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London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time

Cider9986 — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:28:44 +0000

Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/london-police-deploy-facial-recognition-at-protest-for-first-time

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153400

Points: 50

# Comments: 25

Mitchellh – I strongly believe there are entire companies now under AI psychosis

reasonableklout — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:26:47 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153379

Points: 326

# Comments: 116

Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials

Symbiote — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:06:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thenational.scot/news/26055524.palantir-hired-30-senior-uk-government-officials/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153183

Points: 128

# Comments: 12

California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down

Lihh27 — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:48:48 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152994

Points: 147

# Comments: 76

Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center

logickkk1 — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:32:34 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/14/meta-data-center-tax-break-hyperion-louisiana/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152825

Points: 122

# Comments: 100

Judge Bars Kars4Kids from Broadcasting 'Misleading' Ads in California

xnx — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:27:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/kars4kids-advertising-banned-california.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152777

Points: 78

# Comments: 40

WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64

xyru — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:23:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ThroatyMumbo/WinCE64

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152729

Points: 103

# Comments: 30

ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline

cmsparks — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:07:08 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/2055309076209492208

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152553

Points: 147

# Comments: 74

The Zulip Foundation

boramalper — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:37:01 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152168

Points: 117

# Comments: 34

Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'

drob518 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:00:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/waymo-recalls-3800-robotaxis-after-able-drive-into-standing-water.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151767

Points: 119

# Comments: 113

U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app

tencentshill — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:28:24 +0000

Article URL: https://macdailynews.com/2026/05/15/u-s-doj-demands-apple-and-google-unmask-over-100000-users-of-popular-car-tinkering-app-in-emissions-crackdown/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151383

Points: 289

# Comments: 187

I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator

gdevic — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:15:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/gdevic/FPGA-Calculator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151237

Points: 60

# Comments: 15

We don't know why Malawi is poor

alphabetatango — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:57:05 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.deenamousa.com/p/we-dont-know-why-malawi-is-poor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150971

Points: 90

# Comments: 106

Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"

ndiddy — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:51:25 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/30719

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150900

Points: 332

# Comments: 236

OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid

steveharing1 — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:38:50 +0000

Article URL: https://firethering.com/chatgpt-bank-account-plaid-openai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150723

Points: 68

# Comments: 109

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

JSeiko — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:15:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150431

Points: 582

# Comments: 155

Zenith: a live local-first fixed viewport planetarium

surprisetalk — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:45:11 +0000

Article URL: https://smorgasb.org/zenith-tech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150097

Points: 60

# Comments: 18

Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image

MattRogish — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:42:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/neilsonnn/image-blaster

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150069

Points: 100

# Comments: 21

Check Your Fucking Sources, People

flail — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:08:00 +0000

Article URL: https://brodzinski.com/2026/05/check-fcking-sources.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148797

Points: 64

# Comments: 76

ASCII by Jason Scott

bookofjoe — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:02:36 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20260501220231/https://ascii.tex...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148726

Points: 134

# Comments: 21