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Thursday, 30 April 2026

• It’s Toasted
  yadin.com · Discuss

• Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months
  macrumors.com · Discuss

• OpenWarp
  openwarp.zerx.dev · Discuss

• The Hearts of the Super Nintendo
  fabiensanglard.net · Discuss

• $500M for Virtual Biology Initiative, Funded by Zuckerbergs
  biohub.org · Discuss

• CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940
  labs.watchtowr.com · Discuss

• AI discovery reveals DNA isn’t locked away in cells after all
  gladstone.org · Discuss

• Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected
  sciencex.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Pu.sh – a full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell
  pu.dev · Discuss

• SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding
  simplex.chat · Discuss

• Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
  rivian.com · Discuss

• Vercel’s pricing page
  theupsellgame.com · Discuss

• LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request
  404privacy.com · Discuss

• Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo
  dustri.org · Discuss

• Does Postgres Scale?
  dbos.dev · Discuss

• If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over
  techadvisor.com · Discuss

• The Human Creativity Benchmark – Evaluating Generative AI in Creative Work
  contralabs.com · Discuss

• Full-Text Search with DuckDB
  peterdohertys.website · Discuss

• Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec
  lost-number.bearblog.dev · Discuss

• For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions
  openwall.com · Discuss

• How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
  thereader.mitpress.mit.edu · Discuss

• American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were
  derekthompson.org · Discuss

• Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly Canceled
  404media.co · Discuss

• Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
  semgrep.dev · Discuss

• Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga
  democrata.es · Discuss

• A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity
  thereader.mitpress.mit.edu · Discuss

• Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones
  404media.co · Discuss

• Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file
  honker.dev · Discuss

• How an oil refinery works
  construction-physics.com · Discuss

• The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all
  markready.io · Discuss

• The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013)
  smithsonianmag.com · Discuss

• Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
  bbc.com · Discuss

• I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search
  bidprowl.com · Discuss

• Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
  dpa-international.com · Discuss

• GCC 16 has been released
  gcc.gnu.org · Discuss

• 1.4 GW: battery storage at former Grohnde nuclear power plant
  heise.de · Discuss

• How to Disable Firefox's New Emoji Picker
  emsh.cat · Discuss

• Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
  firethering.com · Discuss

• DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble
  datacenter.fm · Discuss

Wednesday, 29 April 2026

• Will you heed my warnings now?
  scottaaronson.blog · Discuss

• Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution
  xint.io · Discuss

• Monad Tutorials Timeline
  wiki.haskell.org · Discuss

• Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell
  burrito.bio · Discuss

• Where the goblins came from
  openai.com · Discuss

• Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig
  pure-systems.org · Discuss

• The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
  simonwillison.net · Discuss

• Zulip 12.0 Released
  blog.zulip.com · Discuss

• A grounded conceptual model for ownership types in Rust
  cacm.acm.org · Discuss

• Craig Venter has died
  jcvi.org · Discuss

• Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]
  status.claude.com · Discuss

• Claude.ai Down Again?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight
  flyingmag.com · Discuss

• Mike: open-source legal AI
  mikeoss.com · Discuss

• View transactions sent to a Monero address
  localmonero.co · Discuss

• Be Alexandra Elbakyan
  nitter.space · Discuss

• Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world
  prm.ua · Discuss

• Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Engineer
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief."
  maxtaylor.me · Discuss

• I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot
  lina.sh · Discuss

• Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results
  abc.xyz · Discuss

• California high-speed rail price tag jumps to $231B, nearly 7x 2008 estimate
  kmph.com · Discuss

• OpenTrafficMap
  opentrafficmap.org · Discuss

• Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years
  jivx.com · Discuss

• "People who don't use AI will be left behind"
  migrainebrain.bearblog.dev · Discuss

• Copy Fail
  copy.fail · Discuss

• Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials
  promptarmor.com · Discuss

• The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness
  deepmind.google · Discuss

• Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
  theargumentmag.com · Discuss

• Laws of UX
  lawsofux.com · Discuss

• Why Software Needs a Third Loop [audio]
  heavybit.com · Discuss

• Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer
  hfsresearch.com · Discuss

• Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different
  eclecticlight.co · Discuss

• Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• Because It Doesn't Have To
  blog.computationalcomplexity.org · Discuss

• At Protocol: Building the Social Internet
  atproto.com · Discuss

• FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies
  agwa.name · Discuss

• Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns
  cowboystatedaily.com · Discuss

• Show HN: A new benchmark for testing LLMs for deterministic outputs
  interfaze.ai · Discuss

• Shrdlu
  en.wikipedia.org · Discuss

• Online age verification is the hill to die on
  x.com · Discuss

• Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown
  chrisbrunet.com · Discuss

• Cursor Camp
  neal.fun · Discuss

• I built ten custom subagents to tame a 500K-line Clojure codebase
  metabase.com · Discuss

• Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Mistral Medium 3.5
  mistral.ai · Discuss

• What can we gain by losing infinity?
  quantamagazine.org · Discuss

• Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained
  read.thecoder.cafe · Discuss

• Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• Zed 1.0
  zed.dev · Discuss

• We need a federation of forges
  blog.tangled.org · Discuss

• Roboticist-Turned-Teacher Built a Life-Size Replica of Eniac
  spectrum.ieee.org · Discuss

• 10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home
  gilesthomas.com · Discuss

• Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team
  healthmanagement.org · Discuss

• Notepad++ Code Editor Comes to Mac After 20-Year Wait
  macrumors.com · Discuss

• Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing
  blog.jeffschomay.com · Discuss

• He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice
  diabettech.com · Discuss

• Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew
  physicsworld.com · Discuss

• Read any beehiiv site paywall/distraction free
  beehiiv-reader.vercel.app · Discuss

• Stardex Is Hiring a Founding Customer Success Lead
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Compositing and Blending – Exploring the math and intuition behind blend modes
  nik.digital · Discuss

• HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'
  theregister.com · Discuss

• New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome
  tcd.ie · Discuss

• Two-thirds of babies watch screens – some for eight hours a day
  thetimes.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things
  rip.so · Discuss

• Soft launch of open-source code platform for government
  nldigitalgovernment.nl · Discuss

• Why Law Is Law-Shaped
  lawvm.org · Discuss

• Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell
  jointhefreeworld.org · Discuss

• Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag
  heise.de · Discuss

Tuesday, 28 April 2026

• Low-Compilation-Cost Register Allocation in LLVM-Based Binary Translation
  dl.acm.org · Discuss

• Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity
  newsweek.com · Discuss

• HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle
  hardenedbsd.org · Discuss