Jonathan Swift''s Last Joke (www.newyorker.com)
''Point of no return'': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level (www.theguardian.com)
What do we lose when AI does our work? (rickyyean.com)
Agent Skills (addyosmani.com)
Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026 (www.pulitzer.org)
Testing macOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs (oldvcr.blogspot.com)
Transformers Are Inherently Succinct (arxiv.org)
Welcome to Gas City (steve-yegge.medium.com)
Google is discontinuing its free web search index for developers (www.heise.de)
Frizbee is a tool you may throw a tag at and it comes back with a checksum (github.com)
Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight (stripe.dev)
A little comparison between R and Kap (blog.dhsdevelopments.com)
The Visible Zorker: Zork 3 (eblong.com)
How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (openai.com)
White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released (www.nytimes.com)
DHS demanded Google surrender data on Canadians over anti-ICE posts (www.wired.com)
nfsdiag - a NFS diagnostic application (github.com)
Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline (geeksandgamers.com)
Let''s Talk about LLMs (www.b-list.org)
Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com)
Flock Holding Closed Police Conference, Requires Police Consent for Marketing (ipvm.com)
Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC (www.taipeitimes.com)
U.S. military data left exposed at an a16z startup for 150 days (www.strix.ai)
Heat pump sales rise 17% across Europe in Q1 as energy prices surge (www.pv-magazine.com)
''Kitten Space Agency'' Is the Spiritual Successor to ''Kerbal Space Program'' (www.space.com)
Days Without GitHub Incidents (www.dayswithoutgithubincident.com)
Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts (www.bloomberg.com)
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants (techcrunch.com)
Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don''t want to (economist.com)
I am worried about Bun (wwj.dev)
Sierra Raises 950M at 15B Valuation (sierra.ai)
"They would never use the death star on us" (www.mcsweeneys.net)
OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund ''AI Literacy'' in Schools (www.404media.co)
Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter (www.theverge.com)
Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks (www.nber.org)
1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working ''Full Self-Driving'' (electrek.co)
GitHub Is Down (www.githubstatus.com)
Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster (globalnews.ca)
I tracked 7,700 UK petrol stations every 10 minutes for 3 months (www.fuelinsight.co.uk)
Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 (www.ecopv-eu.com)
Pomiferous: The most extensive apples (pommes) database (pomiferous.com)
DAG Workflow Engine (github.com)
Redis array: short story of a long development process (antirez.com)
How Monero''s proof of work works (blog.alcazarsec.com)
Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets (www.engadget.com)
PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out (github.com)
Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets (www.wsj.com)
Newton''s law of gravity passes its biggest test (www.science.org)
Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym (thienantran.com)
Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025) (reiner.org)
ASML''s Best Selling Product Isn''t What You Think It Is (www.siliconimist.com)
United flight collides with truck and light pole as it lands at Newark airport (www.cnn.com)
World''s biggest RC A380 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Ruflo: Multi-agent AI orchestration for Claude Code (github.com)
Trademark Violation: Fake Notepad for Mac (notepad-plus-plus.org)
GameStop makes 55.5B takeover offer for eBay (www.bbc.co.uk)
The Road to a Billion-Token Context (cacm.acm.org)
Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision (www.goodmorningamerica.com)
Debunking the CIA''s “magic” heartbeat sensor [video] (www.youtube.com)
From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
Midori, the first browser to offer a VPN with Mesh technology (astian.org)
Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer (www3.nhk.or.jp)
Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense (guille.site)
Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages with Navigations for Interactions (blog.jim-nielsen.com)
Israel national security minister served gold death penalty noose birthday cake (www.independent.co.uk)
A Treasure Trove of Fossils Rewrites the Story of Early Life (www.quantamagazine.org)
Humanoid Robot Actuators: The Complete Engineering Guide (www.firgelli.com)
Roger Sweet, Creator of the He-Man Action Figure, Dies at 91 (www.nytimes.com)
First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line (electrek.co)
Coffee appears to rewire the gut-brain connection (www.sciencedaily.com)
Discovering Hard Disk Physical Geometry Through Microbenchmarking (2019) (blog.stuffedcow.net)
K3sup – bootstrap K3s over SSH in 60s (github.com)
Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers (samcollins.blog)
The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility (xogium.me)
Let''s Buy Spirit Air (letsbuyspiritair.com)
Agentic Coding Is a Trap (larsfaye.com)
The ''Hidden'' Costs of Great Abstractions (jdgr.net)
Tar files made in macOS generate "xattr" errors when expanded in Linux (aruljohn.com)
LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction (www.lelanthran.com)
Introduction to Atom (validator.w3.org)
Buckets and objects are not enough (sagi.org)
DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro, 17x cheaper (github.com)
Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O" (guessingheadlights.com)
Automatic Brightness in Plasma (zamundaaa.github.io)
How did Banksy erect a statue in Central London? (www.bbc.co.uk)
Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025) (www.dailynk.com)
Make Your Own Microforest (ambrook.com)
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Statue of a man blinded by a flag put up by Banksy in central London (www.smithsonianmag.com)
US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City (phys.org)
Talking to Transformers (miraos.org)
Ableton Live MCP (github.com)
Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers? (arstechnica.com)
Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes (www.washingtonpost.com)
Why TUIs Are Back (wiki.alcidesfonseca.com)
The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left (death-of-scrum.net)
Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time (www.reuters.com)
Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015) (www.americanscientist.org)
OpenAI''s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors (www.theguardian.com)
I built my own hair electrolysis machine (www.scd31.com)
Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected (www.tomshardware.com)
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Separating what AI does well from what code does well (claude.com)
Ghost Operators: How Israeli telecoms were exploited to track citizens worldwide (www.haaretz.com)
BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth (partyon.xyz)
Text-to-CAD (github.com)
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars (2023) (etsc.eu)
I Recreated the Apple Lisa Computer Inside an FPGA – The LisaFPGA Project (www.youtube.com)
The Oscars Just Banned AI from Winning Acting and Writing Awards (gizmodo.com)
Maybe AI Isn''t a Bubble After All (www.theatlantic.com)
Largest electric autonomous container ship begins commercial service (global.chinadaily.com.cn)
SnapState - Persistent state for AI agent workflows (snapstate.dev)
Southwest Headquarters Tour (katherinemichel.github.io)
Metal Gear Solid 2''s Source Code Has Been Leaked on 4Chan (www.thegamer.com)
I built a RISC-V emulator that runs DOOM (github.com)
Cordouan Lighthouse (en.wikipedia.org)
What Chromium versions are major browsers are on? (chromium-drift.pages.dev)
The Hiddn Financial Bubble in AI Infrastructure [pdf] (financial-ai-bubble.pagey.site)
Uncle Bob: It''s Over (old.reddit.com)
I Built SpecDD Because AI Kept Forgetting What We Were Building (specdd.ai)
For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day (christophermeiklejohn.com)
A Desktop Made for One (isene.org)
Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad (mobeigi.com)
Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery (newsroom.porsche.com)
Coffee doesn''t just wake you up–a biological pathway illuminates health effects (sciencex.com)
I rebuilt my blog''s cache. Bots are the audience now (hoeijmakers.net)
What Is Z-Angle Memory and Why Is Intel Developing It? (www.hpcwire.com)
Business Owners Are Worst Clients (zencapital.substack.com)
Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races (www.reuters.com)
Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (www.drive.com.au)
The Petroleum System Is Entering Its Volatile Decline Phase (cleantechnica.com)
Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB (theconsensus.dev)
Breaking Up with WordPress After Two Decades (yusufaytas.com)
Alert-Driven Monitoring (simpleobservability.com)
Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs (www.tomshardware.com)
Haskell: Debugging (wiki.haskell.org)
All Four Sentinel-1 Satellites Are Now Live (orbitaltoday.com)
Embedded Rust or C Firmware? Lessons from an Industrial Microcontroller Use Case (arxiv.org)
Utilyze measures how efficiently your GPU is doing useful work (github.com)
I built a tool that helps predict HN front page success (wannalaunch.com)
Thoth – open-source Local-first AI Assistant (github.com)
Benchmarking a Bug Scanner (blog.detail.dev)
Systemd-manager-TUI: A TUI application for managing systemd services (github.com)
Apple''s Sharp Running in the Browser via ONNX Runtime Web (github.com)
Group averages obscure how an individual''s brain controls behavior: study (med.stanford.edu)
Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security (www.ft.com)
Learning Pseudorandom Numbers with Transformers (arxiv.org)
Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16 (www.python.org)
Musk''s AI told me people were coming to kill me (BBC) (www.bbc.com)
Forging ZK proofs to mint arbitrary DUSK tokens (osec.io)
Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML (acai.sh)
The Reality of Being a Man in Your 50s in South Korea (indignified.com)
Windows quality update: Progress we''ve made since March (blogs.windows.com)
San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names (j-nelson.net)
AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share (fshot.org)
Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge (thinkpol.ca)
Care Homes and Hotels in Japan Shut as Expansion Strategy Unravels (www.newsonjapan.com)
The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models (research.ibm.com)
Windows API Is Successful Cross-Platform API (retrocoding.net)
Simple and Correct Snapshot Isolation (remy.wang)
Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community (blog.feld.me)
Clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout (www.bbc.com)
Golang binaries built for your users depending on their arch and system (goblin.run)
Am I the only one who hates delivery robots? (www.latimes.com)
Maryland Is First to Ban A.I.-Driven Price Increases in Grocery Stores (www.nytimes.com)
A more efficient implementation of Shor''s algorithm (lwn.net)
When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious? (unherd.com)
A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury (blog.haskell.org)
Dabbling in Erlang, part 2: A minimal introduction (2013) (agis.io)
The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious (www.dailygrail.com)
Voice-AI-for-Beginners – A curated learning path for developers (github.com)
Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man''s Luggage (sfist.com)
Tesla owner won 10k in court for Tesla''s FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him (electrek.co)
Chinese EVs Can Now Project Movies from Their Headlights (insideevs.com)
Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement (www.clojuriststogether.org)
Using group theory to explore the space of positional encodings for attention (blog.janestreet.com)
State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters (hnup.date)
The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox (www.mendral.com)
Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS (www.david-smith.org)
This Month in Ladybird - April 2026 (ladybird.org)
Neanderthals ran ''fat factories'' 125,000 years ago (www.universiteitleiden.nl)
A Physics Engine with Incremental Rollback for Multiplayer Games (easel.games)
VS Code inserting ''Co-Authored-by Copilot'' into commits regardless of usage (github.com)
Modern C Programming: Busato (github.com)
I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
Demonstrating the idea of gamma camera imaging [video] (www.youtube.com)
Canonical Under Attack (status.canonical.com)
Little Magazines Are Back (wsjfreeexpression.substack.com)
Do_not_track (donottrack.sh)
Welcome to Hell Developer (noahclements.com)
Unsigned Sizes: A Five Year Mistake (c3-lang.org)
NetHack 5.0.0 (nethack.org)
California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws (www.bbc.com)
Videolan Dav2d (code.videolan.org)
Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents (flueframework.com)
Also-RANS: Asymmetric Numeral Systems for Entropy Coding (fergusfinn.com)
Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings (www.cnbc.com)
Is the Job Market Actually Bad? (news.ycombinator.com)
Meta''s Pyrefly sabotages competing Python extensions without telling you (github.com)
Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase more than 7-fold in last 10y (www.epo.org)
Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art (www.sfgate.com)
America''s Expanding Domestic Surveillance (www.wsj.com)
New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content (www.technologyreview.com)
Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for AV companies (techcrunch.com)
Why IPv6 is so complicated (github.com)
Zugzwang (en.wikipedia.org)
LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models (arxiv.org)
Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL (github.com)
Oil tanker hijacked off Yemen, steers toward Somalia (www.yahoo.com)
Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org)
Mini PC for local LLMs in 2026 (terminalbytes.com)
Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930 (resobscura.substack.com)
Russia Poisons Wikipedia (www.bettedangerous.com)
Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79 (www.economist.com)
Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (www.economist.com)
An unknown Sega Saturn project has come to light after 29 years (32bits.substack.com)
Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary (github.com)
EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring (www.easypost.com)
Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine (github.com)
The Century-Long Pause in Fundamental Physics (danieltan.weblog.lol)
GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay (www.wsj.com)
SFO Gate Explorer (www.flysfo.com)
Pushed by Trump policies, top U.S. battery scientist is moving to Singapore (www.science.org)
Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend (piruet.app)
Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET (github.com)
SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D (simdrive.xyz)
DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans (github.com)
Mljar Studio – local AI data analyst that saves analysis as notebooks (mljar.com)
How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? (eclecticlight.co)
Large Scale Article Extract of Newspapers 1730s-1960s (snewpapers.com)
Shadcn/UI: A set of beautifully designed components that you can customize (github.com)
Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables, and which one is right? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling (copilot.simplepdf.com)
Browser-based light pollution simulator using real photometric data (iesna.eu)
SKILL.make: Makefile Styled Skill File (github.com)
Open source ballistic simulator with NASA SRTM terrain masking (Python/C#) (github.com)
Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example (github.com)
DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price (simonwillison.net)
Hollow is an open-sourced self-modifying agentic system (github.com)
The USB Situation (randsinrepose.com)
A Gopher Meets a Crab (miren.dev)
Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations (www.spiritrestructuring.com)
Stop playing my matchstick puzzles, start building your own in seconds (mathstick.github.io)
Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? (www.noctua.at)
Integer Overflow Checking Cost (danluu.com)
K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes (github.com)
LFM2-24B-A2B: Scaling Up the LFM2 Architecture (www.liquid.ai)
Governor – a Claude Code plugin to reduce token/context waste (github.com)
I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings (github.com)
Ask Jeeves Shut Down (www.ask.com)
Create an MP4 video of a web page scrolling at a steady speed (github.com)
Chasing a SharedKey signature mismatch: fix azurerm_storage_table_entity (topaz.thecloudtheory.com)
To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi (e360.yale.edu)
Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service (www.sourcefeed.app)
Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising (www.citadelsecurities.com)
Direct electrochemical black coffee quality appraisal using cyclic voltammetry (www.nature.com)
Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
Visual Studio 2026 still ships the form designer Alan Cooper drew in 1987 (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
Tvheadend: Self-Hosted IPTV Server (tvheadend.org)
What did you love about VB6? (evilgeniuslabs.ca)
U.S. to Withdraw 5k Troops from Germany, Pentagon Says (www.nytimes.com)
A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025) [pdf] (mirandaheath.website)
Artemis II Photo Timeline (artemistimeline.com)
The Shadow Glass (morrigan-tech.com)
The Smelly Baby Problem (www.worksinprogress.news)
SpaceX rocket set for unintentional Moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway (www.theregister.com)
Credit Cards Are Vulnerable to Brute Force Kind Attacks (metin.nextc.org)
Historic Tennessee Hotel Is Also Home to the Greatest Duck Tradition (2016) (www.audubon.org)
Ti-84 Evo (education.ti.com)
Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming (github.com)
Destiny – Claude Code''s fortune Teller skill (github.com)
I''ve Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different (www.wired.com)
Whimsical Animations Course Open House (courses.joshwcomeau.com)
Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack" (arstechnica.com)
Apocalypse Early Warning System (ews.kylemcdonald.net)
A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia (www.rightscon.org)
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children''s Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo (www.404media.co)
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It''s Possible to Learn in Our Sleep. Should We? (www.newyorker.com)
AI CAD Harness (fusion.adam.new)
Artemis II Fault Tolerance (alearningaday.blog)
The X-Files Has Made Me Nostalgic for a Time I Never Experienced (midnightmurmurations.substack.com)
AI Uses Less Water Than the Public Thinks (californiawaterblog.com)
The Gay Jailbreak Technique (github.com)
Spotify adds ''Verified'' badges to distinguish human artists from AI (www.bbc.com)
My Private GitHub on Postgres (github.com)
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on (arstechnica.com)
Understand Anything (github.com)
Engineering tough blood clots for rapid haemostasis and enhanced regeneration (www.nature.com)
Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn''t have a warrant has a warrant (www.youtube.com)
Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months (www.briefs.co)
Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests (ij.org)
Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down (www.theregister.com)
Telegraph and Politico owner says journalists must support Israel or resign (www.middleeasteye.net)
Confessions of a Millennial in Tech (www.elenaverna.com)
I''m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA (news.ycombinator.com)
Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
Who is hiring? (May 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)
An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open (keepthingsopen.com)
whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search (github.com)
Sally McKee, who coined the term "the Memory Wall", has died (www.online-tribute.com)
Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk (github.com)
GhostBox – disposable little machines from the Global Free Tier. (www.ghost.charity)