Weekly news | 2026-05-13
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- 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