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Stories from May 8, 2026 (UTC)
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1.
Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)
903 points by stefanpie 1 day ago | 613 comments
2.
Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)
1291 points by PriorityLeft 1 day ago | 928 comments
3.
Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)
957 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 759 comments
4.
Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)
824 points by psxuaw 1 day ago | 438 comments
5.
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)
903 points by anonymousiam 12 hours ago | 296 comments
6.
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
1580 points by CliffStoll 2 days ago | 242 comments
7.
An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)
422 points by ColinWright 19 hours ago | 155 comments
8.
David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)
578 points by defrost 19 hours ago | 111 comments
9.
Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)
333 points by sbt567 1 day ago | 212 comments
10.
Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered (storica.club)
298 points by cemsakarya 2 days ago | 129 comments
11.
Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM (btxx.org)
212 points by xngbuilds 16 hours ago | 89 comments
12.
Cartoon Network Flash Games (webdesignmuseum.org)
327 points by willmeyers 14 hours ago | 104 comments
13.
US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos (war.gov)
278 points by david-gpu 19 hours ago | 421 comments
14.
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk.com)
312 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 129 comments
15.
Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)
667 points by ribtoks 17 hours ago | 338 comments
16.
Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school (theguardian.com)
343 points by rustoo 3 days ago | 538 comments
17.
Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)
386 points by wslh 1 day ago | 336 comments
18.
A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)
560 points by mwheelz 18 hours ago | 277 comments
19.
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)
146 points by hhs 1 day ago | 62 comments
20.
Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)
348 points by HieronymusBosch 1 day ago | 156 comments
21.
Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)
196 points by hhs 1 day ago | 76 comments
22.
PC Engine CPU (jsgroth.dev)
137 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 58 comments
23.
GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com/robertdfrench)
124 points by foltik 1 day ago | 56 comments
24.
ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)
266 points by Borkdude 1 day ago | 72 comments
25.
Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
353 points by mittermayr 23 hours ago | 277 comments
26.
You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE) (ze3tar.github.io)
174 points by MrBruh 11 hours ago | 97 comments
27.
AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours (cnbc.com)
201 points by christhecaribou 1 day ago | 132 comments
28.
A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings (ivanpleshkov.dev)
99 points by timvisee 3 days ago | 28 comments
29.
The Disappearance of the Public Bench (placesjournal.org)
136 points by cainxinth 2 days ago | 170 comments
30.
GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)
206 points by gmays 1 day ago | 63 comments

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