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[Showoff Saturday] theSVG: started as a side project, now 5,650 open source brand SVGs • Apr 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM • github.com/glincker • r/webdev
22
Headless Everything for Personal AI • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:49 PM • interconnected.org • Hacker News
66
Apple TV's Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade Runner • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:46 PM • screenrant.com • Hacker News
69
Tearing down websites with Claude + Playwright -- from trackers to sneaky feature flags to interesting configs (oss) • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:36 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
25
Bluetooth tracker in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:35 PM • tomshardware.com • Hacker News
72
Fructose Isn't Just Sugar. It Acts More Like a Hormone • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:34 PM • scienceblog.com • science.slashdot
27P
IMF says America's $39T national debt is a global problem • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:32 PM • finance.yahoo.com • Hacker News
19P
List of people imprisoned for editing Wikipedia • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:27 PM • en.wikipedia.org • Hacker News
24
Why Japan has such good railways • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:24 PM • worksinprogress.co • ~transport
8
Created a Rubik's cube solver app with my own solving algorithm • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:21 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
173
4-bit floating point FP4 • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:21 PM • johndcook.com • Hacker News
41
World of Warcraft private server Turtle WoW to shut down May 14 2026 • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:20 PM • forum.turtlecraft.gg • ~games
97
[Showoff Saturday] colors.codes — every one of the 16.7M hex codes gets its own URL, name, and unfurl card • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:16 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
172
Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:12 PM • spectrum.ieee.org • Hacker News
177
PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue • Apr 18, 2026 at 12:50 PM • github.com/NikolayS • Hacker News
22P
White House probes wave of missing or dead American scientists • Apr 18, 2026 at 12:45 PM • foxnews.com • Hacker News
55
Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads • Apr 18, 2026 at 12:40 PM • sidephone.com • Hacker News
25
Matt Mullenweg Says "The Wheels Have Fallen Off" in WordPress • Apr 18, 2026 at 12:37 PM • therepository.email • Hacker News
108
Hello old new “Projects” directory • Apr 18, 2026 at 12:34 PM • blog.tenstral.net • Lobsters
50
20-Year-Old Enters Prison for Historic Breach, Ransoming of Massive Student Database • Apr 18, 2026 at 12:34 PM • abcnews.com • yro.slashdot
98
The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) • Apr 18, 2026 at 12:31 PM • apps.npr.org • Hacker News
542
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker • Apr 18, 2026 at 12:26 PM • righto.com • Hacker News
167
encounter with man at the library • Apr 18, 2026 at 12:16 PM • yizcounty.rodeo • Bear
1187
Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 • Apr 18, 2026 at 12:05 PM • tokens.billchambers.me • Hacker News
33
The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Speed of Light • Apr 18, 2026 at 12:05 PM • johndcook.com • Hacker News
183
Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore • Apr 18, 2026 at 12:04 PM • arstechnica.com • Hacker News
302
Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th • Apr 18, 2026 at 11:54 AM • goodereader.com • Hacker News
79
Guess I’m An Old Lady Now • Apr 18, 2026 at 11:52 AM • tinkerdwarf.bearblog.dev • Bear
67
Eggs for breakfast photo • Apr 18, 2026 at 11:45 AM • martingwd.bearblog.dev • Bear
29
Why scientists are nervous about fungi • Apr 18, 2026 at 11:44 AM • text.npr.org • Hacker News
51P
FSF to OnlyOffice: You Can't Use the GNU (A)GPL to Take Software Freedom Away • Apr 18, 2026 at 11:34 AM • fsf.org • Slashdot
206
Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data • Apr 18, 2026 at 11:24 AM • github.com/drasimwagan • Hacker News
35
Sherry Turkle: "We're losing the raw human part of being with each other" (2013) • Apr 18, 2026 at 11:13 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
33
Show HN: Solyto – a free, open-source all-in-one personal management app • Apr 18, 2026 at 11:10 AM • solyto.app • Hacker News
24
Respect to the Man Chasing AI Immortality, While Freeloading Off Our Platform • Apr 18, 2026 at 11:03 AM • blog.mulerun.com • Hacker News
69
tower structures of Japanese suburbia • Apr 18, 2026 at 10:55 AM • pinewind.bearblog.dev • Bear
29
The Secret Life of Circuits • Apr 18, 2026 at 10:46 AM • lcamtuf.coredump.cx • Lobsters
19
Optimizing Tail Sampling in OpenTelemetry with Retroactive Sampling • Apr 18, 2026 at 10:45 AM • victoriametrics.com • Hacker News
78
Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife • Apr 18, 2026 at 10:21 AM • github.com/coremaze • Hacker News
51P
Trump deal with IRS could see him given $14B in taxpayer money • Apr 18, 2026 at 10:05 AM • 9news.com.au • Hacker News
751
Climate change is eroding the "nighttime lull" that helps firefighters contain wildfires. A study of 9,000 blazes across North America found that fire-conducive hours have increased by 36% since the 1970s, with "round-the-clock" burning conditions jumping by 232% in some northern regions. • Apr 18, 2026 at 9:59 AM • science.org • r/science
244
$30/h for “highly skilled” devs… am I missing something? • Apr 18, 2026 at 9:49 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
814
Turn Reddit (or any webpage) into a game • Apr 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
313
What Really Happened in Y2K? • Apr 18, 2026 at 9:36 AM • gresham.ac.uk • r/programming
29
Showoff Saturday: Clean Shadcn Admin Dashboard Kit • Apr 18, 2026 at 9:36 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
112
SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_` • Apr 18, 2026 at 9:35 AM • avi.im • Lobsters
1312
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner • Apr 18, 2026 at 9:29 AM • isayeter.com • Hacker News
4169
Long-term supplementation with plant-based protein, compared with animal-based protein, did not result in differences in body composition, muscle strength, physical performance, or cardiometabolic risk parameters, meta-analysis of 18 randomized controlled trials finds • Apr 18, 2026 at 9:25 AM • frontiersin.org • r/science
7
[Showoff Saturday] Stephanie’s Big Adventure: A silly vanilla JS web game with custom DOM physics, procedural mazes & zero dependencies • Apr 18, 2026 at 9:08 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
31
State of Kdenlive - 2026 • Apr 18, 2026 at 8:53 AM • kdenlive.org • Lobsters
1351
The gut microbiome may play a role in regulating the acute stress response: higher microbial diversity has been associated with stronger hormonal and subjectively perceived stress reactivity • Apr 18, 2026 at 8:50 AM • univie.ac.at • r/science
14
Showoff Saturday - My personal/portfolio site • Apr 18, 2026 at 8:47 AM • alexholt.uk • r/webdev
79
Graph RAG finds what's similar. We should aim for what's relevant • Apr 18, 2026 at 8:46 AM • github.com/FlowElement-ai • Hacker News
279
Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer • Apr 18, 2026 at 8:41 AM • farlow.dev • Hacker News
6689
Obesity drugs, which include semaglutide and tirzepatide, may be making patients lose more than just fat - these drugs may cause patients to lose more muscle mass. However, it's likely that muscle loss is part of weight loss more generally, rather than a side-effect of Ozempic-like drugs. • Apr 18, 2026 at 8:35 AM • acpjournals.org • r/science
1137
Why Japan has such good railways • Apr 18, 2026 at 8:29 AM • worksinprogress.co • Hacker News
110
I gave up podcasts after 20 years • Apr 18, 2026 at 8:26 AM • basic.bearblog.dev • Bear
2689P
There are parallels between current environment and the 1930s (geopolitical tensions, political polarization, trade conflicts, and regional wars). Japanese study found that international economic and political shocks can weaken democratic checks and drive elites to align with authoritarian power. • Apr 18, 2026 at 8:22 AM • eurekalert.org • r/science
29
Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer • Apr 18, 2026 at 8:19 AM • farlow.dev • Lobsters
118P
Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists • Apr 18, 2026 at 8:08 AM • ipvm.com • Hacker News
13
I built Motus, an open source web automation testing framework for .NET with no Node.js sidecar • Apr 18, 2026 at 7:48 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
54
Ranking bath beverages • Apr 18, 2026 at 7:47 AM • zeina.bearblog.dev • Bear
528
The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood • Apr 18, 2026 at 7:43 AM • bigthink.com • Hacker News
614
State of Kdenlive • Apr 18, 2026 at 7:42 AM • kdenlive.org • Hacker News
58
How (and why) we rewrote our production C++ frontend infrastructure in Rust • Apr 18, 2026 at 7:30 AM • blog.nearlyfreespeech.net • Lobsters
44
Towards Trust in Emacs • Apr 18, 2026 at 7:15 AM • eshelyaron.com • Lobsters
381
Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games • Apr 18, 2026 at 6:53 AM • thinkygames.com • Hacker News
127
Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware • Apr 18, 2026 at 6:46 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
147
"Hello Bitches, I'm Here" — The AGI Nobody Asked For • Apr 18, 2026 at 6:27 AM • thecynicalnerd.bearblog.dev • Bear
17
Genuinely curious how people handle the gap between what clients think they want and what their users actually do • Apr 18, 2026 at 6:20 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
36
Claude Opus 4.7 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis • Apr 18, 2026 at 6:19 AM • artificialanalysis.ai • Hacker News
212
Update: you roasted my hand-gesture map library, here's v2 (and added Google Maps support) • Apr 18, 2026 at 5:53 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
74
Coding a Sign Up page was way easier than I thought • Apr 18, 2026 at 5:09 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
53
年纪虽然是中登，但精神状态像大学生 • Apr 18, 2026 at 5:09 AM • onelastme.bearblog.dev • Bear
58
Threw curl and Obsidian in a blender… this is what came out • Apr 18, 2026 at 4:49 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
6
I made 7-stage hacking puzzle names My Computer! • Apr 18, 2026 at 4:32 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
204P
America Lost the Mandate of Heaven • Apr 18, 2026 at 3:56 AM • geohot.github.io • Hacker News
29
Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 • Apr 18, 2026 at 3:55 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
56
300 commits.🎉 Here’s the progress on my 3D modeling web app. You can now save projects to the cloud. • Apr 18, 2026 at 3:53 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
30
Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler? • Apr 18, 2026 at 3:22 AM • news.ycombinator.com • Hacker News
21
Sequencing DNA at Home Locally on a DGX Spark and Mac Studio • Apr 18, 2026 at 3:04 AM • twitter.com/sethshowes • Hacker News
311
Category Theory Illustrated – Orders • Apr 18, 2026 at 2:40 AM • abuseofnotation.github.io • Hacker News
369
Why is IPv6 so complicated? • Apr 18, 2026 at 2:33 AM • github.com/becarpenter • Hacker News
125
What if database branching was easy? • Apr 18, 2026 at 2:29 AM • xata.io • Hacker News
33
Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics • Apr 18, 2026 at 2:25 AM • markrjohnsongames.com • Hacker News
340
Amiga Graphics Archive • Apr 18, 2026 at 2:20 AM • amiga.lychesis.net • Hacker News
2359
An 18-year-long study finds that people tend to procrastinate less as they move through young adulthood. This study reveals that procrastination is not only a short-term habit but a meaningful predictor of how people perform across multiple domains of life over nearly two decades. • Apr 18, 2026 at 2:17 AM • psypost.org • r/science
65P
Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said? • Apr 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM • floss.social • Hacker News
136
It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:47 AM • runxiyu.org • Hacker News
25
I got tired of squinting at image diffs in Bitbucket PRs, so I built a Chrome extension • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:42 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
93
"Liberation Day" at OpenAI as multiple senior executives announce leaving • Apr 18, 2026 at 1:41 AM • mas.to • Hacker News
20P
What the EU Battery Passport Means for Your Devices • Apr 18, 2026 at 12:49 AM • holdmybill.com • Hacker News
107P
The FBI Director Is MIA • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:53 PM • theatlantic.com • Hacker News
61
I dug into the Postgres sources to write my own WAL receiver • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:47 PM • medium.com/@mailbox.sq7 • Hacker News
35
Show HN: Sfsym – Export Apple SF Symbols as Vector SVG/PDF/PNG • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:44 PM • github.com/yapstudios • Hacker News
73
Critical Atlantic Current Significantly More Likely To Collapse Than Thought • Apr 17, 2026 at 11:30 PM • theguardian.com • science.slashdot
280
Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits • Apr 17, 2026 at 10:51 PM • prismml.com • Hacker News
312
Bodega cats of New York • Apr 17, 2026 at 10:26 PM • bodegacatsofnewyork.com • Hacker News
22
Get Synced Lyrics For Any Song! • Apr 17, 2026 at 10:12 PM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
89
Traders place $760M bet on falling oil ahead of Hormuz announcement • Apr 17, 2026 at 9:23 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
368
Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals • Apr 17, 2026 at 9:15 PM • victorpoughon.github.io • Hacker News
95
Casus Belli Engineering • Apr 17, 2026 at 9:14 PM • marcosmagueta.com • Hacker News
62P
Breaking the toxic hold of social media • Apr 17, 2026 at 9:08 PM • moodywarlock.net • Bear
73
Reflecting on my own strange year at Uber • Apr 17, 2026 at 8:51 PM • anon-ex-uber.medium.com • Hacker News
23
Researchers Stole $10k from MKBHD's Locked iPhone • Apr 17, 2026 at 8:19 PM • macrumors.com • Hacker News
206
Deleteduser.com —a $15 PII Magnet • Apr 17, 2026 at 8:19 PM • mike-sheward.medium.com • Lobsters
55
There is no you in your brain – your identity is a "society of the mind" • Apr 17, 2026 at 7:51 PM • bigthink.com • Hacker News
53
Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies • Apr 17, 2026 at 7:34 PM • fastcompany.com • Hacker News
195
Japan's cherry blossom database, 1,200 years old, has a new keeper • Apr 17, 2026 at 7:22 PM • nytimes.com • Hacker News
65P
Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow • Apr 17, 2026 at 7:13 PM • motherjones.com • Hacker News
42P
From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science • Apr 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM • lawfaremedia.org • Hacker News
108P
Online Personalities and Comedians Overtake TV and Newspapers as Primary News Sources • Apr 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM • hollywoodreporter.com • Slashdot
60P
It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation Data • Apr 17, 2026 at 6:59 PM • lawfaremedia.org • Lobsters
22
Enormous' cave hidden under medieval Pembroke castle could rewrite prehistory, researchers say • Apr 17, 2026 at 6:58 PM • bbc.com • ~humanities.history
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How to Host a Blog on a Subdirectory Instead of a Subdomain (2025) • Apr 17, 2026 at 6:53 PM • davidma.org • Hacker News
45P
Who Is Blake Whiting? • Apr 17, 2026 at 6:46 PM • theamericanscholar.org • Hacker News
282
Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution • Apr 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM • nature.com • Hacker News
31
cloudflare vs posthog users way off… anyone seen this? • Apr 17, 2026 at 6:20 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
190
Kefir C17/C23 Compiler • Apr 17, 2026 at 6:12 PM • sr.ht • Hacker News
1416
New study show that honey bees can detect viruses including deformed wing virus in their food sources, but in field tests they actually prefer food sources laced with virus. • Apr 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM • lsu.edu • r/science
42
The big business of survival bunkers • Apr 17, 2026 at 5:40 PM • economist.com • Hacker News
332P
A simplified model of Fil-C • Apr 17, 2026 at 5:38 PM • corsix.org • Hacker News
66
Using a USB switch as a full KVM • Apr 17, 2026 at 5:20 PM • luke.hsiao.dev • Hacker News
61
Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab • Apr 17, 2026 at 5:03 PM • rtrvr.ai • Hacker News
193
Focused microwaves allow 3D printers to fuse circuits onto almost anything • Apr 17, 2026 at 5:03 PM • newatlas.com • Hacker News
57
Gazing Into Sam Altman's Orb Could Solve Ticket Scalping • Apr 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM • wired.com • yro.slashdot
39
Fulu bounty for Ring Camera jailbreak reaches $23k • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:48 PM • bounties.fulu.org • Hacker News
49
Cerebras S-1 • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:42 PM • sec.gov • Hacker News
31
Meta targets May 20 for first wave of layoffs; additional cuts later in 2026 • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:37 PM • reuters.com • Hacker News
131
How Motorola’s 2N2222 and 2N3904 transistors became the default NPNs • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:27 PM • allaboutcircuits.com • Hacker News
25
Breakthrough takes big step toward safe, reversible male contraception • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM • news.cornell.edu • Hacker News
59
The BIC Pen Experiment, Part 3 • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:20 PM • tinkerdwarf.bearblog.dev • Bear
16
A Common MVP Evolution: Service to System Integration to Product (2017) • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:15 PM • skmurphy.com • Hacker News
210
Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:14 PM • discovermagazine.com • Hacker News
60
Here, take this chemical lobotomy • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:13 PM • tadaima.bearblog.dev • Bear
105
Why is IPv6 so complicated? • Apr 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM • github.com/becarpenter • Lobsters
352P
The Danger of "Modern" Open Source • Apr 17, 2026 at 3:28 PM • fagnerbrack.com • r/programming
52P
A simplified model of Fil-C • Apr 17, 2026 at 3:27 PM • corsix.org • Lobsters
92
The greatest breakfast food in existence • Apr 17, 2026 at 3:11 PM • oliverclark.bearblog.dev • Bear
83
The greatest breakfast food in existence • Apr 17, 2026 at 3:11 PM • thereabouts.bearblog.dev • Bear
425
Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD • Apr 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM • electrek.co • Hacker News
47
Amazon's New Fire TV Sticks No Longer Support Sideloading • Apr 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM • cordcuttersnews.com • Slashdot
98
Year of the IPv6 Overlay Network • Apr 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM • defined.net • Hacker News
109
Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units • Apr 17, 2026 at 2:56 PM • electrek.co • Hacker News
84
Today I shipped twenty apps and a screensaver • Apr 17, 2026 at 2:47 PM • blog.gingerbeardman.com • ~tech
82
Fits on a floppy - a manifesto for small software • Apr 17, 2026 at 2:44 PM • fitsonafloppy.com • ~tech
497
"cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 • Apr 17, 2026 at 2:43 PM • blog.calif.io • Hacker News
41
Fits on a Floppy – A Manifesto for Small Software • Apr 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM • fitsonafloppy.com • Hacker News
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Fuck Facebook, Again • Apr 17, 2026 at 2:36 PM • visualgui.com • Hacker News
77
stop looking at your phone while driving, you asshole!!! • Apr 17, 2026 at 2:28 PM • musing.ispretty.fyi • Bear
57
Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering • Apr 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM • github.com/outcomeops • Hacker News
718
All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) • Apr 17, 2026 at 2:17 PM • esa.int • Hacker News
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FAA Scraps Civil and Criminal Penalties for Flying Drones Near ICE Vehicles • Apr 17, 2026 at 2:11 PM • 404media.co • Hacker News
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NeoGeo AES+: SNK announces reissue of retro console without emulation • Apr 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM • heise.de • Hacker News