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Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes
One little mystery—solved.
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May 14, 2026
Show HN: I built a Web-Scraper API that is 6-7x more efficient than current ones
Runo is a web-scraping API that returns typed, structured JSON. You define a schema (field name, type, example value), ...
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May 14, 2026
Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring Sr Dev Advocate to make agents cloud cost-aware
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/infracost/jobs/NzwUQ7c-senior-developer-advocate Comments URL: https...
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May 14, 2026
We Now Know How Many People the CDC Is Monitoring for Hantavirus
There are no confirmed cases in the US, but 41 people who were potentially exposed to the Andes virus are in quarantine ...
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May 14, 2026
Behold, the Elon Musk jackass trophy
Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman, before the jurors came in, Sam Altman's team passed up what looked - from a distance - lik...
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May 14, 2026
OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone
The update gives users enhanced flexibility over how they can manage their workflows.
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May 14, 2026
Leaked images reveal Xbox Elite 3 controller with mysterious new buttons
Hours after a smaller Xbox Cloud Gaming controller appeared online, Brazil's Anatel regulator has also accidentally publ...
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May 14, 2026
Minimal Structures
Article URL: https://chefcinnamon.github.io/memo/posts/minimal-structures/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
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May 14, 2026
Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware
Hardware company Atech raised $800,000 in pre-seed funding, including from a16z’s scout fund, Sequoia Scout Fund, and ...
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May 14, 2026
Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet
Article URL: https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/exploiting-the-tesla-wall-connector-from-its-charge-port-connect...
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May 14, 2026
New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references
Article URL: https://twitter.com/tdietterich/status/2055000956144935055 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...
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May 14, 2026
An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse ac...
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May 14, 2026
Cerebras IPO makes billions for Benchmark but VC Eric Vishria almost didn’t take the meeting
Benchmark almost never backs hardware startups. So Eric Vishria dragged his feet ten years ago before agreeing to hear ...
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May 14, 2026
Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/amazonbot-respecting-robots-txt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...
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May 14, 2026
RISC-V Router
Article URL: https://router.start9.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140541 Points: 5 # Comment...
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May 14, 2026
Work with Codex from Anywhere
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/work-with-codex-from-anywhere/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
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May 14, 2026
OpenAI’s Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
OpenAI is going to let users access Codex, its desktop AI tool that can write code and use apps on your computer, from t...
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May 14, 2026
What happens when AI starts building itself?
Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and...
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May 14, 2026
Meta’s summer sale drops Ray-Ban’s new smart glasses to record-low prices
If you’ve been curious about Ray-Ban’s Meta smart glasses, right now they’re on sale in Meta’s biggest deal even...
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May 14, 2026
Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves
People confide almost everything to their phones.
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May 14, 2026
Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
Town’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy. ...
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May 14, 2026
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/14/kde-bags-13m-as-europe-realizes-it-might-need-an-os-of-its-own...
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May 14, 2026
OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn’t be the first partner to feel burned
According to Bloomberg, OpenAI has enlisted an outside law firm to work through its options.
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May 14, 2026
Green Card Holders Targeted for Deportation by New 'Removal Apparatus'
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/us/politics/green-cards-immigration-deportation-trump.html Comments URL...
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May 14, 2026
Clawdmeter turns your Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard
A new open source gadget called Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard for AI coding pow...
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May 14, 2026
Trump’s Tech Posse in China, Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman, and Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories
Today on Uncanny Valley, we discuss how Donald Trump’s visit to China could influence conversations between world lead...
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May 14, 2026
WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/discussions/11096 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...
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May 14, 2026
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use An...
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May 14, 2026
Early Memorial Day Tech Deals: Sony, Apple, Beats (2026)
Lots of our most-recommended headphones, power banks, and other gadgets are on sale for Memorial Day.
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May 14, 2026
Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet
In January, Colorado lawmakers introduced a proposal to make operating systems collect users' ages and pass them to app ...