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'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015218 Points: 66 # Comments: 38

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U.S. government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in hacking campaigns, and poses a major risk to servers and datacenters that rely on Linux.

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OpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO

AI chip maker Cerebras is heading for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at $26.6 billion or more. Its relationship with OpenAI is deep and rich.

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Hackers are mass-exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites

Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers are now targeting and hacking thousands of vulnerable websites.

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"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original

"To be clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version."

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Canadian election databases use "canary traps"—and they work

Intentional errors can be useful.

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Welcome to Gas City

Article URL: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-city-57f564bb3607 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015146 Points: 20 # Comments: 34

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Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026

Article URL: https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015097 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

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Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight

Article URL: https://stripe.dev/blog/formatting-an-entire-25-million-line-codebase-overnight-the-rubyfmt-story Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014325 Points: 62 # Comments: 33

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Transformers Are Inherently Succinct

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19315 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014197 Points: 11 # Comments: 6

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Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability

Article URL: https://www.strix.ai/blog/how-strix-found-zero-auth-vulnerability-dod-backed-startup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012162 Points: 136 # Comments: 61

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“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)

Article URL: https://www.space.com/entertainment/space-games/kitten-space-agency-is-the-spiritual-successor-to-kerbal-space-program-and-they-have-an-ex-spacex-engineer-on-the-team-interview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011980

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Let's talk about LLMs

Article URL: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/apr/09/llms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011904 Points: 89 # Comments: 59

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UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations

Article URL: https://www.fuelinsight.co.uk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009747 Points: 142 # Comments: 70

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Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades

Appfigures finds visual model launches generate 6.5x more downloads — but most don’t convert that spike into revenue.