HN Daily Digest episodes:

• May 23, 2026Hacker News – 23 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Tech Innovations & Software Updates

  Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby

  Deno 2.8

  Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card

  Corporate Moves & Culture

  Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

  Why Japanese companies do so many different things

  Security & Vulnerabilities

  Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

  CISA tries to contain data leak

  Research & Development

  Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug

  Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart

  Curious Projects & Ideas

  A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft

  Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark

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• May 22, 2026Hacker News – 22 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Space and Exploration

  Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

  The Surprising Story Behind the First British Person in Space

  Tech Developments

  Slumber: A TUI HTTP Client

  CODA: Rewriting Transformer Blocks as GEMM-Epilogue Programs

  Community and Culture

  Cleve Moler Has Died

  The Death of the Brick and Mortar Toy Store

  Innovations in Computing

  Blog Ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 Years. I Migrated it to FreeBSD

  Was My $48K GPU Server Worth It?

  New Features and Tools

  Python 3.15: Features That Didn't Make the Headlines

  Freenet: A Peer-to-Peer Platform for Decentralized Apps

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• May 21, 2026Hacker News – 21 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  AI Breakthroughs and Innovations

  An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

  OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon

  Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

  Security Concerns in Tech

  GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

  All the bugs they found

  Exciting New Tools and Features

  Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK

  Vivaldi 8.0

  Phosphene: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers

  Programming and Development Updates

  New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output

  Simulating Infinity in Conway's Game of Life with Modern C++

  How fast is N tokens per second really?

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• May 20, 2026Hacker News – 20 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Undefined Behavior in Programming

  Everything in C is undefined behavior

  AI and Productivity Tools

  Gemini 3.5 Flash

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

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

  Data Privacy and Ethical Technology

  Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy

  Tech Outages and Vulnerabilities

  Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)

  CopyFail: From Pod to Host

  Nostalgia in Tech

  Nostalgic Kits Central (2024)

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• May 19, 2026Hacker News – 19 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Quantum Discoveries in the Desert

  I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert

  The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

  Farewell to a Pioneer

  Peter Neumann has died

  Innovations in Communication

  Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone

  Polypad

  Tech and Ethics

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

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• May 18, 2026Hacker News – 18 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Tech Innovations

  GenCAD

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

  Jank now has its own custom IR

  Science and Discovery

  Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test

  A Good Lemma Is Worth a Thousand Theorems (2007)

  The 30-Hour Shift That Turned a San Jose Robot Lab into a Global Spectacle

  Human Experience and Society

  Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes

  Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivots to panels

  Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts

  Creative Coding and Culture

  WriteUp: 16 Bytes of x86 that turn Matrix rain into sound

  Prolog Coding Horror

  Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)

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• May 17, 2026Hacker News – 17 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Coding Innovations

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

  Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools

  Creative Projects

  A nicer voltmeter clock

  Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller

  Tech and Culture

  Colossus: The Forbin Project

  Accelerando (2005)

  Development and Design

  C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For

  Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

  Historical Insights

  Illusions of understanding in the sciences

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

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• May 16, 2026Hacker News – 16 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Open Source and Digital Culture

  Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

  Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer

  I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan

  AI and Security

  Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

  A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10

  Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus

  Scientific Discoveries

  Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals

  Research on mildew contamination affecting the sound quality of analog tapes

  The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme

  Tech Innovations and Critiques

  SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud

  How to Write to SSDs [pdf]

  The sigmoids won't save you

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• May 15, 2026Hacker News – 15 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Privacy Concerns in Modern Vehicles

  Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

  Exploring Tech Nostalgia

  Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

  Innovative AI Solutions

  Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management

  Claude for Legal

  Emerging Security Challenges

  A few words on DS4

  First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5

  Tech Innovations and Exploits

  New Nginx Exploit

  Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet

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• May 14, 2026Hacker News – 14 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  AI Innovations for Small Business

  Claude for Small Business

  Reviving the Classics

  Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7

  Gaming on Linux

  Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

  Technical Developments

  Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

  Unique Software Solutions

  The Emacsification of Software

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