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San Diego now has so much water that it's selling it • Apr 29, 2026 at 10:49 PM • wsj.com • ~enviro
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The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy • Apr 29, 2026 at 10:15 PM • simonwillison.net • Hacker News
419
Craig Venter has died • Apr 29, 2026 at 9:44 PM • jcvi.org • Hacker News
238
Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed] • Apr 29, 2026 at 9:21 PM • status.claude.com • Hacker News
330
Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight • Apr 29, 2026 at 9:01 PM • flyingmag.com • Hacker News
312
Mike: open-source legal AI • Apr 29, 2026 at 8:56 PM • mikeoss.com • Hacker News
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Hank Green created an interactive tool that maps Artemis II mission photos and videos against official NASA schedules and telemetry data • Apr 29, 2026 at 7:37 PM • artemistimeline.com • ~space
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Mortality from alcohol-induced hypertension has risen drastically in the U.S. from 1999-2020, with forecasts predicting an even higher spike in rates by 2030. • Apr 29, 2026 at 7:27 PM • tandfonline.com • r/science
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Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment • Apr 29, 2026 at 6:56 PM • wired.com • Hacker News
137
Be Alexandra Elbakyan • Apr 29, 2026 at 6:39 PM • twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD • Hacker News
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Knee surgery for cartilage damage does not benefit patients, study suggests. People with meniscus tears who underwent surgery had poorer knee function and worse osteoarthritis after 10 years than those who did not. • Apr 29, 2026 at 6:00 PM • theguardian.com • r/science
132
Ubuntu's AI Plans Have Linux Users Looking For a 'Kill Switch' • Apr 29, 2026 at 6:00 PM • theverge.com • Slashdot
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Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world • Apr 29, 2026 at 5:58 PM • prm.ua • Hacker News
206
Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write • Apr 29, 2026 at 5:41 PM • github.com/aallan • Hacker News
92
Lost/losing the drive for friendship • Apr 29, 2026 at 5:17 PM • tildes.net • ~health.mental
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rejecting convenience • Apr 29, 2026 at 5:11 PM • rnotte.art • Bear
221
I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot • Apr 29, 2026 at 5:04 PM • lina.sh • Hacker News
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Your Instagram account is scheduled for deletion • Apr 29, 2026 at 4:57 PM • stitching.bearblog.dev • Bear
397
Artemis II Photo Timeline • Apr 29, 2026 at 4:48 PM • artemistimeline.com • Hacker News
244
Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results • Apr 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM • abc.xyz • Hacker News
145
Copy Fail — 732 Bytes to Root • Apr 29, 2026 at 4:08 PM • copy.fail • Lobsters
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Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year • Apr 29, 2026 at 4:03 PM • foxnews.com • Hacker News
479
OpenTrafficMap • Apr 29, 2026 at 3:49 PM • opentrafficmap.org • Hacker News
139
Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis • Apr 29, 2026 at 3:46 PM • handyai.substack.com • Hacker News
172
The PERFECT Code Review: How to Reduce Cognitive Load While Improving Quality • Apr 29, 2026 at 3:36 PM • bastrich.tech • r/programming
498
Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years • Apr 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM • jivx.com • Hacker News
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"People who don't use AI will be left behind" • Apr 29, 2026 at 3:15 PM • migrainebrain.bearblog.dev • Hacker News
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How do you preserve a 400 year old Swedish warship? Vasamuseet in Stockholm is tackling the continued challenge of maintaing the 17th century Vasa. • Apr 29, 2026 at 3:06 PM • youtube.com • ~humanities.history
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California High-Speed Rail Price Tag Jumps To $231 Billion • Apr 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM • kmph.com • Slashdot
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HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing • Apr 29, 2026 at 2:54 PM • github.com/anthropics • Hacker News
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Guild Wars Reforged launches on mobile this summer • Apr 29, 2026 at 2:52 PM • guildwars2.com • ~games
217
FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies • Apr 29, 2026 at 2:03 PM • agwa.name • r/programming
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) • Apr 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM • tildes.net • ~anime
126
Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig • Apr 29, 2026 at 1:58 PM • pure-systems.org • Lobsters
193
Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials • Apr 29, 2026 at 1:44 PM • promptarmor.com • Hacker News
52
Health Canada approves 1st generic version of Novo Nordisk's Ozempic • Apr 29, 2026 at 1:40 PM • cbc.ca • ~health
152
Pentesters found a crazy vulnerability on github yesterday (patched) • Apr 29, 2026 at 1:35 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev
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Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey • Apr 29, 2026 at 1:09 PM • theargumentmag.com • Hacker News
395
Laws of UX • Apr 29, 2026 at 12:58 PM • lawsofux.com • Hacker News
152
Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different • Apr 29, 2026 at 12:51 PM • eclecticlight.co • Hacker News
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Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores • Apr 29, 2026 at 12:50 PM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
371
The USB Situation • Apr 29, 2026 at 12:49 PM • randsinrepose.com • Hacker News
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Looking for early users to try my app • Apr 29, 2026 at 12:31 PM • tildes.net • ~tech
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FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies • Apr 29, 2026 at 12:27 PM • agwa.name • Lobsters
133
At Protocol: Building the Social Internet • Apr 29, 2026 at 12:20 PM • atproto.com • Hacker News
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FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies • Apr 29, 2026 at 12:16 PM • agwa.name • Hacker News
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Court Rules 2nd Amendment Covers Firearms Parts Good News Those Who Build Guns • Apr 29, 2026 at 12:08 PM • cowboystatedaily.com • Hacker News
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on? • Apr 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM • tildes.net • ~comp
192
Should Schools Get Rid of Homework? • Apr 29, 2026 at 12:00 PM • npr.org • science.slashdot
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Online age verification is the hill to die on • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:49 AM • x.com/GlennMeder • Hacker News
351
The smelly baby problem • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:48 AM • worksinprogress.news • Hacker News
373
AI is making me less productive and more distracted • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:47 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
346
Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:45 AM • chrisbrunet.com • Hacker News
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Cursor Camp • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:39 AM • neal.fun • Hacker News
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U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:36 AM • reuters.com • Hacker News
42
Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:34 AM • tildes.net • ~creative
180
To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:28 AM • e360.yale.edu • Hacker News
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Research has found that listening to music with another person increases the moment-to-moment similarity of subjective pleasure and enhances neural alignment. The findings help explain how music acts as a powerful tool for social bonding and collective emotional experiences. • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:26 AM • psypost.org • r/science
505
Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:26 AM • bbc.com • Hacker News
723
Mistral Medium 3.5 • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:17 AM • mistral.ai • Hacker News
254
What can we gain by losing infinity? • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:16 AM • quantamagazine.org • Hacker News
206
Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:13 AM • read.thecoder.cafe • Hacker News
348
Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:12 AM • kristoff.it • Lobsters
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Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:11 AM • theguardian.com • Hacker News
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Narcissism runs in families, but it is almost entirely due to genetics, according to a new extended twin family analysis. The study found no evidence of environmental sources of narcissism shared within families. • Apr 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM • journals.sagepub.com • r/science
430
An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce • Apr 29, 2026 at 10:47 AM • github.com/GliaX • Hacker News
153
Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans • Apr 29, 2026 at 10:37 AM • github.com/bruin-data • Hacker News
179
Someone compromised SAP's npm packages and used the CI pipeline against itself • Apr 29, 2026 at 10:21 AM • safedep.io • r/programming
63
KDE’s 30th anniversary • Apr 29, 2026 at 10:16 AM • kde.org • Lobsters
211
How to Build the Future: Demis Hassabis [video] • Apr 29, 2026 at 10:05 AM • youtube.com • Hacker News
980P
We need a federation of forges • Apr 29, 2026 at 10:00 AM • blog.tangled.org • Hacker News
208
Barman – Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL • Apr 29, 2026 at 9:54 AM • github.com/EnterpriseDB • Hacker News
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Research has found the earliest 'protodogs' actually had larger brains than their wolf relatives, probably a result of adapting to living alongside us, but by 5,000 years ago, that increase had reversed dramatically, and dogs' brains were now 46% smaller than wolves'. • Apr 29, 2026 at 9:48 AM • theguardian.com • r/science
102
you should be joymaxxing your projects • Apr 29, 2026 at 9:42 AM • tala.bearblog.dev • Bear
141
Zed is 1.0 • Apr 29, 2026 at 9:40 AM • zed.dev • Lobsters
398
10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home • Apr 29, 2026 at 9:15 AM • gilesthomas.com • Hacker News
166
Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing • Apr 29, 2026 at 8:43 AM • blog.jeffschomay.com • Hacker News
545
He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice • Apr 29, 2026 at 8:38 AM • diabettech.com • Hacker News
138
Show HN: Adblock-rust Manager – Firefox extension to enable the Brave ad blocker • Apr 29, 2026 at 8:24 AM • github.com/electricant • Hacker News
158
Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew • Apr 29, 2026 at 8:18 AM • physicsworld.com • Hacker News
88P
misogyny in the blogosphere • Apr 29, 2026 at 8:15 AM • blog.avas.space • Bear
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After President Donald Trump was elected in 2024, Democratic supporters reported decrease in well-being, optimism, personal control, and institutional trust, while also experiencing higher cynicism. In contrast, Republican supporters experienced changes in the opposite direction. • Apr 29, 2026 at 8:03 AM • psypost.org • r/science
829
I just “bought” a domain, built branding around it… turns out I never owned it • Apr 29, 2026 at 7:52 AM • reddit.com • r/webdev
641
HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work' • Apr 29, 2026 at 7:42 AM • theregister.com • Hacker News
343
New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome • Apr 29, 2026 at 7:35 AM • tcd.ie • Hacker News
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City birds appear to be more afraid of women than men, and scientists have no idea why. Men could get about a meter closer to birds than women could before the animals flew away, regardless of what the men and women were wearing, what their height was or how they tried to approach the creatures. • Apr 29, 2026 at 7:32 AM • scientificamerican.com • r/science
169
GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts • Apr 29, 2026 at 7:25 AM • github.com/DOS-History • Hacker News
299
Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things • Apr 29, 2026 at 5:21 AM • rip.so • Hacker News
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Soft launch of open-source code platform for government • Apr 29, 2026 at 5:14 AM • nldigitalgovernment.nl • Hacker News
429
Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell • Apr 29, 2026 at 4:43 AM • jointhefreeworld.org • Hacker News
92
Why I Still Reach for Lisp (& Scheme) Instead of Haskell • Apr 29, 2026 at 3:43 AM • jointhefreeworld.org • Lobsters
287
Who still remembers this HTML tag? • Apr 29, 2026 at 3:35 AM • i.redd.it • r/webdev
204
Bugs Rust Won't Catch • Apr 29, 2026 at 3:12 AM • corrode.dev • r/programming
352P
Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity • Apr 29, 2026 at 2:46 AM • newsweek.com • Hacker News
194
HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle • Apr 29, 2026 at 2:38 AM • hardenedbsd.org • Hacker News
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India’s major airlines on ‘verge of closing down’ as high fuel costs sting • Apr 29, 2026 at 2:13 AM • scmp.com • ~transport
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Musk Testifies OpenAI Was Created As Nonprofit To Counter Google • Apr 28, 2026 at 11:30 PM • cnbc.com • yro.slashdot
123
Bugs Rust Won't Catch • Apr 28, 2026 at 11:17 PM • corrode.dev • Lobsters
414
Interview for a senior python position gone awry • Apr 28, 2026 at 11:12 PM • reddit.com • r/webdev