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Man dies covered in necrotic lesions after amoebas eat him alive
Doctors suspect three factors, each unremarkable on its own, contributed to his fate.
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May 1, 2026
Dangerous New Linux Exploit Gives Attackers Root Access to Countless Computers
The exploit, dubbed CopyFail and tracked as CVE-2026-31431, allows hackers to take over PCs and data center servers. The...
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May 1, 2026
Credit Cards Are Vulnerable to Brute Force Kind Attacks
Article URL: https://metin.nextc.org/posts/Credit_Cards_Are_Vulnerable_To_Brute_Force_Kind_Attacks.html Comments URL: h...
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May 1, 2026
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is fund...
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May 1, 2026
Ti-84 Evo
Article URL: https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo Comments URL: https://news...
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May 1, 2026
Show HN: Destiny – Claude Code's fortune Teller skill
Destiny is the Claude Code's plugin that gives you a real fortune reading.Type /destiny to see today's destiny!It uses ...
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May 1, 2026
Whimsical Animations Course Open House
Article URL: https://courses.joshwcomeau.com/wham/open-house/00-introduction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...
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May 1, 2026
Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack"
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-has-been-down-for-more-than-a-day/ Comments...
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May 1, 2026
Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root. ...
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May 1, 2026
Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978834 Points: 7 ...
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May 1, 2026
This Eye-Catching Indoor Garden Is 20 Percent Off Right Now
Lettuce Grow's Farmstand is sure to impress, and it's 20 percent off for Mother's Day.
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May 1, 2026
The Next Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Will Take More Than Just Science
At WIRED Health, pioneering Alzheimer's researcher John Hardy outlined the stakes—and next steps—of where treatment ...
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May 1, 2026
Birdfy’s smart bird feeder is down to its best-ever price for Mother’s Day
From crafting machines to smart calendars, a number of unique gifts are already on sale in the run-up to Mother’s Day,...
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May 1, 2026
A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
Article URL: https://www.rightscon.org/rc26-statement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978386 Poin...
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May 1, 2026
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-d...
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May 1, 2026
First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/04/29/tesla-semi-first-truck-high-volume-production-line/ Comments URL: https://n...
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May 1, 2026
Coatue has a plan to buy up land for data centers, possibly for Anthropic
Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power s...
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May 1, 2026
Amazon’s built-in AI price history expands to show the entire last year
Amazon's built-in price tracking feature now allows you to see how much a product's price has changed over the past year...
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May 1, 2026
Dreame — the vacuum company — just ‘launched’ its own phones
Dreame, a Chinese manufacturer best known for its robot vacuums but with ambitions to do much more, says it's making sma...
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May 1, 2026
Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races
Senator decries "blatant, brazen corruption," wants to target Trump admin next. ...
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May 1, 2026
It's Possible to Learn in Our Sleep. Should We?
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we Comments ...
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May 1, 2026
Show HN: AI CAD Harness
Hi HN, I'm Zach, one of the co-founders of Adam (https://adam.new).We've been on HN twice before with text-to-CAD/3D ex...
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May 1, 2026
Show HN: My Private GitHub on Postgres
Article URL: https://github.com/calebwin/gitgres Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977659 Points: 3 ...
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May 1, 2026
Artemis II Fault Tolerance
Article URL: https://alearningaday.blog/2026/05/01/artemis-ii-fault-tolerance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...
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May 1, 2026
Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines
More evidence of Grok CSAM seen as Minnesota passes nudifying app ban.
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May 1, 2026
The X-Files Has Made Me Nostalgic for a Time I Never Experienced
Article URL: https://midnightmurmurations.substack.com/p/the-x-files-has-made-me-nostalgic Comments URL: https://news.y...
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May 1, 2026
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/amazon-stuck-with-months-of-repairs-after-drone-strikes-on-data-ce...
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May 1, 2026
Understand Anything
Article URL: https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977470...
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May 1, 2026
Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHwxV0Sd9V8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977450 Po...
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May 1, 2026
AI Uses Less Water Than the Public Thinks
Article URL: https://californiawaterblog.com/2026/04/26/ai-water-use-distractions-and-lessons-for-california/ Comments ...