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Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
4 months ago
1357
754
Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796
928
564
I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK
https://www.0xsid.com/blog/wont-download-your-app
915
134
Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
https://github.com/arman-bd/guppylm
621
361
France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain
https://www.mining.com/france-pulls-last-gold-held-in-us-for-15b-gain/
616
512
The Cult of Vibe Coding Is Insane
https://bramcohen.com/p/the-cult-of-vibe-coding-is-insane
548
248
A Cryptography Engineer's Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/
543
163
Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
https://www.wesnoth.org
467
295
Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept-c2b968fb
466
200
Show HN: Ghost Pepper – 100% local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS
https://github.com/matthartman/ghost-pepper
461
225
What Being Ripped Off Taught Me
https://belief.horse/notes/what-being-ripped-off-taught-me/
406
70
A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-truck-drive-spent-20-years-making-this-astonishing-scale-model-of-every-single-building-in-new-york-city-180988443/
367
477
81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone
https://twitter.com/Suzierizzo1/status/2040864617467924865
343
172
Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed
https://www.osnews.com/story/144737/adobe-secretly-modifies-your-hosts-file-for-the-stupidest-reason/
324
203
Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters
https://playlists.at/youtube/search/
323
160
Germany Doxes "UNKN," Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/germany-doxes-unkn-head-of-ru-ransomware-gangs-revil-gandcrab/
322
156
Launch HN: Freestyle: Sandboxes for AI Coding Agents
https://www.freestyle.sh
319
90
Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
https://www.govauctions.app/
316
208
The Importance of Being Idle
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/
309
192
The 1987 Game "The Last Ninja" was 40 kilobytes
https://twitter.com/exQUIZitely/status/2040777977521398151
296
110
Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure
https://tboteproject.com/surveillancefindings/
286
126
Anthropic expands partnership w Google and Broadcom for multiple GW of compute
https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-compute
282
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Book Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/no_antimimetics/
264
Derek Lowe on "Peptides"
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/ah-peptides-where-begin
260
69
An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon
https://moonrf.com/
246
32
Haunted Paper Toys
http://ravensblight.com/papertoys.html
244
375
AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart
https://www.showbiz411.com/2026/04/05/itunes-takeover-by-fake-ai-singer-eddie-dalton-now-occupies-eleven-spots-on-chart-despite-not-being-human-or-real-exclusive
239
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Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
https://www.dw.com/en/is-germanys-gold-safe-in-new-york/video-75766873
220
154
After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/06/after-20-years-i-turned-off-google-adsense-for-my-websites.htm
202
16
The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-image-boards-of-hayao-miyazaki
60
Media scraper Gallery-dl is moving to Codeberg after receiving a DMCA notice
https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/discussions/9304
184
75
Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
https://rumproarious.com/2026/04/04/your-file-system-is-already-a-graph-database/
182
91
Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go
https://github.com/anzellai/sky
177
25
Understanding Traceroute
https://tech.stonecharioteer.com/posts/2026/traceroute/
171
112
A macOS kernel bug can cause OpenClaw to stop working after 49.7 days
https://photon.codes/blog/we-found-a-ticking-time-bomb-in-macos-tcp-networking
166
265
The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed Viral-Video Campaign
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-team-behind-a-pro-iran-lego-themed-viral-video-campaign
37
Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-according-to-microsofts-terms-of-service/
155
20
Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud
https://github.com/kessler/gemma-gem
148
50
AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC
https://www.danvk.org/2026/03/08/oldnyc-updates.html
147
107
Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667504
133
72
Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair
https://drop.com/
Usenet Archives
https://usenetarchives.com
128
29
Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents
https://github.com/kitfunso/hippo-memory
127
97
Will I ever own a zettaflop?
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/01/26/own-a-zettaflop.html
84
Number in man page titles e.g. sleep(3)
https://lalitm.com/til-number-in-man-page-titles-e-g-sleep-3/
124
Smart people recognize each other – science proves it
https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=920
116
65
Case study: recovery of a corrupted 12 TB multi-device pool
https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/issues/1107
114
Show HN: Moon simulator game, ray-casting
https://mooncraft2000.com
108
56
Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than 300$ (Well almost)
https://indraneelpatil.github.io/blog/2026/robot-vacuum/
103
87
What Does It Mean to "Write Like You Talk"?
https://arjunpanickssery.substack.com/p/what-does-it-mean-to-write-like-you
101
44
Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665194
98
sc-im Spreadsheets in Your Terminal
https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im