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Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines • Apr 17, 2026 at 1:18 PM • github.com/smol-machines • Hacker News
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Fungus that spreads from cats to humans has been detected, raising concerns among scientists • Apr 17, 2026 at 12:48 PM • earth.com • r/science
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Age-Gating Isn't It, Fam • Apr 17, 2026 at 12:45 PM • technically-good.ca • Bear
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Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock • Apr 17, 2026 at 12:38 PM • github.com/paniclock • Hacker News
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Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects • Apr 17, 2026 at 12:23 PM • twitter.com/finmoorhouse • Hacker News
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I’m spending months coding the old way • Apr 17, 2026 at 12:19 PM • miguelconner.substack.com • Hacker News
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Systemic Flaw in MCP Protocol Could Expose 150 Million Downloads • Apr 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM • infosecurity-magazine.com • r/webdev
214
Rust 1.95.0 • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:59 AM • blog.rust-lang.org • r/programming
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Have you played with bubbles recently? • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:52 AM • tildes.net • ~misc
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NASA Force • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:47 AM • nasaforce.gov • Hacker News
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Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:29 AM • claudecodecamp.com • Hacker News
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NIST gives up enriching most CVEs • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:09 AM • risky.biz • Hacker News
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It's wild that Git Worktrees have been so underutilized for 10+ years! • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:06 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Claude Design • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:04 AM • anthropic.com • Hacker News
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The Quiet Colossus — On Ada, Its Design, and the Language That Built the Languages • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:02 AM • iqiipi.com • r/programming
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What did you do this week (and weekend)? • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:00 AM • tildes.net • ~talk
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US To Create High-Tech Manufacturing Zone In Philippines • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:00 AM • wsj.com • Slashdot
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Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap' • Apr 17, 2026 at 10:53 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin • Apr 17, 2026 at 10:41 AM • thehistoryblog.com • Hacker News
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Experiment with ICEYE Open Data • Apr 17, 2026 at 10:37 AM • iceye.com • Hacker News
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Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage • Apr 17, 2026 at 10:29 AM • blog.healthchecks.io • Hacker News
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Ban the sale of precise geolocation • Apr 17, 2026 at 10:25 AM • lawfaremedia.org • Hacker News
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Fish living downstream of wastewater treatment plants are accumulating antidepressants, opioids and other drugs of abuse in their bodies. Fentanyl, methadone and venlafaxine were detected in small fish living in rivers that receive urban wastewater. • Apr 17, 2026 at 10:09 AM • uwaterloo.ca • r/science
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We reproduced Anthropic's Mythos findings with public models • Apr 17, 2026 at 10:09 AM • blog.vidocsecurity.com • Hacker News
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Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975 • Apr 17, 2026 at 10:07 AM • archive.org • Hacker News
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What are skiplists good for? • Apr 17, 2026 at 9:57 AM • antithesis.com • Hacker News
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Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents • Apr 17, 2026 at 9:55 AM • isitagentready.com • Hacker News
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A Visual History of Programming Languages • Apr 17, 2026 at 8:59 AM • sheets.works • r/programming
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We beat Google’s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis • Apr 17, 2026 at 8:49 AM • blog.trailofbits.com • Lobsters
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Any old school devs here? don't you miss those days, when there were no React/Next, Figma. You just code raw HTML and focus mainly on BE • Apr 17, 2026 at 8:06 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
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tangled newsletter 01 — hello • Apr 17, 2026 at 8:02 AM • blog.tangled.org • Lobsters
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Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) • Apr 17, 2026 at 8:01 AM • hex.ooo • Hacker News
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Best open source web developement tools that everyone needs to know about? • Apr 17, 2026 at 7:57 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers? • Apr 17, 2026 at 7:22 AM • thenation.com • Hacker News
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HTTP desync in Discord's media proxy: Spying on a whole platform • Apr 17, 2026 at 6:59 AM • tmctmt.com • Lobsters
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In many cultures, women tend to prefer partners with financial resources. Men tend to prioritize youth and physical beauty. New findings provide evidence that the traditional tendency for women to prefer wealthier partners might fade as women gain more economic power. • Apr 17, 2026 at 6:06 AM • psypost.org • r/science
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Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age • Apr 17, 2026 at 5:50 AM • phys.org • Hacker News
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As we approach death, our dreams become more emotional and symbolic. Terminally ill people are commonly reunited with lost loved ones in their dreams and have visions of doors, stairways and light, which are said to help them accept the dying process • Apr 17, 2026 at 5:39 AM • veritas.enc.edu • r/science
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Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010) • Apr 17, 2026 at 5:18 AM • prologue.blogs.archives.gov • Hacker News
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Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:51 AM • iqiipi.com • Hacker News
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How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:32 AM • investigate-europe.eu • Hacker News
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Did anyone else feel like adding more devs just made everything slower? • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:31 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Valve is working on Proton for ARM processors • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:14 AM • steamdb.info • ~games
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FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer • Apr 17, 2026 at 3:20 AM • nongnu.org • Hacker News
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Making the most pickproof lock yet • Apr 17, 2026 at 1:27 AM • youtube.com • ~design
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Folk Computer • Apr 17, 2026 at 12:43 AM • folk.computer • Lobsters
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Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day • Apr 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM • theverge.com • Hacker News
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Strange Romance bundle by Image Comics • Apr 16, 2026 at 11:57 PM • humblebundle.com • ~comics
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Kafka Fundamentals - Guide to Distributed Messaging • Apr 16, 2026 at 11:56 PM • sushantdhiman.dev • r/programming
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Human Accelerated Region 1 • Apr 16, 2026 at 11:55 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
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Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source • Apr 16, 2026 at 11:36 PM • blog.discourse.org • Hacker News
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Sperm Whales' Communication Closely Parallels Human Language, Study Finds • Apr 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM • theguardian.com • science.slashdot
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US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification • Apr 16, 2026 at 10:50 PM • reclaimthenet.org • Hacker News
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Trials of psychedelics for mental health may be invalid, because it's fairly obvious to patients whether they've been given a psychedelic or a placebo. Blinding failed more than 90% of the time in the studies of psilocybin, LSD and DMT, and 85% of the time in studies of MDMA. • Apr 16, 2026 at 9:57 PM • jamanetwork.com • r/science
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Common silicones from engine oil and cosmetics are far more prevalent in the atmosphere than expected, making up to 4.3% of organic aerosol mass. This stable pollutant is now omnipresent in urban and rural air, potentially impacting both human health and cloud formation. • Apr 16, 2026 at 9:26 PM • acp.copernicus.org • r/science
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Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code • Apr 16, 2026 at 8:37 PM • lucasgerads.com • Hacker News
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Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust • Apr 16, 2026 at 8:29 PM • medium.com/@iainmcgin • Hacker News
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Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan • Apr 16, 2026 at 7:29 PM • bbc.com • Hacker News
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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced releases July 9, 2026 • Apr 16, 2026 at 7:18 PM • insider-gaming.com • ~games
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Everything we like is a psyop? • Apr 16, 2026 at 7:15 PM • techcrunch.com • Hacker News
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'TotalRecall Reloaded' Tool Finds a Side Entrance To Windows 11 Recall Database • Apr 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM • arstechnica.com • yro.slashdot
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Men with higher IQs are less conservative, study finds. Those of average ability tend to support values associated with tradition and strict social order, German researchers say. • Apr 16, 2026 at 6:14 PM • amp.scmp.com • r/science
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New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims • Apr 16, 2026 at 6:08 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine • Apr 16, 2026 at 5:56 PM • github.com/gainsec • Hacker News
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"I have not written a single line of code since November" - Boris Cherny • Apr 16, 2026 at 5:26 PM • ox.security • r/webdev
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A better R programming experience thanks to Tree-sitter • Apr 16, 2026 at 5:14 PM • ropensci.org • Hacker News
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The beginning of scarcity in AI • Apr 16, 2026 at 4:49 PM • tomtunguz.com • Hacker News
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The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs • Apr 16, 2026 at 4:31 PM • joanwestenberg.com • Hacker News
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Bubble your blog discovery • Apr 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM • forkingmad.blog • Bear
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Europe Has 'Maybe 6 Weeks of Jet Fuel Left' • Apr 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM • hardware.slashdot.org • Slashdot
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What are the current channels to find remote work? • Apr 16, 2026 at 3:46 PM • tildes.net • ~tech
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European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp • Apr 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM • politico.eu • Hacker News
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Okay, what actually uses Rust • Apr 16, 2026 at 3:32 PM • blog.goose.love • Lobsters
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Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links • Apr 16, 2026 at 3:32 PM • clojure.org • Hacker News
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Sovereign Cloud stats every CIO needs before their next board meeting • Apr 16, 2026 at 3:26 PM • windriver.com • ~comp
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Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design • Apr 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM • news.play.date • Hacker News
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Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left" • Apr 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM • apnews.com • Hacker News
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Children with ADHD report applying less effort on cognitive tasks compared to their peers • Apr 16, 2026 at 2:44 PM • psypost.org • r/science
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Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent • Apr 16, 2026 at 2:39 PM • android-developers.googleblog.com • Hacker News
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How a subsea cable is repaired (2021) • Apr 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM • onesteppower.com • Hacker News
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I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it • Apr 16, 2026 at 2:19 PM • thelibre.news • Hacker News
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The Claude Coding Vibes Are Getting Worse • Apr 16, 2026 at 2:16 PM • blog.matthewbrunelle.com • Lobsters
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Clojure: The Documentary • Apr 16, 2026 at 2:12 PM • youtube.com • Lobsters