GitHub Trending
Status: ok – 5 signals
sindresorhus/awesome
😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics. Signal: GitHub Trending; topics: awesome, awesome-list, lists, resources; license: CC0-1.0.
freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp
freeCodeCamp.org's open-source codebase and curriculum. Learn math, programming, and computer science for free. Signal: GitHub Trending; topics: careers, certification, community, curriculum; license: BSD-3-Clause.
public-apis/public-apis
A collective list of free APIs. Signal: GitHub Trending; topics: api, apis, dataset, development; license: MIT.
EbookFoundation/free-programming-books
:books: Freely available programming books. Signal: GitHub Trending; topics: books, education, hacktoberfest, list; license: CC-BY-4.0.
openclaw/openclaw
Your own personal AI assistant. Any OS. Any Platform. The lobster way. 🦞. Signal: GitHub Trending; topics: ai, assistant, crustacean, molty; license: MIT.
Hacker News
Status: ok – 20 signals
Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day
A Hacker News discussion signal focusing on cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs i… Use the Hacker News discussion to evaluate implementation trade-offs, failure modes, and whether practitioners found the claim convincing. Current signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/technology, score: 19117, comments: 1031, ranking score: 39265.
Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers
Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers is drawing technical discussion on Hacker News; scan the comments for implementation trade-offs, counterexamples, and practitioner caveats. HN signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/technology, score: 17915, comments: 1021, ranking score: 36851.
Turns out, nobody wants a data center in their backyard
A data engineering discussion signal on Hacker News. Use the Hacker News discussion to evaluate implementation trade-offs, failure modes, and whether practitioners found the claim convincing. Current signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/technology, score: 16360, comments: 631, ranking score: 33351.
The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly
An AI/ML discussion signal on Hacker News. Use the Hacker News discussion to evaluate implementation trade-offs, failure modes, and whether practitioners found the claim convincing. Current signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/technology, score: 5475, comments: 785, ranking score: 11735.
Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers / A new report calls the impact significant and "irreversible."
An AI/ML discussion signal on Hacker News. Use the Hacker News discussion to evaluate implementation trade-offs, failure modes, and whether practitioners found the claim convincing. Current signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/technology, score: 4207, comments: 219, ranking score: 8633.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman holds more than $2 billion in companies that have done business with the company, a court document showed as Altman faces claims of self-dealing from state a…
OpenAI chief Sam Altman holds over $2 billion in companies that have business deals with OpenAI amid legal and regulatory scrutiny. HN signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/technology, score: 3804, comments: 105, ranking score: 7713.
What current technology do you think people are seriously underestimating right now ?
A Hacker News discussion signal focusing on what current technology do you think people are se… Use the Hacker News discussion to evaluate implementation trade-offs, failure modes, and whether practitioners found the claim convincing. Current signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/Futurology, score: 1778, comments: 1443, ranking score: 4999.
Sony's new wearable air conditioner runs even cooler
An AI/ML discussion signal on Hacker News. Use the Hacker News discussion to evaluate implementation trade-offs, failure modes, and whether practitioners found the claim convincing. Current signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/gadgets, score: 2080, comments: 192, ranking score: 4352.
AI isn't paying off in the way companies think. Layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate returns, study finds
A Gartner study found that while 80% of companies surveyed reported workforce reductions, there was no correlation to higher ROI. (RAT: Remote Access Trojan). HN signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/Futurology, score: 2048, comments: 169, ranking score: 4265.
Japan runs out of robot wolves in fight against bears
The handmade, $4,000 Monster Wolf features solar panels, sensors, and intimidating audio. HN signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/gadgets, score: 1441, comments: 135, ranking score: 3017.
Samsung starts winding down chip production six days before planned 18-day strike — company enters "emergency management mode," daily losses could hit $2 billion
An AI/ML discussion signal on Hacker News. Use the Hacker News discussion to evaluate implementation trade-offs, failure modes, and whether practitioners found the claim convincing. Current signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/technology, score: 1256, comments: 115, ranking score: 2627.
Leaked images show Microsoft’s new Xbox Cloud Gaming controller
A Brazilian regulator has published photos of an unreleased Xbox controller. HN signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/gadgets, score: 984, comments: 298, ranking score: 2266. Verification: community signal; use the linked source as context, not final confirmation.
Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet
Operating system-level age verification laws could force age-gating onto Linux — but these developers are pushing to keep open-source open to all. HN signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/technology, score: 946, comments: 79, ranking score: 1971.
ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science. HN signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/technology, score: 791, comments: 22, ranking score: 1604.
I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
High-engagement technical discussion worth reviewing for practical implications. HN signal: Hacker News, score: 1332, comments: 655, ranking score: 1332.
arXiv implements 1-year ban for papers containing incontrovertible evidence of unchecked LLM-generated errors, such as hallucinated references or results. [N]
An AI/ML discussion signal on Hacker News. Use the Hacker News discussion to evaluate implementation trade-offs, failure modes, and whether practitioners found the claim convincing. Current signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/MachineLearning, score: 582, comments: 56, ranking score: 1220.
Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
A Hacker News discussion signal focusing on project gutenberg – keeps getting better… Use the Hacker News discussion to evaluate implementation trade-offs, failure modes, and whether practitioners found the claim convincing. Current signal: Hacker News, score: 928, comments: 195, ranking score: 928.
Denon Home 200, 400 and 600 review: Taking on Sonos
One of the best things these speakers have going for them is a reliable app. HN signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/gadgets, score: 389, comments: 69, ranking score: 847.
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights. HN signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/Futurology, score: 332, comments: 123, ranking score: 787.
Southwest Airlines bans humanoid, animal-like robots from flights
Southwest Airlines updates rules to ban humanoid, animal-like robots Skip to main content Home Destinations Airline News Amusement Parks Cruises Experience America 10BEST Adult Destinations Cruising Altitude Southwest Airlines bans humanoid, animal-like robots from flights Antho… HN signal: Hacker News, Reddit/r/Futurology, score: 365, comments: 56, ranking score: 786.
Hugging Face Trending
Status: ok – 10 signals
sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 384 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.. Signal: Hugging Face – Sentence Similarity, Hugging Face, downloads: 259897391, likes: 4791, ranking score: 48910.
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct
Meet Qwen3-VL — the most powerful vision-language model in the Qwen series to date.. Signal: Hugging Face – Image Text To Text, Hugging Face, downloads: 155691323, likes: 405, ranking score: 5050.
google-bert/bert-base-uncased
Pretrained model on English language using a masked language modeling (MLM) objective. Signal: Hugging Face – Fill Mask, Hugging Face, downloads: 66572667, likes: 2652, ranking score: 27520.
google/electra-base-discriminator
ELECTRA: Pre-training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators. Signal: Hugging Face Trending, Hugging Face, downloads: 53769054, likes: 106, ranking score: 2060.
cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2
This model was trained on the MS Marco Passage Ranking task.. Signal: Hugging Face – Text Ranking, Hugging Face, downloads: 53148443, likes: 239, ranking score: 3390.
sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 384 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.. Signal: Hugging Face – Sentence Similarity, Hugging Face, downloads: 48031717, likes: 1226, ranking score: 13260.
BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 is a machine-learning model signal worth checking for task fit, license, model card quality, and production constraints before adoption. Signal: Hugging Face – Feature Extraction, Hugging Face, downloads: 44433038, likes: 460, ranking score: 5600.
sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2
all-mpnet-base-v2 This is a sentence-transformers model: It maps sentences & paragraphs to a 768 dimensional dense vector space and can be used for tasks like clustering or semantic search.. Signal: Hugging Face – Sentence Similarity, Hugging Face, downloads: 35762129, likes: 1291, ranking score: 13910.
openai/clip-vit-large-patch14
Disclaimer: The model card is taken and modified from the official CLIP repository, it can be found here.. Signal: Hugging Face – Zero Shot Image Classification, Hugging Face, downloads: 32956376, likes: 2012, ranking score: 21120.
BAAI/bge-m3
BAAI/bge-m3 is a machine-learning model signal worth checking for task fit, license, model card quality, and production constraints before adoption. Signal: Hugging Face – Sentence Similarity, Hugging Face, downloads: 25885866, likes: 3004, ranking score: 31040.
Community Pulse
Status: ok – 9 signals
Anthropic just published a pretty alarming 2028 AI scenario paper and it's not about AGI safety in the usual sense
r/artificial (548 upvotes, 389 comments): Anthropic just published a pretty alarming 2028 AI scenario paper and it's not about AGI safety in the usual sense – Signals ongoing debate about AI governance.
The 4th Linux kernel flaw this month can lead to stolen SSH host keys
May flag operational security risks, techniques, or defensive debates..
Microsoft Exchange, Windows 11 hacked on second day of Pwn2Own
May flag operational security risks, techniques, or defensive debates..
Interview for AI security engineer position at a fortune 500 company
May flag operational security risks, techniques, or defensive debates. (78 comments).
Recent poll shows that 70% of Americans don't want AI data centers being built in their local area
r/artificial (112 comments): Recent poll shows that 70% of Americans don't want AI data centers being built in their local area – AI/LM community discussion.
Lost, tempted to throw in the towel
May flag operational security risks, techniques, or defensive debates. (151 comments).
Microsoft warns of Exchange zero-day flaw exploited in attacks
May flag operational security risks, techniques, or defensive debates.. Verification: community signal; use the linked source and discussion as context, not final confirmation.
Most pentest reports I review are padded with garbage findings
May flag operational security risks, techniques, or defensive debates. (58 comments).
How are you securing AI-generated / “vibe-coded” internal apps built by non-dev teams?
Highlights engineering productivity, reliability, and automation signals. (114 comments).
Lobste.rs
Status: ok – 15 signals
LLM generated submissions should be disallowed
LLM generated submissions should be disallowed is a practitioner-heavy engineering link around verification: community_signal. Current signal: Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS is a practitioner-heavy engineering link around verification: community_signal. Current signal: Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
Git Is Not Fine
Git Is Not Fine is a practitioner-focused engineering link from Lobste.rs; review it for implementation detail, operational lessons, and discussion quality. Lobste.rs signal: Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
Announcing the Zulip Foundation
Announcing the Zulip Foundation Announcements Announcing the Zulip Foundation Tim Abbott May 15, 2026 • 9 min read Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to jo… Lobste.rs signal: Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
SQL: Incorrect by Construction
SQL: Incorrect by Construction is a practitioner-heavy engineering link around verification: community_signal. Current signal: Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
linux 0-day, access root-owned files as an unprivileged user
Steal SSH host private keys and /etc/shadow via the ptrace_may_access mm-NULL bypass + pidfd_getfd. Pre-31e62c2ebbfd kernels. – 0xdeadbeefnetwork/ssh-keysign-pwn. Lobste.rs signal: Lobste.rs – Systems, Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0. Verification: community signal; use the linked source as context, not final confirmation.
Open Source Resistance
A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time. Lobste.rs signal: Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
5× faster fast_blur in image-rs
Improving performance by moving the inner loop to integer accumulators, and replacing per-pixel division with a precomputed reciprocal that runs as a multiply and a shift. Lobste.rs signal: Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
A History of IDEs at Google
A History of IDEs at Google is a practitioner-heavy engineering link around score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0, verification: community_signal. Current signal: Lobste.rs – Programming, Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
In what way if any are you a tech minimalist while maintaining your job/love for tech?
In what way if any are you a tech minimalist while maintaining your job/love for tech? is a practitioner-heavy engineering link around verification: community_signal. Current signal: Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
A working Windows XP desktop in your browser. Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons as folder trees, Earth as a scrapbook. By Sami Smith. Lobste.rs signal: Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
What are you doing this weekend?
What are you doing this weekend? is a practitioner-heavy engineering link around verification: community_signal. Current signal: Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
Cheap smart doorbell allows fleet-wide account takeover and call hijacking
Behind a cheap Temu doorbell sits an IoT backend where device IDs are sequential and requests are forgeable with a string baked into every firmware. One signed call lifts any device's persistent password and lets anyone on the Internet hijack the next live call. Lobste.rs signal: Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
Using Rust to parse Godot .tres files and walk the resource graph
How Asset Hoard parses Godot resource files, resolves cross-references, and reconstructs the res:// folder layout on drag-out so materials work the moment they land in your project. Lobste.rs signal: Lobste.rs – Programming, Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
why use F# for scripting and automation?
ian erik varatalu i've been writing F for a while now, and i keep coming back to it for scripting and automation tasks. Lobste.rs signal: Lobste.rs, score: 0, comments: 0, ranking score: 0.
Dev.to
Status: ok – 20 signals
What was your win this week?!
👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week — what was something you're proud of? All wins count — big or small… Dev.to signal: Dev.to, reactions: 34, comments: 20, ranking score: 88.
AI Didn't Make Software Engineering Easier. It Made the Hard Parts Harder.
When I started using AI tools seriously across my side projects, I expected the work to get easier…. Dev.to signal: Dev.to – Web Dev, Dev.to, reactions: 26, comments: 21, ranking score: 73.
Building "Sweets Vault" – a multimodal Gemini Agent with physical hardware integration
Motivating seven-year-olds to complete their daily reading and handwriting practice is a classic… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – AI/ML, Dev.to, reactions: 16, comments: 2, ranking score: 34.
Circuits: Bit-Banging, SPI, and CPLD
TLDR: A small exploration of the use case of hardware over software. "Bit-banging"… Dev.to signal: Dev.to, reactions: 13, comments: 2, ranking score: 28.
You don't 3D print a house. You print your tools.
Vibe coding is to engineering what 3D printing is to making, and that's exactly why it… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – AI/ML, Dev.to, reactions: 13, comments: 1, ranking score: 27.
Notification System Design: The Question I Almost Missed
How hard can it be? I work at a property management SaaS company. Landlords use the… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – Web Dev, Dev.to, reactions: 12, comments: 1, ranking score: 25.
OpenSEO Has 1.7k GitHub Stars. I Built the Same Thing for $0.
I saw OpenSEO trending and did what every developer does. I starred it before reading the… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – Seo, Dev.to, reactions: 8, comments: 8, ranking score: 24.
5 Hidden DevTools Features You Wish You Knew Sooner
Let me guess. You mostly use your browser DevTools to inspect elements, tweak a bit of CSS and maybe… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – Webdev, Dev.to, reactions: 10, comments: 2, ranking score: 22.
Day 100 of #100DaysOfCode — What I Built, What I Learned, and What's Next
Final Update #100DaysOfCode is officially complete! Not perfectly. Not everything works. Not… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – Web Dev, Dev.to, reactions: 8, comments: 3, ranking score: 19.
Unity begone
Here is a challenge. Search for "web gaming portal" on Google or any other search engine of your… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – Gamedev, Dev.to, reactions: 7, comments: 2, ranking score: 16.
GemmaDiff: I Built a Local AI Code Reviewer with Gemma 4 That Never Sends Your Code to the Cloud
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built GemmaDiff… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – Devchallenge, Dev.to, reactions: 7, comments: 1, ranking score: 15.
I Ran SERP Feature Detection on 8 Nigerian Creator Queries. Every Single One Had an AI Overview.
I built a SERP feature detection module for my SEO agent. Then I ran it on the queries I'm targeting… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – Ai, Dev.to, reactions: 7, comments: 0, ranking score: 14.
The Sovereign Redactor — A Precision-Guided Privacy Airlock
In the last post, we gave our forensic system "Eyes" using local Multimodal Vision. We successfully… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – Ai, Dev.to, reactions: 5, comments: 2, ranking score: 12.
Desbordamiento de Ventana de Contexto de IA: Solución con Puntero de Memoria
El desbordamiento de ventana de contexto** ocurre cuando las salidas de herramientas de un agente de… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – Ai, Dev.to, reactions: 6, comments: 0, ranking score: 12.
🧠 Beyond Chatbots: Understanding Hermes Agent and the Rise of Autonomous AI Systems
This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge 🏆 Why I Started Exploring Hermes… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – DevOps, Dev.to, reactions: 5, comments: 2, ranking score: 12.
Years of Apple's Best Security M5 chip, Cracked in Five Days — Here's What Developers Should Know
There's a stat buried in a recent security disclosure that should stop every developer in their… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – DevOps, Dev.to, reactions: 6, comments: 0, ranking score: 12.
AVIF encoding speed — the numbers nobody talks about
Everyone talks about how small AVIF files are. Almost nobody talks about what it costs to generate… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – Webdev, Dev.to, reactions: 5, comments: 0, ranking score: 10.
SPEC-TO-SHIP: A Multi-Agent Pipeline That Turns Feature Ideas Into Production Code
Writing a feature spec and getting it to production involves a lot of steps, architecture decisions,… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – AI/ML, Dev.to, reactions: 5, comments: 0, ranking score: 10.
Pick Boring Technology. Yes, Especially for AI.
What "Boring" Actually Means Boring technology does not mean old technology. It does not… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – DevOps, Dev.to, reactions: 3, comments: 2, ranking score: 8.
Code Got Cheaper. Our Rituals Didn’t Notice.
Much of the modern software development lifecycle was built around code being expensive and hard to… Dev.to signal: Dev.to – Web Dev, Dev.to, reactions: 2, comments: 1, ranking score: 5.