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I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

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ESP32-S31

ESP32-S31 is a high-performance dual-core 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller running at up to 320 MHz, built for advanced IoT applications requiring multi-protocol connectivity and human-machine interfaces.

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Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language

Welcome to Elixir, a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications,From Elixir v1.20, every program is now gradually type checked in search for verified bugs and typing violations.

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A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

Let’s Encrypt is committed to a post-quantum-safe Web PKI. The path we’re planning to take is Merkle Tree Certificates (“MTCs”), a new approach that adds post-quantum authentication to the web without sacrificing the speed and reliability that have made TLS universal. This post is about these plans and why we believe MTCs are worth pursuing as a key to a post-quantum future. An increasingly urgent problem For much of the last several years, the conversation about post-quantum cryptography has been a conversation about encryption. The reasoning was straightforward: an attacker who records encrypted traffic today might be able to decrypt it years from now once quantum computers can break the underlying math. Authentication, the part of TLS th

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Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing

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Embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of "genetic brakes"

In mice, medical professor Marie Kmita and her team at the IRCM discover how certain proteins switch off the right genes at the right time, allowing others to take over and complete development.

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Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

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A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days)

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Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland

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Ableton Extensions SDK

Extensions SDK is an open JavaScript toolkit allowing anyone to create custom tools that expand the possibilities inside Live 12 Suite

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DaVinci Resolve 21

Professional video editing, color correction, visual effects and audio post production all in a single application. Free and paid versions for Mac, Windows and Linux.

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MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production

On an earnings call in late April, Apple's CEO Tim Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Neo was "off the charts," and the popularity of the laptop has reportedly led the company to significantly boost production. Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo this week said he believes that MacBook Neo shipments to Apple were doubled from an initial target of 5 million units to 10 million units in 2026 at some point after the laptop launched in March.

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Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5

A desktop multi-timbral music machine with four synthesis engines, a 10″ touch surface, and one cable to your DAW.

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Skyvern (YC S23) Is Hiring Open-Source Loving DevRel Engineers

Skyvern is an open-source AI agent that automates anything in a browser. YC-backed. Growing fast. We have a product developers get excited about when they see it. The problem: not enough developers have seen it. We need someone who can make Skyvern impossible to ignore. Someone who understands the product deeply enough to demo it, explain it, and make content that actually resonates with technical audiences. The work - Create YouTube content—demos, tutorials, deep dives—that developers actually watch - Produce short-form content for Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, wherever devs scroll - Build and own Skyvern's social presence from the ground up - Engage authentically with the open-source and AI community (not just broadcast—actually

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Book Dedications

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Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s)

Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs. One command. No Kubernetes, perfect for coding ag - tastyeffectco/sandboxes

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Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)

Local-first AI memory layer for any LLM. Persistent knowledge graph, entity extraction, semantic retrieval. Works with Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible backend. - zaydmulani09/mnemo

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Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig

Gooey is a hybrid immediate/retained mode UI framework designed for building fast, GPU-rendered applications on macOS/Metal, WebAssembly/WebGPU, and Wayland/Vulkan - duanebester/gooey

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Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

An overview of Gemma 4 12B, a model designed to bring high-performance multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop.

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On this day

Reconstitution of the Academy of the Distrustful in the Sala Dalmases of the Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona in Barcelona.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

ESP32-S31

Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language

A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing

Embryos shape their limbs: a key discovery of "genetic brakes"

Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it

A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days)

Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland

Ableton Extensions SDK

DaVinci Resolve 21

MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production

Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5

Skyvern (YC S23) Is Hiring Open-Source Loving DevRel Engineers

Book Dedications

Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s)

Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)

Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig

Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model

On this day

Reconstitution of the Academy of the Distrustful in the Sala Dalmases of the Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona in Barcelona.

Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in protest.

The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.

At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.

A plane carrying 153 people crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board plus six people on the ground.

The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.

The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.

After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.

Australian Aboriginal land rights are recognised in Mabo v Queensland (No 2), a case brought by Torres Strait Islander Eddie Mabo which led to the Native Title Act 1993 overturning the long-held colonial assumption of terra nullius.

Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists.

The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.

Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.

The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.

The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, United States, causing five deaths and $300 million (equivalent to $1172 million in 2025) worth of damage.

A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m3) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.

A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.

Melbourne-Evans collision: Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half, resulting in 74 deaths.

The launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Ed White, a crew member, performs the first American spacewalk.

Soldiers of the South Vietnamese Army attack protesting Buddhists in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear-gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalized for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.

At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.

Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak.

In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines attack Latino youths in the five-day Zoot Suit Riots.

World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.

World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground and murders 180 of its inhabitants.

World War II: During the Battle of France, the Luftwaffe bombs Paris.

Franz Rademacher proposes plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.

The Duke of Windsor (the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom) marries Wallis Simpson.

One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.

The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.

Liverpool F.C. is founded by John Houlding.

The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23 km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.

In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.

American Civil War: Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant sustain heavy casualties attacking Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Cold Harbor in Hanover County, Virginia.

American Civil War: Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia begin marching to invade the North for a second time, starting the Gettysburg campaign.

American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races): Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia.

The last pair of great auks is killed.

In Humen, China, Lin Zexu destroys 1.2 million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.

Jack Jouett begins his midnight ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of an impending British raid.

Foundation of the Academy of the Distrustful in the library room of the Palau Dalmases in Barcelona.

James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.

Pope Alexander VII appoints François de Laval vicar apostolic in New France.

The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherland.

Samuel de Champlain lands at Tadoussac, Quebec, in the course of his third voyage to New France, and begins erecting fortifications.

An English naval force defeats a fleet of Spanish galleys, and captures a large Portuguese carrack at the Battle of Sesimbra Bay.

Hernando de Soto claims Florida for Spain.

The Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.

The French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy.

After a five-month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders seize Antioch.

The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is succeeded by Anastasios II, who begins the reorganization of the Byzantine army.

The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.

On this day

Reconstitution of the Academy of the Distrustful in the Sala Dalmases of the Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona in Barcelona.

Khartoum massacre: In Sudan, over 100 people are killed when security forces accompanied by Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a sit-in protest.

The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Meade, Maryland.

At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.

A plane carrying 153 people crashes in a residential neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board plus six people on the ground.

The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.

The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence.

After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.