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2026-07-19 18:15:07 UTC

Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968606

2026-07-09 19:40:07 UTC

GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper
Link: https://toot-books.pages.dev/blog/glm-5-2-vat-benchmark
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850414

2026-07-07 23:55:07 UTC

Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens
Link: https://github.com/kklimuk/docx-cli
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48821500

2026-07-07 00:15:08 UTC

Fable turned remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
Link: https://github.com/MaximeRivest/Riddle
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811591

2026-07-04 19:30:06 UTC

Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years
Link: https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/06/30/finlands-last-analogue-landline-phones-go-silent-after-150-years
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786868

2026-06-08 21:40:06 UTC

Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, anti-AI, and written in Rust
Link: https://gitdot.io/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447806

2026-06-08 04:00:07 UTC

New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections
Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/new-drug-functionally-cures-many-hepatitis-b-virus-infections?user_id=66c4bf745d78644b3aa57b08
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440463

2026-05-22 03:15:06 UTC

Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar
Link: https://qz.com/samsung-chip-workers-bonus-ai-profits-052126
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230892

2026-05-15 10:35:06 UTC

UK sovereign LLM inference
Link: https://relax.ai/docs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146424

2026-05-01 20:55:07 UTC

Apocalypse Early Warning System
Link: https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976566

2026-04-30 02:05:07 UTC

Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write
Link: https://github.com/aallan/vera
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955118

2026-04-28 20:00:07 UTC

Warp is now open-source
Link: https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936264

2026-04-23 10:15:07 UTC

Books are not too expensive
Link: https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/no-books-are-not-remotely-too-expensive
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835647

2026-04-23 09:55:06 UTC

Our newsroom AI policy
Link: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872452

2026-04-23 09:25:06 UTC

Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image
Link: https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-now-has-a-reproducible-docker-image/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871519

2026-04-23 09:20:07 UTC

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

2026-04-23 08:30:06 UTC

Verus is a tool for verifying the correctness of code written in Rust
Link: https://verus-lang.github.io/verus/guide/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840252

2026-04-23 07:30:08 UTC

Borrow-checking without type-checking
Link: https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/borrow-checking-without-type-checking/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871817

2026-04-23 07:25:06 UTC

A True Life Hack: What Physical 'Life Force' Turns Biology's Wheels?
Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-physical-life-force-turns-biologys-wheels-20260420/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846718

2026-04-23 06:50:06 UTC

The Neon King of New Orleans
Link: https://gardenandgun.com/new-orleans-neon-king
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869496

2026-04-23 06:35:06 UTC

Bring your own Agent to MS Teams
Link: https://microsoft.github.io/teams-sdk/blog/bring-your-agent-to-teams/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870108

2026-04-23 06:00:08 UTC

The Onion to Take over InfoWars
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jones-the-onion.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843434

2026-04-23 05:55:07 UTC

Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game
Link: https://tempest.homemade.systems
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871195

2026-04-23 05:50:07 UTC

I am building a cloud
Link: https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872324

2026-04-23 05:00:08 UTC

OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise
Link: https://openai.com/index/axios-developer-tool-compromise/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871077

2026-04-23 05:00:07 UTC

It's time to reclaim the word "Palantir" for JRR Tolkien
Link: https://www.zig.art/p/its-time-to-reclaim-the-word-palantir
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872008

2026-04-23 04:15:08 UTC

How the Heck does Shazam work?
Link: https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-shazam-work
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835366

2026-04-23 03:15:06 UTC

The Illuminated Man: an unconventional portrait of JG Ballard
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/20/the-illuminated-man-by-christopher-priest-and-nina-allan-review-an-unconventional-portrait-of-jg-ballard
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868832

2026-04-23 00:40:06 UTC

New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production
Link: https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/04/new-study-compares-growing-corn-for-energy-to-solar-production-its-no-contest/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868063

2026-04-22 23:25:06 UTC

Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players
Link: https://www.reuters.com/sports/ping-pong-robot-ace-makes-history-by-beating-top-level-human-players-2026-04-22/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864785

2026-04-22 21:25:07 UTC

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868867

2026-04-22 21:25:07 UTC

Website streamed live directly from a model
Link: https://flipbook.page/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867048

2026-04-22 20:40:06 UTC

You don't need advice from editors on rejected manuscripts
Link: https://twitter.com/orsonscottcard/status/2046702294406680751
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860682

2026-04-22 20:30:07 UTC

Workspace Agents in ChatGPT
Link: https://openai.com/index/introducing-workspace-agents-in-chatgpt/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866860

2026-04-22 20:20:12 UTC

Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries
Link: https://lpeproject.org/blog/surveillance-pricing-exploiting-information-asymmetries/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866395

2026-04-22 20:10:06 UTC

Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics
Link: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2023/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867755

2026-04-22 19:35:06 UTC

We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
Link: https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866697

2026-04-22 18:55:07 UTC

Parallel Agents in Zed
Link: https://zed.dev/blog/parallel-agents
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866750

2026-04-22 18:40:08 UTC

Who Killed the Florida Orange?
Link: https://slate.com/business/2026/04/florida-state-orange-food-houses-real-estate.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840618

2026-04-22 18:30:07 UTC

Coding Models Are Doing Too Much
Link: https://nrehiew.github.io/blog/minimal_editing/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866913

2026-04-22 18:15:07 UTC

Martin Fowler: Technical, Cognitive, and Intent Debt
Link: https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-04-14.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865661

2026-04-22 17:55:08 UTC

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
Link: https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcufont/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824943

2026-04-22 17:45:07 UTC

Bodega Cats of New York
Link: https://bodegacatsofnewyork.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812649

2026-04-22 17:25:07 UTC

Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/science/988-youth-suicides-decline.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865622

2026-04-22 16:55:07 UTC

Sam Altman's Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed with Zoom and Tinder
Link: https://gizmodo.com/sam-altmans-creepy-eyeball-scanning-company-gets-in-bed-with-zoom-and-tinder-2000748013
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865523

2026-04-22 16:55:06 UTC

Alberta Startup Sells No-Tech Tractors for Half Price
Link: https://wheelfront.com/this-alberta-startup-sells-no-tech-tractors-for-half-price/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865868

2026-04-22 16:20:06 UTC

DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser
Link: https://duckdb.org/2026/04/13/announcing-duckdb-152
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864454

2026-04-22 16:05:05 UTC

Columnar Storage Is Normalization
Link: https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/columnar-storage-is-normalization/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862626

2026-04-22 15:30:07 UTC

Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Link: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863217

2026-04-22 15:30:06 UTC

Show HN submissions tripled and are now mostly "look" vibe-coded
Link: https://www.adriankrebs.ch/blog/design-slop/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864393

2026-04-22 15:10:06 UTC

Treetops glowing during storms captured on film for first time
Link: https://www.psu.edu/news/earth-and-mineral-sciences/story/treetops-glowing-during-storms-captured-film-first-time
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863324

2026-04-22 14:40:06 UTC

Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1068928/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862230

2026-04-22 14:35:07 UTC

Another Day Has Come
Link: https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/another_day_has_come
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854365

2026-04-22 14:30:08 UTC

The eighth-generation TPU: An architecture deep dive
Link: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tpu-8t-and-tpu-8i-technical-deep-dive
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862608

2026-04-22 13:40:06 UTC

CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes
Link: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/catls-new-lfp-battery-can-charge-from-10-to-98-in-less-than-7-minutes/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861703

2026-04-22 13:35:07 UTC

Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
Link: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/infrastructure-and-cloud/google-cloud/eighth-generation-tpu-agentic-era/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862497

2026-04-22 13:15:06 UTC

Nobody Got Fired for Uber's $8M Ledger Mistake?
Link: https://news.alvaroduran.com/p/nobody-got-fired-for-ubers-8-million
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861731

2026-04-22 12:55:06 UTC

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

2026-04-22 12:55:06 UTC

3.4M Solar Panels
Link: https://tech.marksblogg.com/american-solar-farms-v2.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862386

2026-04-22 12:45:07 UTC

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

2026-04-22 12:10:06 UTC

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 11:40:06 UTC

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 11:35:07 UTC

Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma
Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/smart-contact-lens-glaucoma-microfluidics
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823654

2026-04-22 11:15:07 UTC

Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs
Link: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/meta_employee_surveillance_software/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860742

2026-04-22 11:05:07 UTC

Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-new-ai-tool-tracks-staff-activity-sparks-concern-2026-4
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47860961

2026-04-22 10:20:07 UTC

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
Link: https://social.hails.org/@hailey/116446826733136456
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861270

2026-04-22 10:10:07 UTC

Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code
Link: https://fitzgen.com/2024/02/06/safe-gc.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821853

2026-04-22 08:25:06 UTC

XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?
Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260421-00/?p=112247
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859861

2026-04-22 06:25:07 UTC

Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment
Link: https://www.courthousenews.com/preserved-for-billions-of-years-organic-compounds-found-on-mars/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846861

2026-04-22 05:15:06 UTC

Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"
Link: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/global-growth-in-solar-the-largest-ever-observed-for-any-source/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857509

2026-04-22 04:20:07 UTC

Making RAM at Home [video]
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6GWikWlAQA
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842569

2026-04-22 04:20:07 UTC

FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX
Link: https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/scientists-disappear-die-nasa-space-blue-origin-spacex/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858246

2026-04-22 03:55:08 UTC

Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer
Link: https://luminousmen.substack.com/p/drunk-post-things-ive-learned-as
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856535

2026-04-22 03:35:07 UTC

The Mystery in the Medicine Cabinet: Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and what to know
Link: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/the-mystery-in-the-medicine-cabinet
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835635

2026-04-22 02:30:07 UTC

Windows Server 2025 Runs Better on ARM
Link: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/server-2025-arm64/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821801

2026-04-22 02:25:07 UTC

I'm Sick of AI Everything
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857461

2026-04-22 02:25:07 UTC

San Diego rents declined more than 19 of 20 top US markets after surge in supply
Link: https://www.kpbs.org/news/economy/2026/03/27/san-diego-rents-declined-more-than-19-of-nations-top-20-markets-following-surge-in-supply
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857477

2026-04-22 00:10:06 UTC

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

2026-04-21 23:50:07 UTC

CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production
Link: https://www.brex.com/crabtrap
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850212

2026-04-21 23:30:07 UTC

SpaceX Says It Has Agreement to Acquire Cursor for $60B
Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/spacex-says-has-agreement-to-acquire-cursor-for-60-billion
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855616

2026-04-21 23:25:07 UTC

Claude Code no longer included in Pro tier
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3mjzxwfx3qs2a
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855565

2026-04-21 22:50:06 UTC

SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/business/spacex-cursor-deal.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855448

2026-04-21 22:25:06 UTC

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

2026-04-21 22:20:07 UTC

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

2026-04-21 22:05:07 UTC

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

2026-04-21 22:00:07 UTC

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 21:55:07 UTC

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 21:45:08 UTC

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 21:45:07 UTC

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 21:40:08 UTC

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

2026-04-21 21:40:07 UTC

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 21:20:07 UTC

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 20:00:07 UTC

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

2026-04-21 19:55:07 UTC

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 19:10:07 UTC

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 18:50:07 UTC

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 18:35:07 UTC

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

2026-04-21 18:35:07 UTC

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

2026-04-21 18:20:07 UTC

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

2026-04-21 18:20:07 UTC

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