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Rust (and Slint) on a jailbroken Kindle.

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Published on: 26. May 2026 I recently jailbroke my 7th generation Kindle Paperwhite. While my motivation probably should have been "breaking free from Amazon's clammy and tightening grip", the truth is I wanted a way to use it as a clock on my nightstand. I found this project and figured I could just make some adjustments to the code. And that worked fine. But as I now had opened the door, I started thinking about if I could get Rust to work on the…

Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket savings end in 3 days

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Biotech & Health,Climate,Crypto,Fintech,Fundraising,Government & Policy,Hardware,Media & Entertainment,Robotics,Security,Startups,Transportation,Venture,TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: There are only 3 days left to save up to $410 on your ticket to TechCrunch disabled 2026. Early bird prices end May 29 at 11:59 PM PT, and once the deadline passes, ticket prices go up. If you're planning to attend one of the most influential gatherings in technology this year, Now is the time to secure your pass Before prices rise again. Disruption: Where the technology ecosystem moves forward From October 13-15 at Moscone West…

1.2M Messages to Obsidian – Building a Relationship Map from 20 Years of Chat History

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In 2014, Tim Urban of WaitButWhy published Your Life in Weeks - a grid where each square is one week of one's life, and most of the grid is already filled. The image bothered me for years. I started tracking things partly because of it - I wanted the grid to mean something, not just count down. But the biometric data is an odd representation of how fulfilling my life has been. The grid suggests it's the events that matter - jobs, trips, schools, marriages…

Google employee polymarket insider trading

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Signage at the Situation Room by Polymarket pop-up bar in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, March 20, 2026. Graeme Sloan | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFederal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud on Wednesday, alleging that he made $1.2 million off of bets using insider information on Polymarket.Prosecutors claim that Michele Spagnuolo, a staff information security engineer at Google, used confidential information to place trades correctly betting that singer d4vd would be Google's most searched person in 2025. Spagnuolo has been charged with money…

Spotify now lets you “clip” moments from your favorite podcast

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🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Media & Entertainment,Social,clips,podcasts,Spotify,streaming 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It's even easier to share your favorite moments from podcasts, with the introduction of Spotify's new Podcast Clips feature, launching on Wednesday. In the app, a new scissor icon in the Now Playing view will allow you to clip a specific clip from the podcast you're listening to, then share it more widely with your audience on social media, friends, colleagues, or anyone else. When you trim, you'll be able to trim the audio portion and preview it to hear it again…

Founding GTM Engineer at RamAIn

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✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: RamAIn builds the world's fastest computer-use agents for enterprise work. We're a YC W26 company on a mission to eliminate repetitive, manual workflows by training AI agents that operate legacy systems, desktop apps, and web portals the same way humans do — but 10× faster and more reliably. Founders RamAIn was founded by Shourya Vir Jain (CEO) and Vansh Ramani (CTO), who met at IIT Delhi and dropped out to build AI-native automation for enterprise workflows. Shourya previously worked at McKinsey, where he saw firsthand…

ElevenLabs’ new music generation model can switch genres mid-track

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,ai music,ElevenLabs,Google,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Audio AI company ElevenLabs has launched a new version of its music generation model, called Music v2, that can switch genres mid-track. The company said the model is designed to handle the complexity of singing and composing. The new release comes nearly 10 months after the startup launched the first version of its music generation model. ElevenLabs noted that the model can transition from opera to heavy metal and back, deliver fast rapping without losing cohesion, and add non-musical sound effects…

I’m Getting Into Mesh Networks… (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

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✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I love networking, a lot. So much so that I've run my own ISP since 2024, complete with its own ASN, IPv4/6 address space, fiber optics, etc.However, do this and you quickly realize how reliant you still remain on central service providers. The internet is a mesh, but the real players on that mesh are few, far between, and easy to coerce into censorship and other bad things. Even after ascending to the lofty realms of direct BGP peering myself, my access to those resources…

A Google engineer was charged with insider trading after he made $1.2 million on Polymarket

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💥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Government & Policy,doj,Google,Polymarket 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The US Department of Justice has charged Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo with insider trading, alleging that the employee made a $1.2 million trade on Polymarket based on confidential trading information. Spagnuolo, who used the name "AlphaRaccoon" at Polymarket, has worked at Google for more than 12 years, according to information on LinkedIn. “As alleged, Spagnuolo violated duties owed to his employer and used confidential Google business information to generate business profits of more than $1.2 million at Polymarket,” Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney…

Can we have the day off?

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: May '26So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire world’s white collar workforce (and, by extension, much of the US workforce) undergoing a revolution in productivity. AI is the technology that is going to revolutionize the way we work, the way we interact with the world, the way we learn, the way we socialize, and all of this. This sounds great. Really, it does. Everything getting faster and easier would be an extraordinary boon to all of our lives.Can we have a…