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Async Rust never left the MVP state

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🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I've previously explained async bloat and some work-arounds for it, but would much prefer to solve the issue at the root, in the compiler. I've submitted a Project Goal, and am looking for help to fund the effort.I love me some async Rust! It's amazing how we can write executor agnostic code that can run concurrently on huge servers and tiny microcontrollers.But especially on those tiny microcontrollers we notice that async Rust is far from the zero cost abstractions we were promised. That's because every…

Barocal can chill your food and drink by squeezing a large piece of plastic crystal

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✨ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,Barocal,Breakthrough Energy,Exclusive 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Today's refrigerators operate on the same basic technology as they did more than 100 years ago. You'd think we could have come up with something better by now. We did, but nothing could beat cheap, reliable steam pressure—the process that keeps milk cold today. One startup is hoping to change that. Barocal has developed a completely new method of heating and cooling using an inexpensive solid material. Prototypes are already as efficient as current refrigerator compressors, and the technology promises to use much less…

The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls — Seth Larson

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (カエルの為(ため)に鐘(かね)は鳴(な)る) is a Japanese-only Game Boy title published in 1992 by Nintendo and developed by Intelligent Systems. The title’s official English translation is “The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls”. For brevity, I’ll be using the title “Frog Game” in this article. After I finished Link’s Awakening, the Frog Game started popping up everywhere in my digital life. The first occurrence was without my knowledge: some of the characters in Link’s Awakening, Prince Richard and his frogs, are…

DoorDash is adding AI tools to speed up the merchant onboarding and dish photo editing process

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Commerce,DoorDash,food delivery,Restaurants 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: DoorDash on Monday added new AI-powered tools that allow merchants to speed up the setup process, edit photos to make dishes look better, and create websites based on their app menus. The onboarding tool works similarly to one Amazon launched in 2024. Merchants can point the tool to their website, from which it will automatically fetch information such as photos, store hours and menu items to create an app-based menu. Traders can review and edit all of this information before publishing the listing. DoorDash…

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

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💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Two weeks ago I wrote about Anthropic silently registering a Native Messaging bridge in seven Chromium-based browsers on every machine where Claude Desktop was installed [1]. The pattern was: install on user launch of product A, write configuration into the user's installs of products B, C, D, E, F, G, H without asking. Reach across vendor trust boundaries. No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually, every time Claude Desktop is launched. This week I discovered the same pattern,…

5 days to get 50% off the second Disrupt 2026 pass

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💥 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Biotech & Health,Climate,Crypto,Fintech,Fundraising,Hardware,Media & Entertainment,Robotics,Security,Space,Startups,Transportation,Venture,TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: That's it. BOGO show live. For a limited time, purchase one ticket to TechCrunch disabled 2026 and Get 50% discount on the second of the same type of ticket. This is a short window to bring someone with you — and get the most out of being there. Bring a colleague. Co-founder. a partner. BOGO offer ends May 8 at 11:59 PM PT. Then, prices go up, and you'll pay more for the same access. Get 50% off second…

Hand‑drawn QR codes — Seth Larson

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I really like QR codes. Recently I purchased a new sticky-note-like pad from a new local stationery store in Minneapolis. The sheets have a 10x10 grid and 2x10 grid. I knew what I wanted to do, I wanted to create a QR code on a sheet. The smallest QR code (besides micro QR codes) is "version 1" which uses 21x21 pixels. We'll have to split the squares in half and then use some of the margin. Version 1 QR codes can hold URLs up to…

US healthcare markets have shared nationality and race data with ad tech giants

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💥 Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Privacy,Security,cybersecurity,healthcare,In Brief ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Nearly all of the 20 U.S. government-run health insurance marketplaces shared resident application information with advertising and technology giants, including Google, LinkedIn, Meta and Snap, according to a new Bloomberg investigation. The report highlights privacy issues created by pixel-sized trackers, which allow website owners to collect information about their visitors, often for web analytics and error identification. These trackers are a common tool in digital advertising, and also allow personal information to be collected if misconfigured and placed on websites containing sensitive content, such…

Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache • The Register

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustache has been reported as enough to fool age detection software. Like keeping booze away from teenagers or nudie mags out of the hands of young lads, slapping a big “restricted, 18+” label on parts of the internet hasn't stopped kids testing the limits. Those…

Fifa, Pro Evolution Soccer, Football Manager: Ranking of the most famous football players in video games

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 3. Taunton Zulu Mukoko (Championship Manager 01-02)“We went to a small village in Malaysia,” Tonton Zola Mukoko told me. “I gave my passport to the officer. He was shocked. “Are you really Tonton Zola Mukoko?” he asked. “You can’t be the one who was playing in Derby!”The legend of Mokoko has traveled far and wide, being relayed to fan forums and whispered among tournament director Anurak. And there was truth at its roots.Derby beat out AC Milan and Bologna to sign the 15-year-old from Djurgardens…