frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-programmer-whose-code-underpins-the-internet/
11•dxs•2d ago

Comments

zimpenfish•34m ago
https://archive.ph/VlbdQ
CharlesW•22m ago
TLDR: Sharla Boehm helped invent packet switching, a.k.a. "hot potato routing", and wrote the first implementation which proved that it could work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharla_Boehm

Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage
226•0xedb•10h ago•130 comments

None of Starbucks' 'Widely Recyclable' Cups Ended Up at a Recycling Facility

https://www.beyondplastics.org/press-releases/starbucks-cups-recyclable-report
14•theanonymousone•11m ago•1 comments

How fast is N tokens per second really?

https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/
104•hexagr•2d ago•27 comments

Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.7
466•kevinsimper•8h ago•177 comments

SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014)

https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard/
72•yacin•3h ago•5 comments

Saying Goodbye to Asm.js

https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html
221•eqrion•7h ago•100 comments

Apparently Google hates us now

https://twitter.com/pokemoncentral/status/2057123807404638250
262•zeitg3ist•2h ago•111 comments

Map of Metal

https://mapofmetal.com/
317•robin_reala•8h ago•113 comments

Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

https://www.alqst.org/ar/posts/1190
762•giuliomagnifico•6h ago•332 comments

Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?

113•srameshc•2h ago•62 comments

Why is Inkwell stuck in review

https://www.manton.org/2026/05/19/why-is-inkwell-stuck-in.html
9•speckx•1h ago•5 comments

Victory: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement

https://www.fire.org/news/victory-tennessee-man-jailed-37-days-trump-meme-wins-835000-settlement-...
505•ceejayoz•4h ago•293 comments

Everything in C is undefined behavior

https://blog.habets.se/2026/05/Everything-in-C-is-undefined-behavior.html
427•lycopodiopsida•12h ago•577 comments

Sharla Boehm, the programmer whose code underpins the Internet

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-programmer-whose-code-underpins-the-internet/
12•dxs•2d ago•2 comments

Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops

https://reubenbrooks.dev/blog/structural-backpressure-beats-smarter-agents/
59•pyrex41•3h ago•5 comments

Stable Audio 3

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17991
56•guardienaveugle•3h ago•11 comments

Testing distributed systems with AI agents

https://github.com/shenli/distributed-system-testing
53•shenli3514•4h ago•6 comments

Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260519-google-tackles-attempts-to-hack-its-ai-results
178•tigerlily•8h ago•131 comments

Handling the great code forge fragmentation

https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/forge_fragmentation/
19•mooreds•3d ago•7 comments

Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend

https://github.com/ueberdosis/hocuspocus
17•philipisik•4h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model

https://github.com/bytedance/Lance
28•cleardusk•3h ago•6 comments

When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (2024)

https://github.com/deng-ai-lab/SFHformer
56•teleforce•2d ago•7 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
305•ranit•17h ago•145 comments

Autoregressive next token prediction and KV Cache in transformers

https://medium.com/advanced-deep-learning/autoregressive-next-token-prediction-kv-cache-in-transf...
34•coarchitect•2d ago•0 comments

Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000)

https://www.edn.com/smartmedia-card-interface-spec-opened-available-for-free/#google_vignette
19•brudgers•2d ago•8 comments

Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment

https://www.lesnumeriques.com/banque-en-ligne/adieu-visa-et-mastercard-130-millions-d-europeens-b...
780•healsdata•6h ago•632 comments

Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hormuz-closure-could-trigger-agrifood-shock-price-crisi...
31•mooreds•2h ago•3 comments

No way to parse integers in C (2022)

https://blog.habets.se/2022/10/No-way-to-parse-integers-in-C.html
56•konmok•8h ago•80 comments

Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

https://news.infomaniak.com/en/infomaniak-foundation-sovereign-cloud/
147•darktoto•13h ago•40 comments

Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90%

https://newatlas.com/energy/cooling-copper-plates-data-center-energy-use/
11•geox•46m ago•4 comments