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‘Backrooms’ Takes You Deeper Inside the Internet’s Most Uncanny Horror Myth

Kane Parsons was just 16 years old when he created a viral YouTube horror series based on a 4chan meme. Now he’s ready to conquer the big screen.

Wired • May 30, 2026 • Miles Klee
Technology May 30, 2026

Keychron K2 HE Concrete Edition Review: Rock-Solid Typing

Keychron's K2 HE Concrete Edition sounds like a cute gimmick, but as I discovered, there's a really solid keyboard beyon...

Technology May 30, 2026

Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team

Article URL: https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334854 Points...

Technology May 30, 2026

Tello Mobile Plan Review (2026): Low Cost, Reliable Service

With inflation and gas prices rising, I’m trying to save money wherever I can. I tested Tello’s budget cell phone pl...

Technology May 30, 2026

Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/05/28/leos-first-encyclical-attacks-technological-messianism Comment...

Technology May 30, 2026

Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell’s MyPillow

Plus: A ransomware group is now stealing data in person, BusPatrol wants to hand its license plate surveillance data to ...

Technology May 30, 2026

Quilts Are Better Than Sleeping Bags

Tired of sleeping like a mummy in a bag? Improve your backcountry sleep and carry less weight with an ultralight quilt.

Technology May 30, 2026

Environmentalists turn out in force to oppose Trump coal ash rollbacks

Trump admin wants to rely on states for coal ash monitoring, enforcement, allow them to bypass ...

Technology May 30, 2026

Pandoc Templates

Article URL: https://pandoc-templates.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334515 Points: 8 # Comm...

Technology May 30, 2026

Do You Actually Need to Pay for Transcription Software?

I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick ...

Technology May 30, 2026

The Kaiser and a "Mediocre Man" Theory of History

Article URL: https://www.deadcarl.com/p/the-kaiser-and-a-mediocre-man-theory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology May 30, 2026

Is the Ferrari Luce’s Design Really That Bad? 3 Italian Auto Experts Weigh In

The first electric Ferrari is already this year’s most divisive car. We asked three Italian auto industry professional...

Technology May 30, 2026

Millions of Bees Have Thrived Under a New York Cemetery for More Than a Century

A walk in the cemetery led to Cornell researchers discovering an underground colony of bees with an estimated population...

Technology May 30, 2026

Zig: Build System Reworked

Article URL: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-26 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334048 Po...

Technology May 30, 2026

Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits

Article URL: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345332213390 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology May 30, 2026

Nike World Cup Uniforms Made of Recycled Textiles Won’t Solve Fashion Waste

The activewear giant has used chemical recycling to make jersey for 16 teams competing in the tournament. But the techni...

Technology May 30, 2026

Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/mind-blowing-iron-rich-immune-cells-help-homing-pigeons-navigate C...

Technology May 30, 2026

The SLAX Scripting Language: An Alternate Syntax for XSLT

Article URL: http://juniper.github.io/libslax/slax-manual.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333...

Technology May 30, 2026

Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/danish-pension-fund-excludes-spacex-citing-governance-valuatio...

Technology May 30, 2026

Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9

Article URL: https://github.com/mplsllc/macsurf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333440 Points: 16 ...

Technology May 30, 2026

Company accidentally blows $500M on Claude AI in one month

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/company-accidentally-blows-500-000-000-on-claude-ai-in-one-month...

Technology May 30, 2026

OpenRCT2 v0.5.1 "Swamp Castle" released Last version to support Windows 7

Article URL: https://openrct2.io/blog/2026/05/openrct2-v0.5.1-released Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology May 30, 2026

Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM

Article URL: https://www.perryts.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332151 Points: 7 # Comments:...

Technology May 30, 2026

Show HN: VT Code – open-source terminal coding agent in Rust

Article URL: https://github.com/vinhnx/VTCode Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332098 Points: 7 # C...

Technology May 30, 2026

Naphtha Shortages Having a Growing Impact in Japan

Article URL: https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02783/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331786 P...

Technology May 30, 2026

Founders seize on Indian court ruling to revive criticism of Google’s ad business

The ruling drew support from founders, while lawyers said it could force platforms to revisit how they handle trademarke...

Technology May 30, 2026

WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/white-house-proposes-new-rules-giving-political-appointees-fina...

Technology May 30, 2026

Movwin: My (Unpublished) TUI Framework

Article URL: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-05-29/0/POSTING-en.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology May 30, 2026

I went to the so-called ‘steroid Olympics,’ to understand why Silicon Valley is obsessed with peptides

The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing dr...

Technology May 30, 2026

Britain has crushed immigration, and harmed itself

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/05/28/britain-has-crushed-immigration-and-harmed-itself Comments UR...