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2026-04-23 11:20:07 CEST

Your hex editor should color-code bytes
Link: https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846688

2026-04-22 14:55:06 CEST

GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
Link: https://cli.github.com/telemetry
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862331

2026-04-22 14:45:07 CEST

MuJoCo – Advanced Physics Simulation
Link: https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820791

2026-04-22 14:10:06 CEST

How the Heck Does GPS Work?
Link: https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-gps-work
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861087

2026-04-22 13:40:06 CEST

All your agents are going async
Link: https://zknill.io/posts/all-your-agents-are-going-async/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832720

2026-04-22 02:10:06 CEST

SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
Link: https://twitter.com/spacex/status/2046713419978453374
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855293

2026-04-22 00:25:06 CEST

Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex
Link: https://github.com/dchu917/ctx
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836740

2026-04-22 00:20:07 CEST

Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans
Link: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838508

2026-04-22 00:05:07 CEST

California has more money than projected after admin miscalculated state budget
Link: https://www.kcra.com/article/california-more-money-than-projected-newsom-miscalculated-budget/71056376
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854125

2026-04-22 00:00:07 CEST

In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition
Link: https://electrek.co/2026/04/18/in-the-uk-evs-are-cheaper-than-petrol-cars-thanks-to-chinese-competition/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823179

2026-04-21 23:55:07 CEST

Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental?
Link: https://binaryigor.com/modern-frontend-complexity.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824051

2026-04-21 23:45:08 CEST

Ibuilt a tiny Unix‑like 'OS' with shell and filesystem for Arduino UNO (2KB RAM)
Link: https://github.com/Arc1011/KernelUNO
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851630

2026-04-21 23:45:07 CEST

Theseus, a Static Windows Emulator
Link: https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2026/04/theseus.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47830332

2026-04-21 23:40:08 CEST

Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan
Link: https://claude.com/pricing
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854477

2026-04-21 23:40:07 CEST

I don't want your PRs anymore
Link: https://dpc.pw/posts/i-dont-want-your-prs-anymore/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854051

2026-04-21 23:20:07 CEST

10 years: Stephen's Sausage Roll still one of the most influential puzzle games
Link: https://thinkygames.com/features/10-years-of-grilling-stephens-sausage-roll-remains-one-of-the-most-influential-puzzle-games-ever-created/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814874

2026-04-21 22:00:07 CEST

OpenAI Livestream
Link: https://openai.com/live/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852835

2026-04-21 21:55:07 CEST

Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com
Link: https://github.com/calcom/cal.diy
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852155

2026-04-21 21:10:07 CEST

Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data
Link: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-to-start-capturing-employee-mouse-movements-keystrokes-for-ai-training-data/articleshow/130422612.cms?from=mdr
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851948

2026-04-21 20:50:07 CEST

Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Link: https://britannica11.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851885

2026-04-21 20:35:07 CEST

A Periodic Map of Cheese
Link: https://cheesemap.netlify.app/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851077

2026-04-21 20:35:07 CEST

Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Link: https://frame.work/laptop13pro
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852177

2026-04-21 20:20:07 CEST

Slava's Monoid Zoo
Link: https://factorcode.org/slava/monoids.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828568

2026-04-21 20:20:07 CEST

The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
Link: https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/26/d/vercel-breach-oauth-supply-chain.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851634

2026-04-21 19:15:07 CEST

Clojure: Transducers
Link: https://clojure.org/reference/transducers
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823365

2026-04-21 18:45:07 CEST

Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go; 44x lighter than LiteLLM
Link: https://github.com/ENTERPILOT/GOModel/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849097

2026-04-21 18:35:06 CEST

High-Fidelity KV Cache Summarization Using Entropy and Low-Rank Reconstruction
Link: https://jchandra.com/posts/hae-ols/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823549

2026-04-21 18:35:06 CEST

Fusion Power Plant Simulator
Link: https://www.fusionenergybase.com/fusion-power-plant-simulator
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849315

2026-04-21 18:20:07 CEST

Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker
Link: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/34369-original-grapheneos-responses-to-wired-fact-checker
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849854

2026-04-21 17:50:06 CEST

As Oceans Warm, Great White Sharks Are Overheating
Link: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/great-white-sharks-climate
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849592

2026-04-21 17:45:07 CEST

Your favorite brands got worse on purpose
Link: https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-favorite-brands-got-worse-on-purpose
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849221

2026-04-21 17:20:07 CEST

Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days
Link: https://www.tindie.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848195

2026-04-21 17:00:07 CEST

Less human AI agents, please
Link: https://nial.se/blog/less-human-ai-agents-please/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845429

2026-04-21 17:00:07 CEST

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn08jy6w0l5o
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847240

2026-04-21 16:25:07 CEST

Running a Minecraft Server and More on a 1960s Univac Computer
Link: https://farlow.dev/2026/04/17/running-a-minecraft-server-and-more-on-a-1960s-univac-computer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815462

2026-04-21 16:25:07 CEST

Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing
Link: https://stratechery.com/2026/tim-cooks-impeccable-timing/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847324

2026-04-21 16:20:07 CEST

Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/anthropic-takes-5b-from-amazon-and-pledges-100b-in-cloud-spending-in-return/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848276

2026-04-21 16:05:07 CEST

The abandoned war: Why no one is stopping the genocide in Sudan
Link: https://respublica.media/en/en-sudan-abandoned-war-genocide-no-one-stopping/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847928

2026-04-21 15:55:07 CEST

The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi
Link: https://connla.substack.com/p/pho-in-hanoi-a-purists-guide
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822742

2026-04-21 15:25:07 CEST

A type-safe, realtime collaborative Graph Database in a CRDT
Link: https://codemix.com/graph
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846946

2026-04-21 15:25:07 CEST

Show HN: VidStudio, a browser based video editor that doesn't upload your files
Link: https://vidstudio.app/video-editor
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847558

2026-04-21 15:10:06 CEST

Types and Neural Networks
Link: https://www.brunogavranovic.com/posts/2026-04-20-types-and-neural-networks.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845111

2026-04-21 14:20:07 CEST

Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]
Link: https://aphyr.com/data/posts/411/the-future-of-everything-is-lies.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822372

2026-04-21 14:10:07 CEST

Apple ignores DMA interoperability requests and contradicts own documentation
Link: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260420-01.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847124

2026-04-21 14:10:06 CEST

Laws of Software Engineering
Link: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847179

2026-04-21 13:55:06 CEST

Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero
Link: https://github.com/i12bp8/TagTinker
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822978

2026-04-21 13:50:08 CEST

Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely
Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/cocaine-pollution-gives-salmon-wanderlust
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844890

2026-04-21 12:50:06 CEST

MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
Link: http://mnt.stanleylieber.com/reform/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834689

2026-04-21 12:05:07 CEST

Louis Zocchi, inventor of the d100, has died
Link: https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/62176/r-i-p-louis-zocchi-the-godfather-dice
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845231

2026-04-21 10:30:06 CEST

The Beauty of Bonsai Styles
Link: https://longwoodgardens.org/blog/2023-05-17/beauty-bonsai-styles
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844539

2026-04-21 10:00:07 CEST

Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness
Link: https://mediator.ai/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835411

2026-04-21 09:35:07 CEST

How a subsea cable is repaired
Link: https://www.onesteppower.com/post/subsea-cable-repair
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797457

2026-04-21 08:20:09 CEST

Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
Link: https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/anthropic
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844269

2026-04-21 07:30:07 CEST

Air Is Full of DNA
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01099-2
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819738

2026-04-21 07:30:07 CEST

A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform
Link: https://webmatrices.com/post/how-a-roblox-cheat-and-one-ai-tool-brought-down-vercel-s-entire-platform
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844431

2026-04-21 06:45:07 CEST

Japan's Cherry Blossom Database, 1,200 Years Old, Has a New Keeper
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/climate/japan-cherry-blossom-database-scientist.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811668

2026-04-21 05:55:07 CEST

Zero-Copy Pages in Rust: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lifetimes
Link: https://redixhumayun.github.io/databases/2026/04/14/zero-copy-pages-in-rust.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789291

2026-04-21 05:10:06 CEST

Writing string.h functions using string instructions in asm x86-64 (2025)
Link: https://pmasschelier.github.io/x86_64_strings/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807609

2026-04-21 04:55:06 CEST

How to Make a Fast Dynamic Language Interpreter
Link: https://zef-lang.dev/implementation
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843194

2026-04-21 04:05:06 CEST

Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits
Link: https://prismml.com/news/ternary-bonsai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812749

2026-04-21 02:55:06 CEST

Monero Community Crowdfunding System
Link: https://ccs.getmonero.org/ideas/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841149

2026-04-21 02:05:07 CEST

Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want
Link: https://morgin.ai/articles/even-uncensored-models-cant-say-what-they-want.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842021

2026-04-21 01:35:06 CEST

Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64
Link: https://github.com/gizmo64k/soulplayer-c64
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839645

2026-04-21 01:15:06 CEST

Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
Link: https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841129

2026-04-21 00:25:06 CEST

OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on "prompt relevance"
Link: https://www.adweek.com/media/exclusive-leaked-deck-reveals-stackadapts-playbook-for-chatgpt-ads/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840980

2026-04-20 23:45:06 CEST

Modern Rendering Culling Techniques
Link: https://krupitskas.com/posts/modern_culling_techniques/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822549

2026-04-20 22:50:06 CEST

Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman
Link: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840219

2026-04-20 22:50:06 CEST

AI Resistance Is Growing
Link: https://stephvee.ca/blog/artificial%20intelligence/ai-resistance-is-growing/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839951

2026-04-20 22:45:07 CEST

F-35 is a masterpiece built for the wrong war
Link: https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-f-35-is-a-masterpiece-built-for-the-wrong-war/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839835

2026-04-20 22:45:07 CEST

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys
Link: https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836784

2026-04-20 22:40:10 CEST

We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090
Link: https://github.com/Luce-Org/lucebox-hub
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838788

2026-04-20 22:40:10 CEST

Chernobyl's last wedding
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q92lx8q75o
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822066

2026-04-20 22:35:07 CEST

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
Link: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831742

2026-04-20 22:35:07 CEST

Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers
Link: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-vendor-verifier
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838703

2026-04-20 21:50:07 CEST

Kefir C17/C23 Compiler
Link: https://sr.ht/~jprotopopov/kefir/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811154

2026-04-20 21:05:06 CEST

Show HN: Alien – Self-hosting with remote management (written in Rust)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835599

2026-04-20 20:50:06 CEST

The Theory of Interstellar Trade [pdf] (1978)
Link: https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837105

2026-04-20 20:45:07 CEST

The Palantir's Stasi Protocols
Link: https://professorsigmund.com/praxis/palantir-stasi-protocols.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838178

2026-04-20 19:50:06 CEST

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours
Link: https://theonion.com/at-long-last-infowars-is-ours/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837611

2026-04-20 19:40:07 CEST

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours
Link: https://theonion.info/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837620

2026-04-20 19:15:08 CEST

We Accepted Surveillance as Default
Link: https://vivianvoss.net/blog/why-we-accepted-surveillance
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836730

2026-04-20 18:55:07 CEST

I'm never buying another Kindle, and neither should you
Link: https://www.androidauthority.com/amazon-kindle-2026-3657863/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835775

2026-04-20 18:50:07 CEST

Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft
Link: https://reason.com/2026/04/20/this-big-tech-firm-wants-to-reinstate-the-draft/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836463

2026-04-20 18:45:06 CEST

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-of-songs-uploaded-to-its-platform-daily-are-ai-generated/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835928

2026-04-20 18:40:06 CEST

What if database branching was easy?
Link: https://xata.io/blog/what-if-database-branching-was-easy
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813616

2026-04-20 18:15:06 CEST

I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs
Link: https://surfacedby.com/blog/nginx-logs-ai-traffic-vs-referral-traffic
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835646

2026-04-20 18:10:08 CEST

Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding
Link: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835735

2026-04-20 17:40:08 CEST

Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834213

2026-04-20 17:05:07 CEST

NASA Artemis Posters
Link: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/artemis/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833092

2026-04-20 17:00:07 CEST

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
Link: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-max-preview
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834565

2026-04-20 16:55:06 CEST

U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/banks-citizenship-data-collection-customer-accounts.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834025

2026-04-20 16:50:07 CEST

WebUSB Extension for Firefox
Link: https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832969

2026-04-20 16:40:06 CEST

10 years ago, someone wrote a test for servo that included an expiry in 2026
Link: https://mastodon.social/@jdm_/116429380667467307
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826839

2026-04-20 16:25:07 CEST

Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI
Link: https://letsdatascience.com/news/atlassian-enables-default-data-collection-to-train-ai-f71343d8
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833247

2026-04-20 16:15:06 CEST

All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
Link: https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/04/20/eu-to-force-replaceable-batteries-in-phones-and-tablets-from-2027/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834195

2026-04-20 16:10:08 CEST

How Motorola’s 2N2222 and 2N3904 transistors became the default NPNs
Link: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/how-two-motorola-transistors-became-the-worlds-default-npns/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810211

2026-04-20 16:10:07 CEST

Show HN: Saunas lower nighttime heart rate more than exercise (n=59,000)
Link: https://tryterra.co/research/sauna-effect-on-heart-rate
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834184

2026-04-20 15:45:07 CEST

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
Link: https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833558

2026-04-20 15:20:07 CEST

A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)
Link: https://github.com/esutcu/planb-lpm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47830071

2026-04-20 15:00:08 CEST

Figma's woes compound with Claude Design
Link: https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832366