Cearvol’s Wave Design Fights Off Hearing Loss and Aging Stigma
Cearvol’s Wave Lite hearing aids take on the stigma of aging with tech-inspired design, but they lack the nuance to be truly useful. ⌘ Read more

Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?
I asked this in 2024 and would love to see the change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41748125

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275508

Points: 10

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Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes
Article URL: https://9to5google.com/2026/05/25/motorola-amazon-app-hijacking-behavior/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274794

Points: 4

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Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S.
Article URL: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/investing/market-outlook/2026/05/25/market-outlook-canada-losing-top-talent-as-workers-head-to-the-us/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272749

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Japan’s New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality
Article URL: https://www.bgr.com/2178211/japan-hypersonic-engine-ramjet-2-hour-flights-to-us/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270812

Points: 9

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California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
Article URL: [https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-moves-to-exempt-linux-from-its-upcoming-age-verification-law-after-backlash-over-forcing-operating-systems-to-collect-users-ages-amendment-proposed-by-the-same-lawmaker-who-wr … ⌘ Read more

Best Memorial Day Mattress Deals: Helix, Saatva (2026)
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Ubers COO says its getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai-token-spending-harder-justify-2026-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268871

Points: 7

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Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
Hey HN! We’re Gary and Ian, and we’re building Chert ( https://www.trychert.com/), an API for businesses to send, receive, and automate iMessage conversations at scale. Check out our demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRdwvVxMMoI.

We originally started by building products on top of iMessage because the blue bubble interface, typing indicators, and reactions made agentic conversations feel more human than ones on SMS … ⌘ Read more

These Privacy-Conscious Gay Dating Apps Want to Dethrone Grindr
As public backlash against Big Dating mounts, a batch of new gay hookup apps offer community-powered alternatives. ⌘ Read more

In Defense of My Attachment to This Lululemon Duffel Bag (2026)
Say what you will about the brand’s leggings, but you’ll never convince me to hate this marvel of a carryall. ⌘ Read more

Use Tiny11 to Rescue a Computer Running Windows 10
If you can’t—or don’t want to—upgrade to full Windows 11, consider this lightweight version of Microsoft’s operating system that works on a wide range of computers. ⌘ Read more

A Probe Took Incredible Pictures of Mars on Its Way to a Far-Off Asteroid
NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments. ⌘ Read more

Happy 5.25 day to anyone who celebrates.

(“Colour diskettes”. Ha.)

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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com tack sharp pics, dude! Just like @movq@www.uninformativ.de, I want to know details on the rig. I am assuming a DSLR (Canon/Nikon), but if it was done with a mobile camera I wouldn’t be surprised.

Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Front End Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flick/jobs/Tdu6FH6-senior-frontend-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258995

Points: 0

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I just missed the 20 year anniversary of my blog. 😬 What a stupid long time to do this.

This started out as a PHP page with user comments, MySQL as a database, a PHP webadmin … can you believe that? Totally unnecessary. But everything was “LAMP” back then, so that’s what I was using as well. I kicked out MySQL in 2011 (it just stored files since then) and eventually switched to static HTML pages in 2015.

RSS feeds have only been there since 2009, because I was late to the party. For a long time, I didn’t understand what they were good for. 🤦

@tftp@tilde.town Ah, I see. I have a feeling that a lot of stuff is going on under the hood all the time and it’s mostly the userland-visible things that stay the same? 🤔 But yeah, some stuff is really, really old, like the TCP code I’ve recently (tried to) read.

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When (if ever) it’s appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court
Article URL: https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/when-if-ever-its-appropriate-to-make-jokes-take-selfies-or-curse-before-the-court/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258236

Points: 3

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‘AI washing’: firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/24/ai-washing-pr-firms-scrambling-rebrand

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257980

Points: 15

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The Best Browser Extensions to Get More Out of YouTube
You can significantly improve the YouTube experience with these browser add-ons. ⌘ Read more

The Worlds Left to Conquer
Article URL: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/the-worlds-left-to-conquer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256192

Points: 4

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These Robots Are Making Meals for a Nonprofit in San Francisco’s Tenderloin
A nonprofit in the city’s most troubled district has turned to robotic meal prep tech to make up for a dearth of human volunteers. ⌘ Read more

14 New Tools for Taking on the Great Outdoors Properly
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A Fundamental Principle of Aeronautical Engineering Has Been Overturned
It’s long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case. ⌘ Read more

The Universe Is Full of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes. Now Scientists Know Why
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Building things is easy. Evaluating what you build requires lots of attention. Build things you want to pay lots of attention to.

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-…

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253386

Points: 4

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ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies
Article URL: https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-awards-25-million-iris-scanning

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252720

Points: 17

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It’s time to talk about my writerdeck
Article URL: https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250144

Points: 26

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Scientists discover why the Great Pyramid is so resilient to earthquakes
The ancient wonder of the world has stood for 4,500 years - but why haven’t earthquakes caused it to collapse? To stand at the base of the Great Pyram… ⌘ Read more

Italy Cancels Boeing Pegasus Order, Shifting to Airbus A330 MRTT
Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/21/italy-moves-to-airbus-a330-tankers-in-major-nato-aligned-shift

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248775

Points: 15

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org … this reminds me that I should finally write that tutorial on how to make your own X11/Wayland keymaps. That helps a lot in mitigating stupid design issues like these.

I should have changed the key binding from Print to Shift+Print a long time ago to launch import and upload the screenshot to my server. I was constantly hitting that stupid key on accident when I actually wanted to press [AltGr].

If I only could map a key binding to slap these damn ThinkPad T15 keyboard layout designers at Lenovo remotely in the face. Seriously, who in their right mind puts Print (in German Druck) between AltGr and Ctrl at the bottom row to begin with?! Exactly. Nobody. What a horrible location.

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Quantum ‘Jamming’ Could Help Unlock the Mysteries of Causality
To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect. ⌘ Read more

The Best Smart Sprinklers and Irrigation Systems: In-Ground Sprinklers, Hose Timers (2026)
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The FBI Wants ‘Near Real-Time’ Access to US License Plate Readers
Plus: Google publishes a live exploit for an unpatched flaw, the feds arrest two men accused of creating thousands of nonconsensual deepfake nudes, and more. ⌘ Read more

All Vehicles Sold in the EU Must Be Able to Hook Up to a Breathalyzer
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White House ordering agencies to place its new app on all employees’ govt phones
Article URL: https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/05/white-house-ordering-agencies-place-its-new-app-all-employees-government-phones/413738/

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244992](https://news.ycombin … ⌘ Read more

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New rule requires most green-card applicants to apply from outside U.S.
Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/05/22/new-rule-requires-most-green-card-applicants-apply-outside-us/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244220

Points: 26

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@tftp@tilde.town hey, my pleasure! Have a great weekend! I am going to off for a few days to do a whole lot of nothing. Can’t wait! 😂

FBI director’s Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a ‘ClickFix’ attack
Article URL: https://www.pcmag.com/news/kash-patels-apparel-site-is-trying-to-trick-visitors-into-installing-malware

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243293

Points: 16

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Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda
Article URL: https://notesbylex.com/shipping-a-laptop-to-a-refugee-camp-in-uganda

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241997

Points: 7

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@kiwu@twtxt.net Wuuiii, what to do with all this free time suddenly!? Wait, what? Free time? Nah, nevermind. Now, the time begins where it gets even worse once you start a fulltime job. Congratulations, mate! :-D

How to convert between wealth and income tax
Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/winc.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237422

Points: 7

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Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search
The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it. ⌘ Read more

Mysteries revisited: the man who became a genius after a head injury
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All the Fancy Measuring Devices Used in Science Rely on Two Stone-Age Techniques
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The Gulf’s AI Boom Has an Undersea Cable Problem
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It is time to build a new internet
Article URL: https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/it-is-time-to-build-a-new-internet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231226

Points: 4

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Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis?
Global affairs chief Chris Lehane wants to tone down the debate over AI’s societal impacts—and get states to pass laws that won’t derail OpenAI’s meteoric rise. ⌘ Read more

What to Do in LA if You’re Here for Business (2025)
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Best Window Air Conditioners of 2026: Midea, Zafro, GE
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Amazon, Facebook, FBI have access to a private intelligence-sharing network
Article URL: https://prismreports.org/2026/05/20/seattle-shield-private-companies-surveillance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226588

Points: 41

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Palantir Held a Hack Week to Add New Controls to Software Used by ICE
The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE. ⌘ Read more

Launch HN: Runtime (YC P26) – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team
Hey HN, We’re Gus and Carlos from Runtime ( https://runtm.com). We’re building infra that lets your whole team (including non-engineers) ship with Claude Code, Codex, and other agents without engineering having to handhold every session.

After Mentum (YC S21) was acquired, I personally shipped 4 full-stack products in 3 months using coding agents. When I tried to roll the same workflow out to the rest of the team, it fell apart: Most PRs were unme … ⌘ Read more

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I Cloned Myself With Gemini’s AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me
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SpaceX Listed Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing
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SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers
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SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers
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I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body
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Why did giant theropod dinosaurs like T. rex have such tiny arms ?
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Trump Wants to Be the Hero Vapers Don’t Really Need
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