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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 # Comments: 0

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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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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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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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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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Understand Anything

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

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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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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. ...

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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...

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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...

Technology May 1, 2026

The Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital Rights Conference Canceled

Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it ...

Technology May 1, 2026

Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yerr4m1yno Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976856...

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Dreame’s rocket-powered car can do 0–60 in 0.9 seconds because you can just say things now

When I first heard that a vacuum company had released a rocket-powered electric vehicle with physically impossible-sound...

Technology May 1, 2026

We just got a new reason to believe the Trump phone is real(ish)

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the ...

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Scorpions go terminator mode and reinforce their weapons with metal

Different hunting patterns seem to dictate different distributions of metal. ...

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Apocalypse Early Warning System

Article URL: https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976566 Points: 24 # Com...

Technology May 1, 2026

Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests

Article URL: https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-t...

Technology May 1, 2026

Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months

Article URL: https://www.briefs.co/news/uber-torches-entire-2026-ai-budget-on-claude-code-in-four-months/ Comments URL:...

Technology May 1, 2026

Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks

The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial d...

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GPT-5.5 matches heavily hyped Mythos Preview in new cybersecurity tests

New results suggest Mythos' cyber threat isn't "a breakthrough specific to one model." ...

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Is your Purosangue SUV not sharp enough? Ferrari has you covered.

We'll soon get to see the brand's first EV; first, a more honed V12 four-seater. ...

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An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open

Article URL: https://keepthingsopen.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975785 Points: 22 # Commen...

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Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/canonical_confirms_ubuntu_infrastructure_under/ Comments URL: https...

Technology May 1, 2026

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

I'll be here for the next 6 hours. As usual, there are lots of possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're in...

Technology May 1, 2026

whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search

Article URL: https://github.com/whohas/whohas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975592 Points: 6 # C...

Technology May 1, 2026

Aurzen’s tiny trifold projector is almost 40 percent off right now

Not all trifolds are created equal — just ask our own Allison Johnson, who recently spent time with Samsung’s ill-fa...