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The TTY Demystified (2008)

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php
4•20after4•1h ago

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20after4•4m ago
The low level details of the Linux TTY driver is a surprisingly deep subject. This very old page taught me a lot about it and a recent HN discussion reminded me to dig up the old link. Hopefully others find it as enlightening as I have.

Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day

https://www.autonocion.com/us/tesla-lithium-refinery-texas/
156•atombender•33m ago•63 comments

Gemini 3.5 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5/
244•spectraldrift•2h ago•215 comments

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

https://virtualosmuseum.org/
405•andreww591•4h ago•89 comments

Google changes its search box

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/search/search-io-2026/
116•berkeleyjunk•1h ago•252 comments

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

https://openai.com/index/advancing-content-provenance/
23•smooke•51m ago•9 comments

Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack

https://www.emmi.ai/news/mistral-ai-acquires-emmi-ai
43•doener•1h ago•5 comments

Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die

https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/19/dumb-ways-for-an-open-source-project-to-die.html
20•chmaynard•1h ago•4 comments

Apple unveils new accessibility features

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/05/apple-unveils-new-accessibility-features-and-updates-with-...
512•interpol_p•8h ago•269 comments

Disney erased FiveThirtyEight

https://www.natesilver.net/p/disney-erased-fivethirtyeight
127•7777777phil•1h ago•31 comments

I’ve joined Anthropic

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312
938•dmarcos•5h ago•366 comments

Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry

https://superspl.at/scene/84df8849
425•danybittel•9h ago•169 comments

Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/05/19/copy-fail-fragnesia-vulnerabilities.html
83•akhuettel•4h ago•25 comments

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

https://github.com/antoinezambelli/forge
34•zambelli•8h ago•16 comments

Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5821265/minnesota-ban-prediction-markets
63•ortusdux•1h ago•16 comments

Era: From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery

https://research.google/blog/empirical-research-assistance-era-from-nature-publication-to-catalyz...
9•praccu•51m ago•0 comments

Gemini Omni

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-omni/
128•meetpateltech•2h ago•59 comments

The Silver Swan

https://thebowesmuseum.org.uk/collections/the-silver-swan/
12•pseudolus•1d ago•0 comments

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/
326•LelouBil•12h ago•145 comments

Show HN: Haystack – Review the PRs that need human attention

https://haystackeditor.com/
21•akshaysg•1d ago•6 comments

I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert

https://medium.com/@breid.at/ultra-pure-quantum-crystals-from-an-abandoned-mine-in-a-mysterious-d...
240•vi_sextus_vi•2d ago•98 comments

Show HN: Superlog (YC P26) – Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs

https://superlog.sh/
37•Magnanten•4h ago•33 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...
45•gmays•5h ago•65 comments

Growing Neural Cellular Automata

https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/
6•pulkitsh1234•2d ago•0 comments

Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory

https://emptysqua.re/blog/intro-to-tla-plus-for-the-llm-era/
84•zdw•2d ago•20 comments

Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation

https://sundaylongread.com/2026/05/15/hanois-humble-beer-glass-and-the-memory-of-a-nation/
96•NaOH•1d ago•27 comments

The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf]

http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/psos.pdf
105•rurban•1d ago•80 comments

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/5-minute-llms/
696•yakkomajuri•18h ago•535 comments

KV Sharing, MHC, and Compressed Attention

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/recent-developments-in-llm-architectures
22•gmays•3h ago•1 comments

Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised

https://safedep.io/mini-shai-hulud-strikes-again-314-npm-packages-compromised/
326•theanonymousone•15h ago•257 comments

OpenBSD 7.9

https://www.openbsd.org/79.html
321•bradley_taunt•7h ago•240 comments