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The perfect commuter bike? Velotric's Discover 3 makes its case.

A customized mid-motor and Shimano's new Cues components are a winning combination.

Ars Technica May 15, 2026 John Timmer
Technology May 15, 2026

Build a Radio Wave Detector With Balls of Aluminum Foil!

Here’s how you can hack together a radio transmitter and receiver out of stuff you have at home—and explore the weir...

Technology May 15, 2026

AI research papers are getting better, and it’s a big problem for scientists

Last summer, Peter Degen's postdoctoral supervisor came to him with an unusual problem: One of his papers was being cite...

Technology May 15, 2026

O(x)Caml in Space

Article URL: https://gazagnaire.org/blog/2026-05-14-borealis.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48...

Technology May 15, 2026

The sigmoids won't save you

Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-sigmoids-wont-save-you Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology May 15, 2026

Steve Jobs Next Computer: His Forgotten Exile Years

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/steve-jobs-next-computer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4814...

Technology May 15, 2026

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.

Technology May 15, 2026

NanoTDB – Golang Append-Only Time Series DB

Article URL: https://github.com/aymanhs/nanotdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146877 Points: 3 #...

Technology May 15, 2026

Claude Code's product lead talks usage limits, transparency, and the "lean harness"

"We have no grand plan," says Anthropic's Cat Wu—but that's by design.

Technology May 15, 2026

Trump's Federal Gas Tax Holiday Isn't Likely to Bring Down Prices

Reducing the fee will only have a marginal impact on prices while depriving the government of revenue to maintain roads.

Technology May 15, 2026

A Woman Was in the US Legally. She Was Deported Anyways

María de Jesús Estrada Juárez was applying for her green card and thought she was doing everything right. Instead, sh...

Technology May 15, 2026

Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgpyn30dp3o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=481466...

Technology May 15, 2026

Geography is four-dimensional

Article URL: https://sive.rs/4d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146577 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

Technology May 15, 2026

The US Is Using AI to Hunt Down Insider Trading on Polymarket

CFTC chairman Michael Selig sat down with WIRED to discuss how the agency scours Polymarket and other prediction markets...

Technology May 15, 2026

RelaxAI – UK sovereign LLM inference at 80% cheaper than OpenAI/Claude

Article URL: https://relax.ai/docs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146424 Points: 42 # Comments: 1...

Technology May 15, 2026

Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks

Article URL: https://github.com/Andyyyy64/whichllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146369 Points: ...

Technology May 15, 2026

Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’

The Thinking Machines Lab founder and former CTO of OpenAI tells WIRED she isn’t interested in automating people out o...

Technology May 15, 2026

Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

Article URL: https://explorer.samismith.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146129 Points: 20 # C...

Technology May 15, 2026

Where's Ed: Anthropic Told Court $5B but Public $19B

Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/wheres-ed-anthropic-told-court-5-billion-but-public-19-billion/ Comments URL...

Technology May 15, 2026

Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?

Is it possible? Do you know success cases w/o spending 20+k $ on auditors? My customers bombards me with question about...

Technology May 15, 2026

UK Government Kicks Out Palantir

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/uk-government-kicks-out-palantir/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology May 15, 2026

Hostinger Promo Code: 79% Off for May 2026

Discover exclusive Hostinger promo codes, discounts, and deals on web hosting, cloud plans, and domain registration. Sav...

Technology May 15, 2026

HostGator Promo Codes: 76% Off for April 2026

Unlock massive savings on HostGator web hosting, WordPress, VPS, and business email plans with our exclusive HostGator p...

Technology May 15, 2026

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

I'm a Type 1 diabetic and software engineer. Last year I went months between endocrinologists with no clinician reviewi...

Technology May 15, 2026

How Claude Code works in large codebases

Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/how-claude-code-works-in-large-codebases-best-practices-and-where-to-start Comment...

Technology May 15, 2026

The Two Sleeps

Article URL: https://dylan.gr/1775146616 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144490 Points: 4 # Commen...

Technology May 15, 2026

Coldkey – Post-quantum age key generation and paper backup tool

Article URL: https://github.com/pike00/coldkey Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144410 Points: 3 # ...

Technology May 15, 2026

Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha

Article URL: https://www.tristandc.com/government/news-2026-05-11-airdrop.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology May 15, 2026

reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification Is Bringing the Play Integrity API to Desktops

Article URL: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35428-recaptcha-mobile-verification-is-bringing-the-play-integrity-api-to...

Technology May 15, 2026

Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying

Article URL: https://tmctmt.com/posts/mullvad-exit-ips-as-a-fingerprinting-vector/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...