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Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)

Article URL: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2025/december/missile-genius-america-lost-and-china-gained Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48211409 Points: 22 # Comments: 14

thnaks 3 months ago

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Why is Inkwell stuck in review

Article URL: https://www.manton.org/2026/05/19/why-is-inkwell-stuck-in.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48211134 Points: 11 # Comments: 5

speckx 3 months ago

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I Don't Vibe Code

Article URL: https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210667 Points: 31 # Comments: 11

birdculture 3 months ago

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After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/after-town-bans-flock-councilmember-crashes-out-proposes-internet-and-phone-ban/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210644 Points: 56 # Comments: 40

cdrnsf 3 months ago

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Show HN: Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents

It’s well known at this point that documentation needs to be optimized for AI agents - we’re all pointing our Claude Code / Codex / Pi agents at documentation, and expecting the models to figure out how to implement a product.This, however, changes the entire optimization problem when writing docum...

byhong03 3 months ago

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

https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outageEverytime I read something like this , I get nervous about the cloud providers and Google. Since this is a relatively high profile customer standards, shouldn't they explain what caused them to suspend the account ? Comments...

srameshc 3 months ago

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Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hormuz-closure-could-trigger-agrifood-shock-price-crisis-within-year-fao-warns-2026-05-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210450 Points: 31 # Comments: 3

mooreds 3 months ago

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Apparently Google hates us now

Article URL: https://twitter.com/pokemoncentral/status/2057123807404638250 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210263 Points: 70 # Comments: 9

zeitg3ist 3 months ago

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OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-is-preparing-to-file-for-an-ipo-very-soon-0ec95af5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210226 Points: 25 # Comments: 5

louiereederson 3 months ago

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Show HN: Lance – image/video generation and understanding in one model

The model has 3B active parameters. We put the homepage, paper and model links here:- Homepage: https://lance-project.github.io/- Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18678- Model: https://huggingface.co/bytedance-research/Lancep.s. Lance is a research project, not a polished product. The model was tr...

cleardusk 3 months ago

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SBCL: The Assembly Code Breadboard (2014)

Article URL: https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-code-breadboard/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209558 Points: 33 # Comments: 0

yacin 3 months ago

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Formal Verification Gates for AI Coding Loops

Article URL: https://reubenbrooks.dev/blog/structural-backpressure-beats-smarter-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209323 Points: 23 # Comments: 1

pyrex41 3 months ago

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Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel

Article URL: https://lithub.com/nobel-laureate-olga-tokarczuk-apparently-used-ai-to-write-her-latest-novel/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209112 Points: 33 # Comments: 41

bookofjoe 3 months ago

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Stable Audio 3

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17991 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209105 Points: 25 # Comments: 2

guardienaveugle 3 months ago

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Show HN: Hocuspocus 4 – self-hosted Yjs collaboration backend

Hi HN! I'm Philip, one of the founders of Tiptap. Next to our open-source rich text editor framework, we started developing Hocuspocus about five years ago and open-sourced it too, to solve one of our biggest challenges back then: real-time collaboration in web editors. We found Yjs by Kevin Jahns,...

philipisik 3 months ago

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Testing distributed systems with AI agents

Article URL: https://github.com/shenli/distributed-system-testing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208685 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

shenli3514 3 months ago

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Victory: Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement

Article URL: https://www.fire.org/news/victory-tennessee-man-jailed-37-days-trump-meme-wins-835000-settlement-after-first-amendment Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208502 Points: 50 # Comments: 6

ceejayoz 3 months ago

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GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

Previous thread in sequence:GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316 - May 2026 (321 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207660 Points: 101 # Comments: 36

Timofeibu 3 months ago

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560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits

Article URL: https://bmjgroup.com/560-610-minutes-of-exercise-a-week-needed-for-substantial-heart-benefits/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207509 Points: 21 # Comments: 17

stevenwoo 3 months ago

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America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen

Article URL: https://danieltan.weblog.lol/2026/05/americas-greatest-strategic-blunder-the-imprisonment-of-qian-xuesen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207251 Points: 39 # Comments: 13

danieltanfh95 3 months ago

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Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment

Article URL: https://www.lesnumeriques.com/banque-en-ligne/adieu-visa-et-mastercard-130-millions-d-europeens-basculent-vers-un-paiement-100-souverain-des-2026-n250918.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207004 Points: 197 # Comments: 157

healsdata 3 months ago

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Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE

Article URL: https://www.alqst.org/ar/posts/1190 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206768 Points: 20 # Comments: 0

giuliomagnifico 3 months ago

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Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order

Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-hit-with-19-5m-default-judgment-and-global-domain-takedown-order/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206640 Points: 34 # Comments: 19

iamnothere 3 months ago

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Saying Goodbye to Asm.js

Article URL: https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206340 Points: 7 # Comments: 2

eqrion 3 months ago

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