Weekly news | 2026-05-06
news
- Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
- Cursor Camp
- The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
- Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
- Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans
- Craig Venter has died
- Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga
- How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
- Rivian allows you to disable all internet connectivity
- Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
- I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search
- How an oil refinery works
- Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell
- Mike: open-source legal AI
- CopyFail was not disclosed to distro developers?
- Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
- Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file
- London to Calcutta by Bus (2022)
- GCC 16 has been released
- A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve?
- Monad Tutorials Timeline
- Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig
- I built a Game Boy emulator in F#
- Artemis II Photo Timeline
- Ask.com has closed
- How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
- To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi
- A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]
- NetHack 5.0.0
- Dav2d
- California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws
- Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings
- Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction
- DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier
- Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade
- AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights
- Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
- The USB Situation
- Direct electrochemical black coffee quality appraisal using cyclic voltammetry
- America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance
- Show HN: Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data
- Do_not_track
- Show HN: Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks
- This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
- Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
- Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
- OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
- Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels
- A desktop made for one
- Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores
- A more efficient implementation of Shor's algorithm
- BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
- Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan
- Group averages obscure how an individual's brain controls behavior: study
- Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected
- What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it?
- Alert-driven monitoring
- How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
- New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
- Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study
- A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout
- Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)
- I built my own hair electrolysis machine
- Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013)
- GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
- Talking to strangers at the gym
- Let's Buy Spirit Air
- Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
- Introduction to Atom
- US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
- The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
- Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused
- The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
- Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer
- I am worried about Bun
- Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test
- Redis array: short story of a long development process
- Agentic Coding Is a Trap
- A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life
- Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to
- Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)
- Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
- Heat pump sales rise across Europe
- Humanoid Robot Actuators
- Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense
- Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database
- UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations
- Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold
- When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing
- 1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'
- Three Inverse Laws of AI
- Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?
- CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers
- Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025)
- Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache
- EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
- California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
- When networking doesn't work
- .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?
- Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?)
- Farewell to a Giant of Botany
- Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources
- Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs
- Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement
- Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives
AI: - Where the goblins came from - Agents for financial services and insurance
- AWS:
- Amazon Connect Decisions
- Bedrock AgentCore Identity On-Behalf-Of (OBO) token exchange
- Bedrock AgentCore optimizing agent performance |
Preview - Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Node.js for direct code deployment
- Bedrock OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents |
Limited Preview - Billing Conductor Passthrough Pricing Plan for Billing Transfer users
- CloudFront now supports invalidation by cache tag
- CloudFront WebSocket Support for VPC Origins
- CloudWatch RUM improved App Monitors overview with health, SLO, and tracing status
- CloudWatch visual agent configuration to the EC2 console
- Connect increases attachment file sizes and adds custom file types
- Connect now logs supervisor agent activity status changes to AWS CloudTrail
- Connect Talent for AI-powered hiring |
Preview - Cost Optimization Hub now supports CSV download
- EC2 C8ine and M8ine instances
- EC2 R8in and R8ib instances
- ECS Managed Instances now supports NVIDIA GPU metrics
- EKS one-click cluster access through CloudShell
- Elastic Fabric Adapter Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation
- GameLift Streams Proton 10 runtime
- IAM Roles Anywhere now enforces VPC endpoint policies for the CreateSession API
- KMS now tracks last usage of all KMS keys
- Lambda adds support for Ruby 4.0
- MQ for RabbitMQ now supports Prometheus metrics
- Neuron SDK Neuron Agentic Development for NKI kernel development on Trainium
- OpenSearch Service JWKS URL configuration for JWT authentication
- OpenSearch Service now supports index-level encryption
- OpenSearch UI cross-region data access to OpenSearch domains
- Outposts racks now support LagStatus CloudWatch metric
- Payment Cryptography paper-based key exchange
- Quick Automate APIs to trigger and monitor automation jobs
- Quick Automate import and export of automations across AWS accounts
- Quick Automate shared file storage for automations
- Quick build custom applications |
Preview - Quick Custom Sort for Filter Controls
- Quick desktop application for macOS and Windows |
Preview - Quick document-level access controls for SharePoint knowledge bases
- Quick Free and Plus pricing plans
- Quick Google Workspace, Zoom, Airtable integrations
- Quick Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word extensions |
Preview - Quick now supports document and visual creation in chat
- RDS for SQL Server cross-account snapshot sharing with additional storage volumes
- RDS for SQL Server read replica with additional storage volumes
- Redshift Concurrency Scaling Support for auto-copy and zero-ETL
- Redshift Serverless AI-driven scaling is now the default for new workgroups
- SageMaker HyperPod G7e and r5d.16xlarge instances
- SageMaker JumpStart Gemma 4 models
- SageMaker JumpStart Paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2, Table Transformer Detection, and Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct
- SageMaker Training Plans capacity utilization monitoring through CloudWatch
- SageMaker Unified Studio CI/CD CLI for data and AI applications
- Spatial Data Management adds custom transformations
- Transfer Family Terraform Okta and Microsoft Entra ID integration examples
- Transform BI migration agents for Power BI and Tableau to Amazon Quick
- WorkSpaces Personal enhances PCoIP to DCV protocol migration
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API
- Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs
- VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
- Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
- Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine
- Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET
- Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans
- Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL
- Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary
- Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web
- K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s
- Zig → Rust porting guide
- Train Your Own LLM from Scratch
blogs
- You can beat the binary search
- Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
- LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
- Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function
- Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
- Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
- LFM2-24B-A2B: Scaling Up the LFM2 Architecture
- A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
- Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
- Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
- A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games
- Why TUIs Are Back
- Because it doesn't have to
- Southwest Headquarters Tour
- Security through obscurity is not bad
- Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers
- Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)
- Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)
- Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
- How Monero’s proof of work works
- Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
- Async Rust never left the MVP state
- Agent Skills
- Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?
- iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet
- Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
- AI didn't delete your database, you did
- IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
- Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs