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Friday, 17 April 2026

• FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
  nongnu.org · Discuss

Thursday, 16 April 2026

• FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Human Accelerated Region 1
  en.wikipedia.org · Discuss

• Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
  blog.discourse.org · Discuss

• Substrate AI Is Hiring Harness Engineers
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
  reclaimthenet.org · Discuss

• Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code
  lucasgerads.com · Discuss

• Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan
  bbc.com · Discuss

• George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four
  openculture.com · Discuss

• Everything we like is a psyop?
  techcrunch.com · Discuss

• New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter
  ropensci.org · Discuss

• Join Akkari's Founding Team (YC P26) as an Engineer
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• The beginning of scarcity in AI
  tomtunguz.com · Discuss

• The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
  joanwestenberg.com · Discuss

• Five men control AI. Who should control them?
  economist.com · Discuss

• Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
  clojure.org · Discuss

• German Dog Commands
  fluentu.com · Discuss

• GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research
  openai.com · Discuss

• Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design
  news.play.date · Discuss

• Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left"
  apnews.com · Discuss

• Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
  simonwillison.net · Discuss

• Codex for almost everything
  openai.com · Discuss

• Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants
  japantimes.co.jp · Discuss

• Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs
  zatanna.ai · Discuss

• We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
  andonlabs.com · Discuss

• Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent
  techstackups.com · Discuss

• Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card
  anthropic.com · Discuss

• There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains
  engadget.com · Discuss

• Claude Opus 4.7
  anthropic.com · Discuss

• Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
  qwen.ai · Discuss

• The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
  aphyr.com · Discuss

• Cloudflare Email Service
  blog.cloudflare.com · Discuss

• Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
  blog.cloudflare.com · Discuss

• Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git
  blog.cloudflare.com · Discuss

• Mozilla Thunderbolt
  thunderbolt.io · Discuss

• Show HN: Agent-cache – Multi-tier LLM/tool/session caching for Valkey and Redis
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Show HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
  discuss.ai.google.dev · Discuss

• The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?
  technologyreview.com · Discuss

• Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf]
  reich.hms.harvard.edu · Discuss

• AI cybersecurity is not proof of work
  antirez.com · Discuss

• Codex Hacked a Samsung TV
  blog.calif.io · Discuss

• RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

Wednesday, 15 April 2026

• Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45
  bbc.com · Discuss

• IPv8 Proposal
  ietf.org · Discuss

• Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet
  chalkbeat.org · Discuss

• A Look into NaviDial, Japan's Legacy Phone Service
  tokyodev.com · Discuss

• Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
  darkbloom.dev · Discuss

• FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account
  daedal.io · Discuss

• North American English Dialects
  aschmann.net · Discuss

• Stop Using Ollama
  sleepingrobots.com · Discuss

• Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout
  spectrum.ieee.org · Discuss

• Arguing with Agents
  blowmage.com · Discuss

• Keycard – inject API keys into subprocesses, never touch shell env
  keycard.studio · Discuss

• A Better Ludum Dare; Or, How to Ruin a Legacy
  ldjam.com · Discuss

• Amazon AI Cancelling Webcomics
  kleefeldoncomics.com · Discuss

• The Universal Constraint Engine: Neuromorphic Computing Without Neural Networks
  zenodo.org · Discuss

• Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'
  afr.com · Discuss

• The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments
  boazsobrado.com · Discuss

• I made a terminal pager
  theleo.zone · Discuss

• Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)
  bbc.com · Discuss

• The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
  mcdonalds.co.jp · Discuss

• Hacker News CLI (2014)
  pythonhosted.org · Discuss

• ChatGPT for Excel
  chatgpt.com · Discuss

• One interface, every protocol
  openbindings.com · Discuss

• PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux
  tinycorelinux.net · Discuss

• Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Thomson Reuters Fired Worker for Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says
  404media.co · Discuss

• Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store
  web3isgoinggreat.com · Discuss

• AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?
  heidenstedt.org · Discuss

• Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases
  semafor.com · Discuss

• Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
  eff.org · Discuss

• The Gemini app is now on Mac
  blog.google · Discuss

• CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma2B Out Scored GPT-3.5 Turbo on Test That Made It Famous
  seqpu.com · Discuss

• Adaptional (YC S25) is hiring AI engineers
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Where did my taxes go?
  wherethefuckdidmytaxesgo.com · Discuss

• The tiniest e-reader in the world, and you can build one yourself
  androidauthority.com · Discuss

• CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome
  medicalxpress.com · Discuss

• Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson
  strix.ai · Discuss

• Cal.com is going closed source
  cal.com · Discuss

• Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code
  claudestatus.com · Discuss

• It's cool to care (2025)
  alexwlchan.net · Discuss

• Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6
  deepmind.google · Discuss

• Vibe Coding Fails
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness
  terrypratchett.com · Discuss

• US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]
  fingfx.thomsonreuters.com · Discuss

• The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs
  aphyr.com · Discuss

• MCP as Observability Interface: Connecting AI Agents to Kernel Tracepoints
  ingero.io · Discuss

• US national level OS-level age verification bill
  social.coop · Discuss

• Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC
  tracksuccession.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Pseudonymizing sensitive data for LLMs without losing context
  atticsecurity.com · Discuss

• Do you even need a database?
  dbpro.app · Discuss

• Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis
  manchester.ac.uk · Discuss

• Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure
  ir.allbirds.com · Discuss

• Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring Founding Engineers
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters
  tratt.net · Discuss

• New bill would let New Yorkers hang solar panels from windows
  gothamist.com · Discuss

• Show HN: SmallDocs - A CLI and webapp for private Markdown reading and sharing
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Academic fraud may be the symptom of a more systemic problem
  voxweb.nl · Discuss

• Backpacks got worse on purpose
  worseonpurpose.com · Discuss

• Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)
  prog21.dadgum.com · Discuss

• 'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
  super-memory.com · Discuss

• Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
  torrentfreak.com · Discuss