1. Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s (github.com)
The only tool you need to know what is happening and how to fix it. - tracewayapp/traceway
2. When "idle" isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug (blog.cloudflare.com)
We investigated a bug where CUBIC
3. Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads (www.theverge.com)
Hey Meta, why are Threads users angry?
5. S-100 Virtual Workbench (grantmestrength.github.io)
6. Making the news available at no cost is a victory (www.sltrib.com)
Folks, it's happening.
The Salt Lake Tribune's journalism will be free to read starting Thursday.
Read all about it here — and how you can support us in this new phase.
The Salt Lake Tribune's journalism will be free to read starting Thursday.
Read all about it here — and how you can support us in this new phase.
7. The great memory panic of 2026 – Asymco (asymco.com)
Office Hours question asked by by Ian H. on May 1, 2026 Q: Memory prices could move from 15% to 40% of the BOM of a device. This seems incredible. So how can Apple deal with this? This has been on …
8. Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined (dynomight.net)
ratios will be ratios
9. 50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers (fortune.com)
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.
10. The Boring Part of Bell Labs (2025) (acesounderglass.com)
It took me a long time to realize that Bell Labs was cool. You see, my dad worked at Bell Labs, and he has not done a single cool thing in his life except create me and bring a telescope to my thir…
11. Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration (www.tryardent.com)
Create copies of any Postgres database in under 6 seconds. Let coding agents test, clean, and migrate data on isolated branches with zero risk to production.
12. Web Server on a Nintendo Wii (wii.sjmulder.nl)
13. Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams (github.com)
fc is a research-grade, lossless floating point compressor. - xtellect/fc
14. Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs (bitplane.net)
16. Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems (atalaykutlay.com)
I’ve been working on improving how we schedule maintenance in Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, especially disruptive maintenance on hypervisor hosts serving hundreds of thousands of guest VMs. The problem is fairly complex, with competing constraints such as capacity, customer disruption SLAs, and concurrency limits across hosts, racks, and datacenters.
17. Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea (techcrunch.com)
There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time.
18. Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways (vittorioromeo.com)
Article/tutorial on http://vittorioromeo.com
19. Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (2005) (greem.co.uk)
20. A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools (andreafortuna.org)
A nostalgic and slightly sardonic look at the tools, IRC channels, and cultural chaos that defined the late 1990s and early 2000s hacker scene.
21. Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar (arstechnica.com)
Very painful": Altman relives his Muskian reaction to losing control over OpenAI.
22. GitHub Actions issued GitHub_TOKEN disclosure in GitHub Actions logs (github.com)
### Summary
Composer leaks the full contents of tokens configured as GitHub OAuth tokens if they do not match Composer's expected format for such tokens to stderr. GitHub has introduced a new fo...
Composer leaks the full contents of tokens configured as GitHub OAuth tokens if they do not match Composer's expected format for such tokens to stderr. GitHub has introduced a new fo...
24. Show HN: Torrix, self hosted, LLM Observability,(no Postgres, no Redis) (github.com)
Contribute to torrix-ai/install development by creating an account on GitHub.
26. Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains (www.404media.co)
“It's making me dumber for sure.”
27. Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI (zero-native.dev)
Build desktop apps with Zig and selectable web engines. System WebView or bundled Chromium.
28. Up in Smoke (thebaffler.com)
A partial history of the hidden labor that makes possible the poems, stories, essays, and books you read.
29. The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare (kerkour.com)
"Is Rust a great fit for this project?" I get this question quite frequently so I think it's time to write down my thoughts if it can help to avoid