1192
851
The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code
https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-forgot-how-to-make-things
4 months ago
1115
614
I Bought Friendster for $30k – Here's What I'm Doing with It
https://ca98am79.medium.com/i-bought-friendster-for-30k-heres-what-i-m-doing-with-it-d5e8ddb3991d
865
600
A.I. is creating engineers who can't think without it
https://www.koshyjohn.com/blog/ai-should-elevate-your-thinking-not-replace-it/
855
1028
An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
https://twitter.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248
688
253
GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation
https://anchor.host/godaddy-gave-a-domain-to-a-stranger-without-any-documentation/
657
363
Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
https://asahilinux.org/2026/04/progress-report-7-0/
589
188
Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906253
517
345
Sawe smashes two-hour mark to 'move goalposts for marathon running'
https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/crm1m7e0zwzo
488
75
Self-updating screenshots
https://interblah.net/self-updating-screenshots
430
329
Why Has There Been So Little Progress on Alzheimer's Disease?
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-has-there-been-so-little-progress-on-alzheimers-disease/
360
214
EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
https://juraj.bednar.io/en/blog-en/2026/04/17/eu-age-control-the-trojan-horse-for-digital-ids/
352
96
Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years
https://hackingpassion.com/fast16-pre-stuxnet-cyber-sabotage/
343
181
Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
https://openai.com/index/why-we-no-longer-evaluate-swe-bench-verified/
313
85
Statecharts: hierarchical state machines
https://statecharts.dev/
274
210
I have officially retired from Emacs
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/04/26/
246
83
Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/butterflies-are-in-dramatic-decline-across-north-america-a-close-look-at-the-western-monarch-shows-why-180988582/
245
438
Waymo says expecting driverless taxis to stay out of bike lanes is unrealistic
https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo
243
151
Clay PCB Tutorial
https://feministhackerspaces.cargo.site/Clay-PCB-Tutorial
242
134
GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192666
197
117
Meetings Are Forcing Functions
https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3734
195
34
Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
https://dillo-browser.org/release/3.3.0/
191
48
Free Textbook on Engineering Thermodynamics
https://thermodynamicsbook.com/
178
135
Bob Odenkirk Would Like to Remind You That Life Is a Meaningless Farce
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/magazine/bob-odenkirk-interview.html
175
29
The Super Nintendo Cartridges
https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/
174
65
GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q2/000504.html
173
74
The 1944 Warsaw Uprising, in Color
https://www.barwypowstania.pl/
171
When the cheap one is the cool one
https://arun.is/blog/cheap-cool/
161
104
Chernobyl Wildlife Forty Years On
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260424-chernobyl-wildlife-forty-years-on
149
38
The Visible Zorker: Zork 1
https://eblong.com/infocom/visi/zork1/
148
43
FreeBSD Device Drivers Book
https://github.com/ebrandi/FDD-book
★ 460 Shell MIT– 4 months ago
45
Deep under Antarctic ice, a long-predicted cosmic whisper breaks through
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-deep-antarctic-ice-cosmic-strange.html
133
69
Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter
https://www.edenai.co
129
39
Spanish archaeologists discover trove of ancient shipwrecks in Bay of Gibraltar
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/15/hidden-treasures-spanish-archaeologists-discover-trove-of-ancient-shipwrecks-in-bay-of-gibraltar
119
At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/us/deaths-disappearances-scientists-investigation
84
If You Stop Hiring Juniors, Your Senior Engineers Own You
https://evalcode.com/posts/if-you-stop-hiring-juniors-your-seniors-own-you/
98
52
Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall)
https://github.com/sachitrafa/YourMemory
★ 206 Python – 4 months ago
97
25
Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds
https://news.mit.edu/2026/plants-can-sense-sound-rain-new-study-finds-0422
22
AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/
94
1
Have you tried Clean Architecture as foundation for your AI project?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913561
87
11
Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski
https://ciechanow.ski/exposing-floating-point/
13
A Guide to CubeSat Mission and Bus Design
https://pressbooks-dev.oer.hawaii.edu/epet302/