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Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

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✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Been working on an open source, free, Heroku alternative at https://canine.sh for about two years.I feel like even after all these years we’re still missing the devex that Heroku provided.It’s been super fun to experiment & integrate MCP into it.We just passed 2000 developers last month actively deploying with canine.I'm working on https://engine.buildIt's a durable orchestration system for AI code generation which solves the problem of not being able to trust LLMs to complete long running (and high quality) implementations without having to babysit…

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SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here’s how that could impact the atmosphere and the night sky

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Most of humanity has a great propensity to think in the short-term, but generally, long-term considerations — air pollution, deforestation and emissions, for example — just aren't our thing. That's partly why scientists are deeply concerned about a recent SpaceX proposal to launch one million satellites — data centres — into orbit around Earth. Their concerns range from losing the natural night sky, to losing access to space, to the environmental impact on our atmosphere.At the moment, there are roughly 16,000 satellites orbiting Earth, 14,000 of…

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Spain just became one of Europe’s cheapest power markets. Here is how.

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In the first four months of 2026, the average wholesale electricity price in Spain was €44 per megawatt-hour. In Italy, it was €127. In Germany, €96. In the UK, €103. Spain is now cheaper than France, well below the central-European bloc, and within striking distance of the Nordic hydro-and-nuclear heavyweights that have always topped the cheap-power league.This is not where most observers expected Spain to be. A decade ago, Spain was a cautionary tale of stranded solar investment and one of Europe’s more expensive power…

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Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES | Andrew Nesbitt

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Report filed: 03:47 UTCStatus: Resolved (accidentally)Severity: Critical → Catastrophic → Somehow FineDuration: 73 hoursAffected systems: Yes Executive Summary: A security incident occurred. It has been resolved. We take security seriously. Please see previous 14 incident reports for details on how seriously. Summary A compromised dependency in the JavaScript ecosystem led to credential theft, which enabled a supply chain attack on a Rust compression library, which was vendored into a Python build tool, which shipped malware to approximately 4 million developers before being inadvertently patched…

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Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser’s system folders. Users who have noticed unexplained drops in their available desktop device storage are now discovering that Chrome is installing a 4GB weights.bin file inside their browser directory when certain AI features are enabled.The weights.bin file in question is connected to Google’s Gemini Nano AI model, which powers Chrome AI tools like…

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GitHub is sinking – David Bushell – Web Dev (UK)

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💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Wednesday 29 Apr 2026 Play Synthesised Audio TL;DR: GitHub used to be cool and now it’s a lame slop graveyard.GitHub is racing towards the mythical zero nines of uptime. Users are starting to notice that GitHub is now a Microsoft product. Eww!Official uptime paints a concerning chart. The missing status page tell a far worse story. Whatever the truth, it’s impossible to miss the delightful experience that is Microsoft GitHub if you use it semi-regularly.AltLine chart showing GitHub average uptime by month following the Microsoft…

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Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to ‘Go (Bleep) yourself’ over its threatened lawsuit against enthusiast — Right to Repair advocate offers to pay the legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Louis Rossmann has officially pledged $10,000 to cover the initial legal fees for an independent software developer threatened with a cease and desist letter from Bambu Lab. He posted a video on Saturday to mobilize the Right to Repair community to back the developer and crowd-fund his legal defense. Rossmann is quite unhappy with Bambu Labs, giving the company the middle finger several times in the video and then ending it with, “And if you're watching this, Bambu Labs, go f*** yourself. Pick on somebody…

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Think Linear Algebra — Think Linear Algebra

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Think Linear Algebra is a code-first, case-based introduction to the most widely used concepts in linear algebra, designed for readers who want to understand and apply these ideas — not just learn them in the abstract. Each chapter centers on a real-world problem like modeling traffic in the web, simulating flocking birds, or analyzing electrical circuits. Using Python and powerful libraries like NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, and NetworkX, readers build working solutions that reveal how linear algebra provides elegant, general-purpose tools for thinking and doing. Press…

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Replacing a 3 GB SQLite database with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binaryAndrew Quinn’s TILs

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Note for numberphiles: all numbers have been rounded to their first significant digit, because I’m a fan of Rob Eastaway’s “zequals” method of getting to the point when it comes to estimation. It’s much more valuable to walk away with the heuristic “some dude got a 300x memory reduction by swapping out a database he hacked together for a tiny, static, specialized data structure that does exactly what he needs it to and no more.”I found myself with an increasingly rare opportunity to work…

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Space Cadet Pinball on Linux • Stephen Brennan

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Stephen Brennan • 09 May 2026 To my fellow Linux users who grew up using Windows XP: did you know, you can have Space Cadet Pinball on your Linux machine? This is not breaking news, but it’s exciting to me, and I’m the one who decides what I write about. So here’s your PSA! Space Cadet Pinball was bundled with Windows XP, and growing up I played it a lot. As a result it holds a special place in my heart. I found that…

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