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  • 0 7

    How to build a `Git diff` driver (www.jvt.me)
  • 0 12

    Mexican surveillance company Grupo Seguritech watches the U.S. border (restofworld.org)
  • 15 68

    Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D (flight-viz.com)
  • 25 102

    The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet (www.osnews.com)
  • 3 37

    Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy (planetscale.com)
  • 3 30

    Phone Trips (www.wideweb.com)
  • 104 338

    Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found (aisle.com)
  • 28 48

    Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom (kotaku.com)
  • 1 6

    Can It Resolve Doom? Game Engine in 2k DNS Records (blog.rice.is)
  • 17 108

    Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS (www.v68k.org)
  • 32 105

    Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust (notes.brooklynzelenka.com)
  • 75 141

    The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances (aphyr.com)
  • 6 25

    Borges' cartographers and the tacit skill of reading LM output (galsapir.github.io)
  • 26 63

    The Problem That Built an Industry (ajitem.com)
  • 2 12

    Brazil seizes over 1,100 weapons and 1.5 tons of drugs from US, says official (www.reuters.com)
  • 10 37

    Previously unknown verses by Empedocles found on papyrus (www.thehistoryblog.com)
  • 2 31

    Cooperative Vectors Introduction (www.evolvebenchmark.com)
  • 61 208

    South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access (www.theregister.com)
  • 4 51

    How Much Linear Memory Access Is Enough? (solidean.com)
  • 89 188

    Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI (cirruslabs.org)
  • 140 155

    Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops (www.coindesk.com)
  • 13 46

    Show HN: Hormuz Havoc, a satirical game that got overrun by AI bots in 24 hours (www.hormuz-havoc.com)
  • 80 69

    How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home (www.bbc.com)
  • 101 131

    Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war (www.theguardian.com)
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  • 8 21

    A New Way to Spray Paint Color (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 66 41

    Artemis II is competency porn (lizplank.substack.com)
  • 40 120

    How Passive Radar Works (www.passiveradar.com)
  • 9 20

    BlueHammer abuses Windows Defender's update process to gain SYSTEM access (hackingpassion.com)
  • 96 266

    Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons
  • 0 20

    Sybilproof reputation mechanisms (2005) [pdf] (dl.acm.org)
  • 195 354

    France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk (www.xda-developers.com)
  • 9 20

    Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd (moooo.farm)
  • 27 219

    Optimal Strategy for Connect 4 (2swap.github.io)
  • 55 40

    The Seasons Are Wrong (kentwalters.com)
  • 49 284

    Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove (apnews.com)
  • 12 28

    Flashback to a time when government reports were works of art (www.chicagotribune.com)
  • 19 30

    Tesla's supervised self-driving software gets Dutch okay, first in Europe (www.reuters.com)
  • 38 107

    Productive Procrastination (www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl)
  • 50 40

    Great at gaming? US air traffic control wants you to apply (www.bbc.com)
  • 59 232

    20 years on AWS and never not my job (www.daemonology.net)
  • 0 6

    Static code analysis in Kotlin – tools overview (blog.allegro.tech)
  • 118 464

    Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file (playstarfling.com)
  • 31 75

    Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool (github.com)
  • 55 94

    The Zettelkasten method in Obsidian (desktopcommander.app)
  • 34 125

    Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources (taintedcoders.com)
  • 26 73

    Investigating Split Locks on x86-64 (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 24 72

    PGLite Evangelism (substack.com)
  • 373 1173

    Artemis II safely splashes down (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 20 110

    Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty (www.historytoday.com)
  • 14 118

    The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
  • 59 42

    Has Mythos just broken the deal that kept the internet safe? (martinalderson.com)
  • 814 334

    Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident (blog.samaltman.com)
  • 71 585

    Installing every* Firefox extension (jack.cab)
  • 563 1211

    Filing the corners off my MacBooks (kentwalters.com)
  • 13 48

    Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache (vinyl-cache.org)
  • 9 30

    Simulating a 2D Quadcopter from Scratch (mrandri19.github.io)
  • 34 66

    Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work (eve.new)
  • 47 82

    Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more (scitechdaily.com)
  • 160 139

    OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break (blog.nishantsoni.com)
  • 20 52

    A security scanner as fast as a linter – written in Rust (github.com)
  • 22 104

    DOJ Top Antitrust Litigators Exit After Ticketmaster Accord (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 59 244

    DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public (theintercept.com)
  • 273 203

    Nowhere is safe (steveblank.com)
  • 343 457

    AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel (github.com)
  • 240 396

    Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers (www.bbc.com)
  • 108 131

    What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical (ubuntu.com)
  • 17 17

    "Not Even Government Agencies" - Proton's misleading marketing (blog.ppb1701.com)
  • 128 264

    JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware (github.com)
  • 34 79

    Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python (codeberg.org)
  • 7 106

    Watgo – A WebAssembly Toolkit for Go (eli.thegreenplace.net)
  • 579 240

    Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman (www.nytimes.com)
  • 33 141

    Show HN: FluidCAD – Parametric CAD with JavaScript (fluidcad.io)
  • 4 5

    Claude AI Assistant for Microsoft Office (pivot.claude.ai)
  • 17 25

    Autonomy Is Real Now (steelforfuel.substack.com)
  • 15 41

    The best seat in town (www.torched.la)
  • 3 36

    Adobe Diddles with Your /etc./Hosts File (old.reddit.com)
  • 81 75

    Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs (twill.ai)
  • 71 108

    HBO Obtains DMCA Subpoena to Unmask 'Euphoria' Spoiler Account on X (torrentfreak.com)
  • 143 269

    A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it (ericwbailey.website)
  • 0 4

    Investigating Split Locks on x86-64 (chipsandcheese.com)
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  • 34 68

    The difficulty of making sure your website is broken (letsencrypt.org)
  • Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 39 62

    Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C# (nockawa.github.io)
  • 88 53

    Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members (www.theguardian.com)
  • 137 440

    Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice (github.com)
  • 18 153

    Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures (andreyor.st)
  • 72 136

    Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem (pckt.blog)
  • 150 533

    WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution (lists.zx2c4.com)
  • 157 946

    1D Chess (rowan441.github.io)
  • 98 385

    CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (www.theregister.com)
  • 249 354

    Helium is hard to replace (www.construction-physics.com)
  • 165 488

    You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings (eclecticlight.co)
  • 671 582

    France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech (techcrunch.com)
  • 10 45

    C++: Freestanding Standard Library (www.sandordargo.com)
  • 9 37

    Names and faces of those killed by Israel in its April 8 massacre (today.lorientlejour.com)
  • 38 75

    "Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says (arstechnica.com)
  • 11 17

    Born Private: Reserve your child's first email address with Proton (proton.me)
  • 6 26

    Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on "vibe coding" (arstechnica.com)
  • 63 119

    Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate (kerkour.com)
  • 98 134

    Code is run more than read (2023) (olano.dev)
  • 93 105

    US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model (www.theguardian.com)
  • 112 50

    Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI? (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 3 17

    Consumer sentiment plummets to record low as Iran war jacks up inflation (www.cnn.com)
  • 1 125

    CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised (old.reddit.com)
  • 71 41

    Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster (relocateme.substack.com)
  • 4 35

    Deterministic Primality Testing for Limited Bit Width (www.jeremykun.com)
  • 49 42

    Ads in ChatGPT (help.openai.com)
  • 30 46

    Jennifer Aniston and Friends Cost Us 377GB and Broke Ext4 Hardlinks (blog.discourse.org)
  • 102 94

    The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life (www.lesswrong.com)
  • 13 29

    Show HN: QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications
  • 24 105

    Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf] (www.cis.upenn.edu)
  • 317 435

    OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable (www.wired.com)
  • 136 54

    Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men? (text.npr.org)
  • 34 134

    Show HN: Marimo pair – Reactive Python notebooks as environments for agents (github.com)
  • 80 147

    White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 163 185

    Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989 (dfarq.homeip.net)
  • 300 604

    FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages (9to5mac.com)
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  • 136 364

    Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
  • 1 7

    Sorting Performance Rabbit Hole (nibblestew.blogspot.com)
  • 7 7

    We're Getting the Wrong Message from Mythos (danielmiessler.com)
  • 1 846

    France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins (www.numerique.gouv.fr)
  • 74 105

    Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons (www.loskutoff.com)
  • 6 24

    Untaxed hidden wealth surpasses wealth of the poorest half of humanity (www.oxfam.org)
  • 61 50

    US plans to automatically register young men for military draft (www.bbc.com)
  • 32 62

    Show HN: Keeper – embedded secret store for Go (help me break it) (github.com)
  • 14 52

    The Art of Risk Management (2017) (www.bcg.com)
  • 91 88

    Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real (www.nature.com)
  • 67 84

    Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon (www.ansto.gov.au)
  • 75 157

    Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia (www.ucdavis.edu)
  • 12 13

    Zero-build privacy policies with Astro (www.openpolicy.sh)
  • 52 231

    Team from ETH Zurich make high quality quantum swap gate using a geometric phase (ethz.ch)
  • 18 31

    War on Raze (gist.github.com)
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  • 2 21

    Knit File Formats (soup.agnescameron.info)
  • 15 35

    The tool that won't let AI say anything it can't cite (github.com)
  • 104 160

    YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription (pocketables.com)
  • 0 17

    VFX HQ: Visual Effects Headquarters (2000) (www.vfxhq.com)
  • 2 17

    Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250{,XY?} (jcs.org)
  • CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 64 184

    Afrika Bambaataa has died (www.bbc.co.uk)
  • 34 177

    Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects (blog.kagi.com)
  • 29 132

    The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019) (www.cockroachlabs.com)
  • 19 83

    Principles of Mechanical Sympathy (martinfowler.com)
  • 720 324

    We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git (blog.gitbutler.com)
  • 141 227

    New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK (bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)
  • 5 14

    Resident Evil Requiem with Denuvo DRM Cracked (pastebin.com)
  • 362 441

    I still prefer MCP over skills (david.coffee)
  • 148 391

    DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 56 66

    Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Concepts (futurism.com)
  • 67 229

    Generative art over the years (blog.veitheller.de)
  • 5 12

    Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD (lwn.net)
  • 45 102

    Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem (www.elevenforum.com)
  • 3 33

    Show HN: Rust based eBook library for Python, with MIT license (github.com)
  • 7 29

    How Close Is Too Close? Applying Fluid Dynamics Research Methods to PC Cooling (www.lttlabs.com)
  • 226 623

    How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer (cacm.acm.org)