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Monday, May 26, 2025

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All Stories from Today

CSS Minecraft (benjaminaster.com)

German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal (www.politico.eu)

Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp (lisp-journey.gitlab.io)

Google shared my phone number (danq.me)

Owls in Towels (owlsintowels.org)

Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails (htxt.co.za)

A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air (blog.seas.upenn.edu)

Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names (mondaybits.com)

TIL: timeout in Bash scripts (heitorpb.github.io)

Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs? (news.ycombinator.com)

GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world (simonwillison.net)

Lossless video compression using Bloom filters (github.com)

Claude 4 and GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories (twitter.com)

Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives (torrentfreak.com)

Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial (www.science.org)

Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions (github.com)

Jjui – A Nice TUI for Jujutsu (github.com)

Bagel: Open-source unified multimodal model (bagel-ai.org)

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine (www.solarshades.club)

Google is burying the web alive (nymag.com)

Particle Life simulation in browser using WebGPU (lisyarus.github.io)

TeleMessage Customers Include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan,Hundreds (micahflee.com)

TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech (spectrum.ieee.org)

Britain's police are restricting speech in worrying ways (www.economist.com)

GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (invariantlabs.ai)

Data breach exposes 184M passwords, likely captured by malware (www.zdnet.com)

I think it's time to give Nix a chance (maych.in)

Power Failure: The downfall of General Electric (www.gwintrob.com)

Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt (simonwillison.net)

WavePhoenix – Open-source implementation of the Nintendo WaveBird protocol (github.com)