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The Invention of Buses

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-invention-of-buses/
10•surprisetalk•1d ago

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InsideOutSanta•7m ago
The last stagecoach traveled over the Gotthardpass in the Swiss Alps in 1881, steered by Alois Zgraggen. There's a song about him that ends with:

Now I no longer travel southward,

and I pray to God: My Lord, grant me rest soon,

I’m no good for anything here anymore,

so if you would be merciful to me, let me soon pass through Heaven’s gate.

I’m no good for anything here anymore, so if you would be merciful to me,

let me soon pass through Heaven’s gate.

Then, when you call,

O God, I’ll sing merrily atop the wagon seat:

“Giddy-up, my Liesel, gently now, at an easy pace!”

Everything in C is undefined behavior

https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html
264•lycopodiopsida•5h ago•360 comments

Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)

https://zfhuang99.github.io/rust/claude%20code/codex/contracts/spec-driven%20development/2025/12/...
68•pramodbiligiri•2h ago•56 comments

Map of Metal

https://mapofmetal.com/
36•robin_reala•1h ago•9 comments

Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/
838•spectraldrift•18h ago•577 comments

FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive

https://fivethirtyeightindex.com/
238•ChocMontePy•10h ago•59 comments

The weird, wild story of humanity's obsession with gold

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/05/14/the-weird-wild-story-of-humanitys-obsession-with-gold
24•andsoitis•2h ago•29 comments

I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

https://virtualosmuseum.org/
826•andreww591•20h ago•177 comments

Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260515-the-1950s-blunder-which-causes-mass-hay-fever-in-japan
156•ranit•10h ago•68 comments

Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

https://news.infomaniak.com/en/infomaniak-foundation-sovereign-cloud/
101•darktoto•6h ago•26 comments

Google changes its search box

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/
586•berkeleyjunk•17h ago•780 comments

Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks

https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge
528•zambelli•23h ago•183 comments

Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images

https://github.com/wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks
315•janalsncm•13h ago•182 comments

Apple unveils new accessibility features

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-...
687•interpol_p•1d ago•356 comments

OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool

https://openai.com/index/advancing-content-provenance/
297•smooke•16h ago•161 comments

Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI

https://www.emmi.ai/news/mistral-ai-acquires-emmi-ai
274•doener•16h ago•82 comments

Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026

https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transitioning-gemini-cli-to-antigravity-cli/
266•primaprashant•18h ago•132 comments

CopyFail: From Pod to Host

https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-pod-to-host
28•tptacek•18h ago•4 comments

The Invention of Buses

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-invention-of-buses/
10•surprisetalk•1d ago•1 comments

Simulated Evolution on the PICO-8

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/16/simulated-evolution-on-the-pico-8/
20•ibobev•1d ago•1 comments

Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)

https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage
497•aarondf•11h ago•315 comments

In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" – by accident

https://producelikeapro.com/blog/how-one-recording-mistake-created-a-musical-phenomenon-in-the-80s/
59•bookofjoe•2d ago•19 comments

RISC-V and Floating-Point

https://fprox.substack.com/p/risc-v-and-floating-point
26•hasheddan•1d ago•23 comments

GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

https://twitter.com/github/status/2056884788179726685
500•splenditer•12h ago•263 comments

Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets
690•ortusdux•16h ago•214 comments

The Mercury logic programming system

https://github.com/Mercury-Language/mercury
72•Antibabelic•2d ago•15 comments

Nostalgic Kits Central (2024)

https://www.nostalgickitscentral.com/
25•cf100clunk•2d ago•12 comments

I’ve joined Anthropic

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312
1359•dmarcos•20h ago•571 comments

Growing Neural Cellular Automata

https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/
118•pulkitsh1234•2d ago•12 comments

Lisp in Web-Based Applications (2001)

https://sep.turbifycdn.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt
90•bschne•2d ago•8 comments

Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-05-15-why-is-almost-everyone-right-handed-the-answer-may-lie-in-ho...
137•gmays•21h ago•225 comments