In a blink: BlinkPay proofs Kiwi real-time payments
BlinkPay has proved that real-time payments are possible in New Zealand by using the existing open banking infrastructure and a Bank of NZ account to execute a test transaction.

BlinkPay’s chief executive, Adrian Smith, said a successful test payment in March took just 2.6 seconds to complete, compared with expectations of up to 5 seconds. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I only had 3.5” disks.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Great find! Other than a couple of games I bought over the years, my 5.25” disks were always dark grey / black.

And 3.5” disks were another matter entirely… 😄

Straker suspended after suspected US employee fraud
Auckland translation technology company Straker has been suspended from trading on the Australian Securities Exchange after discovering suspected fraud at its United States subsidiary involving at least US$1.5 million (NZ$2.5m) and possibly more.

Straker requested the voluntary suspension on Tuesday, saying it had identified transactions totalling approximately US$1.5m that it was confident had been misappropriated … ⌘ Read more

Ask HN: Pregunta para los devs hispanohablantes
¿Cómo les caería un lenguaje de programación de sistemas pero completamente en español?
imagino algo con el minimalismo y la concurrencia de Go, el bonito sistema de errores de Rust, no compartir estados mutuos como en Pony (no race conditions)

¿Qué opinan?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275005

Points: 5

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Browser-based file encryption tool using WebCrypto
Article URL: https://secvant.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274018

Points: 5

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Ubers COO says its getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai-token-spending-harder-justify-2026-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268871

Points: 7

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Happy 5.25 day to anyone who celebrates.

(“Colour diskettes”. Ha.)

The Eternal Sloptember
Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/24/the-eternal-sloptember.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263238

Points: 41

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Hadsch: 1,5 Millionen Pilger in Mekka ⌘ Read more

$100 CPU Shootout: Comparing the Ryzen 5 5500, Core i3-14100F, & Core i3-12100F
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/100-budget-cpu-shootout-ddr4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259608

Points: 3

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Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06445

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256912

Points: 5

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Limerick
Article URL: https://www.worldwidewords.org/surprise.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254684

Points: 5

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Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-alexander-grothendieck-revolutionized-20th-century-mathematics-20260520/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254020

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Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-woman-arrested-for-facebook-post-about-town-water-quality

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249747

Points: 5

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A large set of stable kernel updates
The 7.0.10,
6.18.33,
6.12.91,
6.6.141,
6.1.174,
5.15.208, and
5.10.257
stable kernel updates have all been released. The first four are huge
(the 7.0.10\
review version had … ⌘ Read more

Kraker kritisiert „ewiges Fortschreiben“
Die Präsidentin des Rechnungshofs (RH), Margit Kraker, hat mehr Tempo bei Reformen beim Gesundheitsbereich und bei Pensionen eingemahnt. Diese seien „ein großer Brocken“ im Budget, sagte sie in der Ö1-Sendereihe „Journal zu Gast“. Das Einsparungsvolumen von 2,5 Milliarden Euro sei „wahrscheinlich sehr knapp bemessen“, so Kraker. „Ewiges Fortschreiben“ funktioniere nicht. ⌘ Read more

Sumire at her works (Dnumdez) [Persona 5] ⌘ Read more

SpaceX’s Upgraded Starship V3 Launches For First Time
SpaceX’s upgraded Starship V3 launched today from Starbase, Texas for the first time, successfully deploying 22 dummy Starlink satellites and completing a planned fiery splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Reuters reports: The towering vehicle, consisting of the upper-stage Starship astronaut vessel stacked atop a Super Heavy booster rocket, blasted off at about 5:30 p.m … ⌘ Read more

Entscheidung über Einsparungen vertagt
Die Entscheidung über die Einsparungen im Universitätsbudget 2028 bis 2030 ist vorerst vertagt. Im Doppelbudget 2027/28 wird der derzeitige Budgetansatz von rund 5,2 Mrd. Euro zunächst formal fortgeschrieben. Das gab Wissenschaftsministerin Eva-Maria Holzleitner (SPÖ) am Freitag bekannt, nachdem es einen Aufschrei der Unis und Kritik aus den Ländern gegeben hatte. ⌘ Read more

A Forth-inspired language for writing websites
Article URL: https://robida.net/entries/2026/05/21/a-forth-inspired-language-for-writing-websites

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236887

Points: 5

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Linux Provides Better Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Over Windows 11
Last month with the new AMD Zen 5 “Dual Edition” 3D V-Cache CPU, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition showed great performance on Linux across a range of workloads. Curious if the operating system was playing into the greater benefit of Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 versus just the workloads tested, this article is looking at both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 on Microsoft Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Linux across a range of … ⌘ Read more

The case against boolean logic
Article URL: https://abuseofnotation.github.io/boolean-thinking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234128

Points: 5

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FSFE intervenes against Apple before EUCJ for the second time
Article URL: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260519-01.en.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233939

Points: 5

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Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-apple-ai-graduation-speech-2026-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233563

Points: 14

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赛博领鸡蛋：古墓丽影、纪念碑谷3 等6款游戏[5.22~5.28]
Epic 本周送出 2 款电脑游戏、1 款手机游戏，分别是《逃出百慕大》《古墓丽影1～3》以及口碑很好的手机游戏《纪念碑谷 3》，以及好几款 Steam 限免游戏。 《逃出百慕大》 这是一款带有轻度解谜元素的冒险游戏，玩家需要探索多个漂浮岛屿，通过寻找隐藏道具、破解机关以及收集能量核心来推进剧情。整 ⌘ Read more

USA entsenden zusätzlich 5.000 Soldaten nach Polen ⌘ Read more

Government puts $2.5m towards billion-dollar underground asset striking problem
The Government is putting $2.5 million towards a possibly $1.45 billion problem: the accidental damage of underground cables and pipes.

Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop announced on Thursday that work on a national underground asset … ⌘ Read more

London Mayor Blocks Palantir
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/21/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blocks-met-police-deal-with-palantir

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225489

Points: 20

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Michael Keating has died at the age of 79 (1947–2026)
Article URL: https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/michael-keating-1947-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223303

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说出来我都不信：Linux 漏洞第4、第5爆了 / Nginx 也继续爆漏洞
这是今天（2026年5月21日）早上： 这是今天晚上： 也不知道说什么了，直接看吧。 Linux 第4漏洞：CVE-2026-46333（7.1分） 这是继 Copy Fail（4 月 29 日）、Dirty Frag（5 月 7 日）和 Fragnesia（5 月 13 日）之后，在短短三周内爆出 ⌘ Read more

5 Best Android Tablets in 2026: OnePlus, Lenovo, and Pixel Compared
Whether you need a portable, around-the-house entertainment center or a full-on laptop replacement, these are the best Android tablets. ⌘ Read more

My Food Bag lifts profit and revenue as board weighs possible sale
Listed meal-kit company My Food Bag has reported revenue growth of 6.2% for the second half of the 2026 financial year.

In an NZX announcement on Thursday, My Food Bag (MFB) announced a net profit after tax of $6.7 million, up 5.3% year on year. ⌘ Read more

Anna’s Archive Hit With Global Domain Takedown Order
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: A coalition of thirteen major publishers has won a massive $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna’s Archive. A New York federal judge fully approved the publishers’ requests, issuing a broad permanent injunction that orders more than twenty specific global registries, hosts, and service providers t … ⌘ Read more

The Government’s billion-dollar frigate question
Sailing from Wellington Harbour on Wednesday morning was a 5,500-tonne example of what could be a multibillion-dollar Budget item for the Government in the coming decade.

The 130m-long JS Kumano, a Japanese Mogami-class frigate built for stealth with flat steel panels and few distinguishable features other than a sensor-filled mast and 54-calibre cannon at its bow, spent four days tied up at Wellington’s wharf this week. ⌘ Read more

NZ sharemarket whipsaws again, down over 1.6%
The normally stable energy sector stumbled after a large parcel of shares in Contact was put up for sale, and the New Zealand sharemarket fell more than 1.5% in a broad sell-off.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index was on a downward slide throughout the day and closed at 12,761.03, down 213.29 points or 1.64% – its lowest level in nearly seven weeks. ⌘ Read more

正版 5 月惠来了！桌面神器 + 效率工具 5 折起，不用苦等 618
青小蛙有一个困惑：电脑桌面越用越乱，一直没有解决方案。 桌面文件堆成山、截图随手乱放、下载目录简直一团乱麻；想找一个文档，结果翻了半天才发现藏在不知道哪个文件夹里。 更崩溃的是 —— 很多时候不是电脑硬件配置不够用，而是文件和界面缺乏系统性整理，注意力每天都在被各种杂乱界面和重复操作偷偷消耗。 你也 ⌘ Read more

Napier Port lifts dividend, reaffirms guidance despite headwinds
Napier Port lifted its interim dividend by 31% and is upbeat about the second half despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Directors declared a fully imputed interim dividend of 5.25 cents per share versus 4 cents per share in the same period a year earlier, it said in its half-year report on Wednesday. ⌘ Read more

Winston Peters signals new way to bridge BNZ buyback $5b gap
More detail has arisen as to how New Zealand First may bridge a hefty $5 billion gap between the price it’s willing to pay for Bank of NZ versus paper valuations circulating in the market.

Commenting exclusively to BusinessDesk, NZ First leader Winston Peters said every aspect of a possible transaction to buy back BNZ from National Australia Bank (NAB) would be considered. ⌘ Read more

I may be only 5 ft tall but I have a rack lol ⌘ Read more

Steigende Preise erhöhen Druck auf Trump
Die steigenden Preise auch in den USA erhöhen den Druck auf US-Präsident Donald Trump deutlich. Jüngsten Berechnungen zufolge belasten alleine die seit Beginn des Iran-Krieges gestiegenen Benzinpreise die US-Haushalte mit Mehrkosten von rund 41,5 Mrd. US-Dollar (rund 35,7 Mrd. Euro). Im April stieg die Inflation auf den höchsten wert seit drei Jahren. Kritiker werfen Trump vor, die Sorgen der US-Bevölkerung nicht ernst zu nehmen. ⌘ Read more

[OC] people seem to be surprised that i’m tall, im 5’9! which makes my tits even more impressive! ⌘ Read more

Durchschnittsmiete in Manhattan steigt über 5.000 Dollar ⌘ Read more

AMD’s Lemonade SDK For AI Promotes macOS To GA Status, ROCm 7.13 Integrated
The Lemonade SDK for “refreshingly fast local AI” that is largely developed by AMD engineers as an open-source project continues advancing quite rapidly for serving optimized LLMs on GPUs and NPUs… ⌘ Read more

NZ sharemarket down 1.5% after large tumbles
The New Zealand sharemarket came under broad-based selling pressure and fell more than 1.5%, with several stocks taking hefty tumbles.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index was on a gradual slide throughout the day and closed at 12,762.92, down 202.09 points or 1.56%. ⌘ Read more

5’3 short but stacked Asians girl ⌘ Read more

Debian 13.5 Released To Ship The Latest Linux Security Fixes
Debian 13.5 is out today as the newest point release to Debian Trixie for incorporating all of the latest security fixes affecting the Linux kernel and dozens of user-space packages… ⌘ Read more

AMD Is Bringing Improved FSR 4 Upscaling To Its Older GPUs
AMD says FSR 4.1 will finally bring its newer hardware-accelerated upscaling technology to older Radeon GPUs. “The rollout will begin in July with RDNA3- and 3.5-based GPUs, which include the Radeon RX 7000 series, as well as integrated GPUs like the Radeon 890M and Radeon 8060S,” reports Ars Technica. “In ‘early 2027,’ support will also be extended to t … ⌘ Read more

Seven new stable kernels with patches for CVE-2026-46333
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 7.0.8, 6.18.31, 6.12.89, 6.6.139, 6.1.173, 5.15.207, and 5.10.256 stable kernels. These kernels
contain a patch for [CVE-2026-46333](https://lwn.net/ml/all/2026051554-CVE-2026-46333-662a … ⌘ Read more

The 5 Best Outdoor Griddles and Flat Top Grills (2026)
A big backyard griddle can change a summer. I made dozens of tacos, burgers, and pancakes to find the best setup. ⌘ Read more