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Sam Sianis, Chicago's most famous saloonkeeper, has died

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/15/sam-sianis-billy-goat-chicago-dies/
3•NaOH•1d ago

I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation

https://github.com/tech4bot/rk3562deb
77•tech4bot•3h ago•36 comments

I don't think AI will make your processes go faster

https://frederickvanbrabant.com/blog/2026-05-15-i-dont-think-ai-will-make-your-processes-go-faster/
275•TheEdonian•4h ago•218 comments

Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit

https://www.techspot.com/news/112410-security-researcher-microsoft-secretly-built-backdoor-bitloc...
267•nolok•3h ago•124 comments

Native all the way, until you need text

https://justsitandgrin.im/posts/native-all-the-way-until-you-need-text/
251•dive•4h ago•167 comments

Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise

https://www.thestateofbrand.com/news/ai-subscription-time-bomb
231•mooreds•4h ago•188 comments

Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon

https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/prolog-basics-pokemon/
127•birdculture•2d ago•17 comments

Scientists believe ibogaine can help veterans overcome PTSD

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260514-how-hallucinogenic-ibogaine-helps-veterans-overcome-ptsd
34•bushwart•4h ago•25 comments

Hindenburg's Smoking Room

https://www.airships.net/hindenburg-smoking-room/
40•crescit_eundo•2d ago•16 comments

AI is a technology not a product

https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/ai_is_technology_not_a_product
117•ch_sm•3h ago•35 comments

Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/05/17/offline-llm-energy-use.html
188•datadrivenangel•4h ago•157 comments

WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/world/africa/ebola-congo-uganda-who-public-health-emergency.html
156•zzzeek•3h ago•76 comments

High-Entropy Alloy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-entropy_alloy
35•leonidasrup•3d ago•3 comments

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

https://crates.io/crates/zerostack/1.0.0
492•gidellav•18h ago•269 comments

CUDA Books

https://github.com/alternbits/awesome-cuda-books
34•dariubs•3h ago•2 comments

Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails

https://github.com/ShurikenTrade/shuriken-skills
20•jgan0978•4h ago•7 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...
466•WithinReason•10h ago•207 comments

How Diamonds Are Made

https://diamond.jaydip.me/
55•lemonberry•1d ago•30 comments

Legacy Update for Windows 8.1 for x64-based Systems

https://legacyupdate.net/download-center/download/51025/update-for-windows-8.1-x64-kb3132080
4•kristianp•1d ago•0 comments

A nicer voltmeter clock

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-nicer-voltmeter-clock
264•surprisetalk•18h ago•32 comments

Colossus: The Forbin Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
175•doener•2d ago•57 comments

Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller

https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/
189•zdw•15h ago•16 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-/
618•mpweiher•1d ago•349 comments

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

https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/
271•bookofjoe•20h ago•301 comments

Mado: Fast Markdown linter written in Rust

https://github.com/akiomik/mado
33•nateb2022•2d ago•2 comments

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

https://nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/
378•mjgil•1d ago•144 comments

We've made the world too complicated

https://user8.bearblog.dev/the-world-is-too-complicated/
392•James72689•1d ago•373 comments

Roman Letters

https://romanletters.org/
79•diodorus•2d ago•10 comments

Illusions of understanding in the sciences

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42113-026-00271-1
87•sebg•2d ago•43 comments

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

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/twilight-of-the-velocipede/
39•benbreen•19h ago•1 comments

Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2026-05-15-ym-fast-emu/
87•z303•8h ago•32 comments