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VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025)
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/payphone-voip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172505 Points: 68 # Comments: 13
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Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260514-how-hallucinogenic-ibogaine-helps-veterans-overcome-ptsd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168159 Points: 66 # Comments: 70
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Apple’s Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats
Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri.
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Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial
A big theme in the trial’s final days was whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy.
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Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260513221821.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171906 Points: 20 # Comments: 12
Dontsurveil.me
Article URL: https://opencivics-labs.github.io/dontsurveil.me/c22.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170247 Points: 66 # Comments: 15
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Don’t Outsource the Learning
Article URL: https://addyosmani.com/blog/dont-outsource-learning/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170118 Points: 17 # Comments: 5
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Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
Hey HN! We (Stephan and Thomas) recently open-sourced Semble. We kept running into the same problem while using Claude Code on large codebases: when the agent can't find something directly, it falls back to grep, reading full files or launching subag
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AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise
Article URL: https://www.thestateofbrand.com/news/ai-subscription-time-bomb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168056 Points: 336 # Comments: 342
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If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI
It's tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence.
EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process sensitive gov data
Article URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/144943/eu-weighs-restricting-use-of-us-cloud-platforms-to-process-sensitive-government-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171015 Points: 18 # Comments: 2
Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request
Article URL: https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/2055992439031185782 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170810 Points: 45 # Comments: 7
The occasional ECONNRESET
Article URL: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-05-05/1/POSTING-en.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170799 Points: 20 # Comments: 2
Americans Are Smashing Flock Cameras
Article URL: https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/flock-cameras-destroyed-nationwide-ice-backlash-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170798 Points: 214 # Comments: 175
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Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/mistral-ceo-warns-europe-2-years-avoid-us-ai-dependence-2026-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48170122 Points: 66 # Comments: 71