Weekly news | 2026-05-13

news

• Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
• StarFighter 16-Inch
• CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”
• 245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping
• Knitting bullshit
• Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions
• Appearing productive in the workplace
• Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
• Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors
• Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
• Multi-stroke text effect in CSS
• Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10
• Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
• Ted Turner has died
• Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me
• Wolfenstein 3D for Gameboy Color on custom cartridge (2016)
• Virtual violin produces realistic sounds
• Make some art with your phone sensors
• Inkscape 1.4.4
• Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
• Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer
• BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
• The Burning Man MOOP Map
• Permacomputing Principles
• SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
• Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)
• Diskless Linux boot using ZFS, iSCSI and PXE
• Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers
• ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch?
• Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
• OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family
• RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust
• AI slop is killing online communities
• Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense
• Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC
• Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)
• Programming Still Sucks
• SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags
• The Vatican's Website in Latin
• Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
• Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive
• Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI
• Pen pal programs endure in a digital age
• I want to live like Costco people
• SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice
• Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
• Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)
• The One Dollar Counterfeiter
• Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
• Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer
• Task Paralysis and AI
• Local AI needs to be the norm
• Think Linear Algebra (2023)
• What's a mathematician to do? (2010)
• Debian must ship reproducible packages
• Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
• The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962
• Surfel-based global illumination on the web
• France moves to break encrypted messaging
• Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem
• Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets
• The river otter's remarkable comeback
• Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes
• Traces Of Humanity
• Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
• YC's Biggest Scandals
• Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
• Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
• Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
• The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
• Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
• Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years
• Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
• Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer
• How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?
• Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria
• CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler
• dBase: 1979-2026
• Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)
• 7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)
• A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous
• Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
• Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house
• Bliss (Photograph)
• UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)
• PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs
• Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?
• The Boston library where you still can borrow a giant puppet

AI: - Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

• AWS:
  • Aurora DSQL JSON data type with compression
  • AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper provides client-side encryption
  • AWS Agent Toolkit help AI coding agents build effectively on AWS
  • AWS Capabilities by Region availability notifications
  • AWS India UPI Scan and Pay for sign-up and payments
  • AWS MCP Server is now generally available
  • Backup improves performance for Amazon EKS cluster backups
  • Bedrock AgentCore Memory metadata for long-term memory
  • Bedrock AgentCore now includes Payments (preview)
  • Bedrock AgentCore Runtime bring-your-own file system from Amazon S3 Files and Amazon EFS
  • CloudWatch Logs Insights querying by log group tags
  • CloudWatch RUM Session Replay for Web Applications
  • Connect adds default Step-by-Step Guides for After Contact Work
  • Connect Cases customer profile identity resolution
  • Connect Outbound Campaigns adds multi-contact time zone detection
  • Console Mobile App interactive graphs, AI log summaries, and natural language logs search to CloudWatch Alarms
  • Directory Service directory security settings with STIG-aligned controls for Managed AD
  • EC2 Instance Store CSI driver now generally available in EKS add-ons
  • ElastiCache +13 CloudWatch metrics for network capacity planning and engine diagnostics
  • ElastiCache real-time aggregations
  • ElastiCache real-time full-text, exact-match, and numeric range search
  • ElastiCache real-time hybrid search with vector and full-text
  • ElastiCache Valkey 9.0
  • Elastic Beanstalk TLS listeners for Network Load Balancers
  • Elemental MediaTailor ad trickplay personalization and compact DASH manifest optimization via dynamic transcoding
  • Elemental MediaTailor automatic secure server-to-server integration with Google's ad platforms
  • Elemental MediaTailor launches Monetization Functions
  • Entity Resolution incremental Machine Learning based matching workflows
  • EventBridge data plane logging to AWS CloudTrail
  • IAM higher maximum quotas for roles, role trust policies, instance profiles, managed policies, and identity providers
  • IAM Policy Autopilot adds Java support and Terraform-aware policy generation
  • IoT Core Device Location adds Confidence Level Configuration and Measurement Type support
  • Marketplace introduces Tax management portal for sellers
  • Marketplace programmatic procurement with Agreements API
  • MQ in-place major version upgrades for RabbitMQ 4
  • Neptune 1-click connect with CloudShell
  • OpenSearch Service expands Cluster Insights with a new insight
  • OpenSearch Service VPC egress for private connectivity to resources in your VPC
  • Payment Cryptography cross account key sharing
  • Payment Cryptography Multi-party approval for sensitive operations
  • Quick Dataset Q&A for conversational analytics against enterprise data
  • Quick generates dashboards from natural language prompts
  • Quick New Relic for observability-driven AI agents
  • Quick tables bucket as a data source
  • Quick upgrades the extension for Microsoft Outlook (Preview)
  • RDS for SQL Server instances powered by AMD EPYC processors
  • Redshift scales data ingestion automatically with concurrency scaling for batch workloads
  • Route 53 Global Resolver add and remove AWS Regions for anycast DNS resolution
  • Route 53 Resolver additional capabilities for IPv6 query traffic
  • SageMaker AI agent experience for model customization
  • SageMaker AI Capacity-Aware Inference with Automatic Instance Fallback
  • SageMaker HyperPod AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters
  • SageMaker JumpStart 4 new Qwen models
  • SageMaker Unified Studio adds identity and user management features
  • SAM BuildKit support for Lambda functions packaged as container images
  • SAM WebSocket APIs for Amazon API Gateway
  • Site-to-Site VPN modifying tunnel bandwidth on existing VPN connections
  • VPC Lattice resource configurations now support private domain-name targets
  • WorkSpaces AI agents operate desktop applications (Preview)
  • WorkSpaces Applications host-to-client URL redirection
  • For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.

tooling

• Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader
• Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989
• DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
• Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
• Show HN: adamsreview – better multi-agent PR reviews for Claude Code

blogs

• Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
• The bottleneck was never the code
• YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
• Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases
• From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
• What makes a good smartphone camera?
• Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
• RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google
• AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields
• Agents need control flow, not more prompts
• The Self-Cancelling Subscription
• I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
• Idempotency is easy until the second request is different
• We see something that works, and then we understand it
• Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
• I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up
• The Serial TTL connector we deserve
• Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes
• I'm going back to writing code by hand
• An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs
• Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
• Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s
• Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise
• AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs
• Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale
• GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values