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The Prehistory of A.I. Slop
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/05/25/the-prehistory-of-ai-slop
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182142
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Composer 2.5
Article URL: https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2-5
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182126
Points: 6
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AI Eats The World – Benedict Evans macro trends in tech
Article URL: https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182124
Points: 1
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How We Hacked Our Way to Free 4.0s and Took Over a uWaterloo & UofT Grading Tool
Article URL: https://xtra.sh/blog/markus/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182119
Points: 3
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Email belongs on YOUR disk, not a cloud server
Article URL: https://mailvaulty.com
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182116
Points: 1
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US countertop workers could have damaged lungs, safety expert says
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/nx-s1-5691570/silicosis-beyond-california-quartz-countertop-cambria
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182112
Points: 1
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Amiga 68000 (SEKA) → portable C transpiler
Article URL: https://bitbucket.org/rhinoid/convert68000toc/src/main/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182091
Points: 1
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Lawyers in Brazil caught for prompt injection on a legal case
Article URL: https://www.jota.info/trabalho/juiz-multa-em-r-84-mil-advogadas-por-prompt-injection-para-manipular-ia-usada-no-trt8
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182089
Points: 2
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The Thing Protecting You Is Now the Target
Article URL: https://thetechvillain.substack.com/p/the-thing-protecting-you-is-now-the
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182077
Points: 2
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Launched yesterday. 1,039 downloads. 0 paying customers
Launched Monrow yesterday and got a little over 1,000 npm downloads in the first 24h.
2 signups. 0 paying customers.
A lot of people liked the idea but were nervous to install it because they thought it was proxying AI requests or sending prompts somewhere.
Honestly fair. AI tooling trust is pretty broken right now.
So to be super clear: your OpenAI/Anthropic requests still go directly to the provider like normal. Monrow just wraps the SDK locally inside your app and watches for stuff like runaway loops and weird cost spikes.
No prompts leave your machine. No proxy. No background services. No network calls unless you explicitly add a Monrow API key for cloud sync.
It’s fully open source. MIT licensed. Read the code before you install it.
You can literally run: npx monrow doctor
…and it prints every file Monrow touched and every network request it made.
The weird thing after launching is how many people have already dealt with this exact problem.
Apps look completely healthy while one broken feature quietly burns money in the background because everything still returns 200 OK.
That’s basically why I built it.
The free version works locally on one server.
It’s catches runaway AI loops
tracks which users cost the most
tracks which features are expensive
stores local incident history
gives CLI reports to see where your AI money is going
The paid version only exists because once you run multiple servers, each one sees partial traffic and the detector stops being reliable. Pro syncs detection across instances so it actually works across your whole production system.
Proof of downloads: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@monrow/sdk?activeTab=dependencies
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179710
Points: 1
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How to Clean Time Series Data in Python
Article URL: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-clean-time-series-data-in-python/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179705
Points: 1
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The down fall of bug bounties
Article URL: https://shubs.io/the-down-fall-of-bug-bounties/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179685
Points: 2
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Local Business Logic Generator
Article URL: https://github.com/quadracollision/llmisp
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179683
Points: 1
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Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian
Article URL: https://github.com/zakirullin/files.md
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179677
Points: 1
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Building a Solidarity Ecosystem for AI
Article URL: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/artificial-intelligence-solidarity-ecosystem
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179664
Points: 1
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Show HN: Docker hello-world, but in half-size image with Matrix digital rain
I often run `docker run hello-world` after setup as a basic check. But it's a bit boring.
So here's what I do instead:
docker run --rm -it warachet/hello-world You get Matrix digital rain. Ctrl-C cleans up properly.
hello-world (official) ~9-13 kB warachet/hello-world ~4.4 kB multi-arch, ~2 kB single-arch Not a serious work, just a fun thing to hack on and share.
Repo: https://github.com/zdk/wakeup-neo
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179659
Points: 1
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An asteroid discovered days ago will narrowly miss Earth
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/science/asteroid-earth-close-pass
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179646
Points: 1
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I expanded DystopiaBench to 42 models and 6 dystopia types
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/yzhKDtBusU
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179645
Points: 1
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How to Make Your Coding Agent Look Like an Idiot
Article URL: https://capocasa.dev/how-to-make-your-coding-agent-look-like-an-idiot
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179638
Points: 1
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Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003771
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179590
Points: 1
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