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Peter Salus has died

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033750.html

56•speckx•1h ago•6 comments

Click (2016)

https://clickclickclick.click/

229•andrewzeno•5h ago•54 comments

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/

67•yakkomajuri•2h ago•15 comments

Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025/regex-chess.html

45•surprisetalk•4d ago•5 comments

Anthropic acquires Stainless

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-stainless

389•tomeraberbach•11h ago•263 comments

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas...

142•cucho•4h ago•84 comments

Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

https://www.abgeo.dev/blog/anyone-can-ring-your-doorbell

16•jrdres•2d ago•3 comments

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

https://archestra.ai/blog/only-responsible-ai

437•ildari•12h ago•195 comments

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp

142•veqq•8h ago•29 comments

War Game Exposed U.S. Vulnerability to Low-Tech Warfare

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/2024-11-01/rigged-war-game-exposed-us-vulnerability-low-tech-warfare

9•KnuthIsGod•1h ago•3 comments

The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden

573•DaSHacka•2d ago•260 comments

We let AIs run radio stations

https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm

203•lukaspetersson•9h ago•175 comments

Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

https://github.com/zakirullin/files.md

571•zakirullin•14h ago•289 comments

Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

https://isabisabel.com/gacha/

83•babel16•5d ago•32 comments

When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call?

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/02/15/devirtualization/

29•lionkor•1d ago•5 comments

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/

298•Fysi•14h ago•112 comments

Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space

https://www.thescientificdrop.com/2026/05/earths-radio-bubble-every-signal-weve.html

48•jonbaer•19h ago•28 comments

The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-american-rebellion-against-ai-is-gaining-steam-94b72529

64•JaakkoP•2h ago•54 comments

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/elon-musk-has-lost-his-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-and-openai/

845•nycdatasci•10h ago•429 comments

Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model

https://odyssey.ml/introducing-agora-1

90•olivercameron•9h ago•17 comments

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/

248•cdrnsf•8h ago•98 comments

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)

https://alexplescan.com/posts/2025/08/16/kvm/

183•ankitg12•3d ago•105 comments

Coding on Paper

https://wickstrom.tech/2026-05-16-coding-on-paper.html

54•owickstrom•1d ago•18 comments

Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE

https://loopmaster.xyz/

81•stagas•9h ago•24 comments

The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention

https://fil-c.org/calling_convention

116•pizlonator•2d ago•23 comments

Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents

https://github.com/InsForge/InsForge

38•mrcoldbrew•12h ago•6 comments

Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10160

29•anigbrowl•6h ago•12 comments

Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint

https://modal.com/blog/truly-serverless-gpus

77•charles_irl•10h ago•18 comments

Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/iran-starts-bitcoin-backed-shipping-insurance-...

285•srameshc•10h ago•467 comments

What Is Date:Italy?

http://aesthetikx.info/blog/date_italy.html

139•jollyjerry•2d ago•56 comments

Open in hackernews

Peter Salus has died

https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2026-May/033750.html

56•speckx•1h ago

Comments

Buildstarted•31m ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_H._Salus

Abh1Works•29m ago

RIP a goat

drekipus•19m ago

Now is hardly the time to injure any animals

oldspleen•27m ago

During college, his Unix history book was the first one I read that actually made the AT&T => BSD => linux throughline make sense. RIP.

TZubiri•25m ago

Quarter century of UNIX sounds interesting.

I found at least 1 copy in the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/aquartercenturyofunixpeterh.salu...

The cover looks redacted, as the "Sex, Drugs" from "Sex, Drugs, Unix" was removed. Hopefully the content wasn't censored as well.

YesThatTom2•3m ago

He was also executive director of both the USENIX Association in its very early years.