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Whimsical Animations Course Open House

Article URL: https://courses.joshwcomeau.com/wham/open-house/00-introduction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979190 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

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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...

Technology 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. ...

Technology 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 ...

Technology 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.

Technology 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 ...

Technology 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,...

Technology 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...

Technology 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...

Technology 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...

Technology 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...

Technology 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...

Technology 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...

Technology 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. ...

Technology 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 ...

Technology 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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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 ...

Technology 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...

Technology 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.

Technology 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...

Technology 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...

Technology May 1, 2026

Understand Anything

Article URL: https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977470...

Technology 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...

Technology 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 ...

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Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers

AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on. ...

Technology May 1, 2026

This accessory can snap a Steam Controller to your phone — or almost anything else

Valve's new Steam Controller goes on sale on Monday for $99, and accessories-maker Mechanism will be ready. As far as we...

Technology May 1, 2026

The Gay Jailbreak Technique

Article URL: https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md Comments URL: ...

Technology May 1, 2026

Players from the NBA, NFL, and MLB call for a ban on betting ‘unders’

The unions backing professional NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, and MLS players are calling on the Commodity Futures Trading Commiss...

Technology May 1, 2026

Severe Linux Copy Fail security flaw uncovered using AI scanning help

Nearly every Linux distribution released since 2017 is currently vulnerable to a security bug called "Copy Fail" that al...

Technology May 1, 2026

DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/deepseek-v4/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4797...