago
Well, great.

How does it compare to others?

Is it C with bells and whistles?

Is it C++ with blubber removed?

How is it different from D?

From Go?

...

Trying to fish out from a multi-page reference what makes your language unique and what gripes with other languages it solves is tedious, very few people would do it. It's on you to explain it.

mapcars•10m ago
Are there any new features/improvements compared to established languages? For me its interesting to see how new languages explore new ideas, which don't exist in the mainstream yet.