‘The Oral Tradition That Built Software May Not Survive AI’
A historian-turned-software engineer warns that “so little is ever written down” by professional programmers in a new article for Fast Company:

Perhaps there’s an early design doc, but then it turns out that everything was substantially revised before work began. Maybe there are a few wiki pages explaining known issues, some of which were solved a long … ⌘ Read more

It’s Not Just X. It’s Y
Article URL: https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just-data-its-post-training/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350149

Points: 9

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Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
Article URL: https://peninsulaforeveryone.org/blog/atherton-spent-145k-to-delay-caltrain-electrification-the-rest-of-us-paid-400-million-and-waited-3-extra-years/

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ChatGPT for Google Sheets Exfiltrates Workbooks
Article URL: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/gpt-for-google-sheets-data-exfiltration

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349487

Points: 5

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, a ride indeed. Exactly, this affected each and every Atom feed and only Atom feeds. All RSS feeds worked like nothing ever happened. This std::string to time_t to std::string to time_t dance only happens for Atom feeds. RSS feeds, on the other hand, go right from std::string to time_t and be done. That’s precisely what the second option is aiming to propose for Atom feeds, too.

I will clarify that tomorrow in the article.

It’s very interesting what kind of quirks accumulate in software over the years. Especially quirks, the basically noone knows of anymore. Until something explodes and gets rediscovered. Luckily, that doesn’t happen all that often.

‘Backrooms’ Stuns with $81M Debut
Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/backrooms-box-office-record-opening-weekend-obsession-jumps-star-wars-crumbles-1236763355/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348864

Points: 13

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Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/despite-price-hike-steam-deck-is-already-sold-out-in-north-america/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348704

Points: 7

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Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don’t kill my xlock
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/104185/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347961

Points: 8

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Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the ‘sweet spot’
Article URL: https://fortune.com/article/sergey-brin-60-hour-work-week-ai-rto/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347531

Points: 8

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King’s Birthday Honours 2026: ANZ’s Karleen Everitt honoured for services to Māori, business
Being made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and business is as much about whānau, hapū and iwi as it is about Karleen Everitt’s own service, she says.

“The award itself, in recognition of my contribution to Māori and business overall, really does reflect a journey that I’ve taken,” Everitt, head of ANZ NZ’s Te A … ⌘ Read more

King’s Birthday Honours 2026: Starship Foundation’s Bryan Mogridge made CNZM
A leading figure behind the Starship Foundation, which fundraises for the children’s hospital, has been the recipient of a King’s Birthday accolade.

Businessman Bryan Mogridge became a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit on Monday for services to children’s health, governance, and philanthropy. ⌘ Read more

Meta tests AI subscriptions and rolls out new paid plans for Facebook, Instagram
By Dean Seal and Meghan Bobrowsky

Meta Platforms has started the rollout of subscription plans for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and is testing new subscriptions for users of its AI chatbot as the company seeks to recoup some of the costs from its expensive AI buildout. ⌘ Read more

King’s Birthday Honours 2026: NZ business leaders celebrated
Commercial barrister Jim Farmer, KC, Mainfreight director Bryan Mogridge and Barfoot & Thompson managing director Peter Thompson are among businesspeople celebrated in this year’s King’s Birthday honours.

No knights or dames will be honoured from the business community, with doctor Paul … ⌘ Read more

European banks could cut 20% of jobs on AI, Morgan Stanley says
By Isabella Farr

The rapid spread of artificial intelligence may enable European banks to reduce their headcount by as much as a fifth over the “shorter term,” according to Morgan Stanley analysts. ⌘ Read more

Thoughts on the lobbying debate
Being a kindly soul who has spent many years around Wellington in journalism, public relations and then journalism again, twice, my first reaction to last week’s news of unrecorded meetings and documents between corporate lobbyists and the Prime Minister’s Office left me cold.

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Don’t forget the value of design
Ten billion dollars. That’s what design contributed to the Kiwi economy in 2016, more than farming.

We know this because in 2017, a consortium paid PwC to put a dollar figure on the design disciplines’ contribution to the economy.

They added it all up, revealed the result at a launch in Wellington, and – according to those in the room – watched the Minister of Finance … ⌘ Read more

Talk Is Cheap: The Operational Impact of LLM Use
Article URL: https://unessays.substack.com/p/talk-is-cheap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347155

Points: 5

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The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI
Article URL: https://darylcecile.net/notes/speed-of-prototyping-age-of-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347153

Points: 8

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Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/31/daily-pill-daraxonrasib-double-survival-time-pancreatic-pancreas-cancer-clinical-trial

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346629](https://news.ycombi … ⌘ Read more

‘Virtual OS Museum’ Lets You Try 570 Extinct Operating Systems
You can try 570 extinct operating systems at a new “virtual museum,” according to a new article by ZDNet. Their reporter downloaded the ancient OS NeXTStep, and was “shocked” by how easy it was to run it, “and by the sheer number of operating systems to choose from.”

Essentially, what you do is download a zipped file, unzip it, change into the newly c … ⌘ Read more

1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
Article URL: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-image-4b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346257

Points: 7

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Ohio Suspends Data Center Tax Break as Opposition Grows
The state of Ohio — one of America’s hot regions for data center construction — “is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states,” reports the Associated Press.

The move “comes as tax breaks for energy-hungry AI data centers are increasingly playing a role in state budgets,” the article points out. But they also note the expan … ⌘ Read more

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity
Article URL: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/489976/ai-successionism-transhumanism-posthumanism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345881

Points: 27

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I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200
Article URL: https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/v100localllm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345694

Points: 7

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United Airlines 767 Returns to Newark After Bluetooth Name Sparks Alert
Article URL: https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-767-returns-newark-bluetooth-name-alert/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345248

Points: 8

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Dav2d
Article URL: https://jbkempf.com/blog/2026/dav2d/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344961

Points: 6

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Show HN: The Tired Engineer
Article URL: https://www.thetiredengineer.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344930

Points: 3

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London’s Free Roof Terraces
Article URL: https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/05/londons-free-roof-terraces.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343714

Points: 5

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Telli (YC F24) is hiring in engineering, design, and GTM [Berlin, on-site]
Article URL: https://hi.telli.com/join-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343635

Points: 0

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Show HN: Komi-learn – continuous memory and self-improvement for coding agents
Article URL: https://github.com/kurikomi-labs/komi-learn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343216

Points: 3

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Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could
Article URL: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/05/ahoy-decmate-ii-little-pdp-8-that-could.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343078

Points: 3

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Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync
Article URL: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342705

Points: 13

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Anyone can build a platform now. Almost nobody can get people to find it
Article URL: https://claudefolio.com/blog/anyone-can-build-a-platform-now-almost-nobody-can-get-people-to-find-it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342097

Points: 20

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Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products
Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Microsoft_Office_2019_and_2021_for_Mac_view-only_conversion_(2026)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341578

Points: 14

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Custom Errors Are Non-Negotiable in My Rust Applications
Article URL: https://tristonarmstrong.com/blog/custom-errors-are-non-negotiable-in-my-rust-applications

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341505

Points: 3

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Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing
Article URL: https://brie.gay/cheese-paper/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341407

Points: 12

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Republicans are trying to kill science in this country
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/nx-s1-5828768/science-funding-cuts-nih-trump-administration

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340944

Points: 13

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Kore: Binary File Format Optimized for Modern Data Systems (Open Source)
Article URL: https://github.com/arunkatherashala/Kore

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340528

Points: 4

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Domain expertise has always been the real moat
Article URL: https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/05/domain-expertise-has-always-been-the-real-moat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340411

Points: 5

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Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled
Article URL: https://twilitrealm.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340262

Points: 5

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Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping
Article URL: https://remyhax.xyz/posts/reproducing-lawful-tls-wiretapping/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339943

Points: 3

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Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac
Article URL: https://lowendmac.com/2013/jef-raskin-the-visionary-behind-the-mac/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339894

Points: 7

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Ernst & Young published cybersecurity report full of hallucinations
Article URL: https://gptzero.me/investigations/ey

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339580

Points: 16

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Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates
Article URL: https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1157327/Hormuz-crisis-side-effect-a-sharp-rise-in-container-shipping-rates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339180

Points: 5

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Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog
Article URL: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-30

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338673

Points: 24

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OpenRouter raises $113M Series B
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/announcements/series-b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338660

Points: 60

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Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/05/microcode-inside-intel-8087-floating.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338656

Points: 10

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Tokyo wants you to wear shorts to work. Say no
By Gearoid Reidy

Japan has long relied on innovation to beat the heat. From the invention of sensu fans that could be folded up into a kimono in the Heian era more than 1,200 years ago, to parasols, which in recent years have found users among men as well as women, the country has learned to adapt. ⌘ Read more

My Net Worth: Andrew Lance, Simplicity CIO
Simplicity co-founder and chief investment officer Andrew Lance moved to New Zealand after more than 10 years working in the City of London bond market for investment banks during the Big Bang. He held a variety of roles in New Zealand before co-founding financial services provider Simplicity with Sam Stubbs in 2016.

I was born and raised in West London, grew up in a very middle-class family. Dad worked at a law firm; mum was or … ⌘ Read more

Ferrari launches $1m, Jony Ive-designed, glass-clad electric speedster
By Stephen Wilmot

An electric vehicle big on glass, light and space: This isn’t your father’s Ferrari. ⌘ Read more