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1. They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker

   209 points • 66 comments • may 12, 2026

2. Claude Platform on AWS

   132 points • 62 comments • may 12, 2026

3. Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes

   129 points • 39 comments • may 12, 2026

4. Software Internals Book Club

   92 points • 15 comments • may 12, 2026

5. Extremely Low Frequencies

   66 points • 1 comment • may 12, 2026

6. Productivity isn't about going faster

   60 points • 28 comments • may 12, 2026

7. A consistent pattern of lying': trial exposes what insiders think of Sam Altman

   41 points • 3 comments • may 12, 2026

8. The PSP feels surprisingly present right now

   40 points • 34 comments • may 12, 2026

9. Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot

   36 points • 25 comments • may 12, 2026

10. Google Search Is Down

    28 points • 15 comments • may 12, 2026