2. Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better (www.gutenberg.org)
Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
3. Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying (tmctmt.com)
Mullvad is one of the few VPN providers that offers multiple exit IPs for its servers. If two people connect to the same server, they will usually end up with different public IPs.
With only 578 servers (compared to Proton VPN’s 20,000), this kind of vertical scaling makes sense to avoid cramming too many users onto one IP, which would be a problem on sites with overzealous IP blocks and ratelimits.
With only 578 servers (compared to Proton VPN’s 20,000), this kind of vertical scaling makes sense to avoid cramming too many users onto one IP, which would be a problem on sites with overzealous IP blocks and ratelimits.
4. California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down (arstechnica.com)
Publishers would have to offer "independent" play patch or refunds after server shutdowns.
5. Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop (explorer.samismith.com)
Browse Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and the Earth itself as a folder tree on a Windows XP desktop.
6. 'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system (www.bbc.com)
The government said its in-house IT system was "more flexible" while meeting "high standards" of security.
7. Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust" (github.com)
error: Undefined Behavior: constructing invalid value of type &[u8]: encountered a dangling reference (0x20933[noalloc] has no provenance) --> src/main.rs:97:18 | 97 | unsafe { core::slice::from_ra...
8. U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app (macdailynews.com)
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking personal data on potentially hundreds of thousands of drivers who downloaded EZ Lynk’s Auto Agent…
9. A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10 (projectzero.google)
We recently published an exploit chain for the Google Pixel 9 that demonstrated it was possible t...
10. Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage–so they're making up tasks (www.fastcompany.com)
11. ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline (twitter.com)
12. The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program (turso.tech)
For almost a year now, Turso has had a program that pays $1,000 for any bug that can be demonstrated to lead to data corruption. Today, we are retiring this program.
13. Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts (www.theregister.com)
60% of evaluated AI Scribe systems mixed up prescribed drugs in patient notes, auditors say
14. The Zulip Foundation (blog.zulip.com)
Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra
Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership
to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the
company to a newly created, independent, nonprofit Zulip Foundation. …
Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership
to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the
company to a newly created, independent, nonprofit Zulip Foundation. …
15. The sigmoids won't save you (www.astralcodexten.com)
16. Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks (github.com)
Find the local LLM that actually runs — and performs best — on your hardware. Ranked by real, recency-aware benchmarks, not parameter count. One command, run it instantly. - Andyyyy64/whichllm
17. Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha (www.tristandc.com)
More details and pictures have come in of the intrepid airdrop of urgent medical support sent to Tristan by the UK Government on the 9th May 2026.
18. Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site (www.fastcompany.com)
19. Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git (radicle.dev)
Sovereign code infrastructure.
20. More than half of U.S. faces worst drought in decades (news.vt.edu)
More than 60 percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions, with more than 20 percent in an extreme drought. Andrew Ellis, a climatologist at Virginia Tech said the current conditions are among the worst in decades because the combination of intensity and aerial coverage is rare. He explained why, who is most impacted, and when we can expect relief.
21. How Claude Code works in large codebases (claude.com)
22. O(x)Caml in Space (gazagnaire.org)
On 23 April, Borealis booted in orbit on DPhi Space's ClusterGate-2: a pure-OCaml CCSDS protocol stack with end-to-end-encrypted command and control and post-quantum key rotation. OxCaml is what comes next.
23. Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints (writing.antonleicht.me)
24. Steve Jobs Next Computer: His Forgotten Exile Years (spectrum.ieee.org)
A new book recalls forgotten lessons from his time at NeXT Computer
25. Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after they drive into flood waters (www.cnbc.com)
Waymo issued a voluntary recall of about 3,800 of its robotaxis to fix software issues that could allow them to drive into flooded roadways.
27. Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials (www.thenational.scot)
US tech surveillance firm Palantir has hired 32 senior UK government and public sector officials since 2012, it has been reported ...
28. Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake (ppo.gradexp.xyz)
30. Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image (github.com)
An image-to-world skillset for Claude. Contribute to neilsonnn/image-blaster development by creating an account on GitHub.