hcker.news — day · include: Small Web

The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations

2026-05-17T21:56:40Z

109 points by zdw | 53 comments

Article: https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/thinkpad-history/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48173547

Don't answer the first question

2026-05-18T09:21:42Z

80 points by lalitmaganti | 46 comments

Article: https://lalitm.com/post/dont-answer-the-first-question/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48177163

How to deal with your kid leaving

2026-05-18T16:55:57Z

20 points by Tomte | 7 comments

Article: https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-deal-with-your-kid-leaving/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48182215

Which country voted the best at Eurovision?

2026-05-18T03:39:07Z

19 points by shintoist | 10 comments

Article: https://lalitm.com/post/which-country-voted-best-at-eurovision/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48175307

The tyranny of single page apps

2026-05-18T20:15:46Z

12 points by speckx | 2 comments

Article: https://blog.bidisaster.party/spas/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48184944

Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch

2026-05-18T00:26:33Z

10 points by zdw | 0 comments

Article: https://baltazarstudios.com/calculator/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48174409

Who will buy your services if you fire us all?

2026-05-18T21:18:25Z

9 points by LucidLynx | 0 comments

Article: https://carette.xyz/posts/who_will_buy_your_services/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48185789

Apple Papercuts

2026-05-18T12:23:17Z

7 points by rcarmo | 1 comments

Article: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/05/18/1320
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48178717

The AI Layoff Receipts

2026-05-18T08:19:41Z

6 points by ablation | 1 comments

Article: https://readuncut.com/the-ai-layoff-receipts/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48176763

The Enshittification of History

2026-05-18T20:30:26Z

6 points by rbanffy | 0 comments

Article: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/05/the-enshittification-of-histor.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48185179

AI Won't Run Your Company by Itself

2026-05-18T07:11:00Z

5 points by berlianta | 0 comments

Article: https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2026/05/18/ai-wont-run-your-company-by-itself.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48176374

The Aussie gov just screwed startup founders. my musings

2026-05-18T04:34:06Z

5 points by ghuntley | 0 comments

Article: https://ghuntley.com/livid/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48175616

Spirit Airlines Passenger Brings 'Emotional Support' Rotisserie Chicken Thru TSA

2026-05-18T02:27:31Z

5 points by rawgabbit | 0 comments

Article: https://viewfromthewing.com/spirit-airlines-passenger-brings-emotional-support-rotisserie-chicken-through-tsa-then-eats-it-onboard/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48175004

How to use codex to get the most out of it

2026-05-18T00:27:30Z

5 points by gizmodo59 | 0 comments

Article: https://jxnl.co/writing/2026/05/10/codex-maxxing/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48174417

Always Be Blaming

2026-05-18T14:00:17Z

4 points by surprisetalk | 1 comments

Article: https://matklad.github.io/2026/05/18/always-be-blaming.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48180031

All Polymarket temperature markets missing, along with money bet on them

2026-05-18T18:43:45Z

4 points by Curiositry | 0 comments

Article: https://www.autodidacts.io/polymarket-temperature-markets-dissappear/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48183749

Understanding the Go runtime: the "select" statement

2026-05-18T14:03:47Z

4 points by valyala | 0 comments

Article: https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/go-runtime-select/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48180082

Fast16 Malware Was Sabotaging Nuclear Weapons Tests, Likely in Iran

2026-05-18T10:37:21Z

4 points by payamb | 0 comments

Article: https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/experts-confirm-the-fast16-malware-was-sabotaging-nuclear-weapons-tests-likely-in-iran/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48177656

Common Lisp names all sixteen binary logic gates

2026-05-18T10:36:25Z

4 points by optimalsolver | 0 comments

Article: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node131.html#SECTION001670000000000000000
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48177652

AI Eats the World (2026)

2026-05-18T05:32:36Z

4 points by andrewjb | 0 comments

Article: https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48175891

I want to talk population panic and understanding demography

2026-05-17T22:28:13Z

4 points by doener | 0 comments

Article: https://bsky.app/profile/karenguzzo.bsky.social/post/3lor4lsga4c2c
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48173738

RSS is not dead. It just changed audience

2026-05-18T19:25:00Z

3 points by speckx | 2 comments

Article: https://hoeijmakers.net/rss-is-not-dead-it-just-changed-audience/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48184265

Who Needs an Architect?

2026-05-18T17:47:54Z

3 points by kitecoder | 1 comments

Article: https://yusufaytas.com/who-needs-architect
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48182909

A Node Based Brush Engine – PixiEditor 2.1

2026-05-18T09:40:41Z

3 points by axi_n | 1 comments

Article: https://pixieditor.net/blog/2026/04/30/21-release/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48177299

10Gb/s Ethernet: using mini-heatsinks with a 10GBASE-T SFP+ module

2026-05-18T18:30:42Z

3 points by gpjt | 0 comments

Article: https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/05/10g-ethernet-sfpplus-mini-heatsinks
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48183575

Nintendo trying to obtain touchscreen-specific patent on monster capturing

2026-05-18T17:39:39Z

3 points by haunter | 0 comments

Article: https://gamesfray.com/taking-aim-at-palworld-mobile-nintendo-trying-to-obtain-touchscreen-specific-patent-on-monster-capturing-and-thus-far-failing/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48182775

A shallow dive into formal verification

2026-05-18T17:10:31Z

3 points by fbrusch | 0 comments

Article: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/05/18/fv.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48182390

Book Review: The Thinking Machine

2026-05-18T17:08:45Z

3 points by mad44 | 0 comments

Article: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/05/book-review-thinking-machine.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48182371

Next Token Prediction Is a Misleading Term

2026-05-18T13:12:54Z

3 points by ibobev | 0 comments

Article: https://www.boristhebrave.com/2026/05/17/next-token-prediction-is-a-misleading-term/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48179361

Handling the great code forge fragmentation

2026-05-18T13:10:49Z

3 points by aselimov3 | 0 comments

Article: https://www.alexselimov.com/posts/forge_fragmentation/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48179325

From Kubernetes Dev Setup to Production: What Changes

2026-05-18T09:07:43Z

3 points by rhazn | 0 comments

Article: https://georg-schwarz.com/blog/from-kubernetes-demo-to-production-platform/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48177085

Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

2026-05-18T05:25:43Z

3 points by meysamazad | 0 comments

Article: https://lars-christian.com/posts/2026-04-04-letters-from-a-stoic-by-seneca/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48175846

Academia, startups, big tech, and back again

2026-05-18T00:30:33Z

3 points by azhenley | 0 comments

Article: https://austinhenley.com/blog/academiastartupsbigtech.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48174432

Replacing Google Analytics with Matomo on a Pi in a Cupboard

2026-05-18T00:15:43Z

3 points by alance | 0 comments

Article: https://alexlance.blog/analytics.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48174342

I Updated Virtual Bookshelf

2026-05-18T10:12:50Z

2 points by petargyurov | 3 comments

Article: https://petargyurov.com/bookshelf/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48177489

Suno and the Myth-Making of Making Music

2026-05-18T20:36:41Z

2 points by totallygeeky | 1 comments

Article: https://illegal.solutions/posts/suno_interview
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48185255

Who Reads My RSS Feed?

2026-05-18T19:49:06Z

2 points by cdrnsf | 1 comments

Article: https://george.mand.is/2026/05/who-reads-my-rss-feed/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48184629

Clojure Freed Me from the Ceremony

2026-05-18T15:54:11Z

2 points by zonotope | 1 comments

Article: https://carlosblanco.github.io/clojure/functional-programming/2020/10/15/functional-programming-clojure-backend-simplicity.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48181496

Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban

2026-05-18T07:55:41Z

2 points by birdculture | 1 comments

Article: https://kristoff.it/blog/contributor-poker-and-ai/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48176656

The automation of jobs will never end

2026-05-18T02:33:14Z

2 points by pbw | 1 comments

Article: https://metastable.org/never-end/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48175033

SIMD-accelerated integer-to-string conversion

2026-05-18T20:17:21Z

2 points by ingve | 0 comments

Article: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/05/18/simd-accelerated-integer-to-string-conversion/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48184968

Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

2026-05-18T19:33:03Z

2 points by apwheele | 0 comments

Article: https://rosmine.ai/2026/05/13/was-my-48k-gpu-worth-it/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48184402

Moving my app subscriptions to Europe

2026-05-18T19:02:40Z

2 points by Mossy9 | 0 comments

Article: https://rewiring.bearblog.dev/moving-my-subscriptions-to-europe/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48184040

Migrating from Go to Rust

2026-05-18T18:43:08Z

2 points by zdw | 0 comments

Article: https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48183741

First They Came for the Programmers

2026-05-18T18:14:08Z

2 points by speckx | 0 comments

Article: https://blog.miljko.org/2026/05/17/first-they-came-for-the.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48183327

FediMeteo, HAProxy, and the art of not wasting snac threads

2026-05-18T17:38:54Z

2 points by thomasjb | 0 comments

Article: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/05/18/fedimeteo-haproxy-and-the-art-of-not-wasting-snac-threads/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48182768

Generations of AI applications: conversational, delegative, and collaborative

2026-05-18T17:33:57Z

2 points by zknill | 0 comments

Article: https://zknill.io/posts/generations-of-ai-applications/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48182691

Sam 2 deep dive: why its FIFO memory eviction bothers me

2026-05-18T17:30:54Z

2 points by chizkidd | 0 comments

Article: https://chizkidd.github.io//2026/04/17/sam-2/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48182654

Don't call yourself a Software Engineer, you are an AI Enabled Engineer

2026-05-18T17:25:55Z

2 points by Brajeshwar | 0 comments

Article: https://idiallo.com/blog/you-are-an-ai-enabled-engineer-now
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48182593

Cargo-crap: Finding untested complexity in AI-generated Rust code

2026-05-18T16:55:29Z

2 points by koburan | 0 comments

Article: https://minikin.me/blog/cargo-crap
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=48182208