Weekly news | 2026-05-27
· 7 min read
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- Using AI to write better code more slowly
- Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
- Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
- Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier
- DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD
- Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up
- The user is visibly frustrated
- Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes
- What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
- Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs
- GitHub Actions was down
- Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews
- Squares in Squares
- Use boring languages with LLMs
- The real cost of owning a home
- Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
- C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”
- A few interesting modern pixel fonts
- Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale
- Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union
- Does anybody like React?
- CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude
- The Ballad of TIGIT
- Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia
- How do you build a semiconductor company on something that's free?
- What color is your function? (2015)