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An Apple (II) for Teacher

Article URL: https://technicshistory.com/2026/05/19/an-apple-ii-for-teacher/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187752 Points: 10 # Comments: 0

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Technology May 19, 2026

Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard

Article URL: https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainablebuildings/article/doi/10.1115/1.4071922/1233035/Data-cen...

Technology May 19, 2026

What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights (Qwen 3.5)

Article URL: https://vas-blog.pages.dev/qwen-censorship/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187680 Po...

Technology May 18, 2026

Anthropic co-founder to present AI encyclical alongside Pope Leo XIV

Article URL: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html Com...

Technology May 18, 2026

Click

Article URL: https://clickclickclick.click/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187054 Points: 54 # Co...

Technology May 18, 2026

Mexican government breached by solo user with Claude, 150 GB exfiltrated

Article URL: https://konstantintkachuk.com/writing/the-floor-doesnt-exist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology May 18, 2026

OSHA probing worker death at SpaceX’s Starbase site

The death is the latest worker safety issue at the Starbase facility, which has a higher injury rate than all other Spac...

Technology May 18, 2026

SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required

Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is b...

Technology May 18, 2026

Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10160 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185938 Points: 4 # C...

Technology May 18, 2026

Who will buy your services if you fire us all?

Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/who_will_buy_your_services/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology May 18, 2026

US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/18/us-bill-would-overcharge-evs-to-pay-for-road-damage-they-arent-doing/ Comme...

Technology May 18, 2026

Ebola outbreak: WHO declares emergency, US restricts travel, American infected

CDC is working to move the infected American and six others to Germany.

Technology May 18, 2026

Volvo teases a new affordable EV to replace discontinued EX30

Volvo's compact, quirky EX30 had a lot of problems when it was first released. Tariffs essentially erased its affordabil...

Technology May 18, 2026

No More JetBrains Products for Me

Article URL: https://matthewkosarek.xyz/posts/jetbrains/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185188 Po...

Technology May 18, 2026

Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date

Fake citations dashed a dude’s “Are We Dating the Same Guy” revenge lawsuit. ...

Technology May 18, 2026

Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions

Article URL: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/05/shutterstock-pay-35-million-settle-ftc-allegat...

Technology May 18, 2026

One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions

"I think there's plenty of fire lit under them already."

Technology May 18, 2026

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/ Comments URL: htt...

Technology May 18, 2026

PlayStation exclusives aren’t coming to PC anymore

PlayStation reportedly won't release its major single-player PlayStation games on PC anymore. According to Bloomberg's J...

Technology May 18, 2026

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

Stainless, a New York-based startup, will wind down all hosted products as part of the acquisition.

Technology May 18, 2026

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

Article URL: https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184322 Points: 5 # Com...

Technology May 18, 2026

Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

Article URL: https://www.advanced-research.net/180db Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184214 Points...

Technology May 18, 2026

Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people

The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with w...

Technology May 18, 2026

New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/mamdani-nyc-hochul-tax-rich-a30833850bfdbd638634def266ca76dd Comments URL: http...

Technology May 18, 2026

Walmart launches new budget-friendly Android tablets starting at $97

Walmart's Onn brand just launched a whole line of budget-friendly Android tablets that, all together, cost less in total...

Technology May 18, 2026

loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE

Article URL: https://loopmaster.xyz/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183757 Points: 8 # Comments: ...

Technology May 18, 2026

Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model

Article URL: https://odyssey.ml/introducing-agora-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183748 Points:...

Technology May 18, 2026

Australian Aboriginals cared for a dingo's grave for decades

For some ancient Aboriginal Australian communities, dingoes were part of the family. ...

Technology May 18, 2026

Dyson’s super-slim PencilWash just hit its best price to date for Memorial Day

If Dyson’s PencilVac Fluffycones made you wish the company had built something similarly slim for scrubbing the hard f...

Technology May 18, 2026

Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

Article URL: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-arm64-progress/19044?page=2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...