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2026-05-23 20:50:11 CEST

SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket
Link: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starship-v3-megarocket-first-test-flight
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242959

2026-04-05 00:40:11 CEST

How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
Link: https://teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642569

2026-04-04 23:30:12 CEST

Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs
Link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/907003/apple-approves-driver-that-lets-nvidia-egpus-work-with-arm-macs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640380

2026-04-04 22:05:11 CEST

Show HN: A game where you build a GPU
Link: https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640728

2026-04-04 21:45:13 CEST

German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad
Link: https://www.dw.com/en/german-men-need-military-permit-for-extended-stays-abroad/a-76662677
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639976

2026-04-04 20:25:11 CEST

Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
Link: https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633855

2026-04-04 18:55:12 CEST

Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta
Link: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people-meta-nrffdfpmf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639524

2026-04-04 16:55:10 CEST

Simple self-distillation improves code generation
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01193
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637757

2026-04-04 11:10:12 CEST

Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise
Link: https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/10636
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621792

2026-04-04 09:55:12 CEST

Delve removed from Y Combinator
Link: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/delve
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634690

2026-04-04 06:55:12 CEST

We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant
Link: https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-we-built-a-virtual-filesystem-for-our-assistant
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618223

2026-04-04 05:20:12 CEST

The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE
Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/faas-temporary-flight-restriction-drones-blatant-attempt-criminalize-filming-ice
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633947

2026-04-04 03:55:12 CEST

OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability
Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33579
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628608

2026-04-04 03:50:12 CEST

Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633396

2026-04-04 00:55:14 CEST

Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs
Link: https://nationaltoday.com/us/tx/austin/news/2026/04/03/oracle-files-thousands-of-h-1b-visa-petitions-amid-mass-layoffs/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631732

2026-04-04 00:10:13 CEST

Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8jzr423p9o
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631118

2026-04-03 23:55:16 CEST

F-15E jet shot down over Iran
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/us-fighter-jet-confirmed-shot-down-over-iran
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628326

2026-04-03 23:05:13 CEST

iNaturalist
Link: https://www.inaturalist.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629433

2026-04-03 21:50:12 CEST

April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
Link: https://gist.github.com/greenstevester/fc49b4e60a4fef9effc79066c1033ae5
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624731

2026-04-03 20:10:11 CEST

Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall
Link: https://chalmovsky.com/2026/03/29/samsung-magician.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567222

2026-04-03 19:55:12 CEST

NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns
Link: https://www.freevacy.com/news/financial-times/nhs-staff-refusing-to-use-fdp-over-palantir-ethical-concerns/7272
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624736

2026-04-03 18:40:10 CEST

Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection
Link: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/marc-andreessen-is-wrong-about-introspection/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627056

2026-04-03 17:55:12 CEST

Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs
Link: https://text.blogosphere.app/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625952

2026-04-03 15:10:11 CEST

Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac
Link: https://apfel.franzai.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624645

2026-04-03 14:05:11 CEST

Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps
Link: https://only-eu.eu/en/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624741

2026-04-03 11:45:10 CEST

Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone
Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artemis-iis-toilet-is-a-moon-mission-milestone/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609356

2026-04-03 11:10:12 CEST

Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
Link: https://blog.danieldavies.com/2004/05/d-squared-digest-one-minute-mba.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617415

2026-04-03 03:15:11 CEST

Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket
Link: https://kathmandupost.com/money/2026/03/27/inside-nepal-s-fake-rescue-racket
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613078

2026-04-03 03:05:11 CEST

Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
Link: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242

2026-04-03 01:40:11 CEST

Cursor 3
Link: https://cursor.com/blog/cursor-3
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618084

2026-04-03 01:10:12 CEST

Tailscale's new macOS home
Link: https://tailscale.com/blog/macos-notch-escape
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618189

2026-04-03 00:25:12 CEST

Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/nikigrayson.com/post/3miik2wzosk25
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615490

2026-04-02 23:40:11 CEST

Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/the-reputation-of-troubled-yc-startup-delve-has-gotten-even-worse/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615434

2026-04-02 23:30:13 CEST

IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm
Link: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-04-02-ibm-announces-strategic-collaboration-with-arm-to-shape-the-future-of-enterprise-computing
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611721

2026-04-02 23:15:11 CEST

Significant Raise of Reports
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1065620/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611921

2026-04-02 22:05:11 CEST

Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps
Link: https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/artemis-ii-will-use-laser-beams-to-live-stream-4k-moon-footage-one-giant-step-beyond-the-s-band-radio-comms-of-the-apollo-era
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615449

2026-04-02 20:20:11 CEST

Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents
Link: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615002

2026-04-02 19:15:12 CEST

Google releases Gemma 4 open models
Link: https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616361

2026-04-02 18:45:13 CEST

Lemonade by AMD: a fast and open source local LLM server using GPU and NPU
Link: https://lemonade-server.ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612724

2026-04-02 17:20:11 CEST

Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?
Link: https://spencermortensen.com/articles/email-obfuscation/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609694

2026-04-02 16:05:12 CEST

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
Link: https://browsergate.eu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981

2026-04-02 15:45:12 CEST

Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
Link: https://undark.org/2026/04/01/sweden-schools-books/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612601

2026-04-02 14:20:12 CEST

I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed
Link: https://bkhmsi.github.io/i-am-not-a-number/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612053

2026-04-02 13:50:12 CEST

The Weather Channel – RetroCast
Link: https://weather.com/retro/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609090

2026-04-02 09:55:11 CEST

Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
Link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-Tops-5p
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609564

2026-04-02 08:00:12 CEST

Show HN: Git bayesect – Bayesian Git bisection for non-deterministic bugs
Link: https://github.com/hauntsaninja/git_bayesect
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557921

2026-04-02 06:20:12 CEST

SpaceX files to go public
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/technology/spacex-ipo-elon-musk.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604155

2026-04-02 02:50:14 CEST

Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell
Link: https://github.com/califio/publications/blob/main/MADBugs/CVE-2026-4747/write-up.md
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597119

2026-04-02 02:35:12 CEST

DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
Link: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killing-the-hobbyist-sbc-market/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606840

2026-04-02 02:05:12 CEST

Artemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2026/apr/01/artemis-ii-launch-nasa-orion-moon-trip-live-updates
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607447

2026-04-01 22:50:12 CEST

NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast
Link: https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nasas-artemis-ii-crew-launches-to-the-moon-official-broadcast/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603657

2026-04-01 21:05:13 CEST

EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602832

2026-04-01 17:20:11 CEST

4D Doom
Link: https://github.com/danieldugas/HYPERHELL
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549128

2026-04-01 16:50:12 CEST

I Quit. The Clankers Won
Link: https://dbushell.com/2026/04/01/i-quit-the-clankers-won/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598511

2026-04-01 16:40:11 CEST

CERN levels up with new superconducting karts
Link: https://home.cern/news/news/engineering/cern-levels-new-superconducting-karts
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597935

2026-04-01 14:35:12 CEST

MiniStack (replacement for LocalStack)
Link: https://ministack.org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593285

2026-04-01 13:20:11 CEST

Slop is not necessarily the future
Link: https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-slopware-future
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587953

2026-04-01 11:50:12 CEST

Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs
Link: https://prismml.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593422

2026-04-01 10:15:12 CEST

Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
Link: https://ccunpacked.dev/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597085

2026-04-01 08:35:11 CEST

A dot a day keeps the clutter away
Link: https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/dot-system
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593556

2026-04-01 08:20:12 CEST

Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
Link: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-strait-of-hormuz/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584795

2026-04-01 01:30:12 CEST

OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/openai-funding-round-ipo.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592755

2026-04-01 00:35:13 CEST

OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/okcupid-match-pay-no-fine-for-sharing-user-photos-with-facial-recognition-firm/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591104

2026-03-31 23:35:12 CEST

Open source CAD in the browser (Solvespace)
Link: https://solvespace.com/webver.pl
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586614

2026-03-31 22:55:12 CEST

GitHub's Historic Uptime
Link: https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591928

2026-03-31 22:10:14 CEST

The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
Link: https://alex000kim.com/posts/2026-03-31-claude-code-source-leak/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586778

2026-03-31 20:45:12 CEST

Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only
Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587866

2026-03-31 18:35:11 CEST

Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context
Link: https://github.com/google-research/timesfm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583045

2026-03-31 17:55:11 CEST

Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email
Link: https://rollingout.com/2026/03/31/oracle-slashes-30000-jobs-with-a-cold-6/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587935

2026-03-31 15:20:11 CEST

Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEyffSdBsk
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532891

2026-03-31 13:15:10 CEST

Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
Link: https://twitter.com/Fried_rice/status/2038894956459290963
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584540

2026-03-31 12:55:11 CEST

GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pull_requests/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582984

2026-03-31 11:50:10 CEST

Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview
Link: https://ollama.com/blog/mlx
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582482

2026-03-31 11:25:14 CEST

Android Developer Verification
Link: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification-rolling-out-to-all-developers.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580297

2026-03-31 10:00:12 CEST

Artemis II is not safe to fly
Link: https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.htm
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582043

2026-03-31 09:20:10 CEST

Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens
Link: https://github.com/drona23/claude-token-efficient
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581701

2026-03-31 07:05:11 CEST

Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
Link: https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582220

2026-03-31 07:00:12 CEST

Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
Link: https://anishathalye.com/macbook-touchscreen/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578572

2026-03-31 03:40:11 CEST

Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct
Link: https://github.com/electrikmilk/cherri
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549824

2026-03-31 03:00:12 CEST

FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data
Link: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/03/ftc-takes-action-against-match-okcupid-deceiving-users-sharing-personal-data-third-party
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575616

2026-03-31 02:40:12 CEST

I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era
Link: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BJ4pnropWdnzzgeJc/i-am-definitely-missing-the-pre-ai-writing-era
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571279

2026-03-31 00:15:11 CEST

Do your own writing
Link: https://alexhwoods.com/dont-let-ai-write-for-you/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573519

2026-03-30 23:50:12 CEST

CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
Link: https://www.codingfont.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575403

2026-03-30 23:35:11 CEST

Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban
Link: https://www.sambent.com/the-white-house-app-has-huawei-spyware-and-an-ice-tip-line/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577761

2026-03-30 23:05:11 CEST

I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog
Link: https://blog.lysk.tech/excalidraw-frame-export/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571376

2026-03-30 22:45:12 CEST

New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements
Link: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/new-washington-law-bans-noncompete-agreements/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47576861

2026-03-30 21:45:11 CEST

Bird brains (2023)
Link: https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573887

2026-03-30 19:10:11 CEST

"Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot"
Link: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-is-now-injecting-ads-into-pull-requests-on-github-gitlab/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575212

2026-03-30 18:50:12 CEST

How to turn anything into a router
Link: https://nbailey.ca/post/router/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574034

2026-03-30 17:15:12 CEST

15 Years of Forking
Link: https://www.waterfox.com/blog/15-years-of-forking/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545607

2026-03-30 16:55:11 CEST

How the AI Bubble Bursts
Link: https://martinvol.pe/blog/2026/03/30/how-the-ai-bubble-bursts/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573420

2026-03-30 15:45:11 CEST

The curious case of retro demo scene graphics
Link: https://www.datagubbe.se/aipixels/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570666

2026-03-30 14:45:11 CEST

My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix
Link: https://tobiasberg.net/posts/my-macbook-keyboard-is-broken-and-its-insanely-expensive-to-fix/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566143

2026-03-30 14:05:12 CEST

C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report
Link: https://herbsutter.com/2026/03/29/c26-is-done-trip-report-march-2026-iso-c-standards-meeting-london-croydon-uk/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565365

2026-03-30 12:05:11 CEST

Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
Link: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/smart-glasses-ai-meta-courts-20260326.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569471

2026-03-30 08:40:13 CEST

Copilot edited an ad into my PR
Link: https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269

2026-03-30 07:25:11 CEST

Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout
Link: https://github.com/chenglou/pretext
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556290

2026-03-30 04:40:11 CEST

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/29/full-network-clitoral-nerves-mapped-out-first-time-women-pelvic-surgery
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564245

2026-03-30 04:00:12 CEST

The Cognitive Dark Forest
Link: https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/cognitive-dark-forest/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566442

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Link: https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566865