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The Mother's Day Gifts Our Editors Love (2026)
From smart rings and everlasting flowers to weighted vests and LED masks, there's a gift for every kind of mom.
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May 2, 2026
Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data
Hi HN — author here. iesna.eu is a browser-based ecosystem for working with photometric data: parsing standard lumina...
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May 2, 2026
Why Does Wikipedia Think I’m Evan Spiegel?
For the past week, a photo of me has been plastered on the CEO of Snap’s Wikipedia page. No one, not even Spiegel, see...
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May 2, 2026
Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling
Hey HN!I built SimplePDF Copilot: an AI assistant that can interact with the PDF editor. It fills fields, answers quest...
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May 2, 2026
Show HN: Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s
Hello HN, over the past 7 months I've spent nearly 3,000 hours on building SNEWPAPERS, the first historical newpaper ar...
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May 2, 2026
Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013)
Article URL: https://agis.io/post/dabbling-in-erlang-a-minimal-introduction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...
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May 2, 2026
Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables, and which one is right?
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150417-00/?p=44213 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...
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May 2, 2026
SKILL.make: Makefile Styled Skill File
Article URL: https://github.com/Teaonly/SKILL.make Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984486 Points: ...
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May 2, 2026
Show HN: Hollow is an open-sourced self-modifying agentic system
Article URL: https://github.com/ninjahawk/hollow-agentOS Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984301 Po...
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May 2, 2026
Open source ballistic simulator with NASA SRTM terrain masking (Python/C#)
Article URL: https://github.com/InsaneInfinity/Balistic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984291 Poi...
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May 2, 2026
Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC eve...
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May 2, 2026
Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations
Article URL: https://www.spiritrestructuring.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983873 Points: 6...
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May 2, 2026
Show HN: Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds
Article URL: https://mathstick.github.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983485 Points: 3 # Commen...
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May 2, 2026
Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)
Article URL: https://reiner.org/neural-net-ciphers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983467 Points: ...
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May 2, 2026
Columbia Promo Codes: 15% Off | May2026
Explore current Columbia deals on jackets, outdoor gear, and apparel. Find active Columbia promo codes, student discount...
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May 2, 2026
CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/rEWfZ6R-senior-forward-deployed-engineer Comments U...
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May 2, 2026
Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
Article URL: https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions Comments URL...
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May 2, 2026
Ask Jeeves Shut Down
Article URL: https://www.ask.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983226 Points: 20 # Comments: 2
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May 2, 2026
K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes
Article URL: https://github.com/rancher/k3k Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983176 Points: 4 # Com...
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May 2, 2026
Create an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed
Article URL: https://github.com/upenn/web-scroll-video Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982763 Poin...
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May 2, 2026
Governor – a Claude Code plugin to reduce token/context waste
Article URL: https://github.com/0xhimanshu/governor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982718 Points:...
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May 2, 2026
I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings
Article URL: https://github.com/lahfir/agent-desktop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982708 Points...
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May 2, 2026
Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising
Article URL: https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/ Comments URL: https:/...
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May 2, 2026
Thousands of Pentagon Civilian Workers Will Be Fired Next Week as Purge Begins
Article URL: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/21/pentagon-fire-5400-civilian-employees-first-step-trumps-pur...
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May 2, 2026
Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language
Article URL: https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/good-developers-learn-to-program-not-a-language Comments URL: https://news....
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May 2, 2026
A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games
Article URL: https://easel.games/blog/2026-rollback-physics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981979...
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May 2, 2026
What did you love about VB6?
Article URL: https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/vb6-modern-dotnet-question Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...
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May 1, 2026
U.S. to Withdraw 5k Troops from Germany, Pentagon Says
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/us/politics/us-troops-germany.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...
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May 1, 2026
Visual Studio 2026 still ships the form designer Alan Cooper drew in 1987
Article URL: https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/winforms-still-ships-in-visual-studio-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...
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May 1, 2026
A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025) [pdf]
Article URL: https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...