Hacker News
Apr 20 – Apr 26, 2026
XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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Meta capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables (trendmicro.com)
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A mad undertaking: An undefinitive guide to the Aadam Jacobs collection (aadamjacobscollection.org)
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MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany (mnt.stanleylieber.com)
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Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake (blog.andymasley.com)
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Apr 13 – Apr 19, 2026
The Bromine Chokepoint: How Strife Could Halt Production of World’s Memory Chips (warontherocks.com)
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Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List (therepository.email)
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Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)
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Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant? (news.ycombinator.com)
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Young sons of legendary U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (texascooppower.com)
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Respect to the Man Chasing AI Immortality, While Freeloading Off Our Platform (blog.mulerun.com)
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Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)
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How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll (investigate-europe.eu)
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New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims (theguardian.com)
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Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants (japantimes.co.jp)
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Show HN: Agent-cache – Multi-tier LLM/tool/session caching for Valkey and Redis (news.ycombinator.com)
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€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs (discuss.ai.google.dev)
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Study: EVs with V2H cut household electricity costs and need for home batteries (adelaide.edu.au)
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Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia [pdf] (reich.hms.harvard.edu)
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US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf] (fingfx.thomsonreuters.com)
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Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis (manchester.ac.uk)
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'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking (theguardian.com)
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Viral victory: Iran is beating the land of tech bros in the social media wars (theguardian.com)
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Ask HN: My ISP is telling my neighbors their slow internet is because of me (news.ycombinator.com)
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Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran (warontherocks.com)
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40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal (iopscience.iop.org)
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UpDown: Efficient Manycore based on Many Threading & Scalable Memory Parallelism (people.cs.uchicago.edu)
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Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone (techcrunch.com)
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We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History (ringmast4r.substack.com)
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AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing (thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com)
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Apr 6 – Apr 12, 2026
Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy (the-independent.com)
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’Abhorrent’: the inside story of the Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war (theguardian.com)
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Show HN: Hormuz Havoc, a satirical game that got overrun by AI bots in 24 hours (hormuz-havoc.com)
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France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk (xda-developers.com)
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Combining spicy foods with mint boosts anti-inflammatory effects 100x or more (scitechdaily.com)
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DOJ Wants to Scrap Watergate-Era Rule That Makes Presidential Records Public (theintercept.com)
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A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it (ericwbailey.website)
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Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster (relocateme.substack.com)
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Show HN: QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications (news.ycombinator.com)
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The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy (thelettersfromleo.com)
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LLM plays an 8-bit Commander X16 game using structured "smart senses" (pvp-ai.russell-harper.com)
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Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones (skoda-storyboard.com)
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We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under two (blog.railway.com)
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Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP (printervention.app)
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Has electricity decoupled from gas prices in Germany? (has-electricity-decoupled-yet.strommarktberatung.de)
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LLM may be standardizing human expression – and subtly influencing how we think (dornsife.usc.edu)
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Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different (news.ycombinator.com)
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