Everything Hacker News read today

All the bugs they found (andreapivetta.com)

Simulating Infinity in Conway’s Game of Life with Modern C++ (ryanjk5.github.io)

The Water Dictionary (waterdictionary.net)

New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output | Red Hat Developer (developers.redhat.com)

OpenAI to confidentially file for IPO as soon as Friday: Source (cnbc.com)

Samuel Alito Has Exposed Himself to Felony Bribery Charges Under New Jersey Law. I’m Filing for His Disbarment and Submitting a Criminal Referral.

GitHub - kageroumado/phosphene: A video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe (github.com)

A Markdown-based test suite (blogsystem5.substack.com)

Yes We Scan: backstory and how it works (yes-we-scan.app)

Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI (techcrunch.com)

Your Most Improbable Life (kevinkelly.substack.com)

GitHub - kageroumado/phosphene: A video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe (github.com)

GitHub - cynchro/deepseekCLI (github.com)

The OEIS meta sequence and subway stations (jeremykun.com)

DOS Zone | DOS games in browser (dos.zone)

GitHub - kouhxp/yapsnap: Snap any video URL or audio file into plaintext. No GPU. No cloud. One command. (github.com)

Long-term editing of brain circuits using an engineered electrical synapse (nature.com)

Why age assurance laws matter for developers (github.blog)

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried with Pages from Homer’s Iliad: When Literature Guided Souls Through the Afterlife (openculture.com)

On Google declaring war on the Web (tante.cc)

GitHub - mupt-ai/dari-docs: optimize your documentation through fleets of agents (github.com)

PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self-⁠Play (vmax.ai)

Declining America (tbray.org)

Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing (science.org)

SpaceX punts Starship V3 launch to May 21 as investigation opens into Starbase worker’s death (scientificamerican.com)

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (bleepingcomputer.com)

irhum.github.io - LoRA and Weight Decay (irhum.github.io)

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry (openai.com)

VICTORY! Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement after First Amendment lawsuit (fire.org)

Beyond Plastics Tracked Starbucks’ ‘Widely Recyclable’ Plastic Cups. None Ended Up at a Recycling Facility. — Beyond Plastics - Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution (beyondplastics.org)

Node.js — Node.js 26.0.0 (Current) (nodejs.org)

The Missile Genius America Lost— and China Gained (usni.org)

Beyond Plastics Tracked Starbucks’ ‘Widely Recyclable’ Plastic Cups. None Ended Up at a Recycling Facility. — Beyond Plastics - Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution (beyondplastics.org)

CEO Walks Back Comment About Replacing ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’ With AI (wsj.com)

Manton Reece - Why is Inkwell stuck in review (manton.org)

Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90% (newatlas.com)

The programmer whose code underpins the Internet (scientificamerican.com)

GitHub - ueberdosis/hocuspocus: The Yjs CRDT WebSocket backend for conflict-free real-time collaboration in your app. (github.com)

Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?

Why I Don’t Vibe Code (jacobharr.is)

tokenspeed — feel LLM tokens-per-second (mikeveerman.github.io)

Incident Report: May 19, 2026- GCP Account Suspension (blog.railway.com)

SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (pvk.ca)

After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban (404media.co)

Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia and the UAE (alqst.org)

GitHub - bytedance/Lance: A 3B-active-parameter native unified multimodal model for image and video understanding, generation, and editing. (github.com)

Exclusive | OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Very Soon (wsj.com)

Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC (appleinsider.com)

Handling the great code forge fragmentation (alexselimov.com)

Structural Backpressure Beats Smarter Agents (reubenbrooks.dev)

Stable Audio 3 (arxiv.org)

SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (pvk.ca)

SmartMedia card interface spec opened, available for free (edn.com)

Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel. (lithub.com)

GitHub - shenli/distributed-system-testing: AI-agent skills for distributed-systems testing (github.com)

VICTORY! Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement after First Amendment lawsuit (fire.org)

GitHub - deng-ai-lab/SFHformer: When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (ECCV 2024) (github.com)

Autoregressive next token prediction & KV Cache in transformers (medium.com)

560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits - BMJ Group (bmjgroup.com)

Daniel's Blog · America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen (danieltan.weblog.lol)

GitHub - deng-ai-lab/SFHformer: When Fast Fourier Transform Meets Transformer for Image Restoration (ECCV 2024) (github.com)

Adieu Visa et Mastercard : 130 millions d'Européens basculent vers un paiement 100 % souverain dès 2026 (lesnumeriques.com)

Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia and the UAE (alqst.org)

Saying goodbye to asm.js (spidermonkey.dev)

Anna’s Archive Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order (torrentfreak.com)

Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back (bbc.com)

No way to parse integers in C (blog.habets.se)

College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos — 'deal with it' one speaker fires back as students heckle positive pitches for AI's role (tomshardware.com)

No way to parse integers in C (blog.habets.se)

The invention of buses (worksinprogress.co)

Incident Report: May 19, 2026 - GCP Account Suspension (blog.railway.com)

Learnings from 100K Lines of Rust with AI (zfhuang99.github.io)

GitHub - wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks: CLI and library for removing visible (Gemini) and invisible (SynthID, C2PA, EXIF) AI watermarks from images (github.com)

GitHub - danindiana/rtx3080-rebar-vbios: Scripts and guide for flashing RTX 3080 VBIOS to enable Resizable BAR (8GB BAR1) on Linux (github.com)

Incident Report: May 19, 2026 - GCP Account Suspension (status.railway.com)

Simulated Evolution on the PICO-8 (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)

There’s No Earthly Way of Knowing Which Direction We Are Going… (kottke.org)

Copy Fail: From Pod to Host. - Xint (xint.io)

Infomaniak secures its independence and its DNA for the long term (news.infomaniak.com)

Nostalgic Kits Central (nostalgickitscentral.com)