Morning Briefing

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Hacker News

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025) · 405 · 128 comments
Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features · 262 · 198 comments
In-person examinations at Princeton will be proctored starting July 1 · 135 · 143 comments
Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs · 52 · 33 comments
MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble · 84 · 39 comments
A History of IDEs at Google · 180 · 143 comments
Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book · 18 · 2 comments
Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC · 128 · 56 comments
The Emacsification of Software · 124 · 76 comments
S-100 Virtual Workbench · 77 · 18 comments

GitHub Trending

tinyhumansai/openhuman · Rust · ★ 5207
Your Personal AI super intelligence. Private, Simple and extremely powerful.
rohitg00/agentmemory · TypeScript · ★ 7458
#1 Persistent memory for AI coding agents based on real-world benchmarks
obra/superpowers · Shell · ★ 189396
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
yikart/AiToEarn · TypeScript · ★ 12845
Let's use AI to Earn!
influxdata/telegraf · Go · ★ 16971
Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
millionco/react-doctor · TypeScript · ★ 9231
Your agent writes bad React. This catches it
K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills · Python · ★ 21060
A set of ready to use Agent Skills for research, science, engineering, analysis, finance and writing.
danielmiessler/Personal_AI_Infrastructure · TypeScript · ★ 13303
Agentic AI Infrastructure for magnifying HUMAN capabilities.
supertone-inc/supertonic · Swift · ★ 4233
Lightning-Fast, On-Device, Multilingual TTS — running natively via ONNX.
CloakHQ/CloakBrowser · Python · ★ 9387
Stealth Chromium that passes every bot detection test. Drop-in Playwright replacement with source-level fingerprint patches. 30/30 tests passed.
Greedeks/GTweak · C# · ★ 889
Portable Tool for an Ideal Windows Setup
mattpocock/skills · Shell · ★ 78784
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .claude directory.
ArthurBrussee/brush · Rust · ★ 4332
3D Reconstruction for all
imthenachoman/How-To-Secure-A-Linux-Server · ★ 27032
An evolving how-to guide for securing a Linux server.
apernet/hysteria · Go · ★ 20586
Hysteria is a powerful, lightning fast and censorship resistant proxy.
rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch · Jupyter Notebook · ★ 94400
Implement a ChatGPT-like LLM in PyTorch from scratch, step by step
ton-blockchain/acton · Rust · ★ 173
Toolchain for TON smart contract development and beyond
trycua/cua · HTML · ★ 16504
Open-source infrastructure for Computer-Use Agents. Sandboxes, SDKs, and benchmarks to train and evaluate AI agents that can control full desktops (macOS, Linux, Windows).
github/spec-kit · Python · ★ 98251
💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

r/indieheads

[FRESH] The Strokes - Falling out of Love · 475 · 273 comments
MGMT teases that they are back in the studio! · 219 · 35 comments
[FRESH] The Mountain Goats - "Charlie Sheen Reaches Out To The Feds" | New Album 'Days' out August 7 · 138 · 25 comments
YHWH Nailgun signs record deal with 4AD · 111 · 8 comments
[FRESH] Hovvdy - Try Try Try // announce new album 'Big World' (out August 14th via Arts & Crafts) · 105 · 22 comments
A Nice Hang With a Low-Key Rock Star · 72 · 13 comments
[FRESH] Alex Cameron - "Red Hook Rain" | New Album 'Late To Set' out July 24 · 59 · 19 comments
Modern Baseball’s 'Holy Ghost' Turns 10 · 58 · 4 comments
[ALBUM DISCUSSION] Friko - Something Worth Waiting For · 50 · 26 comments
[ALBUM DISCUSSION] Aldous Harding - Train on the Island · 50 · 18 comments

MPU Forum

What email clients are people using in 2026? · lsamberg · Software · 58 posts
Productivity & Calendar Style Modes - Your Style? · tonywalker23 · Software · 6 posts
Non cloud alternative for Cowork · krocnyc · Robot Assistant · 12 posts
My robot can't add 1 + 1 = 2 · mlevison · Robot Assistant · 8 posts
Readwise CLI and MCP are amazing · mlevison · Robot Assistant · 1 posts
Plummeting HD Space · McTavish · Tech Support · 15 posts
(Deep/Archive/Ongoing) Photo Sharing Family · DrJJWMac · Software · 6 posts
nvALT message about no support for Apple Silicon · FrankV · Software · 10 posts
848: eReaders and Workflows with Jason Snell · WayneG · Episodes · 16 posts
Backblaze no longer backing up cloud-based files · WayneG · Software · 240 posts

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Today
Basement — Wired (2026) FLAC Lossless
alternative · 44 snatches · 49 seeders
Green-House — Hinterlands (2026) FLAC Lossless
electronic, ambient, new.age · 42 snatches · 47 seeders
NOxxx — DEFECT (2026) FLAC Lossless
industrial, jcore, doujin · 40 snatches · 46 seeders
Kenny Wheeler performed by Various Artists — Vital Spark (2026) FLAC Lossless
contemporary.jazz · 36 snatches · 42 seeders
Khruangbin — A la sala (2024) FLAC Lossless
psychedelic, soul, alternative · 29 snatches · 36 seeders
Plant43 — Spells For Warding Off Evil (2026) FLAC Lossless
experimental, electronic, ambient · 34 snatches · 33 seeders
Erna Berger — A Tribute (2026) FLAC Lossless
classical, vocal, opera · 33 snatches · 32 seeders
Thromos — Entkörperung (2025) FLAC Lossless
german, black.metal · 28 snatches · 30 seeders
Mick Harris — Culvert Dubs Session 7 (2026) FLAC Lossless
experimental, electronic, techno · 27 snatches · 30 seeders
Various Artists — ROCKMAN CLUB★REMIX (2026) FLAC Lossless
electronic, jcore, doujin · 25 snatches · 26 seeders
This Week
Broken Social Scene — Remember the Humans (2026) FLAC Lossless
rock, alternative, indie.rock · 241 snatches · 220 seeders
Aldous Harding — Train on the Island (2026) FLAC Lossless
rock, alternative, folk · 194 snatches · 204 seeders
Broken Social Scene — Remember the Humans (2026) FLAC Lossless
rock, alternative, indie.rock · 141 snatches · 152 seeders
Lykke Li — The Afterparty (2026) FLAC Lossless
alternative · 146 snatches · 137 seeders
Loraine James — Detached from the Rest of You (2026) FLAC Lossless
experimental, electronic, techno · 149 snatches · 134 seeders
Aldous Harding — Train on the Island (2026) FLAC Lossless
rock, alternative, folk · 111 snatches · 128 seeders
The Lemon Twigs — Look for Your Mind! (2026) FLAC Lossless
pop, pop.rock, power.pop · 117 snatches · 106 seeders
Seefeel — Sol.Hz (2026) FLAC Lossless
experimental, electronic, ambient · 88 snatches · 102 seeders
American Football — American Football (LP4) (2026) FLAC Lossless
alternative, indie, indie.rock · 97 snatches · 101 seeders
Kacey Musgraves — Middle of Nowhere (2026) FLAC Lossless
pop, female.vocalist, country · 91 snatches · 97 seeders

Sports

Chicago Cubs
L 2-5 vs Atlanta Braves May 12
L 0-3 vs Texas Rangers May 10
L 0-6 vs Texas Rangers May 9
↑ Atlanta Braves — Wed May 13 · 7:15 PM ET

NBA: fetch: HTTP 403

Boston Fleet
L 3-4 vs Ottawa Charge May 10
L 1-2 vs Ottawa Charge May 8
L 1-3 vs Ottawa Charge May 2