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Covers AI agents, dev tools, startups, and cutting-edge tech. en-us Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:09 GMT USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought https://www.agweb.com/news/usda-projects-smallest-us-wheat-harvest-1972-due-plains-drought 198 points, 129 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:09 GMT dev Leaving the Physical World https://www.eff.org/pages/leaving-physical-world 144 points, 64 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:09 GMT dev Myths about /dev/urandom (2014) https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ 67 points, 35 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:09 GMT dev The Tree House: A voyage to the source of a backyard dream https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/tree-house 56 points, 6 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:09 GMT dev Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay https://numa.rs/blog/posts/odoh-anonymous-dns-without-an-account.html 100 points, 32 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:09 GMT dev Claude AI recovers an 11 yrs old BTC wallet holding 400k USD https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/bitcoin-trader-recovers-usd400-000-using-claude-ai-after-losing-wallet-password-11-years-ago-bot-tried-3-5-trillion-passwords-before-decrypting-an-old-wallet-backup 242 points, 113 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:09 GMT dev MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students https://president.mit.edu/writing-speeches/video-transcript-message-president-kornbluth-about-funding-and-talent-pipeline 416 points, 403 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:09 GMT dev Computer Hobby Movement in Canada https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/hobby_canada/hobby_canada 135 points, 35 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:09 GMT dev Removing the Modem and GPS from My 2024 RAV4 Hybrid https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-from-my-rav4/ 69 points, 22 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:09 GMT dev RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game? https://scottjg.com/posts/2026-05-05-egpu-mac-gaming/ 212 points, 61 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:09 GMT dev pranshuparmar/witr: Why is this running? https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr Why is this running? Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:08 GMT dev AikidoSec/safe-chain: Protect against malicious code installed via npm, yarn, pnpm, npx, pnpx, pip, uv and poetry with Aikido Safe Chain. Free to use, no tokens required. https://github.com/AikidoSec/safe-chain Protect against malicious code installed via npm, yarn, pnpm, npx, pnpx, pip, uv and poetry with Aikido Safe Chain. Free to use, no tokens required. Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:08 GMT dev NVIDIA-AI-Blueprints/video-search-and-summarization: Suite of reference architectures for building GPU-accelerated vision agents and AI-powered video analytics applications. https://github.com/NVIDIA-AI-Blueprints/video-search-and-summarization Suite of reference architectures for building GPU-accelerated vision agents and AI-powered video analytics applications. Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:07 GMT dev roboflow/supervision: We write your reusable computer vision tools. 💜 https://github.com/roboflow/supervision We write your reusable computer vision tools. 💜 Thu, 14 May 2026 18:00:07 GMT dev Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026/05/princeton-news-adpol-proctoring-in-person-examinations-passed-faculty-133-years-precedent 310 points, 446 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 07:00:09 GMT dev Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsoft-bitlocker-protected-drives-can-now-be-opened-with-just-some-files-on-a-usb-stick-yellowkey-zero-day-exploit-demonstrates-an-apparent-backdoor 116 points, 63 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 07:00:09 GMT dev Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book https://ardoedo.it/kempelen/ 140 points, 39 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 07:00:09 GMT dev The Emacsification of Software https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/ 267 points, 176 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 07:00:09 GMT dev MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/ 182 points, 192 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 07:00:09 GMT dev Cisco workforce reductions https://blogs.cisco.com/news/our-path-forward 163 points, 122 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 07:00:08 GMT dev Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-linux-kernel-features/ 649 points, 431 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 07:00:08 GMT dev Scorched Earth 2000 – Web http://www.scorch2000.com/web/ 208 points, 80 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 07:00:08 GMT dev Claude for Small Business https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-business 154 points, 92 comments on HN Thu, 14 May 2026 07:00:08 GMT dev Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/drop-database-what-not-to-do-after-losing-an-it-job/ 56 points, 16 comments on HN Wed, 13 May 2026 18:00:10 GMT dev Haiku https://www.haiku-os.org 104 points, 47 comments on HN Wed, 13 May 2026 18:00:10 GMT dev I moved my digital stack to Europe https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/ 682 points, 457 comments on HN Wed, 13 May 2026 18:00:10 GMT dev Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=37.%20Pixter 167 points, 37 comments on HN Wed, 13 May 2026 18:00:10 GMT dev New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260510030950.htm 241 points, 105 comments on HN Wed, 13 May 2026 18:00:10 GMT dev An idiot's guide to lead optimisation for proteins https://magnusross.github.io/posts/protein-lead-optimisation-1/ 94 points, 7 comments on HN Wed, 13 May 2026 18:00:10 GMT dev The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization https://avkcode.github.io/blog/us-winning-ai-race.html 62 points, 164 comments on HN Wed, 13 May 2026 18:00:10 GMT dev