HN Daily Digest episodes:

• May 17, 2026Hacker News – 17 May 2026

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  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

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  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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• May 13, 2026Hacker News – 13 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Binary Translation Breakthrough

  Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics

  3D Printing and Cloud Controversies

  Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

  Text Editing and Nostalgia

  The vi family

  Security Concerns and Innovations

  CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

  Creative Coding and Fun Projects

  My graduation cap runs Rust

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• May 12, 2026Hacker News – 12 May 2026

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  Tech Reflections and Nostalgia

  Learning Software Architecture

  Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

  Remembering Planet Source Code: Sharing Code Before GitHub Made It Easy

  AI and Programming Languages

  If AI writes your code, why use Python?

  Claude Platform on AWS

  Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw

  Health and Innovation

  UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)

  I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night

  Creative Projects and Innovations

  Rtwatch: Watch videos with friends using WebRTC

  Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware

  Boriel BASIC

  Social Media and Community Dynamics

  Toxicity on Social Media – The Noisy Room

  I hate soldering

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• May 11, 2026Hacker News – 11 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Local vs. Cloud AI

  Local AI needs to be the norm

  Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

  I'm going back to writing code by hand

  Security and Privacy Issues

  Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan

  Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES

  Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability

  Programming and Development Insights

  7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)

  Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code

  How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?

  Nostalgia and Cultural Moments

  The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)

  Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years

  dBase: 1979-2026

  Cloud Services and User Experiences

  I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

  Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

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• May 10, 2026Hacker News – 10 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  Nostalgic Reflections

  Rotten Dot Com

  The One Dollar Counterfeiter

  Innovations in Development

  Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

  Gemini API File Search is now multimodal

  Programming Projects and Challenges

  Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

  Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

  Security and Standards

  Local privilege escalation via execve()

  Debian must ship reproducible packages

  Tech Insights

  Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different

  Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

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• May 09, 2026Hacker News – 09 May 2026

  Table of Contents

  AI Innovations and Challenges

  A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

  Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

  Teaching Claude Why

  Cybersecurity Insights

  AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

  You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

  The React2Shell Story

  Tech Infrastructure Updates

  AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved

  Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8

  Cultural Reflections and Quirky Topics

  David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

  Cartoon Network Flash Games

  Roadside Attraction

  Environmental Concerns

  America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy

  Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?

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• May 08, 2026Hacker News – 08 May 2026

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  Data Breaches and Workforce Changes

  Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

  Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce

  Security Vulnerabilities

  Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

  Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

  Programming and Development

  ClojureScript Gets Async/Await

  Dithering with CSS

  Floats Don't Agree with Themselves

  AI Innovations

  Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

  AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

  DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal

  Miscellaneous Insights

  The map that keeps Burning Man honest

  The surprisingly complex journey to text-selectable client-side generated PDFs

  Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

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